KENNEDY: I WANT TO SEE THE
WARRANT.
ACCORDING TO THE NEW YORK POST,
THE FEDS ASKED FOR SECURITY
CAMERAS TO BE TURNED OFF DURING
THE RAID.
EMPLOYEES REFUSED.
GOOD FOR THEM.
TRUMP AND HIS TEAM QUESTIONING
WHETHER THEY PLANTED EVIDENCE.
I DON’T KNOW ABOUT THAT.
THEY’RE THEORIZING WHETHER AN
INSIDE SOURCE TIPPED THEM OFF.
I BELIEVE THAT.
I’M JOINED BY A FORMER SPECIAL
AGENT.
WHAT STRIKES YOU ABOUT THIS AND,
YOU KNOW, THE URGENCY OF DOING
THIS NOW EVEN THOUGH THERE HAD
BEEN ONGOING TALKS.
WHAT DO YOU THINK THEY WERE
LOOKING FOR?
>> I FIND IT STRANGE WITH THE
URGENCY BECAUSE, YES, THERE WERE
ON GOING TALKS AND I UNDERSTAND
TALKS BROKE DOWN.
WHAT A SHOCKER.
ATTORNEYS NOT AGREEING WITH ONE
ANOTHER.
THAT DISAGREEMENT STUFF HAPPENED
ALL THE TIME IN CASES LIKE THIS,
AND YOU CAN CONTINUE TALKING.
THE FBI WOULD HAVE PUT A WARRANT
TOGETHER WITH THE CONCURRENCE OF
DOJ IF THEY THOUGHT SOMETHING
WAS GOING TO HAPPEN.
SAY THERE WAS CLASSIFIED
INFORMATION THEY BELIEVED WAS
SUDDENLY GOING TO BE MADE
PUBLIC.
BORROWING THAT, IT’S UN-BLAGABLE
TO ME THEY WOULD HAVE EXECUTE
ADD WARRANT LIKE THIS ON SUCH A
HIGH-PROFILE INDIVIDUAL.
KENNEDY: BUT WHAT KIND OF
CLASSIFIED INFORMATION?
WE WERE TALKING ABOUT ALIENS IN
THE TOP OF THE SHOW.
IT HAS TO BE SOMETHING MASSIVE.
YOU KNOW, ALL OF A SUDDEN THE
FBI IS FALLING ALL OVER ITSELF
TO MAKE SURE THEY GET THEIR
HANDS ON CLASSIFIED INFORMATION.
THAT’S RICH.
THEY’VE LET QUITE A FEW THINGS
PASS FROM OTHER PRESIDENTIAL
HOPEFULS, NON-PRESIDENTS LIKE
HILLARY CLINTON.
>> WELL, AND MY CONCERN HERE IS
IT TAKES TIME TO PUT A WARRANT
OF THIS MAGNITUDE TOGETHER AND
YOU HAVE TO WRITE THE AFFIDAVIT
AND WRITE THE WARRANT AND GET
THE JUDGE TO APPROVE IT.
THIS WASN’T THROWN TOGETHER IN A
MATTER OF DAYS AND THROWN ABOVE
THE FBI OR DOJ AND WE WANT A
SEARCH WARRANT AND A MATTER OF
WHEN THE OPPORTUNITY WOULD ARISE
TO GIVE THEM THE RIGHT TO HAVE
THAT SEARCH WARRANT.
I’M CONCERNED THIS WAS LONG
PLANNED AND NOT BASED ON
NECESSITY.
KENNEDY: IT DOESN’T SOUND LIKE
IT AND MONTHS IN THE MAKING AND,
YOU KNOW, THE PRECEDENCE HAS
BEEN 60 DAYS BEFORE A NATIONAL
ELECTION, YOU KNOW, YOU DON’T
HAVE ON GOING INVESTIGATIONS
LIKE THIS THAT MIGHT HAVE
POLITICAL RAMIFICATIONS.
WE’RE 89 DAYS OUT FROM THE
MIDTERMS IN NOVEMBER SO ARE THEY
RUSHING TO DO THIS BEFORE THEN
AND IF THAT’S THE CASE, THEN IT
IS POLITICALLY MOTIVATED AND
THAT IS SO WRONG.
>> AND THIS POLITICAL MOTIVATION
THAT WE’RE SEEING IN THE FBI IS
COMING FROM WAY UP AT THE TOP.
THE RANK AND FILE AGENTS WANT TO
DOT RIGHT JOB AND DO WHAT
THEY’RE TRAINED TO DO, BUT
THEY’RE BEING DIRECTED AND
PUSHED BY OTHER PLACES AND, YES,
I BELIEVE THERE’S PEOPLE
INCLUDING THE DEPARTMENT OF
JUSTICE THAT WANT THINGS FOR
POLITICAL REASONING WHEREAS THE
FBI NEEDS TO BE NONPARTISAN.
THEY NEED TO BE NONPOLITICAL TO
BE ABLE TO DO THEIR JOB.
KENNEDY: ESPECIALLY AFTER JAMES
COMEY AND PETER STRUCK AND THE
REST OF THEM WERE SO VOCALLY
HYPER-PARTISAN.
THEY HAVE TO BE NONPARTISAN, AND
I AGREE WITH TOM MCCLINTOCK’S
ASSESSMENT THAT SENIOR
LEADERSHIP THERE HAS TO GO.
YOU KNOW, THIS IS ALL KINDS OF
WRONG.
WHY ARE THEY IN THE FORMER FIRST
LADY’S CLOSET?
DO YOU REALLY THINK THAT THEY’VE
GOT BIG FOOT’S SCALP STASH THERE
HAD?
>> WELL, IN FAIRNESS TO THE FBI,
WHEN YOU CONDUCT A SEARCH, YOU
SEARCH EVERYWHERE THAT’S
REASONABLE BECAUSE YOU JUST
NEVER KNOW.
BEDROOMS, CLOSETS, THE OFFICE
OBVIOUSLY, THE BASEMENT, THOSE
ARE THE NORMAL PLACES PEOPLE
KEEP THINGS, AND THAT’S WHAT THE
FBI WOULD NORMALLY SEARCH.
I DON’T FIND THAT UNUSUAL.
KENNEDY: DO YOU THINK WE’RE EVER
GOING TO KNOW WHAT REALLY
HAPPENED HERE?
>> I THINK WE’RE GOING TO SEE
SOME INFORMATION COME OUT THAT
WILL INDICATE TO US WHY THIS ALL
TOOK PLACE.
WE HAVEN’T SEEN THE AFFIDAVIT,
KENNEDY, WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT’S
IN THE AFFIDAVIT THAT SUPPORTED
THIS WARRANT SO THAT WE CAN HAVE
A BETTER UNDERSTANDING.
WHAT I DON’T UNDERSTAND IS WHY
ARE THEY DELAYING THE RELEASE OF
THIS INFORMATION, THE DEPARTMENT
OF JUSTICE DELAYING.
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, HALF OF THE
COUNTRY NEED TO HAVE THE
CONFIDENCE IN THE GOVERNMENT
THAT THEY ARE LACKING RIGHT NOW
KENNEDY: ABSOLUTELY.
IT’S MORE THAN HALF THE COUNTRY.
FAITH IN INSTITUTIONS HAS ERODED
AND THAT’S NOT A GOOD THING FOR
THE REPUBLIC.
JOHN, THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME