trish: professor alan dershowitz my pleasure.h: is the shutdown at the southern border a political win for the president? our panel is going to weigh in on that top story right here, next. trish: all right, we're back with the show down right now on the southern border i want to bring in ed rollins former campaign manager for the reagan bush 84 ticket and former republican senator from new york both are fox news contributors and we got so much going on you heard congressman himes earlier in the show. he had a pretty aggressive response to the first interview that i had that was talking about the thousands of people that are at our border right now , what do we do about the situation. his answer is to spend more money in places like honduras and guatemala and mexico to ensure these people don't want to come here in the first place, but i'm curious to get your take >> that's a traditional democrat spend more of our money somewhere else not on the people that live here and totally cooperate rare it to what president trump wants to d

trish: professor alan dershowitz my pleasure.he shutdown at the southern border a political win for the president? our panel is going to weigh in on that top story right here, next. ron! something's going on at schwab. oh really? thank you clients? well jd power did just rank them highest in investor satisfaction with full service brokerage firms...again. and online equity trades are only $4.95... i mean you can't have low cost and be full service. it's impossible. it's like having your cake and eating it too. ask your broker if they offer award-winning full service and low costs. how am i going to explain this? if you don't like their answer, ask again at schwab. schwab, a modern approach to wealth management. trish: all right, we're back with the show down right now on the southern border i want to bring in ed rollins former campaign manager for the reagan bush 84 ticket and former republican senator from new york both are fox news contributors and we got so much going on you heard congressman himes earlier in the show. he had

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expect two things -- alan dershowitz says the white house is already preparing a response.ll be a legal response. but also expect the political response from the man who likes to fight more than anybody else, and that's donald trump. there is going to be an avalanche of insults and exclamation points and capital letters like nothing you've seen. >> and just to highlight jamie's point, i think susan and joey touch on it. there's a huge difference between legal outcomes here and political. they're just not the same. donald trump always says, no one stepped forward, i'm innocent. it's not really -- the political piece is not about guilt or innocence necessarily. it's about what does mueller have and how does that impact trump's future, democrats' political future, republicans' political future. they are moving along parallel tracks. the legal as it relates to mueller and the impact from mueller. they're not the same thing. so donald trump may in the end not be indicted or found negligible or whatever in the legal piece, that doesn't mean that politically he's out of the woods.

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i agree with alan dershowitz is saying. team trump has already hinted the aggressive posture they'll take with regards to robert mueller and certing executive privileg privilege. rudy giuliani said they will fight the release of the mueller probe on grounds of executive privilege. now that they have matt whitaker in the position of ag they have an ally in holding back the publication of that report. we may get in a situation where mueller finishes his work. it's done. hands it over to the attorney general and they try to sit on it and then we have an entirely separate legal fight. so there are going to be intense battles over executive privilege on the federal level all the while what's happening at the southern district is going to go on and deal far more on the minutia of trump's own finances. there are these two-prong issues. alan dershowitz probably has a right. >> can you explain? jump in and clean this up for sam and i, the nonlawyers here. but also talk about whether or not there are things the southern district of n

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and alan dershowitz doesn't know all the evidence, so he doesn't know yet. thanks to both of you. i want to turn now to the congressman. there's reporting that the white house might be caught flat footed by the investigations. and not prepared to deal with the subpoenas from, well, people like this. california congressman eric swalwell who serves on the intelligence judiciary committee and hear also is jason johnson. congressman, what do you think of that story line, and will it be a defense for the white house to say, we're not staffed up, so we need more time to respond to you and the chairs you'll be working with? >> good evening, ari. i think it also reflects a white house that has become all too comfortable with the republican congress that has just given them free passes in this environment for the last two years, where they can get away with whatever they want, and not be held to account. that is going to change in about 39 days when the new congress comes in. we're going to fill in the gaps on the russian investigation, we're going to seek to protect robert mueller, and un

alan dershowitz joins us what that means or might mean for the president.e, the xfinity xfi gateway. and it's strengthened by xfi pods, which plug in to extend the wifi even farther, past anything that stands in its way. ...well almost anything. leave no room behind with xfi pods. simple. easy. awesome. click or visit a retail store today. melissa: all right. we have breaking news for you right now. we're finding out the decision on james comey, whether or not the congressional hearing in which he was supposed to have testimony behind closed doors, that was scheduled for monday. now we're hearing that a court is going to decide whether or not they're going to enforce that subpoena. maybe whether it will behind closed doors. they will decide that at 10:00 a.m. on monday. we'll hear from that judge. joining to us talk about all of this, is alan dershowitz, harvard law professor, author of the case against impeaching trump. what do you think the judge will say on monday morning? >> i hope he should say the inquiry is open. the american public should see everyt

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meanwhile, harvard law professor alan dershowitz who has been an ally of president trump predicts theact of mueller's report will be, quote, devastating to the president. and now fresh off his thanksgiving vacation, trump has resumed his attacks on the special counsel's investigation. today, as he and the country away robert mueller's next move, trump appears to be defending himself from the damaging information that mueller may soon reveal. quote, when mueller does his final report, will he be covering all of his conflicts of interest in a preamble? will he be recommending action on all the crimes of many kinds from those on the other side? and will he be putting in statements from hundreds of people closely involved with my campaign who never met, saw or spoke to a russian during this period? there was no collusion and mueller knows it. >>> well, the tweets from trump appear to signal that trump is preparing for something truly big. it comes a day after alan dershowitz made that ominous prediction about what trump should expect from mueller's investigation. >> i think the report is

alan dershowitz weighed in on the stations. >> ivanka trump use the emails only for scheduling purposes classified material. the emails are all preserved. it's a nonissue. it's just partisan bickering. we should not be criminalizing the use of private emails whether by hillary clinton or by if anke trump. >> harris: alan dershowitz is actually consistent on that point. he said it was slurred clinton prayed he said it. this isn't just ivanka trump coming into the administration preaches a senior advisor inside the white house. >> david: the danger of having family members are actively involved in the white house of the president -- we saw that we didn't have the same technology then, but when robert kennedy was the attorney general for john f. kennedy, there were problems that ensued. it just -- the hypocrisy. we talked about this many times here. the hypocrisy of hillary clinton and the people from her party objecting to something that ivanka does, which in no way compares to putting top-secret material in a private server -- there were thousands and thousands of emails that hillary cli

the special counsel is pursuing he was an intermediary. >> alan dershowitz says this report could be devastating to the president when the report comes out. dershowitz says the report could be held up by matthew whitaker. >> when the report is made public and that is a very hard question considering the new attorney general who has the authority to decide when and under which circumstance to make it public, it will be made public probably with a response alongside. >> whitaker is a long time critic of the russia probe. whitaker must provide a copy to deputy attorney general rod rosenstein and whitaker who could sit on it permanently. >> whitaker could have to go to congress before releasing the report. so far, there is no indication he has been briefed on anything related to the russia investigation. >>> trey gowdy looking for middle ground with the fight with james comey and the judiciary committee. chairman bob goodlett has requested for information in the 2016 campaign. comey wants to testify publicly. gowdy is the compromise. >> the remedy for leaks is not to have a public hearing

you just heard from alan dershowitz.ves that this indicates that there is no indication right now that the mueller probe is rapping anytime soon. >> perhaps there is no indication of that. i hope that it is rapping soon. this has been going on for the better part of two years. and i want him to finish his work. i think he had to wrap it up soon. >> sandra: this changes things, obviously, what we are learning outcome of the fact that michael cohen is expected to plead guilty to making false statements to congress on the russia probe. we are waiting to hear more. we understand he is in the courtroom right now. how does this change the way you and your colleagues look at this probe? >> i don't think it changes anything about how i look at the probes. i certainly don't think it changes anything about how i look at the bill. it tried to create a defector for the branch of government. unanswerable to the president of the united states and operating outside of the operation of power system established by our constitution. i sti

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alan dershowitz, long-time harvard professor, someone who has been supportive of the president, had this to say yesterday about the mueller report, whenever it does come out. liste listen. >> i think the report is going to be devastating to the president and i know that the president's team is already working on a response to the report. when i say devastating i mean it's going to paint a picture that's going to be politically very devastating. i still don't think it's going to make a criminal case because collusion is not criminal. >> you give me your take. it doesn't seem that alan dershowitz -- it's unlikely he has been in communication with the mueller team in terms of exactly what's been put in the report but what do you think of what he said? >> i have gone up against alan on twitter, television and elsewhere and he has had the radical legal position that nothing that trump has done could possibly be a crime. he's still sticking to that. this seems to be a way of walking it back a little bit by saying, look being he has done some things that are damaging but nonetheless sticking to

. >> and alan dershowitz says the mueller report could be devastating to the president when it comes out. when it happens is the big question right now. dershowitz says the report could be held up by acting attorney general matthew whitaker. >> when the report is made public and that is a hard question concerning the new attorney general has the issue to decide when to make it public. it will be made public probably with a response alongside. >> dershowitz obviously confident it is not if, but when. whitaker is a long time critic of the russia probe. mueller cannot release the report. he must provide a copy to deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. then to whitaker who could choose to sit on it. >> he could prevent mueller from indicting anyone. whitaker would have to inform congress of that. there is no word if he has been briefed on the russia investigation. >>> trey gowdy looking for middle ground with the fight with james comey and the judiciary committee. house chairman goodlatt subpoenaed comey privately over the actions of the 2016 campaign. comey wants to testify publicly. g

listen to alan dershowitz. it >> it's not an impeachable offense. each side trying to weaponize anything they can find and criminalize. you don't like somewhat someone did in america, oh, let's prosecute. lock her up, impeach. that's not the way to go. if you don't like what people have done, run against them. use political weapons, not the criminal justice system. >> dana: the president made the request, don mcgann tapped the brakes and said, sir, that's not something we can do here. your thoughts on all this? >> i like what alan said. call me alan from now on. i thought he made a good point. reality is, everybody that's been around the department of justice knows it's a different institution than some of the other departments of federal government. i don't mean that arrogantly. the stakes are so huge that you really want a very independent and vibrant and free thinking group that's apolitical in its outlook. maybe that's naive. that should be the goal. when you hear anyone. i don't think this is limited to president trump in his recent understanda

. >> juan: dana, you have a situation where people, like alan dershowitz today on steve's show said youan do this. you do not use -- you don't use the criminal justice system to punish her political opponents. what do you think? >> dana: you can say a lot of things inside the white house. you can say i want this to happen and then you might have a general counsel that is wise and smart and clever like donald mcgahn who says it's not a good idea, mr. president. his lawyer is bill burke. full disclosure, he is a good friend of mine. he says donald mcgahn is not going to comment on the legal advice to get to the president but he noted that the president never to his knowledge ordered anyone to prosecute hillary clinton or james comey. again it's like he might have brought it up and may be you're frustrated, they are going to investigate me, investigate her. sir, we can't do that. okay, fine. then they move on. when they say this is what happens in a dictatorship, no, what happens in a dictatorship of the prosecution actually happens. and it's not a fair trial. there's no due process and th

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. >> alan dershowitz has been very much in donald trump's corner when it comes to the mueller investigation even seems to be quite pessimistic about what this report might mean. here is professor alan de dershowitz earlier on abc. >> i think the report is going to be devastating to the president and i know that the president's team already is working oen a response to the report. >> maria-teresa, the special counsel's office is tight-lipped. we don't get any information f. alan dershowitz is saying it's going to be bad, it's probably going to be terrible. >> he has been for all intents and purposes been the one that's been in the inner circle of russia and the one that when he was in donald trump's ear, the one that had the direct line to folks to what was happening in the influence that the russians may have had on the trump campaign. so the fact that there is increased collaboration for manafort, this idea that there's a report coming, the fact that alan dershowitz is signaling that there's something happening demonstrates that he's basically spilling the beans. what is interesting though

harvard law professor alan dershowitz points to a specific problem causing this mess, up next. the possible candidates he's got a list, i think, coming up next. pete: welcome back a couple quick headlines for you the u.s. will stop refueling saudi war planes in the yemen war. the government has faced criticism as the kingdom has been blamed for deaths of thousands of civilians during the three-year conflict. the news comes amid international outrage over the murder of a saudi columnist. and, the u.s. times is canceling luxury trips to iran as political tensions rise. a spokeswoman for the newspaper says they are ending its journalist gash guided tours after having trouble getting visas for their experts. the last one set to leave today is still going ahead as planned. ed? over to you. ed: thanks, pete. well following months of speculation attorney general jeff sessions tendered his resignation this week basically pushed out came at the president 's request so who are a few of the candidates under consideration? to take this place who should we pay attention to it he will bring

alan dershowitz helped us make sense of all of it, after the break.every insurance company hopes you drive safely. but allstate helps you. with drivewise. feedback that helps you drive safer. and that can lower your cost now that you know the truth... are you in good hands? so lionel, what does 24/5 mean to you?rade well, it means i can trade after the market closes. it's true. so all... evening long. ooh, so close. yes, but also all... night through its entirety. come on, all... the time from sunset to sunrise. right. but you can trade... from, from... from darkness to light. ♪ you're not gonna say it are you? ♪ >> tucker: just a few months ago, it seemed certain that robert mueller and the russia investigation would dominate the midterms this year.. it hasn't. but the special counsel has apparently been busy at work, of course. the new piece in politico analyzed the court filings and concluded that mueller may have tried to secretly subpoena the president. today, though, the president has said he had he has not received a subpoena but raises lots of

alan dershowitz. this is more common than not for a president apartment a mid-term or re-election with richard nixon, bill clinton, the bushes, they can clean through their staff. this has some added implications here whether the president intended that or not. historian doug lieb here with us. this is not an unusual event. maybe the nature and the timing given what's going on with the mueller probe is. explain why that's not the case. >> yeah, i worked for george h.w. bush when he was president of the united states. after the mid-term election, he fired his attorney general, dick thornburg. it's very common. this is -- this is the big leagues. you have to have your big boy pants on if you make a mistake or you hesitate, you're fired. this is a guy who is an executive, business executive. he's doing to do that. stop and think. reagan, obama, clinton, all of them moved through four different chief of staffs. bill clinton fired rob emanuel after one year. so no, this is not uncommon. >> neil: the presid

in alan dershowitz weighing in as well.e president is not correct when he talks about the ninth circuit. the ninth circuit is 26 or more judges. a lot of them liberal democrats. a lot of them are trump appointees. some of them appointees of reagan or bush. it's a very diverse circuit. but, he has done better in the supreme court than he has done in the ninth circuit. but i think the judge, you know, wrote a balanced, thoughtful decision, a decision that may well be overruled in the supreme court. >> julie: okay, this coming in crossing the wires right now. it's breaking. in a rare rebuttal, chief justice roberts rejects president trump's criticism of federal judges. this being crossed by the associated press just moments ago and he praises independent judiciary. >> lisa: look, i think regarding the ninth circuit, the ninth circuit has been on the receiving end of criticism for many conservatives. and i will just to point out when president trump pardoned the tuckerys yesterday unfortunately the ninth circuit i can't guarant

this comes as president trump attacks the report reactioning to the words from alan bench wit dershowitz. >> i think the report is going to be devastating on the president. when i say devastating, it will paint a in fact is going to be politically very devastating. i still don't think it will make a criminal case because collusion is not criminal. >> let's look at the president's tweet. when mueller does his final report, will he cover all of his conflicts of interest and recommending action on all of the crimes of many kinds from those on the other side and will he put in statements from hundreds of people you never met, saw, or spoke to a russian during this period. >> alan dershowitz said this report would be politically devastating. what does he mean if it doesn't show collusion, is it still politically devastating? >> collusion is not a crime. conspiracy to defraud the united states government is a crime. we will see what it shows. he means politically devastating. there are certain people at high levels in the trump campaign communicating with russians for one reason or another. yo

i was talking to alan dershowitz who said it could be devastating. >> reporter: absolutely, and it's a huge unknown. the white house and the president's legal team, they don't know when this report is coming, what in what form it is coming, but they are certainly bracing for bad news from robert mueller. the words from alan dershowitz, who has been a strong supporter of the president were stark, saying this will be devastating to the president. >> thank you very much. >>> coming up, two of president trump's closest political confidantes, corey lewandowski and david bossie are here with their new book, "trump's enemy." cecilia. >> looking forward to that one, george. >>> we want to turn to a tense battle over the senate seat in mississippi. president trump heads there today to campaign for the embattled republican candidate cindy hyde-smith who is facing accusations of racism and supporting voter suppression. our chief national affairs correspondent tom llamas is here with more. tom, those voters head to the polls tomorrow. >> reporter: that's right, cecilia, and good morning. you'll

we have alan dershowitz on in the 7:00 hour. i want to ask him about that. ainsley: that's why he hired lawyers. he gave the answers and they crafted. todd: that's what you hope. steve: president has been adamant there was no russian collusion. they are not worried about that. they are worried okay he answered all these questions via writing them out but then they will subpoena him in the long run. although, you know, there is some question whether or not. now, if he would do that they would have to have top doj officials sign off on that and acting attorney general mr. whitaker and there is no indication that would actually happen. when you look at what the president and his team has done, this is the first time they have actually cooperated with the special counsel. keep in mind, you know, they have been having a war of words for a very long time. this benefits both sides though. it benefits the president. he doesn't have to do in person face-to-face kind of meeting. and mr. mueller gets on the record testimony about what the president knows about russia.

please join me in welcoming alan dershowitz. [applause] >> joining him will be david kaplan whose books include silicon voice, the accident president and mine is bigger than for a graduate of cornell and the new york city universal block him he teaches journalism and ethics at nyu. in third edition of the ninth and the brethren, the most dangerous branch inside the supreme court assault on the constitution takes us inside the secret world of the supreme court. please join in welcoming david kaplan. [applause] will. [laughing] >> i hold it up. >> does your book belong to the right of mine? >> we'll see. [laughing] >> like a i said, it all depens on one's perspective. thank you for coming. this is a great group. this is my first miami book fair and i am just totally impressed. the line of speakers and to see so many readers and people appreciate books is a fantastic so thank you to miami book fair for having us both here. we talked a little bit about how to proceed and i think what each going to talk for five, six minister with an

leading harvard law professor alan dershowitz has written a book arguing the case against impeachingthan collusion. for it to be a crime, you have to prove something actually illegal, and the illegal thing would be if he had called and said, hey, glad, got a dealfor you, i want you to hack the democratic headquarters, here are the people i want you to hack. that would clearly be a crime. but elizabeth holtzman believes merely receiving damaging information on an opponent from a foreign power could be a serious crime. you cannot receive, under the federal election laws, money or support, things of value from a foreign government, so it could well have been a federal crime to have received that information. president trump says nothing came of the trump tower meeting in the end, and complains the whole drama is being fuelled by lies. like nixon, he's convinced he is being hunted down by a nation of hostile forces. is history repeating itself?” is history repeating itself? i call the fake news the enemy of the people, and they are, the enemy of the people. but in the end, what sealed th

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on sunday harvard law professor and frequent trump defender alan dershowitz said trump was bracing for what the mueller investigation will conclude and about the political threat it could pose to his presidency. >> i think the report is going to be devastating to the president, and i know that the president's team is already working on a response to the report. the president will say, ah, look, it's political. there's their account and there's our account and the american public will have to judge on credibility. >> during his two rallies in mississippi tonight, trump relied on his usual description of the mueller investigation. >> we have a lot of bad people, we have a lot of phony stuff like the russian witch hunt garbage. >> there is also news on another aspect of mueller's inquiry, the conspiracy theorist veteran bircher and roger stone associa associate named jerome corsey says they're rejecting the plea deal. whether corsey coordinated with wikileaks on the democratic stolen e-mails, corsi was interviewed today about his decision, he says, to turn down this potential deal. >> fro

of lawmakers share these concerns when pushing for various pieces of legislation to protect, alan dershowitz says mueller is very smart and experienced so he likely has been planning and preparing for the possibility something like a new attorney general happened. >> mueller got his work done, to make sure he is finished with all his work. that is why he accepted the written statements. he didn't want the new attorney general or acting attorney general to do that, it would be a disaster. if the attorney general did that. >> a federal judge told trump campaign advisor george papadopoulos there was no delay in his prison sentence. papadopoulos tried to delay his sentence where witness was challenging mueller's appointment so tomorrow papadopoulos will report to federal prison to begin his two sentences statements to the fbi. >> a major snowstorm making its way across the country packing blizzard like conditions. heavy snow, strong winds and rain make it difficult for travelers on the road and skies this thanksgiving holiday weekend. who is in the path. you are here with the latest, rouhani hav

first we have alan dershowitz, one of the most famous and celebrated lawyers in america. he was the youngest law professor in history. he is now the felix frankfurter professor of law. many best-selling books, and to the dearths would has advised many of the most famous legal cases including oj simpson, anatoly issue rensky, michael milken, cloughs van ball o, and mike tyson. he is the author of "the case against impeaching trump" please join me in welcoming him. joining him will be david bkaplan, whose books include "silicon boys," "the accidental president" he teaches courses in journalism and ethics at nybu in the tradition of the nine and the brethren the most dangerous branch inside the supreme court's assault on the constitution takes us inside the secret world of the supreme court. please join me in welcoming david kaplan. [applause] [laughter] >> does your book belong to the right of mine? >> we'll see. >> i guess it all depends on one's perspective. >> well thank you a for coming this is a great group. this is my first miami book fair and i am just totally impres

we assume robert mueller realizes that election lull is over and this is likely to -- this is alan dershowitz who strongly defended the president on constitutional authority. i don't think he has any inside information, but he thinks what is about to happen will be bad for the president. >> i think the report is going to be devastating to the president and i know the team is working on a response to the report. at some point, when the report is made public and that's a very hard question, considering the new attorney general who has the authority to decide when and under what circumstance to make it public. that's with the response alongside. that's his guess. they will be devastating. the last part. when will it be made public? if matthew whitaker has a say in that, he has said nothing publicly at all. >> don't forget he made past statements before he was in his current position. discouraging the mueller probe. that is causing a lot of consternation and we are heading into a shut down fight and a lot of focus is on the border wall issue that the president demanded for so long. don't count ou

alan dershowitz says that will be devastating to president trump. >> when i say devastating, i mean it's going to paint a picture that's politically very devastating. i still don't think it's going to make a criminal case because collusion is not criminal. >> acting attorney general matt not whitaker in democrat circus and whitaker may prevent the public from seeing the full report and its findings in an effort to protect the president. congressman adam schiff says democrats call whittaker before congress as soon as they take control of the house in january. >> the american people need to know whether this president is obstructing justice in the past, whether his appointment to whitaker was designed to obstruct justice and whether it's having the effect of obstructing justice and some kind of a discussion of a deal, bargain. >> we may learn about new developments this next week. prosecutors asked for a brief delay for chairman paul manafort has been cooperating in the russia must station. they didn't explain why does it tomorrow they will submit a report that will be of greater assistanc

much more on the manafort plea deal fallout when we speak to alan dershowitz joining us later in the show. a lot to talk to him about. >> bill: a lot more news to get to. nikki haley a stern rebuke after russia opens fire on a u.s. ally. >> what we witnessed this weekend is another reckless russian escalation. it is an air grant act that the international community must condemn and will never accept. >> bill: ukraine voting to impose martial law as tensions escalate. all ahead of a big meeting between president trump and vladimir putin. what should the u.s. do next with vladimir putin, et al? >> sandra: a trump administration not happy at all after general motors announces thousands of job cuts. more on the message from the president to the company's ceo. >> president trump: i was very tough. i spoke with her when i heard they were closing and i said you know, this country has done a lot for general motors. you better get back in there. ever since darrell's family started using gain flings, their laundry smells more amazing than ever. [darrell's wife] uh, honey, isn't that the dog's

it may be something -- shannon: alan dershowitz had to say this about what the special counsel is looking at and what would or wouldn't be a crime. >> let's assume for hypothetical purposes that it is true that donald trump was trying to build power in moscow in the early stages of the campaign. that would not be a crime. what is mueller doing investigating that? he doesn't have a roving condition to identify see in. this is not salem. he has to look for federal crimes. heather: how much of this is going to be about optics? whether there are specific issues, you talked about a counterintelligence investigation of the current investigation but every little bit of this is bad optically for the president if not legally, he doesn't either. if you are looking at 2020 and running again if they chipped away at him so much with the dribble of people close to him getting in trouble even if he never touched. how do you talked to voters about that? >> inherently it looks political. what mueller has is russian type stuff. a meeting with russians, potential business deal with russia. i agree with andy

. >> shan, before we let you go, alan dershowitz, renowned lawyer, often a supporter of the president interview on abc this weekend he said that the mueller report would be devastating for the president, speaking in a political sense here. this is someone the president listens to and his analysis there. what is he seeing and hearing, do you think, that will lead him to that assessment? >> i don't see that he has any legal basis for making that assessment. he is in the dark as much as we all are because mueller's folks are very quiet. he may be picking up on the worries that the president has about it. i think any sort of organized presentation of what has been going on in terms of the inconsistencies, the guilty pleas in a normal political setting, that is going to be very negative for the president. but this presidency is far from normal. and i actually don't -- if that is all there's going to be to it, a bunch of criticisms, people have covered up small things, small statements, that's not going to be a death blow to trump because we pretty much all know that. i think what we're wai

submitted to robert mueller the white house awaits the final report on russian interference, alan dershowitzessor says although mueller's findings could be politically devastating for the president they still won't prove criminal wrongdoing. >> it would be foolish mistake for mueller and say this is a crime because the other side will be able to rebut it, if he simply lays it out and leaves to american public he would be much wiser and i think the report will be devastating to the president and i know that the president's team is already working on a response to the report and so at some point when the reports made public and that's a very hard question considering the new attorney general who has the authority to decide when and under what circumstances to make it public, it would be made public probably with a response along side. the president will say, look, it's political, that's their account and the american public has to -- heather: robert mueller has been leading the investigation since appointed. that by the way was way back in may of 2017. another democrat who originally opposed n

to suggest that anything happening today is akin to what happened in nazi germany as alan dershowitzon this network is to deny the holocaust ever existed. it does disgust me. i get that they are leftist networks and they are look for ratings. but this is too much. these comments show a complete lack of knowledge, a complete lack of historical facts, and that's kind of despicable. the more i talk about it, the angrier i get. i'm going to bring in my good friend, geraldo rivera. >> it's the first time brought me in to calm things down. around jewish american. >> i am. trish: as well as hispanic. how does that make you feel, knowing they are saying we are witnessing is akin to what we saw in world war ii. >> i think it's intellectual diarrhea. scarborough is so far off the mark. what he's saying is so anti-historic. you had an industrialized nation who used the techniques of 20th century industrialization to attempt top eradicate an entire race of people. nazi germany had as its core mission the eradication of all the jews. compare that to someone with whom you have a partisan disagreem

this week harvard law professor alan dershowitz says mueller has likely been planning and preparing for this very situation. >> i think he purposely cut all of us were done before the midterms because he wanted to make sure he was finished with all of his work. that is why i think he accepted the written statements. he didn't want the new attorney general are acting attorney general to interfere in it would be politically a disaster if the new attorney general did that. >> we may learn about new developments in mueller's case tomorrow. last week prosecutors asked for a brief delay in a status hearing for chairman paul manafort who has been cooperating the russian investigation. they didn't explain why he needed that delayed the said tamara the two sides will submit a report that will be of greater assistance to the core. that could be any number of things, but it is certainly something we'll be keeping an eye on. eric: absolutely. arthel. arthel: nasa's insite spacecraft is almost at mars. it is due to the landing tomorrow after a six-month journey to the red planet for some in-depth re

but nobody knows other than bob mueller. >> sandra: but still you've had alan dershowitz and others layhe fact a perjury trap is for the innocent as well as the guilty. so just because the written questions -- the answers have been turned in doesn't mean that robert mueller may not still want and need to sit down with the president and have him answer questions face-to-face. that could still happen, right? >> that's my point, sandra. every expert on the outside has their expertise. i value it. the truth is, nobody knows what bob mueller will decide to do and nobody knows what bob mueller knows and what he has gathered and what contradictions he has or hasn't found or anybody else is in his radar. that's the fact with one of these prosecutions. unless you're on the team it is expert guesswork. if i was on the inside i would still be nervous until you hear from bob mueller. nobody knows what the path is other than that man. >> jon: the president's team seems confident. rudy giuliani is one of his lawyers, rudy giuliani in an interview with axios said. i don't think they have any evidence

acosta said he felt pressured by epstein's powerful legal team including alan dershowitz and when starre herald believes that acosta had a good working relationship with epstein's legal team to lesson jail time. ten years later, epstein may yet find himself back in a federal courtroom. martha? >> martha: thanks very much. trace gallagher in los angeles. here's charles heard from the washington and juan williams. gentlemen, welcome to both of you. we all remember this story. the details of it were incredible. you know, he had all of these places around the world and these underage girls that were brought in and his friends, high powered, big names, many of them. it was just -- when you heard he got 13 months, it was a little hard to imagine that all of those charges could boil down to that. now you read this piece, very good reporting by the "miami herald" and you look at this and the me too moment that has followed really wasn't understood way in full swing, i guess you could say at that point. what do you make of this story? >> well, the politics of it just stand out. this is not reall

the president's concerns are being echoed by legal scholars like alan dershowitz, who warned today about what mueller's true motives really are. let's take a look. >> mueller is not going to produce a neutral report. he is not going to be fair. he is going to produce what he believes is going to be a devastating attack. he is going to put together everything. he is going to use information from manafort and others without necessarily disclosing that there they are liars. the president's team has to be rea ready. >> this is what i have been saying from the get-go. the classic mueller, andrew weissman, pitbull tactics, using threats, coercion to get people to what we call test the lie. in other words, tell us what we want to hear. we are going to go easy on you. if you don't tell us what we want to hear, you might spend the rest of your life in jail. look what's happening. this is fascinating. paul manafort and jerome corsi, they are now taking a stand, refusing to cooperate and go along with the test the lie scheme. they are not willing to tell a story that they want told. even both of th

trish: alan dershowitz the famed law professor from harvard said these witnesses not only do they sing, they sometimes compose. you mentioned the credibility this guy how he lied and lied and lied. i look at what bob mueller is doing. they got him on something. he can't lie to congress. if these negotiations went on six months later than originally anticipated. i don't get the there there. >> it's one of those why lie about it. the question was asked today when michael cohen was telling his story, and there was nothing in there, trish. it wasn't, well, the trump organization told me to. he took it upon himself to do what he thinks he does best, lie. when you are a trial lawyer, assessing the credibility of your witnesses and how you will use testimony later is a key component. anything that's based on what michael co-' says is pretty much garbage. trish: president trump expected to arrive any minute in buenas aires. our own blake berman is there. let me ask but this canceled meeting. he says he is not going to meet with vladimir putin. the critics are saying it's because of this michae

alan dershowitz we know has talked about it extensively and compellingly.uld be the same for anyone submitting to an interview. that said, let's bear in mind as well that the president has determined that he is providing legal written answers, so those two have a legal way weight and gravity. >> ebony: we have to go. thank you both. happy thanksgiving. >> you too. >> leland: for him and loretta lynch, comey's response when we come back. sergeant baker, how are you? they took care of everything a to z. having insurance is something everyone needs, but having usaa- now that's a privilege. 74% italian. and i found out that i'm from the big toe of that sexy italian boot! so this holiday season it's ancestrydna per tutti! order your kit now at ancestry.com cohigher!ad! higher! parents aren't perfect, but then they make us kraft mac & cheese and everything's good again. -we have the power -to make a difference, right now. we have the power to make sure everyone has clean water. to provide access to education for all. -to rid the world of aids, -once and for all.

alan dershowitz talked about this today on my radio show, specifically cnn -- what's that?n't have time. unfortunately. i'm sorry. we could do this for an hour and both of you are great guests. i didn't mean to get too hot on this but you are both great to come on pizza very important topic. coming up, what's lurking inside the caravan at our southern border? you are going to want to hear what homeland security and >> [speaking spanish] >> laura: a hunt honduran migrt raising flags of other very caravan he's part of. this is the t1 health department and they are telling fox news exclusively that more than a third, nearly 2300 of the migrants who set up camp in the border town are being treated for health issues ranging from respiratory infections to tb. a few even with hiv. joining me is a doctor, executive director of the association for american physicians and surgeons. doctor, you say that despite claims to the contrary, the medical screening is not even close to being sufficient. explain. >> oh, i think that they are not. i think one of the most serious problems is tube