remember i'm watters and this is my world. judge jeanine: right now on "justice," defying the president than that was more than three months ago. now president trump wants his own u.s. attorneys in place. but this guy's ego was too big to get out the door. so i'll give him a push. tonight's opening statement. >> this is a national security problem. this president takes it very, very seriously. reporter: draining the swamp and plugging the leaks. a "justice" prime time exclusive

with white house press secretary sean spicer and we'll get into where things stand with the gop healthcare plan. >> probably their premiums will go down as we have more competition. judge jeanine: a foreign government invades our country, it's a serious act of war. we are ready to go at it again over russia, donald trump, who knows what else. "justice" starts now. welcome to "justice." i'm judge jeanine pirro. my two-part exclusive interview with white house press secretary sean expires is on deck. but first my opening statement. 46 united states attorneys have been asked by the newly elected president of the united states to tender their resignation.

so what? that's what i said. so what? but to hear it from the left, you would think this is another affront to democracy and our way of life by the trump administration. in fact i'm surprised they didn't throw in the russians. let me give it to you straight. this is a non-story. it is not unusual for any new administration to seek the dismissal of political appointees, especially when a new party comes in. united states attorneys are political appointees who serve at the pleasure of the president. in 1993 bill clinton's administration sought the resignation of all sitting united states attorneys appointed by president george bush.

the obama administration replaced all but one from the bush 43 administration. for those of you who might be new to politician. a quote from president barack obama. elections have consequences. or you might be fact with to the victor belong the spoils. but why go quietly with dignity when you can create chaos. the united states attorney from the new york's southern district, the premiere district in the nation digs in his heels and refuses to resign. absurdly claiming he won't resign and insisting the president fire him. say what? do you really think you have a claim to this office? take a listen to him on november

30 when he rushed to the cameras at trump tower. >> the president-elect asked me because i'm a new yorker and is aware of the great work our office has done the past 7 years, asked to meet with me to see if i'm prepared to say on as a united states attorney. we had a good meeting. i said i would absolutely consider staying on. judge jeanine: the president asked if he would be prepared to stay on. not please stay on. his response was he would consider it. now, he then goes on to say he was asked to stay on and he agreed. but we don't know what was said. that's his version, not the trump teams. now when 47 have automatically

stepped aside because they know the protocol, the remaining 46 are apt to tender their resignations, he comes out and says donald trump will have to fire him. as if he has a hold on that office. and men bigger than you have left when new administrations came in. giants like whitney seymour. robert fitch. rudy giuliani, james comey, david kelly. since this happens all the time, what's the fuss? all day today the trump haters claimed any change interrupts ongoing investigations of prosecutions and ultimately jeopardizes latey justice, especially in offices where

public corruption cases are being tried, justice is at stake. as if only one man carries the whole office. cut it out. do you really think that this is the first time in the history of this country that a prosecutor, federal, state, local, town, village, hamlet, has been replaced by another one? what the hell do we do when they die? just give up? here is my question. no one used the word fire or were asked -- all were asked for resignations. who knows, maybe some would have been asked to stay on. and just moavmentds before we've came on air two were, even though they tendered their resignation. but because he has such a huge ego and thinks he's so important

that he continues bleach such a request could possibly apply to him, he ramped it up and dared the president of the united states to fire him. so what do you think happened? lady justice is winking under her bands -- her bandages. and donald trump did what only donald trump can do so well, he said, you're fired. that's my opening statement. tell me what you think on facebook or twitter. george washington university professor jonathan turley. you are a giant along constitutional lawyers. we are thrilled to have you on. am i wrong?

>> about my being a jainlts among constitutional lawyers? absolutely not be you are correct on that. no, the point is a good one. i'm not sure what point was being made by the u.s. attorney. he seems to be a rebel without a cause on this. he does serve at the pleasure of the president it has happened before. and the great irony is presidents will often ask for global rest is nations and decide not to accept some. and he decided in two cases to do precisely that. it's bizarre to me for people to lionize this act. i considered it deeply unprofessional. he is a lay-ranking political appointee. he serves at the pleasure of the president. many u.s. attorneys will put forth a resignation as a matter of course.

but when you are asking by the attorney general to put in your letter you do so because he's a professional. i still don't know what the point is. i don't know why you would want the president to fire you. judge jeanine: it's like sally yates, they have to make themselves some kinds of hero to the left. my understanding is dana called every one of the remaining 47. 46 had already tendered their rest is nation. they were told be you will get an email or a letter. they got that courtesy ahead of time. and he went ballistic and said it can't possibly apply to me. at any point in time he can be

asked for his resignation. what makes him think he's entitled to that job? >> i don't know what he was trying to suggest when he said you are going to have to fire me. like the guest who won't leave after dinner. this isn't your table. you don't have a right to stay. particularly as an attorney. your client isn't the president of the united states. you are tomorrow dependent on him in one sense, he controls your office. so if someone comes to you or the president of the united states says i need all of your resignations, the answer is yes. i don't understand why people are lionizing him for this. i considered this a rather silly and theatrical move. and i think it many a shame. he has an impressive record. and i think he tarnished his legacy and his office. judge jeanine: i have been listening to people on the left

all day long saying he has such a great record. but i don't know any united states attorney in the southern district who hasn't been a phenomenal prosecutor. all of these men and one woman as i recall, are the best of the best. and it's not as though they can't find somebody else who sister are you figure. but to those out there who thinks one person carries the whole office. i ran an office. my cheer assistant probably knew more about -- my chief assistant probably knew more about cases than i did. there are a lot of people below you who know a lot more than you do. >> that's right. when you are the u.s. attorney in manhattan. you represent a premiere office of people who work very hard. and that comes with a certain responsibility. you don't demean that office with these types of juvenile acts. you are a professional. you are the united states attorney.

you serve at the me sure of the president. if the president wants all of the resignations of all the u.s. attorneys, you send sit in. you don't have a steveish taunted. in the -- you don't have a peevish taunt. this is a sad way to end a career as u.s. attorney. 237. judge jeanine: jonathan turley, thanks for being with us. this week i spoke with white house press secretary sean spicer. the recent wikileaks document dump on the cia and what it means for our national security. julian assange is talking about how he can get all of his information from the cia and all of this leaked. i'm curious. has the president met with the cia director pompeo to discuss

the enormous leaking going on? do they have a strategy? and the second part of my question is given the fact there is a small pool of individuals who had access to the information that was leaked and i heard one congressman say that it's limited to about 30 people, are we going to get to the bottom of who is leak this extremely important information out? >> the president speaks to the cia director daily to get an update on the national security situation and the threats we face and what we are doing to keep the country safe. that being said, we don't comment on the allegations of leaks. the president has been very, very concerned with the leaks that have come out throughout the administration and throughout government that have been pervasive in our government for a long time stretching back several administrations. but he feels strongly this undermines our national security. and he's taking steps with

various agencies to make sure we get to the bottom and clog the leaks and punish those who are leaking the information. judge jeanine: the president opened all of this classified information to 16 intelligence agencies. do we anticipate president trump will try to tighten up that information to a small group of individuals and make it not as pervasive through the government? >> the president made it very clear to all of the agencies that deal in this area that they need to take the appropriate steps and actions to safeguard our national security efforts. he understands these efforts that have been going on not just recently, but for years and decade threaten our ability to protect ourselves and they only embolden the enemy who seek to dour people and our country harm. we need to be aggressive with

those who share information beyond those who are authorized do so. this is a national security problem and the president take the seriously. judge jeanine: with jim comey calling on the department of justice to back up his statement that there was no wiretapping. does the president find it unusual that a man who was not shy of a camera during the last campaign would hesitate to get in front of a camera and say what he want the department of justice to say? >> well, all i'm going say on this is i continue to read reports about what director comey has said privately. no one that i'm aware of has heard from him specifically in this administration. we see anonymous sources that suppose what he said or did not say. i'll thrieft director comey to speak for himself.

the president asked the house intelligence community to use their resources to get through the look of what we see now with respect to leaks and other things. the people who have been briefed with respect to russia and allegations of coordination of various entities. every single person that's been briefed, senator rubio, devon nunes. they say they see nothing. that story does not get the attention it dee de -- that it deserves. but that tory gets pushed by the wayside. judge jeanine: i'll ask spicer about where things stand with the gop healthcare plan. we are back to talking leak and back to talking russia and back to talking president trump. my guest is one of my favorite liberals. you know what --

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judge jeanine: u.s. attorney from the southern district of new york preet wha preet preet a challenges the president to fire him. coco, you agree, do you not, that the president has the trite ask for the resignation of tall united states attorneys. correct? off course, absolutely. but this one is different. judge jeanine: i thought we were going to move on. >> no, no. judge jeanine: why is preet bharara different? >> president trump asked him to stay.

he is a great man when it comes to law and order, and trump ran as the law and order president. getting rid of this law and order hero really sort of defeats that whole pledge. but more importantly, preet bharara is investigating mution mution -- investigating russian money laundering. judge jeanine: how do you know that? >> it's been reported by news agencies. judge jeanine: do you think he's the only law enforcement hero out there? this guy has got an ego bigger than this studio. his finger nails are on the frame of the door as they told him to get the hell out. he said i'm in the middle of all these investigation and therefore you can't let me go as if he's the only one who can do them.

by the way, any investigation is generally handled by the guy underneath him. he's been investigating andrew cuomo for three years, and that's one of the things he's saying, i'm still investigating, you can't let me go. he's a smart guy. he's probably going to run for governor and that's why he's doing this. he's also investigating fox news, by the way for security violations in connection with failure -- judge jeanine: do you have make this stuff up before you get here. >> from a variety of news sources. i check all my references. judge jeanine: now we have got wikileaks, the cia, and all this other stuff on march 20. we are going to have the hearing as to what's going on with

russia and this administration. now, clapper says there is nothing to indicate that there is anything going on between the trump administration and russia. and we have got devin nunes says there is no connection. and these people are having a breakdown because they keep saying there has got to be a connection. there is no connection according to all the intelligence agencies. clapper worked for obama. do we not believe him? >> 2,820. that's the number of automatic pings that went between a trump campaign server and a russian bank. he just fired the u.s. attorney investigating russian money laundering. judge jeanine: the f.b.i. is

doing the work, coco, not preet. the f.b.i. counter intelligence is doing it. who do you think got fisa? not preet. clapper says there is nothing there. >> that's not what clapper said. judge jeanine: he said there is no connection. >> he said there is no wiretap. judge jeanine: he said there was no evidence of collusion between the trump administration and russia. >> i understand -- judge jeanine: this has nothing to do with donald trump, it has everything to do -- >> he's corrupting the administration. judge jeanine: fox news, let me ask you a question. >> you guys covering for him. judge jeanine: you think barack

obama opened up the intelligence agencies so they could leak everything and he has a shadow government with valerie jarrett. he's not doing that. only fox news -- judge jeanine: building a wall in washington. >> i don't know what you are talking about. there is no evidence about that. judge jeanine: coco, stop making this wrap up before you come on. good-bye. the fight is not over. next. my political panel just can't wait to get into it. next time i'm going to let you have fight with her. later -- has the president threatened anybody? >> that's not his style.

judge jeanine: welcome back to "justice." time for the panel. thanks for being here. real fast. preet bharara, was he gentleman-like he's my former colleague. i think he's a great guy. if the president asked him to stay, he should have accepted it. judge jeanine: was he the best prosecutor in the country? >> no, everybody is replaceable. that's life. but the president did say was going to keep them and gave everybody hope he was going to keep him. judge jeanine: even if the president did say sit, he could change miss mind tomorrow.

>> rumors have been this guy is running for governor of new york. and donald trump made a trump-tastic move. >> it looks like he got the idea from sean hannity on thursday night. i wonder if he put the hashtag let not your heart be troubled on it. judge jeanine: you know what the shame of it is? we don't know if he would have been one of the ones the president would have asked to stay. if you go across the board and say tender your resignation, we know of two that were offered the job after they tendered them. but i want to go to julian assange and wikileaks. we have all these stuff coming

out, the leaks out of the cia, and the intelligence community is getting briefings from james comey. is julian assange from wikileaks, is he friends or foe? what do you say? >> i say foe. he's got all the markings of somebody who is being controlled by a foreign government that does not have our best interests at heart. while you might like him because of your polite withr caliper situation. be careful. when it doesn't suit that country's purpose to be good to you, they won't. judge jeanine: do you think it' a good idea to know that our country may be surveilling us? >> the american people give our u.s. government and the cia and the f.b.i. in particular billions of dollars every year to take on measures to make sure

we stay safe. assange is releasing some of those. but here is a far bigger issue coming out with his wikileaks. now they are saying to private companies like apple. we are showing you what's out there, what we know is out there. but if you hire us or you let us in, we are going to do to hacking to help you close up your system. so now you have private companies that will have to decide -- >> it's like the big bad wolf saying little pig, little pig, let me in. judge jeanine: when i was a prosecutor, some of the best guys who were informants were the dirt bags because they know the game better than a lot of us in law enforcement knew it. >> it's like the movie "catch me if you can." judge jeanine: in the end, what

microsoft said, some of their new software prevents the kind of stuff assange is doing. but at the end of the day there is very little that's wikileaks exposed that wasn't truthful. >> the fact that they are able to do what they are doing suggests they have help from a major foreign power. judge jeanine: oh, come on. do you agree with that, david? >> there is no evidence. that's like saying russia hacked our elections. we don't know there is any evidence of this. the characteristics a and f.b.i. the republic on tactics to make sure we are keeping this country safe. we had to modernize and be ahead of the bad guy hospital want to do bad things. this is another case of this

that americans are fine spend money on what the cia and f.b.i. are doing to keep us safe. he's not a friend of the united states of america and it's time the white house makes that clear to him. judge jeanine: you think we should charge him and extradite him? >> we have been trying to extradite him. he's held up in a foreign entity. judge jeanine: here is the bottom line. we have snowden and assange and we have the other guy -- who was that one? who is the other one? toot former military guy. judge jeanine: tell me. they will tell me in a minute. then we find out all this stuff we think is secret. chelsea manning. thank you. all this stuff we think is secret is not.

sometimes -- i'm a prosecutor. i'm all-american and all that jazz. but sometimes we need to know about the scrap that's out there and is not protected. don't you agree, david? >> we certainly need to know what the bad guys know about our technology. but we are certainly collecting valuable information that keeps our country safe. and we ought to be encouraging the characteristics a and f.b.i. to continue advancing the technique they are using to find out bad actors like assange is doing, but what terrorist groups are doing and foreign countries are doing. and we need a strong f.b.i. to do that. judge jeanine: it may be the f.b.i. and the cia doing the leaks. part two of my interview with sean spicer.

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judge jeanine: u.s. marines have arrived in syria with heavy artillery it's part of the mission to take back raqqa from isis. while everyone is focused on the trump tweet, you break the fact that american troops are on the ground in syria. when, where and how many? >> i talk about it on tuesday. you have got around 300 rangers, the third battalion on these

mechanized vehicles called striker vehicles that came on tuesday. thursday about 200 marines in support of them in the form of artillery. so the point of that is, we invaded syria with the cooperation from russia and although assad says no, we are not there without his permission. and the fight in mosul and iraq, we have almost 10,000 soldiers on the ground in a fight between iraq and syria. that's a big deal. and we have soldiers who will be stationed in kuwait to reinforce both those efforts. so we have a substantial commitment of almost 10,000 soldiers. and in two countries, fighting two different wars in iraq and syria. judge jeanine: that number 10,000 boots on the ground is up

what from the obama administration? >> 250 three years ago started this. we are looking at 6,000 for a while. but in order to pull this operation off with support, and reinforcement, what happen montgomery mosul and iraq. we are going to kill isis and get them out of raqqa. what do you do with these unstable states like syria, iraq, and yemen. judge jeanine: so russia is fighting isis. assad is fighting isis. we are fighting isis. we are all in syria. so are we coordinating with russia and assad? >> we have to of course. military sense, tactical sense.

strange bed fellows happen in the middle of a war on terror. >> what is he saying when you say did you open the door for american troops and he said no we didn't. any foreign troops are invaders. >> you have got turkish groups and 7 different militaries on one side of this trying to fight. and you have got about 10 terrorist organizations on the other side. this is chaos. and part of what we are trying to do in this is to keep the friendly forces apart. it and dangerous mission as all combat is. but we'll have more of this and not less. judge jeanine: are we going to finish isis? >> yes. judge jeanine: then what? >> we have a great military and we have been killing terrorists

for 16 years. but what do you do with the countries after you kill isis. judge jeanine: there is talk of a movie. your new book, "without mercy." i love your book because it sound just like you. my fast it part is the female president is a combat warrior and won a silver star. what do you want to say about it real fast? >> it's the best book of its genre. it's a terrorism book, apocalyptic. we have isis getting nukes from pakistan. and they send it to the u.s. how the u.s. and the world would react. we go through four different countries. it's a page turner. i wrote it with r.j. pinero.

you can't put it down. judge jeanine: i'm talking about the gop plan to replace obamacar

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prime time exclusive with white house press secretary sean spicer. the topic, the gop healthcare plan. thanks for being with us. the president says things are coming along well with the healthcare replacement plan. but we are seeing a lot of resistance from the right and left. how confident is the president that this bill will pass, and would you say it's going to pass within the first hundred days. and if it doesn't, would this be a failure for the president? >> i think it will pass. the president is committed to seeing it through. he has been meeting with members from both houses and both parties. republicans, democrats. he understands the current healthcare law is broken. we have patient paying more and more. and for many counties in our nation there is only one

healthcare provider which is no choice. they are not getting what they were promised 8 years ago. in many cases people have a card, but they don't have care. we heard committee chairman here at the white house for three reasons, one is to thank them. in both committees this has gone through in the house, there has been unanimous support from republicans. this is a three-prong approach it was passed that way and we have to do it that way. we can do an arcane process called reconciliation. there are some things you can do and certain things you can't. then there are other things that can be done. and other thing that have to be done in a third front meaning we can buy healthcare across state lines. expand the pool of health savings accounts. allowing small businesses to

pool their resources together. judge jeanine: would it be considered a win if you just repealed the thing and started over? >> that's what we are doing. this is the most comprehensive repeal evident we have ever seen. judge jeanine: you are repairing it at the same time you are repealing it. >> we are repealing it but we are making sure we are putting in place the phase one aspect of this to insure people get the healthcare covering they need. for most americans they get their coverage through their employer. the only thing that will happen is probably their premiums will go down over time with more competition. the problem with obamacare is it sought to fix the problem with people who did not have healthcare. what happened was it affected the entire system. one fifth of our economy was

affected. it was to the target the people who didn't have healthcare, but ruined the entire system for everybody. now we need to make sure we are focusing on those people who don't have care or can't afford care because of the way the system was implemented. judge jeanine: there is word the president threatened to work against those republicans who are not in support of the bill. >> this president is a successful businessman. if he knows how to get deals. a lot of times people don't appreciate the comprehensive nature of the approach he and the house are taking. we had optimistic meetings with senators and outside interest groups that are become supportive. judge jeanine: is the president threatening anybody?

>> that's not his style. >> that's not his style. judge jeanine: time will tell. if you have medicare

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recipient of the patriot award at the federal law enforcement officer annual event was. that's tomorrow night. follow me on twitter and into graham. thanks so much for watching me rick: it's been a pleasure. arthel: julie banderas is up next. julie: one of the most high profile federal prosecutors in the country says he was forced out by the trump administration after refusing the order to quit. i'm julie banderas, and this is "the fox report." preet bharara was the u.s. attorney for the southern district of manhattan known for his prosecution of public corruption. he announced today that he'd been fired and did not resign as asked. well, that request coming from attorney general jeff sessions who asked 46 u.s. attorneys held over from the obama administration to submit their resignations. well, today preet bharara tweeted this: i did not resign. moments ago i was fired.