a new book, alive signing right now, go to my twitter account and you will get it, football is back, let your heart not be troubled, laura ingraham, how are you? what did you do this weekend? >> laura: it was such a great the spiral, it took 48 hours. >> sean: there we go. >> laura: i was contemplating the meaning of life post-mueller report. what will we do with all the time on our hands, the "hannity" report? >> sean: we will get to the bottom of it and naming names media, deep state abuse of power, i'm not going to stop. >> laura: "hannity" was ain great show, and we will pick it up for you. >> sean: by the way, you mark, tucker, fox & friends, you know without john solomon without this team of people

victoria, without all of these people, we don't get here. >> laura: but we were called russian collaborators, right? >> sean: by the way, expect a predawn raid tomorrow with guns in your face because that is what we are going to get probably. >> laura: thank you so much. all right i'm laura ingrahamou "the ingraham angle" from washington tonight, and we expose the ringleaders of defamation, the smears and all have proven themselves to be e untrustworthy and frankly deeply unpatriotic. for letting the fanatical hatred of this president override what vexed the american people. now, this talk of poise and not just the domestic politics, butt it affected the foreign policy as well. now, you definitely heard already difficult relationship with russia and it certainly didn't help with other countries, europe. if you think the president is about to get impeached, foreign leader, how will you be about the president saying about nato

or iran sanctions for that matter? fox and yours truly, they called agents of the russian government. now, this investigation took countless hours of the president's time and that of his staff. he undoubtedly spent millions of dollars personally and legal fees. do not forget, at least 42 people were dragged before the meal or grand jury or just brought in. this took time and money. it was all a waste. it was unjust in the beginning and these facts cannot be obscured or overlooked by the good news and the final report. so throughout this hour, we will be naming names, exposing those who tried to rip this nation apart. you will hear from dan bongino laura logan, sara carter, sol wisenberg and many more.n, plus cnn and then go to political analyst/smear meister

michael avenatti finally got today, we expose how the media created and enabled this fraud who was the proxy smear master against president trump and brett kavanaugh. and what the media unguarded meltdown as the mueller news broke and told us about the coverage, the good, the bad and frankly, the whole areas raymond arroyo to tell us all. but first, the reckoning, that is the focus of tonight single. >> all right, tonight along with millions of americans, we do celebrate the mueller investigation and the vindication of president trump. now, we told you from day one this was an investigation triggered by people who wanted to undo the results of 2016 election. we told you week after week after week that this probe should have never been launched. and mueller's findings have no collusion or coordination with russia shows that we were right and the bitter, nasty anti-trump

forces were wrong. and how long were they? they were conspiring with russia. >> it is saying that nobody in the campaign had any contacts with russia. false reporting is saying there is no suggestion of any kind of collusion. fa how many more times does heta have to say collusion, and that's because he feels colluded. >> laura: it's not enough to play these sound bites and laugh because after these two turbulent years, america deserves more than a day or two with media analysis and one fair headline fromca "the new york times" today. america deserves to know what really happened here. the forces, the individuals, and the motivation behind this total travesty of justice. we must ensure that those responsible face real political, legal, andot professional repercussions. >> we can never let this happen to another president again. i can tell you that and i say it

strongly, very few people that i know could have handled it. we can never, ever let this happen to another president again. >> laura: these past 675 days were filled with unfair slanderous, defamatory, vicious irresponsible, and erroneous reporting and commentary about this president. and also about his current and former staff and, yes, his family. >> there was activities with the trump campaign and russia. some of that was jared kushner's responsibility. some of it was donald jr. i think you will see indictments of both of those people. >> we know donald trump jr. and eric jr. bragged how much money the trump organization has gotten out of russia. >> any signs of collusion was going on, spent his whole life seeking his dad's approval. failing at it, and now, to bring

down trump's presidency. >> laura: oh, samantha, the best. throughout the show, naming names of the russian investigation hall of shame. we will not forget, and neither should you, those who acted and spoke with such a reckless disregard of the truth and basic standards of professionalism. there must be a reckoning. it is time to hold government officials, reporters, pundits media executives and, yes, politicians accountable for their role in this russian hoax. now we start with the russian hoax, political hole of shame. -- political hall of shame. and why not begin with senator tricky dick blumenthal from the home state of connecticut? and when he could talk only of the possible moscow trump tower deal in russian collusion. >> the project never happened if not for lack of trying and not for lack of desire.ol the russians knew that he was lying to the american people.

they enabled him, and now they have that leverage over him here, so we compromised.ha >> laura: who compromised now, dick? blumenthal must realize there was no russian leverage over the president, right, surely changed the tune. >> the facts and evidence here are likely to show a lot of criminality, a lot of wrongdoing and a lot of lawbreaking that is not indicted here. >> laura: okay, he was a state attorney general. for the second entry, let's move on to mad maxine, shall we? the remember what she said back in 2016? >> this president and his allies, i believe and othersis believe, colluded with the russians to undermine our democracy, and we are not going to stop talking about it. all i know is this, if he thinks he can stop me from talking about impeaching, he's got h

another thought coming. i'm not intimidated by him. i'm going to keep saying we need to impeach him. >> laura: but what is she saying now? here is maxine yesterday. >> he has been saying no collusion, no collusion, no collusion over and over again for a long time now. and he will try to conclude that this report is proving that there is no collusion, and you have a lot who will take the nod from him and they will say the same thing. but we cannot allow them to get away with this. >> laura: okay, so let me get this straight, maxine. so now, andrew weissmann and bob mueller are all part of a pro-trump conspiracy with white -- with like conservative journalists? the third entry in the political hall of shame goes to ben and jerry nadler, i mean, jerry nadler, how did that get in there, as statesmen like jerry surely has a different view?

here he was a few months ago. >> it has become very clear at the trump campaign colluded with the russians and tried to subvert the election. >> the president's right to be nervous right now because it appears that time is running out when he can hold himself above the law. >> laura: we know now that neither the president or anyone in his orbit indicted for the russian collusion. i bet nadler sees things differently now, right? >> we know there was conclusion. >> but none of what you said is the level of criminal indictment by special counsel. >> no, it hasn't as far as we know. but we know there was collusion. why there has been no a indictment, we don't know.ow >> you believe the president has obstructed justice, you still believe that? there has been obstruction of justice with her clearly criminal obstruction is another question. >> laura: it just takes your breath away. there was no obstruction found. two years of investigation, sir.

but of course, he says there is obstruction, what? there is no criminal collusion found. but he says we know there is collusion, what? fourth on the list, crazy maisie, here she is last year on presidential pardon >> for him to come and say he could pardon himself and some of the other outrageous statements he think he is a dictator and a king. it shows he is really afraid of what the mueller investigation will show. after everything we learned over the weekend, she is doing my a cope and, right? >> just because there was not enough evidence for a criminal charge of conspiracy does not mean that a cozy relationship that donald trump has with vladimir putin. >> laura: cozy standard. and i always say, being a liberal means never having to

say you are sorry. she is just acting like come i don't know, eric swalwell who frankly makes me unwell. a portrait of the president ripped from the mario novel. >> it is so obvious eager to collude with russia at that now we see there was a conspiracy to cover up. it's looking more and more that donald trump was a part of a criminal campaign, a criminal transition and now presides over a criminal presidency. >> laura: wait a second, after the attorney general special counsel clear of the president of wrongdoing, he changed his mind, right? >> i think the american people want to know whether this president violated conduct and whether he violated not only the law but the honor code we all count on. >> laura: wait a second, honor code? as the president now a member o a cub scout group? did he break the law or not? mueller after two years said he

did not but swalwell, shameless adam schiff can't let go of their own narratives. >> i certainly say with confidence there is significant evidence of collusion between the campaign and russia. >> there is a real prospect on the day donald trump leaves office the justice department may indict him and he may be the first president in quite some time to face the real prospect of jail time. >> laura: no, wrong no grounds to indict him as mueller said there was no collusion between the president, trump campaign and the russians. so you did read the bar letter, didn't you, adam? >> there is still a lot of reasoning with this president's relationship with russia and putin.sre >> laura: republicans should note here that the tenacity of these people, even when proven completely wrong, they pressed their case again and again and again. imagine what republicans could

do with that kind of commitment? all these democrats showed hideously flawed judgment in each and every one of them should face primary challenges. absolutely. kellyanne conway took it further today. >> adam schiff, he believes that the scandal is size and scope of watergate and plenty of evidence of collusion. he ought to resign today. he's been on every tv show 50 times a day times a day for practically the last two years promising americans that this president would either be impeached or indicted. >> laura: these democrats and many more made a cataclysmic mistake. countless hours on tv, giving speeches, pronouncing the end of the trump presidency and literally accusing of seditious behavior., now, i don't think a lot of them even believe what they were saying, but they didn't care.vi hating trump became its own competitive sport nonetheless. but in the meantime, trump kept

pushing forward, growing the economy, appointing great judges , trying to untangle red tape kill regulations that suffocated expansion and innovation of business, but the democrats well, they left their own party unattended. they did well in the midterms but face it, they won back the house. a lot of that was anti-trump stuff fed by the rush of falsehood. substantial, workable ideas few and far between. t well, what did this do? created vacuum of ideas in the democratic party which left the door open to socialism. which the radicals walked right through. so what did two years of bashing trump really get them? even after the mueller report they are threatening more hearings. but otherwise, democrats on the defense with infighting in the ring with charges of anti-semitism as they are new young radical embraced collectivism. after president trump, he should

take this moment as an opportunity to reset and relaunch his presidency, free of the albatross of the russian investigation. it is now time to take it all into high gear. strike a good deal with china if one can be had, get this board are sealed, billed as much of the wall that he can, task ice to removal orders and deport them. that in and of itself a great turn effect at the border. show the country that the left wasn't just wrong on russia. they were wrong i just about everything. go to the inner cities, go to the blue states, expand the movement, showed your heart, yo are charming.. and have fun. winning is fun. now gloating won't get you reelected and neither will the mueller report, but your record of success properly framed and explained, that will. which may be the best recognizing of them all. and that is the angle. joining me now with reaction dan bongino fox news contributor and then we will talk about a whole

host of great guests will stay right there, dan. who is the biggest political violator here? the top member of the political hall of fame? hall of shame? m >> dan: you know i will go back to the beginning, laura and call out brian stelter, the eunuch over at cnn. and i will tell you why, a longe time ago he brought up the fact there may have been a fisa warrant. remember a couple of years ago that was considered controversial and fisa warns and we know if this old news but when he called it out in the beginning, he called him a conspiracy theorist. that's crazy, so brian seltzert when it comes initially to this propaganda nonsense of russian inclusion theory. >> laura: monique, face the nation yesterday before the bar letter was fully released. said this.

>> the american people deserve to know whether donald trump is legitimate president, b, ath russian asset, literacy and equivalent of organized crime boss or d just a useful idiot who happens to have been victimized by the greatest collection of coincidences in the history of the republicans.e monique, why does your party seem to be in denial tonight? >> dan: what is denial, i don't know anything about the bar letter, the four-page letter that i wrote that is not even a summary of the 800 page report that i'm still awaiting to see from the special prosecutor that told me he's not a useful idiot. he's had plenty of things directly out of his mouth to prove that that would tell me he's not a russian -- sit next to vladimir putin and all the complements in the world for hit

while he degrades his own central intelligence agency. i have no idea whether he's t actually a functional president or not because when he had both houses of congress and presidency he couldn't get done any of the things you said he should start try to do now. so for me, i was never really waiting for this report. i was waiting to have a real president of the united states. >> laura: hold on, hold onid hold on, now we are getting somewhere, dan. he was never legitimate president because they don't like his idea. >> monique: no, no, because of russia, because of russia. >> laura: you have got your time, hold on. don't talk over me and that's why people turn up cable news. the democrats have refused -- at least you have some people outr there who like has not said nice thing about the network or people that i really love, but he comes out and writes this exhaustive piece saying this could be the end of journalism.a

people have to wake up to seeut what just happened here. this is the wnv story of the last couple of years. but like a million times worse. he's a big liberal and he came out and said, -- and the hands in front of their face, no, it's not there. for the life of me i don't see this a winning strategy for the democrats. i understand it might feel good but how is that a winning strategy? >> dan: it's not, i'm sorry but that was a embarrassing display by monique. i'm glad you put that out therey i don't know if you have a grasp of the facts in the case. mueller sold to us the great messiah and the left, spending $35 million, they had what 19 lawyers, 14 fbi agents, 2800 subpoenas, 500 plus interviews 13 foreign trips and came up with a summation of a report that said no uncertain terms not only did trump not collude but his campaign did not colludu and i don't know you may nott

have read it, no american colluded. he sat next to putin but after the pipeline or where this military gave the order to wipe out the 200 russian were armed ukraine? the one thing about democrats we have the vaccination vaccinated against facts, laura and when you hit them, no response. the next thing a xenophobe or racist, they don't come back n with anything that actually matters. so i appreciate that display but a little embarrassing. >> laura: if the democrats were right here in this whole report synopsis of a report is mischaracterizing what mueller found, mueller is a smart guy with a team of experienced prosecutors whether democrats or not it does not matter at this point, but do you not think one of them would have come out and said whoa, whoa attorney general barr, that is not what we concluded. you think they are in on it?

>> i think might holly on the other side added words to what said. i think that mueller is capable. i said this morning on the morning show of the fact that he didn't overreach makes him more credible to me not less. where he says that trump, that he didn't have enough information to find that he was guilty of obstruction, but he didn't find enough information to clear him. i think that is sound as a lawyer, i approve of him taking that approach. but what i am saying is, the russians still interfered in our election unless we are missing that in the 800 pages, right? so when i say that trump's presidency isn't legitimate, it doesn't have to do with whether he was the person who is actually hacking into the dnc or not. it has to do with the actual facts. maybe we don't want to hear about that. >> laura: that's with they've not been saying the last year.

>> monique: i'm only talking about the words out of my mouth. >> laura: panel, thank you. china has been trying to hackk into our system, iran, getting into the infrastructure, hacking for years and years and years and as you heard "the angle" adam schiff repeatedly went out of his way to claim that trump trump colluded with russia and zero evidence of it, but now the white house is calling for his resignation. and joining me now, strategic mercedes schlapp adam schiff will not resign and congresswoman tonight told the democrats, she has a lot of juice now, a lot of power, do not give up on impeachment. >> mercedes: i think the democrats ultimate goal is impeachment and it makes nancy pelosi nervous. she is saying we might not want to go there but we need bipartisan to move towards impeachment but democrats fromin

day one, they were coal and they have done on trying to impeach the president. and so come i think the american people clearly see through this. i think we know the democrats have gone way too far. they've been reckless in thishi process. they been irresponsible in terms of two years spending hour after hour after hour, building this narrative, building this case the president colluded with the russians and the mueller report as we know the president is exonerated to. >> laura: i want to put up a couple of graphs from the letter of the barr. the first one, deputy attorney general rosenstein and i concluded the evidence developed special counsel in is not sufficient to establishev obstruction of justice defends. special counsel recognizes the evidence does not establish the president was involved in an underlying crime. related to russian interference and while not determine the absence of such evidence, bears

upon the present intent with respect to obstruction. what does that mean? there is no underlying crime, so the president everything he did was in the open. he's frustrated, mad, imagine being accused of something basically treason. >> mercedes: that's right.gi >> laura: and all these people against you.ll and are you kidding me? the president of the united states was really mad. that was supposed to be obstruction? mueller tried to interview the president and couldn't get the doj to think that was going to be a good idea. he didn't have any evidence of any crime to interview the president are subpoenaed the president. they have no evidence of any intent to obstruct justice. period. that is clear here. >> mercedes: and this is the brilliance of the president which he is resilient. despite the fact that all the pressure of this investigation despite the fact it's been over 8,500 articles written, stories aired, cnn, "new york times," "washington post" and msnbc.

what we know the president has been in high gear and he has focused on the economy, the," trade deals, securing the border and keeps fighting everyday for the american people. i have to say, it really shows that the democrats, they have made a big gamble with this and that they lost because they thought that this mueller report was going to win it. >> laura: it hurt the country. they divided this country. they made politics more toxic. it did frustrate the president and i can't blame him for being frustrated. he's trying to make good deals for the country.si may be we work with russia on some things but don't on other things. but all of this had the taint of this investigation hanging over it. now he's free of that. t >> mercedes: think how much they try to destroy him. >> laura: he's right. people would have -- i'm sorry the republicans. >> mercedes: something so

great about this man is that he fights. he was not going to -- >> laura: for the democrats are fighting also us when the republicans have to fight for this man, mercedes. a the president's agenda. >> mercedes: it is clear that based on his accomplishmentsts alone when looking at the economy impacting so many communities, the fact that thesh -- the fact that he is standing tough on china. >> laura: do you agree with the reckoning? there has to be at a reckoning. >> mercedes: we really feel there has to be accountability. this is a responsible reporting journalism at a point we have lost their way. >> laura: what about the doj? >> mercedes: i think one of the things that we have learned those elements and the fbi as we have seen with andrew mccabe since he's been underea investigation, lied under oath help create and foment this horrific situation that we have seen and at the end of the day the president exonerated. >> laura: yesterday basically still evidence of collusion. kamala harris. >> mercedes: they really want

to continue campaigning. they want to campaign on collusion and keep bringing doubts in the minds of the american people. the mueller report is clear, the president is completely exonerated and we are moving ahead with the agenda. the democrats can continue playing politics but at this point in time, the american people want a solution. that is what the president is working on the results for the american people. >> laura: hit the road and so this agenda, blue state america and sell this agenda. thank you for being here tonight. this is not collusion. different shade. now, the second part of tonight's recognizing, the media russian collusion hall of shame. now the mueller probe has been launched, there have been 533,074 articles written about this investigation. now, the big street network produced 2,284 minutes of collusion coverage. nearly one fifth of all of trump's evening news coverage has been about this one investigation.

now, here is a sample of what the liberal media has been saying the last 675, long days. >> a political hurricane is out there, hurricane vladimir if you will come of the whole russian thing but what we see is worse than watergate. the bombshell report from buzzfeed news, if true, two words in american politics are -- it's true. >> the president of the united states committed a felony come at that point a misdemeanor and impeachment. >> this is evidence ofar willingness to commit collusionm >> the u.s. president possibly working for the russians. possibly. >> laura: now despite irresponsible coverage like that throughout this entire investigation cnn carl bernstein, still dining on watergate was defending the media's role in all of this.at >> the media, the press has done one of the great reporting jobs in the history.

let's look at where the disinformation mistakes and the lying has come from. it hasn't come from the press. it's come from the president of the united states. >> laura: joining me now laura logan, sara carter fox news contributor, great to have you on, you recently made headlines for mainstream media and overwhelming liberal bias. what is your take on this mueller obsession and the russian collusion obsession even after the two years of investigation, 500 witnesses called et cetera, et cetera.f >> laura: lara, i've been a journalist over three decades and i have to say, i feel ashamed. when i was listening to the clips that were playing, it made me feel ashamed. this is a terrible moment as journalist. i've been saying several years accountability begins with us. people across this country asked me all the time about fake news and how we got to this point where so little trust in the media.

you see it playing right in front of you right here. i will give you one of the most frustrating examples from the beginning, do you remember when everyone was making fun of the president for saying he was wiretapped during the campaign, that the trump tower tower was being wiretapped. and we got lost in a conversation about semantics and later, the president's campaign and trump tower were being by the agencies, and exactly what he meant and the president was right. intelligence agencies were listening to his campaigns.li it is not surprise me journalist were not ready to stand up and say, we were wrong and the president was right, that is not surprising, but it doesn't make it any better.ea it's not a fine moment for journalism and journalism as a i've done all my life. >> laura: we need journalist to ask tough questions and hold everybody accountable equally. i've always been a favor of that

holding trump countable, bush, obama, clinton, across the board . that is what we do for the american people. sara, tonight on cnn, giuliani appeared with chris cuomo and they are old buddies but this is kind of been interesting moment that touches on suspension. >> you guys at this network hav. tortured this man with two years and nobody is apologized. before we talk aboutea obstruction, apologize to that collusion. >> not a chance, not a chance. >> of course, you will not. >> laura: not a chance, three words. and i will go back to matt his piece was exhausted and he documented just how badly this trajectory went for the moment -- for the media. and not for a moment, not a chance. what does that tell you? >> sara: it tells me nothing has changed for now for the media and it is disappointing laura.yo look we have to look back at the

beginning during 2016 campaign. look at the coverage. how they treated president trump. how they treated the american people who supported president trump. they talked about them as deplorable. they laughed. they said no way is trump going to be elected as president of the united states. they did not believe it for one second.de there was a visceral hate all over washington, d.c. all i could hear from reporters are at ours around town, no way he will get elected. i will be sure to write a column against this. any american who votes for him is an idiot. i heard that over and over again. i would say to myself keep writing that and he will get elected. absolutely. one thing we have learned from this right now and we could see it with rudy giuliani is that they don't want to back away from this. even who wrote a story about michael cohen being a fraud there is no proof of it and michael cohen has always denied it. they won't back away from the story. this is why people are asking to

return pulitzer prize. it is not based on facts. >> laura: lara, buzzfeed ran the dossier in january 10th before trump comes and so ten days before he takes the oath of office, they dropped that unsubstantiated, uncorroborated and that turns out trump campaign paid for assembly and that got this whole thing going. comey ran with it and a lack of curiosity laura on the part of the media, what was the motivation? >> lara: i mean, i think you are being kind when you say lack of curiosity because curiosity isit the most fundamental quali for any real journalistun we are all nosy, right? to me, any time reporters not being nosy, that's willful. it doesn't take a genius to figure out the first thing you have to ask about buzzfeed dossier all the things we knowt' about the dossier, for example

the one candidate in the presidential election paid millions of dollars to american citizens to travel to russia ani meet with serving agents of putin and intelligent services who gave them, you knowin information, misinformation as it turned out opposition candidate in the election. i and the intelligent agencies and fed to the department of justice and fed to the media. of course, it was then leaked.d. this was used by the courts and intelligence agencies to use the power of our intelligence agencies against american citizens. this is a power that is meant to be used to protect this country against foreign enemies, not against its own citizens. that is actually a crime if that power is misused. and no one has been held accountable for that. -- mike flynn was the first tasualty of this.

he was the man to expose it. >> laura: and flynn, all of these people got wrapped up in all of this. i'm telling you, the entire thing has to be picked up by william barr, point by point person by person and there has to be a reckoning. both of you are doing such a great job. thank you for joining us tonight. coming, part three of the reckoning, the need for repercussions for those who started this whole thing, as we just mentioned, rogue fbi officials, obama intel chief the surveillance used against american citizens. expert legal panel will tell you what you need to know next.

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individuals who got caught up and years and machinery of the prosecution in the country and lindsey graham pointed out this same issue earlier today. >> i would like to find somebody like mr. mueller that can look into what happened with the fisa warrant. what happened counter intelligence investigation. am i right to be concerned? pretty bad on its face. it seems that by any reasonable standard, mr. mueller thoroughly investigated the trump campaign. you cannot say that about the other side of the story. >> laura: here now our powerhouse legal panel, sol wisenberg, former deputy and fox news contributor john yoo and former attorney general robert ray and whitewater independent counsel, great to see all of you, sol, doess senator graham have a point here? should there be another serious investigation into the failures and potential wrongdoing here?

>> sol: unquestionably. we know the material information was withheld from the fisa court. we know that the fisa court approved that warrant completely -- completely unverified information, the facts of the steal .ca as relayed by steal, that was hearsay, that was not verified at all. we know that this was approved. think about this for a minute just think about it. it was quite remarkable. the administration and power approved a counterintelligence investigation against the opposition presidential candidate. the opposition party and leaked it to the press. this is really shocking, and it absolutely has to be investigated. senator graham said, due process for everybody, but investigate the facts. absolutely.

>> laura: altered general editorial board accountability for the dossier, basically the a steele dossier looks like one of the nastiest dirty tricks inab history and authors and promoter should be held accountable. sol, laura logan, both saying you use the in time -- entire machinery at the state t spy on a political campaign and individuals caught up in this, all based on a dossier paid for by the political opposition, bu remember to do it to obama. >> it is the worst of prosecutorial power and essentially politics by other means. and when an investigation and the damage that can be caused by that and people's liberty is at stake, it doesn't take a genius to figure out that that kind of abuse of power is the one thing that you really have to watch in the political process.e >> laura: what criminal liability could there be here? >> robert: the beginnings of an

investigation are already here and inspector general, by michael horowitz, very capable and obama appointee, but straight shooter. and balls and strikes kind of person. that shoe was going to drop. that may be the thing that allows what senator graham has in mind and the political process to kick off which congress -- >> laura: presidential candidate trump. they spied on president trump. >> robert: nobody took that seriously. they did laugh at him and the president has turned out to be proven right with regard to that issue. >> laura: john yoo, i have to get your thoughts, all of you on this issue up obstruction of justice, a letter that attorney general sent to lawmakers that set the evidence and the mueller investigation "is not efficient to establish the president committed obstruction of justice offense."

and the left is looking for anymore, so they can. >> a big piece of this report does not exonerate the president. a sitting president on extremely serious charge of obstruction o justice. the issue up obstruction of justice, it is a huge thing. the president impeach for it before. >> we need to see the full report to really understand the evidence that was collected where we stand with the obstruction charge. >> laura: john, what did mueller conclude from what wede can glean from this letter, and are any of these commentators analyst correct here? >> john: laura, a great question because that is still the open issue left by the letter and we will learn more when we get the mueller report. personally i don't think obstruction could have occurred

here because obstruction, the president firing jim call me for a very valid grounds using hisio -- why did the attorney attorney general said there was not obstruction and what we will start to hear whatever he said about obstruction we will look at impeachment and impeachment does not need to be limited to obstruction and to what the attorney general said. >> laura: okay, okay. now, sol they wanted to interview the president correct? at some point i would assume mueller, in consultation with the justice department, what di you think you are subpoenaed being the president? they went back and forth on this, some sources are telling me but they determined there was not enough evidence of an underlying crime to go to that extreme case, clearing theirr hurdle they are. they didn't go to that. they took the written answers to questions. and then they decided at some

point, we don't have the evidence of obstruction. so for the democrats to conclude, which they are, that there was obstruction, but didn't have enough time or enough evidence now. is that really the right way to look at this? >> sol: it's not the right way to look at this. let's make a historical point. in both the case of nixon and president clinton, you had unmistakable, classical criminal, classic obstruction of justice. in the case of nixon, hela directed haldeman to lie to the fbi about the cia in order to stymie an investigation. that is a lie. that made it classic obstruction. he encouraged john to pay hush money, classic obstruction.on >> laura: wait a minute. that is obstruction of justice. >> that is criminal obstruction.

that is completely different. i agree with the previous guest who said, and i said it many times on your show, exercising their presidential authority ca never be obstruction of justice. >> laura: hold on, robert, we had hillary throwing blackberries, 33,000 emails and that was obstruction, but they got immunity deals out of that deal. >> robert: i think it was appropriate for the attorney general to weigh in chief law enforcement officer of the country, the department needed to speak with one voice on this issue and it presents a policy question about whether o not a sitting president kent obstructs justice in connection with making personnel decisions by replacing, as he is entitled to do, the fbi director for any reason or for any reason, and that is what he is constitutionally entitled to do. >> laura: there was no intent. >> robert: and mueller left it up to him. exclusively. >> laura: he concluded there was no evidence to continue the investigation either. he could have continued

investigating obstruction but it's all he could do. >> robert: i was on the investigation and they didn't have a basis. that is the point here, there was no basis to continue to subpoena the president withwa regard to the issue. >> laura: fantastic analysis you did not hear anywhere else.. raymond arroyo with real-time action of the mueller news and what it tells us. everybody missed us, by the way. up nextf avenatti getting off scot-free on this show. hottest new bistro. wait...and the hottest taqueria? and the hottest...what are those? oh, pierogis? and this is the averys wondering if eating out is eating into saving for their first home. this is jc... (team member) welcome to wells fargo, how may i help? (vo) who's here to help with a free financial health conversation, no strings attached. this is the averys with the support they needed to get back on track. well done guys. (team member) this is wells fargo.

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♪ >> laura: joining us to decode the media freak out among the released mueller report as well as the avenatti news, sort of a monday with twists. the offer of the new book raymond, you worked closely watching media reaction when the barr letter dropped on friday.he >> raymond: laura this is the mueller meltdown. as time went on the media icons regained their footing and starting -- started with new narratives but the reality of it, the actions were telling. >> no further indictments. no charges against the president. why was there never interrogation of this president?

how can they lit trump off of the hook? you know, the emotional attachmentse was so severe in t case of chris matthews as he felt a narrative slipping away. you see him overcome with anger. and if brian cranston wants to leave broadway, they might fill in him for the evening reform. rachel maddow, shocking, it devastating msnbc narrative so she decided to focus not on the letter but on the process of delivering the letter, watch. >> it justice department staffer or messenger of some all we know a north face jacket brought in fact, two letters to the committee and two manila envelopes and at his new york office, not indices of theac committee staff made a digital copy and got the letter to him that way.

>> laura: wait, it was a north face jacket, a north face jacket? >> raymond: it is unbelievable but never got to the narrative until after the show. the ladies at "the view" a few months ago singing impeachment song listen. >> he goes to jail, he goes to jail, he goes to jail. >> laura: but today, they were less jovial about the exoneration of the president. >> no evidence that the guy in the white house conspired with russia. >> what about what happened there? i don't buy that he is completely exonerated. >> raymond: we will look that one up. >> laura: raymond, i'm working on it, back with breaking avenatti news. - there are tens if not hundreds of thousands of jews in israel and the former soviet union who are not going to be able to celebrate the passover.

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>> this is the cherry on the ice cream sundae. tell us about the breaking sad michael avenatti news. >> the southern district of new york arrested story daniels former lawyer on charges of extortion the claimed he tried to blackmail nike, he claims he was going to release damaging accusations. in a separate federal complaint prosecutors claim he engaged in wire and bank fraud and embezzlement funds from his client. >> what happens to the great democratic hope of 2020 now? >> look at the field of democrats and avenatti stands out. >> people would be fullest to underestimate michael avenatti. >> what will go after the president, fighting tooth and nail. >> the media, particularly cnn and msnbc should be ashamed the way they enabled him, promoted

this charlatan, the way he went after brett kavanaugh, went after this network, outrageous. never really evidence for his defamatory comments. that's all the time, check out my podcast tomorrow and remember shannon bream, the fox news at 19 takes all the coverage from here and it is a big show on tap. daymac i am shannon bream and we begin with a fox news alert. we are following the two breaking stories, the lawyer known for representing stormy daniels against donald trump and threatening to run for president himself alan $300,000 bond, facing 200 years in jail and two federal cases accusing him of distortion, bank and wire fraud and more. the trump team turning the roller -- similar probe in