INTERESTING DAY TOMORROW.
DAVID, THANK YOU FOR THAT,
APPRECIATE IT.
JOINING ME NOW, BYRON YORK,
WASHINGTON EXAMINER CHIEF
POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT AND FOX
BUSINESS CONTRIBUTOR.
I’M SURE YOU’VE BEEN PORING
THROUGH THIS, AS I HAVE, AND
WE’LL GET TO THE DETAILS IN A
MINUTE.
IF THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE IS
TRUE IN THEIR CLAIM THAT THIS IS
NOT A POLITICALLY-ORIENTED,
WASN’T A POLITICALLY-ORIENTED
RAID OR INVESTIGATION AND IF
THEY HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE, WHY
NOT HAVE A SPECIAL MASTER WHO
HAS TOP SECURITY CLEARANCE LOOK
OVER THIS TO GIVE IT A
THIRD-PARTY VIEW?
>> WELL, THERE REALLY SEEMS TO
BE NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT IDEA
EXCEPT FOR A COUPLE OF THINGS
WHICH IS THE TRUMP LEGAL TEAM
DID NOT ASK FOR IT IMMEDIATELY.
THEY WAITED A COUPLE OF WEEKS
AFTER THE RAID TO DO THAT, AND
THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE SAYS,
WELL, THAT’S NOW MOOT BECAUSE
WE’VE ALREADY LOOKED IT OVER.
BUT THIS IS GIVING THE LEASH TO
THE DOG.
THERE’S NOBODY OVERLOOKING THE
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE RIGHT NOW.
AND SINCE THIS IS SUCH A
POLITICALLY-FRAUGHT CASE, AS YOU
SAID EARLIER, EVEN AT THIS POINT
IT WOULD SEEM PRUDENT ESPECIALLY
FOR THE REVIEW OF THIS CASE
THAT’S DEFINITELY GOING TO COME
WHENST ALL OVER TO HAVE A
DISINTERESTED THIRD PARTY LOOK
AT IT.
DAVID: AND TO THEIR CLAIM, BY
THE WAY, DOJ’S CLAIM THAT IT
WOULD CAUSE, QUOTE,
SIGNIFICANTLY -- IT WOULD
SIGNIFICANTLY HARM NATIONAL
SECURITY INTERESTS, I MEAN, IF
THE SPECIAL MASTER HAS SECURITY
CLEARANCE OF HIS OWN UNLESS
THAT’S A DEAD TERM RIGHT NOW
THAT NOBODY HAS BECAUSE
EVERYBODY LEAKS, BUT WHAT
SECURITY INTEREST WOULD IT HARM
IF, IN FACT, THE SPECIAL MASTER
HAS THE CLEARANCE HIMSELF?
>> WELL, YOUR QUESTION BRINGS UP
BIGGEST UNANSWERED QUESTION
ABOUT ALL THIS WHICH IS WHAT ARE
THE DOCUMENTS ABOUT?
I MEAN, NOBODY KNOWS.
WE’VE SEEN NOW THE CLASSIFIED
COVER SHEETS THAT SHOWED THAT A
NUMBER OF HEM WERE CLASSIFIED AT
A VERY HIGH LEVEL, BUT WE DON’T
KNOW WHAT THEY WERE, AND WE
HAVEN’T KNOWN WHAT THEY WERE.
SO ARE THEY THE NUCLEAR CODES?
OR ARE THEY SOMETHING THAT WAS
UNNECESSARILY OVERCLASSIFIED?
THAT HAPPENS IN GOVERNMENT.
DAVID: RIGHT.
>> AND WE JUST DON’T KNOW.
TO YOUR POINT OF THE SPECIAL
MASTER BEING CLEARED, HAVING A
CLEARANCE TO LOOK AT ALL OF
THAT, THAT HAPPENS ALL THE TIME
IN GOVERNMENT.
DAVID: SURE IT DOES.
>> THAT’S A PERFECTLY REASONABLE
SOLUTION TO THIS PROBLEM.
DAVID: THEN YOU HAVE, WHICH IS
IN THE ANNEX AT THE END OF, NEXT
TO WHERE THEY HAD THAT PICTURE
OF THE DOCUMENTS LAID OUT ON THE
FLOOR, YOU HAVE THESE LETTERS
PROSECUTE NATIONAL ARCHIVES TO
VARIOUS -- FROM THE NATIONAL
ARCHIVES TALKING ABOUT WHO MIGHT
HAVE BEEN INVOLVED.
AND ONE OF THEM DATED BACK IN
PEN OF THIS YEAR, FEBRUARY 18TH,
2022, WAS TO THE HONORABLE
CAROLYN MALONEY, THE DEMOCRATIC
CHAIRWOMAN OF THE COMMITTEE ON
OVERSIGHT.
AND SHE, THEY LAID OUT A LOT OF
QUESTIONS THAT SHE HAD ASKED
THEM ABOUT THE SECURITY
DOCUMENTS THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP
HAD TAKEN WITH HIM, SPECIFIC
QUESTIONS.
IT LEADS ME TO WONDER WHETHER,
IN FACT, YOU HAD THE PRESIDENT’S
OFFICE INVOLVED IN SOME OF THESE
QUESTIONS, YOU HAVE THE TOP, ONE
OF THE TOP DEMOCRATS IN THE
HOUSE INVOLVED.
I MEAN, DID IT COME FROM THE
MARTIAL ARCHIVES -- NATIONAL
ARCHIVES, THIS WHOLE
INVESTIGATION, OR DID IT COME
FROM A PARTISAN AREA OF
POLITICS?
>> WELL, WE KNOW THAT THE BIDEN
WHITE HOUSE -- INCLUDING
PRESIDENT BIDEN HIMSELF -- WAS
INVOLVED AT LEAST TO THE EXTENT
OF NOT CLAIMING ANY SORT OF
EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE IF FOR ANY
OF THE DOCUMENTS THAT HAD BEEN
LOOKED AT.
BUT THE PRESENCE OF
REPRESENTATIVE MALONEY, WHO IS
SOON TO BE FORMER REPRESENTATIVE
HAMA LONEY, CHAIRWOMAN OF THE
OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE, IS A REALLY
INTERESTING THING.
THE ARCHIVED LETTER THAT’S
INCLUDED IN THE PILING, WHICH IS
A LETTER FROM THE IF HEAD OF THE
NATIONAL ARCHIVES TO
REPRESENTATIVE MALONEY, WELL,
THAT’S A RESPONSE TO THE LETTER
THAT REPRESENTATIVE MALONEY HAD
RUN WITH TO THE ARCHIVES --
WRITTEN TO THE ARCHIVES ASKING A
WHOLE BUNCH OF QUESTIONS.
AND SINCE WE KNOW DEMOCRATS HAVE
BEEN IN HOT PURSUIT OF DONALD
TURN SINCE BEFORE HE WAS SWORN
IN IN JANUARY 2017, I THINK THAT
RAISES SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT
THEY’VE BEEN DOING.
DAVID: AND, OF COURSE, YOU ALSO
HAVE THE -- I DON’T KNOW WHETHER
IT WAS AN OFFICIAL FIRING, BUT
AT LEAST HE LEFT HIS POSITION AT
FBI, MR. HI BALD -- THIBAULT.
IN THE CONTEXT OF WHAT HAPPENED
WITH CROSSFIRE HURRICANE, THE
RUSSIAN COLLUSION INVESTIGATION
WHICH MOSTLY TURNED OUT TO BE A
HOAX, AND SOME OF THAT
INFORMATION WAS FED TO FISA
JUDGES THAT WAS INCORRECT
INFORMATION.
WITH THE RESIGNATION OF THIS
GUY, I MEAN, IT JUST, IT
COULDN’T COME AT A WORSE TIME
FOR THE FBI, I MEAN, IN TERMS OF
SUSPICIONS THAT AMERICANS HAVE
AS TO WHETHER THIS IS
POLITICALLY MOTIVATED.
>> ABSOLUTELY.
AND THIS CAME OUT RIGHT AT THE
VERY BEGINNING, THE MOMENT WE
LEARNED FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP
HIMSELF THAT FBI AGENTS WERE AT
MAR-A-LAGO.
THE FBI HAS FACED CRITICISMS AND
QUESTIONS ABOUT POLITICAL
MOTIVATIONS VIS-A-VIS TRUMP FOR
QUITE A LONG TIME.
REMEMBER PETER STRZOK AND LISA
PAGE, THE TWO HIGH RANKING FBI
OFFICIALS WHO WERE DISCUSSING
WAYS TO STOP DONALD TRUMP.
DURING THE 2016 CAMPAIGN.
SO THIS IS SOMETHING THE FBI HAS
FACED FOR A LONG TIME, AND IT’S
NEVER BEEN FULLY ANSWERED.
OF COURSE THE FBI AND THE
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SAY WE HAVE
ABSOLUTELY NO MOTIVE, POLITICAL
MOTIVATIONS, AND WE’RE DOING
EVERYTHING BY THE BOOK.
BUT THESE SUSPICIONS ARE STILL
THERE.
DAVID: YEAH.
A FINAL QUESTION FOR YOU, BYRON.
IF REPUBLICANS DO TAKE OVER THE
HOUSE AFTER THE NEXT ELECTION,
ARE WE GOING TO HAVE FBI
HEARINGS, SIGNIFICANT FBI
HEARINGS SIMILAR TO THOSE THAT
WE HAD IN THE 1970s WITH THE
CHURCH COMMITTEE?
>> I THINK WE WILL.
AND FOR THIS REASON: I THINK A
LOT OF REPUBLICANS WOULD SAY,
LISTEN, MOST OF THE PEOPLE WHO
WORK FOR THE FBI ARE DOING VERY
GOOD WORK.
THE FBI STOPS TERRORISTS AND
MURDERERS AND KIDNAPPERS AND ALL
SORTS OF REALLY, REALLY BAD
PEOPLE IN OUR SOCIETY, AND THEY
DO VERY GOOD AND NEEDED WORK.
BUT THERE IS A HYPER.
POLITICIZED -- HYPERPOLITICIZED
ELITE AT THE TOP OF THE FBI
THAT’S GOTTEN INVOLVED IN BOTH
SIDES OF THE LAST PRESIDENTIAL
ELECTION AND SEEMS TO BE DOING
IT AGAIN.
DAVID: YEAH.
>> SO THIS IS SOMETHING THAT
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS IN THEIR
OVERSIGHT CAPACITY, THEY HAVE A
RESPONSIBILITY TO DO THIS, WILL
PROBABLY DO IF REPUBLICANS TAKE
ONE OR BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS.