james freeman, congressman andy biggs among our guests tomorrow. follow me on twitter@@loudobbs like me on facebook, follow me on instagram at lou dobbs tonight. good night from new york. see you tomorrow. ♪ ♪ trish: tonight the, the trade war with china is on. china now retaliating with tariffs of its own as the president prepares for an all-out economic showdown. watch. >> china has been taking advantage of the united states for many, many years. i'm not just talking about during the obama administration. you can go back long before that, and it's been taking out 400, 500, $600 billion a year out of the united states, and we can't let that happen. trish: the president is right. it has been going on a long time. and i'll tell you, in the battle is long overdue. we have exclusive intel on why. also tonight, senator lindsey graham pushing to declassify a

key document he says proves authorities news that the steele dossier was fake, they knew it! former trump campaign adviser michael caputo is here on why we must see that document. meanwhile, we're waiting on rod rosen stein to deliver a speech this evening, the newly-retired deputy attorney general is about to speak at a big event, and we're hearing he's laying into james comey tonight. going to have some rather choice words. we'll bring that to you as soon as it happens. and the border crisis this week, the unwelcome milestone. the shocking numbers. "trish regan primetime" begins right now. ♪ ♪ trish: tonight the, the u.s. preparing our next move as china fires back with a new round of tariffs, 25% on $60 billion in american goods. this is war.

economic war. which makes it the kind of war the president is very willing and quite able to fight. the market lost 617 points today on the dow and, well, the mainstream media almost seemed to be reveling in that decline. i want you to see this. >> right now this is a clear message from investors to donald trump. they do not think it's going to be okay, they don't agree with this tactic of using tariffs. >> the stock market plunge after china retaliated against the u.s. with new tariffs. their response to president trump's moves. >> the dow plunging more than 600 points after china retaliated for higher tariffs imposed by the u.s. last week. which could raise the price you pay on thousands of products. trish: gosh, i mean, perhaps i'm just reading too much into it. maybe i know where that bias is coming from, but it almost seems as though the media's weirdly happy, right, about the selloff that we saw today? if so, i hate to burst their

bubble, but we're still up on the dow for the year, and the smart money knows this little blip today is temporary. the smart money knows and expects that donald trump is going to pull this one off, and when that happens, the u.s. will be better positioned economically as a nation going forward. i mean, remember, we have the leverage, right? china buys way more from us, way more from us than we do from them. just go through the numbers. two and a half times, basically. we are their number one customer. over a half a trillion dollars, is how much we spend with them buying every year. so that means, hey, if we stop buying, they stop earning. this is our weapon. and this is a weapon the president is not afraid to use. >> now we're negotiating with china. we're negotiating with japan. we're negotiating with all of these countries that have just ripped off our country for years and years. you know, i put tariffs on

china. i'm a person that believes in tariffs when somebody's taking advantage. without tariffs you could have never done it. you could have never done it. trish: meanwhile, we don't really have a choice, do we? think about it. the president could take the easy way out, as presidents have done over and over again before him. he could, you know, sit back and play nice and say, hey, sure, china. steal what you want. we're just so happy to have you as a partner, and you and your billion plus people as a market for us. that's certainly what most presidents have done over and over again. and, by the way, this is not a partisan thing. they've all done it. take a look at what we found. >> we have a far greater chance at having a positive influence on china's actions if we welcome china into the world community instead of shutting it out. >> i'm optimistic about china's future. young people who grow up with the freedom to trade goods will

ultimately demand the freedom to trade ideas. >> earlier this year i set up a new task force to aggressively go after unfair trade practices that harm our workers. and it's already delivering. trish: delivered, really? yeah, right. check out that trade deficit. how do you like that? it's all that. it's that kind of attitude that in so many ways has led to the trade problems that we have with china today. one of the smartest things this president has said is that we've been in a trade war for decades. nobody talked about it, nobody knew it. well, he's right, we have. and instead of fighting back, we've allowed china to prosper and prosper and prosper. i mean, look at this chart, it's amazing. i don't usually use charts like this, but this one i had to. you've got to see this. this is the economic output in china going all the way back to the '90s, and it has skyrocketed. look at that. near 14 trillion. i'll tell you, we make, produce a lot. our economy is still bigger and

certainly per capita it's bigger, but our gdp chart over the years going back to the '90s, it doesn't have a straight shot up. it doesn't look anything like that. now, to be clear, to be clear, i'm all for other economies growing. i'm all for other economies being prosperous. that is great. and i do believe if you have that freedom to trade, that does eventually are translate to a free come.com to -- freedom to exchange ideas. i don't begrudge china any success. but, you know, when they're growing off the hard work and off the intellectual capital of our american workers, that's a whole different story. china has gotten away with stealing as high as $600 billion in intellectual property from us every single year. i know, i've done the stories on it from many years. from logos to software, you name it, the chinese have stolen it. and they'll keep on stealing it if left unchecked.

just remember, we have the upper hand in this one. a deal will happen. finish and though it may mean a little volatility in the markets in the near term, a market selloff is a small price to pay for the sake of our future and our children's future. i, for one, i'm not willing to give up on being the world's largest economy so easily. i'm not okay with another country stealing it away from us. and i imagine neither are you. joining me right now, someone who doesn't like the idea of china taking from us. china expert, author of the coming collapse of china, mr. gordon chang. gordon, good to have you back. all right, where are we heading now? because there are a lot of very nervous people on wall street, they're saying maybe this doesn't get done, but i think it's probably a good sign that the president is now going to sit down with xi jinping.

your thoughts. >> yeah. this is really important that president trump actually confront these issues. as you say, you know, previous presidents did not. they took, obviously, ineffective measures that were intended to be ineffective. and, trish, as you point out, the chinese are stealing somewhere between $150-$600 billion of u.s. ip a year, force taking technology -- trish: and, by the way, that's a conservative estimate. because the not so conservative estimates say it could be as high as $600 billion a year, which is just a mammoth amount. >> yes. and people actually the put it towards the high side of that range. also you have china's trade behavior deteriorating across the board. if you put these tariffs on and you get companies to move back to this hemisphere, that's a win for us. either into the united states or into central america. because, guess what? you know, when china joined the wto, companies left central america, destabilized it. that's when we had this migration up to the u.s. if those companies go back to

central america -- and there's signs that there are -- that means they're going to stabilize those communities which means less pressure on our border. trish: good thing for the western hemisphere. that's so interesting, gordon. i really hadn't thought about it that way. if you think about the it as the hemisphere altogether, and we're trying to deal with -- we've got more coming up on the border tonight, because you got 500,000 people that may be entering the country this year illegally. in part, because they're looking for economic opportunity. they are desperate for a better economic lot in life, and so they migrate here. you're telling me that if some of those businesses were operating in central america instead of china, that would solve some of the border issues as well, not to mention all the companies that are operating in china where we wish they would be operating in the u.s.? >> yeah, absolutely, trish. on friday, the first day that president trump's enhanced tariffs went into effect, ca taiwanese owner of the second largest furniture manufacturer in choi that called up a

business consultant, said he wants to get his factories into central america or latin america. so this is happening, trish. and this is going to be great for us. and it's going to be great for the people of central america. trish: you know, very interesting stuff and kind of a different angle, gordon, if you would on it. i'm concerned about american jobs. i'm concerned about the border as well, so if you get a win/win, why not take it? gordon, thank you so much. good to see you. senate judiciary chairman lindsey graham saying he's trying to declassify a document saying the fbi knew exactly what the steele dossier was, that it was unverified, that it was fake, and they used it anyway to obtain a surveillance warrant on an american citizen. he says he has proof of this, watch. >> there's a document that's classified that takes the dossier, all pages of it, and it has verification to one side.

this really is no verification other than media reports that were generated by reporters who received the dossier. so the bottom line is the dossier has never been independently confirmed. it was used to get a warrant. they knew the author of the dossier was on the democratic party payroll. he hated trump. they got the warrant anyway. most americans should be upset about that. trish: well, you know, senator graham is right, most americans should be, because it doesn't matter what side of the aisle you're on, right? i mean, if they're just basically printing a bunch of stuff and handing it to the fbi so that they can then go to the judge and get the fisa warrant while the fbi never bothers to verify anything, that's kind of a problem. i would only point out that anybody who's read that dossier -- and i have -- i mean, it reads like fiction. you would think that the people in the fbi would be smart enough to know that. perhaps, in fact, they were, and that's the problem. they deliberately used phony

intel. joining me right now, a former adviser to the trump 2016 campaign, mr. michael caputo. i know, michael, you've been through your own issues with the fbi. in fact, you believe they were spying on you, sir, during that 2016 campaign. how critical is it right now that lindsey graham's successful in getting that document unclassified that would give us some proof of what actually went down? >> i think terrifically critical. in fact, i think the multithe prong approach we're taking, it appears, toward investigating the investigators is really, really what we need. i mean, first of all, let's say the attorney general, william barr, i don't think he should appoint a special prosecutor because i want william barr to head up this investigation at the department of justice. i don't expect a great deal out of the inspector general's report because my attorney report ared the approaches to me by an fbi informant and others, and we never heard back. we reported it to them twice and

never got a return, a reply in any way. so i don't -- trish: okay, back up for the viewer. >> i expect a lot a hot withoutf will bah. -- william barr. back in the '70s we had the church committee in the senate, the pike committee in the house and the rockefeller commission in the administration because we discovered that our intelligence community was killing foreign leaders, reading our mail, tapping the phones of millions of americans. and we had real change after the church committee. i think we need the same focus. and i think we should call it the graham committee. trish: interesting. and you'd have him head it, huh? >> well, absolutely. he's right on the money with this document he's talking about today. if the fisa warrant was knowingly false and they knew, of course -- according to the notes he's talking about -- that this guy was working for the democrats, it unravels everything, trish. and, of course, we have other things that we need to look at like who in the obama white house leaked general flynn's

conversation with russian ambassador kiss kislyak to the washington post? that's a felony. somebody needs to declassify that information as well. trish: wild stuff. michael, just very quickly for the viewers so they understand the background you're coming at this from, you say you, sir, were also a victim of some of these spying techniques? >> yes, i was. i had a seven-year fbi informant approach me, a russian, in the country even though he's a 13-year prison convict, working exclusively with the fbi came to me and offered me dirt on hillary clinton. but i also was approached in early may if by an american national security contractor who offered me access to hillary clinton's missing e-mails. i reported that to the fbi and to all the investigators in the house and the senate. didn't seem the raise an eyebrow. neither did the report of henry greenberg, the russian fbi informant.

for some reason there's really not that much interest in these spies on the campaign. trish: you know what? there's got to be. and i think the president is going to make this a priority, because every american deserves an answer on all this including me and you, sir. good to see you, michael caputo. far-left congressman rashida talib, the one that used that trump profanity on election night? >> we're going to go in there, we're going to [bleep] [cheers and applause] trish: she's now accused of fresh anti-semitism against a palestinian-american democrat, this time after comments she made about the holocaust. coming up, we have that sound for you. also tonight, former trump deputy a.g. rod rosenstein just calling out former fbi director james comey. we have the unbelievable details on this. our own pete hegseth is going to be here to react. but first, a new report on immigration crime shows one-third of all u.s. crimes

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revealing immigration crimes account for the more than one-third of all u.s. sentencings in 2018. this as fox confirms that the number of apprehensions just this year has surpassed already half a million. that means we've already top thed all of 2018. topped. joining me right now is tennessee congressman mark green, and i know, sir, you've been sounding the alarm on in the for a while. what does this report confirm to you? >> well, it confirms that the problem at the border is a crisis. i mean, if you take that 34.4% and just take that chunk out of the doj budget, that's $10 billion. almost $10 billion that the taxpayers are paying to prosecute these crimes. it's ridiculous. it's a crisis. and now we heard just recently that they're recycling children? i mean, they're literally taking children and using them as a ticket through the flores amendment to get into the united states, and then they send those children back to do it again.

i mean, this is crazy, and it's -- trish: for $300 and change, by the way, according to the department of justice, which has been investigating this. look, you know, congressman, the problem is, you know, you've created -- and i say "you," collectively unfortunately, our lawmakers, which includes you guys there in d.c -- our lawmakers have created this kind of loophole that incentivizes people to come here and incentivizes families to come here which puts all of these kids in harm's way. is there any willingness at all to entertain the idea of going back to the books and looking at the laws and saying, okay, we need to be more measured and thoughtful about this? >> yeah, absolutely. i think lindsey graham over on the senate side of the building is talking about some asylum revisions, one of which is to get rid of that flores amendment. you know, there are some other things about what is credible fear and truly defining what those people who are seeking a asylum, what is and defines credible fear.

lots of different things being looked at. there's several people talking about legislation -- trish: because right now i'm looking at these numbers, there's a new report, and we're set to top 500,000? >> oh, it'll be well over 500,000. trish: i mean, this is already right now, right? which tops all of 2018. right now it seems as though there's no end in sight, and there's some kind of incentive for people to keep coming and coming and coming, especially right now? >> yeah, absolutely. the incentive is there through those loopholes, as you mentioned, and we have people -- 108% increase over last year, and that's in the first six months of this year, through march the 31st, 361,000 people were apprehended at the border. i mean, that is, that's just crazy. trish: i know, i know. i know, i hear ya. and look, you know, the last person that would ever be anti-immigrant, i'm all for people coming here and really embracing a what we are and the success they can be in this wonderful country and having that opportunity, but doing so

the right way. >> yeah. we need legal immigration. we need it. but we've got to do it by the law. trish: yeah. and not like this. >> not like this. trish: not when taxpayers are spending $10 billion to prosecute these crimes. trish: it's good to see you. new accusations of anti-semitism from a freshman democrat. remember when congresswoman omar accused israeli agents -- >> i want the talk about the political influence in this country that says it is okay for people to push for allegiance of foreign countries. trish: well, now omar's frequent ally, palestinian-american congresswoman a sheba talib, she's under fire for anti-semitism tonight as well, this time for making comments about the holocaust, rather controversial ones. coming up, i want you to the hear them for yourself. but first, a venezuelan general now calling on the

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♪ ♪ trish: all right. a venezuelan general now calling on the country's armed forces to the rise up against dictator nicolas maduro, all of this as the man we reck as -- recognize juan guy done, instructs his ambassador to -- hang on a second. hang on. while it may be all fine and good to have a plan, you really think we want to be sending american boys and girls to fight in venezuela? i don't know if we're quite there yet. my next guest says everyone here needs to take a deep, deep breath, because some people maybe just need to get out of the way so that the president can do what the president knows how to do, and that's negotiate a deal.

hans hunes joins me on set right now. good to see you again. >> hi, trish. trish: last time we spoke, you said they just need to let trump be trump. he can get this done, he can find a solution. what's your concern about so many cooks in the kitchen? >> well, i mean, i think you've got all these people pushing to get some kind of armed conflict, and i understand the opposition in venezuela, probably feel like they've been left hanging. and their call for some sort of an intervention makes some sense. they put a lot of time and effort, human capital, blood into this. but we have a problem here that there isn't really a clear strategy. and i think it's been evident that the economic sanctions that have been put on in venezuela are working. there are a lot of cracks there. so take it back to the segment you just did on china, you lean on them economically. it's the an economic war, that's

fine. but when push comes to shove, you tonight want a real war -- don't want a real war. the humanitarian crisis, not just human lives -- venezuelan, american -- but the impact on the whole area could make it a really bad issue. and my concern right now, you've seen in the press that there seem to be some divisions internally in the administration. and there's some signaling by the president for more of a dialogue not just with venezuela. my concern with marco rubio and john bolton is that they've got a very sort of zero sum game in this, winner take all. and i -- that's fine ideologically, and if you want to be an i'd logical purist about it, that's okay, but what is america's interest? america's interest is jobs. it's coming up with a compromise that's good enough and getting on with it. trish: okay. so america's interest is jobs, america's interest is oil. vensvenezuela has a lot of oil t

here in our hemisphere, and there's cultural similarities. if we think about this strategically and you game it out, wouldn't it be nice to have oil right here in the western hemisphere with a country that we have a good relationship with instead of a bad? >> and i think that of all the people trying to make decisions in washington, d.c., the one person who can understand that full well is donald trump. trish: why? >> he has real world experience. he understands the art of the deal, how to compromise. if there's, you know, if the military rises up in the next few days, there's a transition and juan guaido goes in and takes over, great. if it doesn't happen and things stagnate, then we're looking at going into 2020 with a maduro regime will be willing to starve its people to stay in power. i think donald trump should call juan guaido and nicholas nicolao or whomever else and say let's get in a room and come out with a deal. i'm sure -- i've heard there's

some compromises that have already been sort of discussed. you get a power-sharing arrangement, you let -- the. trish: the opposition, power sharing? the opposition would ever go for that? >> i think if donald trump said -- i mean, what's our interest here? trish: oil. i mean -- [laughter] i hate to be so crass about it, and there are going to be some people, i knew it, i knew it, it was all about the oil. we want to do good for the people, but in doing so, right, you open up that market to the u.s. oil companies which, you know, were thrown out by hugo chavez are, and in doing so you give people there jobs and opportunity and success. >> and people here jobs and opportunity and success. and quite honestly, you'll get lower oil prices. i mean, i've said it before on this program, russia wants to destabilize venezuela to keep oil prices high. for us, venezuela's got one-third larger proven oil reserves than saudi arabia . if you get a friendly government

there and there are companies running this, you're going to have lower prices, more jobs in the united states. so given a choice between getting a deal that's 80% what we want or taking a risk of having american lives lost and destabilizing the region, with the president we have, i mean, it's true. barack obama let a lot of things slip internationally. in iran, with china, with venezuela. and we elected donald trump to negotiate our way through this for america's best interests. trish: and i think he wants to be known as the jobs president, not as the war president. >> i would think so too. conflicts in iran, conflicts in venezuela, certainly venezuela, probably iran also you could come out the other side with something that would be good for the world economy and would be good for our economy and make donald trump the best jobs creation president we've ever had. he already has been.

let's just seal him in history. trish: wow. that would be, that would be pretty interesting and pretty amazing to see. i think some resolution is needed sooner rather than later. we'll see how this all turns out. as you said, if it's organic and there's this uprising and juan guaido is there in the next few days, that would be awesome, it would be terrific, but it would be hard to see the u.s. military getting involved at the level to which some think might happen. >> i mean, the problem is january 23rd, february 23rd, i think that donald trump got assurances that change was imminent, and he was let down by the people that were there to support him -- trish: sounds like you're kind of calling out bolton here on this show. >> i don't think donald trump has been getting good advice on this stuff. i think his instincts are better than the add vice he's getting -- advice he's getting and the recommendations he's getting on how to go forward. his instincts are very clearly towards the negotiating

something that's good for this country. let him do what we elected him to do. trish: all right. hans humes, we shall see. thank you. accusations, everyone, of antisemitism continuing against palestinian-american congresswoman rashida talib. coming up, we have the sound. you should hear it and decide for yourself. but first, moments ago former trump deputy a.g. rod rosenstein came out slamming former fbi director james comey. you're not going to believe what he just said. we have it for you next. pete hegseth is here -- [laughter] and pete never your daily dashboard from fidelity. a visual snapshot of your investments. key portfolio events. all in one place. because when it's decision time... you need decision tech. only from fidelity.

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my immortal soul, i kid you not. [laughter] that is disappointing. trish: whoa! all right, this just happened. newly-retired deputy attorney general rod rosenstein pulling no punches there, just unloading on james comey, voicing his disgust at james comey's behavior and transformation, essentially, into a political hack. you know, selling books and trying to book speaking appearances for money. joining me right now with reaction, "fox & friends" weekend cohost, pete hegseth. pete, my goodness, wow! >> evening, trish. [laughter] trish: what'd you think of that? >> hey, it is -- no, this is the official season of cya, this is everyone realizing that horowitz, the inspector general, is about to come out with a definitive report about how this fisa process actually started. so you have got rod rosenstein throwing james comey under the bus, you've got james baker saying he's nervous and worried about what they may find.

they're all questioning each other's motives because a lot of shady decisions were made when it came to that dossier. james comey made a lot of the wrong decisions about what to say and when. rod rosenstein recommended that he be fired, then he took over the investigation and appointed a special counsel. and james baker, the top lawyer at the fbi, is now saying he's worried because he was this at the beginning, and -- there at the beginning, and they made a footnote of the fact that this was a partisan document paid for by the clinton and dnc campaign as opposed to making it clear to the judge that this was opposition research being weaponized. oh, by the way, this james baker's under investigation about whether he's the leaker. so did he leak the information that was put into the press and then used to justify the entire process? so the weasels are going at each other right now, and ultimately, we're left to figure out who's, who's to blame, and i guess director horowitz will be part of that. trish: well, look, they're all to blame, you know? the president -- >> of course.

trish: -- has every right to be concerned. i don't care what side of the aisle you're on, i don't care if you like trump or hate trump. but here's something that happened in this country that needs to be figured out. now, you mentioned you've got the top lawyer there, baker, out defending his attempt to get that surveillance warrant. i shouldn't say attempt, because he got it. to spy on an innocent american. and it was all based, as you rightly said, on opposition research that the had been totally bought and paid for by the dnc, by the hillary clinton campaign. the bureau never actually told the fisa judge who was behind that research, who was funding it. you've got some lousy, stinking footnote that they never bothered to tell the judge they think it's important that he knows that. and don't forget, james baker thought that was okay. listen. >> why didn't you identify it in, a, explicitly who the u.s. entities were, the u.s. political campaign, the other u.s. entities, and number two,

why was it in a footnote rather than written in big red magic marker in block letters across every page of the thing? >> nobody's going to miss a page-long footnote in regular type. [laughter] okay in you don't want to put into a document like this gratuitous information about u.s. persons. you want to try to minimize it to some extent. trish: excuse me, how about minimizing the use of fake dossiers? i mean, my gosh! pete hegseth, i think some heads are going to roll. >> oh, i think so. we didn't want to make it explicit, what, you were going to make it implicit? it might be somewhat of a political view, might be manager that was based on opposition research? listen, i've done a lot of reading in my life, i usually focus a little bit more on what's in the main body as opposed to the footnotes

especially with something of this consequence, of a presidential campaign, of an opposition party? you put all those details together, and the first thing you're going to want is to make it crystal clear to that judge, who reads a lot of fisa applications that are a lot of pages long with a lot of detail, hey, we're not sure that all of this is verified. and we do know, we note heavily that this likely came or did come there a political opponent. that's an up-front, not an, oh, by the way -- trish: unbelievable. >> that's how you erode the integrity and credibility of the process. they know they're caught, and that's apartment of the reason why the inspector general's report is so critical. trish: ap reporting that william barr has appointed a u.s. attorney to examine the russia probe origins, determine if intelligence collection was lawful. so we now have the a.g. appointing an attorney to the try and get to the bottom of all of this. again, this is according to the associated press, just crossing

right now. pete hegseth, i can't say that i'm surprised. i think that -- >> no. trish: -- it's, in some ways, long overdue. we deserve, as we've been saying over and over again, to know just exactly how this all came about. but now a.g. barr is getting in front of it. >> yep. he said he would look into it, he used the word spying, defended the use of that term. if you believe there was surveillance and spying of a political opponent, then as the attorney general, you have the right and the justification to take that action. he also has made note of the fact that the special counsel deliberately ignored the dossier in their assessment. you look at the 400 pages, it's barely referred to. good move. forget the haters, it's time to get to the bottom. trish: real quick, what are you doing in scottsdale, arizona? >> tomorrow night, this is going to be packed with over 1,000 people, it's the inaugural fox nation summit. we talk politics with some of the best fox news personalities.

so if you live in the phoenix, scottsdale area, sign up at fox nation.com. trish: that's great. >> or you could be here -- trish, you've got to come to the next one. there's going to be more summits like this. trish: hey, good luck with it all tomorrow. i know you guys have a lot the talk about now that we know an attorney has been appointed by a.g. barr to figure out what the heck went on. >> big news. trish: thank you so much. fresh accusations, meanwhile, of anti-semitism against far-left democrat congresswoman rashida talib. she's the one that used all that anti-trump the profanity on election night? she's now making more controversial comments. these happen to be about the holocaust. i want you to hear that sound yourself. coming up next, a guest who says responsible democrats, they need to be calling her out because enough is enough. ♪ ♪ >> we're going to go in there, -we bought a house in a neighborhood

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their human dignity, their existence in many ways have been wiped out. just all of it was in the name of trying to create a safe haven for jews. trish: all right. that is michigan congresswoman rashida talib who's under fire for those comments on israel and the holocaust, just the latest incidence of troubling anti-semitic comments made from freshmen democrats who increasingly seem to think it's okay to say this stuff. joining me right now is robin byro and american majority ceo ned ryan. robin, quickly, does somebody need to step up? where's nancy pelosi? is anybody going to take them aside and say, hey, don't to do this, don't say this? >> the correct question is step up again. nancy pelosi's already done in the. my problem is there's so many problems with this, but first of all, she's trying to, basically,

gain political clout with this by saying that her ancestors who were palestinians provided safe haven for jews, and somehow that gives her warm fuzzies when thinking back about the holocaust? i just can't get my brain around it. it's not something you'll ever want to say. trish: completely, totally, utterly inappropriate. i want the turn to a breaking story. more information coming in right now, we have learned that attorney general barr, william barr, is reportedly assigning a top federal prosecutor in the state of connecticut to review the origins of the russia probe. we had suspected this might be coming. again, the ap just reporting this. as it crosses, i can tell you his name is john durham according to ap. he has a history of serving as a special prosecutor investigating potential wrongdoingings among national security officials. associated press tends to be pretty good. ned ryan, you've been calling for this, and now it looks like

it might be happening. again, we need to verify this, but ap says they're putting someone in charge, and they're going to get to the bottom of how it all went down. your thoughts. >> well, to this, trish, i say, thank god. i mean, enough is enough. again, i have been saying this for quite some time, that i firmly believe that people that were entrusted with great power abused the power of the surveillance state and our law enforcement, using them as political weapons against political opponents over policy differences. and this isn't about protecting republican presidents, trish. this is about protecting anyone moving forward, protecting their civil liberties, but also saying that we will never do this again. there have to be consequences. i find it interesting based off what you just said that barr is appointing a prosecutor that obviously has experience looking into intelligence officials, because i believe, ultimately, at the end, this will lead to john brennan, james clapper, james comey, andrew mccabe. and quite frankly, the reason that democrats and the left are

terrified of bill barr, because they know where this ultimately go. not only the heads of these various apartments, it's going to go -- departments, it's going to go back to the obama west wig. you cannot tell me they didn't have some knowledge, were not fully aware of what was going on. and i think probably gave the nod and said this is acceptable. we have to have answers and then the consequences -- trish: unbelievable. looks like we're going to get the answers at some point here. >> i hope so. trish: robin, you worked for obama and you helped his campaign considerably. but you're american first before you're political. >> absolutely. trish: and it's one of the reasons why i enjoy talking to you, because we to have respectful discussions as opposed to nasty, name-calling debates. >> thank you, my friend. [laughter] right. trish: what do you think of this? you know, it seems like we all deserve, and i don't care what side of the aisle you're on,

whether you despise donald trump or whether you love him. >> yeah. trish: -- you can't have the fbi abusing the system and intelligence gathering and weaponizing it if, in fact, that's what they did. right? >> and, trish, it has seemed -- yes. it's seemed to me for a long time like director comey did just that, openly so. so, you know,, i welcome this investigation. i've been calling for this myself. to ned's point, i hope that this doesn't lead to obama, but let's get answers to these questions one way or the other. the same way that i welcomed the mueller probe, i welcome this. trish: well, it's happening. and we are going to get answers. and interesting that it was on this particular night that you heard the former deputy a.g. there, rod rosenstein, take quite a shot at james comey, accusing him of being a politicized pundit, effectively. again, news just crossing right

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