BRIAN: BIG NEWS YESTERDAY
U.S. ATTORNEY JOHN DURHAM
EXPANDING THE PROBE INTO
SURVEILLANCE ON THE 2016
TRUMP CAMPAIGN.
LOOKING INTO A WIDER
CAMPAIGN UP TO WHEN ROBERT
MUELLER WAS NAMED SPECIAL
COUNSEL.
THIS COMES AS MUELLER FACES
NEW SCRUTINY OVER POTENTIAL
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST IN HIS
INVESTIGATION.
HE FORGOT HE WAS ACTUALLY
APPLYING FOR A JOB.
FORMER CHAIRMAN OF THE
HOUSEOVER SIGHT COMMITTEE
FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR AND
AUTHOR OF POWER GRAB, THE
BEST SELLING BOOK, JASON
CHAFFETZ.
JASON, SO WHAT DOES IT MEAN
THAT DURHAM SAYS I'M
EXPANDING IT AND I'M NOT
GOING TO PROBABLY RELEASE IT
UNTIL NEXT YEAR?
>> IT'S REALLY BAD NEWS FOR
PEOPLE LIKE MR. BRENNAN WHO
WAS THE DIRECTOR OF THE CIA.
I THINK MR. CLAPPER ALSO HAS
SOMETHING TO ANSWER FOR.
THE FACT THAT HE IS
EXPANDING THE PROBE MEANS
THERE IS SOMETHING REAL
THERE.
AND NOW HE HAS BEEN LOOKING
AT THIS FOR MONTHS ON END
NOW.
THERE IS A LOT MORE
INFORMATION OUT THERE.
THE TIMELINE IS INTERESTING.
TO SAY THAT HE IS GOING TO
TAKE SO LONG TO PUT IT OUT
THERE.
I THINK THEY ARE TIRED OF
ALL THIS SPECULATION OF WHEN
HE IS GOING TO RELEASE OR
WHEN THEY ARE GOING TO
CHARGE PEOPLE.
IF YOU SET THAT DATE WAY,
WAY OUT IN ADVANCE, THEN YOU
CAN EXCEED THOSE
EXPECTATIONS.
I THINK IT'S THE EXPECTATION
GAME.
I WOULD SUSPECT HE WOULD
COME OUT MUCH SOONER THAN
THAT.
BRIAN: I WOULD THINK IF HE
HAS THE MOST EXPENSIVE
REPORT POSSIBLE.
IF PRESIDENT TRUMP IS IN HIS
SECOND TERM OR THERE IS
ANOTHER PRESIDENT, IT'S
NO -- IT'S GOING TO HAVE
MINIMAL INTEREST EVEN THOUGH
IT WILL HAVE IMPACT TO THE
PEOPLE INVOLVED.
>> THE MOST IMPORTANT THING
THAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN I
MEAN LITERALLY IT COULD
HAPPEN TODAY AND MOST PEOPLE
SUSPECT IT WILL BE NEXT WEEK
IS THE HOROWITZ REPORT.
THIS WILL BE THE THIRD
REPORT THAT IS OUT THERE.
THE BATTLE THAT'S GOING ON
BEHIND THE SCENES FROM
SEVERAL PEOPLE I HAVE SPOKEN
WITH IS TO WHAT DEGREE IS IT
CLASSIFIED.
LAST TIME ONLY SEVEN WORDS
OR SO THAT WERE REDACTED.
THIS ONE COULD BE AS MUCH AS
10 OR 20% OF THE REPORT
REDACTED FOR LEGITIMATE
CLASSIFICATION CONCERNS.
BUT HOROWITZ' REPORT BY ALL
EXPECTATIONS IS GOING TO BE
A BOMBSHELL.
IT REALLY IS.
BRIAN: IT'S GOING TO BE
INTERESTING.
MEANWHILE, I WAS STRUCK --
THERE WASN'T MANY MEMORABLE
MOMENTS FROM THE MUELLER
TESTIMONY BUT THIS STUCK OUT
WITH ME.
WATCH.
>> SO YOU DON'T RECALL
MAY 16TH, 2017, THAT YOU
INTERVIEWED WITH THE
PRESIDENT REGARDING THE FBI
DIRECTOR JOB?
>> I INTERVIEWED WITH THE
PRESIDENT AND.
>> REGARDING THE FBI
DIRECTOR JOB.
>> IT WAS ABOUT THE JOB BUT
NOT ABOUT ME APPLYING FOR
THE JOB.
>> YOUR STATEMENT HERE TODAY
IS THAT YOU DIDN'T INTERVIEW
TO APPLY FOR THE FBI
DIRECTOR JOB?
>> THAT'S CORRECT.
BRIAN: NOW THERE WAS A
REPORT HE WAS, INDEED,
APPLYING FOR THE JOB.
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR
SOMEBODY WHO IS A SPECIAL
COUNSEL WHO JUST GOT PASSED
OVER FOR A JOB BY THE PERSON
HE IS INVESTIGATING?
>> WELL, IT MEANS IF YOU GO
BACK AND LOOK AT PRESIDENT
TRUMP'S TWEET THAT HE PUT
OUT.
THE PRESIDENT WAS 110%
RIGHT.
PEOPLE MOCKED HIM FOR IT.
PEOPLE SAID HE WAS WRONG.
BUT NOW THE DOCUMENTS ARE
SHOWING THAT HE WAS EXACTLY
RIGHT.
AND, LOOK, THE SPECIAL
COUNSEL WAS PROVIDING WHAT
ENDED UP BEING BOGUS
INFORMATION.
I DON'T THINK HE IS GOING TO
BE PROSECUTED FOR IT.
BUT WHEN YOU CLEAR THE AIR
TRUMP WAS RIGHT AND MUELLER
WAS WRONG.
BRIAN: ASK YOURSELF ANY
LEVEL SMALLEST OR BIGGEST
COURT.
DO YOU WANT SOMEONE
INVESTIGATING YOU WHO YOU
JUST SAID IS NOT WORTHY OF
THE JOB THAT WAS OPEN.