what did mueller have to do or not do to keep from being fired by rosenstein?le mission was to protect mueller. but if the price was to clip his wings, to not let mueller insist on getting testimony from the president, as every prosecutor i know believes he should have and then for mueller to ignore the whole story of rosenstein in his report, which i'd report in the book but he didn't put in the report. and i know he knew it because rosenstein was one of the first people he interviewed. why that wasn't in there is baffling and leads the legitimate suspicions that mueller was influenced to pull some punches there. >> a real honor to have you here. the amazing reporting we've come to expect from you. thank you very much. "deep state" is the name of the book. trip, the fbi and the rule of law. this is must-read material if you want to understand what the trump administration is still up to right now. >>> up next chaos in the not so united kingdom by mr. chaos himself boris johnson and brexit. this is the governing chaos story we would be covering every night if w

republicans were going to impeach rod rosenstein. they drafted articles of impeachment.ou know, you are right, but it was also an extraordinary moment for the department i'm sure. >> well, and remember, the person who prevented that was paul ryan who kind of put the horses back in the barn, so to speak. >> you can call them horses. >> this is a mark meadows' driven production when he was trying to -- i'm not going to say -- >> meadows, jordan. >> it was the freedom caucus which had extreme power the last congress. and paul ryan did a lot to try to hold them back and successfully did for a long time. but, listen, this is the politics of today. people justify certain actions because they believe it will get them in the good graces of president trump. you see that now on capitol hill where you have voices of traditional foreign policy kind of turning away from that embracing conspiracy theories, embracing far-flung ideas. and you can't get into somebody's head. but what people are doing lines up with what the president believes and the president says. so you can put those t

rod rosenstein was one of the people interviewed early in 2017 at the beginning of this investigationg james comey had been fired essentially by e-mail and not given the courtesy of a phone call from the president or his bosses saying i was angry, horrified, ashamed and embarrassed. in this 302 interview with the fbi we learned rosenstein and jeff sessions actually contemplated getting a new fbi director the beginning of the trump administration and rosenstein reached out to a few candidates but sheffield it once they learned the president was speaking very positively about keeping james comey. that all went south by may of 2017 and comey was fired may 9th. >> went very very south. >> thanks for reporting, evan. >>> other information, jimmy carter has now returned to the hospital. we have details. you get a strong repair that you can trust. plus, with most insurance a safelite repair is no cost to you. >> customer: really?! >> singers: safelite repair, safelite replace. my hands are everything to me. but i was diagnosed with dupuytren's contracture. and it got to the point where thing

people like comey and mccabe and probably rosenstein will say, i didn't know, i was trusting on the ihall people. that's their excuse, isn't it? >> comey took that dossier after that meeting with barack obama. the next day he took it to president-he select trump to get information and evidence. he ran downstairs to his car and started typing out his memo. went back to the fbi field office and called the crossfire hurricane team to give him his -- give them his information on his spy-op against president-elect trump. he was running the show at the orders of president obama. according to comey, obama said good luck with that. gregg: we learn from the i.g. report that comey that same month, january 2017, found out from the sub source it was all phoney information. made up, exaggerated. instead of running to the white house and saying that dossier i'd told you bits all fake. instead of running to the fisa court and withdrawing the application to spy, comey did the opposite and accelerated his investigation and sought more warrant to spy. let's hope john durham gets to the bottom of it. gr

according to a former deputy ag, rod rosenstein, remember, he said this? he must swear that it's true and correct. none of what rosenstein says happened here. he saw it the third renewal warrant. take a look. >> there is a lot about fisa applications and lot of people talking about seem not to recognize what a --dash a fisa application is like a search warrant, you need an affidavit signed by a career federal law enforcement officer who swears that the information is true and correct to the best of his knowledge and belief. that's the way we operate. if it's wrong, sometimes it is, if there is anything incorrect, that person's going to face consequences. >> face consequences? you signed the warrant, the fourth renewal. you signed a three of them. super patriot. signed off on the initial warrant on carter page -- going to fix my time here. and, by the way, signed off on something that was unverifiable. he knew it wasn't cooperated. he knew the primary sub source refused to deal with intelligence. he knew christopher steele had serious crude ability issues a

seeing a once respected career, rod rosenstein was respected by people on both sides of the aisle aso down that path, herb stop putting identity statements and be used by bill barr and shut up until he's finished. >> chris, when you watch this going on and see the players on the judiciary committee which is going to return as soon as they finish voting on the floor, who on that committee is standing up and showing not to call out names but showing the strength and the integrity of the committee? this is -- >> andrea, they're players and playing in the script and we know what the script was going to be from day one. i wish we had a reasonable conversation about the facts and law. that is not how it's going to play out. the republicans basically playing to the audience of one, president of the united states and the echo chamber. it's an effort to smear everyone along the way and unfortunate because as jon meacham said, this is a historic occasion, a solemn responsibility and what i'm struck by is the contrast of nancy pelosi saying i won't whip votes on this and steve saying you vote n

you cannot trust people like call me, mccabe, rosenstein and others at the fbi to tell te truth. they have demonstrated time and time again they want. >> sean: let me go to another breaking story tonight. this is pretty amazing. the latvian government saying they flayed suspicious hunter biden payments. i don't understand. everything seems like we hear about ukraine and i don't get it. there is so much corruption. remember the president in the zelensky call, he did say it seems like you are surrounding yourself with some of the same people as your predecessor. that wouldn't be a good idea which i think shows the president was conscious, his state of mind showing that he's aware of all the corruption. my question is what did latvia provide you? how reliable do think these documents are? is it really much worse than we thought? with the bidens. >> one of the most important things here is the joe biden weave this tale wishes first i didn't talk to my son and then his son undercut him. didn't know there was a investigation. we disproved it. his latest was when i force the ukrainians

in the meantime, you brought up rod rosenstein and the mueller report and mueller investigation. should i take that to mean that you think that elements of the mueller investigation will be part of articles of impeachment? >> what you should take it to mean is that for 2 1/2 years, this has been very carefully considered, looked at. all of that information is available to the judiciary committee. they will be considering all of the information. my point is this is not a rush to judgment. in fact, as you probably know, over the last 2 1/2 years we've had three votes on whether or not to pass an impeachment resolution and it has been rejected by the house of representatives with the majority of democrats voting against it because they wanted a very considered, thoughtful, careful review of what is a very serious responsibility that we take very much to heart. but we've made an oath when we were sworn in to protect the constitution and laws of this country. that's what we're doing. >> you say it is not a rush to judgment. you are making that case loudly this morning. yesterday profe

none of what rosenstein said here happened. none of it! and he signed the fourth warrant, the third renewal warrant. there is a lot of explaining to do himself. take a look. >> a lot of talk about fisa applications, and many people that i see talking about it seemed not to recognize what a fisa application is pretty sweet and application is actually a warrant, just like a search warrant. in order f to get a fisa search warrant, you need an affidavit signed by a career federal law enforcement officer who swears that the information in the affidavit is true and correct to the best of their knowledge and belief. that is the way we operate. if it's wrong, sometimes it is, if you find out there's anything incorrect in there, that person is going to face consequences. >> sean: face consequences. rod, you signed the fourth warrant, the third renewal. okay. jim, you signed three of them. super patriot. october 2016, yup, jim comey signed off on the initial fisa warrant against carter page. it denied him his constitutional rights and has a libertie

you had rod rosenstein going to the hill early the next morning. useful foil. >> one of the things that's happened over the course of these past couple of years is that you've been sort of the apogee point in terms of the way the president and his supporters in conservative media have gone after it. but we've also seen different iterations of it in terms of career public servants, people like marie yovanovitch and lieutenant colonel alexander vindman and others who have popped up in the impeachment investigation as fact witnesses. i wonder if that too has sort of inflected your feelings about this or if you have anything you'd like to say in terms of the way they've been treated. >> i mean, this is deeply unfair. we are all public servants. this is simply not the way, even with wrongdoing, even if you think my text messages were a mistake, this is not how public servants should be treated. and moreover, those institutions should be coming to their defense. you know, we can't control what the president says but sure as the day is long attorney gener

rod rosenstein came to the job and i was there when he took the job. and there was a lot of discussion and conversations he had with members of congress about how he was gonna call it like he saw it. he had his reputation to defend. he was not gonna allow the president to bully him. well, once barr came on the scene, he totally got co-opted byco barr. and now, you're seeing the same thing with durham. there is no way. these guys are so low key. you guys are clearly fbi guys because fbi guys don't talk unless they have to. ever. and when it's the right time to talk, they let the evidence do the talking. this is so out of character for the fbi and for doj. >> you mean the durham statement? to say -- and to be specific, let's read that again. this is the statement from the u.s. attorney who was tapped by william barr.pp william barr has traveled around to at least a couple of foreign capitals with him gathering evidence on the origins of the russia investigation. he said, our investigation has included developing information from other persons and entitie

the department of justice after mueller,nd that included not just the attorney general, but rod rosenstein. they both said this wasn't obstruction. but it might expand slightly. it will still beairly narrow. but the main problem in my v is not even the narrowness, it is the lack of foundation andce evid this reminds me a lot of the impeachment in 1868 of johnson. laura:we not that yo around for that, jonathan, but you made such an sting point yesterday, you said everyone is mad, even your doodle, your dog is mad. what has this experience been like testifying in a highly partisan environment? jonathan: that was probably the least successful thing i suggested in the heari, because by the time i got home we had threats and all types of things on the phone, on email. in some wa i think i might have been a bit naÏve. i still believe -- the fouof us like each other, the fourse witn we all like each other, and we wanted to talk about these issues. we had more things we agreed on than we disagreed on. but it seems like in this age of reason.here iso room for laura: the rage will continue. jonathan

>> i was worried very much at the time about rosenstein who praised president trump's commitment to the rule of law. people were asking me how is that possible. and then to see bill barr, a guy who knows that institution act the wayth he is acted, i don't know for sure, but i've seen donald trump warp people around him.p that's what i meant by eating hisme soul. he wraps you, people close to him, in, a cocoon of falsehood and you tell yourself a story i think that i can survive this and i will makevi compromises somehow to get through this. and it's too late. he's got you fully wrapped up. >> do you worry about that happening with durham? >> ain little bit, yeah. i mean, john durham, i don't know him really well, but he has a strongt professional relationship. that's the only thing he has to losein here. so that should give us some comfort that he will be guided only by theor facts. but this statement commenting on his work while he is still doing it is confusing and concerning. >> and you tookco a lot of lump for commenting on an investigation after it had ended. just talk one more bea

rod rosenstein, all of them signed off on these warrants with faultily information.t's despicable conduct on the part of the fisa court. will justice finally come to the deep state? ♪ dear humans, this is an adoption campaign, but, it's not for me or mr. buttons or frank over there, it's for you humans. this is a call to humans to adopt our movement to adopt our cause. this is not just about saving one of us, it is about saving all of us. nearly 4,100 lives every single day. it's about support for every one of us four and sometimes not four legged best friends waiting to meet a best friend of our own, with best friends animal society leading the charge. shelter by shelter, city by city, we can make this entire country no kill. join us. together we can save them all. ♪ gregg: welcome back. i'm gregg jarrett sitting in for the vacationing lou dobbs. some stories we are covering, trump's pushback on impeachment. president trump calling nancy pelosi and the democrats hypocrites and liars. lisa murkowski said she is disturbed by mitch mcconnell's working with the trump ad

. >> crossfire hurricane and is asked by the president and by rod rosenstein to give defensive rethink something they never did to president trump. there's a lot more to uncover their for the president was breached as early as august. >> barack obama, right? we are past that. the defensive rethink january 5, i was in the room with the president when those intelligence chiefs briefed trump. call me asked trump to stand behind and let them know there was this addendum and there was no big deal. so if they were very clear that we wanted you to know it existed but don't worry about it. it's amazing how it has evolved to this central document. the other thing that is important, wake me up until the election. we were brought in to be brief briefed. trump said questioning may be the outcome of the election and we want you to have faith in the system when we vote. we want the parties to say this is a fair vote. we have is under control, there is no threat. suddenly we are talking about russian influence. it's amazing how the government handled it when they thought clinton was going to win. >>

. >> rosenstein appoints mueller who is close to comey.what about where we are with impeachment, gentlemen? two bogus charges, that's all they have got. they haven't got the guts to get off this tiger they are riding. >> i don't think they are specific enough to call them bogus. it's obstruction of nadler, not congress. >> the president has a constitutional right to go to the court and contest it. lou: not according to these. >> this one is almost laughable. but because it's obstruction of congress, probably everything congress will vote for it. it's the dumbest article but it may get the most attention. >> they brought these charges and nobody in the country thought it was anything. so they brought the professors with bow ties and credentials. they said this won't work, we'll just make it obstruction. lou: president trump rall anything hershey, pennsylvania. >> the obama fbi obtained secret warrants to spy on my campaign based on a phoney foreign dossier of debunked smears paid for by crooked hillary clinton and the dnc. >> a pretty strai

sarah hawkins, senior investigator is here, attorney rosenstein and our chief investigator and one ofur new employees is here as well. in terms of our numbers for the agency this week, we are at 686 cases have been opened this year. at this time last year, we were at 591 cases. in terms of cases closed, we have closed 600 cases so far, which obviously is more than the entire number of cases that came into the agency in all of last year. this time last year we were at 539 cases we closed. we have 403 cases pending. this time last year we were at 230 cases pending. in terms of cases that have been sustained through d.p.a., we are currently at 75 cases have been sustained this year. this time last year, d.p.a. sustained 36 cases. cases that are past the 270-day mark, we are at 23. and this time last year, we were at 24. for cases mediated, we are at 34 cases that have been mediated this year last time we were at 23. of the cases past the nine-month mark, those 23 cases, 11 of the cases are told. and so for the remaining cases, i have my chief of investigation here to present to talk a li

rosenstein, get ready to testify. >> sean: senator graham, thank you. now let's turn to the ongoing charade. moments ago jerry nadler had a rare moment of clarity saying democrats have to impeach pro-trump because he might actually win the election. can't make this up, take a look. >> we can't rely on election to solve our problems on the president's threatens the very integrity of that. so with a heavy heart, including my duty to my country i support these articles of impeachment. i urge my colleagues to support them as well. >> sean: o come a moment of real clarity. you know he's really saying there? we the people might, yeah, shocked the world again. and 328 days and i pray we do. imagine fake news cnn, they know project that donald j. trump has been reelected, the 45th president of the united states. and we the people, you get to do it. here now, house minority leader kevin mccarthy. let's get your analysis of your analysis report, and where you think this is going and especially the comments of durham and bar. >> was and an excellent hearing today.

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. >> mister rosenstein, get ready to testify.y one on one interview with nikki haley straight ahead. ♪ >> sean: so i recently had a chance to sit and said the former us ambassador to the us nikki haley to talk about her new book with all due respect. how are you going to say again. because all these interviews are short you give a great life story but i want people to know a lot about you. i found things i found inspiring, your rise to be governor of south carolina and un ambassador. what has gotten a lot of people detention is the conversation, rex tillotson, general kelly, tell that story and out of it i was wondering did you feel a need to tell the president this is what these guys are doing? >> i did tell the president. this is one page out of 250 pages but i did tell the president and hr mcmaster and others that knew of my concerns but keep in mind what i said is this wasn't that these guys thought this was the rogue president, they disagree with his politics, disagreed with of get out of our paris climate agreement, getting

justice, only that there were cases that might have added up to that and it was rejected by rod rosenstein and william barr. i think what democrats are doing here is an extreme longshot and maybe too long shots. >> as we get to the end of the year the president seems like he has some political wind at his back despite this impeachment, a couple -- 50%, some about 45, 46 but the economy churning on all cylinders. >> that normally the most critical issue, it has given them billions so far. in the past year there were times there was a lot of talk about the possibility of looking at the onset of the recession sometime soon, even before the 2020 election, nobody seems to be saying that which if you're an investor you might think that's a bad sign when nobody is worried but from a political standpoint the president would appear to be in better shape than he was at the beginning of the year which is hardly what his adversaries the democratic party hoped for in the process of trying to impeach him. that's the way the matter stands the way i see it. >> do you expect to move these articles soon aft

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the 40 subpoenas the house intelligence committee put out under devin anyone's that rosenstein nevereback with. right now the way they are doing it, this blitzkrieg, thick in what is going on in china. but that won't stop them. what they want to do is nullify the election. they are prepared to sacrifice a rook to get the king. hillary clinton or bloomberg or some centrist comes in here. trish: hillary clinton might be back? >> hillary clinton is doing a meeting for a book she wrote. she came out yesterday and said he's an i will legitimate president. he's a clear and present danger. chinese communist party is not a clear and present danger. donald trump is a clear and present danger. she is running. >> is there nobody on the call that could have said don't go there? he's got a certain style. that's why he's donald trump and that's why he has been able to push back on china. i think the team is fine. i think stephanie grisham, mick, they have a fine team. number one, let's slow down. let's get it all on the table. let's go. because trump can play that game. and let the american people

briefing for members of the leadership of congress and when andy mccabe and deputy attorney general rosensteinriefed congress on mueller being appointed and the expansion of the fbi's investigation. he showed up at the meeting even no he had recused himself. i don't understand how he thinks about these things. it didn't make a lot of sense. given the fact mr. parnas is under investigation, i would expect the southern district of new york will look at these phone calls to sorts out what they are. they are important leads especially something like an eight minute phone call with him. what's that all about? >> we'll see if he decides to cooperate, that could be significant as well. the chairman of the intelligence committee adam schiff says he's deeply concerned by all of this. listen to this. >> in terms of the ranking member, it won't surprise you i'm going to reserve comment. it is deeply concerning that at a time when the president of the united states was using the power of his office to dig up dirt on a political rival that there may be evidence there were members of congress complicit in t

that was rejected by rod rosenstein and of course attorney general barr. what the democrats are doing is an extreme long shot and maybe two long shots. >> bret: as we get to the end of the year, the president seemed like he has some political wind to his back despite the impeachment. he's pulling the economy is churning on all cylinders. >> is normally the most critical issue. what's giving him brilliancy thepossibility we might be lookg at the onset of a recession before the 2020 election but nobody seems to be saying that. if you are in the investor, you think that's a pain, when the body is worried. a political standpoint, the president appears to be in better shape than he was at the beginning of the year which is hardly what the adversaries in the democratic party would hope for when they were in the process of trying to impeach him. that's the way the matters stands for now at least how i see it. >> bret: last thing, do you expect nancy pelosi to move these articles soon after we get back from this break, january 6th, 7th? that standoff is going to s

> a year and a half ago, jim jordan tried to impeach the republican deputy attorney general rod rosensteinithholding documents and refusing to answer a subpoena. now the president can do it and it's fine. there were 241 republicans in the house when the president took office. there are 197 now. and yet what happens is a lot of the people that got blown out were less trump-y, from more swing districts. so this is patrick mchenry from north carolina, he has a complete connection with the average republican voter and that's given him political power here. trump has touched the nerve of my conservative base like no person in my lifetime. there is a loyalty to the president. former senator jeff flag is now trying to poke his colleagues on the other side. the danger of an untruthful president is compounded when an equal branch follows the president off of the cliff. if there was ever a time to put country over party, it is now and you might just save the grand old party before it's too late. we talked earlier about the debate among democrats, who are we. it's much more muted because the people w

months ago, and at one point,t i had to walk intoa meeting where they tried to kick me out, and rod rosensteint the time, the acting t attorney general, the deputy attorney general, comes up to me and says, hey, you are not going to be allowed in this room. i said, sorry, i'm the chair off intelligence committee. i thought, at the time, it was the democrats and nancy pelosi that were trying to kick me out of the room. it was actually mccabe. look, that's obstruction of a congressional investigation. i think mccabe has a lot of other problems that he needs to worry about it, and he probably ought to start with actually t reading the ig report, because when you start from page 1 through 318, every single page has bombshells on it. >> laura: the more i read, the more infuriated i became yesterday. gentlemen, it was great to have> both of your voices tonight. so important. thank you so much, both of you, for what you've done for our country. coming up, new details about the saudi national who obtained the gun used to kill three people at a florida military base. as servicemen speak out about this

he attacked rod rosenstein and jim comey, how does it feel for the leaders of the fbi to be exonerated from the central attackro from this president th the fbi set him up and spied on h him? >> they know what they did and they know what they did not do and howdi they were motivated. these are good and decent people. it does not tell them anything new. on the other hand, it feels pretty good. because now you have an independent inspector general who has come to the conclusion that we all suspected all along, right? >> if you spend any time watching fox news, claire, michael harwitz was the right answer. the report i am waiting for is harwitz. there is a lot of eggs in the basket.is among what he describes as a low level lawyer but the attack from the man in the office with no corner has been about treasons and traitors. harwitz has one of his witnesses, mr. durham. >> the republican senators who have been all in, the only hoax here is the fbi had corruption. in january of 2018, the chairman of the homeland security committee in the senate said "this is all about further evidence of corr

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that was rejected by rod rosenstein and of course attorney general barr. i think what the democrats are doing is an extreme long shot and may be too long shots. i don't think the odds are in their favor. >> bret: as we get to the end of the year, the president seems like has some political wind at his back despite this i impeachment.t. some polls at 50%, some at 40, 46. the economy is turning on all cylinders. >> yeah, that's normally the most critical issue. certainly what's given him buoyancy so far. during this past year there were times when there was a lot of talk about the possibility we might be looking at the onset of a recession sometime soon, sometime perhaps even before the 2020 election and now nobody seems to be saying that. if you are an investor, you might be thinking that's a bad sign when nobody is worried. but from a political standpoint, the president would appear to be in better shape than he was at the beginning of the year which is hardly what his adversaries in the democratic party had hoped for when they were in the process of tryin

his allies in congress sought to impeach rosenstein for not pursuing those. what keeps you up at night when you see a president and attorney general so disdainful? checks and balances, self-police, it's one of the pillars that hold up a democracy. what do you think personally when you know mccabe and what he's been through, jim comey was here, all the people who have been smeared by donald trump in terms of their motives for investigating the campaign and the ties to russia cleared yesterday by the ig, exonerated from the smears, the accusations of treatson. >> it's troubling we have a president who targets people for an investigation. it's troubling once people are exonerated after a thorough investigation, the conclusions are not accepted and instead you have a second backup duplicate investigation that's designed to come to a different conclusion. you mentioned before the statement that seeps like it was coerced from mr. durham. first it's weird for a prosecutor to comment on an ongoing investigation. we know people criticized for doing that. second, to di

it was also the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. >> gentlemen, time is well expired. mr. correa? >> i'd like to think our witnesses for being here today. i assure you your testimony is important not only to this body but to an america that's listening very intently to the issues in force are, and why it's important that all of us understand the issues before us. professor feldman, president trump has ordered the executive branch to completely blocking the efforts of this house to investigate whether he committed high crimes and misdemeanors in dealings with ukraine. is that correct? >> yes, it is. >> president trump has asserted many officials are somehow absolutely immune from testifying in this impeachment inquiry. on the screen behind you, is the opinion by judge jackson, a federal judge here in d.c., that rejects president trump's assertion. do you agree with judge jackson's ruling that president trump has invoked a nonexistent legal basis to block witnesses from testifying, in this impeachment interview? >> i agree with the judge's opinion. she correctly held there i

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my name is dianea rosenstein. i'm a staff attorney at the department of police accountability. i have a brief presentation or i can give you an oral overview of how we're dealing with the newly enacted law. whatever you prefer. >> it looks really good. just a few slides. >> supervisor walton: i would like to see a few slides. >> thank you. >> we just did a presentation last week. >> so in january, a law went into effect that made many of our previously confidential records public. and we have received a number of requests from various agencies, as well as news agencies for pretty much all of our records. unfortunately we have retained all of our records since our inception, which was 1982. and there are several requests. these are the different agencies and news outlets that have requested our records. and there have been several requests that want all records that are disclosable, under this new law, for all officers retired and currently employed. which means that we've got 30,000 plus files to look through, to determine what information is disclosable. we've come up with spe

me is andrew weissman and former senior council for the clinton impeachment investigation, paul rosenstein. i'm trying to get behind the strategy of democrats. i get they don't have a lot of leverage. the senate is controlled by republicans and mitch mccovernn announced he's going to work with the president. are they opening themselves up for the obvious attack from republicans and the president that they're not confident in their own articles of impeachment and they don't want to let the senate make it fair and show the president is actually innocent? that's what the president would say. that's what republicans are saying. >> i do think there's some responses the democrats have. i mean, mcconnell in his letter today talked about the paucity of evidence. well, the democrats get to say well, if you're dplcomplaining about that, don't block the witnesses. if you have firsthand witnesses blocked by the white house, that's a really sort of ironic thing for mcconnell to say. i do also think there's something interesting here. there's a wild card which is that the trial is overseen by the chief

of justice claim and it was not just the attorney general, it was also the deputy attorney rod rosenstein. >> the gentleman's time is well expired. mr. correia. >> thank you. and i thank our witnesses for being here today. i can assure your testimony is important not only to this body but to america that is listening very intently on what the issues before us are and why is it so important that all of us understand the issues before us. professor feldman, as was just discussed, president trump has ordered the executive branch to completely blockade the efforts of this house to investigate whether he committed high crimes and misdemeanors in his dealings with the ukraine. is that correct. >> yes, it is. >> president trump has also asserted that many officials are somehow absolutely immune from testifying in this impeachment inquiry. on the screen behind you is the opinion by judge jackson, a federal judge here in d.c., that rejects president trump's assertion. professor feldman, do agree with judge jackson's ruling that president trump has invoked a nonexistent legal basis to block witness