adam schiff never believed a word he was saying. i suppose the good news is, schiff is not delusional. the bad news, though, is that adam schiff is a soulless liar. as a man willing to say literally anything for a political advantage and that's really the worst of all. being a lunatic would be much more appealing than that. naturally, washington being the place that it is, adam schiff has been ritually rewarded for his shameless deceit. he is still the chairman of the house intelligence committee. that's one of the most powerful jobs and all of schiff is all but certain to be there for years. but what about his enablers and there are a lot of them. the journalist, the fellow lawmakers, that helps adam schiff tell his lies. these are the people eat, your member, who blindly accuse the sitting president the sitting president of the united states of treason. >> the evidence suggests, indeed, trump is, and has been, upon of the russians. >> when you start to see a pattern where he basically follows putin's lies, that we have to ask the

intelligence committee chairman adam schiff is going to be joining us in a moment. we want to hear from him. and this is the first time i'll have had a chance to speak with him since today's landmark hearings. in order to set the stage with talking with him, i want to start with the very basics. i want to start -- my favorite place to start is at the end. i want to start with the bottom line. >> like to see if we can broaden the aperture at the end of the hearing. from your testimony today, i gather that you believe that knowingly accepting foreign assistance during a presidential campaign is an unethical thing to do. >> and a crime. >> and a crime. >> circumstances, yes. and a crime given certain circumstances. >> and to the degree it undermines our democracy and institutions, we can agree it is also unpatriotic. >> true. >> and wrong. >> true. >> knowingly accepting foreign assistance during a presidential campaign is a crime in certain circumstances, according to robert mueller. it is wrong, it is unethical. coming from a person who said repeatedly today that he

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and also that adam schiff is the chair. it's set to go about two hours based on the number of questioners in this case. and we will see where this goes as we see robert mueller surrounded once again by photographers. perhaps this will be one of his last days in the spotlight. he didn't want to do this at all in the first place, but he is doing his duty and has appeared today. he starts the second segment of all of this with chairman adam schiff. >> at the outside, and be off of my colleagues, i want to thank you for a lifetime of service to of the country. your report, for the don't like those who have the time to study, his methodical methodical and i'm sitting. he tells a foreign adversary's sweeping and systematic intervention in a close u.s. presidential election. it's enough to deserve the attention of every american as you well point out. your report tells another story, as well. the story of the 2016 election is also a story of disloyalty to country, greed, and about lies. your investigation determined that the trump

adam schiff is speaking as well. in the meantime, let's go to a member of the house intelligence committee congressman mike quigley of illinos who did some of the questioning today. congressman, thanks so much for joining us. >> thank you. >> you asked robert mueller if he was disturbed by donald trump's public encouragement of wikileaks during the 2016 presidential campaign. let me play that exchange you had with mueller. >> this just came out, wikileaks, i love wikileaks. donald trump, october 10th, 2016, this wikileaks stuff is unbelievable, it tells you the inner heart. you gotta read it. donald trump, october 12th, 2016, this wikileaks is like a treasure trove. donald trump, october 31, 2016, boy, i love reading those wikileaks. donald trump, november 4th, 2016, would any of those quotes disturb you, mr. director? >> i'm not certain i would say -- >> how do you react to them? >> well, it is probably -- it is problematic is an understatement. >> mueller went on to say, congratulatio congressman he was worried tha

held a news conference with judiciary committee chair jerry nadler, intelligence committee chair adam schiff and oversight committee chair elijah cummings. we discussed today's testimony by former special counsel robert mueller. this is about 30 minutes, thank you. >> >>> live coverage and seeing republican leaders. >> a good evening everyone sorry for the delay, it has been a pretty interesting day, and a historic one as a matter of fact. a day in which former special counsel affirmed in public what the mueller report put forth. it is a crossing of a threshold, in terms of the public awareness. of what happened and how it conforms to the wall or not. the president likes to have his poster that said, it took as many days, this that and the other, we have a corresponding, contradictory chart. an investigation by the numbers, $40 million recovered. for the u.s. government remember he said how much it would cost less than that, 37 people and entities charged with crimes, 25 ongoing criminal cases referred, seven convicted including five top trump campaign officials. then he had no illusion. kno

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the house committee chairman adam schiff said that democrats will be economical in the way they pursue their ants and they'll be very strategic in the way they pursue their answers. >> let's get more on this. >> the majority whip, the number two democrat in the u.s. let's begin with secretary acosta's news conference. >> did anything you've heard change your mind? >> of course not. i voted when he was for second of labor. more details did come forward since he was approved by the senate with other votes. i have to tell you. when i listen to him talk about the hard time that he gave mr. epstein, it sounded more like happy time. he could have a sleepover after 12 hours in his office. that didn't seem like the hard time this kind of serious time would merit the driver would drive him back. he spent 12 hours a day in that office away from that prison. >> lindsey graham, a man you know well, he wants to see the investigation first. the investigation into secretary acosta before deciding whether the hearing is necessary. >> it's okay that he wants to look at the background sheet before he ma

the house committee chairman adam schiff said that democrats will be economical in the way they pursue their ants and they'll be very strategic in the way they pursue their answers.

i think you heard adam schiff on your own air this morning talking about the route for democrats to get president trump out of the white house is now through the 2020 election. the hearing, despite some of the important disclosures yesterday in the hearing, it was not the gal vanizing event, the moment for impeachment that some democrats had hoped. we saw one democratic member in the aftermath of the hearing announce her support for impeachment. they need another two dozen to join in to get a majority of the democratic caucus. >> john, you were skt involved in watergate. another thing maybe may forget. it was a very partisan issue at the time, the president's supporters seeing things dedifferently right up until the end. let's remember what bob mueller said yesterday, not the way he said it. and here's a list of some of the things. he said that trump welcomed russia interference and lied about it. he said that generally trump's written answers to the special counsel were not truthful. he said that his encouraging of wikileaks problematic, in fact he said the word problematic was an unde

adam schiff should be spending time on, and the committee should be spending time on. it makes us less safe. >> jason: it is absolutely a point that i hope everybody digests and understands when adam schiff and the democrats do this, it really is a distraction. because what they are doing as they are trying to distract from some other things that they should be working on. so to gregg jarrett, congressman gates, congressman turner, thank you very much for your expertise tonight. thank you for joining us. directly ahead, the 2020 democrats open borders on full display. ari fleischer, tammy bruce, and matt schlapp will be here to tell you what that means for the president trump reelection chances. we will be right back pay to stay with us. ♪ with the freestyle libre 14 day system just scan the sensor with your reader, iphone or android and manage your diabetes. with the freestyle libre 14 day system, a continuous glucose monitor, you can check your glucose levels any time, without fingersticks. ask your doctor to write a prescription for the freestyle libre 14 day system

adam schiff should be spending time on, and the committee should be spending time on. it makes us less safe. >> jason: it is absolutely a point that i hope everybody digests and understands that when adam schiff and the democrats do this, it really is a distraction. because what they are doing is they are trying to distract froi some other things that they should be working on. f so to gregg jarrett, congressman gaetz, congressman turner, thank you very much for your o expertise tonight. thank you for joining us. directly ahead, the 2020 democrats open borders agenda is on full display. ari fleischer, tammy bruce, and matt schlapp will be here to tell you what that means for the president trump reelection chances. we will be right back. stay with us. ♪ we will be right back pay to stay with us. ♪ moving is hard. no kidding. but moving your internet and tv? that's easy. easy?! easy? easy. because now xfinity lets you transfer your service online in just about a minute with a few simple steps. really? really. that was easy. yup. plus, with two-hour appointment windows, i

also the chair of the judiciary committee jerry nadler and the chair the intelligence committee adam schiff that briefing coming up shortly tea visitors center. while we wait we show you some of the opening questioning from jerry nadler. >> director mueller, the president has repeatedly claimed that your report found there was no obstruction and that it completely and totally exonerated him. but that's not what the report said, is it. >> correct that is not what the report said. >> now reading page 2 of volume 2 of the report that's on the screen, you wrote, quote, if we had confidence after a thoe era thorough investigation of the fact that the president did not commit instruction of justice we would so state. based on the facts and legal standard we are unable to reach that judgment. now does that say there was no obstruction? >> no. >> in fact, you are actually unable to conclude the president did not commit obstruction of justice. is that correct? >> well we at the outset determined that we -- when it came to the -- the president's kulpability we needed to -- we needed to go forward onl

believe me, adam schiff is not going away. the whole talk of impeachment of this guy, not going away. >> sandra jesse, hureaction when i said at the top of the show, there was disappointment on both sides. republicans went in hopeing and wishing to dig in deeper to origin of the investigation, robert mueller made it clear at the top of the hearing he would not go there. >> jesse: you asking me? >> sandra respond. >> greg: i thought you said jesse, do i look like jesse? i don't know, here is the deal. i'm more interested in how the media portray this now. i can't tell the difference between media reaction and democratic reaction. sweaty, feverish anti-trump hatred make its hard for anyone to take righteous end of the world shrieking seriously. everyday is the apocalypse at the hearing, no one is listening, everybody is tuned out, but us, we don't trust what we hear. imagine if the media hadn't given in to bitter emotion after being humiliated, cnn hadn't been fearmongering or had a panel call everybody racist, people might list

what would you would told jerry nadler and adam schiff?> i think actually, chuck, that the democrats approached that in exactly the way i would have advised them to had i been asked, which i wasn't, but, you know, as chuck just mentioned, no one should've been surprised that mueller was going to confine all of his remarks to the substance of the report. so that being said, their goal should have been to get as much of the most significant material in that report out and communicated to the public in a way that's memorable and easy to understand. for my money, the best way to do that is exactly the way they approached it, which is with analyzing each category of obstructive behavior within the elements of the offense. i thought they did that effectively, and i thought that, you know, director mueller went along with that in the way that we expected he would. >> but let me -- should there have been -- should this had happened sooner? this is now july, and correct me if i'm wrong, july 24th, we had his press conference may 29th. we had the ba

adam schiff put on quite a show. his command of the fact and his prosecutorial skills and his command of the facts meant -- and his understanding of mueller's psyche that he could do the most damage by playing to the short clip affirmative answers, not trying to mueller say things he was not going to want to say, not try to put mueller in a position where he would not fumble around and look for facts he could not quite recall but get him to say things that were made for television, that moment we played i think will get replayed a lot. having watched the whole thing, i doubt if you work with a democrat who thought today was the day where you would need to move the needle on public opinion in an appreciable way that will change the court of history, that will make it appreciably more likely that we begin impeachment proceedings -- we may still do that, but i think today will not be the day we look back and say, this changed the game for the people in the country who were up for grabs. i don't think it's going to chang

no other democrats and say, i think collusion -- adam schiff or just lie. we can do that anymore. mueller but that you complete rest. the second thing is, when the democrats did their tricks and their power point and said he was the obstruction, he looked at them and said, i don't subscribe to your theory. that is blown. then the third think and what i think is important, which says something next level, if he refused to talk about things actually in his report, like the dossier, like the interviews of other people, while we know that he would not talk about it, we do know that we were looking at the inspector general horowitz and mr. durham. that is why the next level is all part and because the rest is put to rest, no obstruction, definitely no collusion, no conspiracy, which started us off, and i we can get to what we've been talking about all along, what you've been championing as well. >> sean: as we set, the court and has gone down, act one is over. it's dead and buried. but we better get this right. it really was russian interference, except it was bought and paid for, and

remember adam schiff telling us again and again, he had this evidence.ce the public doesn't know yet. but they all knew. all of that turned out to be lies. you know when i got in this business 20, 25 years ago, i got into it because i believed in the truth and i believed in exposing people doing things that were wrong. there is something going on here where you have an alarming number of reporters in the national political media who have no interest whatsoever in exposing the truth. they are willing to take the direction of democrats, they are so blinded by the hatred of donald trump, they will take -- they will take any bogus story hook, line and sinker and they will absolutely run with it until the ends of earth to destroy this president. even a few years ago, you know, places like the "washington post," and the "new york times," you know, you know you knew they leaned left. but you also had enough respect for them that you knew they were usually telling the truth or doing their best to tell the truth. they have forsaken any pretense whatsoever that th

but i think somebody should say something about this adam schiff character. you know, the speech he gave at the first -- on the intelligence thing -- he was discredited right away. especially with, who was it, that democrat, nunes, and he said -- he said, just sort of discounts him and everybody that asked questions forgot what he said to start with and he had to be quiet. but for the last two years i've been watching this schiff character. i don't think people should vote for him for sure. >> jim, let me ask you about adam schiff because very in there, he said -- he said this about the report from robert mueller. he said, "this is a disturbing tale of a massive russian intervention in our election." would you agree with congressman schiff on that? >> caller: well, there's always been a russian intervention. i'm over 70 years old and i've seen russian intervention, you know, since i've been voting, since, you know, like '68 on. >> you think the russians have been interfering for that long? >> caller: yes. easily. >> jim in new hampshire, thanks. let's go to l

nancy pelosi, adam schiff there. who wins out? >> i think they do. i think there was a logic error in assuming mueller would dramatically change the move on impeachment. the share of americans who thought he violated the law or did something wrong the support has always been higher on ilpeachment. it may be rooted more on practical concerns. it's late in his term. as adam schiff talks about the sent is not going to convict and i think there are a lot of americans going to look at that and say why go through this grueling process? having said that, i think mueller made a big mistake yesterday. he refused to accept any civic responsibility beyond his legal responsibilities. i know jeffrey can talk about the mind-set of a prosecutor, but he was the person who had the best overview about what russia did, how trump responded and how trump responded to the inquiries in points one and two. he could have given the american people a. more comprehensible big picture of what happened. he chose deliberately not to. in some ways that undermined even the message h

adam schiff, i have hard evidence. mark warner evidence, he's got hard evidence.dence, nothing on collision. so what are they dull? we fall back in obstruction. we have got to fall back on obstruction. here is my question to you. how in the world can a president of the united states be accused of obstruction by any objective person when he does not trigger any privilege at any time for anything while his administration is being investigated. while he allows every single member of his staff, including his own white house counsel to spend time with the prosecutors. when in fact, he fired nobody other than james, who deserved it plus some. how can you accuse him of obstruction? did have intent? clearly had no corrupt intent. or he would've done a lot more than he did. doesn't have to be an underlying crime. so here we are. on the one hand, legally he is in the clear. always was, by the way i announce that a year and half ago he is in the clear. on the other hand, we have politics. now we are told this half of the report, volume 2, obstruction raises political questio

america will see right through you and laugh in your face, jerry nadler.ue .augh in your face, adam schiff. >> last word briefly, gregg jarrett. >> i agree. let's wait to see what the inspector general does. eri can't imagine there won't be criminal referrals made to the department of justice. this was an egregious abuse of power. people were misusing the position for political purposes, weaponizing law enforcement against thepo presidente of the united states who now we know has been largely victimized by these corrupt actors. >> gregg jarrett, sebastian gorka, thank you for joining us. we really do appreciate it. there is no doubt that robert mueller's testimony effectively ended the democrats' impeachment dreams. but some on the left are still in denial. for example, congressman ted lieu of california is now pushing conspiracy theory, that mueller was manipulated or controlled by some higher authority in the hearing. watch this. >> robert mueller agreed that thent o.l.c. opinion prevented a sitting president from being indicted and then the republican member after me askede him a series

a you know, it's interesting, adam schiff is writing a letter saying he wants to go beyond the scopeat is reported, he really doesn't want that because the deeper we dive, the more we see that this whole report and its conclusion starts to fall apart. >> sean: we are just hearing, by the way, that mueller's former chief of staff will be sworn at the intel hearing tomorrow. not judiciary. which one is going to be quick behind closed doors? >> [laughs] well, certainly behind judiciary but look, he is bringing his staff member because he really has to have a grasp of the questions that are going to be asked of him. robert mueller is going to be faced with certainly a lot ofes questions coming at him in millions of directions. we know that the doj had asked that his testimony be limited just to the report itself. but think of all the exculpatory information.th i mean, this is what congressman meadows is talking about. this is what trey gowdy was saying to you. what he left out. and one of the most important parts of john's story was joseph misfud and if he was ordered by the intelligence

the cowardly, adam schiff, jerry nadler, two of the biggest liars in congress hyping tomorrow's hearing is a major turning point in their fraudulent two and a half year witch hunt against the president, for separate conclusions, for separate investigations. they have lied again and again pray they have presented what is nothing short of a hoax. multiple conspiracy theories, made false promises, always claiming the president is guilty of something. they can't say, but something. thick conspiracy, collusion, russia, russia, russia of your defrauding our elections, obstruction of justice, some of their fandom crimes. their hopes and prayers have always come up empty. i expect the same tomorrow should be much different but let me be honest, apparently mueller is going to stick to the report as it says and that's what the democrats are asking that. the report was clear. remember according to mueller, legal precedent on whether or not a sitting president can or cannot be charged because of the deal doj apology gog but tomorrow, the democratic playbook is clear. it's obvious it's transparent.

. >> adam schiff, rick scott of florida, and tom steyer. >>> plus politics. president trump calls a black congressm congressman's district a disgusting rat and rodent inf t infested district. joe biden promising a less polite performance this time. >> we'll see. >> joining me is rich lowery.le copper. welcome to sunday, it's "meet the press." >>>o the lest running show in television history, this is "meet the "press. with chuck todd. >>> if democrats squinted just hard enough they could say they got what they wanted from robtt moo -- robert muellerhiseek. they said it is wrong to accept assistance from a foreign government. no, mooul der not fuueller did the president. no he was not cleared of obstruction of justice,s, ye mr. trump's business dealings with russia during the campaign, and no the investigation was not a witch hunt ifris also t that mueller's six hours of reluctant testimony, repeating or confirming what was all right released what was produced to the public months ago failed to produce a can't pull your eyes away movement. wednesday's hearing e

committee chairman adam schiff back in. the bob mueller hearing continues. >> director mueller, as a prosecutor, you would agree that if a witness or suspect lies or obstructs or tampers with witnesses or destroys evidence during an investigation, that generally that conduct can be used to show a consciousness of guilt? would you agree with that? >> yes. >> let's go through the different people associated with the trump campaign and this investigation who lied to you and other investigators to cover up their disloyal and unpatriotic conduct. if we could put exhibit 8 up. director mueller, i'm showing you campaign chairman paul manafort, roger stone, deputy campaign manager rick gates, national security adviser michael flynn, donald trump's personal attorney michael cohen and foreign policy adviser george papadapoulous. these six individuals have each been charged, convicted or lied to your office or other investigators, is that right? >> i took a glance at mr. stone because he is -- he is in a different case in d.c. >> nati

at least here is how the intelligence committee chairman adam schiff explained it to reporters today. >> will mr. zebley be participating tomorrow as a witness or as counsel for mr. mueller? >> the special counsel's office has made it clear for some time that they would like to have him present, they would like to allow him to answer questions. we want this hearing to be about director mueller. we are in discussions with them about the role of his counsel and those discussions are ongoing. i expect that he will be there, but we would like to make sure that the degree that he participates that it may be on technical issues or other matters. we don't want him as a substitute for mueller's voice. >> was this a last-minute request? >> no, they have made this request for some time. we're willing to try to accommodate, but like many things about the hearing, it has been a constant process of negotiation and refinement. >> okay. literally while we were just playing that sound bite from adam schiff, i was just handed some breaking news on this very subject. you just heard there how intelligen

she just said, as i think adam schiff said, you want to have the strongest case. and she knows where her caucus is, she also knows she's got these 30 or so moderate democrats who won in trump districts that she needs to protect. but she didn't rule anything out. she hasn't ruled anything out in the past and she didn't rule anything out today. >> how did you see it? >> i think the democrats got a little of what they wanted but they didn't get what they needed which was a narrative. in the morning, there was strong words from a congressman. i think a this won't move public opinion very much. >> what is your opinion, jeffrey toobin? >> i think things are exactly where they were in the morning. i don't think the people who were for impeachment got a great victory. i don't think people who are against impeachment will change their minds much at all. if you were familiar with the mueller report, as journal iiis tend to be, you didn't really learn that much. so if you heard for the first time robert mueller say, we did not exonerate him, that's obviously it's something t

i thought it was interesting, tray, that adam schiff brought up the campaign finance issue, which seems to have all but dropped by the southern district of new york. he wants to carry the torch forward as he said. might be difficult at this point. >> that's called a hail mary pass. adam had him in prison and then jail and now he's down to maybe an ethical lapse. so adam, who once had these grand blands to see the president in handcuffs is now giving us ethics and morality lessons. it's been a terrible two years from him culminating in an even worse hearing. >> quick thoughts, katie. >> special counsel robert mueller didn't want to answer questions about the steele dossier and the origins of this investigation. as why move forward, the inspector general is looking into that. he's interviewing a number of witnesses including christopher steele. he will have lots to say. we'll see what started all of this at some point in the future. >> juan? >> wasn't it telling that devin nunes seemed exuberant. we saw from the president's tweet that he feels it's a winning day for him. for the democrats

intelligence committee chairman adam schiff totaled it all up from today. russia interfered in our election to help trump. russians made numerous contacts with the campaign. the campaign welcomed their help. no one reported these contacts or interference to the fbi. they lied to cover it up. that was the quote. that was the summation after a protracted presentation. mueller started the day in front of house judiciary, where he was asked about trump's claims of exoneration and his possible legal exposure once he leaves office. >> the president has repeatedly claimed that your report found there was no obstruction and that it completely and totally exonerated him. but that is not what your report said, is it? >> correct. it is not what the report said. >> so the report did not conclude that he did not commit obstruction of justice. is that correct? >> that is correct. >> was there sufficient evidence to convict president trump or anyone else with obstruction of justice? >> we did not make that calculati calculation. >> how could you not have made the calculat

adam schiff today suggested that a torch has now passed to congress. >> would not tell us whether thesident should be impeached, nor did we ask you since it is our responsibility to determine the proper remedy for the conduct outlined in your report. >> martha: joining me tonight, congressman david sisson lane, who question robert mueller today and trey gowdy and andy mccarthy, who's been with us throughout the day with their analysis tonight as well. but first, which side moved the ball forward today? here's a look. >> the president has repeatedly claimed that your report found there was no obstruction and that it completely and totally exonerated him. but that is not what your report said, is it? >> so it's not your purview to look into whether or not steel is mine, whether or not anti-trump russians are lying. >> the president wanted to fire you because you were investigating him for obstruction of justice. >> what he's doing is not obstructing justice, he is pursuing justice and the fact that you ran it out two years means you perpetuated injustice. >> martha: a lot of emotion out

. >> anyone watching the program that adam schiff said the same thing -- >> i don't think he would be talking about rodent infested district. >> very well could. zero to do with the fact that adam and it would be wrong if he were saying that. >> you're completely comfortable with him saying that this is a rodent infested district and no human being would want to live there, you're comfortable with that? >> have you seen pictures on the internet just this morning from conditions in baltimore, maryland? >> in any inner in america. you could argue why doesn't the president do something to stop it. >> the richest state in the nation as poverty like that, dominated for generations by democrats, i think it's fair to have that conversation. >> okay, after robert mueller's testimony this week, president trump declared victory, here he is. >> this was a very big day for our country, this was a very big day for the republican party and you could say it was a great day for me. chris: but house judiciary committee chair nadler even after the mueller hearing says he will go to court to try to get

ranking member, adam schiff at the time but he's chairman. intelligence did not support the threat. calling the president out wire, calling him a meyer. more people said then, i had been in congress for ten years by then, you would never go anyplace in this party unless you vote for that. but i didn't vote for that. senator didn't vote for, later, intelligence committee. it's a big division among democrats. these personality, they are minor. we have big ones in our country between what is happening in congress and in the white house. everybody knows have to keep our eye on the ball. >> your colleagues think -- some are indecisive. it overshadows the agenda. do you think there's a shot that they would make a decision on this? >> i don't agree with that. i think we need to have something before we go forward. i respect them on it, the knowledge they have on the subject. >> do better understand the challenges of your job to unify the democratic caucus today? >> just asked her. >> there were revisions after he said there were not as many as expected -- i would love more of a response on

the chairman, adam schiff, from california, will bring this session to order. he will stand a little bit, let the photographs take some pictures, as they always do, give them a photo opportunity. then he will sit down right in the middle of your screen. you see adam schiff, committee chairman, getting ready to bring this session to order. we expect this to go about two hours or so. that will be it in terms of public session. >>> this meeting will come to order. at the outset and on behalf of my colleagues, i want to thank you, special counsel mueller, for a lifetime of service to the country. your report, for those who have taken the time to study it, is methodical and it is devastating. it retells the story of a foreign adversary sweeping and systematic intervention in a close u.s. presidential election. that should be enough to deserve the attention of every american, as you well point out. but your report tells another story as well, the story of the 2016 election is also a story about disloyalty to country, about greed and about lies. your investigation det

kennedy: adam schiff has secret knowledge. is it really the end of mueller saga, what about that push for impeachment. joining me now, in 1997 first to call for president clinton's impeachment and resignation, bob barr is coming back welcome back. >> thank you, i am coming to you from dallas, texas. kennedy: beautiful, stay away from the grassy knoll. all right, have you wanted this so badly. so, what is their collective thought and feeling. >> deflated. they did not get what they wanted: but will that cause them to back off, absolutely not, they are still in this 101%, because it is only thing that democrats from alexandria ocasio-cortez to nancy pelosi can agree on. get trump, they hate trump, that is their agenda and unfortunately for the american people it is not going to change. but fortunately for trump, i think he is right, i think that if in fact the democrats continue down this path, which i think they will, they are going down to massive defeat next november. kennedy: yes, they -- nancy pelosi looks like a brilliant

liz: that was adam schiff sounding like an msnbc pundit. >> a lot of the democrats thought he, an advocatean avenging angel who would tell the whole story that they would support impeachment. now they are looking to plan b. it smacks of desperation. if that were the standard, i don't know if we haven't ever had a president in u.s. history who couldn't be impeached on that basis. liz: john radcliffe is taking over for dan coats as director of intelligence. >> can you give me an example other than donald trump where the justice department determined an investigated person was not exonerated because their innocence was not conclusionively determined? time is short. i have got five minutes. you can't find it, i'll tell you why. it doesn't exist. >> this an incredibly important job, supervising nations and intelligence agencies. it would benefit the president to have a strong role. it became clear over time that perhaps senator coats didn't share the president's point of view. it's the president's administration and he has the right to put people in the job he wants. liz: look at james comey ta

knowing what sheco knows now, hw can adam schiff still be chairman of the committee that we have to havee. trust in. >> special counsel raised concerns this could be the new normal and raised concerns about the president openly asking for help. i'm curious what would you support legislation that would tighten the rules to make it clear that it's inappropriate nd illegal for candidates to do that? >> the new majority that we are going to have hearings before the bill on the floor. my committee is so paralyzed with their obsession with this president and the fact they believe he should be impeached but we don't have hearings anymore or discussion anymore. they can put forth a bill that we are not getting hearings in the committee. the committee we are not putting those together. that tells me either they are bankruptar of ideas or they dont want to have the hearings because they would rather run the narrative of running down this president. precedent. all ie would say it would be giving legislation so that is one of the things we could do and we would support if we could get them to have so

liz: we have adam schiff saying the i.g. probe is tainted. we have a serious debate on whether we should get rid of special counsels because they are outside of the constitution. elijah cummings wants to get the email records and private message record for ivanka trump and jared kushner. rashida tlaib said they don't have a right to privacy. >> there is anger in there about the hillary clinton thing. you see that. the other side is doing it. that's one point. then two, and i call it down the middle, pure harassment. the president, his family, private emails. the republicans are calling it a fishing expedition and how is that legitimate congressional oversight and what legislation does that relate to. liz: they are saying that's a federal records act. >> that's more more a prosecutor, not a legislator. liz: let's get a check of your money. reporter: it was a big day of tech earnings. alphabet, the parent of google, $14.21 were the earnings:per share. also, traffic acquisition costs lower than expected. analysts look at this. it's the payments

has said the same thing about the border, that the president would be attacking adam schiff the exact? >> i don't think he'd be talking about his crime-infested, rodent-infested district. >> he very well could. it has zero to do with the fact that adam is jewish. scwhree, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! >> stephen: wow! pro tip: if you're trying to distance yourself from accusations of being a white supremacist, maybe don't use the excuse, "donald trump's not racist-- he'd say the same thing about jews!" ( laughter ) another trump defender was florida senator rick scott. he was on chuck the meet and his brain done broke. >> but that justifies a racial resentment tweet in response? is that presidential leadership? >> well, look, i, i, look, i didn't do the tweets, chuck. >> stephen: (as scott) uh, oh, ah, ehh, oh... i'm just -- ( stammering ) ( piano riff ) i'm just going to keep making sounds till you cut to commercial. uh oh, ah, ehh, oh! ( laughter ) before that interview started, rick scott had a full head of hair. ( laughter ) and it wasn't just baltimore. trump also tweeted, "speaking of

nancy pelosi and adam schiff still are not sold. shifts in 2020 is the only way to remove the president from office. >> does the country benefit going through impeachment if it is going to be unsuccessful due to we know in the senate it would be unsuccessful so i'm not there yet. >> house republicans said this split into the democratic caucus is serious and the fight for the soul of the entire party. >> it is more than an internal fight. it's not a family fight. this is a war and a few. socialists democrats in that party are taking the party over. they have beenuccessful. >> tomorrow the leaders of those 2 wings of the democratic party are going to meet, nancy pelosi will be sitting down with alexandria ocasio cortez in an effort to ease the tensions that erupted when nancy pelosi agreed to take of that emergency bill that sent $4.6 billion to the border, a move progressives like ocasio cortez opposed and there are other flash points on the horizon from the spending bill to israel to impeachment but the house heads out for its augus

adam schiff says he has realistic expectations and may not ask mueller to read parts of his report out loud. >> i am realistic in my expectations. he's clearly deeply reluctant to testify. he made it clear that he does not want to go beyond the report and i want to make it clear that it is a choice that bob mueller was making. that's not required by law. that's not required by regulation. we'll be doing our hearing after the judiciary committee. we'll get some sense of how worthwhile it is to fight with him over areas outside of the report. >> chairman schiff also leading the possibility of asking mueller of aspects not covered in his report. >> what is most powerful is not an isolated fact here or an isolated fact there but how the facts look together. you not only look at the discreet action of obstruction, you look at the pattern. the pattern both in volumes one and two is what's most devastated. that's not something that's summarizing in the passage that you can ask the councsel to rea. >> joining me now julia manchester and alan smith. alan, first to you, what did you expect the m

the house is about to gibb a six-week summer recess and on thursday committee chairman adam schiff and elijah cummings told cnn they support formal impeachment proceedings if president trump were to defy a court order. they stopped short of backing an inquiry now. >> still, democrats who are close to pelosi believe her position may be softening on starting an impeachment probe. the speaker is still advocating for the strongest possible case to move forward on impeachment by fighting the white house. >>> she told democrats they should do their own thing when it comes to supporting impeachment. they're meeting with alexandria ocasio-cort ocasio-cortez. sunlen has more from capitol hill. >> reporter: good morning, dave and christine. in the wake of robert mueller's testimony, it is the key question among democrats. what exactly comes next as we've been reporting about in the recent days and weeks, democrats remain very, very divided on what the best approach is. the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, believes that her strategy is the right one. deliberate go slow, move things through cou

i don't know if i can say this with absolute authority are not but so i will say it this way adam schiff and jerrold nadler are two of the most i think obnoxious and vicious people i have ever seen in partisan politics. i can't think of an exception. >> i don't think nancy pelosi could put 218 votes together. i always assumed they could but i think there's enough objection to the other 100 members now half of what they need. lou: all the polling shows that most americans are absolutely opposed to impeachment. if they want to pursue this i believe they are doing nothing more than throwing the rose petals at the feet of this president on the path to re-election in 2020. >> will go on a six week vacation and by the time they get back -- lou: six week vacation did you say? before anybody were asked to the six week vacation, we did a quick check. last week the august recess plus 5.5 weeks so both parties have something to learn from this president about work ethics, energy and the importance of the nation's business. >> he made it very clear today he doesn't vacation. lou: we are going to sha

very, very proud of the judiciary committee and chairman jerry nadler, the intelligence committee, adam schiff and also joined by elijah cummings today the american people heard directly about with the special counsel investigation uncovered. as to russia's interference in the 2016 she and the president's cooperation with it at obstruction of justice. he made clear the president is not exonerated. exonerated. mueller found evidence of obstruction of justice and abuse of power by the president. he said from the report said the president could be indicted for obstruction of justice after he leaves office. mueller found that trump would and did benefit hand o could bee campaign welcomed the help. he found multiple instances where all three elements are charging criminal obstruction of justice in trying to fire the special counsel in order to stop the investigation, trying to get people to cover up for the same purpose, to limit or impede or constrict the special counsel investigation, trying to tamper with witnesses, to go with witnesses cooperating with investigators. he went through great lengt