attorney andy mccarthy. andrew; so nice to have you. what do you make of all this? >> well, i actually think, jed, that it's really just silly. i mean, you know, all this stems from this to-do that the democrats have wanted to make about the russians using social media to tamper with the election. and i've always thought that that was a perilous road to go down because our government tampers with elections all over the world. we try to influence other elections. this is what governments do. what happened this time is the russians tried to influence the election against the democrats; so that the first time ever gets people all whipped up. but the amount of money that was poured into that effort is a drop in the ocean of campaign

lou: let's pick up with andy mccarthy's statements. should be over and no one in the judicial system of power, whether it's the chief justice or whomever, has the guts to call it and say come on. >> andy did a superb job of laying that out. the bottom line is the president is being persecuted by cable television. every other channel and sometimes people here are laying these false accusations out there and quoting false charges. there are no charges. from the start of this thing, no one has come forth with a crime that they're charging the president with but yet they're treating him like a mobster. i heard people say it's like the mob, it's like the mafia, we better shut them down. lou: they're right about the construction of the mob because that is a mob across cable television, "the new york times." they call signals and everybody starts blocking and tackling with a ridiculous predicate like the sentencing memos for a former attorney of the president who by the way just happens to be going to jail for tax fraud. >> and he was an idio

attorney for the southern district of new york andy mccarthy. the red storm rising, china and russia continue their aggressive posture in an attempt of global intimidation. russia is testing hypersonic weapons that putin declares have no foreign equivalent while chinese subs make progress on their nuclear strike capability. asia expert gordon chang with us tonight with what america can do to respond. we begin tonight with our eyes on washington where a deal has yet to be made to avoid a government shutdown. senate lawmakers, however, clearing a procedural hurdle this evening to take up a spending bill approved by the house and continue negotiation between republicans. the dems and the white house. chief white house correspondent john roberts joining us tonight with more on the president's strategy. >> reporter: david, good evening. it had been a high stakes game of brinksmanship that had gone on most of the day. that now has turned to negotiation. president trump had dug in his heels, insisting that he get some money for a border barrier, whethe

attorney and fox news contributor andy mccarthy is here.ack. >> nice to be with you, kennedy. kennedy: what was the judge saying that there was not enough factual evidence to make the case that paul manafort had violated the plea agreement that he had as special counsel? >> yeah, i think this is a lot of heavy breathing. mostly what the judge wants them to do is go off and see if they can't work it out. in point of fact, i'd like to say that i've written a bunch of these agreements, except that they are really kind of wrote agreements. they are very one-sided in favor of the prosecutor because the prosecutor always has all the cards when you're dealing with somebody who pleads guilty and wants a cooperation sort of leniency deal. kennedy: uh-huh. >> most people think they are bargaining to give information to the prosecutor. actually all you are bargaining for is a chance to allow the prosecutor to evaluate whether he thinks you're telling the truth or not, and all you -- kennedy: it sounds like they really don't have to show anything, and

andy mccarthy, former assistant u.s. attorney the southern district of new york and a fox news could you beat it. andy, good to see you. talk to me if you can about that tarmac meeting. i followed a little bit of snark from one of the commerce people there. i don't know how seriously democrats are taking this. is it a serious issue and what are you looking at legally? >> it's a very serious issue, harris, but i really don't see how they advance the ball, here. mrs. lynch has given testimony before two senate committees. she has had a version of events coming here. president clinton has had a version of events about what happened. but nothing inappropriate was discussed, that they just were in a moment which turned out to be, evidently, a critical moment in the investigation where they are literally days away from first interviewing mrs. clinton. that is the fbi. and then closing the investigation in very short order. they have this meeting, and we are to believe that it had nothing to do with any of that? just two old fri

want to bring by andy mccarthy. minutes ago general flynn walking into court. he is the before the judge as we speak now. andy, i think it might be wise to go back and maybe just repaint the picture of the white house in january of 2017. this is january 24th. it was a tuesday, four days after the inauguration. you know what it's like when a new administration moves into the west wing. you can call it chaos. there are a lot of things going on when people are trying to figure out their new lives as they come into the white house. yet in the midst of all this you have these f.b.i. agents schedule a meeting with general flynn. that's when this interview went down, andy. >> yeah, that's right. you know, remember f.b.i. director comey or former director comey talks about exploiting the fact that it was a chaotic situation. what he means by that is they didn't have process in place on not only as you point out day four, bill. but really the second full working day of the new administration. and here you have the new nationa

andy mccarthy former assistant u.s. attorney.ee how much we get so far. bill barr good pick? what do you think? >> fabulous pick. i couldn't be more pleased with somebody who not only knows, bill, for a number of years but cares deeply about the justice department. i don't know how the president could have made a better pick. i think at a time when the department is reeling a bit because of the controversies we've had you needed a pick like president bush's pick of judge mukasey in 2000. it rights the ship. >> bill: the president said i didn't know him until recently. how much does it matter from a legal sense in terms of understanding how he operates? >> i don't think it matters to the immediate situation that barr comes into, which is a situation where the justice department needs an instant injection of experience and prestige and somebody who i think commands the respect of both sides of the political aisle. if he gives the president that kind of performance and comfort, that ought to take care of their working relationship j

steve: you mentioned andy mccarthy 57d he tried to explain what we learned through the sentencing memoshat mr. mccarthy says is if the president is charged he would argue it were not a campaign contribution to begin with also he writes in the same article, the standard for impeachment is high crimes and misdemeanors. and does campaign violation rise to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors? and mr. mccarthy says that is an open question. ainsley: there have been some that have said this is just the beginning. they predicted. this remember rush limbaugh said if democrats take the house there will be investigation after investigation. steve: absolutely. ainsley: what do you think is going to happen in january? brian: the attorney general in new york this guy rob who andy mccarthy seems to work with to me seems to have an agenda. people in new york the attorney general seems to have an agenda. for their agenda to become of national interest, i think that's down a path we shouldn't be going down. also look at the john edwards situation and barack obama campaign that had $2 million in ca

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but former prosecutor andy mccarthy who knows a thing or two about prosecuting people and deals thats, kind of knew the gig was or when he came in for sentencing. let me play what he said earlier ask today on fox news. >> if a prosecutor had plans for a big case that was upcoming. the last thing cow would do is let a cooperator to get sentenced. you want the cooperator to testify first at the big trial because the testimony will be the biggest part of cooperation. that obviously didn't happen here. it didn't happen with any of mueller's cooperators which leads you to believe he doesn't have anything big coming down the pike. you wouldn't let them get sentenced first. you would have them testify first. david: his sentencing today was proof they squeezed egg out of him. >> i agree. why would you let your super tar witness, if he has something, just as mccarthy said, it's the testimony at trial that will be the key. you don't want that person behind bars with their deal tied up with a bow. you want that person to be on the and giving that testimony that's critical to your case. david: t

that's the point that andy mccarthy keeps making as a former justice department lawyer that none of theg patterns were crimes and people were allowed to be in business. and of course what she gets is the headline in the media which is another terrible blow to trump. what it is is, further proof that mueller's interest is in destroying the presidency. they have no reason to release this as the president goes to an important meeting in argentina with 19 other world leaders. >> sean: you've been the minority in congress and the speaker in congress. it's much easier to be the speaker i'm guessing although, you've taken your fair share. so, that's not going anywhere in the senate, and that will help him. but it's still the intention. i don't see the agenda to serve the american people. >> there is a 1923 law which allows the chairman of the ways and means committee to request the tax returns of any american. i could imagine the circumstance of the new chairman and liberal grant democrats will exercise his legal right and the internal revenue revenue will turn over the top tax returns which a

joining me now is john solomon, and by ron york and andy mccarthy and former attorney general michaelasey. general, you were chomping at the bit over there. comey amazing amnesia. we have heard he is smart as a chip and focussed and a detailed oriented individual. how do you forget so much? >> extraordinary transcript. at one point he was asked about the statement by the president told him about laying off flynn. that was disturbing and he started an investigation based on that statement. then he was asked about president obama saying on national television that hillary clinton should not be charged because she did not intend to do anything wrong. that was on national television. somehow it doesn't matter. that was the clear import of his response. it's mind blowing. what he should have been asked about is the fact that president obama's emails were found on hillary clinton's illegal server. if he charged her, he will be chargeding the president as well. well that played any role in his calculations i would be interested to know his answer. >> laura: john, it's important what the form

. >> noah, significant that andy mccarthy that carved a place on national review and fox news as a frequent critic of the mueller investigation is now coming out and becoming more critical of the president, it seems, by today suggesting that what is happening actually is not a conspiracy and especially telling the president this weekend he should just stop. >> he certainly is right. andy's correct on two points. one is sort of philosophical that the president, the head of the executive branch should not be calling people who work with the government who work with prosecutors rats potentially in tainting future prosecutions by communicating to other potential cooperators that the head of the executive branch doesn't look kindly on this sort of thing and might get a better deal if they were to decline to work with prosecutors is dangerous and certainly unprofessional and unbecoming of the executive branch. second, andy is talking about the southern district of new york which isn't the mueller probe or something the president can't wave away and andy knows these guys and i think he's right. th

each other and go back many years just like many of us from the reagan justice department and andy mccarthy - they are all conspirators against the president. lou: why is it going up? wife is not someone have the guts to say in authority with standing this is it. you are done. john roberts is in charge of the visor courts and in charge of an effect of the entire federal judiciary and why does he not say stop at? >> you should have ordered the presiding court judge to hold a hearing into hall in these people that sign off on the visor weren't knowing they were presenting faulty, line evidence to the court and will them accountable but i am hoping that once confirmed bill barr, new attorney general, will take action to wrap up this probe and to take action against individuals at the fbi and doj who broke the law. >> it's clear jeff sessions and rod rosenstein did not want to touch this thing one bit. >> rosenstein was covered up his own wrongdoing. which is why he was objecting congress. lou: obstructing congress, obstructing everything except one part here and that is his own complex are now

andy mccarthy writing this about this memo.far from threatening, he would encourage the special counsel to conform their work, as they are supposed to do for the work of all prosecutors." your thoughts on that? >> no matter what the view was from the outside, whitaker talking about budget strangulation or barr essentially saying he's got concerns, at the end of the day, they are going to come in and be briefed and have a much better operating knowledge of what is going on with this probe than they do from the outside. you're kind of hard pressed to assume that they have final thoughts about where it is going from the outside. they just haven't been exposed to -- >> dana: bill barr in his memo says let me be clear, obviously a lot of things that i don't know yet. we will leave it at that. james trustee. thank you. the president defending his plan to bring home u.s. troops in syria. we have reaction from the pentagon with our own jennifer griffin. plus, we will break down the latest arm-twisting on capitol hill. alright, i brough

andy mccarthy, former assistant u.s. attorney. both fox news contributors. byron, let's start with you. you've been covering this extensively. michael isikoff was the guy. he delivered this story to journalists and they were salivating over the steele dossier and still are. >> this is very important that isikoff is saying this. a month before the presidential election, christopher steele was desperate to stop donald trump and desperate to get the dossier into the press. he went to a bunch of reporters, half a dozen. michael isikoff was one of them. they didn't really bite on the wholel thing. it wasn't until the intelligence chiefs, remember, the head of the fbi, cia, nsa went up to trump tower on january 6 of 2017. donald trump was the president-elect. they go up there and they briefed him on russian efforts to interfere with the election, and after that, there's a one-on-one meeting with comey and president-elect trump and comey tells him about the dossier story about trump being in the hotel room with prostitutes in moscow. the dossier has played a key ro

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. >> andy mccarthy and i don't always agree, but i do respect his intellect and i certainly respect his experience. in fact, he is a former preeminent prosecutor in the southern district of new york. andy argued over the weekend, as do i, that the documents that they prosecutors on the southern district of new york released, which accuse the president of ordering and paying for a crime, could not have been released that way unless they had evidence of it. when they have evidence of it, they can't sit on it. they have to do something with it. what will they do with it? we will probably seek -- the attorney general might have them do it, but they will knock on the door and asked for permission to present this to a grand jury. >> harris: interesting. from what i am read, you can't prosecute them. >> there are three opinions on whether president can be a dead while in office. two say no, one says yes. all three agree that if the statute of limitations is about to expire, the time. between the commission of the crime and the charge -- the president can be indicted to stop the running of the

andy mccarthy however, used to be a former federal prosecutor said it certainly would not be.telling the truth now but he was lying yesterday. the fact of the matter he was lying in terms of the taxi medallion business and all these other businesses that he obviously didn't pay income tax on and so forth. he is a serial manipulator and a con man. in terms of, you know his feelings on, what the president knew or did not know, the president has to maintain that he paid these payments to save melania from embraer -- embarassment, and to safe his reputation as a husband and father and so for the. michael cohen says he donald trump was in the room, negotiated with "the national enquirer" in the catch and kill scheme which "the enquirer" gave karen mcdougal money and and killed the story. michael cohen is a nightmare. i am thankful that a sitting president cannot be indicted. michael cohen is on a mission to take down the president. brian: there is a lot of people on a mission to take down the president but do you think michael cohen is making things up to take down the president or

fox news contributor andy mccarthy has most high profile terrorists including the blind sheikh. nding the terror threat here at home. andy, you have no problem with the pullout? >> well, i didn't think we should go in in the first place, brian. i have been for six years arguing that we shouldn't have intervened in syria, which is a conflict that pits one collection of america's enemies, that is iran, russia, backing assad's regime against three other sets of america's enemies al qaeda, the muslim brotherhood groups which we like to talk about as our moderate allies and isis which is just a break away faction of al qaeda. if we stay out, they are all fighting each other. we go in and we have gone in without having authorization to do half of the mission that we are in there for. and i'm just -- i'm baffled that a lot of my friends seem to think that the constitution is just a suggestion, that we can go into a country, occupy territory, conduct combat operations against that country, being syria and its allies there. and we don't have to have any congressional authorization. we can

then you take it the next step and see how much -- i will read what andy mccarthy said, as we've justen it is a felony to cause another person to make an illegal contribution. a federal felony. and then, of course, you look at the painstaking way donald trump went -- how far out of his way donald trump went to hide those illegal campaign contributions and to direct them. it shows his intent. and then i want to get to the third point here which is it wasn't just a clerical error. this actually was an extraordinarily important illegal act which actually may have swayed the election, most likely swayed the election because you were following the campaign closely, obviously with the clinton campaign. what would the impact have been if a porn star and a playboy bunny had come out that last week and talked about their affairs with donald trump in 2006 right after he was married and when his wife was pregnant? >> well, i think we all know what the impact of what would have been on the election, which was ultimately decided by a relatively small number, 74,000 votes or whatever in a few upper

fully in accord with andy mccarthy.ugh on it. and that will probably provoke the democrats in the house to have a field day with it. what the democrats in the house do is a political question. i can't predict which way that will go. they'll do whatever will help them politically. i respect nadler, but the politicians will make a decision on what is best for them politically. remember when the republicans impeached bill clinton. he kept smiling and his approval ratings went up and theirs went down. >> bill: clinton gained house seats in 1998. >> as a consequence of the ill-advised impeachment. >> sandra: investigators believe kelsey berreth might be hundreds of miles away from where she was last seen on thanksgiving day. >> bill: paris, is this part of a worldwide populist uprising? nigel farage will join us right after this. is the eligibility for a va loan for up to 100% of your home's value. if you need cash for your family, call newday usa. with automatic authority from the va, we can say yes when banks say no. give

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joining me now, andrew mccarthy, andy always great to see you what do you make of this? >> good morning, dagen. well, i wouldn't be celebrating it if i was at the white house, i think that there's two different things going on here, which is natural since we have two different sets of prosecutor s looking at this. the case in the manhattan u.s. attorney's office the southern district of new york case as far as the president is concerned, that really involves campaign finance violations and what i'd be concerned about is if you read the sentencing memo, the southern district filed it number one looks like a celebration of the campaign finance laws and how important they are to our system. there's a lot of people that don't like the campaign finance laws but they are the law, and the southern district really champions them in a big way. i think that's important because it's clear that they have implicated the president in the two campaign finance violations that cohen plead guilty to and will be sentenced on. they have the president basically directing cohen to commit thes

andy strayhorn, sends his love as well. >> thank you very much. very nice, susan. >> the u.s. information agency put together this program, this documentary looking at 1968 and the democratic primary. here's an excerpt. >> and now mccarthy was facing competition from a new candidate. senator robert kennedy had decided to run. >> with the decisions that are made by this convention today. >> there were other unexpected events. >> with our hopes and the world's hopes for peace in the balance every day. i do not -- >> jim and ann did not realize it first as they listened to the president's speech that he was about to tell the nation he would not run for the presidency again. >> partisan costs. accordingly, i shall not seek, and i will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president. ♪ ♪ >> vice president of the united states. >> thank you. thank you. >> and vice president humphrey became the last major democratic candidate to enter the race. his heir to the support that had been given to the president. humphrey acquired a substantial number of delegate votes before the national convention. >> thank you very much. yes, sir. thank you. hello there. >> from the u.s. information agency, michael cohen, l