justice assistance. we will make that change. >> what line is that? >> line five, at least on my copy. >> so you are referring to the office of justice program, bureau of justice statistics class. >> that should say assistance. >> bureau of justice assistance? >> yes. it also repeats on line ten, 12, they -- basically anywhere where it says bureau of justice statistics, it should say bureau of justice assistance. >> would you like to make those amendments now? >> yes. >> okay, thank you. >> are you through with your presentation? >> know, i'm trying to put in the slides. okay. thank you. bear with me. the san francisco police department, we submitted proposals for grant funding, and we received an award in the amount of $800,000. the grant period is from october 1st, 2018, to september 30th, 2021. the reason that the resolution is retroactive is because of the grant start date. it is october 1st, 2018. we did not receive notice of the award until october 1st, so we are requesting a retroactive resolution because by the time this resolution gets adopted to, it will be after that date. we have not expended any funds with this grant. it is retroactive, ma

by this kind of thing i mean look at this in march of twenty seventeen report the part of the justice office of the inspector general found that fifty six of one hundred drug enforcement administration forfeiture cases examined there was no discernible connection between the seizure and the advancement of law enforcement efforts it's literally just stealing it so that it's left it's the law enforcement coming and saying we're taking this from you regardless if you are guilty of the crime or if you're eventually let go we're just take it because you know you can't buy it good for the supreme court eight to nothing decision yes i want to make that clear this is not a partisan this is not one of those things everyone left right and center agrees the government should not be allowed to steal your stuff from camping out against. it. and now for a quick update as the way turns yes the ongoing political soap opera drama between the troubled ministration and chinese why telecommunications equipment has been making headlines in the latest plot twist u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o fresh off his

advisor to the department of justice and office of legal counsel has decided that the department of justice cannot indict a sitting president. now, here is the problem with that. office of legal counsel is not elected by anybody, career people and they tend to be hyper smart but their purpose in life in opining on the separation of powers questions is to describe the maximum possible, credible scope of executive power. they represent the executive branch and what they make the separation of powers decisions they always fear to the maximum greatest executive power that they can justify. that does not mean that a court would agree with them. that does not mean that a court would agree with them. and ever since marbury versus madison it has been the constitutional power of the courts particularly the supreme court to say what the law is and the question of whether a president can be indicted or not is a question of what the law is regarding the indictment of a president. the question are to be decided in a court. if the office of legal counsel will never the case go forward and how is t

the department of justice has been defending the actions of the office over the intervening 12 years.s not commented, but they reiterated his stance saying the office's decisions were approved by departmental leadership. the president appointed acosta to his position and long before he ran for office, donald trump flaunted his friendship with epstein, who has socialized with bill clinton. this is a photo from trump's mar-a-lago estate from 1997. he said i have known jeff for 15 years. terrific guy. he's a lot of fun to be with. it is even said he likes beautiful women as much as i do, and many of them are on the younger side. president trump was asked about his labor secretary's role in the epstein deal friday. >> i really don't know too much about it. i know he's done a great job as labor secretary. that seems like a long time ago, but i know he's been a fantastic labor secretary. >> reporter: what happens now that the judge has ruled the failure to notify victim was illegal? it's unclear. the judge asked both sides to weigh in on an appropriate remedy. but incident epstein has serve

right now that the president cannot face indictment because of justice department policy that precludes that. as someone who used to run the officehe justice department, how solid do you see that policy as being? >> you know, i don't think it's at all solid. i don't think you can make a categorical judgement of that kind, and you've just, you know, added to the notion of how shaky that policy is. your terrific podcast "bag man" is the gift that keeps on giving. the '73 memo, robert dixon was a distinguished lawyer, but it's always been seen by me at least as a really shotty piece of work that doesn't explain why when there is nothing in the constitution you can have a categorical rule against indicting a president. you've got to postpone the trial proceedings while he or she is serving, but, you know, more to the point, rachel, that memo was essentially repudiated nine months later. it was that september '73 memo was repudiated when the united states filed in united states supreme court in united states versus nixon by leon jaworski, the special counsel, but acting on behalf of the department of justice, said that they did not ac

think it's difficult in this situation to assign credibility to him because the department of justice officepector general, as you mentioned, has found specifically that he lacked candor, which is the kiss of death in the fbi. agents can do a lot of things and others, but when you lack candor, especially under owning, i belieoath, i believe it was t times that he was determined to lack candor, then he would be not qualified as a witness in any future proceedings because his credibility would be brought into question. and so his testimony would be undermined by these prior findings. so that's the context that all this is in. remarkable interview last night on "60 minutes" but the context and the old adage about text without context is pretext, you've got to make sure that that's understood. and so special counsel mueller, how he assesses that will be important as to whether andy mccabe's notes are accurate and assu assuming they are, then the question is if he was presented as a witness, would he be undermined as a witness because of his lack of candor under oath. >> it's your belief that the

the justice's office past us through to her home and we got to break the news to her. was quite enthusiastic. it is hard -- not to be modest, but she thought it was imminently well-deserved. the better news than that for us personally was just hearing her voice for the first time since her surgery. she sounded really shipper in cheerful and really strong. when we told her how nice it was to hear her voice sounding great, she said she is eager to get back to work. she has been working from home, .s has been reported a lot of what the court does is reading briefs and reading transcript of oral arguments. -- thoughtsting about rulings on various cases. she is been doing that from her home in washington. amy: you s so profoundndly illulustrated inin your film abt our b bg's life, about ruth bade ginsrgrg's life. shshe s not missed an oral argument in more than a quarter of aentutury sosohe is doing this fm her recovery b.. wo w the whi house tt trp was already entertaining names to replace her. but what is the next time the supreme court comes together? do you expect her t

the 90-day period, i was advised that he had been refused witness protection status by this office at the justice there had never been a problem before in any of my cases involving cooperators who sought witness protection. >> pelley: in prison, viÑas already had been in witness protection. judge garaufis told us it's routine for the same protection to continue after release. but the u.s. department of justice witness security program, known as "witsec," turned him down with no explanation. >> garaufis: they don't give the reasons, and the prosecutors moved for reconsideration. reconsideration was denied. >> pelley: the prosecutors work for the justice department. the f.b.i. agents are part of the justice department. all of them agree that he should be in the witness protection program. and then, another agency inside the justice department overrules them? >> garaufis: that's what troubles me. that they've had 8,700-- at least 8,700-- cooperators placed in witness protection. and i know some of these cooperators.they'v my dets. i've had virtually the entire bonanno organized crime family on my do

we didn't like the idea of comey coming in and usurping the role of the department of justice's office saying, there's all of this out there, not enough to prosecute, but there's all of this out there. that tar and feathering did not satisfy people then and it should not now. having said that, the idea for transparency is different when it comes to the president of the united states versus other people. the doj policy says, you cannot indict a sitting president. if there is reason to believe in the report that there is enough information to indict the president, well, then, trr transparency is a must, because the criminal process is not available, but the political one would be. and who is it? the government for, of, and by the people, congress. the transparency i buy with respect to the regular old american citizens is not enough proof. the president of the united states, a very different role by design. >> i mean, dana, it is pretty incredible, though, to say you could be at a point, if something happens, you would put it in there for everyone to see, because you couldn't indict. it'

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my name is mara evans, and i'm the chair person for the racial justice committee at the san francisco public defender's office. and i'm also a member of the san francisco bar associations' criminal justice taskforce and the chair person of the bia subcommittee. and this year i'm part of the cohort for our office that is participating in the government alliance on racial equity. and when i was -- i've been at the public defender's office for 20 years. and i've had the opportunity to work with cindy during that time. and some of my colleagues and former colleagues have spoken to her unique qualities in that capacity, so i won't go over that again. i want to also speak to cindy's capacities as a commissioner for part of the last year, and her ability to connect and reach out to community organizations, to connect with people on the bar association's criminal justice taskforce, to connect with officers. i've actually seen cindy personally in the executive sponsor working group meetings. she is prepared. you can see the effort that she puts into this work. and so based on all of those, i know i'm over my time, but

. >> the decision not to hand over files from the justice department officers he oversees is having a ripple effect. in the bay area departments said that records would be released but have reversed course. 11 agencies flip-flopped because of becerra's position. >> we haven't told anyone what they should do. we explained what we're going to do. and what others do, i'll respect what in any other are public. 62 releasing records. there's 200 in review all while the right to know law is being argued in court. >> if the law from the court decisions becomes clear, i'll be the first to do what the courts tell us. >> los angeles county and contra costa ruled in favor of releasing records. police union have appealed and it could end up in the state supreme court. the family of a man killed in a shoot out with a sheriff deputy is reaching out to the deputy who fired the deadly shot. the family apologizes to napa county sheriff riley jarecki. hernandez fired not hurt and re fire killing him. he was in the illegally in the u.s. in the letter they say to the officer who had to make the difficult

because to some extent the justice department position right now that a president can't be indicted rests on the conclusions of that 1973 officef legal counsel opinion by robert dixson. that's where it started. that's the foundation. the justice department did take another look at the matter in 2000 during the clinton administration but the roots of the position, which is a position sta th position that stands as doj policy starts with the 1973 opinion. we've spoken to j.t. smith some more about this in recent weeks and what it says about the drafting in 1973 as somebody who was there, it's just striking given the role that that memo now plays in lending de facto immunity to the president from prosecution and again, remember he told us quote when prepared it's purpose was to allow indictment and revolve of agnew and not serve on the last word of indictbili bt omentbility of president and reviews important historical material that could support an opposite conclusion and when you read that 1973 opinion in full, what j.t. smith is saying is true. in terms of the historical record, dixson's opinion states right there in black and

the department of justice has been defending the actions of the office over the intervening 12 years.d since thursday's court ruling. but the labor department reiterated acosta's stance, saying the office's decisions were approved by departmental leadership. the president appointed acosta to his position, and long before he ran for office, donald trump flaunted his friendship with jeffrey epstein, who has also socialized with former president bill clinton. this is a photo from trump's mar-a-lago estate in 1997 and he told new york magazine in 2002, i've known jeff for 15 years, terrific guy, he's a lot of fun to be with, it is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as i do, and many of them are on the younger side. president trump was asked about his labor secretary's role in the epstein deal friday. >> i really don't know too much about it. i know he's done a great job as labor secretary. and that seems like a long time ago, but i know he's been a fantastic labor secretary. >> what happens now that the judge has ruled the justice department's failure to notify victims was il

we have department of justice an office of professional responsibility which has a unique obligation, responsibility to review the compliance of federal prosecutors with ethical rules. we have designated ethics officers who evaluate if we have conflicts of interests. our law enforcement agencies, fbi, atf, also have their own offices of personal integrity. i spentd much of my career as a corruption prosecutor. i know because i've seen over the course of years through experience that they are aggressive in making those findings. i think it's important, as suzanne said to message that an reassure people we have mechanisms of accountability. we're not going to jump because somebody goes on cable tv and says there was wrong doing. if our independent professionals and the office of special responsibility make an assessment and determine there is pred indication or there's concern about whether a process needs to be reviewed they've got the man power to do it. our inspect or general has about 475 employees. i once said 500 in a hearing and he got angry with me. i rounded up. we have the cap

says that this list was the result of consultations with the department of justice, which probably means consultations with the office of the special prosecutor robert mueller in the department of justice. and that might be another indicator, another clue that robert mueller is very close to completing his investigation and might even be submitting his final investigative report to the attorney general next week, maybe even before michael cohen's testimony. "the washington post" is reporting tonight that justice department officials are preparing for the end of the special counsel robert s. mueller iii's nearly two-year investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election and believe a confidential report could be issued in coming days, according to people familiar with the discussions. the special counsel's office agreed to delay the beginning of michael cohen's prison sentence so that he could testify to congress next week. some of the issues that michael cohen is scheduled to testify about were part of the special prosecutor's investigation, that list provided by chairman cummings is the president's debts

department of justice has been defending the actions of the office over the intervening 12 years. >>ourt ruling, but the labor department reiterated acosta's stance, saying the office's decisions were approved by departmental leadership. the president appointed acosta to his position, and long before he ran for office, donald trump flaunted his friendship with jeffrey epstein, who has also socialized with former president bill clinton. this is a photo from trump's mar-a-lago estate in 1997. and he told "new york" magazine in 2002, i have known jeff for 15 years. terrific guy. he's a lot of fun to be with. it is even said he likes beautiful women as much as i do. and many of them are on the younger side. trump was asked about his labor secretary's role in the epstein deal friday. >> i really don't know too much about it. i know he's done a great job as labor secretary. and that seems like a long time ago. but i know he's been a fantastic labor secretary. >> reporter: so what happens now that the judge has ruled the justice department's failure to notify victims was illegal? it's uncle

quote, the department of justice's office of legal counsel failed to provide documents concerning thee president to invoke emergency powers to declare a national emergency to build a wall along america's southern border. richard painter is a crew board member. he was the chief ethics lawyer for president george w. bush. great to see you after a long while. and i'm holding here the four pang complaint from crew. talk about the strategy here crew has decided to pursue. >> well, i'm not going to speak on behalf of crew in its entirety. but i will say there are two serious problems with the epresident's position. first, this is not a national emergency as set forth in the statute, the national emergencies act. this is not an emergency. this is an immigration problem, illegal immigration problem has been with us for decades and indeed is on a much lower scale today than it has been in some past years. it is not a national emergency within the meaning of the statute. second, if it were deemed to be a national emergency in that statute, if the statute were that broad to allow this it would p

mcca mccabe confirming publicly ha high level meetings were held at the justice department to remove president trump from office. mccabe was fired from the fbi last march. he says he also ordered an investigation to determine whether the president obstructed justice by firing james comey. sarah sanders saying he has no credibility and is an embarrassment to the men and women of the fbi and our great country. more now from cnn's laura jarett. >> good morning, as a new attorney general takes the reigns at the justice department, the former acting director at the fbi laying bare the ghosts of 2017. that period that rocked the justice department and the fbi, and in a new interview with 60 minutes, andrew mccabe says why he felt the need to open an obstruction of justice investigation after the president fired fbi director james comey, and confirms reports that the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein discussed recruiting cabinet members to possibly invoke the 25th amendment to remove trump from office and wearing a wire to record his conversations with the president. in a fresh statement on rosenstein's behalf, t

>> the justice department office of professional responsibility has an investigation into this senatorbut you raised had this been known at the time he violated federal law and did not give dozens of victims notice about the deal and a chance to have their day in court, it would be interesting to know if he got confirmed at the time and sarah sanders said look, this is a tough sentence. if it was such a tough sentence, why didn't the victims know about it in advance? >> marcy, today there was -- cook county charges in illinois brought against r. kelly famously prosecuted and acqu acquitted in the sexual assault of underaged girls and been charged with ten counts in that case. i covered the church for my first book and i was shocked and appalled how much covering there was and how little what happened to the victims meant. have we made progress? are we making progress on that front? >> well, i actually think that the vatican meeting going on right now shows you that the church itself has not made much progress. they are still talking about false claims. they are worried about the reputa

poll l politico.com said this prosecutor's office might be willing to defy that justice department policy. they might be willing to try to indict the president out of that office since they are pushing up against that boundary anyway in the prosecutions they have already pursued. i will tell you right now a bit of a programming note here, we'll have an important addition to that story later on this week. right now. we're working on a rachel maddow show and we've got something new on that subject that nobody else has. we're working on that already and we'll have that report sometime in the next few days. as soon as it is ready. but on the michael cohen prosecution in sdny, it had previously been reported that president trump was furious about cohen being prosecuted. furious about him being prosecuted in the way he was in the way that implicated the president for those campaign finance felonies by new york federal prosecutors and for some of the other things. cnn reported in december on at least two occasions, the president lashed out at acting attorney general whitaker about i implicating

opr, the department of justice office of professional responsibility, has opened an investigation.nd it's a crackout fit, i can tell you, into what acosta did back then, but here is one thing i have been thinking about, how can acosta be held accountable in the most dramatic way when you know what, if he conspired with epstein's lawyers, to basically pull the wool over the victim's eyes, the crime victims rights act might not be a criminal statute but conspireing to violate it is a criminal offense. and i can only hope that this thing is fully investigated, and if a criminal jurisdiction is in the mix somehow, i hope acosta is held accountable, because this is reprehensible. >> david, i think we also just have to remember, none of these things are isolated instances. so the acosta/epstein situation, bob kraft and if it is indeed sex trafficking and not just sex, and 100 men in florida, r. kelly, we are seeing this collide in a way in our nation where these are things that women have been talking about for decades and we're seeing some of the men in the highest offices of power abus

office making these same recommendations. it went up to the criminal division of the department of justice, the deputy's office at the department of justice. this isn't something that was made in a vacuum, sweetheart deal by the sitting u.s. attorney at the time. that's not how that happens. you know that's not how that happens. and in this case, this person -- >> i think it needs to be looked into -- >> this person got prosecuted at the state court level because the non-pros agreement forced him to go back down to the state level and take jail time and that's what happened to him. he's a bad guy. did he deserve more, most likely so. he's a bad person. he did bad things, but hindsight is 2020 in this cases and prosecutors can only use what is in front of them at the time. and if you remember, let's also talk about the crime victims protection act. at that time, there was nothing specific in that act relative to non-pros agreements. that only came into effect by congress amending that law after the epstein case and there was an olc memo that supported the decision of acosta and remember he relied upon the career prosecutors that

we have in the department of justice an office of professional responsibility which has a unique obligation or responsibility to review the compliance of federal prosecutors. we have designated ethics officers who evaluate whether or not we have conflicts of interest or reasons why we shouldn't participate in particular matters. law enforcement agencies including d.e.a., a.t.f., u.s. marshal service have their own internal office professional responsibilities. my confidence in the integrity in law enforcement is not because i assume nobody will do wrong. contrary, i have spent much of my career as correction officer. my confidence is a product of the process that is exist. and the folks who have responsibilities to review alleged wrongdoing to make independent findings and i know because i have seen over the they are years that aggressive in making those findings. i think it is important as suzanne said to message that. to reassure people that we do have mechanisms of accountability. we're not going to jump just because somebody goes on cable tv and says there was wrongdoing f our independe

office you know so well? as i describe it, the justice department's manhattan public bureau to click on this "new york times" story and read about their office in this story. >> look, i can't speak for the of career professionals who i'm sure will. >> taking that -- >> whether that is finding crimes or not. they will going to a point. there is the new. bureau to click on this "new york times" story and read about their office in this story. >> look, i can't speak for the >> we talked about this so many times on the show, beginning with trump firing comey, asking comey to let the investigation into flynn go. they're countless examples of trump trying to influence or interject himself into different conversations. the piece that i wrote and it was speckly talking about trump's interactions with whitaker and his intents to. i think it's an even more clearcut because there is simply no exploration for it. . as we know, these storms have actually come. also the southern district has apparently continued investigating this even after michael cohen pled. there's really nowhere to go beyond michael cohen unless they'

office of state's attorney. what will be your priorities? >> juvenile justice reform is extremely important to me, but in addition to that, i believe it is so important that our o electedicials operate with integrity. i have created a public integritynit that will prosecute police officers who kve, youw, abused their powers. we will also prosecute elected officials and appointed officials who abuse their power in office as well. >> you're coming into office at a timehen statistics say the county's homicide rate is trending downward andhe overall crime rate has been cut significantly. what's your strategy for maintaining thattrend? >> absolutely. well, we're going to go after those violent repeat because a lot of times there's a small group of people who are aj committing theity of crimes in our county. we can go after them and keep dem locp and we'll be much safer. in addition to that, we have to realize that weo have a gang problem in prince george's county and we have to more meaningfully intervene with that issue of gangs in our county as well as drug les, b

because the department of justice oversees the office for immigration review, will the department of justice ensure that asylum speakers have access to counsel in mexico in order to allow them to prepare for their hearing? yes or no. >> we're going to continue to follow the policies that are currently in place. >> will you facilitate, assist, help and ensure that asylum seekers have access to legal counsel in mexico. yes or no. >> congresswoman, there's a well-defined process for asylum seekers to obtain counsel and we're going to continue to follow that. >> mr. whitaker, even while they're in mexico? >> as the acting attorney general, i cannot make assurance what happens in a foreign country. you understand that. >> this is part of the reason this is a terrible policy. another question. about a week after the policy was announced, reports surfaced that immigrant rights advocates and attorneys were denied entry into mexico. the attorneys said their passports had been flagged and reports also indicated that this was not an issue on the mexican side, but it was on the u.s. side. did the

office debating how to explain the resignation of mr. flynn, the national security adviser, the previous night. the justicealready raised questions that flynn might be subject to blackmail by the russians for misleading white house officials about his russian contacts. as the group in the oval office talked, one of trump's advisers mentioned in passing what paul ryan, then the speaker of the house, had told reporters, which is that mr. trump had asked mr. flynn to resign. it was under -- excuse me. it was unclear where speaker ryan had gotten that information, but president trump seized on mr. ryan's words. quote, that sounds better, the president said, according to people with knowledge of the discussions. mr. trump turned to the white house press secretary at the time, sean spicer, who was preparing to brief the news media. say that, mr. trump ordered. but was that true, mr. spicer pressed? say that i asked for his resignation, mr. trump repeated. and after that sean spicer in fact walked out to brief reporters on mike flynn's leaving the white house the previous night, resigning the previous night. he t

. >> reporter: becerra's vision not to handle files from the justice department officers he overseas is having a ripple effect in the bay area. palo alto police and san mateo sheriff department told to and investigates the records would be released by now have reversed course, and they're not alone. we told we were to 11 agencies flip-flopped because of the service becerra's position. >> we have not told anyone what they should do. we poorly explained to those requested information from us what we are going to do, and so what others do, respect what any agency does, how they handle that. >> reporter: some california agencies are making the files public, so far 62 releasing records. still there are nearly 200 and review. all while the right to know lot is being argued and for court jurisdictions. >> at the law from these court decisions, these rulings becomes clearer, i will be the first to get out there and do what the courts tell us interpretation of the law is. >> reporter: los angeles county and contra costa county courts have already ruled in favor of releasing records. police un

attorneys office for the southern district of florida in this case have been defended by the department of justiceons and several attorneys general. the office's decisions were approved by departmental leadership and followed departmental procedures. so that is their defense of the labor secretary but as they mentioned, the department of justice, it is also relevant to note the department of justice office of professional responsibility has been looking into the handling of this case. stuart: got it. blake burman at the white house, thank you. >>> now this. we do indeed have what i think is stunning news from venezuela and it's reported by "the washington post." they say one person is dead, 12 others injured after venezuelan troops, soldiers, opened fire on civilians who were trying to bring food and humanitarian aid into venezuela at the border with brazil. former state department senior adviser christian whiten is with us now. this is a very serious development. they're firing on their own people to keep food out from their starving nation. where do we go from here? >> well, yes, it does present

justice, its office of professional responsibility is has opened an investigation into whether alex acosta and others might have committed professional misconduct. and acosta did tell cnn he would cooperate with that investigation. kate? >> jessica, thanks so much. and thank you all so much for joining us. "ac 360" starts now. >>> good evening. tonight, a major milestone in the mueller investigation. we're waiting tonight for the mueller team to submit their sentencing memorandum in the paul manafort case. now, the deadline is midnight. the memo is likely the last major filing in the prosecution of paul manafort. as we have seen in other sentencing memoranda, it may also contain new information in the russia investigation, and serve as another sign post toward the overall investigation is headed. >> there was no collusion. there was no obstruction. there was no anything. so that's the nice part. there was no phone calls, no nothing. we have a -- i won the race. you know why i won the race? because i was a better candidate than she was and had nothing to do with russia. and everybody knows

this is an investigation by the justice department's office of professional responsibility.view the role of all the prosecutors in this case including alex acosta who at the time was the top federal prosecutor in miami, the u.s. attorney. a couple of notes about opr investigations. they don't have subpoena power. obviously, alex acosta is no longer an employee of the justice department. so their ability to force him to answer questions is very limited. he can always say no, but he says he welcomes this investigation. and acosta has said over the years that the nature of epstein's offenses became more clear after the conviction in state court. that's partly been his explanation for how the case was handled, and he also said the decision to proceed this way with just state charges, not federal charges, was reviewed by the justice department officials not only in florida but also here in washington. >> what do we -- does the plea deal say, pete? is this it? is it done? all of these accusations, does he essentially -- did they all roll into one and he can never be prosecuted for

. >> according to a justice official, whitaker, his new role is he is in the associate attorney general's officestice department. >> sounds like a no-show job, right? >> i don't know what it is, but what kind of role will he play there? >> well, he's not immune from congressional subpoenas. we're going to hear from him. doesn't matter what he does. he's not escaping responsibility on this. >> are you going to decide anything? >> i was just in iowa before we went on air. you were giving me grief about my shoe game and they're all messed up. >> that means you're not going to answer? >> yeah, not going to answer. >>> the big question tonight, do the president's answers rise to the level of impeachment, someone who knows a lot about this is here next to discuss. john dean weighs in next. hawaii?! nice! yeah i'm excited. finally earned enough rewards points. so jealous. yeah i can't wait to get that shave-ice! what's shave-ice? it's like a hawaiian snow-cone. why not just say snow-cone? i don't know, they call it shave-ice. you fly to hawaii for this? i don't go there for the ice. you saved up your r

the president is in charge of the justice department, chief legal officer of the united states, and yet he is trashing the deputy in that agency. laura: on another legal front, the president's declaration of a national emergency to build a border wall with mexico has already attracted a slew of lawsuits. is the president going to prevail? ron: yes, i think he will.he s on his strongest executive footing here.e beca of a statute was passed in the 1970's that said the president may allow a declaration ofmergency in certain circumstances, and the criteria has been met here. the president believes there is a national emergency at the border due to people coming illegally and he is well within his legal rights to do this. laura: ron, i learned from my american citizenship test that congress is supposed to hold the power of the purse. is this making republicans uncomfortable? ron: congress has the power of the purse, laura, but the president is the chief individual in char of the integrity of our borders. in this instance, he can say s can appropriate money, but what i am going to do is make

office in 1987. he was first elected to the top job in 2002 and justice january began his fifth term in office. >> heeople and how he conducted himself than just being a lawyer. that's what made him so special. >> reporter: adachi used his si

office. he was obstructing justice to such an extent that they had to hire a special prosecutor. not normal behavior. ev either on the part of a president or law enforcement. this was an unprecedented crisis in american government. the passage of time shouldn't dull its impact on us. >> good point. very important point. the president didn't take much time. he tweeted very quickly that in his words, mccabe is a disgrace to the fbi and a disgrace to our country. this is someone that spent decades working his way up through the fbi. it sounds like he will simply brush aside mccabe's accusations. >> right. not only did he tweet that pretty quickly after that interview, he had the press secretary put out a statement saying he was an embarrassment, he had no credibility. going after him and pointing back to the inspector general investigation that shows he was misleading. that's what the white house will do as mccabe is coming out, especially this interview on sunday. that's what white house officials are worried about, this will infuriate the president. you see clearly this morning, i