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For a network that claims to champion facts, MSNBC found itself doing damage control Monday morning. On Friday, during a segment on Morning Joe, former FBI assistant director Frank Figliuzzi floated an eyebrow-raising claim about FBI Director Kash Patel, telling viewers that Patel had “been visible at nightclubs far more than he has been on the seventh floor of the Hoover Building.” The insinuation—that the head of the FBI is more concerned with nightlife than national security—was left unchallenged by the show’s hosts at the time. “There are reports that daily briefings to him have been changed from every day...

"And if you voted for this I question if you're American"

Former FBI assistant director Frank Figliuzzi said on Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Deadline” that those who voted for President Donald Trump should question whether they are American anymore. Figliuzzi said, “This Reince Priebus clip that you played, Nothing to see here, don’t worry, remain calm, he occasionally likes to take a grenade out and throw it on the floor to see what happens. I’ll tell you what happens when you play with a live grenade and toss it on the floor eventually it explodes. The only question for us is whether it’s going to explode back on Trump or explode...

‘The New York Times put out a photo today of the walls of Quantico, the FBI academy, where they were painting over the FBI’s core values to include integrity, adherence to the Constitution and diversity,’ he said. Fairness, compassion, diversity and respect are just some of the words that were painted over with a much duller, gray color. ‘A less diverse FBI is a less effective FBI,’ he claimed.

Saturday, shortly after former President Donald Trump evaded an apparent assassination attempt, NBC News national security correspondent Frank Figliuzzi expressed concerns that Trump supporters may seek revenge for the attempt to take the former president’s life. Figliuzzi, who regularly labels the right as a threat to public safety, said it could come in the form of Trump supporters taking on anti-Trump protesters at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee next week.

VIDEO"Devastating to the FBI!" That not just some evil monster MAGA person describing the newly released Durham Report. That description was provided by Jake Tapper. And the person most DEVASTATED so far by the Durham Report appears to be MSNBC's Frank Frank Figliuzzi who looked so devastated while reacting to it that I thought he was about to burst out crying. Perhaps he was thinking that because he is a former Assistant FBI Director he might be facing a lot of legal consequences for the newly revealed FBI abuses.

MSNBC national security analyst Frank Figliuzzi said Monday on “Deadline” that former President Donald Trump’s followers were members of an “extremely disturbing” cult with a death count. Figliuzzi said, “When you combine the characteristics of a cult with all the trappings of a religion, you’ve got a very volatile, dangerous scenario on your hands. I frequently refer to the MAGA movement as a form of cult, but clearly, if you watch this Youngstown, Ohio, rally and if you were to take Trump out of the video, listen to at audio in the last moments of the rally and watch the...

NBC News national security contributor and former FBI Assistant Director Frank Figliuzzi said on Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Deadline” that Fox News host Tucker Carlson, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), and Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) were not on “Team America.” Anchor Nicolle Wallace said, “I want to ask you what Vladimir Putin does when Republican candidate J.D. Vance, the author of ‘Hillbilly Elegy,’ a highly educated man says, quote, ‘I got to be honest with you, I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine, one way or the other.’ Madison Cawthorn, I can’t speak to his education because I don’t know,...

NBC News national security contributor and former FBI Assistant Director Frank Figliuzzi said on Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Deadline” that Attorney General Merrick Garland needs to establish limits on special counsel John Durham’s investigation into the origins of the Trump Russia probe.

NBC News national security contributor and former FBI Assistant Director Frank Figliuzzi said on Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Deadline” that Attorney General Merrick Garland needs to establish limits on special counsel John Durham’s investigation into the origins of the Trump Russia probe. Figliuzzi said, “This is dangerous disinformation. It is pointing a finger at Hillary Clinton. It is lying about her. It is claiming she may be engaged in criminal activity.”

When someone calls for arresting members of Congress not only does he sound coo-coo, he also sounds like he is calling for a coup. What made this call particularly troubling was that it came last week from a former FBI assistant director for counterintelligence who is now an MSNBC contributor.That infamous figure would be Frank Figliuzzi, who has a history of derangement, including his accusation in 2019 that President Donald Trump was sending a secret signal to neo-Nazis by ordering that flags be lowered.It's been two years later and Figliuzzi hasn't sounded any less kooky. His latest escapade into the...

In a shocking segment, MSNBC’s Katy Tur suggested that the FBI should be tracking young white men online to radicalize them, provide resources for creating explosives, and then arrest them. Tur was comparing young white men to ISIS terrorists in an interview with Frank Figliuzzi, the former Assistant Director for Counterintelligence at the FBI. “When you’re looking at ISIS or you’re looking at radical Islamic terrorism, I covered a number of stories where the FBI would track young kids or young men and they would talk to them online and say ‘you know, here’s how you build a bomb,’ or...

What's the point at which rhetoric forces action? When do words become incitement? At what point do political attacks get so reckless and unhinged that you can no longer heal the divide they create with politics? It's hard to know exactly, but the left is getting very close. Take, for example, this exchange on MSNBC, in which frequent guest Malcolm Nance accuses the president of the United States of sending secret messages to neo-Nazis: "These people feel that they are the foot soldiers and executors of the disenfranchisement that the white race is feeling, and Donald Trump is giving them...

MSNBC contributor Frank Figliuzzi, a former FBI counterintelligence official, floated a conspiracy theory about the president issuing secret Nazi messages on "The 11th Hour With Brian Williams" on Monday night. FRANK FIGLIUZZI: And I'll give you an example of that. We have to understand the adversary and the threat we’re dealing with. And if we don't understand how they think, we’ll never understand how to counter them. So, it’s little things and language and messaging that matters. The President said that we will fly our flags at half-mast until August 8th. That's 8/8. Now, I'm not going to imply that...

Trump Ordered Nation’s Flags at Half-Mast Till 8/8. Former FBI Official Explains Why That’s So Chilling — WATCH Fmr. FBI Assistant Director for Counterintelligence Frank Figliuzzi spoke with Brian Williams on MSNBC about Donald Trump’s white supremacist rhetoric and how extremists interpret it. Figliuzzi is also very concerned about who is behind the president’s speeches.

MSNBC’s Steve Schmidt––who recently left the Republican party––decried the Supreme Court decision upholding President Trump‘s travel ban. Nicolle Wallace talked with her panel about the SCOTUS decision, looking back at how we got from the originally-proposed Muslim ban to here. She said, “I remember people in the intelligence community saying to me, ‘Who do you think we rely on the most in the countries that could represent the greatest geopolitical threats from us?'” Former FBI assistant director for counterintelligence Frank Figliuzzi said that today “we became a little bit less of that shining city on a hill” into a country...

President Donald Trump's allegation that the Department of Justice put a "spy" inside his presidential campaign to frame him is being widely dismissed as absurd by current and former law enforcement officials. But it would not be absurd to think the FBI might have sent informants to speak to suspects in their counterintelligence investigation into whether anyone in the Trump orbit was working with Russia to interfere in the presidential election. In fact, it would have been accepted procedure for the FBI. "The notion of fully embedded government operatives inside a campaign is hard to imagine under these circumstances," said...

Former federal prosecutor Frank Figliuzzi calls for the criminal investigation of Representative Devin Nunes if his staff's Russia memo - which reportedly contains classified intel - is released to the public.

s this our new normal? During my FBI career as a Special Agent and ultimately Assistant Director, the FBI, police, and domestic security agencies viewed terrorist incidents through a black and white, binary lens. If we “allowed” an attack to happen, we had failed. If we prevented an attack, we had succeeded. Yet, the increase in lone wolf, soft-target attacks — particularly attacks where trucks and cars are driven into large, vulnerable crowds — can actually be viewed as a symptom of our success. The Halloween terror attack that occurred in New York City raises an important question: Do we...