maria: lindsey graham right after this quick break common trey gowdy. drivewise. feedback that helps you drive safer. and that can lower your cost now that you know the truth... are you in good hands? maria: welcome back the robert mueller probe, the russia probe is showing signs of winding down , the critics are accusesing house intel committee chairman adam schiff of unleashing a conspiracy theory with his recent claim, after senate intelligence committee chairman richard burr said his panel found no evidence of collusion so now we've heard from the senate, the house, the doj and now the fbi, and look at these headlines. the wall street journal publish ing this op-ed, shifting to phase ii of collusion, conspiracy theory looking for something new, anticipating a mueller let-down. another piece published by the washington examiner this weekend , adam schiff has collusion problems of his own, that after he met with glenn sim pson in aspen a couple of months ago our next guest disagrees with schiff's recent statement that evidence of collusion is in "plain sight" an

maria: we'll see about that trey gowdy it's good to see you thanks for joining us. you. maria: we'll see you soon trey gowdy general jack keane is up next on the upcoming trump/kim summit in vietnam. back in a moment. i switched to liberty mutual because they let me customize my insurance, and as a fitness junkie, i customize everything. like my bike and my calves. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ let's talk about thisd when we meet next week. edward jones came to manage a trillion dollars in assets under care by focusing our mind on whatever's on yours. maria: welcome back. north korean leader kim jong-un traveling to vietnam as we speak , ahead of his second summit with president trump. the president is hoping to make progress in the denuclearization negotiations concessions. general jack keane is a retired four star general chairman at the institute for the study of war and also a fox news senior traffic analyst and general it's always a pleasure to see you thanks for joining u

maria: we'll see about that trey gowdy it's good to see you thanks for joining us.dy general jack keane is up next on the upcoming trump/kim summit in vietnam. back in a moment. to be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing it's best to make you everybody else... ♪ ♪ means to fight the hardest battle, which any human being can fight and never stop. does this sound dismal? it isn't. ♪ ♪ it's the most wonderful life on earth. ♪ ♪ itand the army taught me wa lot about commitment. which i apply to my life and my work. at comcast we're commited to delivering the best experience possible, by being on time everytime. and if we are ever late, we'll give you a automatic twenty dollar credit. my name is antonio and i'm a technician at comcast. we're working to make things simple, easy and awesome. maria: welcome back. north korean leader kim jong-un traveling to vietnam as we speak , ahead of his second summit with president trump. the president is hoping to make progress in the denuclearization negotiations concessions. general jack keane is a retired four star general

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caller: i am the former democratic nominee in trey gowdy seat. we got almost 40% -- trey gowdy's seat. we almost got 40% of the vote. i am also a joe biden staffer. run a decides to campaign, would you accept the responsibility? guest: unfortunately i am out of the campaign managing business but i am in the cheerleading business. i have known joe biden i was 28 years old, over 30 years. he is a decent man, a great american and i wish him the best of luck. tara mccullough i have known for over 30 years. -- amy,nown amy,, love are all my friends, i love them all and i want to see a vigorous debate in the democratic party. host: ralph northam, democratic governor of for genia, justin fairfax the lieutenant governor, both facing serious questions. should they stay in their job? guest: at this point the democratic party of virginia has called for both officials to step down. it appears they are going to stay in office and try to work out these issues and problems with the virginia legislature as well as their constituents. honor -- anhave a honorable

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here to respond oversight committee fox contributor trey gowdy, mr. kelly, thank you for being here tonight. >> trey: yes, ma'am. >> martha: your reaction to what congressman maloney had to say today? >> trey: sean said the focus is on russia and immediately he went to the stripper and the center pole. our focus is on russia and the next words out of his mouth were stormy daniels and mcdougall. and also he wants to wait on a report and yet 60 of his colleagues have already voted to move forward with impeachment. they ain't leaning on nothing. collusion. that is what started this entire investigation. that is to seminal question and the one thing michael cohen has been consistent on. in october 2017, he said no evidence of conspiracy between trump campaign in russia. and he said it again today. but the democrats don't want to hear that. so now they want to move to a violation. >> martha: a couple of the big items that came out today with this moment with regard to a conversation that roger stone had with president trump on speakerphone in his office. l

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version of trey gowdy. good luck to mr. hanoi barber or maybe it's mr. barber. hope you have your work cut out for you otherwise there will be hell to pay. that's all we have for tonight. that joke really works in print a lot better than when you say it. we'll be back with more. the beat with ari melber. >> i'm no expert -- >> did you get it? >> i'm pretty sure we're not supposed to give out the fashion tips to the fashion people and the barbers. >> you don't think this -- you don't think this -- good-bye. >> good-bye, chuck todd with an amazing sign off. we begin tonight with a lot to get to, but also what is clearly, i can tell you this tonight, the clues and the signs and the evidence turn iing in t mueller probe. a man who has been under scrutiny for two years struck a tone that i'll let you decide for yourself. he looked almost deliberately blaise about how this mueller report could come out soon. >> mr. president, should the mueller report be released? >> that will be totally up to the new attorney ge

trey gowdy is clearly questioning that claim. >> this is just stunning to me. reporters who pride themselves on being able to ask hard questions aren't being precise. the question should be did you tell the gang of eight that you considered invoking the 25th amendment? not that there was a counter intelligence investigation. everybody in the beginning in the summer of 2016 there was a counter intelligence investigation. so when people ask him that question they're missing the bigger picture, the absolute inappropriate behavior of andy mccabe, james comey and anyone else who participated in a discussion about removing a duly elected president using the 25th amendment. this is the bad behavior going on at the top of the f.b.i. and what concerns me the most. >> sandra: what do you think is going on here with the former acting director of the f.b.i.? on a media blitz and put himself out there and he is all over. >> ? politics and every campaign going back to 1982 you're told your opponent did x, y, z, did drugs, he is a criminal. you have to vet this stuff. hardly

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bob and they gowdy and bob goodlatte and others were demanding material from the department of justiceery week they were saying we want to look at this fisa affidavit and this and that. the department of justice resisted but said, yes. they're in a tough place if they want to say no. i also want to point out -- by the time -- by the way, jim comey didn't just announce the decision to charge hillary clinton, he then castigated her and said the practices were not practices tolerated in other offices. we have crossed a couple of rubicons here and talking about something the american public and our politics have a profound interest in getting to the truth. in the comey thing is one thing during the campaign. turnover of documents and request for documents during the trump presidency is another. you just noted to your chagrin those requests were made and documents turned over. will you suspend that chagrin now? it seems to me you were upset about it then and now you won't be? >> the larger issue is what precedent was set. that was not a good precedent. the larger one is we're arguing about

. >> sean: trey gowdy on a huge story regarding mueller, his team.erridge also full report as we continue from the swamp washington, d.c. ♪ ♪ (vo) we're carvana, the company who invented car vending machines and buying a car 100% online. now we've created a brand new way for you to sell your car. whether it's a few years old or dinosaur old, we want to buy your car. so go to carvana and enter your license plate, answer a few questions, and our techno-wizardry calculates your car's value and gives you a real offer in seconds. when you're ready, we'll come to you, pay you on the spot, and pick up your car. that's it. so ditch the old way of selling your car and say hello to the new way... at carvana. >> sean: on this show we have highlighted night after night the corruption, the anti-trump bias, robert mueller's pit bull, that guy andrew weissmann i keep telling you about. now we are learning tonight more about his dealings with the dirty dossier, that's the steele phony russian unverified dossier clinton bought and paid for with our own catherine herr

it could be that, like gowdy says, that they would love to quibble with this, but their hands are justt's not like we have suffered from a lack of information coming out of the -- out of those meetings and that committee. >> devin nunes in particular who has not been shy about saying he thinks there was corruption in the fbi. one would think that if mccabe's not telling the truth that nunes would find a way to say something. >> and he has broken plrotocol n the past. talk about unmasking. we had memos released that the fbi did not want released that had information about, you know, internal methods that the fbi was using and devin nunes was very much a part of that process as republicans on that committee tried to run interference for the president. so the idea that they're now following protocol and their mouths are tied because they're not able to talk about this gang of eight meeting doesn't line up too well with what we've seen over the past with devin nunes and breaking protocol. >> everyone could just be returning to norm, right? >> no one has an opinion on that? no, not a safe b

. >> sean: trey gowdy on a huge story regarding mueller,le his team.erridge also full report as we continue fromom the swamp, washington, d.c. ♪ i'm off to college. i'm worried about my parents' retirement. don't worry. voya helps them to and through retirement... dealing with today's expenses... while helping plan, invest and protect for the future. so they'll be okay? i think they'll be fine. voya. helping you to and through retirement. your favorite restaurants now it doesn't matter dash. where you are. ♪ it doesn't matter what you're hungry for. it doesn't even matter how many you are. ♪ restaurants come to you. delicious at your door. download doordash. first order, no delivery fee. ♪ >> sean: on this show, we have highlighted night after night the corruption, the anti-trump bias of robert mueller's pit bull, that guy andrew weissmann i keep telling you about. now we are learning tonight more about his dealings with the dirty dossier, that's the steele phony russian unverified dossier that clinton bought and paid. our own catherine herridge in was

gowdy is saying you kno that congressional leaders just cannot talk about classifiieed ings like that. so you have been able to put your version of what happened out there, and they're not able to resond. >> well, i think there's been discuss cogs. that -- discussions. mentions of that briefing have yeready been in the public spheres. s of reacting with leaders on the hill and different committees, my experience is noh they're reluctant to discuss their business, but, nevertheless, i simply related my experience and my observations. and, to be clear, it wasn't just that the republicans didn't aski qus and the democrats did. it was that theeputy attorney neral and i convened the group, provided an ex defense detailed briefing, the status of our case, and we did n receive y questions or pushback or resistance or concern from any of the membership or staff in attendance about the steps we're taking. >> woodruff: you're saying should be able to spe about it? >> no, i'm saying that's the reaction i would expect from people who thought that we had done the reasonable and necessary thing. th

. >> now tray gowdy. >> it's like rod sterling was it swallowed by tray gowdy and turned the to a suithen you're coming or going or anything. >> this is ooh person on border line meltdown. doesn't quite know what he was about. benghazi, benghazi, benghazi. >> benghazi or been gone. loosing a tie in politics and in life -- >> it's not going to work. >> can cunote a chillness. but here more of like giving up. >> this is a walk of shame. >> chaos in his head. >> all he needs behind him is that woman from "game of thrones" saying shame, shame. >> there's no greater walk of shame than a multiyear congrezal investigation. >> that is true. >> i do want to do some quick media feminist accountability. what we have done today is but a tiny, tiny step in the other direction of what has happened for many years on many tarbl media segments, which is hassling people who happen to be women, seeking or exercising power for their clothes. >> she wore a very fancy outet for for a photo shoot. >> she does work with a team and strategically picking everything she wears. >> so many pant suits over the year

here is on rissman trey gowdy.an gowdy, former chairman guard he has to say about this. watch. >> is the biggest distinction between what i call serious in discussions and political investigations. where you speculate rampantly. the first thing i wanted to do was call richard burr, who is the chairman of the senate until committee, think him from running a serious investigation where they actually figure out the facts before they make allegations. because sometimes some folks do it in the reverse order. they make these wild allegations. >> harris: can i ask you a question? if it turns out through robert mueller's investigation -- it seems like a whole lot of people all over the place, even the men now nominated to be the attorney general, william barr, fed by the president, had a friendship relationship with robert mueller. if it turns out that there is no their there in terms of the accusation, will democrats like yourself move on? >> i think we will of course read the report carefully. we will do oversight. i thi

unfortunately i don't know what trey gowdy's references.ody will have to explain that to me about the "game of thrones" reference. he's going to do what he feels fits his narrative. it doesn't matter what the evidence shows. >> harris: is that your opinion customer he said he said before. >> chris: he has. if you look to the beginning of this process, adam schiff has leaked what's going on. anything that's made it's way out -- which is pretty tight. you can give the mueller team credit in terms of keeping things close to the best. >> harris: that's why he has bipartisan support. space if you're exactly right. >> kennedy: adam schiff is going to be so mad if that report is tepid! >> harris: some democrats have already talked about what they will do if it's not quite there. in the meantime, i'll tell you what is there. the president is at joint base andrews. getting ready. you have it win? it usually takes marine want to get their come at air force one. but that's where they are in the motorcade. very windy conditions for the type of craft, i

lou: misleading and also two chairmen, trey gowdy and bob goodlot, they also misled the american people and failed to bring to conclusion with any effectiveness the investigation that was properly theirs. they betrayed the country, in my opinion, with awful conduct in choice to do nothing in the face of the vast political krup crutn -- corruption of department of justice and fbi. >> we'll try to release all transcripts, 15 people we interviewed, from andy mccabe to loretta lynch, and everyone in between. lisa page, lisa strzok, jim page, we think that press you be able to see what took place, we think that will give more clarity to this craze thing that took place at fbi. lou: jim jordan. >> thank you. lou: up next president trump's state of the union address receives a huge amount of praise and republicans and democrats, and independents. >> i thought the speech was great. i thought that president laid out a clear agenda. >> damn good speech. >> i thought it of best speech that president has given, it was optimistic. >> he reminded everyone of the things we have in common, the things w

trey gowdy knows a little something about that. he joins us live now. good morning to you, sir.eau were arguing about whether there would be charges against clinton. he thought from the beginning that the behavior was alarming and appalling. >> one of the famous lines from the comey press conference. he said no reasonable prosecutor would disagree with the conclusions that he had reached. of course his own general counsel, jim baker. he made his mind up. that she had committed no offense weeks and weeks before we ever interviewed her. those of us that care about the justice system, the impartial person, judging the facts, not the identity of the parties, we do wonder how you could decide the issue of intent and knowledge six weeks before you ever interview the single best source of evidence for intent and knowledge. >> sandra: very interesting. here is the actual quote from baker on that closed-door testimony in october. "my original belief, while having conducted the investigation, then sitting down and reading a binder of material, i thought it was alarming, appalling. whateve

. >> reporter: trÈs gowdy, former gop chairman of the house oversight committee, great to have you with tonight. there's a lot to unpack but let me start with this idea of subpoenaing the special counsel or the report itself, legally how would that work? >> adam can subpoena whatever he wants and the department of just will turn it back into a paper airplane and send it back to him. adam schiff cannot -- this is an executive branch report, bob mueller works for the of justice, that is to hide him and who supervises them and certain jurisdictions so he is welcome to send a subpoena, demand, have press conferences but the executive branch will decide how much if any of that report to share with the legislative branch and a subpoena will do nothing to change their mind. >> you know about this because there's information you requested from the justice department for months if not years and a number of your colleagues on the hill say they never got it and they have a lot of questions. >> i requested things from the previous administration and got nothing and requested things from the departm

jillian: former house trade gowdy say it's part of master plan to pick media battles to push a falsetive. >> what a brilliant strategy adam has, i'm going to make statement, completely unsupported by the facts but i will never go -- the house intelligence committee, no evidence of conspiracy between the trump campaign and russia. the senate intelligence committee and remember the media loves the senate investigation, they didn't care too much about devin nunes in the house but they love richard burr, no evidence of conspiracy between the trump campaign and russia and yet adam schiff, that 3 eyed, adam schiff who can see things nobody else can see says he has evidence more than circumstantial. not quite directly, by the way those who didn't go to law, there's no such thing. there's no such thing as evidence that is not circumstantial or direct, but adam has seen it and never pressed on it. jillian: special counsel convicted 6 suspects, no link president with russian meddling. rob: new york firefighters to fight for surviving victims of 9/11, compensation fund is running out of money.

one, trey gowdy, of oversight and bob goodlatte of judiciary. also misled the american people, and they failed to bring to conclusion with any effectiveness at all the investigation. this was properly theirs. they betrayed not the party, they betrayed the country, in my opinion w the awful conduct and their choice to do nothing in the face of the vast political corruption of both the department of justice and the fbi. your thoughts as we conclude. >> well, lou, one of the things we're going to try to do here in the very near future, release all the transcripts, 14 different people we interviewedded over the last year from andy mccabe to loretta lynch, lisa page, peter strzok, jim baker, all these people. we think it's important that the press be able to see these transcripts, more importantly, the american people. we think that'll give more clarity to this crazy thing that took place at the fbi. lou: thanks for being with us, congressman. >> you bet, lou, thank you. lou: up next, president trump's state of the union address receives a huge amoun

ambassador, and then she even said herself, during the hearing to trey gowdy, that she didn't sign offn all of those requests. so not only were there unmaskings, potentially people were signing off on people's names to unmasked americans. >> sean: all right -- well, that would be abuse of power just like every other instance of abuse of power including lying to fisa court judges. victor davis hanson, a really brilliant writer, has a great article, don't have time to go through it. and john solomon, your paper, "the hill," mueller interviewed mccabe in search of russian dirt. but first of all, we know andrew weissmann was briefed by others in 2016. number two, we know that bruce ohr was funneling information from christopher steele long after steele was fired from lying in leaking by the fbi to the special counsel's office. does that mean the dossier that hillary paid for with russian lies, has that become the road map for this witch hunt? >> it certainly was one of the road maps. tomorrow i'm going to report that there was a third dossier. remember, we know about the steele dossier, we

as great as you might be as a lawyer, you, trey gowdy, alan dershowitz, b gregg jarrett, joe digenovau can keep me out of jail. could you? >> [laughs]ou was part of this may. if you are home, don't do what she did because i doubt you'll have the same outcome. bottom line is, yeah, the techniques they used in her investigation, compare that to what they have done in the trump investigation. if you really want trump to lose,ig how can you charge her? so i've always believed that the reason she wasn't charged as much as anything else is that the people investigating her wanted trump to lose. now i don't know if that is true or not but that is what we are going to look w at. it sure seems this way. to speed when you can fire comey for any reason. how do we know? james comey admitted that.t. so look at rod rosenstein. he's the one who's recommending firing comey, he signed the last fisa application, the third renewal, the fourth one in total. we have mccabe who filed the ig report, who lied five times,t do we believe mccabe or rosenstein come because one of them is lying, correct? >> absol

. >> martha: seems like acting attorney general may have taken that advice from trey gowdy.aker is not showing up to testify tomorrow unless democrats promise he will not be subpoenaed. but here's an update. congressman john ratcliffe has the story breaking tonight after this. ♪ yourself in a world which is doing it's best to make you everybody else... ♪ ♪ means to fight the hardest battle, which any human being can fight and never stop. does this sound dismal? it isn't. ♪ ♪ it's the most wonderful life on earth. ♪ ♪ i but i can tell you i liberty mutual customizedth. my car insurance so i only pay for what i need. oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no... only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ >> martha: tonight, a very big statement from a man who says generally very little on this subject. for two years respected senate intel head richard burr has been investigating the question of president trump and russia collusion. today, he made his strongest statement yet on the matter as his investigation appears to be drawing somewhere near a close. he said thi

. >> trey gowdy, good to see you as always. on this tuesday night, tucker is up next. ♪ >> tucker: good evening, welcome to "tucker carlson tonight" tonight. bernie sanders is running for president not that he ever stopped. sanders announced his second campaign this morning and a ten minute video. but before you drop everything and watch it, take half a moment to appreciate just how much america and the democratic party have changed over the past four years. pull up sandra's first presidential announcement speech. it was may 26, 2015 in burlington, vermont, and sanderson's look different but the second thing if you watch it just how familiar are his words sound. it is spooky. virtually all of the themes sanders announcement speech, his first one, in the end got donald trump elected president. the collapse of the middle class, the cost of health care and student loans. the pointlessness of perpetual war in the middle east. the distorting effects of the washington lobbyist and donors swamped. dangerous of corporate power and the

. >> woodruff: former chairman of the house congressional oversight committee trey gowdy is, this week, criticizing you for revealing th may 27 briefing of the so-called gang ofi eght congressional leaders about the fact that you had opened investigation into president trump. you said that, in that briefing, the republican leaders in the meeting didn't raise concerns, but mr. gowd is saying you know that congressional leaders just cannot talk about classified briefings like that. able to putbe your version of what happened out there, and they're not able to respond. >> wel i think there's already been duss cogs. that -- discussions. mentions of that briefing have already been in the public spheres. years of reacting with leaders on the hill and different committees, my experience is not that they're reluctant toth discusr business, but, nevertheless, i simply related myer ence and my observations. and, to be clear, it asn't just that the republicans didn't ask questions andcr the des did. it was that the deputy attorney general and i convened the group, provided an ex defense detailed

. >> marie: meantime, former house oversight committee chairman trey gowdy pushing back last night defendingbeing strategic with his words. speak of the reason he's doing it this way is they are not allowed to discuss anything that is said. i find it stunning that they would know about a second one and not say a single solitary word. i will continue to not believe they knew about it unless one of the other contradicts it. >> marie: when mccabe was asked if he still believe president trump is a russian asset, he i'm really anxious to see. where he concludes that. i want to ask you a media related question. i remember a time marise also many people writing tellos after leaving, getting published, during these huge book tours. and my mr. membrane thinks? >> joe: and makes the argument for him. you've seen klapper on cnn the former -- brennan, who is on msnbc. obviously, it's almost all his criticism. i'm amazed these two media tours continue for the james comeys. they present gospel as gospel. they go into these to be princes and these mediators may have credibility problems just like andrew mc

i had trey gowdy on the other night he said if i were advising matt whitaker which he wasn't if i were is going to be a new attorney general in a matter of days. and it was pretty clear where this was going to head. this is a person who is leaving this position. so, what, exactly, what was the goal, do you think, jake? what were they hoping to achieve by trying to get him to admit that he was against the mueller probe when he really won't have any role, he will not be able to, you know, be effective in one way or the other with regard to the probe in a few days? >> well, the goal isn't getting him to admit anything. the goal is to get insight. >> martha: it isn't? come on. they definitely wanted him to admit that he was biased against the probe. that he thought it was a witch-hunt and that he had been actively trying to do what he could within his ability to -- you know, to leak information to get information out there about anything he knew. he said he hasn't seen the report. so how can you say that based on their questions that we just showed that that wasn't part of their mission to

then she set herself during a hearing to trey gowdy that she didn't sign off on the request.ot only were they are unmasking's but potentially people signing off on people's names to unmask americans. >> sean: all right -- well, that would be abuse of power just like every other instance of abuse of power including lying to fisa court judges. victor davis hanson come a great article and i don't have time to go through but and john sullivan, paper of the hill, mueller interviewed mccabe in search of russia dirt. but first of all, wiseman and august 2016. and number two bruce ohr was funneling information from christopher steele long after steele was fired for lying and leaking to the fbi to the special counsel's office. does that mean the dossier hillary paid for with russian lies, has that become the road map for this witch hunt? >> john: is certainly was one of the road maps. tomorrow i will report there was a third dossier. you know we know about the steele dossier and blumenthal dossier sent to the state department afforded to the fbi. tomorrow, i will report there was a th

. >> dana: tonight you have former congressman trey gowdy, now fox news contributor, former cham of house oversight. chris wallace and martha maccallum, thank you. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. >> dana: mike emanuel has been reporting live on capitol hill and he's got a report for us now. >> dana, good afternoon. a lot of reaction pouring in from people who are not part of this committee, watching the hearing like the rest of us. new york democratic senator kirsten jill i land, candidate for. united states, writing on twitter, a campaign for president of the united states should never be in the business of scheming with foreign adversaries to tamter with our elections, i thought that went without saying. virginia democrat tim cain, vice-presidential nominee for the democrats, said the hush money matters. >> i think they definitely matter. because they weren't just apparently, if i understand what the testimony is, not just things that the president did before he was president, but that he is making payments while he is president. and lying about them, or trying to disclose them. that m

chairman cummings repeatedly, over and over and over again, asked trey gowdy and the chairman, chairman's staff, to pursue this particular issue. but they were 3w4r0kd eveblockep of the way. i should tell you the same basically happened on the intel committee. >> yeah. >> so here we are, finally we're in the majority, we're here to serve as a check and balance on the trump administration. and so we're going to actually hold them accountable, launch a full-throated investigation here, and make sure if laws were violated the appropriate people are held accountable and to prevent this from happening again. >> and i buy those novels at the airport, congressman, and they have plots like this, right? where the national security adviser is advising the u.s. to take some policy that's contrary to its national security interests but might be getting paid on the back end of it. you know, like this is the stuff i think only exists in airport novels. i didn't know it exists in the real world. >> yeah, reality imitates fiction here. and you know, on the one hand we were concerned about the trump admin

i share some of congressman gowdy's criticism. if this stuff is in plain sight, what is it?dence. so, you know, it just doesn't make any sense. >> some of these things are word games. i thought it was kind of cute that in another part of your interview, congressman coul cony said why doesn't congressman schiff go on fox news. maria: we call him all the time. >> i myself have called him many times. maria: he said no. >> he used my name a number of times, not always in the best way. i'm happy to have a conversation with him. on some things i agree. i'm a pierce opponent of the abuse of fisa, i'm an opponent of the president's declaration of national emergency. on this, i would like to know what he has. maria: i don't know that he would admit there was fisa abuse around the dossier. >> i don't think he will. that's why i would like to challenge him. sai has created -- fisa has created an atmosphere of soft corruption on the part of the fbi. it's easier to get a fisa warrant claiming we're starting an intelligence investigation, morph it into a criminal investigation. maria: tha

between trey gowdy and john ratcliffe that with the lack of leadership on the republican side of theee this guy and see rod rosenstein, by the way. but leadership wouldn't back them up. consequently they never saw them. i think lindsey graham has the political guts to do it and i think it will happen. >> sandra: more from andrew mccabe on the reasons for opening the counter intelligence investigation into donald trump. >> we had a number of very concerning things that we were considering at the time. one of them was the fact that the president in our view had gone to extreme measures to potentially impact, negatively impact and possibly turn off our investigation of russian meddling into the election and russian coordination with his campaign. >> sandra: he has shut down all the talk that he decided to go at this himself. this is his team, the recommendation of his team. they discussed this with lawyers. you are having a reaction to that, jason. >> no, look, the proof is in the pudding. the president didn't actually do that. he says he was under a lot of pressure but there is still n

political charade or at least partly a political charade and that undermined the investigation, trey gowdythe chair of the committee, was upset. the republicans were saying he shouldn't have said this. jason chaffetz who at the time was running the oversight committee also suggested maybe he would be running for speaker he said look, part of this job, a big part of this job, is to be a communicator. we have someone who can communicate and will damage mccarthy. host: as a side note, jason chaffetz left the house of representatives to become a permanent commentator on television. >> his famous line from that episode, we need a speaker who speaks. that resonated throughout the conference. it threw a spotlight on kevin mccarthy's weakness which is, as i mentioned before, sort of his oratory skills and in that clip earlier, you can see him also obviously a very stressful day for him but he was stumbling over his words, not able to get certain sentences out. and that sort of was reinforced in that speaker race by jason chaffetz. host: paul ryan was recruited to take the speaker's gavel, somethin

caller: i am the former democratic nominee in trey gowdy seat. we got almost 40% -- trey gowdy's seat. we almost got 40% of the vote. i am also a joe biden staffer. run a decides to campaign, would you accept the responsibility? guest: unfortunately i am out of the campaign managing business but i am in the cheerleading business. i have known joe biden i was 28 years old, over 30 years. he is a decent man, a great american and i wish him the best of luck. tara mccullough i have known for over 30 years. -- amy,nown amy,, love are all my friends, i love them all and i want to see a vigorous debate in the democratic party. host: ralph northam, democratic governor of for genia, justin fairfax the lieutenant governor, both facing serious questions. should they stay in their job? guest: at this point the democratic party of virginia has called for both officials to step down. it appears they are going to stay in office and try to work out these issues and problems with the virginia legislature as well as their constituents. honor -- anhave a honorable