stay with us. >> good evening, growing calls to investigate the clintons, their collusion with russia, their foundation, her e-mail scandal and former president's profiteering, there have been three separate reports by congressional republicans demanding answers in the last weeks. nearly 2 dozen republican are calling on trump justice department to appoint a special counsel. to investigate the number of scandals involving hillary clinton and the obama administration. tonight i'll talk with one of them congressman ron desantis and senate judiciary committee has given the justice department until this

thursday, to disclose whether it is investigating alleged collusion between a democratic national committee operative, and ukrainian government officials. republicans on the house judiciary commit latest week, they voted to demand fbi documents pertaining to clinton e-mail investigation. specifically they want former fbi director james comey's conversations with obama administration officials and journalists, perhaps lawmakers should pay closer attention to white house press briefing. press secretary sarah huckabee sanders today laid out the clinton a troubling ties to russia. >> you are focused on a meeting that don jr. had no consequence when democrats actually colluded with a foreign gust like ukraine. took money from russian government and created phony dossier, that is basis for all

russia scandal fake news, if you want to talk further about a relationship with russia look no further than the clintons, as we have said time again bill clinton paid a half million to give a speech to a russian bank and personally thanked by putin, and hillary clinton allowing one fifth of reserve uranium to be sold on a russia firm, found to be clinton donors. an if you want to talk about having relations, you seem obsessed with, look no further than there. cheryl: a compelling list, put forward by white house press secretary, my first guest, part of a group of republicans, calling for appointment of a second special counsel to investigate clinton collusion with the politicize obama justice department and the russians, joining congressman ron desantis.

what are the odds you get an investigation? >> i think they are better than we initially thought. part is comey's testimony, if you remember, he said basically lynch was compromised in how she handled hillary clinton's e-mail case. that is why he did the press conference. he gave us ammunition to that on that. then revolution with fusion gps, some of that coming out of senate judiciary, that needs to be investigated, that is interference for sure. i think the attorney general will take a hard look at that letter, i am cautiously optimistic we'll see some action. cheryl: republicans, -- >> republicans by steps of million are listening to you, asking wait a minute, republicans control the house, they control the senate. and white house.

and they can't understand the evidence. and spent wasted a year of investigation on donald trump, president of united states without finding any evidence what so ever. >> you are preaching to the choir on that. i believe that committees in house and senate that gone overboard on russia collusion stuff. it had anyone something that hillary harped and media. from -- there has not been evidence. that was being investigated even before the campaign began in summer of last year, they there is still no evidence of collusion. my view would have been, when we came in congress in january, we should have taken first 6 months to do real significant oversight on faret out everything that happened with obama administration, justice department.

lou: your speaker threw david nunez under the bus because he was producing evidence against the obama administration and the clintons. >> he has done a good job, he needs to be back as chairman for all this. he is the one who reall been pushing on unmasking, we know news reports say that, the committee is interested in bringing in ben rhodes or considers ben rhodes a potential person of interest, that is explosive stuff, that should have gone our focus from the goning. lou: devon has done a terrific job, but the speaker has run him over. and th the entire republican house leadership. they have not been supportive of president or truth. they are a pack of weasels. you know it. and so do your other members of conference, i don't understand why you are tolerating that conduct.

it is appalling. absolutely appalling to do this to a president of united states in our i don't know party. >> -- in your own party. >> we need to do, i am pushing as you know with this i-t scandal involving people like deb wassermann schultz there is a criminal component, probably an ethic component and probably a house component, reports say there is an investigation in the house. we don't know who they were, or what they had access to. this is a di big scandal. >> speaker ryan, i'll say just as straight forwardly as i can, has been willing to aid and abet the dems and the left in this country through his leadership position in the house, and his sway over the house intelligence committee,. it appalling, and burr north

carolina up the senate, this is awful when they are doing to this president. >> i have told the speaker personally, i said, mr. speaker these things if in is evidence produce it. if there is snow evidence is no evidence we have to focus on things that are affecting the american people, that has been my position from the beginning, i think this has been drawn out, witnesses come, and it is interesting, with the media reports these, if you put people under oath, usually shooting down a lot of these media reports, so far from getting evidence of collusion. lou: there is not a single question -- >> not evidence. lou: you know, there is no question in mind of most of americans, about whether or not donald trump or any of his campaign colluded with russia. that is a great lie. a lie perpetrated not only by left and deep state but your leadership in the house, leadership in senate. and it is god awful to watch, i don't understand.

maybe you can straighten me out, i am not singles you out, but the entire conference. why haven't you people out of decency and essence of justice, demanded that your leadership march down to the speaker's office and demand that he grow a brain. >> i don't know if there is a discharge petition for that, or how it u would work. lou: i will leave particularlies to you. >> you point out, what we did on judiciary committee, that is is not something that leadership wanted to do. we forced the issue then we were able too get media attention, get this on session's desk, and hopefully we'll have announcementing that there is probes started. we -- you have rank-and-file members that are fighting. and i know you recognize some of us on the air, but that is

reality, people are trying to dig in on behalf of the american people. lou: and frankly, let's say it. what we mean, digging in on behalf of a duel i elected president of the united states getting run over not only by deep state, left and schumer clowns, but by the leadership in both houses of our government. it is uncontio uncontionible. our attorney general, where the hell has he been? why in the world is he not investigating? >> he may be. there will be an announcement -- >> you know, what i am all -- i am all aat thi -- atitt er or is it atwitter, millions of americans know that

washington dc stinks to high heaven, and greatest stench rising from leadership officers in republicans and dems in house and senate, will it end? >> in terms of justice department, i think that we do need to know -- is what we've been asking, are you investigating the leak against flynn. there has been a concerted campaign to leak against this president, not just to leak to leak but to damage him politically. we have been wanting to get answers for, that we don't always know what they are investigating. but we have requested to know, otherwise we can't do our job, they have leaked more in 6 months against president trump, than people leaked in 8 years under barack obama. lou: when will you get mad enough, outraged enough, go

down, kick down speaker ryan's front door. i'm serious? what are you going to do pretend this is just another day, in the swamp. this isn't this is a battle for the country. >> i agree, that is why i think that we have to get the leakers brought to justice. we -- >> i will show you one of them paul ryan, he is still in the speaker's office. you guys or vacation for 5 weeks, instead of even staying there, to rally some force to investigate these crete -- >> this was a mistake to go on recess. recess. re. lou: hell did you even start. >> healthcare turned out dispar disappointing. have you senators, walking away. and really, that was a

damaging blow to the president. because he had campaigned on it. so, it has been frustrating, i sure your frustration, i know people in my district will come up to me, and want to know, why are you not doing more in the senate in particular, to get some of this stuff across the finish line. lou: congressman ron desantis, one of the good guys, we're coming right back with much more. congressman good to have you with us. >> go kick somebody's tail, would you please. >> stay with us, we're coming right back. >> desperate dems and left wing national media battling to keep their fake russia collusion story alive. >> democrats top continue to use this as a prstunt. they are doing all they can to keep the story alive. in the papers. >> we take up deep state and left's false russian narrative with judge andrew napolitano, he is joining us here next. >> a show of military might.

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obama administration efforts to unmask long before donald trump was run for president. according to john solomon, clapper made it easier for the executive branch to unmask napnames of lawmakers. my next guest said that clapper's revised unmasking rules may have been done for political purposes, not for national security. and that, that would be a felony, joining us now, judge andrew napolitano. great to have you here. >> great to be with you. lou: everyone was talking about unmasking released to so many agencies in final days of obama administration but this was 3 years prior. >> we did not know about that until a new hours. we have dealing with raw data,

text-messages e-mails, suddenly they found out it is easier to find out whom is speaking on whom. after donald trump was elected, probably when barack obama and valerie jared and susan rice decided they would make life difficult for him. president asked loretta lynch to change rules about keeping secrets secret. for generations to 1947. when cia was founded, if an intelligence agency gets raw data, they keep it, unless it absolutely necessary to share it. this rule canal be shared with all 17 intelligence agencies and executive branch, within two days of that sharing,

where did conversations of mike flynn and ambassador show up, in new york times and washington post. lou: no investigation to obama administration, not by a republican led house of representatives. >> i hope that you and i are wrong. i hope that jeff sessions ordered the fbi on day one in office to commence an investigation and they are following the rule which jim comey did not follow, you do nonot revealic it -- existence of an investigation until you indict somebody. if they are, they are going very, very high in totem pole of the obama administration. who is at top, they have one boss, barack obama. lou: like you, i want to believe your scenario above

all, but like you, i am highly skeptical. and their at-this-point, we have an attorney general who should be making noise. >> yes. >> lou: and beholding to account people this that administration, it should be public, it should be as energetic. >> i think these investigations take time, but we're now in 7th month, i would hope it is well on its way. you talk about hillary clinton, they are not bound, the sessions justice department is not bound by jim comey's ill advised inappropriate, untoward announcement on july 5, 2016 -- is not to investigate hillary clinton, not to prosecute her. they have a tractor-trailer load of a file. if you print it on paper, there is a mountain of evidence of her guilt. lou: overwhelming 3, frustratingly this

administration does not act. the previous administration is at this point getting away with it some is more troubling to most americans, we're talking about over 12 months, investigating president trump, and the russians without a scintilla of evidence to repeat, meanwhile, why would it take 12 months? why in the world are we wasting taxpayer money and the resources of fbi. if they are this clumsy this inartful this unfrom duck -- unproductive, they should all be fired. >> i wish i knew it was there. but when one of senators asked chris ray, who was confirmed to u.s. senate. as director of fbi, if it was a witch-hunt, he said it is not a witch-hunt, there is a there, there, i don't know what he as seen. but you are right, this is going on and on. lou: this is america, we don't take word of a functionary

bureaucrat, that is what they are. this is rancid and ineffective. they should be replaced. the management of the fbi. >> do you think that jeff sessions got the message in last two weeks. >> i would hope so, what the hell is he doing in guantanamo bay in el salvador. what game is he playing. >> i don't know what image he wanted to create with gitmo and

lou: a government watchdog group sounding the alarm on an expedited path to citizenship in exchange for serving in our military. the program has been compromised

with a number of enrollees vanishing, being absolutely ununaccounts -- unaccounts for. >> since 2009 the defense determine enrolled 2,000 foreign-born individuals into the military forces. in exchange for service the foreigners selected for language or other needed skills can receive an expedited path to u.s. citizenship. the army soldier of the year in 2012n from nepal is a success story. but he has big problems. some enrollees are unaccounted for. lack of discipline in implementation of this program created problems elsewhere.

>> the program has been replete with problems to include foreign infiltration so much so that the department of defense is seeking to suspend the program due to those concerns. reporter: fox news confirmed the pentagon inspector general began investigating the program 14 months ago. the department of defense is conducting a review of the pilot program due to potential security risks associated with the program. a spokesman told us it's suspended from receiving new applications. a lawsuit was filed in february begins defense secretary james mattis, in which 7 enrollees

claims their careers were crippled after their security clearance were suspended. >> if there is a penetration, this is a serious threat to us. isis always had the desire to use migration as ways to penetrate into countries. they have done that successfully in europe because of open borders and mass immigration with no vetting. >> applicants were enrolled before full clearance checks were completed. and the other problem was the use of the program to higher cooks and others who did not require special skills. lou: amid rising continues and threats from north korea the united states tomorrow will test launch an icbm. >> the president has been

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lou: the united states plans tomorrow to conduct an icbm test from vandenberg air force base in california. it will koms come less than a week after north korea fired its own long-range icpm. this will be fourth test this year. joining us now to talk about the plan to combat north korea and more, tony shave schaeffer. it just happened to be scheduled and long planned. and you have got to love the planners in our military, right? >> this is a show force. three things are going on. we have to demonstrate the reliability our aging nuclear fleet. how many people do you know that drives around in a '79 pinto.

but that's the technology we have and we have to show it still works. secondly there will be has to be a show of political will saying these things are not simply going to be sitting in silos waiting to be used. unlike president obama, president trump will be willing to do something with them. and it will be used to show the south koreans and the japanese that our promise to protect them is still real. the pentagon is trying to make it clear while they are trying to slough it off, this is something we would have known about a long time ago. this is meant to demonstrate to the north koreans and their allies. lou: what else are we demonstrating to the north koreans as our national security apparatus continues to talk and deliver nothing.

we are six months into the process and the trump administration finds itself on the brink of being where the bush and clinton and obama administrations were. >> let's be blunt. i'm not convinces mcmaster is trying to break the paradigm. trump already sent mcmaster back on the afghan plan which is a cookie curter of what we have done in the last 12 years. one of the things i heard today is h.r. mcmaster is not fired a number of the staffers who worked for president obama. some of the staffers, ben rhodes is gone, but his staff is still there. it's like having a rattle snake next to your bed and anything you are nice enough to the

snake -- its am not like that. the president has been someone who was successful in delivering expectations and outcomes. h.r. mcmaster and company have been brought up through the military to follow process and if you don't win, that's okay. i think there is a mismatch of what the president wants done and what the staff and people like h.r. believe their job to be. this is something i think is not serving the president well. lou: nor the american people. the american people want the president to have the vision he articulated. it's stunning to me there was no accountability. there were no consequences or disappointing the commander in chief of a plan for afghanistan which he had been very specific about the me tricks he wanted met. >> there were people out there

who wrote a book about it. i'm baffled by the fact people tried to put forth ideas which never make the cut to go to the president on this issue. let me cite clearly here. they walked in, the president presented the same rehash of the same things that never worked and the president said i don't think so. president trump has to get to the point where he brings in the right people to come in with the right path. general kelly is an amazing man. he has been able to navigate the battlefield and the battlefield in congress. if he was the marine corps congressional liaison from 2004 to 2007. general john kelly is one of those men who measures himself and others by how much can you achieve, not how well do you

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lou: president trump hosting small business owners at the white house today. ramping up the moan men actual for tax reform. >> you thrive because you found something you love to do, pursued it with all of your heart, and never ever gave up. so important, you just don't give up. america is on the verge of a golden age for small business. lou: and small business is doing pretty well right now. joining us to discuss the president's agenda, the white house shakeups and washington times pin editor.

i love the optimism of this president take up tax reform today as the house begins a five-week recess. and the damn fools and leadership in the senate and the house are trying to pretend they achieved something. the republican conference in either the house nor the senate has the guts to knock on the door. i asked why don't you kick in the door. why are you putting up with these damn fools. >> i think for a lot of republicans, the leadership on capitol hill. they still don't get donald trump. they don't get his message and they don't get that officers veerns we see from him today that when you think about everything if's been thrown at this guy. no regular politician ever known would still be standing.

he's still pushing forward. and i think he's embark on what is probably even more important than any kinds of healthcare reform. with dealing with taxes, it's something he knows about and something republicans better get on board with him on this. lou: until they are willing to throw ryan out on his ear and mcconnell out on his ear, they are probably not much going to be done. those guys have been bought and paid for by k street and the republican establishment. charlie: i don't understand what the long game is in terms of not repealing obamacare for so many years. the real scandal here is all of those times that they voted to repeal obamacare when they knew president trump was sitting in the white house and would veto any effort to undo obamacare. they never had a plan. >> they are such phoneys,

frauds, and why in the world they are not being held accountable by the party. >> i don't know that they aren't. we have yet to see what will happen in 2018. i will be surprised if bad things don't happen to these people. lou: nothing would excite me more than to think macconnell and ryan and what would you call them, accomplices in leadership would be held accountable. i don't think the republican party can wait until 2018. somebody has to move on these people and get them energized or get them the hell out. >> i wrote my column for the washington times. i think what donald trump ought to do is issue an executive order tomorrow rescinding all of the loopholes that congress and so many of the staff in congress get to enjoy that exempts them

from so many aspects of obamacare. he should absolutely take all that away, and that will get republicans back to the bargaining table real quick. >> john kelly, the chief of staff, how hopeful are you that he will be able to turn things to efficiency and productivity and straightforwardness and discipline? charlie: i'm very hopeful by the and here's why. he brings that marine discipline. he sees things as an outsider. he sees things as how do we accomplish something and get it done. he has the same mindset as donald trump himself. he's not an establishment guy and he knows how to get things done. i think that will benefit the president enormously. lou: charlie hurt, it's great to

have you here. a brand-new book exploring how steve bannon helped propel donald trump to the white house. author josh green joins us next. i said help propel. i wasn't saying bannononononon potsch: you each drive a ford pickup, right? (in unison) russ, leland, gary: yes. gary: i have a ford f-150. michael: i've always been a ford guy. potsch: then i have a real treat for you today. michael: awesome. potsch: i'm going to show you a next generation pickup. michael: let's do this. potsch: this new truck now has a cornerstep built right into the bumper. gary: super cool. potsch: the bed is made of high-strength steel, which is less susceptible to punctures than aluminum. jim: aluminum is great for a lot of things, but maybe not the bed of a truck. potsch: and best of all, this new truck is actually- gary: (all laughing) oh my... potsch: the current chevy silverado. gary: i'm speechless. gary: this puts my ford truck to shame. james: i'll tell you, i might be a chevy guy now. (laughing)

lou: if our poll we asked you has president trump chosen the right staff to fulfill his campaign promises. 91% said yes. josh green is the author of "devil's bargain." good to have you with us. congratulations on the book. let me start with the president himself and steve bannon. some report of friction, some created tension if you will. give us a sense of how in the references by some to being trump's brain which is laughable because trump's brain is the deal. your take on it all. >> trump runs hot and cold with a lot of his advisors.

he's not trump's brain. it's the two of them coming together. trump was the after tar for bannon's idea of populist nationalism. when i met bannon he was looking for a true populist who could take us to the white house. he tried palin, michele bachman and he said he tried you. he finally found his way to donald trump and it worked. it's you a these guys outsmarted the democrat and republican establishments and got donald trump to the white house. lou: i told him my wife and i talked by the and we decide it was absurd and wouldn't do it no matter what. bannon said that's exactly why you would be a good candidate. >> it's such a bannon thing to say.

lou: the president to have the e ininstinct and judgment to reach out to bannon, i think that that is a statement that first of all it was a high risk proposition on the part of president trump. but it was also an amazing partnership. >> if you listen to what trump has been saying since the 1980s. he understood america with us getting taken advantage of. what bannon brought was a real appreciation for the power of illegal immigration because the republican establishment was not letting that enter the conversation. he also understood you need to fight and go up against the republican establishment orthodoxy in a way other politicians were not able to do. trump by virtue of his great

personal force as a debater on the stage was able to take that message and break through not only the conservative media but the mainstream media, too, and win what i call in the book the great just upset in presidential history. i having known bannon wanted to tell that story from the inside because i don't think it's been told. lou: there is something about using the words instinct, his physical presence, his, if you will, his magnetism. all of this short changes the president considerably. let me e -- let me explain why. he has such a firs first-class . he's deeply an his cat and deeply rational and much quicker

than anyone on the stage, that's being praised, the comparison. he built a multi-billion dollar business enterprise. he has shocked the world and history by becoming president. that took a first-class, world-class mind. >>ed a lay stevenson had a first-class mind. lou: he was a dull fella. >> but what he lacked was the ability to connect with people. that's what trump has. the visceral ability to connect. without look at polls and focus groups to understand. if he ever had a conversation with donald trump, i think he understood intuitively how to connect, how to make america great again could rally people.

lou: how does this work with general kelly, steve bannon and the president. >> kelly i agree with is going to insnsnsnsns lauren: breaking news this morning. apple stock to records after beating expect patience and hinting at the new iphone made release in september. the stock up over 6% after the report. cheryl: today could be the day that apple game pushes the dow into the history books, possibly going above the 22,000 mark at the open for the first time ever. take a look the u.s. features picked up by 37 points. s&p nasdaq as well. lauren: tech stocks up as well. european markets however are lower. within london down 25