MARIA: BREAKING NEWS RIGHT NOW,
JULIAN ASSANGE UNDER ARREST THIS
MORNING, UK POLICE SAYS HE'S IN
CUSTODY IN CENTRAL LONDON.
ARRESTED ECUADOR EMBASSY IN
LONDON AFTER ECUADOR WITHDREW
ASYLUM STATUS.
JOINING US RIGHT NOW HUGO
GORDON, ALWAYS PLEASURE TO SEE
YOU.
YOUR REACTION TO THIS.
>> IT'S BEEN LONG-TIME COMING,
HE'S BEEN IN EMBASSY SINCE 2012
AND THEY SAY HE BROKE CONDITIONS
SEVERAL TIMES.
YOU KNOW, HE CLAIMED THAT HE WAS
-- HE'S UNDER ARREST AND HE'S
GOING TO FACE EXTRADITION TO
SWEDEN ON ASSAULT MOLESTATION
CHARGES.
THE CLINTON E-MAIL LEAKS.
ONE POSSIBILITY THAT'S TRUE
BECAUSE BACK IN NOVEMBER PAST
YEAR HE WAS NAMED ACCIDENTALLY
IN A CHARGE WHERE IT TALKED
ABOUT FACING CHARGES IN THE
UNITED STATES.
SO, YOU KNOW, NOW HE'S OUT OF
ECUADORAN EMBASSY, PROBABLY
EXTRADITED TO CHARGES AND THE
UNITED STATES MAY HAVE CHARGES
TOO.
MARIA: ALL CONNECTED, WHEN THOSE
EMAILS OF DEBBIE WASSERMAN
SCHULTZ AND HILLARY CLINTON'S
CAMPAIGN WERE RELEASED BACK IN
JULY OF 2016, THAT WAS SOMETHING
OF A CATALYST FOR THE DEMOCRATS
TO INSERT DONALD TRUMP INTO THE
RUSSIA MEDDLING STORY, WE KNOW
THAT RUSSIA MEDDLES IN WEST
ACTIVITY, EUROPE AS WELL.
WE HAVE KNOWN THAT FOR A LONG
TIME, WE KNOW THAT THEY HAVE
BEEN DOING THAT FOR DECADES BUT
THE AMERICAS WERE INSERTING
DONALD TRUMP BACK IN 2016, FBI
LAUNCHED AN INVESTIGATION AND
THEY SPIED ON THE TRUMP
CAMPAIGN, THAT'S WHAT WE HEARD
FROM WILLIAM BARR YESTERDAY.
WHAT DID YOU MAKE OF WILLIAM
BARR'S COMMENTS YESTERDAY?
>> WE KNEW THAT THERE WAS
SURVEILLANCE.
WE KNEW VERY WELL THAT THE FBI
WENT TO THE FISA COURT AND GOT
PERMISSION TO SNOOP ON THE
RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN -- ON THE
CAMPAIGN, CARTER PAGE IN
PARTICULAR.
WE KNEW THAT THEY WERE ANYWAY.
THE WORD SPYING IS WHAT THE
DEMOCRATS ARE FREAKING OUT WITH.
MARIA: I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE
FREAK OUT BECAUSE WE HAVE KNOWN
FOR 2 YEARS.
>> THEY ARE SEEING THE RUSSIA
COLLUSION NARRATIVE TURNING
AGAINST THEM.
THEY THOUGHT IT WAS PASSAGE BACK
TO POWER, THEY HAVE BEEN PLAYING
FOR 2 YEARS AND NOW WHO MADE --
OLD SAYING, MARIA, NOW WHAT IS
HAPPENING CONGRESS AND THE
ATTORNEY GENERAL ARE GOING TO
START LOOKING AT WHO INVENTED
THE STORY.
NOW, SOMEONE MADE IT UP BECAUSE
WE KNOW IT ISN'T TRUE.
MAYBE IT WAS LOTS OF PEOPLE.
MAYBE THE FBI BLEED IT BECAUSE
OF INCOMPETENCE.
MARIA: MAYBE THEY DIDN'T BELIEVE
IT AT ALL BUT THEY WERE LOOKING
FOR SOMETHING TO GET ON DONALD
TRUMP AND WE KNOW THIS BECAUSE
WE'VE SEEN MONTHS AND MONTHS OF
INVESTIGATION BY MYSELF AS WELL
AS LAWMAKERS WHO HAVE SAID OVER
THE LAST 2 YEARS AGAIN AND AGAIN
WHAT THEY DID WAS WRONG, ONE
POLITICAL CAMPAIGN SPYING ON
ANOTHER.
HERE IS JUST A COUPLE OF SOUND
BITES FROM THE LAST YEAR.
>> I THINK THERE'S A SPYING THAT
DID OCCUR, YES, I THINK SPYING
DID OCCUR.
>> LET ME --
>> THE REQUEST IS WHETHER WE
ADEQUATELY PREDICATED.
I NEED TO EXPLORE THAT.
I THINK IT'S MY OBLIGATION.
>> THEY GOT THE INFORMATION FROM
BRUCE OHR.
DID THEY DISCLOSE THIS TO THE
FBI BECAUSE REMEMBER YOU HIT
MAJOR POINT, NONE OF THIS WAS
DISCLOSED TO FISA COURT WHEN
THEY WENT AND SPIED ON TRUMP
CAMPAIGN USING VERY
SOPHISTICATED TOOLS THAT WE HAVE
IN ARSENAL THAT ARE SUPPOSED TO
TARGET TERRORISTS, TARGET
POLITICAL CAMPAIGN OPERATIVE.
>> REMEMBER, MARIA, HOW BAD IT
WAS OF UNVERIFIED DOSSIER THAT
WAS USED ON THE BASIS TO SURVEIL
ON TRUMP CAMPAIGN, CARTER PAGE,
GOT WORSE WHEN WE FOUND OUT THAT
DOSSIER WAS PAID FOR BY HILLARY
CLINTON AND THE DNC.
MARIA: JUST EXTRAORDINARY, THE
BOTTOM LINE HERE IS THEY SPIED
ON CARTER PAGE AND THERE WAS NO
PREDICATE AND THAT'S WHAT
WILLIAM BARR IS LOOKING AT.
WHAT'S THE PREDICATE?
>> THERE NEEDS TO BE A REASON,
THEY NEED TO BE LOOKING INTO
ACTUAL CRIME.
WE KNOW THAT THE APPLICATION TO
FISA COWARD WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN
MADE HAD NOT BEEN FOR DOSSIER,
PUT TOGETHER BY CHRISTOPHER
STEELE, FORMER BRITISH SPY.
HE WAS SUED IN BRITAIN AND
ADMITTED THAT IT WAS UNVERIFIED
DOCUMENT.
WE KNOW THAT IT WAS A, NOT
VERIFIED AND WE FIND OUT THAT IT
WASN'T TRUE.
I HAD TO HAVE BEEN MADE UP.
LET'S FIND OUT WHO DID THAT.
MARIA: THE PRESIDENT, OF COURSE,
SAID THIS FOR A LONG TIME AND
AGAIN THIS WEEK, HERE IS WHAT HE
SAID.
>> IT WAS AND ILLEGAL
INVESTIGATION.
IT WAS STARTED ILLEGALLY.
EVERYTHING ABOUT IT WAS CROOKED.
EVERY SINGLE THING ABOUT IT,
THERE WERE DIRTY COPS, THESE
WERE BAD PEOPLE, YOU LOOK AT
MCCABE AND COMEY AND YOU LOOK AT
LISA AND PETER STRZOK, THESE
WERE BAD PEOPLE AND THIS WAS --
AN ATTEMPTED COUP.
MARIA: YEAH THE COUP FAILED.
WHAT NOW, THEY ARE TRYING TO RIP
WILLIAM BARR'S REPUTATION.
>> DEMANDING HE WITHDRAW
SUGGESTION THAT HE WAS SPYING.
PELOSI SAID THAT HE WENT OFF THE
RAILS.
MARIA: RIDICULOUS.
>> WE KNOW THERE WAS
SURVEILLANCE AND IT WAS BASED ON
ALL HE'S DOING IS SAYING, WE
HAVE TO NOW LOOK BECAUSE WHY
THIS WENT AND WAS THERE
MALFEASANCE?
MARIA: WOULD WE SEE SOMEBODY GO
TO JAIL?
WOULD WE SEE PROSECUTIONS?
>> WELL, DEVIN NUNES IS SENDING
CRIMINAL REFERRALS, I THINK 8
CRIMINAL REFERRALS.
THERE MAY WELL BE.
I DON'T THINK THE ATTORNEY
GENERAL IF THERE'S REAL EVIDENCE
OF MALFEASANCE, I WOULDN'T WANT
TO PREDICT THAT HE WILL FIND
MALFEASANCE.
MARIA: WHAT WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT
IS PREDICATE WAS, WE KNEW THAT
THERE WAS WARRANT, WHEN YOU HAVE
A WARRANT TO SPY YOU ARE GETTING
ALL PHONE CALLS, ALL EMAILS, ALL
CORRESPONDENCE GOING IN AND OUT
OF THAT PERSON, PERIOD, THEY
BASICALLY HAD A WINDOW IN TRUMP
CAMPAIGN.
>> EXTRAORDINARY INTRUSION AND
PARTICULARLY WORRYING WHEN IT
WAS A POLITICAL CAMPAIGN.
EVERYBODY KNOWS AND WORTH
RESPEATING THE DOCUMENT WAS PUT
TOGETHER REALLY AT THE BEHEST OF
THE HILLARY CLINTON CAMPAIGN.
THIS WAS DONALD TRUMP'S OPPONENT
IN THE ELECTION.
IF THERE'S ANY SUGGESTION, IF
THERE'S ANY EVIDENCE THAT THIS
INVESTIGATION WENT AHEAD BECAUSE
THE INTELLIGENCE SERVICES OR THE
FBI WERE ACTIVELY TRYING TO HELP
ONE CANDIDATE WIN THE ELECTION
AND PREVENT THE OTHER CANDIDATE
AND MAKE SURE THAT THE OTHER
CANDIDATE LOST, THAT'S AN
EXTRAORDINARY SCANDAL.