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serving in three presidential administrations. >> let's start with the president's amazing performance in brussels and moving it appeas at this point, nato nations towards fulfilling their commitments in defense spending. >> in my lifetime, i watched linden johnson and richard nixon who was a very strong president. i watched ronald reagan and i nw see donald trump. when you stand up to these peope and you tell them that the game is over. we're going to basically put our fair share and you put your fair share in, we have defended nato for a long period of time and no

one has had the guts to do that. >> and never forget. strategic patience. it's amazing to me to think -- o you remember -- last year, justa year ago. the president talking about nato and insisting that they pay ther fair share and step up as natios in the defense of the continent. the "new york times" and the washington post talking and goig nuts and now a year later the american public has come up with and -- to the president and supporting him. >> again, as i said last night, the russians are not on our border. the russians are not -- there's not a missile threat anymore. it's not going to happen. the reality is they have to step

up. and as i said earlier today. if they don't want us -- 4 percent, 3.6 percent, they don't want their share there, we'll cut back to 2 percent. we'll see what kind of nato budget they have. >> a couple personnel issues at the white house. the president bringing in a replacement go his congressional liaison who is -- what do you make of that? >> i thought the gentleman thats leaving, i've never seen a director spend as much time on television as he did. it took a long time to get a communications director and they didn't have much success. so i hope this is an art form ad i hope that the new one will coe

in and give me confidence. that's the name of the game. you -- >> that's if you have a speaker of the house you can count on, r a majority leader as well. >> it's obvious they don't. in line with your program. i think mcconnell understands he has to get in line and paul ryan is a lame duck. i think he's probably politicaly suicidal at this point. >> not to disparage, but the party basically needs to -- an extraordinary couple of days. in peak heating with putin, a strong leader versus another strong leader. >> there's no doubt that china, the united states and russia who are going to work -- they're going to put their countries

first and america first. >> eight years of please, pleas, please. and donald trump says treat us nice. >> i don't know that obama ever asked anybody to treat us nice. he treated everyone so nicely without regard. >> you mentioned the communications director. and we have a saying, i have to be clear, that he was a former executive of fox news and i think -- >> i could not be more pleased. the gentleman is smart, understands behind the scenes ad he's going to make that place -- go many months he's going to mae it hum. >> i have to say, matt gates and i have to give credit to bob goodlatte making a real

difference. >> the opening segment, i would love to take that tape and run all over the country. this is what you want, go elect democrats. i don't think that will work out go them. >> i don't think anything will work out go them. >> ed rollings. >> thank you, sir. >> thank you, sir. >> disgraced fbi agent peter strzok treated like a hero on capitol hill today despite the charges of corruption and his obvious and energetic anti-trump bias. and the proposition that that is going on, that it might occur in the fbi deeply crode -- corrodes. >> the democrats applauding. he joins us next with his new ad

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louisiana -- ron desantis is pressing anti-trump peter strzok over the so-called dossier and the origin of the phony russian probe.

he refused to answer whether crooked hillary and the dnc actually funded that fake dossier. >> the dossier was not part of it. that's important. when did you learn the dossier was funded by the hillary clintn and democratic party. >> i cannot answer that question. >> so hillary, dnc, come on. it's a political document. >> i cannot comment. the fbi has directed me to not answer that question. >> the dossier, what would you choose. is it a political document, or s it legitimate intelligence? >> sir, i would very much like o answer that question. >> okay. >> i was directed by the fbi tht i may not get into that based on operational requirements, sir. >> lou: congressman ron desantis joins us. congressman, that was quite the

hearing. and i have to say. you all -- you republicans acquitted yourselves extraordinarily well. you in questioning him closely producing the groundwork go what became the answer that he gave, congressman jordan, which is talking about the dossier and finally getting permission apparently from the fbi to tell the truth go once. >> ron: yeah, luckily. i think that peter strzok came across as very smug, very arrogant and a lot of his explanations go his texts messages as the inspect general has said too are just not credible. when he said, oh, what i really meant by saying, we'll stop trup from being elected, he -- i just meant the american people won't vote go him. >> i've got to tell you. he was upstaged by the behavior of the democrats.

i mean, you actually had a democrat say that because strzok was testifying and we were askig him hard questions that i deserved a purple heart. >> lou: how absurd can you be to suggest something like that? throughout the hearing, as i'm sure you were frustrated by the conduct or behavior or the language. is strzok stalling trying to kep him from saying anything. it didn't work out that way. >> ron: i've never seen them run interference go somebody like they did. any time he was getting questioned and really put, they would try to jump in and interrupt, and it's strange, because you've been saying there's trump russia collusion. if that were true wouldn't you want strzok to be answering questions? instead they realize this whole thing with his bias and how it started, they realize they don't want the answers to those

questions and that's why you saw them behave the way they it. i thought it was disgraceful. >> lou: their conduct, absolutey disgraceful and producing the testimony of strzok that indeed john mccain had passed over the material, the fake dossier to te fbi and they were -- and had ben part of the conduit go that material to go into the fbi. these are extraordinary developments and tonight we're asking the question, our evening question is very simply. is this the beginning of the end of the special counsel? because this is a -- obviously n fbi that is rife with corruption and the bias turned into an absolute assault against the president of the united states. >> ron: i think the credibility of that whole thing, i think it

is shot. the fact of the matter is when you have that type of bias, when you have bruce ore acting like a political operative and feeding opposition research, people like strzok and the fbi, they're launching a counterintelligence investigation and obviously they puffed it up past the election and special counsel. that is really unprecedented. it was an abuse of the surveillance powers and the counterintelligence powers of te government and lisa page is goig to come tomorrow or -- i think she's actually going to show up, so she's going to have to answer questions as well and i think we're finally starting to make progress on this thing, but one thing we do have to do, you andi talked about it. if we don't get those documents from rosenstein, we have to hold him in contempt. the articles of impeachment, but unless that's hanging out over there, i think they're going to continue to stall on some of ths stuff and we have some momentum going and we have to keep it up.

>> lou: right, and to see the truth being revealed. i would love to get your reactin very quickly. i want to get your reaction to rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general sending out a personal message to 93 u.s. attorneys asking go three federl prosecutors to be forwarded -- their names forwarded to him to, as he put it, aid in the betting -- vetting of brett kavanaugh and the assumption -- the justice of the supreme court. i mean, have you ever seen such a -- i mean, this to me is beyod the pale. >> look, rosenstein did a specil counsel appointment without identifying a criminal and didnt follow the rules there. i don't know where he is getting the authority to do this or why it would be good to do this. to me it seems like an unprecedented action. i don't know what's motivating

it. but i think he does need to explain why he's doing it. it just seems weird. >> lou: absolutely. and the questions keep mounting when it comes to the deputy attorney general. it it seems at every corner. >> congressman, congratulations. congressman ron desantis. up next, congressional dimms taking the abolish ice calls. we're coming right back. my father passed this truck down to me, that's the same thing i want to do with you.

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surprise a lot of people. already. already he's said that he will set up on his side of the border the mexican enforcement force go the border. so that's going to be interestig to see. >> and new york mayor bill de blasio possibly violating the lw of the land when he illegally crossed the border. border patrol agents saying de blasio stepped foot over the lie line near elberta -- el paso texas to protest president trump's immigration laws. the dimms pushing ahead with their crazy calls to abolish immigration and custom enforcement. house democrats working on legislation that would shut down ice and investigate whether the agency violated human rights laws. that's the democratic party for you these days, folks. up next. a new filing go.

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>> lou: attorneys go ex trump campaign chairman paul manafort raising concerns about a 2017

meeting that occurred between tp justice department officials and associated press reporters. memos reveal those reporters offered fbi agents and d o.j. officials a code pertaining to manafort's storage facility, a possible violation of the criminal justice process. joining us tonight i am pleased to say victoria toensing and joe degenova, the founding partners of the same law firm. great to have you both with us. i know you were impressed, joe, that i said your last time twice in succession. >> great to have you here. >> great to be with you. >> let's start with manafort and the campaign between the department of justice, the fbi and national left wing media.

>> the grand jury information which is illegal, in return go reporters giving them informatin about their supposed target. we have a client, i'll be really fast about it, billy walters who the fbi first of all. >> lou: big time gambler. >> and a humanitarian, businessman and gives lots of money to charity. >> lou: right. >> he was under investigation go insider training. the fbi comes back and tries to get a member of a board of directors of another company to testify against billy. so what do they do? they squeeze the guy. he lost his job. he became desperate and of coure after being squeezed, he agreed to testify falsely against bill. and he not only sang, he

composed. >> lou: right. >> let me say one other thing -- >> that's a great line. >> one last thing about the department of justice and that s that the u.s. attorneys office o new york denied that the leak ever came from them, even though there were emails to prove otherwise. only when a judge ordered a hearing did they admit it and then the last thing is they promoted the agent who leaked te grand jury information. >> lou: a nice tie into the 2017 meeting which was apparently arranged by andrew weisman, the special counsel witch hunt. >> what we now know is he had done this before and is now recognized widely in the united states as one of the most ethicl prosecutors in the history of te department, basically shared

information monaco themselves including grand jury information and to put pressure on manafort. >> this has to stop. >> where are the presidential attorneys? why aren't they raising hell ovr this stuff? >> why in the world would anyone who knows this information froma grand jury is being sent through a conduit that runs straight through the heart of the fbi officials to the national left wing media. >> absolutely. manafort's attorneys have asked for a hearing. i actually think the judge will grant it. i think there will be a student for a hearing and put weissmann on the witness stand.

remember the ig report about strzok and everybody else laid out cold how the fbi had a poliy of working with the media to lek information and the people in te bureau lied about it to the ig but they had to eventually admit. it's destroying the bureau and want department of justice. they're so interested in protecting the institution that they're willing to overlook. >> when rod rosenstein says he feels like it's extortion when it's oversight from the congressional committee -- >> i don't know about you, but i find myself less and less concerned about how rod rosenstein feels. >> lou: it seems to me it may be dead if, and this is an

extension, if the trump attornes are right, demanding before there's any further discussion with the special counsel that they demonstrate some sort of evidence that there was collusion, some reason to have a further discussion. >> there's no doubt the presidet of the united states enjoys a special status under the law and in order to interview him go any reason whatsoever, here it's an impeachment investigation. it's not a criminal threat. there's no evidence any crime hs been committed. mueller is trying to interview the president and the law is vey clear. the president is unavailable go such inquiries. and under no circumstances shoud the president agree to this interview and if mueller decides he wants to issue a supplies -- subpoena, i tell you, lou, mueller can show no reason why all the evidence he has hasn't

already been obtained from other people. >> and the test is -- >> lou: we have to go. sorry, victoria, sorry, victoria toensing. thanks go being with us. get once in a lifetime. >> announcer: uniforms, weapons, plus plenty of surprises. >> this is worth $50,000?! does it work? >> announcer: and what's up with this bullet-riddled log? >> it was usually wrapped in a blanket in a bathtub. >> in a bathtub? >> in a bathtub. [ door creaks ] [ wind howls ] [ thunder rumbles ] [ bird caws ]