why in the world does adam schiff say it's un-american? >> adam schiff is un-american, i guess.se the reality is, everybody in the world said we want a more transparent a presidency after the last administration. you know what you got? you have the most transparent president in american history. whether it's documents, his tweets. you know what president trump is thinking on virtually every issue.h it turns out the democratsts don't like that as much as they their they would. >> jason: where is the sunlight foundation? they should be giving trump awards for how open and transparent. you won't see anyone in the washington, d.c., class giving him credit for how open and transparent he is. and talking to the media every time he goes to the helicopter. congressman biggs, larry, thank you for joining us tonight. up next we will go one-on-one with alice marie johnson. that a great story. you don't want to miss this. the model prisoner whose life sentence president trump commuted last year. we talk to her about her brand new book when we come right back. ♪ -motor? -it's pronounced "mo-

adam schiff, what is the one thing he is done to unite us?le continue to give him a platform? kennedy: they know healthy crazy things like that. >> is repeatedly lied to the market people on television, the monster belies, you said this, that is actually complete and total lie. they continue to trauma and give them any credit builder. he should be standing on the street corner. >> is alex jones with clarence. he is so funny to me, there was charlie brown thing, that is who adam schiff says. the republican is going to come on halloween. he is good to tell us everything that is going on. he spent two years and the pumpkin patch where the great pumpkin did not show, the most apocalyptic preachers that have indecency. he is actually saying no, it happened. it happened. it is halloween in america, ralph northam wearing costumes. [laughter] kennedy: is very. >> will still be orbiting the sun, politicians are we saying is into the world and that she do we say, we are uniquely capable of separating -. kennedy: this is what were waiting for this is th

>> this is the full transformation of adam schiff to joe mccarthy. he put out his truth. google this and there was a house un-american activities committee that investigated americans. not people threatening the country but investigated americans. adam investigated the president. he wants to investigate the president's family. he says un-american and he wants the powers to broaden the investigation instead of work that is important. we should look at china, russia, north korea and iran. he should go back in time and chair the house un-american committee. >> jason: when the committee spends all its time to focus on trump all day every day instead of the world problems i think you are right. this is a distraction for the committee. heaven forbid something happened. sara, we have a pending i.g. report and we have other things that are in play. what are you hearing and seeing for the timing and the wheels that the attorney general barr is putting in to place? >> well, the attorney general is certainly not going to slow down. what i'm hearing is he is very dedicated, moving thi

this as jerry nadler, nancy pelosi, al green and now adam schiff all say their goal is to stop trumpo getting reelected. critics say this is the constitutional crisis, democrats not doing their job on kitchen table issues. tonight we debate one of the worst congresseses in history when it comes to getting nothing done. i'm elizabeth mcdonald. the "the evening edit" starts right now. >>> welcome took the show. you're watching the fox business network. we have every angle of today's action covered for you. we have edward lawrence at the white house and the markets reaction to china. let's get to edward lawrence in washington. >> president donald trump will meet, as you said, with the chinese president at the g-20 summit there. the president today is meeting with hungarian prime minister here, dinner later on tonight. but most of the questions there focused around china and the president saying that the two leaders have not spoken actually since the president raised tariffs on $200 billion worth of goods last week. he's not worried about china retaliating upping the tariffs from 5% to 1

house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff threatening $25,000-a-day fines for trump associateswatch president tom fitton said tonight it's sniff who needs to be -- it's schiff who needs to be held accountable. >> schiff is one of the top offenders in terms of the illicit targeting of president trump. he's obviously been working with fusion gps. he's been on the scam. and i don't say this lightly, lou, because he's one of these politicians who have lied repeatedly about russia and donald trump. lou: arrests at the border now surpassing the half million mark already. for perspective, just about 400,000 apprehensions in all of the last fiscal year. that's it for us tonight, and we thank you for being with us. "the wall street journal"'s james freeman, congressman andy biggs among our guests tomorrow. follow me on twitter@@loudobbs like me on facebook, follow me on instagram at lou dobbs lauren: here are your market movers at 5:00 a.m. stocks rocked as the trade war intensifies, china firing back with tariffs on $60 billion worth of u.s. goods. but president trump says we're right

you heard from adam schiff. we are proud of his work. i just want you to know this, when wear gate babies came to the congress in 1976, there was big transformational class of members of congress. it was fantastic. fantastic. people have chaired this class in terms of size and depth, ergy and throughism, interviewership as a similar class. the reason i bring it up is, in 1976 when they came, not one of those fresh men chaired a subcommittee in the first year. and this fresh men class, 18 freshman chair subcommittees in the house. we view that as something -- thank , 10 women you stephanie, and eight men. this is remarkable. to think that the woman who is and deb hole hand, who one the native-american women. of haaland is now the chair the natural resources committee public lands subcommittee, that is a very big deal. and very big deal in the native-american community. so we are very proud of them. the beautiful diversity of them. 106 women in the congress, 91 of them democrats. thank you, stephanie. isn't that remarkable? 60% of our cauc

>> i think the clip you played of adam schiff showed it accurately. he's a hypocrite. he was all for president obama using executive privilege. now he's against this president. the bottom line is they spent $35 million investigating the president. their conclusion was that there was no underlying crime. this whole ka bitsing about, oh well, maybe he obstructed justice to try to hide an investigation about something he didn't do, this is absurd and the american people know it. people have gone to their corners on it. it's important to remember that this was politically motivated from the very beginning from a political document, from the hillary clinton campaign, and that should be investigated because we cannot allow the incumbent parties to weaponize the intelligence communities to spy on americans or on political candidates or potentially their donors, so there is a real danger to this and it is a constitutional one. but the democrats have it completely upside down. >> the clips go both ways. back when president obama was asserting executive power you attacked him fo

lou: let's start with adam schiff, because it just amuses me to even mention his name.impeachment, justin amash, republican so-called pushing the same nonsense. why do the american people have to put up with these clowns? >> well, if they're so adamant about bringing it up and there's so much evidence, why don't they actually do it? i mean, you have about 60 democrats who have actually, before the mueller report even came out, piled on and said, oh, yeah, we've got to impeach the president, but they're not doing it because there is no case, there is no the underlying way to do it. and i'm surprised, you know, it shows how far, you know, "face the nation" has a fallen when every single week it seems like they put on adam schiff. he's been spewing lies for two years, and i don't know why anybody listens to him at this point because he has no case. lou: well, mitt romney -- our friend, mitt romney -- the said that little adam schiff was being courageous in his calls, said he disagreed with him though after that. what do you make of that kind of nonsense? >> well, look, eac

so is adam schiff back in washington. want to play what he had to say. >> it's stunning that the trump administration is going down the same tragic path they did in 2016, and it seems to me that what giuliani is saying and what others -- brad parscale and others in the trump campaign are saying is we're going to do everything short of what's downright criminal. ethics don't matter anymore. patriotism doesn't matter anymore. and if that's where we are at a country, then we're in deep trouble. >> well, i mean clearly the trump campaign and the trump white house don't care, right? i mean and that is a strategic decision on their part. >> so what do democrats do about it? >> if fine for democrats to come after them. it's fine for democrats to make that argument. you know, for them, just brush it off. it's not something they see as a thread, and in many cases, they actually see it as beneficial. let the democrats rail and rant about stuff that people don't care about. >> but i think what the democrats have to do is they have t

joining us now is chairman adam schiff.ery much for being here tonight, much appreciated. >> you bet. >> you released transcripts tonight of michael cohen appearing before your committee. why did you want those transcripts in the public record, and what do you think the public should understand about what he testified to and what he provided you in those hearings? >> i think it's important that the public get to see as much as they can of what these witnesses had to say. that's all the more important given that the trump administration is stonewalling on allowing witnesses like don mcgahn to testify in public. so where we have accessed information that we can provide the public we want to do it. here you can see why we are so concerned about these attorneys that were representing the president and ivanka trump and jared kushner and others, that they may have been involved in trying to get michael cohen to testify falsely before our committee. we want to find out were others involved in that false testimony. one of the thing

i know you heard from adam schiff earlier. we are so proud of his work. when the watergate babies came to the congress in 1976, it was class ofansformational members of congress. it was fantastic. fantastic. people have compared this class anderms of size and depth energy in entrepreneurship and all the rest -- diversity -- as a similar class. the reason i bring it up is in 1976 when they came, not one of

i know you heard from adam schiff earlier. we are so proud of his work. when the watergate babies came to the congress in 1976, it was class ofansformational members of congress. it was fantastic. fantastic. people have compared this class anderms of size and depth energy in entrepreneurship and all the rest -- diversity -- as a similar class. the reason i bring it up is in 1976 when they came, not one of those freshmen chaired a subcommittee and their first year. in this class, 18 freshmen chair subcommittees in the house. we view that is something spectacular. 10 women. thank you, stephanie for helping me make that happen. and eight men. this is remarkable to think that the woman who is one of the first senators this morning was wonderful and deb holland, one of the other two first native american women to come to the is nows -- deb holland the chair of the natural resources committee public lands subcommittee. that is a very big deal, and it's a very big deal in the native american community as well, so we are very, very proud of them, all of them. the

griff, even problemmer as i see it, adam schiff is going to do what benefits adam schiff and his politicalton post" isn't their tagline democracy dies in the darkness? they are the darkness. they are the ones right now with the "new york times" running cover for brennan and others in the intelligence agency that are leaking to the "new york times" to get president trump not to declassify information. i mean, think about what i'm telling you. listen, i worship and respect freedom of the press, but they have the freedom to be stupid, too. and unfortunately they have taken us up on the offer. jedediah: dan, it's because their concern that transparency will lead to a problem for democrats in 2020. that leads to tougher questions for joe biden, potentially questions for president obama. and it breaks down the barrier of this whole narrative that they have been running with for so long. appreciate you being here. that is what is going on. pete: thanks dan, appreciate it. >> thanks, good talking to you. jedediah: we will turn to headlines now. this is a fox news alert. the united nations ruling t

we will be joined by house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff. senator richard bloominfall that you will who had some crucially important exchanges with the attorney general in today's hearing and neal katyal who co-wrote the rules for special counsels that william barr relied on today when he said that it's perfectly legitimate for president trump to have tried to fire robert mueller for conflicts of interest. and so the showdown has arrived. that's where we are now. the attorney general of the united states is refusing to testify to the house judiciary committee tomorrow and chairman jerry nadler said tonight that because the attorney general is refusing to comply with the judiciary committee's subpoena for the full unredacted mueller report and refusing to testify tomorrow, is he on verge of seeking a contempt citation against the attorney general. >> if good faith negotiations don't result in a pledge of compliance in the next day or two, the next step is seeking a contempt citation against the attorney general. >> and so it is now the house

be detrimental to the security interests. >> sabrina siddiqui, the house intelligence chairman, adam schiffhe called this move by the president, he said, the president was attempting to weaponize and politicize intelligence. will schiff be successful in carrying out congressional oversight of this latest development? >> adam schiff said that the house intelligence committee will conduct vigorous oversight into any steps that the administration might take to selectively release or distort classified information. i think given the broader lack of cooperation between the trump administration and democrats in congress, how they would be able to really determine what the processes are internally, that rep mains to be seen. but that really is what this issue is all about. the president has long been trying to muddy the water between authorized surveillance and the notion of spying on his campaign. and i think the concern that democrats have is that the administration is going to selectively release information to try to suggest that there was some kind of improper tie during the course of the inv

house intelligence chair adam schiff joins me now. do you have special information?at a prediction borne of some sort of confidence that it's the will of the people? >> you know, we're in conversation with the special counsel's office and it's not that they've confirmed a date, but this is going to happen. it has to. and you have to start, i think, with the man who did the investigation. and i think the republicans and i think the attorney general even understand that. that's why barr has said repeatedly he's not going to stand in the way of mueller's testimony. that's because he can't. that's just a bridge too far for even them. >> i don't want to get into confidential negotiations, but is your expectation and understanding that this would be in public session, that the american people would fundamentally get to hear from the person who undertook this enterprise? >> yes, i think in the judiciary committee it will be. >> yeah. >> completely in open session. in our committee we might have part of it in open and part in closed. we're predominately interested in the cou

taken to twitter, adam schiff has to say about it the congressman from the great state of california.hile trump stonewalled the public to learn about the truth about obstruction and justice, he weaponized law enforcement and classified information against political enemies. but cover-up has entered a new and dangerous phase. this is on america although alleged at the white house, that is exactly what the democrats did. of course, the president on his way to japan for the first of several trips the next few weeks. we will have all the coverage but for now, back to you. >> julie: kevin corke, happy holidays. for more on this, let's bring in karl rove, former white house chief of staff, carl great to see you on a friday. i want your opinion. what do you make of the president's action he is giving the attorney general review and release of previously classified information about the origins of the russian investigation. good idea? >> karl: yes. barr is not going to be able to do the investigation he wants to do and how this all began without access to the documents that are classified. so

i speak , adam schiff is next. bright, and be gone. agenda.o share the i'm so honored to have the opportunity to serve as chair of the house democratic caucus. i assume responsibility for the beginning of this conference. my first act as chair, it was my responsibility to place the name of nancy pelosi in nomination as our next speaker. [applause] mr. jeffries: and isn't she doing a great job? donald trump has no idea what to do with her. i mean, he cannot even come up with a nickname. he just calls her nancy. we are so proud of her. my first responsibility was to place her name and nomination -- in nomination. i was taking through my remarks and my junk is son said, dad, what are you doing? i said, it is my responsibility to nominate nancy pelosi for our next speaker on january 3. do you have any advice for your father? and without missing a beat, he said, dad, don't blow the moment. and i really want to say we recognize that this is a critical moment. we have a responsibility to both deliver on the kitchen table

sunlight foundation and others for his openness and transparency not this schizophrenic approach by adam schiff who says it's unamerican to actually look under the hood and hold people accountable. pete: have you dealt with a deluge of d.c. talking points before. when you see the entire other side start using the phrase cover-up, cover-up, cover-up. is this just messaging? do they really think they can lie to the american people and pretend like it's trump that's covering up? >> covering up what? he was exonerated. there was no collusion. what he is doing is he is exposing. and you would think that the media would be jumping up and down and saying my goodness the president is doing what barack obama didn't do and other presidents have done is he is allowing this openness and transapparently taking place. allow them to go out and do their work. john huber what he is doing in utah. also the attorney general. the attorney general has to have this information and the public should be able to see what it is without releasing sources and methods. griff: when do you predict we will see the inspector g

elizabeth: listen to democrat adam schiff's flip-flop. here's the flip-flop.ed a crackdown on border problems in 2011 i believe. check me on that, team. he said basically drugs and guns are pouring over the border. there's illegal trafficking guns and drugs. adam schiff says it is a serious national security and public safety threat and now he's basically going after president trump for the same thing. adriana? >> that's right. just a few months ago, he claimed adam schiff that, you know, trump is manufacturing the border crisis when every american knows that's not true. i mean, the customs agents on the ground, the i.c.e. agents, they know it is a real crisis. our border is being flooded by 5,000 illegal immigrants a day. and so now he's totally flip-flopping when even jeh johnson's barack obama's head of dhs acknowledges there's a crisis of the border. elizabeth: the equivalent of he said orlando at the border. that's jeh johnson. thanks for joining us. >> glad to be here. elizabeth: the democrats say if it takes a subpoena to get mueller to come forward, th

our first guest tonight, house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff. he issued, quote, a subpoena to attorney general pete barr for documents and materials related to special counsel robert mueller's investigation, including all counter-intelligence and foreign intelligence materials produced during the special counsel's investigation. the full unredacted report and the underlying evidence. the showdown on that such is scheduled for one week from today. wednesday, may 15 is the deadline and congressman schiff to alternate general william barr. after they voted along party lines in 2016 to hold william barr in contempt of congress, no date was set for when the full house vote on that contempt of congress resolution. we will ask chairman schiff if he expects speaker pelosi to delay the full house vote on contempt of congress until the democrats see what the attorney general's response is to the new intelligence committee subpoena. in a statement announcing that subpoena, chairman schiff described, quote, a good faith effort to reach an accommodation with

click, call or visit a store today. >>> it's barely a year ago adam schiff was writing democrats should be considering impeaching president donald trump. well, this week congressman schiff faced with across the board fight all the subpoenas that stone wall effort now, congressman schiff tells "the washington post" these continued acts of willful obstruction add new weight to those who advocated impeachment. a fascinating interview schiff says the case for impeachment will be weighty still if starting impeachment proceedings could allow congress to breakthrough white house obstruction in a way they currently cannot. if congress' legal right to the materials they otherwise can't obtain will be strengthened if they formally start impeachment proceedin proceedings. this is a question democrats are wrap grappling with with the task of trying to impeach the president, setting that aside is an impeachment proceeding basically, procedurely the path they need to go down if the white house is going to fight the way they are to block access to the mueller investigation and to block access to every

and adam schiff wants to be briefed on it. in fact, there's a legal obligation for the executive branch to brief the congress on pending and ongoing intelligence matters. and that's the argument schiff made. and the trump administration knew that they had really no leg to stand on to deny that information. this is a 50-year pact between congress and the executive branch over classified intelligence matters. so now the trump administration has agreed to provide some of this information and it's going to help adam schiff's investigation. and the interesting thing here is david nunez, the ranking republican on the committee also wanted that information, for his own reasons. he think it's going to show misconduct by the fbi. schiff thinks it's going to shed more light on, if not crimes, moral turpitude by the trump campaign, with regard to russia. >> can i make one note to you, ali? >> sure? >> we should also know that the republicans don't have an infrastructure plan. the president doesn't. we know that the president repeatedly sa

>> that's the chairman of the house intelligence committee adam schiff speaking moments ago.f part of the function of initiating an impeachment inquiry is to get congress greater powers to get documents and testimony, et cetera. they are not getting t white house across the board is denying a lot of stuff but they're beginning to get some, here from the doj, a court has ruled in their favor for financial records for the trump organization. does that obviate the need to some degree for proceeding to an impeachment inquiry? >> well, i think it gives speaker pelosi some ammunition to say let's just cool off for at least a little while and see how far we get going down the road that i have already charted. so that no doubt is something that will come up in their meeting this morning. i think, you know, going forward, though, that no one is going to back off from the side of the democrats on trying to get those documents and trying to get mueller to testify as well. the question is how much of that growing chorus that we were talking about earlier of impeachment, how much that gro

click, call or visit a store today. >>> it's barely a year ago adam schiff, the top democrat on the intelligence committee, was writing in "the new york times" that democrats should not be considering impeaching president donald trump. well this week, congressman schiff who is chair of the intelligence committee and now faced with an across the board fight all the subpoenas stonewall effort from the white house, now congressman schiff tells "the washington post" "these continued acts of willful obstruction add new weight to those who have advocated impeachment." schiff now says the case for impeachment will be weightier still if starting impeachment proceedings could allow congress to break through white house obstruction in a way they currently cannot if congress' legal right to the materials they otherwise can't obtained will be strengthened if they formally start impeachment proceedings. this is one of the questions congressional democrats are grappling with right now. is an impeachment proceeding basically procedurally the path they need to go down if the white house is going to fight the wa

adam schiff absolutely has it. >> harris: well, where is it? >> kennedy: who knows? that's the problem. we are using these institutions. oversight is critical. if the president, regardless of the party, has done something so horrific and so abusive, figure what that is and then go after it. don't try and read the pantry hoping that you find an expired can of pork and beans. >> jessica: should they comply with all the subpoenas? that's a fun things out. >> kennedy: here's the thing -- this will happen when democrats are in power, when they assumed the presidency. and if there is a split chamber and republicans have the house. for people sitting on the sidelines, it's absolutely exhausting. i agree with you completely. to go a point further on that, democrats are hyper politicizing all of this, and there is no longer a distinction between politics and policy. policy has gone by the wayside. it's all politics. it's a way for them to not have to work on immigration. there's a great sense of relief. immigration in particular, because democrats could actually do that. they

adam schiff, jerry nadler. elijah cummings, maxine waters. all of them have a piece of this. last week we had three victories in the courts. one elijah cummings, the president's accountant, they have to share the information. two maxine waters which is they have to share the information and three not related to the russian investigation or related to other problems we where they will lead us, we shap see. -- shall see. nothing is off the table. we do want to make a compelling case that even the republican senate which seems to be not an objective jury will be convinced of the path that we have to take as a country. >> you mentioned the victories in court. you mentioned the various committees doing their investigations. some in congress want to go further. representative steve cohen of tennessee opened a dedicated impeachment inquiry judiciary committee. are you -- >> committee one. >> open a specific investigation of impeachment. >> you mean he as a member of the committee because the committee has not. >> yes. there are democrats in congress who want to go further than the e

on impeachment, adam schiff had this to say. >> an impeachment process will divide us further.pushing a boulder off the side of a cliff. it gathers a certain moment tumutum until it hits rock bottom and we're trying to push that 3w0 d boulder back up the hill. maybe this is his perverse way of dividing us more. >> seth molten has a different idea on impeachment. >> i think we made a mistake as a party by waiting until the mueller report came out. the fact of the matter is that this is our constitutional duty. a lot of people make the argument that it's not a politically opportune time to have this debate. i'm not saying we should vote on impeachment yet. we don't even have the full mueller report but let's have that debate. >> some investigations being blocked by the administration include topics that have received bipartisan support, something the house minority leader con seecedeoncedes. >> don't you think there are some investigations with merit? >> there are some with merit. the problem i have is some like a situation that chairman nadler is doing. he just held the attorney

let's see what he finds. >> congressman adam schiff ripping the move saying "the cover-up has enteredew and dangerous phrase and also it's unamerican." jesse, now that this declassification of millions of documents has occurred, do you think the deep state will fight back because they have got to work with a bunch of different agencies involved? >> jesse: all the scoundrels involved are gone. if you think about mccomb any, peter strzok, page, those gangsters are out of there. >> there is the f.b.i. >> true, but if you declassify everything you'll have access to raw source documents, fisa applications and the 302s and this is why the media is so upset by this. it's the first time donald trump has convinced the media to be against transparency. the media does not want to see secret c.i.a. and f.b.i. documents for the very first time. usually they win pulitzer certificate prizes finding these documents. now they don't want to see them because they know they participated in a witch-hunt. they know that all of their heroes like comey has been lying. they will dump him as soon as the crossh

why is adam schiff doing so? >> he is concerned there may have been an effort among these trump attorneys to help michael cohen with his testimony which later was shown to be false and pled guilty to lying to the house and senate intelligence committee about the pursuit of that trump tower moscow project in 2016 in the run-up to the elections. after the democrats took control of the house, adam schiff brought michael cohen back to capitol hill. the question schiff has is whether or not these attorneys coached him to make those false statements. they've essentially denied that but also have resisted his efforts to get more information. schiff is threatening to subpoena. when i asked adam schiff whether or not this was an effort to breach attorney/client privilege as trump attorneys are suggesting, he pushed back. >> if there were others participating in that act of obstruction of justice, if there were others knowing that have false statement, participated in the drafting of that false statement, we need to know a

but at the same time chairman adam schiff threatening to take what he calls enforcement action against the justice department for not complying with his subpoena for counterintelligence information from the investigation. so there's a lot to discuss. i want to bring in mark mazetti, juliette kayyem, and renato mariotti. so good to have all of on and thank you so much. good evening. mark, i'm going to start with you. this voicemail came on the same night that flynn's lawyers told attorneys for trump and the white house that they could no longer talk. and here's what the trump contact said to flynn. okay? this is a quote. he says, "it wouldn't surprise me if you've gone on to make a deal with the government. if there's information that implicates the president, then we've got a national security issue. so you know, we need some kind of heads-up. just for the sake of protecting all our interests if we can. remember, what we've always said about the president and his feelings toward flynn, and that still remains." so mark, how significant is that? >> you know, i don't know yet. there's the

let's look at adam schiff here.n agreement, to try to force europe to renege on the iran agreement, to try to force iran to withdraw from the agreement, to go back to path of enrichment, the designation of the irgc as a terrorist group, the belligerent rhetoric from pompeo, from bolton -- >> the policy decisions. >> all of these policy decisions have led us to a state where confrontation is for more likely. this is why our allies are departing from us. this is why our allies increasingly are isolating us and not iran. and i don't see how these policies have made this country any more safe. elizabeth: but adam schiff's critics are saying you can't trust the him because four years ago he argued this a post on his own web site that the obama administration should be much tougher on iran, and he said force should be used if they file to comply with the nuclear agreement. your reaction on adam schiff flip-flopping. >> well, that's all he ever does. you can't -- you know he's lying when you see his lips move. the fact is

they came out of what adam schiff told me here about making rosenstein potentially testify.omey came very close to the critique of rod rosenstein. he was not strong enough. someone made the observation, and i don't recall who the writer was, it doesn't corrupt. it reveals who you are. and i think for bill barr, it has revealed who bill barr is. i think for rod rosenstein, it has revealed who rod rosenstein is. and i think rod simply wanted his job too much and was willing to make too many accommodations to keep that job. >> do you think the congress should call or subpoena mr. rosenstein to further explain that very controversial memo which is the origin of the mueller probe? >> i think he should be brought before the judiciary xhoe. we are taking steps along that regard. >> i have to ask what are those steps? are you telling us today that you have requested rosenstein testify to the house intelligence committee? >> i'm not prepared to comment. >> would it be reasonable to say you've already requested it? >> this does feel like a deposition. it would be more than reasonable

then you have the intel chairman, yes, the cowardly adam schiff. downright apoplectic, losing his mind because the only person caught on tape colluding with the russians is him, as he got fixed up in a hoax. oh, "do you have any evidence on donald trump? yeah, we have evidence on donald trump. what is the evidence of on trump? naked pictures. hasn't vladimir seen ed? vladimir had seen it." he still eager to protect eric holder. he wants to invoke a negative privilege. something that donald trump never did. they handed over 1.5 million documents and he answered mueller's questions, and still no collusion. for the fourth time, we got that conclusion. anyway, take a look at the cowardly schiff. >> they turned over almost the entire mueller report on redacted, the attorney general william barr has testified before the senate judiciary committee. they are saying they are prevented by a law from giving over this grand jury information. so what's the difference here? >> they are categorical differences. first the obama administration made dozens of witnes

. >> adam schiff criticizing the president's decision tweeting "while trump stone walls the public from learning the truth about his obstruction of justice, trump and barr conspire to weaponize law enforcement and classified information against their political enemies. the cover-up has entered a new and dangerous phase, this is un-american." alex, i love it. the cover-up is the declassifying of information. feels jumbo shrimp to me. >> his tweet made no sense. >> jumbo shrimp? >> his tweet is the whole point. what happened in 2016, our intelligence services were politicized, that is un-american. we don't want that to happen if future elections. there's an investigation that the attorney general is now conducting into that. at the same time, congress wants to have their own investigations which the trump administration doesn't want to participate with. i think this is all healthy. it's going to take some time. i think the american people are getting sick of it. >> dagen? >> sick of finding out why the investigation into the trump campaign was started in the first place? >> it's been goin

adam schiff has concerns, i have concerns.nder that we have credible evidence that he wanted ndto ta the president of the united states, where a wire. we have that from other individuals he wanted to do that. i think that he needs to answer to those questions. so i still have those concerns that are there. >> he denied doing that. >> and i agree that's why we need to hear from him. but i can tell you that james baker and others that we've interviewed disagree with rod and believe he was serious about the comments. >> the president has continued to use phrases in recent days like coup. why does he use that kind of language? you know him better than anyone. >> well i do not know that i know better than anyone. obviously, i know him from my work in congress and my discussions with him. i think what we see is from the time of firing james comey, to the selection of bob mueller a special prosecutor, those nine days or so in there, there were a number of things going on within the doj and the fbi. some of which have been reported on

here's a back and forth he had with adam schiff. so adam schiff says, so mr.d you that the president had read your written testimony, false written testimony before you provided it to congress. and michael cohen says yes, that he, mr. sekulow said that he spoke to the client and that, you know, the client likes it and that it's good. so, you know, by michael cohen's reasoning here the president had looked at this testimony, realized that it was inaccurate, signed off on it, that jay sekulow also knew it was inaccurate, signed off on it and then they sent it to congress. there are a lot of assumptions, sort of built into that answer, don, but that's how michael cohen described it when he testified before congress. >> okay, elie honig, let's bring you in now, there's a little more to the testimony about whether sekulow knew cohen's testimony was false and i'm going to read something to you here from representative peter welch. he said sekulow knew that june was the right month, not january, if he took it to his client, that he spoke to the client, that he would

but at the same time, until chairman adam schiff's threatening to take what he calls enforcement action against the justice department for not complying with his subpoena for counterintelligence information from the investigation. so there is a lot to discuss. i want to bring in mark fazetti, juliette kayyem. nice to have all of you. this email came on the same night that trump told attorneys pour the white house they could no longer talk. here is what the contact said to flynn. this is a quote. it wouldn't surprise me if you've gone on to make a deal with the government. if there is information that implicates the president, then we've got a national security issue. so you know we need some kind of heads up. just for the sake of protecting all our interests, if we can. remember, what we've always said about the president and his feelings towards flynn, and that still remains. so mark, how significant is that? >> you know, i don't know yet. there is the -- the fact of the voice mail and there is this discussion is of course significant to sort of shed light on the back story on what fly