clinton said he lost count. >> it's close. this is the clinton presidency.f we want to do will not happen unless we approve this plan. >> asthma jo majority leader i y much concerned about what the outcome was going to be. we needed 50 votes. we had 49. bob kerry, senator from nebraska, had doubts. until the time he got up to speak in the senate, i wasn't sure what he was going to say. >> mr. president, i'll tell you this i should not cast a vote that will bring down your presidency. >> by the slim est of all possible margins, the president saved his budget bill and the political clout of his administration. [ cheers and applause ] >> after 12 long years, we can say to the american people tonight we have laid the foundation for the renewal of the american dream. >> passing the budget was a victory because we didn't lose. but usually you could get one member from the other side. >> every single republican in the congress voted against it. >> republicans viewed bill clinton's presidency as illegitimate. they thought george h.w. bush deserved a second term. fro

president bill clinton and george w. bush sat down for an interview earlier this month and little rock, that is next on c-span. we look at the relationship between the arts and the states economies. pompeo talkd mike about u.s. investment in asia. >> former president bill clinton and george w. bush is set down for an interview at the clinton presidential center to talk about a range of topics am a including immigration and u.s. foreign aid. they look at get their careers and talked about lessons they have learned from their political defeats. this event was organized by the clinton foundation and was part of a ceremony recognizing members of the presidential leadership scholars program area [applause] >> good afternoon. that was good. it was just last year i remember being right there. at the time, i was working at one of the most prominent financial institutions in the world with a fantastic team, having not long ago been promoted to a role that was just right. i had a plan, it was working. then the presidential leaders

i sat next to president clinton. it was exhilarating, humbling, fascinating, as i broke bread and talked with a man who not long ago carried the weight of the world on his shoulders. i was moved not just by his stories. they were really good, but really long. [laughter] >> and really good. [laughter] >> but i was also moved by the reality that he was just a man. i know this should not have been an epiphany, but in a way, it was a capstone moment. i spent six months being surrounded by the most talented, selfless servants i have ever known. these are the kind of people you see featured for international acts of valor, reshaping the landscape of health care, casting the new normal and expectations of a justice system, they are indeed superstars. but they are superstars who joked, cried, who questioned their own worthiness. the meal with president clinton was a clearing of the pump and pageantry of the night and crystallized my most valuable lesson from the scholarship program, the notion that great acts of service are

bush, and president clinton. -- and president bill clinton. [applause] >> all right. >> damn. [laughter] >> good afternoon again, everyone and thank you so much. pres. clinton: welcome to the anti-climax. [laughter] >> thank you for joining us today. i am sure it will be a lively conversation. i am going to jump right in. a hallmark of this program is for the scholars to learn directly from former presidents and their teens, and i know personally, for you all, that is the most impactful part of the program is to interact with the scholars. to help make this more of a conversation today between you and the scholars, not just me talking, we asked the scholars to submit questions ahead of time, and there were lots and lots of questions. i'm going to try to get through as many of them as possible today, but i will start with the first question and we will go directly to the scholars. it has been mentioned, approximately five years ago, you came up with this fabulous idea and announced this program in washington, d.c. at the museum. -- newseum. a lot has happened in the country and

election went putin's way. >> i have just received a call from secretary clinton. >> hillary clintonour country and the attitude. >> it would not be bad to get along with russia, right? >> and to the contrary, the other candidate, donald trump was saying that we have to find some understanding. >> and when people like me, i like them. even putin. >> and whom would you like better? >> this is not the outcome that we wanted. >> hillary clinton suffered one of the most shocking defeats in american history. >> i know how disappointed you feel, because i feel it, too. >> at least in part because of the alleged hacking operations. >> this is painful and it will be for a long time. >> putin had apparently avenged his old grudge. >> so help me god. >> congratulations, mr. president. >> and he may have achieved even more. >> the 45th president of the united states. >> if donald trump is in some way compromised. if the russian government has something that it feels it has on him in terms of the leverage, that is a very serious thing. i don't suggest for a second that i have to a answer to this

. >> of course putin wanted hillary clinton to lose. >> he despised hillary clinton. >> whom would youe better? vladimir putin is not a friend to democracy. he is a crook. >> actual the strange summit between donald trump and vladimir putin in helsinki, americans are asking, what did putin get? and what more does he want? and is he really the most powerful man in the world? december 5th, 1989. it was a cold night in dresden, east germany. and it would change the course of vladimir putin's life. the berlin wall had just fallen. all over east germany angry crowds roamed the streets, lashing out at symbols of communist rule. that night in dresden they found a target. the local kgb headquarters. a mob surrounded the building. as the hour grew later, the crowd grew larger. inside peering through the curtains was a young kgb lieutenant colonel named vladimir putin. >> he was terrified that they were going to storm the building. >> putin was a junior officer, but the boss was away. he was in charge. >> the berlin wall had come down. police weren't going to help and he called for instructions.

hillary clinton had a rigged investigation. i think the evidence is overwhelming and incontrovertible for obstruction and for the espionage act and a number of statutes we laid out here. what happens to her? and what happens to the people that were involved in the exoneration before the investigation to impact the presidential election? never mind lying to four fisa judges to get warrants to spy on americans and opposition party candidate representatives. >> this is where i get myself in trouble. because all of the principle decision makers now were put in place by president trump. jeff sessions, rod rosenstein, wries wray. it's no longer loretta lynch and jim comey. if they have uncovered systemic abuse or criminalality. they have an obligation to prosecute it. but when the head of the fbi stands up in front of the entire world and exonerate her like jim comey did i don't know a prosecute good enough to win that case. so to find out whether she -- jim comey ruined it by not interviewing her seriously and ruined it with that pr

andrew goldstein donated to the clinton campaign. james corals donated to the clinton campaign. andrew weissman the number two for mueller attended hilary clinton's election night party. a representative justin cooper who is the person who set up hilary clinton's private e-mail server. then there's you and ms. page. it is really interesting to me that when you were so damaging to the investigation that you had to go that bob mueller, the person who brought in all these people that had connections to hilary clinton campaign did not ask you about a single text message, and i tend to believe, mr. chairman, that it is because he did not want to know the answer and that there was bias, and that your perception of bob mueller's perception of you is totally unreliable. and i yield back. >> time of the gentleman has expired. the chair recognizes the gentleman from florida, for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. strzok, let me just clear this up right now. i'm not angry. and i'm not desperate. and i'm not afraid of the truth. but i am in pursuit of it. first of all, i want to

james corals donated to the clinton campaign. andrew weissman, the number two for mueller, attended hillary clinton's election night party. aaron zelby represented justin cooper who set up hillary clinton's private e-mail server. then it's you and ms. paige. it's really interesting to me that when you were so damaging to the investigation that you had to go, that bob mueller, the person who brought in all these people that had connections to hillary clinton's campaign did not ask you about a single text message. i tend to believe that it's because he did not want to know the answer and that there was bias and that your perception of bob mueller's perception of you is totally unreliable and i yield back. >> the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from florida, ms. dennings for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. strzok, let me clear this up right now. i am not angry and i am not desperate and i am not afraid of the truth, but i am in pursuit of it. first of all, i want to thank you for your service to our country through th

, donated to the clinton campaign. jeannie reed, represented ben rhodes in the benghazi investigation, represented the clinton foundation against freedom of information act requests, andrew wiseman, number two for mueller, attended hillary clinton's election night party. aaron zell be, represented justin cooper who set up hillary clinton's private e-mail server, then there's you and miss page. it is interesting. when you were so damaging to the investigation that you had to go that bob mueller, the person that brought in all these people, that had connections to hillary clinton campaign, did not ask you about a single text message. i tend to believe, mr. chairman, it is because he didn't want to know the answer and that there was bias, and your perception of bob mueller's perception of you is totally unreliable and i yield back. >> time of the gentleman expired. the chair recognized miss demmings. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. strzok, let me clear this up right now. i am not angry and i am not desperate. and i am not

clinton campaigned, his candidates lost. in the rest of the country democrats didn't even want him to show up. the white house tried to say it was a vote against all politics but no incumbent republicans lost. >> the first midterm after a new president takes office is very often a dramatic loss for that president's party. it is normal for the president's party to lose ground, sometimes lose a lot of ground. the only exception to that rule in modern times was after 9/11, the shock of that attack and transformation of the country and politics there after were seen as highly unusual factors that kept republicans from losing seats they might have otherwise been expected to lose in the 2002 mid-terms. with those extenuating circumstances, republicans really didn't lose ground in that first george w. bush midterm but republicans arguably paid double the next time around in 2006, after george w. bush got re-elected in '04, his party lost control of the house and senate in 2006. and that's the pattern of how it usually goes in mid-t

but the clinton's campaign specifically. you will remember back from the campaign that john podesta's e-mails started coming out and the ""access hollywooaccess hol dropped. podesta came out every single day after that and they suddenly stopped. >> gregg broward, let me turn to you, we look at this indictment and isolation. it raises a lot of questions of how it fits in. give me your sense of that. we talked about there is not any names in the dime. what are you looking for? >> this is a significant development and attribute to all of the hard work of d.o.j. lawyers and fbi agents have been putting in this for months now. i don't expect it will be the last shoe to drop. this is the best evidence of this russia conspiracy that we have seen and in general terms reach the conclusion that this russia's effort to interfere with the election did take place. this is again, a significant development and a lot of work that remains to be done and the mueller team will be busy going forward to say the least. >> we learn about organizat

there was a lot of republicans who just despised clintons. they lived to go get even with clinton., so, when this thing comes out and monica lewinski, they couldn't help themselves. it was a lot on the republican base fueled by talk radio. talk radio certainly fueled it. and the end result is you had a republican base calling for this. for those of us in swing districts it wasn't quite so clear-cut. let's take a look at the facts. we all took a deep breath before we ended up voting on it. >> were you sitting there saying we're going to pay for this in a month? >> i think in the republican leadership going back and talking to their base and going back to their republican meetings at night saying, yeah, let's get the guy and they reacted basically saying this begins up our turn up base. and that's exactly what happened in this case, is democrats became aroused and defended the president. not necessarily what he did, but the way the republicans handled it. it is one thing to say we're going to do this in due course. we will do an investigation. but that was basically the republican me

own e-mail so this partially it's not but it does reflect the fact that folks don't realize what clinton investigation was about it wasn't about her use of a non-governmental e-mail system it was about her handling of classified information and that's a very important guest again from a totally different from whether you're using her g. mail which i was using to e-mail drafts of speeches to myself was never any accusation that i used any system to communicate classified information and it was inconsistent with justice department policy that's what they said that's what they do you broke the rules thanks well that's a good question and i think they actually say it that way they say it was they believe it was inconsistent with the policy the policy does allow what we say de minimus use of a private e-mail system to communicate actually think mine was consistent with that but i'm not going to talk about that the important thing and there's a difference between using a system to communicate classified content and using a system and i really don't see it i really don't see it as a conflict wi

she said that clinton has to win now. and you replied, damn, this feels momentous because this matters. this other one did too. this matters because it matters. so super glad to be on this voyage with you. did bob mueller ask you why this matters? >> if you're asking -- >> no, no. i've seen you do this. that's not what i'm asking you. i want to know in bob mueller asked you about this text messa message. >> he did not ask me about any text. >> in two texts, one in may, he asked you about impeachment. >> he did not ask me about any text message. >> i find that interesting that bob mueller has to remove you as con sequence of bias. you don't say it's bias. you say based on your perception of you, it couldn't be your bias. when we get into the manifestation of that bias through your words, bob mueller doesn't ask you about a single one of them. so i looked at 0 people like lisa page. did he ask her about her incendiary texts? throughout the team, you have people working for bob mueller who have active connections to hillary

that they did not get grand jury subpoena to demand testimony from top hillary clinton aides.hey did not obtain search warrants to gain access to the laptops clinton's lawyers use to review their emails. they did not take personal phones or similar devices used by her top aides. very stark contrast to the treatment that you and your family received. >> it's apples and oranges. the treatment that i received, it was obvious they were going after me. never once have i said what i did wasn't wrong. i have accepted responsibility and i think it's shameful that hillary clinton and her aides just want to accept responsibility. i pled guilty. i didn't go to trial. you look at even reality winter, she made a mistake, but guilty. james comey released information to the press to benefit himself. hillary clinton, who mishandled classified information at the highest level where i mishandled low-level classified information. and they threatened me and intimidated me for four years and finally put me away in prison for a year. i just want the rest of them to be held to the same standard. now

vladimir putin was not a fan of hillary clinton. >> of course putin wanted hillary clinton to lose.d hillary clinton. >> prime minister, we have a lot of problems. >> the tension between the leaders had been brewing for years. in 2001, another american leader, george w. bush, vouched for putin. >> i looked the man in the eye. i found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy. i was able to get a sense of his soul. >> but on the campaign trail in 2008, hillary had a different take. >> i could have told him he was a kgb agent. by definition he doesn't have a soul. this is a waste of time, right? >> translator: recently mrs. clinton said you as a former kgb agent by definition can have no soul. >> putin's reply? stat statesmen shouldn't be guided by their hearts. they should use their heads. clinton had a lot of tough words for putin over the years. >> he's a very arrogant person to deal with. we have to stand up to his bullying. he is somebody who will take as much as he possibly can. >> but it was what happened in 2011 that marked a point of no return. it began with the arab spr

it's some kind of tick between hillary clinton, hillary clinton, and the server, the right loves the server. he is asking where the server is. i can tell you where the server is. the dnc server is on display at the dnc next to the watergate file cabinet because it is equivalent of the last presidential scandal we have. but, look, you know, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome. while i do think donald trump is insane, it's the rest of us that get into this hyper ventilating every time he does something. the bottom line is his motivations no longer matter. only his actions do. frankly, our actions and the actions, whether you look at the republicans in congress who listen to what we just talked about, whether marco rubio sent a tough enough tweet. i can tell you tomorrow mitch mcconnell will be jamming brett kavanaugh into a seat that he stole. and frankly, the democrats have to step it up, too. we debate among ourselves whether or not we can even whisper the word impeachment before the house flips, hopefully. these ar

hillary clinton -- lou: what did i say?we look at what's going on -- lou: by the way, met me rephrase that. i said clinton, bush, and i meant obama preceding trump. if we did not have president trump -- i don't want to hear about the hillary clinton nonsense. the fact is that trump is the differentiator. he is the, the person that is making the difference, the disrupter in what was a chain of calamity building for this country. do you not agree? >> yeah, again -- well, yeah. because you look at what would happen if hillary clinton would have won the election. we would have had more of the same, more substandard growth -- lou: higher taxes, probably war with russia, and we, by the way, would be deeply in recession right now because business in this country would be going, rolling over backwards. >> well, every step that hillary clinton took as secretary of state, frankly, favored what russia wanted to do, you know? when they canceled -- lou: yeah, who the -- you know, the left in this country right now, hook at their agenda.

clinton. thei did contribute to former congressman buy theributed 20,000 committees and zero to the trump campaign. i could go on. i am justs about to run out of time. so suffice it to say, that nine of the 16 investigators still on gave to hillary clinton or barack obama to both and none to trump. now shouldn't such a wide disparity and political support of one part over the other give the american people concern that even though you are off the team that the fairness and the lack of bay as and the president trump deserves and the deserve justle might be lacking here. >> yes, you are out of time. thef you would answer question. >> thank you, mr. chairman. sir. what i would tell you this and you to tell the constituents is this. whate had no idea contributions were made buy anybody staffing special can tell office but i you what i would ask to you relay to the constituents to the theand women that i saw, attorneys, the agents, the analysts, for the most bright patriotic hard work people that i

unfortunately they are not listening to people like bill clinton, at least the weight bill clinton believed in the '90s. they are listening to the girl wandered from new york and they are listening to bernie sanders, and they are listening to people who oppose dianne feinstein in san francisco because she wasn't left enough for them. that's really amazing. >> laura: this is all borne out with the dccc chairman today. you've got to watch. >> do you think the democratic socialist party of america, do you think they will have a place in the democratic caucus? >> when you see the work senator sanders is doing in the work alexander is doing, they are driving a conversations about how policies impact people. >> does it help or hurt your efforts? >> any time or having a conversation about how you can make people's lives better, that's a positive conversation. >> laura: if the republicans are at a seven-point deficit, what karl rove said earlier tonight on fox, seven-point deficit with independents, are those independents going to swing toward ocasio-cortez and everything is free? you are going to

the irony is, the clinton hearing on the clinton emails was -- is coming after the ig report which, in fact, criticized director comey for commenting about the clinton email investigation so it's ironic there. they know he can't answer this question and the real frustration is, this is a judiciary committee. we should be having a hearing about family separation, about responsible gun safety legislation, about driving down the cost of prescription drugs or the many examples of conflicts of interests and corruption in this administration, what are we having today, another hearing on hillary clinton's emails. it's an unfortunate. there's been a 500 page ig investigation. they concluded that the sentiments of mr. strzok played no role whatsoever in any decisions made, all of that was based on the evidence, but despite that, my republican colleagues continue to be very focused on hillary clinton's emails and refuse to really undertake the serious responsibilities that they have. >> congressman, by the way, we are watching live at capitol hill right now as peter strzok is about to sit down f

first was to shape the clinton campaign message. the person whose name was redacted and it steals information for senior clinton campaign staff. and that included a campaign manager robbie moog, campaign chairman johnny podesta. and second, the dirty dossier was actually shopped around to various high-ranking government officials and of course, your corrupt media all in an effort to malign that trump campaign before election day. to lie to you, and bruce or whose wife was working with christopher steele at fusion gps and she was helping them make up all these lives. and the ci director turned msnbc hack john brennan also reportedly licked the contents of the dossier to then senator harry reid, and also brendan was involved in this. then went public with the information james clapper, it was brennan who i was talking about before, but clapper leaked the dossier to cnn, who is now his employer. let's not forget the role the phony dossier played with the speaks seven warrant and the camping associate of trump's, carter page before, dur

how does jeanie ray work for the clinton foundation?arted the guy who gave 36 w did the guy who was crying at hillary's -- because he's -- i will give him the benefit of the doubt. he is so arrogant he doesn't care about appearances. all of us have to -- you realiz realize, what "the new york times" would have done, if i had been made a special prosecutor for hillary clinton? and i hired ken starr? [laughter] >> sean: mr. mayor, good to see it. i really do like the ring. i'm glad that you had to pay for it, though. >> [laughs] >> sean: president trump fed up with the illegal immigration crisis at the southern border. we have drastic actions. michelle malkin weighs in on that. a key issue in 99 days. straight ahead. ♪ be -and we welcome back gary, who's already won three cars, two motorcycles, a boat, and an r.v. i would not want to pay that insurance bill. [ ding ] -oh, i have progressive, so i just bundled everything with my home insurance. saved me a ton of money. -love you, gary! -you don't have to buzz in. it's not a question, gary.

many witnesses, including clinton herself. you also appear to have been pining for the impeachment of president trump at the very beginning of the russia case. does the fbi normally make such decisions on whether to recommend prosecution or exoneration so far ahead of all the facts coming to light? >> typically, sir, the doj makes prosecution decisions in cases. >> do they normally make such decisions whether to recommend

clinton. judge will be listen.i spinmeisters on television, this guy is the gold medal winner. the republicans are not running scared. the republicans want to highlight that hillary clinton got a pass under a different set of rules, with this gold-plated investigation of her. while the donald trump investigation despite zero evidence of collusion, still continues while people are attacked for process crimes. strzok is at the center of all of this. judge jeanine: when strzok says there is no bias, no evidence of bias, he calls the presidenter name in the book. he says he can't tell us when it really started if it started before july 31. he said the fbi told him he couldn't say it. then the fbi said we never said you couldn't say the. then he said, i don't remember. this guy is the kind of guy, you have got to say to yourself. i don't know of anybody more important to the russia collusion investigation and his bias is more up front than russia collusion with trump. >> he's a guy that served four years in the 101st ai

clinton. also now cooperating with the special counsel. richard pinedo, digital marketing strategist, pleaded guilty to identity fraud and trafficking in hundreds of stolen bank account numbers over the internet, which were bought by russians to interfere with the 2016 election. and alex van der zwaan, the son-in-law of a russian oligarch, pleaded guilty to lying to special counsel and the fbi in november about his work with president trump's campaign chairman, paul manafort, for foreign nationals aligned with russia. of course this does not include mr. manafort himself, who is scheduled to begin his criminal trial later this summer. he is sitting in solitaire confinement after allegedly engaging in witness tampering. this also does not include michael cohen, the president's longtime lawyer. at this moment, he may be considering weather to cooperhe with special counsel. at the last hearing, chairman gowdy said if the special counsel has evidence of a crime he should submit it to the grand jury

>> host: or hillary clinton killed as many people hillary clinton has parkinson's. you can go on and on and on. >> guest: i spent some time talk about the conspiracy theories later been hillary clinton's book because it didn't matter. i think that was a big reason why she was a nonstarter to many republicans. there has been a campaign against her since the 1990s, and she she never try to confront it. >> host: people make the mistake of dismissing conspiracy theories as fringy and really goes on the people you have to think about and prepare for because there are more powerful than just friends -- >> guest: a user before you get chain letter and now there full-blown media enterprises. i get a taste of this in the cruise crews office in 2013 when we started getting e-mails from very concerned texans about military exercises that it always been happening but alex jones and some people said the government is preparing to go to war against the american people. sounds crazy but when people see tanks rolling through the highways and start getting worried about it, we would

we hear from june shih who worked with president bill clinton and first lady hillary clinton and from john mcconnell who wrote for president george w. bush and vice president dick cheney. new york university hosted the 90-minute program. >> i am the external affairs associate here at nyu washington, d.c. bradmus of the john center thanks for coming to tonight's event. this marks the first of many summer events in the young leaders' network series. the center seeks to create programs that would enrich the time students spend at their summer internships and in washington, d.c. we hope events like this will help interns like you build a network of relationships with mentors and peers. maybe encourage you to return to the nation's capital to start a career in public service after you graduate. tonight we are joined by former presidential speechwriters during the george w. bush and bill clinton administration. john p. mcconnell served more than 10 years on the white house staff in two administrations as a senior speechwriter for president george w. bush and vice president dick cheney john

clinton campai campaigned, his candidate lost. the rest of the country, democrats did not want him to show up. no incumbent republicans' loss. >> if first midterm after a new president take office is a dramatic loss for the president's party. it is normal for the president's party to lose ground and sometimes to lose a lot. the only real exception of that rule in modern time was after 9/11 when the shock of that attack and the transformation of the country and the politics there ever were seen highly unusual that cut republicans from losing seats they may have otherwise expected to lose in the 2002 midterms. with those circumstances, republicans did not lose grudou of the first george w. bush midterm. after george w. bush got elected, his party lost control of both the house and senate in 2006. that's the pattern of how it usually goes in midterms. the party that holds the white house usually has a bad night on midterms election night. that's one way of thinking of the midterm this year. you look at the first midterm of a new pres

clinton. also no quarrel. -- now cooperating with the special counsel. richard, digital marketing strategist, pleaded guilty to fraud and trafficking in hundreds of stolen bank account numbers over the bought byhich were russians to interfere with the 2016 elections. son-in-law of a russian oligarch, pleaded guilty to lying to special counsel and fbi in november as president trump's campaign chairman. first, this is not included mr. manafort himself who scheduled to begin his criminal later this summer. he is sitting in solitary confinement after allegedly engaging in witness tampering. this also does not include hen.ael: -- co the president's longtime lawyer. at this point, he may be considering whether to cooperate with the special counsel. -- last hearing, german said that if the special counsel has evidence of a crime, he should submit it to the grand jury. himself said, dy "if you are innocent, act like it." i ask him today to keep the integrity of the investigation and instead of asking

clinton and president obama. >> i don't believe so. but i would have to verify that. >> do you know if any e-mails was intercepted by any foreign actor. >> i don't know. >> on page 149 in the ig report noted that they found evidence that you advocate -- and search warrants the mid year team decided to go with. who specifically had the authority to not use compulsory process. >> i am certain the ig did not use the phrase kid glove. the decision rested with the prosecutors. >> did anyone outside of the mid year team suggest not to use an aggressive report? >> there is a constant debate between the agents and attorneys. >> anybody outside the mid year team? >> not that i have known. >> the time of the gentleman has expired. the gentleman may answer the question. >> the chair recognizes the chair from kentucky for five minutes. >> mr. strzok, hillary clinton has said publicly that fbi director james comey cost her the election. do you share hillary clinton's opinion? >> sir, i don't know. i read a lot of pollsters and speculations but i do

failed to see him expanding gigantic fraud in the clinton foundation and you know you have the actors who are now pursuing a narrative which seems wholly discredited people in america don't believe it even . and now this indictment so the questions that i have include if this is a serious matter why did the f.b.i. not press the democratic national committee to turn over its servers immediately. beginning in april may timeframe two thousand and sixteen why did they do that you know why is it taken this long why did this come out right after the stroke testimony writers lisa page's making her damaging behind the closed doors testimony just it looks contrived to me and it looks to me as if our f.b.i. our department of justice even under president donald trump remains politicized and hostile to the trump administration so i did something this serious involving allegations that are this profound you'd like to believe that our department of justice or of the i was acting above the law without partisan interests one way or another and this certainly seems staged to me and we'll try and get t

"clinton cash" author peter schweizer is here to pull back the curtain. we begin with the oh so curious timing of a damaging leak targeting president trump. in-flight may have come from the unholy alliance of james comey, jim clapper, and john brennan. it was a headline that something media apparatus into apoplexy. "the new york times" blaring from the start, trump has muddied a clear message, putin interfered. of course, this meeting was not a secret. on the findings not exactly new. don't believe me? here's the headline from "the washington post" on januar. "declassified report says it putin ordered effort to undermine safe and u.s. elections and help trump." so what can we glean from "the new york times" repackaging a report just days after the president's much criticized meeting with vladimir putin? first, let's look at some of the key officials who were in that meeting. john brennan, the cia director of the time. james clapper, the director of national intelligence at the time. and at the time, the fbi director, james comey. second, let's take a look

with hillary clinton. it still close or the sort of thing he would discuss with them or cleared with them at all? any sense of that? >> not necessarily whether he would clear his potential representation of michael cohen with them, but the argument you heard him making. he wrote a book about the argument of comey the election for donald trump. that's he did talk with the clintons about and the clintons told their allies they believe in. to the extent that he is still seen as a clinton surrogate or at least an ally, that could be helpful for michael cohen. you have michael cohen trying to shift the narrative about himself now to distance himself from trump and to establish himself as sort of an independent figure in this narrative that who could be one who democrats or trump opponents might want to support having lanny davis on board could help facilitate that support at least in the court of public opinion. >> if i could add to that, it's true that in the courtroom, lanny davis is a hired god. he will work

clinton. also now cooperating with the special counsel. richard pinedo, digital marketing strategist, pleaded guilty to identity fraud and trafficking in hundreds of stolen bank account numbers over the internet, which were bought by russians to interfere with the 2016 election. and alex van der zwaan, the son-in-law of a russian oligarch, pleaded guilty to lying to special counsel and the fbi in november about his work with president trump's campaign chairman, paul manafort, for foreign nationals aligned with russia. of course this does not include mr. manafort himself, who is scheduled to begin his criminal trial later this summer. he is sitting in solitaire confinement after allegedly engaging in witness tampering. this also does not include michael cohen, the president's longtime lawyer. at this moment, he may be considering weather to cooperhe with special counsel. at the last hearing, chairman gowdy said if the special counsel has evidence of a crime he should submit it to the grand jury

mark penn was an advisor to bill clinton and joins us tonight.- shocked by the reaction to this. a naval officer. never charged with anything and spied on for a year. the normal chorus of civil libertarians are silent. why? >> i find it's incredible. people just used talking points before you could read the warrant. there was no probable cause. they scared a bunch of judges with stories about potential russ russia collusion and the steel dossier and he was on the pay rolls of the fbi, and the dnc and the hillary clinton campaign at the same time. even when that was discovered, they continued to use this information indicating they had nothing else. the idea that a government can spy on political campaigns with no evidence is frightening and needs to be corrected with legislation immediately. >> tucker: so, the precedent this sets, we are living in in moment. it's hard for us to see a week ahead. have you been in the white house and political campaigns. there will be another administration and one after that. what does this mean for them? will any