In a discussion about the release of Rep. Devin Nunes's (R-CA) memo berating the FBI and Justice Department, co-hosts of "The View" clashed over who was responsible for politicizing the government agencies.
Meghan McCain went full conspiracy theory, citing GOP talking points that the Christopher Steele dossier was the sole source used for the FISA judge to issue a warrant four times over. The dossier was not the only source and all four judges knew each and every fact about the source of the dossier and who paid for it. Many details on the FISA warrant are still classified and very few Republicans, including Nunes, have access to the classified documents.
McCain then railed against the partisanship of former FBI Director James Comey for his attacks on Twitter and the text conversations from Peter Strzok complaining about politicians on both sides of the political spectrum. Like many Americans, he seemed disenchanted with Washington, though the right is criticizing him for speaking poorly about them and denying the other texts.
"What's distressing to me is that I've worked with FBI agents day in and day out as a federal prosecutor," Sunny Hostin explained. "And they are some of the best most dedicated, incredible people that I have met in my life. They are dedicated to the world. I didn't know if I was working with a Republican, I didn't know if I was working with a Democrat. I knew that we were fighting crime together. We were chasing justice and we were doing the job."
She went on to explain that in her experience it is not true that the FBI is politicized.
"What you have is politicians who are trying to politicize the FBI to undermine the Russian intelligence investigation," she continued.
She then quoted Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), who said over the weekend that elected officials must stop looking at the Mueller investigation with a political angle.
"Our nation's elected officials, including the President, must stop looking at this investigation through the warped lens of politics and manufacturing partisan sideshows," McCain said. "If we continue to undermine our own rule of law, we are doing Putin's job for him."
His daughter went on to say that no man, neither her husband nor her father, speaks for her, and that she maintained Comey was being political. The panel of women commented that Comey is no longer employees by the U.S. government, much less the FBI. However, McCain seemed to think that his Twitter commentary was somehow politicizing the FBI.
Guest co-host Ana Navarro called the memo and the GOP commentary politicized and blamed her own party for it.
"This has been incredibly politicized, frankly by Devin Nunes," Navarro said. "I think he's actually hurting Donald Trump. It's another way that he is fabricating a sideshow, as John McCain says. A partisan sideshow. We saw him with the 'secret society.' We saw him do the meeting with the White House -- that midnight meeting last year. He does it over and over again and it's trying to distract from the Mueller investigation."
After a commercial break, McCain qualified that she continues to be shocked by the lack of sanctions against the Russians and why Trump refuses to uphold them.
Joy Behar noted it's because Trump either reveres or fears Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"It seems to be that's the reason the Russians have been protecting him and they invaded our elections," she said. "Because they have something to get from them. Which is reducing the sanctions."
"It's all smoke and mirrors," Whoopi Goldberg said. "Mueller isn't going anywhere."
Navarro cut in to say that people shouldn't assume Muller isn't going anywhere and that Trump and the GOP could very easily decide to fire him. She encouraged Americans to call their representatives and encourage leaders to put protections in place to ensure he can do his job without attacks from the White House.
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