the reason that position is vacancy is -- vacant is because three months ago jim comey was fired by the president because of, quote, the russia thing. the russia thing was very much on the president's mind more so than any of the reasons given in the memos done by attorney general sessions and deputy attorney rod rosenstein, according to the president himself. the russia thing is the f.b.i. and the special counsel's investigation into whether the trump campaign colluded with the russian government to influence our elections. there's no question that there was a campaign of interference and meddling through cyber attacks, disinformation, propaganda, and other means. and there's no question that the russians will do it again unless they are made to pay a price. and others may well collude and conspire with them, americans, unless they are compelled to pay a price. we have only to look at the morning -- at this morning's headline to see how far-reaching and significant this investigation may be. the news that the president himself wrote a statement to be issued in the name of his son about

even before jim comey's dismissal i called for an i was at the department of justice. in fact i was the only member of the judiciary committee to vote against rod rosenstein's mom -- nomination as deputy attorney general because he failed toit commit to appoint a special prosecutor. i believe a special prosecutor was necessary not only to determine the full extent of russia's meddling in ourro democracy but also to protect that investigation from the president's efforts to shut it down. this belief was brought intoim stark relief by jim comey's firing and is precipitated the appointment of bob mueller. the firing of special counsel mohler would precipitate a the firestorm on both sides of the aisle. he would put the president over a precipice that likely could lead to the most drastic action possible in this democracy. that precipice can be avoided. congress must play a role in avoiding it. we are in talks across the aisle about action that can be taken to provide a check and a firewall against that kind of firing, drastic action that would put the president over p tha

. >> the president has said that jim comey, the former fbi director assured him on three separate occasions that he's not personally a target of any investigations. we know these types of endeavors end up being fishing expeditions. they were very broadly cast net and i would remind everybody that in terms of president trump he said he has no financial dealings with russia whatsoever. the miss universe pageant happened to make its way to russia. eight or nine years ago he was there for that and his son have also repeated. the business have no financial dealings with russia. and in this case, again i think people are just talking about an investigation that exists but looking for collusion and

what basis this issue is going to be resolved on, but it will not be resolved on the basis that jim comey is not a credible witness. >> let me read that memo from "the wall street journal." a memo submitted to mr. mueller outlined why they believe mr. comey would make an unsuitable witness, calling him prone to exaggeration, unreliable in congressional testimony, and the source of leaks to the news media. of course, they're saying that when they come to leaks, they're going to go back and say hey, the president asked you to distribute a memo, essentially, that he wrote extemporaneously about that meeting with james comey. they're also going to see that he had to come back and correct something he he said in congressional testimony. is that not going to weigh at all on mueller? >> so first of all, it was not me. >> i'm sorry. it was not you. as i said that i realized it wasn't you. i'm sorry. >> it was senator collins thought it was me and guessed it was me, but as jim testified at the time, it was actually somebody else. >> i apologize, ben. my bad. >> but look, there is simply no doubt i

the democratic party and it should be more broadly that trump is getting rewarded for having fired jim comey come as you described at the top of the show. we have two new pieces of evidence that trump is obstructing justice into the russian investigation command to comey's firing. yet, he still gets to replace -- we wouldomeone have his deputy, which would be a status quo. yet now, trump gets to reward himself for having gotten rid of the guy who was investigating him and his family. amy: he has been attacking mccabe, along with jeff sessions come on twitter. role is tot this since there is a special prosecutor because jeff sessions recused himself to the tremendous iraq president trump. ire of tremendous president trump. james: he curioususly said he believed the fbi director reports directly to him. he mentioned wray's confirmation in that process. for the first time that the fbi director works for him. that is something that seems the senate judiciary should have gotten back to get wray address. this question of whether he will be sufficiently independent. wray will be the boss of the fbi

testimony, former fbi director jim comey's testimony on obstruction. it may be a different credibility challenge for the president. >> what are you watching for going into this weekend now that there's a vacation. does that mean there's a calmer period in trump land or is that the silliest question i would ask you? >> reporter: i think you'll have to look to the president's twitter. it's supposed to be a, working vacation. i'm not sure that we've heard the last of his comments on russia and on this yet. >> we have a panel full of talkative people. we all know tweeting is working. we all do it when we can. i want to thank you. joyce, i want to get you back in our hour. stick around. >>> how does the grand jury impact the people closest to the president? history shows some major stress. we have some tape you height want to see. >>> another important story, attorney general sessions goes in front of a room full of reporters and says he hay make it easier to jail them if they don't reveal sources in the future. >>> it's fall back friday on the pe beat. wha

jim comey didn't do the interview. she had everything in place. she basically said to them if it's recorded i'm not coming. if it's under oath i'm not coming and she was granted all of this stuff just a few days before that interview bill clinton meets loretta lynch on the tarmac and they spoke about "grandkids." it was just extraordinary. i understand that happened during the campaign, obama was still president. it was his attorney general but now that president trump is in the white house, how is it possible that we still have not seen the right actions taken in terms of truth with regard to this meeting? >> well, i hope and you know i think there's some indication that this whole matter including jim comey's actions that were felt. remember it's very relevant because jim comey asserted this during his testimony under oath maria for why he took that bizarre action to close the case he said it was this meeting, that was really the point where he chose, so this is not just this is not old news so i hope the department of justice has opened that in

the title of the book comes from jim comey, and viewers will know that -- that jim comey. he was far just recently as fbi director by donald trump before this 15 years ago he was u.s. attorney in the southern district of new york. and as you know the southern district of new york is the premier office of the department of justice, now the prestigious office is also the main justice but then this was the place where the hottest shots went, the brightest stars in the prosecutorial, and he gathered them all together and he gave them a speech. he started off and he was focusing love to talk and he said how many of you have never lost a case? a bunch of dance shoes of the these guys are the best of the best of the best. did go to the best law schools, best clerkships. they are the brightest and if you ask and they will attest to that. they're very proud of the record. then he said the ambulance happening for you guys, the chickenshit club and the hands go back down. people are feeling a little sheepish. what does he mean by that? what used to go on to say? he says your job is n

of course jim comey has been debriefed by the former people that used to work for him.bob mueller. fbi agents have been speaking to people in the west wing. now, when the fbi knocks on your door, if they don't have a warrant, you don't have to talk to them. so not everybody in the west wing is speaking to them. so some who have not spoken are being dragged before a grand jury. there have you no choice but to speak. some who have spoken are being dragged before a grand jury. it seems as though he is trying to place a circle around the president of the united states which will reinforce the jim comey version of the how and when and why he was fired. >> martha: so the obstruction of justice is what you see in that current circle of interviews. there is also the other issue which has to deal doo with business dealings, paul manafort and all of that. >> correct. >> martha: who do you think is most likely to flip as we say in. >> whoever they kin diet first. if they indict paul manafort on some financial impropriety long before he even met donald trump and dangle that over do

the title of the book comes from jim comey and viewers will know that he was -- >> that jim comey he was fired just recently. as fbi director by donald trump but before this 15 years ago, he was u.s. attorney in the southern district of new york. and as you know the southern district of new york is premier office of the department of justice now the prejudice office is main justice but this was the place where hottest shots went. brightest stars in the and gave them a speech when he brought them altogether and started out focusing and he love it is to talk and he said how many of you have never lost a case? flesh and a bunch of hands shoot up these guys are the best of the best of the best gone to the best law school, best clerkship they're really the brightest of course if you ask them they'll attest to that. and -- so they're it very is proud of their record. and then he said well me and my buddies have a name for you guys the chicken shit club and hand go back down. people are feeling sheep picture so what does he mean by that? what does he go on to say? he says your job is not ab

the fbi on day one in office to commence an investigation and they are following the rule which jim comeyid not follow, you do nonot revealic it -- existence of an investigation until you indict somebody. if they are, they are going very, very high in totem pole of the obama administration. who is at top, they have one boss, barack obama. lou: like you, i want to believe your scenario above all, but like you, i am highly skeptical. and their at-this-point, we have an attorney general who should be making noise. >> yes. >> lou: and beholding to account people this that administration, it should be public, it should be as energetic. >> i think these investigations take time, but we're now in 7th month, i would hope it is well on its way. you talk about hillary clinton, they are not bound, the sessions justice department is not bound by jim comey's ill advised inappropriate, untoward announcement on july 5, 2016 -- is not to investigate hillary clinton, not to prosecute her. they have a tractor-trailer load of a file. if you print it on paper, there is a mountain of evidence of her guilt. lo

those who work under them have been tested he and jim comey possess a close friendship and they havesing praise one another. ari fleischer from judicial watch, tom fitton, i don't even think this is the most egregious side of this. i don't like that he hired hillary clinton's attorney who worked under the clinton foundation, will put up all the donors, political donations from mueller's team that went to democrats, as we put that up on the screen. you have been able to identify a very specific statutes and laws as you explain them, 45.2 disqualification statute, why don't we put them up on the screen and you can explain them in what they mean? >> it means that if you have a personal relationship with somebody substantially involved in the case, you shall not serve as special counsel. it goes on to explain what a personal relationship is. it's a friendship that is viewed as likely to induce partiality. you might as well put a picture of mueller and comey together next of the statute. they are at the definition of a disqualifying concert, conflict of interest. if congressman franks is

this is jim comey. he has no intent to help the president who fired him.presse left waiting in this russian conspiracy. is based on little more than rumor and newspapers. those of the words of senator dianne feinstein. >> you are the lawyer here. and you and kayleigh as well. we are all players here. explained to the viewers. they think to themselves, look, if they are lying and if they are publishing stories that the know are not true, than some of that, in spite of new york time at solving, that they should be liable for this kind of thing, should they be? >> probably not because we are talking about public figures an you have to prove malice, actua malice. >> malice and malicious content has to be proven over and over in terms of what they want to govern what they lie about? we all knew the february story in the times was not true and yet no one would deny it and tell coming back was under oath. >> the president calls it fake news and he is right to the extent that the media by virtue of their liberalism distorts th news. yes, to some extent that is fak

>> well, look, jim comey has alleged that the president offered him something of value, keeping his job, in return for an official governmental act, ceasing the investigation of mike flynn, one could argue that was offer of a bribe. one could also argue that the experienced prosecutor is somebody that bob mueller wants on his team for a case we don't know about. his license and charge is a broad one, that's the danger with the special prosecutors, is there is no limit on them, and they can find, be looking at a land deal in arkansas and end up with a blue dress. you remember how that one turned out. liz: yes, it's called ken starr times a thousand, robert mueller has a very broad mandate to investigate anything connected to the trump operation, right? >> well, sometimes the favorite tool of prosecutors next to a grand jury subpoena is an indictment of a witness for something totally unrelated to the investigation, and then once they've indicted that witness, they have the indictment to hang over the witness' head, that person will begin cooperating. so this grand jury could very well be

that's jim comey's disclosure of his notes, which was both perfectly legal and perfectly appropriate. >> sure. well, you have mike isikoff here. michael, for viewers who remember your tenure, the number of epithets that have been hurled at you by government officials on stories you have broken originally and exclusively based on what i assume are your sources -- i know you're not going to discuss them. but the lewinsky dress, the drone targeting strikes. you have a long list of those reports. walk us through what you think of this and whether you think it could chill, as a general matter, government sources. >> well, first of all, you know, it's useful to remember that this is not the first attorney general to vow to crack down on leaks. and, you know, as you well know, ari, under the previous administration and under eric holder during his first years as attorney general, there were more leak prosecutions under the espionage act brought by the justice department than in all previous administrations in history. it was only when there was public attention on this and exposure about jus

if it is as accurate as they say it is, i think that would certainly give calls and reason that jim comey was not the right person to lead the fbi and hopefully all of your cloogz will follow suit in covering that story. zeke. >> you mentioned the president laid out a bunch of core principles one of those presumably the effects of the tax plan on the position. has the white house taken a position on whether the tax plan needs to be revenue new traul or the white house willing to accept a tax plan that would -- that would essentially -- the president has talked a lot about the deficits over the course of his campaign. is he laying down the marker there? >> not at this time. i don't have any further announcement further announceme. fred? >> thanks. a couple questions on obamacare. some governors today came out in favor of sustainability approach. it's been talked about among some republicans in the senate. i want to ask you, would the administration outright oppose any type of obamacare bailout for insurance companies? >> i can't imagine that would be something we would want to be involved

the f.b.i.ategory is investigation and jim comey's late intervention and a systematic kremlin-directednformation campaign. both had an impact. charlie: you believe that the hand of president putin? >> the intelligence community has concluded this was directed from president putin, highest levels of the kremlin, that he had an interest in interfering in american democracy, and seeing donald trump win and hillary clinton lose. charlie: was it because he did not like hillary clinton or found something attractive about donald trump? >> i think all three things. he wanted to disrupt american democracy. charlie: ukraine as well. >> it was partly tit-for-tat, payback for what he felt was american intervention in russia and ukraine. both of which i think are dead wrong. it was partly that he is trying to drive a model, authoritarian model, and his credit democracy. he is trying to do it across europe and the united states. he wants to be a will to turn to his people and say keep me in power because the alternatives are these broken down systems with all this chaos, whether it is germany, franc

it reminds me of his grievances with jim comey who wasn't willing to protect mike flynn when it came to russia, his attorney general recusing himself from the russia investigation and then was the target of several angry trump tweets. this dynamic of the president expecting members of congress in either party frankly to have protected him from russia seems completely delusional. >> yeah, i think the bottom line is that the russia topic for this president is personal. certainly the way this investigation has gone, with the focus on jared kushner among others. don jr., his son being wrapped up into this. that's why on this topic in particular the -- it threatens his ability to get anything done and threatens the trump name and what he believes he stands for. that's why from a personal position this is what makes him so upset which is why it's the item that he uses when he lashes out most aggressively at those members of congress, those republican senators behind closed doors and given the fact that the focus going to be renewed on russia in the days and weeks ahead as congress returns

his request to jim comey to let it go. all his conduct suggests he's worried about the outcome that is a red flag for the investigator robert mueller that there is perhaps some obstruction of justice going on here because of a bigger truth that he wants to get to. if you're inside the white house, i think all of them are probably have an elevated sense of leaks and preventing leaks especially in this climate and especially now with kelly serving as the clehief of staff. >> i want to thank robert ray who has been in these shoes. we'll have you back later in the hour. how will the mueller grand jury affect congressional investigations that are just le heating up. is bob mueller focused on finances as well? there's an analysis here from the man who uncovered some of donald trump's tax returns. >>> you're looking at huntington, west virginia. people will hear about this news. will they hear about his view of it? t t these new social security alerts i keep hearing about? sure, just sign up online. then we'll alert you if we fin

this is jim comey. help the president who fired him.to he is saying so much of the reporting is false. it is verifiable and the press is left waiting and this russian conspiracy is based on little more than rumor and newspapers. those of the words of senator dianne feinstein. >> jeanine: you are the lawyer here, gregg and you and kayleigh as well. we are all lawyers here. explain to the viewers. they think to themselves, look, if they are lying and if they are publishing stories that they know are not true, then some of that, in spite of "the new york times" ," ed sullivan, they should be liable for this kind of thing. should they be? >> probably not because we are talking about public figures and you have to prove malice, actual liromalice. >> jeanine: malice and maliciouo intent has to be proven over and over in terms of what they want to cover and what they lie about? we all knew the february story in "the times "was not true and yet no one would deny until comey was under oath. >> the president call

they want to debate jim comey and they're leaking their opinion that trump had the power to fire comeynd that it had nothing to do with obstruction. now, mueller's team will certainly assess those defenses. they're going to read anything that trump's lawyers send over, but they're not backing an inch on manafort. flipping witnesses in the famous enron case. that was the complex fraud case. another key prosecutor on that team who you just met moments ago on the beat, kathy he's willing to take risks to secure witness testimony that other prosecutors might not. rum her helped secure the enron convictions and went on to serve as white house counsel to president obama. you can see there the former president, a talented lawyer himself said he picked rum her as his top lawyer because she had an uncan any ability to see around corners that no one else anticipates. back with us is that lawyer. appreciate you being here on such a busy night. let me ask you, barak obama thought you had this skill, and i believe him, what corners do you think mueller is looking around now? >> well, that's a great

looking into the issue of obstruction. >> that's a big issue and you also have more news on the jim comey that's right. chuck grassley, the chairman of the senate judiciary committee announcing they received transcripts from the fbi from fbi officials saying that james comey reached a conclusion about the hillary clinton e-mail investigation in april or may of 2016, before even interviewing hillary clinton according to the transcripts they they released. they were redacted transcripts and this is not the way to run an investigation and shows that comey, they believe, reached a conclusion about the e-mail matter before actually interviewing her and interviewing key witnesses. comey and a source close to him pushing back on that saying he had not reached a conclusion and was looking at this as a possibility that she would not be charged with anything criminally, but clearly more fodder for the white house. sarah huckabee sanders jumping on this and the white house seeing this as well to give them covering in the firing of james comey. >> thank you very much with those breaking developments

you saw another spiker after jim comey's letter came out where you saw articles saying this was an ingive lent of an indictment. what we didn't know is the nature of the sponsorship of these, how much it was state sponsored by the russian government and the sophistication of it in terms of the sophisticated targeting method. they knew what types of voters would respond in donald trump's favor to these types of reports. >> you are shaking your head? >> sure. erin, if we want to look at the roots of some of the problems that we've had with russia and surely russia is an adversary, lee smith has written eloquently about how russia speaks to disrupt democracy throughout the world. we're the world's most powerful and most formidable democracy, so it wouldn't be surprising the russians would try to influence the process in some way. but the amazing thing is this, that enormous blind spot that james wrote about a couple of days ago in "politico" it was policy pursued by the obama administration, including secretary clinton that lent a certain amount of putinsy to russia that it should not have.

jim comey came out on october 28, 10 days before the election -- charlie: you guys had momentum at thatime. jake: exactly. and he came out again two days before the election with the letter saying i am again exonerating secretary clinton. this was an election with ebbs and flows that happened rapidly and repeatedly. if you look at any chart of the gap between trump and clinton, it would get wider and narrower week by week. it was only at very certain points for a few days at a time that trump closed the gap and got even with her. this was one of those days. if it was a week later or earlier, i think the odds that she won would not be small. that shows you how contingent this could be. that is not to excuse -- charlie: it tells something about the momentum of campaigns. people say if hubert humphrey had two more weeks, he would have won as well. jake: of course we don't know. i cannot say this with any degree of certitude, but i basically divide the challenges we faced into three categories. the first category is the f.b.i. investigation and jim comey's late intervention and a sophistica

one of our great criticisms of jim comey and the investigation of mrs. clinton was that no grand jury was convened. it's almost unheard of in a criminal case that prosecutors and investigators and fbi agents could operate without a grand jury. it doesn't mean they have a target, doesn't mean they think somebody is guilty. it just means that they need this tool, this instrument called a subpoena in order to gather more information to decide where to go next. >> neil: so how does a grand jury do that for you? >> you empanel them in secret. there's 23 of them. you put a witness on before them. in this case, probably an fbi agent that will testify to what information she or he has already gathered. so it can be here say. i spoke to so and so that told me this. so and so told me that. as a result of what i've learned, we need to bring that person to testify before you. they don't want to come voluntarily. or as a result of what i've learned, we believe a lot of documents exist in such and such a place and we need a subpoena from you in order to get those docu

revolving door, just since he's been in office, how quickly some of his top advisers like mike flynn, jim comey, reince priebus, the chief of staff out of this white house. frances? >> wow, thank you so much. tracy potts for us in washington, d.c. >>> breaking news is bringing more legal scrutiny on the white house this morning, after "the washington post" reported that it was the president who dictated his son's misleading first statement on that controversial meeting with a russian lawer in 2016. keeping track of us nbc's ron allen. >> reporter: what's most important about this story is that it raises the question whether president trump himself tried to mislead the public and investigators about that meeting and whether the president is involved in a coverup. the meeting happened during the height of the campaign. several russians with times to the kremlin. and a statement released by donald trump, jr. first said -- >> reporter: according to "the washington post," president trump personally dictated that statement. a claim not independently confirmed by nbc news. in july, the president's law

about kelly calling jim comey after he was fired and offering him support. is what you write in your piece. if kelly or his allies orchestrated this leak, it would suggest a serious determination on his part to use his power to protect the russia investigation. if comey or his allies were the prime movers, the motivation was to force kelly to live up to the standard that he pretended to hold when he called comey to vent two and a half months ago. do you have a greater sense of which of those two things is more true? >> i don't. i wish i did. i think the effect is similar, whether the leaks stem from the comey camp or the kelly camp is that it limits john kelly's options insofar as donald trump tries to make a move first on jeff sessions and then ultimately on robert mueller. that's the one place where john kelly really can -- if we're going to have to lower the bar for everybody in the trump white house, you can't lower it to he fired anthony scaramucci, the clownish mid level figure. is he going to intercede if trump tries to break the rule of law by quashi

ty cobb wrote former fbi jim comey said the president is not under investigation and we have no reason to believe that is changed. they also said that they did not know about this grand jury until they saw it in the press, which is another issue and a problematic one in terms of how this information leaked out. but let me just ask you this, michael. it is possible that the president could be under investigation at this time and they wouldn't know, or do you think that that's just not possible? >> so comey tells the president that he's not under investigation for now a really long time ago. >> right. >> and these things have lifelines that are very different from when comey said that. so we don't know whether the president is under investigation or not under investigation. >> just to interject for a quick second. when comey said that, that was well before anybody knew about the meeting in trump tower. so continue, but i'm making the point it was a long time ago. >> and it was before he got fired and there by opened up the possibility of an obstruction of justice inquiry. i don't think t

jim comey told him that as fbi director three times, and he assured that under oath. >> that may have been undertaken by events. part of the reason, as you know, this story persists is because the white house and the president surrogates have told conflicting stories. first they said no contacts with russia and then it turned out there were at least 18 contacts. the story broke in the "new york times" saying the president was involved in the drafting of his son, don junior's, misleading response to the meeting he had with russians during the campaign. and jay sekulow came on "gma" and said the president was not involved. >> the president didn't sign off on anything. the president wasn't involved in that. >> well, the "new york times" says he was involved in it, and that several people on the plane were involved, as well. so you're disputing -- >> that's incorrect. >> that account from the "new york times." >> but just this week when the "washington post" reported with more detail that the president was indeed involved in the drafting, sarah sanders, press secretary, conceded it. let's

we have a fired fbi director, jim comey, who at least in his words, in his sworn testimony believes he was fired because of the way he was conducting the russia investigation. we have the president's son who we now know recruited the president's campaign advisers to a meeting where they were promised dirt on hillary clinton from the russians. we now know from keir simmons and others that some of the people in that meeting were lawyers with ties to russian intelligence operatives or agencies. talk about what this investigation encompasses. i haven't said anything about possible questions about financial intertakings, but talk about the scope of the investigation and the importance. >> so i happen to be speaking today with a former fbi official who was involved in this investigation and he was musing about how far it's actually come since he's left. we started out with the trump administration saying there were no contacts with russia. and then trump and his defenders said well there were contacts but there was no collusion. then we saw a letter from the russian oligarchs family to trump

senate the vote was 92-5, wray replaces jim comey who of course was fired by trump amid the investigationrussian meddling and wray asserted independence during his confirmation hearing saying quote my loyalty is to the constitution and to the rule of law. former reading pennsylvania mayor vaughn spencer will remain free until trial after pleading not guilty to are up corruption charges today and no comment of allegations leaving the federal courthouse in center city philadelphia and prosecutors say vaughn bribed the city council president and tried to sell his office for campaign contributions and from new jersey governor christie signed a bill giving back pay to workers who were furloughed including state parks were forced to close july 1-3. that shut down also led to the infamous picture of governor christie lounging on island beach state park which was closes to the public. it is a bizarre case of animal abuse. a group of men forcing a juvenile alligator to drink alcohol. they also stuck a cigarette in its mouth and the video was shared on snapchat and now the pennsylvania spca is on t

even before jim comey's dismissal, i called for an independent special prosecutor at the department of justice. i was the only member of the judiciary committee to vote against rod rosenstein's nomination to be deputy attorney general because he failed to commit to appoint a special prosecutor. i believe a special prosecutor was necessary not only to determine the full extent of russia's meddling in our democracy, but also to protect that investigation from the president's efforts to shut it down. this belief was brought into stark relief by jim comey's firing and it precipitated the appointment of rob mueller. the firing of special counsel mueller would precipitate a firestorm on both sides of the aisle. it would put the president over a precipice that likely could lead to the most drastic action possible in this democracy. that precipice can be avoided and congress must play a role in avoiding it. we are in talks across the aisle about action that can be taken to provide a check and a firewall against that kind of firing, drastic action that would put the president over that precipic

judge jeanine: if it were obstruction of justice, then jim comey is guilty for not reporting it. >> that'sot true. >> the president has the right to fire his f.b.i. director. >> i hope the president sets out and fires the f.b.i. director. i would challenge the president to do it. judge jeanine: we could all be paralyzed by the special counsel the next four years. debbie wasserman-schultz threw sander under the bus and now we have got her suggesting that's the reason she took the part of that employee who was arrested on his way to pakistan, having spent $300,000 of our money he illegally obtained from the credit union, why isn't that in the grand jury. >> i'm not the biggest debbie wasserman-schultz fan. but we should see what actually happened. this guy was fleeing the country. judge jeanine: why can't you say impanel a grand jury. >> we can impanel a grand jury. everybody is getting a grand jury. >> her relationship with this person, why she is protecting him. nobody understands it. but there is the additional issue where it appears she might have been threatening capitol police with com

the president says he fired jim comey for dropping the ball on hillary clinton. there anything to prevent jeff sessions in taking all the evidence the f.b.i. has with mrs. clinton and presenting it to a grand jury to see if they want to indict her? kennedy: sessions recusal has nothing to do with whether he can go forward on the investigation. judge napolitano: the investigation is done. all they have to do is present it to a grand jury and ask them to indict. there are emails showing the clinton campaign met with agents from the ukraine. donald jr. and paul manafort and jared kushner met. so the issue is did any agreement come from the meeting with the you cranes. but it's unall of to accept anything of value from a foreign asal or foreign government when you are running a campaign in america. judge napolitano: a box of role egg watches is something of value. but here we are talking about damning information about donald trump. one theory is trump won, clinton lost. what do we care what techniques she used against him. but look what they are putting him through

. >> we filed this request in july, fbi, quickly responded, under jim comey, that they didn't have anyreporter: those seconds not redacted reveal early abapprehension. within an hour of abc's inquiryy, peter was added to thread, and doj aide welcomed a statement prepared for lynch, telling 6 colleagues we'll show this on the ag now. and they wrote, you can e-mail a g to let her know the plan, executive told fox news they intend to press their law the to obtain unredacked copies of the documents, department of the justice did not respond. lou: amazing. thank you. we're coming right back with much more. >> come new warnings about north korea. north korea could soon develop a hidhideo -- bomb. >> much less to the homeland. >> general jack keane is joining me next to talk about the troubltrumpadministration affork the threat. >> this athlete turning streets of vienna to his own personal playground we'll show you his ride next in the video. stay with us, that video and much more coming up ♪ (music plays throughout) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ about every 3 minutes, someone in america is diagnosed with a bloo