THE ONE JOINING US TONIGHT
AWARD-WINNING INVESTIGATIVE
REPORTER JOHN SOLOMON OF THE
HILL.
GREAT TO HAVE YOU WITH US.
YOUR REACTION TO LAST NIGHT,
TALKING ON THE BROADCAST WITH
JOE AND VICTORIA.
THEIR FRUSTRATION WAS COMPARABLE
AND THEY HAVE BEEN PATIENT AND
IMMENSELY CONFIDENT OF WILLIAM
BARR.
EVEN THEY WERE STARTING TO FEEL
A LITTLE FRUSTRATED, YOUR
THOUGHTS ABOUT WHAT CAME DOWN
TODAY AND WHERE IT LIKELY LEADS?
>> WHERE ONE STEP CLOSER TO THE
POSSIBILITY THAT ANDREW MCCABE
MIGHT BE INDICTED.
IT'S REMARKABLE, THIS IS BEEN AN
18 MONTH PROCESS FOR A CRIME
THAT THE IG LAID OUT IN APRIL OF
2018 PRETTY CLEARLY.
HE LIED NOT ONCE, NOT TWICE BUT
FOUR TIMES.
IT DID NOT TAKE 18 MONTHS TO
INDICT GEORGE PAPADOPOULOS OR
ANY OTHER FIGURES IN THE REST OF
THE CASE.
WHEN PEOPLE LOOK AT IT, THEY SEE
TWO THINGS, JUSTICE WHICH NORMAL
PEOPLE GET AND THEN THEY SEE
JUST US WHICH IS THE SPECIAL
TREATMENT THAT JUST INSIDERS
GET.
I'VE NEVER SEEN THIS APPEAL
PROCESS BUT THE NEWS IS, AT
LEAST WERE AT A POINT WHERE THEY
WILL INDICT OR NOT INDICT.
THE NEXT TWO STEPS, IF THE
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT IS SERIOUS
THEY WILL SEND A NOTIFICATION TO
INJURE MCCABE SAYING YOU'RE
LIKELY TO BE INDICTED.
IN EITHER GRAND JURY WILL INDICT
ON CHARGES OR THEY WILL PASS AND
WE SHOULD NOT BE AT THIS LONG
NIGHTMARE SOON.
LOU: I AM LIKE EVERY AMERICAN, I
AM HOPING THAT YOU ARE CORRECT
IN ALL OF THIS.
BUT EVEN AT THAT, THERE IS MUCH
TO BE ATONED FOR.
BECAUSE OF THE PROCESS HAS BEEN
AWFUL, IT HAS SET BACK A
PRESIDENT OF WHO IS INDOMITABLE,
HE IS STILL HISTORIC PRESIDENT.
>> I TRULY BELIEVE THIS, ANY
OTHER PRESIDENT WOULD'VE
SUCCUMBED TO DEPRESSION, FEARS
MENDING FRUSTRATION OR WOULD'VE
GIVEN UP FIGHTING IN SOME WAYS
WHICH IS MADE THIS PRESIDENT
EVEN BOLDER, STRONGER AND
CERTAINLY EVERY BIT AS EFFECTIVE
AS HE HAD NO OPPOSITION AT ALL.
>> I HAD THE PLEASURE A COUPLE
OF TIMES AND AT TIMES IN THE
PRESIDENT WAS AT DARKER TIMES
AND THINGS WERE LOOKING DOWN FOR
HIM.
IN DONALD TRUMP IF NOTHING ELSE
IS AN ABSOLUTE FIGHTER, HE DOES
NOT STOP AND I SAW THAT
BEHIND-THE-SCENES WITH DIFFERENT
INTERVIEWS OVER THE LAST FEW
YEARS, IT'S A MAN THAT KEEPS ON
FIGHTING BECAUSE HE WANTS TO DO
THE JOB THAT THE MARKET PEOPLE
ELECTED HIM FOR.
MORE DEVELOPMENT, NEW
DEVELOPMENTS IN THE CHRISTER
DEVELOPMENTS IN THE IHRISTER
DEVELOPMENTS IN THE ISRISTER
DEVELOPMENTS IN THE IS DSTER
DEVELOPMENTS IN THE IS DIFER
DEVELOPMENTS IN THE IS DIFFERENT
STILL DUSTY.
WOULD YOU SHARE THAT IS
EXTRAORDINARY REPORTING AS
ALWAYS.
>> ITS HOT OFF THE PRESS, TODAY
THANKS TO THE GOOD WORKERS GRASP
AND JOHNSON, WE LEARNED THERE IS
A LOT OF NEW INFORMATION IN THE
FIRST INFORMATION ABOUT
POTENTIAL MISCONDUCT IS A FAMOUS
MEETING THAT YOU AND I TALKED
ABOUT OCTOBER 2016 CHRISTOPHER
STEELE AT THE STATE DEPARTMENT,
THE OPPOSITION RESEARCHER FOR
HILLARY CLINTON.
WE LEARNED THAT THE STATE
DEPARTMENT INSPECTOR GENERAL
FOUND EVIDENCE OF ANTI-TRUNK
POLITICAL CONDUCT BY THE PLAYERS
IN THE MEETING AT THE STATE
DEPARTMENT, HE REFERRED ONE
INDIVIDUAL TO THE SPECIAL
COUNSEL'S OFFICE.
THAT IS AN
THAT IS IN
THAT IS IMPORTANT NEWS.
THERE WAS AN OFFICIAL JOHN
WEINER WHO IS USING OFFICIAL
ACCOUNT TO CONDUCT STATE
DEPARTMENT BUSINESSES AROUND THE
CHRISTOPHER STILL CONTACTS.
THAT IS BEEN REFERRED.
BUT THESE ALLEGATIONS ONLY
SURFACED BECAUSE THEY PRESSED
FOR INFORMATION, THE INSPECTOR
GENERAL NEVER WROTE REPORT SO
THEY DO NOT WRITE ABOUT IT, AND
HE DID NOT INTERVIEW ANY OF THE
KEY PLAYERS, WEINER, YOUR BOSS
AND THERE'S BEEN QUESTIONS ABOUT
WHETHER THERE IS A COVER-UP OF
THE INFORMATION IF IT WERE NOT
FOR THE GOOD SENATORS WE MAY NOT
KNOW ABOUT IT.
LOU: THAT'S EXTRAORDINARY.
IT'S EXTRAORDINARY, I DON'T KNOW
WHAT THE CIRCUMSTANCES ARE BUT I
RECALL DURING THE PERIOD OF THE
OBAMA MINISTRATION, I CANNOT
REMEMBER THE LINK IN WHICH THEY
DO NOT EVEN HAVE AN INSPECTOR
GENERAL.
>> THERE'S A LARGE TIME WHERE
THERE IS VACANCIES.
THESE INSPECTOR GENERAL'S PLATE
AND IMPORTANT ROLE AS LONG AS
THEY DO THE JOB INDEPENDENTLY.
HOPEFULLY THERE WILL BE JUST AS