rosenstein, they say, wanted to get rid of comey. you touched on this, but just detail how complicated it is to be rod rosenstein. we're going to get to yesterday's fiery testimony. i talked to senior justice department officials today who said they welcome the opportunity to show how even keeled the deputy attorney general is. but your reporting certainly doesn't describe that side of him and his role is treemly fraught with peril from all political directions. >> well, it's so conflicted. and as he is the chief or very important witness in the comey firing, he is also dealing with this issue on capitol hill where he has these republicans that are going after them. he's trying to buy them off, trying to give them this information on an ongoing investigation, a highly unusual thing to try and give mueller more time to do what he's going to do. it is a very, very interesting spot for him and it's all because jeff sessions recused himself. that is the original thing that gets us to where we are. sessions stepping aside, allowing rosens

because comey was coming at this president. and the president got rid of comey because of that reason. and rosenstein crafted a moment that claimed it wasn't a cover-up. it was really something to do with other issues, the way that comey treated hillary clinton in the campaign, et cetera. what does this mean to an obstruction investigation? >> yeah. i think this is one more piece of evidence that could add to a theory of obstruction of justice. you know, when someone lies about something they did or offers a pretext for something they did, it causes you to wonder if they are not hiding their consciousness of guilt. i know what i did was wrong. therefore, i have to come up with a lie that explains the real reason. whenever there's a jury question on obstruction of justice -- and in this instance, maybe it would be a senate question -- whoever is the fact finder, they're told in their instructions that because no one can read someone else's mind to determine what was in someone's mind and their intent, you have to look at all of

you believe a liar like comey.e of the other lawyers -- they are very good friends. >> sean: robert mueller waser denied the day before he got a special counsel job. >> comey is more discredited than anyone in this investigation. he cannot be believed. so if you are telling me you will believe comey's word against the president, than i know you are trying to trap him into perjury. >> sean: do you think -- what happens -- for example, what happens if mueller decides he wants to take this all the way and subpoenaed the president of the united states? >> we go to the supreme court and we find out if he can. never been decided. the only subpoena to the president that has happened is to bill clinton. it was withdrawn. it's never been decided. we'll have a case, we will find out. thenen we have cases of lesser officials that were subpoenaed. documents of a subpoena. you always have to show particularized need. if you have to show particularized need for a commerce secretary, labor secretary, you sure as heck have to show

the president said comey is lying about whether or not the president asked comey to take it easy on michaelnever asked comey to stop investigating michael flynn. just more fake news covering another comey lie." today in an interview on abc, rudy giuliani effectively said the president asked comey to give him a break. listen to this. >> he didn't direct him toll do that. what he said to him was can you give him a break. >> comey said he took it as direction. >> well, that's okay. by that time he had been fired and he said a lot of other things, some of which turned out to be on untrue. as a prosecutor i was told many times can you give a man a break. you take that into consideration but that doesn't determine not going forward with it. >> "give the man a break." that sort of contradict what is the president said before but ultimately giuliani is making the argument that even if the president did make that suggestion to james comey, it doesn't rise to obstruction of justice. he laid out serious demands of the special counsel arguing that robert mueller has to prove he has the jurisdiction to

that first one talked about how comey or hillary was aided by comey.t was somewhat benign. but now you get into this -- the nastier tweet after comey is terminated and you start putting all of these together to show that, number one, trump is probably putting up some kind of implicit threat. comey better hope there are no tapes. it's even more so if there are no tapes. what if it's just a bald threat for comey to keep it quiet. if it was something to induce comey to remain silent, especially in the face of any duty to speak, like, for example, in front of a grand jury or congress, then these are the kinds of things that mueller will find very interesting, irrespective of whether or not they're eventually way down the road sought to be introduced at a trial. >> could you -- remember, there was one controversial tweet that did border on whether it seemed to be that he did and all of a sudden his lawyer said, no, no, no, no, no, i wrote it, i wrote it. >> maybe my favorite tweet of the year. john dowd, yes. >> so i guess my question is why couldn't the pr

does comey have a point, though?well, first of all, i guess comey has also pointed out he no longer has a security clearance, and i did think that even more than the iran tweet, the decision to have the white house press secretary announce essentially a white house enemies list from the podium today that included james comey and other national security -- >> right. >> -- former officials who have criticized trump really smacks of something very un-american, very anti-democratic, small "d," and something that even for trump, you know, is an ill thought through diversion. you know, they didn't even bother to check that the list of names included people who didn't have security clearances. >> comey and mccabe. >> we'll see. >> thank you both. >>> next, breaking news. trump's team going back to mueller. they've got a new counteroffer about this interview. this interview is like waiting for goodell. so what's on the table and what's not? >>> plus, trump's push to drill in alaska's wildlife refuge. >> we fought like hell t

i think everyone is conditioned on the attacks of comey. we don't think of sessions as the one that could undo the president in the obstruction probe. >> the president was furious with sessions for recusing himself in the russia investigation. the president wanted -- he said openly in the white house, he wanted someone loyal to him to be overseeing it. he tried to get sessions to resign. he tried to get him to go. the president didn't want to be seen politically as firing him. when that failed, he undertook a public exam pain exactly a year ago today where he went after sessions and galvanized the far parts of the right against him to try and pressure him as much as possible. so what mueller wants to know is why did he do this? what was the motivating factor behind that? >> joyce, let me bring you in. we've all witness and had watched the slow motion train wreck that is rudy giuliani and donald trump's character assassination against jim comey. but it seems like that effort would be trickier with our sitting attorney general who as mike and

it was an odd thing to pin the dismiss of comey on. >> correct. especially with a very high-profile russia investigation beginning to intensify over the administration. it was -- it was certainly an odd way of explaining this, this incredibly powerful political moment for the president, which rosenstein -- it blew back on him. he became the scapegoat, and he was widely criticized for his role in it. and within that eight-day period, he receives a lot of pressure from the fbi and ultimately decides to appoint mueller after learning that trump had asked comey to end the investigation into mike flynn, his former national security adviser. and obviously that decision probably being the biggest one to impact the president since he came into office. >> before we let you go, one more question, and that is how does jeff sessions figure in your story for those who haven't had a chance to read it yet? >> well, jeff sessions figures well, because he recused himself from the russia investigation right after he was sworn in at the beginning of 2017 so he did n

former fbi director jim comey. and former deputy fbi director andrew mccabe. >> the president is exploring the mechanisms to remove security clearance because they've politicized and in some cases monetized their public service and security clearances. making baseless accusations of improper contact with russia or being influenced by russia against the president is extremely inappropriate. and the fact that people with security clearances are making these baseless charges are making inappropriate legitimacy to accusations with zero evidence. >> baseless accusations against russia. i'm going to remind you that current dni director dan coats says it's like a blinking red light ahead of what happened in 9/11. the warnings that a cyberattack could be future again. i want to take a minute and think about what sarah sanders just said. she called out those officials for using their public service for political purposes and for monetary gain. no, that wasn't an snl skit. we already know the president has attacked u.s. inte

comey is a long time republican. he actually had the nerve some say quote this republican congress has proven incapable of fulfilling the founders' design that ambition must counteract ambition. those who believe in the country's values must vote for democrats. policy differences don't matter right now. history has its eyes on this. is anyone going to follow the advice after showboating buffoon? joining me, kayleigh mcenany and host of the richard fowler show, richard fowler. richard, i will start with you. did democrats really want james comey? >> no, we don't. we don't need the james comey endorsement to take back the house. i think what james comey and helsinki republicans are talking about, this president when he had the opportunity on the world stage to call out putin for being -- for meddling in our election and almost trying to destroy our democracy. as sheryl crow likes to put it, the first cut is the deepest. as much as he tries to twist and moon walk this back, kayleigh will say he already walked it back. k

he fired james comey, of course. there's a special counsel investigating so it's unclear exactly what she was meaning. you know, how he would become more involved. would he try to make more changes at the justice department? she said more and more every day he sees evidence this is a hoax. one thing happening, of course, the paul manafort first person to face a jury on this is happening, supposed to be later this week. it's next week. clearly, the investigation moving to a new phase. the president watching it saying he'll be more involved. we have no idea what this means, jake. >> jeff zeleny at the white house with the breaking news, thank you so much. cia spokesperson told cnn that the agency has no comment on the threat of revoking security clearances. let's discuss here. david, this is unprecedented. you don't have to defend it if you don't want to. >> listen. so yeah. unprecedented. but, you know, the revoking of security clearance, i know this is a revoking of security clearances. these gentlemen have been reti

james comey lied about the dossier role in this warrant.he pfizer court never knew hillary bought and paid for this. they purposely withheld that important piece of information and the fbi relied on news accounts and lied to judges including what's called a circular reporting from yahoo news. they use the dossier as the basis for one of their reports. steele lied about the still quote credible by the fbi, it doesn't make sense? page has never been indicted, the fbi never actually interviewed page although lee said he was back in march to me, and the dossier was never verified and yet it was used to obtain warrants. how dare rod rosenstein and everyone else sign off on that? they are now violating, shredding our constitution, violating our fourth amendment rights. and why is it all rejected? let's get to the american people. trey gowdy even said he seen no collusion from this document. still tonight we have even more questions, the pfizer application is heavily redacted, and i'm calling for all of this warrant to be unredacted. the president

look at james comey who is just scrutinized in the i.g. report, failed to do his job, and james comey's memos said that president trump came to him and investigate the rest of his team. the obstruction of justice case there is weak. >> adrienne? >> i disagree with that. there's a lot that we need to find out. going back to the mueller investigation, we've got to let this play out. whitewater took a long time. people can argue that that took way too long. >> a lot of democrats did. >> a lot of democrats did including myself even though i was in high school at the time. this investigation has to play out. whereas in americans want this to be over, many americans want to make sure that our elections are not interfered by russians again. >> maybe i'm interpreting this wrongly. i took it at in this report that mueller is starting to hand-off parts of the investigation that are not related to collusion or obstruction. so perhaps by bringing more people on and sticking it to the career rank and file people at fbi and doj, it's more money launderi

and when it comes to comey and mccabe, it's a no-brainer. >> sean: what about brennan?, klapper. klepper is accused of lying, quite credibly. and the basis for pulling a security clearance is credible derogatory information. it's hard to say that there is no credible derogatory information. you have klapper who admits to lying and you have brennan who is accused in a book of leaking purposely. >> sean: that's all true. >> i would put them on hold. the one the cia director is spreading russian lies as cia director.. >> and susan wright had a number of explanation, contradictory investigations about her involvement in unmasking. >> i was reading how all weekend -- and if he didn't do that or i find out anyone did this illegally, i will sue them and hire the best legal team including andy, on the planet to go after them. let me go back to t you. wasn't this all about russian lies paid for, disseminated, propagated, and lying to the american people with russian lies of all things? i think it was about pushing the envelope as far as you could push it. i'm saying for the poli

it laid out the case against comey.n the other hand the memo didn't actually call for comey to be fired. when rosenstein had behind closed door meetings with congress last year, he specifically told them that. he said my memo was not cause for termination of comey. that's how the white house used it. rosenstein is trying to walk a political tight rope that's tough and that's part of the reason he's found himself in so many people's cross hairs. he's somehow managed to make a whole host of eneies on his side which makes him one of the most controversial figures. >> you brought up the point about the republicans. they've really been coming out rod rosenstein. yesterday the republicans took on rod rosenstein over the mueller probe. watch this exchange. >> talk about the mueller investigation, it's really the rosenstein investigation. you appointed mueller. >> let me make this one point. we your statement that i'm keeping information from you trying to conceal information -- >> you're the boss. >> that's correct. my job is

it look at what comey said today. he came out and said, if you don't vote democrat, if you are an american, you've got to vote democrat. what kind of person's has this? the fbi director should be ashamed of himself. he should be ashamed that he ran the bureau, culturally into the ground. agents have suffered because of the way he handled things. director brennan did the same thing, calling president trump president trump treasonous. it falls on its face. but instead, brennan's bordering sedition. these are problems. >> sean: i have sources telling me that brennan was actually spreading the pony dossier. >> i have been in contact and i wanted to let you know, i've been in contact with brennan's people. i have spoken with them today. i was told that brennan is standing by his word that he did not know anything about the content of the dossier until december 2016. now, he did hear about the dossier, according to people that i've spoken with, and i find it hard to believe that although reporters all over washington d.c. k

firing comey may be right within his purview as president. this is why this kind of a case is pretty hard. >> thanks very much with the latest on that investigation. let's get to more right now. democratic senator is joining us, a member of the foreign relations committee. thanks for joining us. >> it is good to be with you. >> do you believe the twitter habit has exposed him potentially to some legal jeopardy? >> i have a great deal of confidence in the mueller investigation. i'm not going to try to second guess the timing or what's going to be done. i know there is a treasure-trove of information that they are looking at. the president, of course, was attempting to do certain things. whether he crossed the line or not i will leave that up to mr. mueller. >> are there specific tweets that point potentially to obstruction of justice or witness intimidation? >> as you know, obstruction of justice is when you intentionally try to interfere with an independent investigation or interfere with the witnesses or make it clear that you're going to do

comey doesn't go along with him, he first tells fox business that comey's tenure is in jeopardy, and then he ends up firing him. again, that's very conclusive evidence of obstruction. >> and how do you know he said yo beforehand? >> again, you know, these are -- because i know hip hop. i don't know wise guy, mob lingo. >> is that poetic license or legal license? >> i would so love to do a closing statement in a trial in this case. because i would lay it all out, both what mr. trump tried to do, not only with regard to comey, but with regard to sessions. >> right. >> you know, the way that he kept trying to say, man, if i had known that you were going to recuse yourself, i would never have appointed you. dude, i really wish you would resign. and then there's the dangling of pardons before other witnesses. >> right. you put the yos and the dudes together and you get a public -- a set of tweets, and as you say, also, contra rudy's claims, a set of private attempts to say, hey, sessions needs to protect him. and you say why do you need protection if you're innocent? the big question muel

intimidation of james comey. pushing comey to let michael flynn off the hook.hen demanding comey that trump -- jeff sessions, his haranguing of him to get sessions to end his recusal of himself in the mueller probe. take charge of the probe so he can do trump's bidding or get fired himself. as the times reports today, such behavior can fit under the u.s. criminal code. in other words, obstruction of justice. rudy giuliani's defense is that all of this is innocent because it is done in public. this is how he runs his presidency, whenever somebody tries to limit his power, he throws him out of the way. he threatens to fire his new chief of staff. he fired rex tillerson. and mcmaster as if he were changing tides. claiming that his client is innocent because accused behavior fits this m.o. is a joke. the president refuses to be questioned by the special counsel about obstruction of justice. the one area where his accuracies are so well-known they require little detective work. tweeting may be trump's impulsive choice of weapon that doesn't exempt him from the law.

do you think that james comey leaked out -- let me back up. in a text message from you to ms. page, you referenced insurance policy. what did you mean by having an insurance policy in case i would assume president trump won the election. >> sir, i appreciate that question because it has taken very much, i understand it is ambiguous and people have taken it out of context. the insurance policy was an analogy is that you do something when something is not likely to happen. you are probably not going to die before you are authori40, b have a policy anyway. members of the campaign may have been working in cooperation with the russians and some saying this sensitive source of information that is so sensitive, so vulnerable, we shouldn't put it in danger because sometimes you go out and do investigation, whether it is a drug sniff or intelligence source, it can cause significant harm. all of the pollsters, saying it is not likely president trump is going to be elected so don't worry about it. i had a different view. i said you know it doesn't matter whether he is going to be elected

it was comey, it was mccabe but it was also obama. if you think obama didn't know what was going on -- i said it today with president putin. when you watch peter strzok's performance, the lover of lisa page, when you watch that performance the fbi -- i know so many people in the fbi these are incredible people. what they are going through watching the sky, a total phony -- how about we. it? >> sean: it's called liars, leakers, liberals, the case against the anti-trump conspiracy. when you take your time and you actually lay out real information, how many times did donald trump say -- they said today he's a liar. they said it so many times we don't care about the truth. this is now hurting the country with this one-sided agenda that the media obviously has that is anti-trump. >> that's one of the reasons i wrote the book "liars, leakers, and liberals" these are people who lie, they lick and they are focused on taking down donald trump. if the american people instinctively understood that we needed this man at just this time. everything

and at the time, the fbi director, james comey. second, let's take a look at what these men have been saying since the trump-putin summit. >> what mr. trump did yesterday was to betray the women and men of the fbi, cia, nsa, and others. he betrayed the american public. that is why i use the term, nothing short of treason is created as a betrayal of the nation. >> this president and his presidency, who is insulting values and institutions standards of this country, which collectively, we spent decades defending. >> jason: and here is what jim comey tweeted. "this republican congress has proven incapable of fulfilling the founders' design that ambition must counteract ambition. all who believe in this country's values must vote for democrats this fall. policy differences don't matter right now. history has its eyes on us." so what might some reasonably -- if someone reasonably deduce given that above information? wouldn't it be fair to believe that perhaps the president was the victim of a coordinated leak? when that was orchestrated

i thought, frankly, comey was describing himself. course s accusing the president of treason. it's dangerous to allow brennan to have access to classified -- lou: he spied, his cia spied on the senate intelligence committee -- >> that's right. lou: and dianne feinstein wouldn't even prosecute him. i mean, you're talking about a swamp. i -- >> i spent a lot of time talking about brennan and the evidence against him -- lou: in the book? the book is "the russia hoax," and it is by gregg jarrett, and it is available everywhere right now. [laughter] gregg, thanks for being here. again, congratulations. >>> up next, the corrupt fisa warrants have disgraced fbi agent peter strzok's fingerprints all over them. our next guest is judicial watch's tom fitton. he'll be with us right after the break. stay with us. i have to tell you something incredible. capital one has partnered with hotels.com to give venture cardholders 10 miles on every dollar they spend at thousands of hotels. all you have to do is pay with this at hotels.com/venture. 10 mil

to do according to comey. weeks later the president fired comey claiming he had been disappointed by his actions in the hillary clinton e-mail investigation. the president later admitted when he made the decision to dismiss comey he was thinking about the russia probe. in a statement to the times rudy giuliani responded if you are going to obstruct justice you do it quietly and secretly, not in public. let's discuss this. do any of the single actions constitute obstruction or is it more about establishing a larger pattern of behavior? do you think a tweet could be part of that? >> one of the key lines in the article that you just referred to is whether all the action adds up to obstruction of justice. was trump trying to influence people not to testify or to cooperate with the investigation. i don't think we are looking at one single action but looking at all the actions we discussed before, things like trump's efforts to influence comey and sessions behind closed doors as well as now talking about public effo

comey and mccabe no longer have security clearance and mike leigh who worked under george w. bush, i don't go back for classified briefings, won't have any affect on what i say or write, james clapper said this on cnn. >> a very petty thing to do and that is all i will say about it. >> having a security clearance doesn't automatically give officials access to information. instead they are all on a need to know basis. >> conservative watchdog group judicial watch suing the cia for communications between john brennan and former top senate democrat harry reid. did brennan feed a reread information about alleged russian collusion with the trump campaign so read would push that narrative during the 2016 campaign? the director of investigations and research at judicial watch joins us live. you officially filed this lawsuit. walk people through what happened. briefed a lot an of folks including harry reid. two days later he includes this to comey, the evidence of direct connection between the russian government and donald trump's presidential campaign continues to mount, the america

we don't want to see the thumb of any fbi agents, justice department officials, russia, comey.nkie on the scale of our election. maria: so what happened to this, it certainly doesn't feel good. it feels like its rigged. this whole thing, what happens now when you're in your estimation, based on what we know from peter strzok, what we know about the hearings in terms of lisa page and of course all of these texts? >> well we'll see first of all whether any of this appears in mueller's report. this is going to be a report but there are also indictments and some contested cases and in the contested cases lawyers have a gold mine to work with defense lawyers, challenging this fisa application, challenging strzok 's objectivity. all of this will become a basis for legal proceedings and legal challenges. we've already seen judge ellis in virginia question the special counsel, wonder whether or not are they only trying to make people sing but also make them compose. the process is a very flawed one and the more the american people know about it, the more distress ed they are at how spe

james comey saying hey, forget everything. it's an amazing situation right now. it's not about parties anymore. it's about getting rid of trump. >> you know, he sounds foolish and delusional. it's funny that james comey is quoting james madison here federalist paper number 51. so conveniently leaving out that also in federalist paper number 51, we talk about justice and how important the concept of justice is in the founding of our country. something that he doesn't understand looking back when he came forward laying out a law y lawnry -- laundry list of offenses by hell he-- hillary clinton. >> and i continue to believe that james comey did what he thought was the right thing at the right time. he's a private citizen now. he has the freedom of speech right. he was talking about upholding the constitution, which is something that he swore to do many times as a deputy attorney general under george w. bush. i want to say, we had a vice president george h.w. bush that was the head of the cia. it's not unprecedented for people to come out of intelligence agencies and

he's tweeted at james comey before. story says after several tweets against sessions, an aide to sessions said they wanted one negative article in the media about comey every day. the question for bob mueller, is that the president trying to pressure the fbi director to do something that ends up getting in the way of investigation, or is it, as rudy giuliani would say, the president has every right to fire people who work in the administration, so what. >> going back to the idea of an interview, it seems like there's very little he could be asked in an interview that he hasn't already come out and commented on in public, often in mind-blowingly inflammatory or revealing ways. this is why every lawyer who tells a client under investigation, shut up. don't say anything. don't comment on the case. don't talk about it, even to your friends, much less to the world. but that is not donald trump's m.o. that clearly could come back to bite him. to say that because he didn't do it in secret, it doesn't count, that's like the guy

and appearing to threaten comey after hiring him, writing "james comey better hope there are no tapes of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press." mueller's team also scrutinizing the president's actions to see if he violated u.s. law that deals with tampering with a witness, victim or an informant. all this as trump still struggling to clean up missteps in helsinki. >> dan coats came to me and some others. they said they think it's russia. i have president putin. he just said it's not russia. i will say this. i don't see any reason why it would be. >> sentence should have been i don't see any reason why it wouldn't be russia. sort of a double negative. >> reporter: a white house official telling cnn the president will convene a meeting of the national security council on friday to focus on election security. that as trump attempts to flip the narrative, claiming that russia will tamper in the 2018 elections to help democrats. amid bipartisan backlash the white house now postponing the president's invitation to putin to visit washington this fall. in yet another revers

comey, who was appointed by mr. trump, he is not a democrat. i happen to know that robert mueller is not a democrat. so these are not political decisions made by political operatives. they should be following the evidence. and i would just like to note that if you had wanted to harm and interfere with the election of president trump, you could have leaked information that the investigation was ongoing. but none of that came out. as a matter of fact, we asked the leaders of the department of just and the fbi about whether there was an investigation of mr. trump prior to the election and we were told they could not comment on it, which was in fact the appropriate response. you should not comment on a going investigation. if you find something, you have an indictment. if you don't find something, you say nothing. that's where mr. comey erred. he violated that policy and he damaged the campaign of one of the candidates. and the rest is history. so i just think that this hearing, this extraordinary hearing, i've been here, a member of congress for 2

comey, for instance, is a witness against the president.meone that's been interviewed by mueller. he kept the memos about his interactions with the president. if there ever was anything related to the president criminally or otherwise, comey would be a central player in that. at the end of the day, i think this would play well with the president's base. it's a way of really sort of antagonizing these folks that the president struggles to silence, but i'm not sure it would have any impact. >> guy, what do you think? >> i agree with michael, katy. the other part of the equation, look, one of the reasons the president, his conduct and comey's firing was investigated was the argument that firing him was a retaliation, was an event to keep him silent because he was expressing doubt and frustration and, frankly, objection with some of the president's policies and practices. in this case doesn't it look almost exactly the same by taking these series of -- and michael is right, it doesn't change anything. they can't talk about secret or classified

james comey welcome to come from so thank you for having me.

isn't it interesting that james comey has the same am's yeah. he told the inspector general i don't remember writing those words that hillary clinton was grossly negligent and committed crimes. well, he wrote it not once but twice and gave it to peter strzok. strzok and page then decide we've got to change it. comey wants to clear clinton even though she committed crimes. so they sit down at a computer and they make the changes and he doesn't seem to remember much about that either. >> sean: writing the exoneration in may and didn't talk to people until july. so what if any of -- we're the smelly people, the irredeemable deplorables. we believe in god and in the second amendment. what if anyone else did this? >> they would be behind bars already. this guy is the personification of the arrogance of power and corruption. and you know, he's in complete deanytime. he didn't fool anybody today. pompous and pretentious with a smirk on his face the whole time. and the critical questions, and you had it in your monologue, he refused to answer some of th

it was aimed to undermine james comey's credibility.ues he can't be trusted as a witness. what do you make of this pretty clear concern over what jaemes comey could say? >> i think the time to worry about comey is relatively over. donald trump's public relations campaign is working. we've seen research that is stating that americans are increasingly growing upset with this probe. they want it to end, and the public opinion is waning from for mueller as well. of course, with republicans we see that in greater numbers than for democrats, but 57% of the americans are expressing worry that donald trump will do the right thing when it comes to dealing with this probe of mr. mueller. two break it down and get to the nitty-gritty with mr. mueller, it's time to talk about what the americans are thinking and donald trump is discrediting and denying this probe from the white house and he's doing well in that. and so i really think we ought to stop talking about mr. comey and really focus on what americans think and they're growing more exhausted

now, mccabe claims comey knew about it. but the fbi will not release information that supposedly supports that claim. the fbi did little to nothing to address what now appears to be a culture of unauthorized contact with the media. yet somehow every day you read in the newspapers the fbi stiff arming congressional oversight at every turn. go to the newspapers, okay. congress wants the same information, no, as an example. on the one hand, the fbi stone walls legitimate requests from the people's elected representatives whom they hate in the words of agent strzok, on the other hand, fbi employees are accepting meals, sports tickets, and golf outings from reporters. now, the department and the fbi are refusing to comply with congressional subpoenas, while lecturing congress about the need to control access to sensitive information. and while the fbi agents are breaking the rules by talking to reporters, left and right, the bureau goes after legitimate whistle-blowers who disclose waste, fraud, and abuse, according to law. the

the white house is looking at removing clearance from brennan and these obama era officials, james comeyccabe, james clapper and susan rice and cia director michael hayden. sarah sanders had this to say. >> the president is exploring these mechanisms to remove security clearance because they politicized and in some cases monetized public service and security clearance and making baseless accusations. >> the reaction, comey and mccabe no longer have security clearance but reaction from others is strong, general hayden, i don't go back for classified briefings, won't activity effect on what i say or write and clapper said this in a phone interview. >> i think this is just a very petty thing to do. that is all i will say. >> for the record it is important to note having clearance does not give you access, just clears you need to know basis should officials need to reach back on and issue. rob: house democrats pushing a resolution denouncing donald trump following his summit with vladimir putin. >> donald trump sold out our democracy in behavior that was damaging, destructive and disgraceful

james comey questioning the moral ability of the president to leave. and tv contributor said he can third of the watergate scandal to the russian allegations over collusion involving the donald trump campaign in 2016, saying watergate pales in comparison with what is happening. strong criticism. its interesting two of them say they don't have security clearance anyway. why were these former officials have clea ra nce to these former officials have clearance to get into the white house and the first place?|j clearance to get into the white house and the first place? i think it's generally seen as a courtesy. these senior officials continued with security clearance. in practice, and let's say this security clearance is taken away from them, it seems it will make no difference to their ability to go onto television and speak their mind, to say what they think about the president. in the case ofjames comey, he apparently turned down temporary security clearance recently because he didn't want to be accused by the president of leaking important information

that is something that prompted comey, comey said he had a friend of his leak memos about his interactions with trump after that came out. these are different statements the president has made. mueller wants to ask the president about the maria bartiromo interview, that the president put out that he's not under investigation, he certainly raises questions about his job. these are questions about public statements that mueller does want to ask him about. >> to a certain extent, this notion about a president's social media feed can be used to demonstrate intimidation. is that uncharted territory? or is this something i'm just not familiar with? >> i think it's probably something new, but we are in a new world, and in the old days you had to either do it by either telephone or in person. you had no other means. now with social media, you have a lot of ways to reach potential witnesses and to send warnings to them. i think a lot of what he does, his pardons have been sort of a message to other witnesses, stick with me, don't worry. i pardoned joe arpiao for not answering questions. so don't sa

case in point, jim comey now in the democrats' corner, providing campaign advice. did such a great job as an intel leader, tweeting "democrats, please, please don't lose your minds and rush to the socialist left." good luck with that. a new report by the a.p. claiming that democratic socialism is surging in the age of trump. you cannot make this up. which way is the party going to go as we race towards the midterms? here to analyze is democratic pollster doug schoen along with former arkansas governor, fox news contributor mike huckabee. doug, you have to speak to the democrats because when jim comey is your avatar or alexandria ocasio-cortez, i don't know what to say but take it away. >> i guess i would say to jim comey, you screwed up the last election in a multiplicity of ways. why don't you just keep your opinions to yourself? we democrats have enough problems with you interposing yourself. as for the democratic party, my goodness. it has moved so far to the left. as a free-market capitalist myself who believes in a mixed economy and a strong national defense,

>> you would have to ask director comey that. i think there was discussion i remember in particular some of it was in the context of reporting from mr. giuliani and others talking about connections to new york. i don't want to scapegoat new york because a lot of people were aware of it and there were concerns just about the number of folks. but with regard to mr. comey my recollection is that he was aware of the concerns but i was not privy to discussions he had with the attorney general or other concerns he may have had outside of my presence. >> with regard to mr. giuliani, on october 25 then trump campaign adviser promised a quote/unquote pretty big surprise coming up in the campaign. on october 28 giuliani claimed to be in contact with former agents and a quote/unquote few active agents who obviously don't want to identify themselves. there was a concern that there is a deep and visceral hatred towards secretary clinton in the new york field office at the same time mr. giuliani says he is having contactwis with activ agents.

chairman, i would not agree with that characterization of director comey. and in answer to your question, i have not seen it before. >> all right. was that appropriate what he did? hold a news conference and publicly announce the decision that was supposed to have been made by the department of justice? >> sir, that was his decision. >> was it appropriate in your opinion? >> sir, i don't think it's for me to say. >> it is for you to say. what's your opinion? >> i understand the variety of factors -- well, i understand some of the factors that went into director comey's decision to make the announcement. i can tell you that decision was not made lightly at all. i can tell you my experience in that decision. >> you're not aware of any precedent for that? >> i am not. >> mr. strzok, in a footnote, 197 of the inspector general's report, it is noted that, quote, supervision of the russia investigation was briefly transitioned from strzok to another counterintelligence division, d.a.d., in early 2017. why were you transitioned from the russia investigation in ear