>> good looking sight here, air force one. colorado springs. we can show it if you want. there it is. have a great day. >> see you at 7:00 p.m. i'm in for miss martha. >> see you then. >> "outnumbered" starts right now. >> president trump arriving in colorado where he will deliver a commencement address to the u.s. air force academy. democratic leadership and 2020 candidates face new calls to impeach the president. this is "outnumbered." i'm melissa francis. here today, dagen mcdowell. lisa boothe, radio host and fox news contributor, leslie marshall and joining us on the couch, vice president of the mercury public affairs, ian prior. thanks for being here. >> nice to be here. >> ready to be outnumbered?

i like it. air force one touching down in colorado ahead of a speech to the u.s. air force academy. before leaving the white house, president trump responding to robert mueller's rare public appearance yesterday. watch. >> to me, it's the same as the report. there's no obstruction. you can see what we're saying. there's no obstruction, no collusion, no nothing. it's nothing but a witch hunt. this is a witch hunt by the media and the democrats. they're partners. >> [question inaudible] >> that means you're innocent. excuse me. he should have said you're guilty. >> the former special counsel's remarks fuelling impeachment in the house. more than 40 house democrats calling for impeachment proceedings to begin with justin amash. nancy pelosi not quite ready to go there. she's not ruling out the

possibility of impeachment but saying democrats need to first build a compelling case. >> nothing is off the table. we do want to make such a compelling case, an iron clad case that even the republican senate, which at the time seems to be not an objective jury, will be convinced of the path that we have to take as a country. >> not all of the democratic leadership on the same page. the communications committee chair, david cicilinne says the next process is to open an inquiry of whether or not articles of impeachment should be filed. here's the president with some thoughts on that. >> i never thought that would be possible, to be using that word. to me it's a dirty word, impeach. it's a dirty disgusting word.

it had nothing to do with me. so i don't think so. because there was no crime. >> ian, i wonder, speaker talks about building an iron clad case. you look at the time and the resources and the investigators and everything that went into the mueller report. if it's not contained in there, are they going to look elsewhere? where do you find it if it's not in there? >> i don't think they're going to do it. i don't think they'll look elsewhere. pelosi spent 20 of the past 24 years in the minority. the last place she wants to go back. right now you have 40 democrats out of 235 calling for impeachment. she's smart. you have david cicilline. he's not going to loose re-election. until you start getting democrats in swing districts calling for impeachment, which there hasn't been, they're not going to move on it. it's politically toxic. >> leslie, the argument they

would make, the high crime that they're talking about, is that the outrage of fighting against the investigation brought on by the fake dossier that was paid for by opposing candidates and was debunked and used to spy on the president? fighting back against that. is that the offense? >> no. what they're fighting against is what we heard special counsel mueller say yesterday and you didn't hear him say no collusion. he said the president did not commit a crime, we would have said so. he was clearly passing the buck to congress. >> what was the crime? >> you don't have to have a crime to abuse power. >> what is the offense? >> that's what they need to investigate to find out. >> what do you -- somebody has to name it. what is it? >> witness tampering. as the special counsel talked about on numerous occasions to try and obstruct the

investigation that -- >> so fighting an attack of what he felt was a frame-up? >> remember, congress doesn't have the same task that the department of justice, the attorney general's office has. one is criminal and the -- >> i get that. i just want to -- when nancy pelosi said there was a cover-up and you say what was he covering up specifically and i don't know that i've heard an answer to that. >> doesn't matter for the left. this is all a political narrative that is contrived by hillary clinton and the dnc that they paid for the russia collusion narrative via the dossier and pushing this to delegitimize the president. there was never collusion to begin with as told by robert mueller. after watching the press conference yesterday, i don't know how to say it otherwise besides the fact that robert mueller is a hack. he gave democrats what they wanted, more fuel to the fire of

impeachment because he had jerry nadler saying yesterday that they got everything they needed from robert mueller. they don't want him to testify before congress anymore because they got what they needed. also, think about it this way. robert mueller gave more deference to the russians yesterday than he did to president trump. he said he wasn't going to talk about the russian defendants regarding -- behind the hacking because he said they're presumed innocent until proven guilty and he wasn't going to talk about them but he didn't give the president the same deference. >> do you believe after that investigation and 440 pages and how he's conducted himself, you think he's a hack? i don't know that he's a hack. >> not a hack. but some of the democrats because he put voice to the words in the mueller report acted like he was the second coming of jesus christ, quite frankly. i thought it was evidence that they never read the mueller report in the first place. he didn't offer any new evidence. if you read the mueller report, he was reading it. he didn't say anything that was

new. all of a sudden many of these democrats are like oh, impeachment! i'll add this and i'll quote from the "wall street journal" editorial. if you read the mueller report, which i did, mueller's analysis of the obstruction makes clear that no investigation of ininstructive. no witnesses were interfered with. mr. mueller was allowed two years to issue about 500 search and seizure warrants and interview anybody he wanted to, including anyone in the white house. the only person he didn't interview was the president himself. >> how is he not a hack? what was the point of yesterday's press conference other than to fan the flames? >> i'd like to answer that. i think quite frankly this guy puts out 400-plus page report, which i read and i agree with you, dagen. we rarely agree. that he was voice to the words

that were on paper. the difference is what the american people heard -- the american people heard is attorney general barr saying something different. i think what he was saying, let me clarify. this is what i said. by the way, i'm stepping down. i don't feel that democrats -- >> now we can impeach. >> the democrats have been talking about impeachment for months. >> let's talk about what barr said versus mueller. i agree. very little news that came out. one piece of news is mueller saying the way that barr handled the report was done in good faith. there's other foe controversy that mueller said but for the report, i would have charged him. he didn't say that. what he said is because -- >> i want to tell our viewers, this is president trump getting off air force one. they arrived at peterson air force base in colorado springs for the air force academy

graduation. he will be speaking at a beautiful ceremony. we'll show you some of it when it happens. right now he's coming off air force one. we heard from him earlier today talking about the issues. we'll watch him as we continue. >> so this legal counsel opinion from the olc that says you can't indict a sitting president. there's a faux controversy that said we would have indicted him but were it for this opinion. he said we didn't even decide to decide. we made a decision to not have an analysis of whether he committed the crime because of that olc opinion. barr said the same thing in his may 1 testimony. last night the department of justice and the office of special counsel came out with a joint statement saying there was no daylight between the two statements. one other thing that i would add from the may 1 testimony of barr, he said mueller told him there may come a time when we need to re-visit the office of

legal counsel opinion. this is not that time. >> i don't know that it was a faux controversy. i was listening to both things. i'm not a lawyer. sounded like it was different. i thought the joint statement did try to rectify those things. do you wonder -- do we know that mueller was on board with that joint statement? he was here's my thing and i'm out of here. was he on board with that? >> i'm with you. i heard -- what i heard, the attorney general saying this but this is my report. this is what i'm said. by the way, i'm out of here. out to you, congress. that's what i saw. >> that's why i'm saying that he's a hack. he said yesterday that we should let his work stand. he went out there, gave a press conference to fuel this narrative against the president. he said he contradicted himself repeatedly. he said it would be unfair to accuse somebody of a crime when there's not a resolution of the actual charge.

then why volume 2 in the report? what was the purpose of that? why give that press conference besides fuelling this narrative? >> on that reason -- >> let your work stand. that's what he said. >> i want to ask a question. do you think that mueller does end up testifying? do you think that jerry nadler subpoenas him to testify? again, you might be careful what you wish for. he's going to get asked at what point did you know in your investigation there was no conspiracy from the last fisa warrant renewal, which was june of 2017 to when it would have been up for another renewal and it wasn't. but you had this investigation that went on for almost two more -- 1 1/2 years after that. again, mueller could wind up belly-flopping if he has to testify. you think it happens? >> a great question. a lot of risk there. you bring up an interesting point. in july of last year when the russians were hacking, i thought

investigation over. you look at the report, it was. that was before the mid-term election. we don't hear about that until after the election. >> i thought he was coming out because he was frustrated by the criticism that he was getting when people said you punted and it was your job to decide. he was said it was my job to investigate and lay out the facts on the table for someone else to decide. he said that's what i did. i investigated and laid it out. i thought that's what he tried to say. that was me. >> but even though it goes against the doj guidelines. if you don't bring charges, you leave it alone. you don't name and shame them, which is what he did, leaving this hanging doubt out there for the american public. again, he's a hack. >> i think we solved that. right now you're looking at the president in colorado springs. he's heading to the air force academy graduation. we can't hear what he's saying here as he gets into his motorcade to proceed.

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>> now fox news is learning about a defensive briefing given to the trump campaign in august of 2016. a source telling our own catherine herridge that fbi officials did not specifically warn president trump about russian outreach to the trump team. nor did they warn that two campaign aides, michael flynn and george papadopoulos were already under fbi investigation. the coordinator for that briefing, none other than peter strzok. days earlier strzok and fbi lawyer, lisa page, had exchanged the now infamous "will stop trump" texts and discussed an insurance policy. house judiciary member john radcliff asked about this new info today. watch this. >> that relates to classified materials. i can't tell you what is in the materials but i've seen them. what is public and not classified is that there was a

defensive briefing of candidate trump on august 17 of 2016. i can tell you what he wasn't told. he wasn't warned about a russia investigation that peter strzok had opened 18 days earlier. so the question -- there's a lot of questions there that go to the origin of that matter. >> is this another piece of evidence or another detail or tidbit that it certainly acknowledges the need to look into the evidence? >> yeah, i'll defend bob mueller. that wasn't his mandate. that is john durham's mandate. as more and more comes out, the presidential campaign, hillary clinton's campaign, going through her lawyer, paying a foreign national to gather evidence from russian assets and putting that information into the government sphere with the cia, fbi and leaking that

information to the press before and after the election to compromise the trump presidency. how do you not look at that? one, determine whether laws were broken. maybe there were no laws broken. let's play with that possibility for a second. does that mean you don't look at it and see hey, maybe we need to change the way things are done in this new age. maybe we have have seen how agencies are corrupted. >> how is that not your collusion? democrats are looking for collusion. as you just outlined. i think the new information regarding the defense's briefing speaks to the motivation behind the investigator, which is a concern. i hope the inspector general gets to the bottom of that as well as john durham and william barr. you have peter strzok demonstrate add bias state of manned, handled the hillary clinton investigation, opened

the investigation to president trump. you have james comey who told that he leaked his own memos. and robert mueller going out to give the democrat as narrative. it's hard not to see how they're putting their thumb on the scale of justice. >> i was surprised that mueller didn't look at that. i thought sincerely from the way he spoke yesterday, what he was trying to follow, who had interactions with the russians. that's what he was looking at. so i went back and reread the mueller report. i looked at the redacted pages. there's some spots where he talks about people that he's looking at that had interactions that are totally redacted. i wonder who is under that black mark and if maybe it is some of the people that we're talking about. maybe it's not in that part. maybe it's some of these other individuals that did in fact collude. we know they colluded with the

russians. that's where the dossier came from. >> we should point out that peter strzok worked on bob mueller's team until these texts and these exchanges were revealed and he was removed from the team. let's get to -- i want to listen to john radcliff on strzok's involvement in that briefing. listen to this. >> peter strzok, who would participate at jim comey's direction in a defensive briefing designed to protect and warn a candidate, the same person at that time investigating the campaign. that shouldn't happen. bill barr knows that. a lot of us know that. that's why bob mueller should have to answer questions about that as should jim comey and peter strzok. >> this is exactly why to me let all of the investigations happen. okay? let the inspector general and

durham do their job. that's what i said with mueller. let democrats and republicans in the house sit down and in the senate and subpoena these individuals because melissa, i agree with you. we need to find out who he was talking to and why he was looking at this. >> it's an on going matter though. >> i'm looking at it. it says redacted on going matter. >> in addition, i want to know more. i want to know past the first briefing. there were briefings to weeks to donald trump and hillary clinton until donald trump was elected president, at what point was all of that information given to both donald trump and hillary clinton regarding papadopoulos and flynn. >> one possibility on the redactio redactions. the russians and the social media case would reach out to various members of the trump

campaign. not inner circle members of the trump campaign. could be a grass roots organizer in iowa that had no idea. they want to keep those peoples names out of the report. they don't want a local organizer from iowa in there. that's a possibility for redactions. >> you think they pursued them? ongoing means it's not settled yet. >> that would be part of the russian indictments that are not settled yesterday. the one that involved the social media troll farm and the hacking. a lot of that would be the troll farm stuff where you had people pretending to be activists and communicating with americans. >> mueller ended his little speech by saying there were multiple systemic efforts to interfere in our election and that deserves the attention of every american. i think interfere in our elections. what about one political campaign interfering in another political -- in the opponent's

campaign? what about that? the gray threat to our democracy that that posed? or even poses unless we get to the bottom of it. to all the left wing lunatics screaming that how trump weaponized the justice department. he's growing to use barr and durham and horowitz to go after his enemies what do you say to that? >> two things. concern over weaponization of opposition research. if you're concerned about russian interference in the united states, we should all be concerned that the dossier could be russian disinformation. christopher steele's sources were russian. a lot were tied to putin, spies. we should want to get to the bottom of that as well. >> and christopher steele will go zip it if john durham tries to talk to him. the number of 2020 democratic hopefuls calling to impeach president trump going up after

former special counsel robert mueller broke his silence. why are some of those topping the polls being more cautious about it? whether impeachment talk will rile up the base or turn off too many voters. we debate it next.

>> for more than a year, i have been saying it's time for congress to act and to begin impeachment proceedings. i think robert mueller made it as clear as day for all of us. he's telling us, if we want to prevent this from happening again to our democracy, we have to hold those responsible accountable and the only method that we can do that is for our representatives in congress to begin impeachment proceedings. >> beto o'rourke calling for impeachment after robert mueller's statement. before mueller spoke, 6 of the

23 democratic candidates had endorsed impeachment proceedings. this morning, the number had risen to 9. senator cory booker, kirsten gillibrand and ex-colorado governor john hickenlooper coming out in favor of impeachment. but some are hesitant. joe biden saying he agrees with speaker pelosi that nobody would relish what would certainly be a divisive impeachment process but may be unavoidable if this administration continues on its path. senator bernie sanders also avoiding an outright endorsement of beginning impeachment proceedings saying given the reality we have a president that believes he's above the law, congress most continue their investigations if the house judiciary committee deems it's necessary, i will support their decision to open an impeachment inquiry.

leslie, i'm laughing because vice president joe biden didn't go on the record. he had someone else say something. in that word salad, he said about everything. if he continues down this path might be necessary but very rough. there was nothing in there. >> no, i don't agree. it's a bit of word salad. what he's doing is what the majority of democrats are doing and saying and following the speaker's lead, which is she needs a smoking gun, she needs bipartisan support. there's a few reasons for this. not only is it divisive to the nation, you have polls showing 60% of americans don't want impeachment even though 72% of democrats do want impeachment. you have to look at history. when bill clinton was impeach, republicans lost seats in the house and the senate. newt gingrich, the speaker, had to step down. bill clinton's ratings went through the roof. what we see here is nancy pelosi not only knowing history and wanting to keep her job and have a good legacy going forward, she

knows this won't remove the president. you have a majority of republicans in the senate. this is not going to remove the president. that's really what -- >> i would ask everybody, what do you think are the odds that she comes up with a smoking gun and bipartisan support for impeachment? does anyone here think there's good odds? >> zero odds. >> more odds for a smoking gun than bipartisan support. you can't have impeachment until you have investigations. >> we've had two years of investigations. >> doesn't matter if there's a smoking gun. >> on the trail. >> the way it plays on the trail, the reason why biden doesn't want to take it a senate approach, he's looking at a state like wisconsin where trump was able to flip 22 counties that previously went for obama in 2016. that's the state that put him over the map. i worked in wisconsin on a senate race there. that is what -- that's what biden is eyeing, a lot of these

states and counties that went to obama that then went to trip that he's trying to flip. that's why he doesn't want to take the definsive approach and alienate the voters. >> you have to remember a number of those 40 seats that democrats gained in the house were in red districts. >> absolutely. >> speaker pelosi knows -- >> we talked about how it plays on the trail, ian. let me ask you. you flip to it candidates like beto o'rourke. it's a no-brainer. why wouldn't he stand up and scream impeachment? he doesn't have to vote on it. the voters that would come his way in general, he's courting people that are extreme and want trump out of office anyway possible. yes? >> i agree. what biden is doing is smart. he's staying above the frey. all of these other fringe candidates will compete for the same base voters and biden can try to stay in the middle and keep his base of support, which

is more in the middle of the party. the media has to challenge him on this. they can't say you give us some word salad. that's fine. do you support impeachment or not? >> i got time to do that. dagen, let me ask you about this poll. monmouth poll, 39% in favor of impeachment. 56% don't want it. this is just of the general electorate. >> it's even higher in the harvard harris poll that leslie was talking about. it's close to 2/3s of people opposed to impeachment. here's what's doing on with the democratic candidates. these are the 1%ers. not in wealth but where they are in the polls. they're so desperate. they'll do anything to show they're anty trip, we hate the president. they're like playing god bless america on their armpit for

attention. >> i was going to do that. >> president trump -- i can see kennedy doing that. president trump promise ago major statement on border security today or tomorrow as the border patrol tries to handle the surge of immigrants. officials say this memorial day was the busiest there that they can remember. what could be next in this crisis in terms of politics and policy? >> this is a big league statement. but we're going to do something very dramatic on the border.

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>> we're going to do something very dramatic on the border. because people are coming into our country. the democrats will not give us laws. they will not change laws. they will not meet, they will not do anything. they want open borders. they want crime. they want to have drugs pouring into our country. they want to have human

trafficking. we're going to be having a major statement on the border sometime later today or tomorrow. >> there's president trump tease ago major announcement on the border crisis. officials say this memorial day is one of the busiest days in recent memory. more than 2,200 migrants apprehended. meantime, the trump administration appealing a federal judge's decision to block the white house from transferring $1 billion in pentagon funds to help build the border wall. the judge says congress, not the executive branch, controls federal spending. unless stayed, the court's judge will harm the government and the public by prohibiting this government from taking critical steps to stop the flow of illegal drugs from entering through the southern border. u.s. customs and border protection announced a new position to help handle the influx of migrants. the agency hopes to give uniformed agents more time to handle enforcement duties on the

front line. ian, start with you. president trump, they've asked for more funding to deal with these issues. housing, medical care. they've also asked for more latitude in dealing with asylum seekers. why? >> it's trump dearrangement syndrome. you go back to 2006, you had obama, clinton, all in favor of a fence, all in favor of stronger borders. now trump made it a signature issues, we can't do that. can't give in any way to trump on immigration. here's a problem. when you look at the asylum laws, look at the ways in which smugglers are brought in -- there's a lot of loop holes. people are exploiting them. until we figure out a way to create more laws that deal with immigration and strengthen the border, we'll continue to have a magnet effect for people that come here that they all want to

come here and live the american dream. some want to commit crimes and do harm. >> leslie, what about there? seems to be a humanitarian crisis. why don't democrats want to disincentivize people from come here? it will solve the problem. >> i don't think democrats don't. you asked me a question. democrats don't want some but not the majority want open borders. the problem is the wall does not address the humanitarian crisis. the wall doesn't address the stats with regard to sex trafficking and with regard to drug trafficking. when you look at the biggest hauls, one in pennsylvania that came in through a port, another one outside of los angeles that came in through a port, when you look at the tunnels that were discovered, three in arizona, three in california, you look at the humans that are trafficked in through containers and not coming in through mexico. the wall doesn't address that. >> why won't democrats give him

more latitude on the asylum problem? >> this is where democrats are wrong. immigration is big. something that voters care about left and right. this is not only a humanitarian crisis, it's something that you can get bipartisan support in the area of asylum because we have broken asylum system. we need asylum legislation that addresses that broken system and democrats and republicans can agree. >> senator lindsey graham has stepped up. don't expect one democrat to get on board. because it would be a win. >> they're not going to give him a wall. >> they're not going to give him a win even though it helps women and children. he's looking the close the loop hole that makes it more difficult to deport a minor quickly back to a noncontiguous country. this was a law that was trying to prevent child trafficking. it was introduced before president -- after president obama was elected, before he was

inaugurated in 09. it's created the very incentive for people to bring children, maybe not of their own, with them into the united states. because it takes longer to deport them than mexico or canada. >> if you look what is happening, if you look at border patrol saying they're going to try to get baby sitters and others to help them because they're overwhelmed with what's going on, it's really sad to see. it's similar to how businesses with the china trade dust-up are making different decisions and moving on because they know they can't count on government to come to a resolution. it's sad here with the border crisis that you see people down at the border, border patrol and elsewhere throwing up their hands and saying government is not acting, they're not going to act any time soon. we have to find something else to do. i hate when anyone criticizes the wall isn't going to fix it. it's going to take a bunch of stuff. there's no one thing that will fix it. you have to offer your solution instead of attacking the other side's solution.

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>> more "outnumbered" in just a moment. let's check in with harris. good to see you. >> thanks very much, a member of the house judiciary committee reacting to comments about robert mueller's true intentions. did mueller overstep his role and hand a gift to democrats seeking impeachment when he broke his silence? did he show political bias in some legal analysts say yes to both. tom mcclintock joins me. and has the bernie sanders revolution stalled in why has he been stuck in second place in the 2020 polls since joe biden joined the race? i'll talk with fox news political editor, chris stirewalt. see you then.

>> all right. >> robert mueller should have never been chosen. he wanted the fbi job and didn't get it. the next day he was picked as special counsel. you tell somebody i'm sorry, you can't have the job. after you say that, he's going to make a ruling on you. doesn't work that way. we had a business dispute. his relationship with comey is extraordinaire ray. mueller is a never trumper. he dislikes donald trump. >> that was president trump tearing in to robert mueller. saying he should have never gotten the job in the first place. michael cohen's person attorney saying he got it right. lanny davis writing this in an op-ed. he said "mueller was adhering to due process principles. he properly passed the bat on this to where it belongs to the

u.s. congress." lisa boothe, to you first. when a prosecutor has one job, you indict or not. if you don't indict, you shut up. so how is this due process? >> it's not. great point. i think the irony is this lanny davis wrote a book called the unmaking of the president, 2016. how james comey caused hillary clinton the presidency. and what mueller did is the same thing that james comey did by flouting doj guidelines. if you're not going to charge someone and still naming them and shaming them, leaving the doubt to fuel the political firestorm. i find it ironic that he wrote a book about this but he has no problem with what robert mueller did. >> i don't think anyone that has a press conference ever gets away without being tarred and feathers. >> so don't do it. >> yeah, there's a lesson that we've learned because every 1 was furious at comey when he had

his press conference. everybody is upset with mueller. barr got grilled on his summation. when he said i want to let the work speak for itself, he should have done that. put out the paper. literally nobody is happy with any of these three when they went out and did what they said. >> what did you think of the ran any davis op-ed. >> he's wrong. this is not the independent counsel statute. the report goes to the attorney general. this is an enforcement function. you didn't find a crime, for whatever reason it may be, that means there's no prosecution. it's not going to congress. shouldn't be in congress' hands. if they want to investigate, let them. they don't get to use the executive branch to do their investigations for them. >> i can go on about how mueller likes -- did not follow up as a prosecutor should and would. leslie? >> i think -- i was going to say

what you said when you quoted him earlier. in the closing remarks are point on. the american people not only have a right but congress has a constitutional responsibility to do this. i think robert mueller was saying to congress, do your job. i think they do need to do their job. >> starting by reading the robert mueller report -- >> i read it. >> 1 1/2% that isn't redacted. >> he could have started by doing his job. determining there needed to be a charge brought or leaving it alo alone, which he did not. >> more "outnumbered" in just a moment. (ding) hey, who are you? oh, hey jeff, i'm a car thief... what?! i'm here to steal your car because, well, that's my job. what? what?? what?! (laughing) what?? what?! what?! [crash] what?! haha, it happens.

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