andrew wiseman was at hillary clinton election night party in new york city. this is the same andrew wiseman who sent an e-mail to former acting attorney general sally yates the night she was fired. applying her decision to defy president trump travel band. federal law prohibits the justice department, which includes the special councils office from using political affiliations to assess any plic ants. it is also perfectly legal for employees to express their personal beliefs on political subjects, provided they aren't working in conjunction with the political party or candidate. but, you know over the last seven days from wiseman to fired fbi agent peter strauss. there has been a series of developments that call into question the fairness and impartiality of muller investigation finally "the new york times" is reporting investigators spent yesterday and today interviewing white house communications director hope picks. the paper is reporting during the transition she was warned by the fbi that russian operatives were trying to contact her. the fbi officials c

andrew wiseman was at hillary clinton election night party in new york city.he same andrew wiseman who sent an e-mail to former acting attorney general sally yates the night she was fired. applying her decision to defy president trump travel band. federal law prohibits the justice department, which includes the special councils office from using political affiliations to assess any plic ants. it is also perfectly legal for employees to express their personal beliefs on political subjects, provided they aren't working in conjunction with the political party or candidate. but, you know over the last seven days from wiseman to fired fbi agent peter strauss. there has been a series of developments that call into question the fairness and impartiality of muller investigation finally "the new york times" is reporting investigators spent yesterday and today interviewing white house communications director hope picks. the paper is reporting during the transition she was warned by the fbi that russian operatives were trying to contact her. the fbi officials cited in th

andrew wiseman we all knew he was ebb an absolutely committed clinton supporter or zealot. whatever you want to call it. but to see the level of his conflict within the special counsel team is appalling. nine of the members of the 17 attorneys in that prosecution -- that investigation and prosecution presumably, are democrats and there is not a single known republican known amongst the other attorneys and prosecutors. >> mueller himself is a self-pro feelsed buddy and fan of comey. comey i has violated the law repeatedly. he's the one who tried to invoke or create the circumstances for mueller to be appointed in the first place. that in and of itself disqualifies mueller. he should have resigned months ago because of this conflict of interest. lou: the should haves are mounting up. i don't understand why they are not taking place. we have a justice department, perhaps its leadership is neutralized. i don't know. but i know those who should be performing oversight over the special counsel are quite literally unable to act. the speaker of the house, the senate majority leader

and trump's travel order, violated professional duties and andrew wiseman said this is a great thingdo. how do you fix it? >> i have great doubt that it can be fixed. and issue nobody has raised. an obligation under supreme court law for any evidence bearing on the innocence of a defendant. to bob mueller let mike flynn at lawyers know that the chief witness against him, the fbi agent had been removed from the case for bias, guilty of professional misconduct. >> somebody needs to look into that. lisa bloom, the fbi agent texting, apparently working on that. >> she was his mistress which says a lot of other things about the unprofessional conduct at the fbi. ibly20 thank you so much for joining us, appreciate it. it continues there, appreciate it. time is 20 minutes after the top of the hour and surprise -- and some kneeling quarterback abca21 for praise and his promise that has everyone talking. jeff flake turning his back on his own party to support democratic challenger roy moore in the alabama senate race. is he choosing country over party? carly shimkus has the reaction and it is

lou: i'm not sure of anything. >> may very well that andrew wiseman ought to be similarly situated. his problem is, as you know, that he not only went to hillary clinton victory party or what was supposed to be a hillary clinton victory party, not only wrote a ferociously fawning e-mail to then acting attorney general when she committed, as far as i'm concerned, a laws act refusing to enforce the travel ban, but a person who has a long history of abuse of the obstruction statute, in which he brought down a big 8 accounting firm only to be told by the supreme court that it was overreaching. >> at the time it was a big 5 accounting firm, arthur andersen, and the only time in my knowledge and researched it to some degree that any firm was accused of a crime rather than its executives, and the result was 85,000 people losing their jobs. these are the kinds of people for whom i have nothing but harsh judgment and likely to get harsher as we find out. >> he may deserve a harsh judgment but he ought to be -- if he's -- lou: a man of integrity if robert mueller is that man, should he not sa

i think that the problem with the way who attended a rally, andrew wiseman.t is a lot deeper than just attending a party. he participated in the enron investigation. every criminal trial in that case ended in a conviction was reversed either entirely or in part by appeal. and in large measure, with the arthur anderson conviction that resulted in destruction of an accounting firm, reversed by the supreme court because he had pushed the obstruction statute 24. he was responsible for that. and he is, guess what? investing in case it is alleged to involve obstruction. i do not know that i would be lying his judgment and how far do you go with the obstruction case? >> that is interesting people do not understand that everything with enron was turned around. >> not everything but many things. there was no conviction after a trial listed completely.>> what should be done in terms of the robert mueller investigation? every day we hear more interviews being done, the pr woman at the white house, people that you know, in the media is getting it wrong. he saw the hyster

i think andrew wiseman, the lead prosecutor in the case, he has a track record and history that is notorious. he has been accused of threatening witnesses and hiding evidence. there he is at hillary clinton's election night party. this is a guy who may decide whether or not charges are brought against president trump and he's at trump's opponent's rally. think about this. matt: the attorney general with a fair reading of the guidance at doj recuses himself base's involved with the campaign. yet mueller hires people who are going adjudicate this issue who were involved in the presidential campaign for hillary clinton and it's okay for them to be involved in the investigation? i think the guidance was trying to say d.o.j. is somehow a non-partisan independent entity that has to have the full faith and credit of the american people. if you are going to put these hacks in there, in this case hillary clinton supporters with an ax to grind against donald trump, and they are making the decisions on the investigation, what i want to see happen is them to come up with what they see as the wrongdoing

andrew wiseman writes in that email under the subject line i'm proud and in awe. grateful thanks and deepest respect. people will have to decide for themselves whether that is another indicator of bias on the russia investigation. two senators, grassley and johnson, have sent a letter to the justice department whether they're aware of any other incidents in line with the strzok case and now the wiseman email. >> sandra: what about the dossier issue? the f.b.i. has been dragging its feet there. >> that's the other big issue to watch today in terms of the russia case. you will recall that the head of an opposition research firm glen simpson, fusion gps. we have confirmation now their research for the dossier was funded by the dnc and the clinton campaign. the questions republicans want answered is to what extent the f.b.i. relied on that unverified dossier to obtain surveillance warrants which captured the communications of trump campaign associates. and here is one of the members of the committee just a short time ago on the issue. >> the clinton campaign paid russ

andrew wiseman-gave thousands of dollars to obama and the dnc sent an email praising obama oldover sally yates for refusing to enforce trump's travel ban. and weissmann attended hillary clinton's election party on election night. and a clinton donor who represented the clinton foundation and represented hillary in the email investigation and represented ben rhodes in the cover-up investigation. bruce ohr was just demoted after it was reported he met secretly with the agent hillary paid to produce the dossier. so what's going on. joining us is former congressman jason chaffetz. the mueller dream team looks like a nightmare. >> there is a major problem in the justice department deep state. as we see the reality how this investigation really went down. you had some highly partisan people who wore it on their shirt sleeves and didn't necessarily put a blindfold on in looking for justice. jesse: do you think the investigation into clinton matters is corrupt now and if so what's to be done about it? >> what you really need is devin nunes, trey gowdy is on the intel committee. they have been as

it is stunning thing that mueller would have andrew wiseman and nine democrats on his team and also be ignoring so much obvious evidence that says there is no collusion. >> right. it is not just all of these people that are compromised and sended notes to sally yates or partying with hillary clinton and show text that show hostility to the president and language of trying to have an insurance policy. but the top official. his wife was working with fusion gps and also in the context of a year in the russian investigation, we have no evidence that the trump campaign illegally colluded with russia. if it is not that, why did we spend our time on this? are we jub sected to a information campaign that has no impact. >> lou: it is not by the russia in terms of evidence, but the justice department itself. >> yeah, i am confused by peter strab. he was removed related to text messages. that is lower on the scale than a bunch donated to the democrats that seems like a positive action in terms of being. >>>> lou: vince, the collusion thing started because they are worried that general flynn might

andrew wiseman attended the hillary clinton election night party. mueller's right-hand man previously represented a former hillary clinton i.t. aide who destroyed children tons blackberries with a hammer. another investigator represented former national security advisor ben rhodes and the clinton foundation as well as hillary clinton herself in a lawsuit seeking access to her private emails. what about all of that? joining me to talk about it, chris farrell from judicial watch. there are so many highly qualified, experienced and skilled lawyers across america who do not have a political ax to grind. had mueller chosen them, it would have lent credibility and integrity to his investigation. he chose not to do that. are you concerned that the mueller team, including mueller himself, have extreme political bias and corrupt motives? >> the credibility is less than zero. the unlawful or highly questionable investigative tactics that have been employed so far, and i have reason to believe chairman nunes from the intelligence committee has been lied to ove

. >> andrew wiseman whose email we obtained last week was sending emails to sally yates, acting attorneyeral, anti-trump or, hillary clinton's campaign election night, number 2 at them mueller justice department. if this is correct then the attorney general shouldn't have recused himself. he could have kept politics out of his job. it is the appearance issue. isn't it interesting, it only works to keep someone like sessions away from doing his job and not these partisan democrats. we look at the hires mueller made. as best we can tell there are no registered republicans, 10 registered democrats. heather: we have run out of time. let us know what is up next because you are always ahead of it and none of this would be happening without judicial watch. thank you for joining us, we will be right back, stay with us. >> anderson cooper at the center of a major controversy thanks to a colorfully worded tweet about donald trump. this came from his account that cnn says wasn't him, social media not buying it. here with reaction, it wasn't me. >> it wasn't him or was it? social media is calling in

andrew wiseman raised sally yates when she ordered her staff not to defend his first travel ban in courtr from the obama ministration. the fbi has acknowledged another member of the team that was removed from the russian allegation. they were sending anti-trump messages. >>> verse they need to come together on a deal to keep the averment from shutting down. republican leadership supports a two week extension. they want to abide more time to finish up your end fiscal issues. they feel like the holiday rush can produce lousy details.? usually, we load up the christmas tree with democrat votes we want to avoid that scenario. >> freedom caucus members do not support a longer extension. the expectation is that there will have a vote on what speaker ryan wants for the planned continued resolution. >>> on wall street stocks fell. the dow fell 109 points, the nasdaq lost 13. analyst say that they expect that trading will be choppy over the next couple of days. >>> there was a colorado bigger that refused to create a wedding cake for a same-sex couple. the court appeared divided on if the first a

i think bob mueller for his own good should dismiss andrew wiseman, top deputy, antitrump e-mail andssions should bring in an outside district attorney who has independence to look into the entirety of how doj and the fbi handled 2016 and to get to the bottom of it. but if donald trump takes from all this a permission slip to fire bob mueller it'll be catastrophic mistake and the irony, as far as we know mueller is not turning up evidence of collusion. if trump could sit tight, mueller will vindicate at the end of the day. heather: and former attorney general for the obama administration eric holder called for americans to hold peaceful mass protests if president trump does fire special counsel robert mueller calling it a, quote, salute red line. although the president said is not true, he's not going to do it. debbie wasserman schultz in the meantime also said to face tough questions on capitol hill today. will be interviewed by the house intelligence committee as part of its probe into russian interference and the 2016 election. debbie wasserman schultz resigned as dnc chair last j

david: andrew wiseman was at her election night party.epublican roy moore fist vowing to fight the swamp if he's elected to the senate today. >> it's difficult to drain the swamp when you are up to your neck in alligators. david: now it's up to the voters to decide. this skier taking the road less traveled by in argentina. we'll show you his fearless stunts. we'll be right back. david: the polls are just moments away from closing in the alabama senate special election. alabama's secretary of state projected 25% of registered voters would cast a ballot today it's 10% higher than the september republican run-off election. charlie, even though those numbers seem small. your getting word the turnout was higher than expected. charlie: absolutely. a higher turnout might suggest it's an advantage for jones because it means a lot of people who wouldn't artily have been taking part in this election got motivated to come out and take part. david: whoever did the get out the vote message the loudest is the one that will benefit the most of tonight.

charles: when andrew wiseman and others get involved in what they have, when you see a change in language and preference. but the disdain they had for republicans and the outward joy for hillary clinton, it's hard for people not to believe this whole thing is tainted and ruin use. >> based on the facts we are hearing it's difficult for people to extricate that from the day-to-day activities of the fbi. and the good work they are doing every day putting their lives at risk to protect us. but this becomes the lightning rod that says maybe we should take a closer look at this. whether they were in any way impacting the investigation. charles: it's too early to say these latest revelations make the whole probe look like a partisan hit job? tammy: the relationship between ask o'neill and comey. we do love this country and all of our law enforcement individuals. that love and desire for them to be successful has to be included in wanting this dynamic to stop. when you have agencies open rairgt as law enforce -- operating as law enforcement agencies in a partisan way, that's what we have seen ac

andrew wiseman, a mueller deputy, showing strong support for sally yates, her refusal. i like sally or betsy. >> greg: her refusal to endorsel ban. he said my deepest respect, i am so proud of you. that's a person working for mueller. >> jesse: he praised her for defying trump's travel ban because the supreme court just upheld as constitutional. both of those individuals are partisan and they are out of step with the constitution. >> juan: hold on. they didn't uphold it as constitutional. they said they could put it in place. >> jesse: in the middle of my brilliant commentary, let it slide. take it up with me later. they fought hard, team mueller. wiseman is an extremely controversial individual. he has a reputation for rule breaking. withholding evidence. frightening and intimidating witnesses. the two major prosecutions of wall street firms, arthur andersen in maryland can be completely botched. one was overturned by the supreme court 9-0 and the other overturned by the district court of appeals. the guy has a track record of prosecutions and convictions being overtur

you didn't mention andrew wiseman that was praising people -- >> laura: we did that the other night.> they were defying the president of the united states. >> laura: jim jordan posed a question about peter strozk to christopher wray. let's watch. >> did peter strozk help produce and present the application to the fisa court to secure a warrant to spy on americans associated with the trump campaign? >> congressman, i'm not prepared to discuss anything about a fisa process. >> what was presented to the fisa court? >> i do not believe i can legally share a fisa court submission with this committee. >> laura: i'm not sure that is correct. >> it's false. >> laura: what the fisa court down is still -- you can still have a check on that. congress can still check on what the fisa court does. you have an obligation to do that. who submits an application, that's not any type of confidential or classified information. >> we don't want to list in the world where the fbi can use the fact that they have submitted documents to a court as a should to oversight. we didn't get an answer as to whether

carley: that's not all, also other key players that come into this whole other information, andrew wiseman praised sally yates which deemed bias against donald trump, explain that. >> inyuiding sally yates has to be viewed but the context very political decisions from the tarmac meeting with loretta lynch and bill clinton to hillary clinton no charges to then the opening of the russia collusion investigation to the flynn leaks, there's been all the politicized actions and now we are seeing and that's what's come out in the last week or so, the very senior-level people already have a clear proclinton antitrump bias, in the case of sally yates, it's not that there's something that's i don't think in someone praising yates, wiseman, senior doj guy. it shows a leftist antitrump proclinton, prodemocrat bias, so just adds to the perception that this thing is rotten from the top down. rob: refusing to impose the travel ban. that's where it came from. you look at all this, the obsession with the russia collusion investigation within the media and by democrats and all of a sudden we see just a few

. >> republican critics and others are looking at some of the investigators like andrew wiseman, fory and supposedly an fbi official that was allegedly sending emails to a lawyer company. and they were anti-áuntran4á. does not hold any water? >> if there's any inappropriate behavior that should be punished.and a lot of the criticism a little suspect. newt gingrich for example was appointed and went on twitter and said this man is the highest respect, he is the top of his generation. now he is suddenly part of a deep state to undermine donald trump. i do find that kind of quick turn on your suspect. i think he is deserving of respect. i think to give him the benefit of the doubt to lay out his case. i do not see the point inside to undermine robert mueller and soliciting evidence. >> more court action for paul manafort tomorrow. always good to see you. >> good to see you. in sports is an olympic skier lindsay vaughn pulling out of today's race in switzerland world cup. she says it has nothing to do with the recent comments against president trump. so why is lindsay sitting in what cou

mueller's number two, andrew wiseman attended hillary clinton's election night party.can't call it a victory party. she lost. he was at the party. you have to imagine how disturbing that is. we have thousands of qualified federal prosecutors and bob mueller picks his number twosome one at the clinton election night party? it is outrageous and shows there is a bias that is infectious and can't be cured. we need to find out what evidence might be tainted and move on and get past it. it will only happen if attorney general sessions steps up and leads the department of justice and shuts down that biased investigation. >> jon: matt gaetz. republican of florida. >> heather: he is very fired up. a lot to say. was the engineer in the washington train derailment distracted? people asking that question today. could available technology have prevented that deadly crash? the latest on the investigation in just moments. plus the first major overhaul of the tax code in a generation is on the verge of reaching president trump's desk as we await one final house vote. >> i'm a little s

and as the investigator andrew wiseman, another questionable member and choice by mueller's team.ur friend and colleague gregg jarrett did some digging into his past. here's what he found. that during the enron accounting scandal, wiseman was a hard-charging prosecutor on the tax task force that brought a controversial obstruction of justice case against the county firm that eventually put the country out of business. it cost tens of thousands of people their jobs. and it was for nothing, because in 2005, the supreme court of the united states overturned the obstruction of justice conviction in a unanimous 9-0 ruling. next to impossible. it's not the only example of wiseman's aggressive tactics resulting in a case being overturned. the conviction of a business transaction between enron and merrill lynch, it sent people to jail. also reversed by the fifth circuit court of appeals. critics have also accused wiseman of intimidating witnesses, creating crimes that do not even exist, and in one case in particular, withholding exculpatory as and as that would have helped a defendant and

i think andrew wiseman, the lead prosecutor in the case, he has a track record and history that is notorious. he has been accused of threatening witnesses and hiding evidence. there he is at hillary clinton's election night party. this is a guy who may decide whether or not charges are brought against president trump and he's at trump's opponent's rally. think about this. matt: the attorney general with a fair reading of the guidance at doj recuses himself base's involved with the campaign. yet mueller hires people who are going adjudicate this issue who were involved in the presidential campaign for hillary clinton and it's okay for them to be involved in the investigation? i think the guidance was trying to say d.o.j. is somehow a non-partisan independent entity that has to have the full faith and credit of the american people. if you are going to put these hacks in there, in this case hillary clinton supporters with an ax to grind against donald trump, and they are making the decisions on the investigation, what i want to see happen is them to come up with what they see as the wrongdoing

be right about the investigation.i think that robert mueller for his own good, should dismiss andrew wiseman was a democratic partisans also anti-trump emails were sent. jeff sessions should bring in outside district attorney with independency look into the entirety of how the doj and fbi handled 2016 and to get to the bottom of it. but if donald trump takes for all of this, a permission slip to fire robert mueller, it would be catastrophic mistake. the irony as far as we know, looks at robert mueller is not turning up evidence of collusion. i think donald trump can just sit tight, robert mueller probably vindicate him at the end of the day. but firing him will do more damage to trump. >> ef3 different white house officials. congresswoman spires said, it is location. -- >> what did she say? >> she said we were on the hill before christmas he will make a major speech and say that robert mueller is fired. they said we do not even discuss that in private conversations and it has not come up. three different people who work at the white house to make sure i had the right information because i kn

i want to be assured to the american people that andrew wiseman and peter strzok, who were removed from their posts, that that will not sabotage bob mueller's investigation to trump campaign's collusion with russia, their removal. that their removal, peter strzok and mr. wiseman will not sabotage mueller's investigation into russian collusion. their removal from the investigation. >> i'm not aware of any effort by anyone to sabotage mueller's investigation. >> let me talk about the black identity extremists. we've had conversations, a report that was done august 14, 2017 said that during the same period of this report they found that right wing extremists were behind twice as many incidents, 115, and just over a third of these incidents were foiled, than those who might be considered islamists or might be considered others. there is a black extremist identity report. again i ask the question would you see that that report be clarified and would you take note of the fact that the convictions dealing with violence are more for the -- looking for my chart are more dealing with islamists an

of we've got andrew wiseman who, you know, applauded an obama holdover for defying a presidential ordercument. do you get the word professional when you read those actions? and it's, i think they're largely discrediting themselves. paul: but none of this, of course, relates to the credit, to the central question, dan, of collusion. >> yeah. paul: senator mark warner who is the ranking democrat on senate intelligence said this week that he thinks, actually, there's more fire than smoke, and he's not releasing any details, but he thinks this is the biggest thing he's ever going to do in his professional career. and he warned the president if you fire mueller, this is a constitutional crisis. >> yeah. well, coming up with sayings here, there's a little boy who cried wolf over and over again when there was no wolf, and no one would believe him. i mean, after listening to bill go through all of these issues, roll back to why we are here. way back in january the story of collusion emerged, and every media outlet -- paul: the allegation -- >> the allegation. every media outlet in washington wa

on friday "the wall street journal" reported that mueller's top investigator andrew wiseman attendednton's election night party at the center in new york city. by the way, it wasn't a party. you can't even make this stuff up anymore. breaking tonight, a new exclusive report from our very own james rosen and jacobson. here's the headline. the wife of demoted doj official worked for a firm behind the anti-trump dossier. here with reaction, conservative review, and contribute an editor former secret service agent dan bongino. also with us former obama economic advisor. you are a fair-minded guy. >> i appreciate that. >> sean: let's just say, it's hard to, but let's assume hillary clinton was the president and let's assume there was a special counsel looking into collusion and the campaign with russia. let's assume that the special counsel of 16 members, eight of them donated to hillary clinton, barack obama and the democratic party, and zero donated to the republican party, but zero reported to the emma credit party. you would probably say fundamentally that's unfair, right? >> when ken

i think bob mueller for his own good should dismiss andrew wiseman, a democratic partisan, also sent. jeff sessions should bring in an outside district attorney who has some independence to look into the entirety of how doj and fbi handled 2016 and to get to the bottom of it. but, if donald trump takes from all this a permission slip to fire bob mueller, it would be catastrophic, and the irony is here as far as we know it looks like mueller is not turning up evidence of collusion. i think if trump can just sit tight mueller will probably vindicate him at the end of the day and firing him will do more damage to trump than just sitting it out. >> three different white house officials and that is what congresswoman speier said theri. >> chris: what did she say? >> she came out and said the word is before christmas he will make a major speech and say mueller's fire, investigation over. they said we haven'em in private conversations, it has not come up. three different people who work in the white house just to make sure i had the right information, because i know you demanded. >> chris: