dorsey and said, whatever andrew johnson may be, he certainly is no friend of our race. this turned out to be true to the nth degree. he was probably understating the claim. johnson was the person who actually despised african-american people. you think about the -- it's hard to say -- the problem with, the tragedy that at the moment when the face of african-american people in the united states were being decided, he was at the helm of the government. johnson had been a person who did not care for slavery, but he did not like slavery because he thought that it was bad for the poor white class of which he had sprung. andrew johnson -- it's interesting, you have to try to find something to admire about people or -- something good to say about people when you are writing a whole book about them. you don't want to just be condemning people. you want to be as fair as possible. to his great credit, he came from nowhere and he made something of himself. he started out in a poor family. i am sure many of you may know he did not really learn to read until he was a late teenager. h

i turned to miss dorsey and said, what ever andrew johnson may be, he certainly no friend of our race. this turned out to be true to the end degree -- to the nth degree. he was probably understating the claim. johnson was a person who actually despised african american people. when you think about -- it's whento say, the tragedy the fate of the african-american people were being decided, he was at the helm of the government. the person whon did not care for slavery, but he did not like slavery, because he thought that it was bad for the .oor white class andrew johnson, it's interesting you have to find something good to say about people when you write a whole book about them, right? you don't want to just be condemning people. want to be as fair as possible. to his credit, he came from nowhere and he made something of himself. he started out in a poor family, i'm sure many of you may know he didn't really learn how to read until he was a late teenager. his wife taught him how to write after they got married. a had been apprentice to tailor when he and his brother were small boys and h

andrew johnson was an alcoholic racist who celebrated the klan and disrupted reconstruction. it was easier to repeal and replace that kind of behavior than it will be to repeal and replace what's being done to the standards of discourse. >> well, the vote in the u.s. senate i recall for andrew johnson when it came to convicting him and removing him from office was rather close. do you think -- yes, it will get that close for trump if the democrats get control of the congress next year? >> no. he's commit nod impeachable offense. being a lout is not a high crime nor misdemeanor. >> it's not a political crime? >> no. >> so you think he is protected by the fact that he hasn't committed felonies or misdemeanors even? >> heb has commit nod behavior looking forward that impeachment would be used as a prophylactic measure to stop him. >> wow, interesting word. >> the country voted for this. they ought to have the experience intensely and protractly so they're not tempted to do it again. >> you think about the various hats the president gets to wear once he is elected. one of them is

i'll be honest with you, i went to andrew johnson elementary school at east tennessee. i think they're only two in the country, 135 miles away where he was from and for some reason in the town where i grew up. he's just universally despised, but what we need remember is upon lincoln's death, democrats and republicans it at least thank goodness with andrew johnson. because he was the great hero, the only white southern senator who refuse not to go to the confederacy. and then the bent at great peril wartime governor of tennessee. and had been lincoln's running mate. republicans had reason to think this is just what we are looking for. here's a guy who understands the white south by this committed to union and our success. but johnson, unlike lincoln, really did not value the freedom of the enslaved people. he was willing to sacrifice them and their rights for the quickest reunification of the country that he could come up with. in his mind what that meant was, that you almost all white men in the south support the confederacy. even though they had been for unity for the

presidents lincoln and andrew johnson had encouraged reconstruction states to allow some african americans to vote, for example, those who read it or had fought in the union army. their advice was ignored by southern states. republicans faced a political dilemma after the civil war. the party wanted to expand its roots into the south. if they didn't do that, it wasn't going to have much chance of being a national party. before the civil war, the republican party had been entirely a sectional party. president lincoln was not even on the ballot in states south of virginia. republicans have a tenuous hold on power at the national level. without black suffrage in the south, the party has very little prospect of success unless they are going to disenfranchise very large numbers of rebel whites, something nobody seems to think was a viable long-term solution. the problem is exacerbated by the fact that the south was going to gain congressional representation as a result of the abolition of slavery with the 13th amendment. blacks are now going to count 5/5 rather than 3/5. republicans need to gua

in the united states and you know we've had two impeachments already in america not removals andrew johnson in the eight hundred sixty s. bill clinton in the one nine hundred ninety s. and we had richard nixon resigned to avoid impeachment and removal none of these events were catastrophic none of them really hurt the country or divided the country in some ways they actually brought us closer together so this idea of a cataclysm following an impeachment or even a removal by the senate a separate process of president trumper way overblown very interesting professor thanks so much for joining us allan lichtman my pleasure let's take a look now at some sports temperatures of sorts to forty degree celsius on day five of the australian tennis open in melbourne playhouse however continued uninterrupted men's world number one rafa nadal easily reached round four with a straight sets win over damage and meanwhile third seed grigor dimitrov came through and four sets against andre rieu bluff and ran three of the women's singles a fifteen year old ukrainian amata cost you and her dream run ended six

out there and it's a rare lunar trifecta last visible in north america over 150 years ago when andrew johnsonas president. supermoon that's because the moon is the closest in its orbit to the earth, blue moon because it's the second full moon of the month and a blood moon because of a total lunar eclipse visible in the western united states after about 10 of 6:00 this morning part of the moon might be shaded here on the east coast but not a total lunar eclipse here. another round of precipitation thursday night into friday morning. details on that coming up. >> all right dave. we've got a problem with traffic and this ramp is still blocked in west goshen township chester county and you see the trailer here, so the trailer became unhitched from the cab in this tractor-trailer and then the truck kind of went down an embankment there into the woods so a mess here on the ramp from 100 southbound to 202 southbound. we see a heavy duty tow truck on the scene here but they haven't been able to pull it away just yet so it's still blocked. stick from the ramp to boot road to 202 southbound instead of

was8 627, andrew johnson consummate enough to assert in that year's proclamation that the practice of a national thanksgiving had been accepted throughout the country. this recent custom, he wrote, may now be regarded as established on national consent and approval. ofk then is the story lincoln, mrs. hale, and thanksgiving. 2017 justs giving day a few days away, i thought it would be appropriate to conclude with a beautiful line from lincoln's 1863 thanks giving proclamation. me fit and proper that our nation's blessings should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole un-american republic. -- whole american republic. 154thcelebrate our thanksgiving since lincoln became the modern version of this tradition, thank you and happy thanksgiving. [applause] >> we have time for questions. if you have a question, please come to the microphones. yes. >> thank you very much for your illuminating talk. my question stems from the quotation you have from the virginia governor that it was a governor, virginia that we have a dam yankee preside

do you want to be andrew johnson or do you want to be lyndon johnson? do you want people to be sitting around in five years, ten years, 100 years and saying as johnson once said to george wallace do you want your tombstone to say you hated or you built? >> it sounds from reporting that gabe sherman was giving us earlier on the program that the president is quite happy with the results of what he said. that he's been in mar-a-lago this weekend celebrating the impact of those comments. >> inside of the white house there's a sense now that it's about the specificity of the word uttered in that conversation. the "washington post" stands by its reporting and the white house has also gotten into arguments over the weekend with the "wall street journal" of their own interview about different words used, was it "i" or "i'd" when it came to discussing north korea. this shows that the broader part of the republican party stays with the president. the most telling image from the white house was house majority leader kevin mccarthy standing alongside the president

andrew johnson, and ron brownstein covers that. on the issue of steve bannon and the russia investigation, and there's a response drafted on air force one, and steve bannon was really mad about this and called hicks furious and blamed the leaks on her, and he came to see her, 28 years old, and nothing more than a hapless presidential enable lure and poor-fish flunky. you take that quote for what it is here, but on the larger issue of steve bannon commenting on the issues, which may be part of the robert mueller investigation, does he become a potentially important witness, susan? >> he's talking about hearsay things, and whether or not mueller feels like he's going to need to get bannon's personal statement, who knows? what it does raise the issue of and is bread crumbs for mueller's team, the divergence between statements being made to the public and the reality. it's not a crime for the president to lie to the american people or to a "new york times" reporter but it's a crime for the president or his staff to lie to the fbi or co

because of his reputation, if andrew johnson would have been impeached, he would have become president. had those sort of things in mind. frank: thank you very much. yes, please. >> my husband is from rhode island. sign by ambrose burnside hanging in our house. frank: he was very popular in rhode island. he became governor and then a united states senator. >> my question is, i have been reading the book on lincoln and the press, i am only a third of the way through. one of the things absolutely clear, the papers -- >> not neutral. impartial.e not there were democratic papers and republican papers. i assume at the time of the war, it was the same thing. how much did the democratic the election?ce or try to influence frank: the election? -- or try to influence the election? frank: good question. there was vehement democratic press against lincoln and the way the war was going on and these papers were being circulated in the camps, which i think is often forgotten, the influence of the press and how it was being used, especially in 1862 and 1863. as the copperhead movement rises, you see

universityrvard professor annette gordon-reed talks about the legacy of andrew johnson, the nation 17th president who took office after the assassination of lincoln. he is called the president of lost opportunities because of his failure to help former slaves or advance the cause of black citizenship in the early

first president to ever do an event with athletes was president johnson, not lyndon johnson, andrew johnson. that's how far it goes back. so trump is part of that continuum. the difference is that we've never had a president this polarizing go into a city, atlanta, where he's about as popular as the new orleans saints. >> richard rose, let's go through what we know at this point. a number of outlets reported president trump is planning to go to atlanta, the "washington post" saying here sonny perdue and nick ayres, a george native, his chief of staff expected to attend. they say they are working with secret service to ratchet up security for his arrival. so there's the preparations that would have to be made and his attendance. in terms of a response from atlanta, what do you see happening here? >> a number of things probably will happen. several groups will plan outside the stadium protests. the atlanta naacp is working with several other groups, georgia alliance for social justice, to do a tweetstorm, because clearly, this is a grandstanding by the president. he's really not a football fa

they'll agree he's a big intellectual, where president trump is the least intellectual since maybe andrew johnson. it's going to be very hard to tell him that he doesn't know anything. this is a man who is a great man in many ways, but doesn't think there's anything he doesn't know and he doesn't know better than anybody else. >> given what you just said about how little in your estimation he's done on national defense, what is still appealing to you about president trump? >> i like the fact that he stands up for america and i like the fact that he doesn't get pushed around by the media. bear in mind i am in the media. i don't know how old you are, but i've been working in the media since i was a cub reporter at "the washington post" about 50-some years ago, and i like the fact he does not get whipped around and have himself pushed into a corner by the media and that he stands up for himself. and i like the fact he stands up for america. i don't like the slogan america first, because it reminds me of charles lindbergh's pro nazi slogan america first, but i think the idea america goes first in his

next, harvard university professor annette gordon-reed talks about the legacy of andrew johnson, the nation's 17th president, who took office following abraham lincoln's assassination in 1865. professor gordon-reed calls johnson the president of lost opportunities because of his failure to help former slaves or advance the cause of black citizenship in the early days of reconstruction. this 45-minute discussion was part of the annual lincoln forum in gettysburg, pennsylvania. annette: it is my plesh -- >> it is my pleasure to introduce our second speaker for the morning, annette gordon-reed.

andrew johnson in the 1860s for manipulatining senior personnelo protect himself. violation of the tenure act, secretary of war. richard nixon in the 1970s, obstruction of justice. we know what tried to do to end the watergate investigation. and bill clinton for obstruction of justice and perjury, lying under oath in the face of a special counsel investigation. all of these days that we go through this, that we live t through this mueller investigation, is leading up to a moment where robert mueller, let's just assume he has spoken to everybody, because if he hasn't, he will, and eventually this is going to lay on the doorstep of the president of the united states and he will either be found culpable, or he will be honest or he will lie, but either way the president of the united states is in the most jeopardy of anybody today. >> it's so stunning, and i love when you take me to school. i mean, you're your. >> this is it, it's about personnel. it's about obstruction of justice. >> it's about character. one more story for obstruction block. sitting attorney general

it is interesting because if andrew johnson had been impeached and convicted he would have become president. >> came within one -- probably one of the most consequential single vote ever cast in american history. >> that's right. i think people had those sort of things in mind. >> thank you very much. yes, please. >> i'm a little reluctant to admit this, but my husband is from rhode island so we have a signed print by ambrose burnside hanging in our house because he was elected two times. >> you're not the only one because, believe it or not, he was very popular in rhode island. >> he became governor twice. >> he became governor and then a united states senator. >> yeah. but my question is i've been reading harold holder's book on lincoln and the press and i'm only about a third of the way through, but one of the things that's absolutely clear is that papers were not -- what's the word? they weren't even -- >> not neutral. >> they weren't impartial. they were really units of the party that they were working for, so there were democratic papers and republican papers. i assume at the time of

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there hadn't been an impeachment since 1868, andrew johnson and they took this seriously.d for nixon's impeachment july of 1974, including the chairman, peter rodeno, they went back stage and cried. this was not just a show. they real rised how important this was and there were in the minority at that point, mainly moderate republicans but not only moderate republicans who said with a heavy heart i love richard nixon and supported him for years but cannot bring myself to vote against his impeachment. >> susan page, by trump's standards, it was a more uplifting speech than his previous speeches. if you look at his inaugural, he talked about unity. but i said earlier, you can't take what he says for an hour and 15 minutes or so in a vacuum, as if the previous year and 11 days hadn't happened. this has not been a unifying president in any respect. do you think there were people in the room who took heart in what he said or too calloused by what they know he's been about for the last year? >> i think things are pretty set with president trump. one of the things we talked about

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andrew plant, bbc news. and the bbc‘s howard johnson gave me this update from manila.etting off overnight and has been emitting more smoke and lava. it's had huge lava fountains spraying into the sky. residents describe the sound of the rumbles coming from the volcano as that of a jet plane coming in to land. scientists have been watching this carefully, as you say, over the past week. it has gone up from when it first started erupting more than a week ago to this day — it's gone up on the scale from three to four, on a scale where five is the highest threat level. the fear now is that it could explode in the coming days. a hazardous eruption, scientists are warning. if that happens then we could see the current exclusion zone, which is now nine kilometres, could be extended further. we've had thousands of people evacuated, but also other people coming back. some in this largely agricultural area because they need their livelihoods, as a man was saying in the report, and also some tourists coming just to see it. that's correct. yes, this exclusion zone of nine kilometr

. >> which i believe andrew is correct, which would require normal conditional use notices. >> commissioner johnson is still -- >> no. we clarified. >> okay. >> so i have a motion that's been seconded to have another 6-month update that will be fully noticed as a potential revocation action or amendment, amending previous approval. >> commissioner fong: aye. >> commissioner johnson: aye. >> commissioner moore: no. >> commissioner melger: no. >> president hillis: aye. >> so moved. the commission passes, with melgar and moore voting against. that places us on item 13 for commerce and industry inventory for 2016. this is also an informational presentation. >> good afternoon. i'm paulo ikezoe. and today i will give you a brief presentation with some background and a few highlights on the 2016 commerce and industry inventory and then i will be available for any questions or comments. so just as a reminder, this is the commerce and industry annual report combining information from a variety of internal and external data sources. in addition to compiling an annual snapshot, the data we compile every year

they discussed in andy's office, the office of andrew mccabe, deputy fbi director and whatever secret society means. senator johnsonout evidence, saying there is a whistle-blower, indicating their meeting off site. there is a lot going around. this memo 200 members of congress have seen but the senate intel committee members are not allowed to see and the fbi and the doj are not allowed to see is being described by democrats as misleading because there are omissions in the underlying classified information that's the basis of the summary and the conclusions in the memo is not provided. therefore it's misleading and deceptive. so they are going to fight back with a counter memo. this is a miserable and destructive process. >> we need to take a step back and look at what's happening. we have dozens of highly credible allegations of politicization at the fbi. the appropriate range of reactions is called determination to get to the bottom of it, to absolute outrage about what's happened at the fbi and doj. it seems washington is in some state of denial, probably as a result of their dislike of president trump and these

recover that was paul krugman, plunge the world into recession, simon johnson, threaten health and safety, maybe even get us all killed, andrewivan wrote in new york magazine trump is an extension level event and paul krugman said america would soon turn into trumpistan, usher ing in epic corruption about no restraint whatsoever. former trump campaign spokesperson katrina pierson joins me now what's your reaction to those headlines, katrina? >> well liz i think i slept through armageddon but what i will say is you're here, i'm here, the world is still spin ning and look, they got it wrong. i don't think anybody is surprised that they got it wrong you have someone that came into office and in one year managed to bulldoze through the resistance and unravel decades worth of big government policy, socialistic policies and brought back optimism and pride to americans along with jobs and increasing wages. liz: here is the new york times columnist warning about baseline dangers that's a direct quote. here is what he says. sustained market jitters leading to an economic slump, major civil unrest, and finally, a rapid escalation of ri

lawrence joins us from washington ed, there's a man named samuel johnson who once said when a man is tired of london he's tired of life is andrew mccabe just tired of washington, d.c. >> we've been hearing from sources that andrew mccabe got tired of the pressure he's been hearing. still a lot of controversy surrounds this the president for several weeks has been tweeting out and pressuring the fbi to get rid of andrew mccabe. he was in charge of the investigation into hillary clinton's e-mail servers he eventually became in charge of that. he also looked over the trump campaign investigation going into the russian meddling in u.s. elections the president has been tweeting out a tirade over the past several months against mccabe, pointing out in one case that his wife was running for office and received hundreds of thousands of dollars from donations in a friend of hillary clinton's, this is while mccabe was overseeing the hillary clinton e-mail investigation the president has been pressuring him the wous said they had nothing to do with this. i can tell you it's interesting timing christopher ray, the current director of the f

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andrew simple] in the lincoln continental. (whistle) woo! [sfx: zip] ♪ with imagination, yeah yeah yeah ♪ ♪ with imagination sc johnson back back to the show.is a writer with the number one bestselling book in the country, or as the white house calls it "a garbage book" by a garbage author. please welcome michael wolff. ♪ ♪ ( applause ) ♪ the eye of the tiger, oh, yeah >> stephen: thank you, once again, for this exclusive interview. ( laughter ). >> you know he's watching. >> stephen: oh, he always watches. this is his favorite show >> and and he asked one of the remaining contacts i have said he asked for my media scheduled today. so that might mean all he's done today is watched me on television. ( laughter ). >> stephen: well, congratulations, congratulations. are you in any way surprised by the splash this book has made? , of course. i mean, you -- >> stephen: you aren't surprised? >> i am described. >> stephen: you described the president as mentally unstable, unfit for the office, basically jibbering to his cheeseburger when he goes to bed. and he's got the launch codes. why wouldn't that cause a splash? >> because i thought we knew t

susan page from usa today and jason johnson, politics editor at the root.com and an msnbc contributor. welcome. lots of breaking news today. let's start with andrewite house said they didn't get involved in this in any way. this was all andrew mccabe's decision and you would have to ask the fbi. they may say that, but the reality is donald trump was putting a lot of political pressure on him on twitter and interviews, was not happy. so how much do you chalk up his stepping down to the current environment, matthew? >> well i think we have to zi distinguish between the trump white house and the president himself. and it may be true that trump white house didn't have much interaction or involvement with the decision to step down about a month early before he was planning to. on the other hand as we've known for years now, donald trump has made a big issue out of not only mccabe but also his wife's attempt to run for the state senate seat and having donations from terry mcauliffe. >> and talking about donald trump and andrew mccabe and a conversation when he fired james comey. he was taking the fbi plane back from los angeles to fbi headquarters. rem

andrew mccabe, deputy director, was texting to others, how he was involved in that before. and now we know mccabe is leaving in march. there is so much more to the story. >> ron johnsoninformant that backs up the existence of an fbi secret society working to undermine donald trump. a chilling warning from the cia, north korea won't rest until it can launch multiple attacks on americans. >> the frequency of tests that are materially successful has improved putting ever closer to where americans are held at risk. the logical next step would be to develop an arsenal that donald trump was directing the government to figure out a way. jillian: cia director mike pompeo believes kim jung un could use nuclear weapons to take over the entire korean peninsula. he insists the trump administration is working to find a diplomatic solution. we are learning multiple americans were killed and injured in the deadly weekend attack on a couple hotel where the telegram claimed responsibility and donald trump ramps up the fight against the terror group. and more troops ordered to afghanistan. and calling out the legendary a-10 thunderbolt jet blue shirt away and is lucas tomlinson. thank

and andrew young, a member of the southern christian leadership conference, was watching the address with martin luther king jr., and he noticed that when johnson said that, tears rolled down the face of reverend king, and, yes, we had a voting rights act. not a final piece, but one of the landmark legislations -- this is rachel carson in front of her microscope, and she was excoriated. in fact, former agricultural secretary said she is obviously a communist because she wants to attack the chemical companies, and her book, silent spring, moved johnson to pass the clean air act and the clean water act. you can see the need for the clean water act. this is the cuyahoga river in cleveland who -- which caught on fire, and this, of course, is lbj. lbj accomplished a great many things. if one measures the success of an administration by legislation, then lyndon johnson was one of the most successful chief executives of all-time. some of the credit goes to the remarkable 89th congress, which swept in with johnson's landslide victory in 1964. between february and august of 1965 that congress passed the voting rights bell, the medicare bill, the odd ind

andrew murrison. theresa may has told her cabinet to have discussions in private after borisjohnson have discussions in private after boris johnsongned a bill to fund the us government for the next two—and—a—half weeks — ending a shutdown of federal services. congress passed the legislation, after the democrats accepted the promise of a broad debate on the issue of immigration. in our washington correspondent, david willis, has the details. the motion is agreed to. the vote brought a high—stakes game of political brinkmanship to an end, and will keep the american government open for another 2.5 weeks. i know there's great relief that this episode is coming to an end. this shutdown did not need to happen. however brief, it inflicted needless costs on the country. democrats had insisted on tying a budget deal to what they see as the leading civil rights issue of our time, the plight of the so—called dreamers, young people brought to this country illegally, who are now facing deportation. after several days of deadlock, the senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell, offered a concession — a pledge to debate their situation before the

andrew weissmann first and he is a money laundering guy. their path to trump. it's as plain as a hair on your face. want to bring in the panel, elian na johnson and jeffrey toobin. jeff, you think that think about deutsche bank and paul manafort, that's major. >> that thing. that's really the devastating part of this because you know, the one thing donald trump has said is the one red line that he will not allow paul manafort to -- i'm sorry, he will not allow robert mueller's investigation to cross is investigating his personal finances other than those related to russia. the deutsche bank accounts presumably relate to all of his finances. and all after jared kushner's finances. and here you have steve bannon who notwithstanding what the president said today is obviously very close to the operations of his campaign. >> the quote from steve bannon about deutsche bank, he says it goes through deutsche bank and all the kushner explative, the kushner expletive is greasy. they're going to go right through that and roll those two guys up and say play me or trade me. >> in other words, trying to flip people to get to get to the president. and you k

johnson and, also, what i wonder about, how did mr. trump's physician know that he's the healthiest man to ever assume presidency in american history. he has the medical records of thomas jefferson, andrewincoln. i mean, it's exaggeration. >> i think that is a very fair way to characterize it. do you see that the lack of information that we have very specifically about this president's health as a break in precedent then or not really given what you point out happened? >> break in precedent and i don't think after his physical today that the public is going to learn some extraordinary things about his current health. because after all his position client patient confidentiality. unless the president said you can tell them everything about me. so, i would doubt it. >> why is it important, just to make it very clear, why do you think it's important for people to know about the commander in chief's health? to override that privacy aspect there? >> well, because after all they're in a unique position. the president has its finger on that nuclear button. and nobody in the world has as much power as a president of the united states. and the same holds true for a vice president because if the

andrews that he has been suspended for three months. a quick line of breaking news coming in from downing street on the reshuffle. boris johnsonnd the only senior position change is that of northern ireland secretary because of james brokenshire resigning because of ill health. borisjohnson brokenshire resigning because of ill health. boris johnson remains foreign secretary, we are keeping an eye on downing street. any more changes and we'll bring them to you. you're watching afternoon live, these are our headlines am before rudd keeps her role as health secretary. brandon lewis is new conservative party chairman with a host of vice chairs. a couple who met on a muslim dating site are found guilty of planning a terror attack in the uk. and after months off the court, andy murray's had hip surgery and could be out for a further 1a weeks. he hasn't played since last summer competitively. michael vaughan says the team need to be honest with themselves about how they underperformed in the ashes. england lost the series a—0. barcelona sign coutinho from liverpool but injury prevents him debuting for three weeks. more on those stori

andrew cuomo's state of the state address. meckler looksra at the potential for immigration action in the new year and federation for american immigration reform president daniel stein and benjamin johnson, the executive director for the american immigration lawyers association, talk about prospects for immigration reform in 2018. washington journal is live, now. ♪ good morning, it is wednesday, january 3, 2018. at noon, the second session of the 115th congress will convene pursuant to the u.s. constitution. in the senate, the session will begin with two new faces when doug jones and tina smith are sworn in. we have a three-hour washington journal ahead for you and we will spend our focus on what is expected to be a major issue, immigration. toare opening our phones immigrants only, to hear your story of coming to an living in the united states. recent legal immigrants can call in at (202) 748-8000. if you are a legal immigrant who has lived in this country for five years or longer, (202) 748-8001. illegal, undocumented immigrants, (202) 748-8002. you can also catch up with us on social media on twitter, on facebook, facebook.com/c-span. a good wednesday morning. immigrants only in this

andrew mccarthy, former federal prosecutor. former u.s. attorney in new york southern district. he is also a columnist at national review. andy, what do you make of that interview bret baier had with senator ron johnsonfbi, they meet off site and apparently they were out to get the president, this president. >> well, you know, what i want to see, steve, isn't bias or corruption. that was what was alluded to. and, you know, bias is what you feel, corruption is what you do. and if they have evidence that these guys acted on their political buying cease that affected their job performance that's very alarming. if it's just kind of dopey humor, i would hate the thought of somebody having sort of followed me around for 20 years as a prosecutor because there is a lot of gallow humor that goes on in a job where you're investigating bad people all the time. it's just a fact of life. but that stuff always get checked at the door. at least it's always supposed to get checked at the door when you are at the point of applying the law to the facts. and so what we need to see is what they did, not what they shot their mouths off about. brian: that's why the whistleblower could be so valuable. that's why those five