news first in the united states investigations by congress the department of justice and the media have uncovered a very large number of contacts between russian citizens associated with your government and high officials of the trump campaign and some of those officials are now being prosecuted for a line about those contacts all this is not normal and many americans are saying where there's that much smoke there must be fire how would you explain to americans the sheer number of contacts between the trump campaign and your government and second if i may it's almost been a year since downall trump has been elected president you praised donald trump during the campaign what is your assessment of donald trump as president after one year especially. the which of. the second parts. it's not up to me to assess. what trump has been doing it's up to the those who have elected him it's up to the american people and there's been some major achievements even in this short span of time look at the markets the markets are up. pretty strongly that means that investors trust the american economy tha

david: some people suggested the creation of a new department in the justice department that deals specifically with requests of congressress wants to investigate this and get to the bottom of it. they are getting obstruction from the justice department. if you create an office within the justice department that works to help congress, might that be an office? >> there already is. the office of legislative affairs and the inspector general. the leadership has an obligation to make sure this is done. sessions recused himself from the russian issue. mr. rosenstein is the point of contact and he needs to answer for what mueller has been doing with this fbi agent who was removed five months ago. the justice department and the fbi may have mis -- may have mid congress and the american people. everything is falling to mueller. we just found out today, the doj doesn't want to tell anybody what the ethics letter is about. david: polls are close to closing in alabama. just moments from now. we'll be talking about the dramatic conclusion to a contentious senate race with joe concha and rebecca woodland next. zar: one of our inves

first, in the united states, investigations by congress, the department of justice and the media havencovered a large number of contacts between russian citizens associated with your government on high officials of the trump campaign. some of those are being prosecuted for lying, all of this is not normal. many americans are saying when there's that much smoker must be fire. how to explain to americans the number of contacts between the trump campaign in your government? and second, it's almost many years in stone trump has been elected president. you praise him during the campaign, what is your assessment of him as president after one year? >> also with the second part. it's not up to me to assess what has trump been doing. it is up to those that elected him, up to the american people, there been some major achievements in the short span of time. look at the markets, the markets are of. that means that investors trust the american economy. means they have comments in the trust the decisions by trump. certainly we have a lot of respect for the opposition in the u.s., those who oppose

first in the united states, investigations by congress, the department of justice, an the media havencovered a very large number of contacts between russian citizens associated with your government and high officials of the trump campaign. some of those officials are now being prosecuted for lying about these contacts. all this is not normal and many americans are saying, where there's thatch much smoke there must be fire. how would you explain to americans the sheer number of contacts between the trump campaign and your government? and second, if i may, it's almost been a year since donald trump han elected president. you praised donald trump during the campaign. what is your assessment of donald trump as president after ne year? >> i'll start with the second part. whatnot up to me to assess trump has been doing. it's up to those who have elected him. it's up to the american people. and there have been some major achievements even in this short span of time. look at the markets. the markets are up. pretty strong. investors trust the american economy. that means they have a lot of co

the department of justice. we wrote back and said, well, we've had many instances in the history of the congress where there have been department of justice investigations going on, be it whitewater or fast and furious, any number of investigations where the house continued to do its work in terms of doing public policy investigations. and that's what we should be doing as well. >> we showed a clip from what you said earlier, when you bravely stepped forward to talk about your own experience with sexual harassment on capitol hill. and you have now proposed a bill. how would your bill change what you call the culture of sexual harassment on capitol hill? >> well, first of all, let me say that we've taken a huge step forward. in 2014, i introduced legislation to require mandatory sexual harassment training prevention for members and staff. it wasn't even given an opportunity to be heard as an amendment. this year, we've already passed it, and it will take effect. the other component is the me too congress act, which will change the system, because right now it takes 90 days before a victim can actually file a comp

into whether trump's twenty sixteen campaign colluded with russia in the messages turned over to congress by the department of justice and agents show preference toward clinton winning the white house and refer to trump repeatedly as an idiot this is not just political opinions this is just gusting on accountable bias and there's no way that could not affect a person's work the agents have been removed or are no longer investigating russian meddling or potential obstruction of justice by trump speaking recently on capitol hill the deputy attorney general told lawmakers there's nothing inappropriate about f.b.i. officials holding political opinions so long as it doesn't affect their work trump disagrees it is very sad when you look at those documents and. how they've done that is really really very the deputy attorney general has resisted any calls to fire robert mueller has said that there is no person better qualified to lead the investigation can really help get al-jazeera washington. a u.n. investigation into extreme poverty in the u.s. has raised serious issues about the quality of american highways saying it spe

i mean the question of bring us right up to date on not latest development thank you very much for the. us republicans could hold the f.b.i. under department of justice in contempt of congress both agencies have been given all tomatoes to provide key details from two investigations into u.s. russia collusion on hillary clinton's use of a private e-mail server while acting as secretary of state the deadline which was until the end of monday house of course not passed and it would seem the intelligence community hostile and compiled with the demands artie's killam up and has more in what we know. house intelligence committee has made clear that it wants answers we've heard from devon noone is the chair of the house intelligence committee saying that if the department of justice and the f.b.i. did not come forward and provide the information that they are requesting they could be facing charges of contempt and taken to court now i'm at this point the intel committee the house intelligence committee wants information about what happened regarding the firing of an f.b.i. agent peter struck who is investigating donald trump there are rumors that he was fired because he had a clea

do that you know back after nine eleven we had this wall of separation between the intelligence community and the department of justice and congress and so by by withholding this information by withholding what it is that congress wants to see they want to see how many people that are politically biased against president and pro in favor of hillary clinton have taken part in some of these quote special investigation or independent counsels and if the intelligence community refuses to hand over this information i mean it's going to show that this wall is still remains between the congress who is the voice of the people of the united states and between the intelligence community and the department of justice and media watchdog in britain is going to help you decide what's worth believing more in about like a second. here's what people have been saying about rejecting the night is it actually just pull on ourselves the only show i go out of my way to do you know what it is that really packs a punch oh yeah it is the john oliver of r t america is going to say we are apparently better than nothing. as a people you never heard of love o

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, a top lawyer for the trump transition team accusing special counsel robert mueller of unlawfully obtaining thousands of e-mails in a letter to congress. not the department of justice. he claims mueller's actions violate the attorney/client privilege and the fourth amendment. >> the president repeated his defense that there's been no collusion. >> not looking good. it's quite sad to see that. my people were very upset about it. i can't imagine there's anything on them, frankly, because as we've said, there's no collusion. there's no collusion whatsoever. >> a spokesman for mueller's team defended itself, saying, quote, when we have obtained e-mails in the course of our ongoing criminal investigation, we have secured either the account owner's consent or appropriate criminal process. >> they had criminal twice. remember, mueller's team rarely speaks. the fbi also taking heat from gop lawmakers who say there's bias against the president inside mueller's team. >> i have confidence in director mueller. i would just think he'd be concerned about the appearance of conflicts of interest that would undermine the integrity of the investigation. >> subpoena bruce orr, his wi

cooperation from the department of justice they want answers about what's going on and if they don't get them it looks like there could be criminal charges charges of contempt of congress leveled against leaders of the department of justice for not cooperating they've been given until the end of the day on december fourth to comply with the committee's demands a little twists and turns a kind of no doubt you're across it so when the deadline happens we'll be back with you thanks for the. if it wasn't in the news enough already president trump also considering whether recognizing jerusalem as israel's capital will have a lot of reaction to that and also look at the potential consequences after the break. here's what people have been saying about rejected in the senate it's full of the only show i go out of my way to. the really packs of. yap is the john oliver of r t america is doing the same we are apparently better than. the c. people you've never heard of redacted the next president of the world bank takes it . seriously send us an e-mail. seems wrong. just don't. get to shape out. active. and engaged equals betrayal. when some find themselves worlds apart we choose

do that you know back after nine eleven we had this wall of separation between the intelligence community and the department of justice and congress and so by by withholding this information by withholding what it is that congress wants to see they want to see how many people that are politically biased against presidencia and pro in favor of hillary clinton have taken part in some of these quote special investigation or independent counsels and if the intelligence community refuses to hand over this information i mean it's going to show that this wall is still remains between the congress who is the voice of the people of the united states and between the intelligence community and the department of justice does the intelligence committee actually have the power to punish the agencies for compliance that were. oh yes well i mean this is one of those things so in the united states we have these you know these balances balance of powers a separation of powers between the legislative the judicial and the executive branches and so right now this is basically a this is basically a fight now between the legislative branch and the execu

the chairman would be interested in what was clearly a violation of law and department of justice proceedings. >> if there were evidence we disclosed information to a reporter that wasn't disclosed to the congress i would agree with you. i'm not aware of that. >> the department of justice investigation should be free of political interference, true? >> absolutely. >> we put up a tweet from donald trump on november 3 at 3:57 a.m. in the morning. god knows what he was doing at that time other than tweeting. it says everybody -- put that tweet up. >> the clock stop while we're trying to do this. >> what was the gentleman's request? >> the committee has been given notice of a tweet that i wanted displayed on the screen last evening and i've been asking for that to be put up. >> there is some technical difficulty in doing that? we'll suspend. >> i believe the gentleman had 1:45. >> we'll make sure he gets plenty of time. >> thank you, mr. gates. >> in the interest of time, mr. chairman i'll read what was written by the president. he said everybody is asking why the justice department and f.b.i. isn't looking into all of the dishonesty going on with crooked hillary and the dems. let me ask you a ques

into whether trump's twenty sixteen campaign colluded with russia in the messages turned over to congress by the department of justice agents show preference toward clinton winning the white house and refer to trump repeatedly as an idiot this is not just political opinions this is just gusting on accountable bias and there's no way that could not fair a. a person's work the agents have been removed or are no longer investigating russian meddling or potential obstruction of justice by trump speaking recently on capitol hill the deputy attorney general told lawmakers there's nothing inappropriate about f.b.i. officials holding political opinions so long as it doesn't affect their work trump disagrees it is very sad when you look at those documents. that is really really very the deputy attorney general has resisted any calls to fire robert mueller has said that there is no person better qualified to lead the investigation kimberly helped get al jazeera washington prosecutors have upgraded the murder charge against a u.s. man accused of driving into a crowd of protesters at a white supremacist rally james fields jr fac

violation of law in the department of justice proceedings. >> if there is any evidence that we disclosed evidence to a reporter that wasn't appropriate for release or disclosed to the congress, i would agree with you. i'm not aware of that. >> now, the department of justice investigation should be free of interference, is that true? >> absolutely. >> can we put up a tweet from donald trump at 3:57 a.m. in the morning? god knows what he was doing at that time other than tweeting. it says, "everybody -- can we put that tweet up? >> the clock stopped while we were trying to -- >> what was the gentleman's request? >> the committee had been given notice of a tweet that i wanted displayed on the screen last evening, and i've been asking for that to be put up. >> and there is some technical difficulty in doing that? >> yes. >> we will suspend. >> mr. chairman? i believe the gentleman had a minute and 45 seconds. >> we'll make sure he has plenty of time. >> thank you, mr. gates. >> in the interest of time, mr. chairman, i'll just read what was written by the president. he said, everybody is asking why the justice department and fbi isn't looking into all of the dishonesty going on

the chairman and a bipartisan way will be interested with what be a violation of the law and the department of justice proceedings? >> we disclosed information that wasn't appropriate for the public release of congress i would agree. the department of justice investigation should be free of political interference is that true? >> it said everybody -- >> unanimous consent. what was the gentle man's request? the committee has been given notice of a tweet and i'm asking for that to be put up and there is a technical difficulty. we will suspend. >> in the interest of time i will just read what was written by the president. everybody is asking why the justice department and the fbi isn't looking into all of the dishonesty going on with crooked hillary. is it ever appropriate for any president to encourage the department of justice to launch criminal investigations against his or her perceived enemies? we are not going to be influenced by anything other than the fact of law. >> is that appropriate for the president of the united states to send? the president's repeated attempts on the criminal prosecution against perceived political enemies come from you? we understand that the responsibility and we are g

president himself, needs to order the fbi either to hand over this information and cooperate with congress or maybe even appoint a special employee of the department of justicese only job is to ensure cooperation with congress. you are not going to get it from the department of justice or fbi. they are -- they are the fox guarding the hen house because they are the ones, as we saw from these texts, with potentially damaging things to hide. >> tucker: the whole thing seems out of control. kim strassel, thanks for your reporting and for coming on. police in las vegas are trying to block information in their investigation to the shooting that took place october 1st. why? what could they be hiding? that's next. jack and jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water. all because of a burst water pipe in their house that ruined the hardwood floors in their kitchen. luckily the geico insurance agency had helped them with homeowners insurance and the inside of their house was repaired and floors replaced. jack and jill no longer have to fetch water. they now fetch sugar-free vanilla lattes with almond milk. call geico and see how affordable homeowners insurance can

the fbi of withholding information from congress. when there is the appearance of impropriety by the department of justice. and when the inspector general is limited under the statute, both because he doesn't have full access and because certain portions are out, wouldn't you say that this is a classic example, where in order to investigate the fbi and the department of justice, a special prosecutor who is equally lackilack i looking for the truth, if it exists adversely, to the conduct of the fbi and the department of justice, is within your charge and responsibility to see that it happens? >> time of the gentlemen has expi expired. >> there's a number of assumptions, congressman, and my simple answer to it would be, if we believe there was a basis for an investigation or a special counsel, i can assure that we would act. >> mr. chairman, i would say that since we've already had zpl dismissals for wrongdoing, since there's ongoing internal investigations, the elements necessary to ask for a special prosecutor to, in fact, see what was done wrong, already existed. >> time of the gentlemen has expired. the

the front lawn of washington. doj officials are interviewing fbi agents about the uranium one deal in an attempt to determine if another special counsel is warranted to keep investigating that. meanwhile, congress is asking the department of justicer all documents and communications related to an alleged multi-year effort under the last administration to basically give some space to hezbollah to sell drugs internationally including in this country, in order to make sure the iran deal went through. fleet reigns is a former deputy secretary of state he was an advisor to hillary clinton. fleet, both of these stories, i think it's possible to overstate their significance. at the core both have important elements. uranium one. i don't think she is necessarily the villain of the story. >> thank you for the concession. >> tucker: she is the villain of the story. buff the obama administration allowed russia a russian controlled company, control over some large percentage of our uranium reserves. that's beyond disputed. why was that ever a good idea and why is no one in the press asking a really simple question like why did you allow that to happen. >> i think they did. there is a process for that it's called cfius. any time any asset of

the american people down in favor of this conflict of interest could write no molars pro does compromise the repeated examples of conflicts of interest dragged out slowly by the department of justice or congressor the american people to find any reason to trust it. lou: don't you find it stunning that ron rosenstein doesn't find any need for any concern whatsoever, and even as his entire department has been ripped asunder by so many conflicts of interest, intent to subvert and, by the way, i sort of illicit affair in the midst of all of this between two people responsible for the integrity of the justice system and indeed the security of the nation. >> if i could just say, this is also about the bureaucracy. it is such a habit, a habit to defend, you look at the process you have in the process and the process is good and you don't as individuals. lou: the deep state? >> the deep bureaucracy that these are like zombies in a way who go through and it doesn't even occur to you that she would think the state would be. lou: you get the last word? >> i agree you can't trust these guys. the whole thing with the fbi not answerable to congress is kind of in that spirit of course the fbi answers to con

we're really missing under the trump mushroom of stories is the systematic degradation of american institutions. the department of justice, our intelligence agencies, the epa, congress itself, media itself. all of these american institutions have been undermined and deliberately subverted by this administration. we just haven't been paying enough attention to it. >> i would go back to las vegas, your point on that. it's also very interesting to me that we still don't have a concrete motive in that case. we still don't know precisely why it was that more than -- >> and bump stocks are still being sold. still being manufactured and sold. >> mr. jolley there, your underreported story, sir? >> really under the radar, and i say this in context, is the success of the bread and butter gop ajgenagenda. largely a deregulatory agenda in the environment, health care, labor, tack on to that a pro-business tax plan. listen, craig, elections are defined by creating contrast between parties and candidates. republicans actually can go into '18 painting a very strong contrast between their agenda and that of democrats. it will be up to voters which agenda they embrace. >> you raise

sound bite that you played in your introduction, the congressman, the member of congress calling for a purge of the department of justice, talking about the deep state. i interviewed him. that came from my show earlier today where he started the conversation. the part you didn't hear, calling the department off the rails. so that's where this discussion, where the discourse has come to. in certain republican circles. i will say there. that's not the kind of language that i hear reflected in my conversations on capitol hill and elsewhere. so it is not as if that is official gop line. however, you are hearing it increasingly if the president's advisers. people very close to the president. his closest allies are people who want to be close to the president. and then you're hearing it from the president himself. i think there's a couple of pieces to the puzzle. you have those, who, for example, not just coming out and saying these thing about the department of justice and the fbi, but also about the republican who's are saying nothing. and i think where you'll see this story go, if i had to guess over the next couple weeks,

appointed christopher a in fact republicans in the house are threatening a contempt of congress resolution against the current f.b.i. director and the department of justice for what they say is failing to provide to hand over documents about the ongoing russia investigation well speaking of the russian vista geisha i mean elements of it have been rumbling for months but a lot of people are calling michael saying pleading guilty a bit of a game changer and do you get the sense that president trump is really feeling the heat about it all. well i think it's apparent that there was no advance notice by to the white house that flynn as had exe had flipped there was very little advance notice in the fact that he had not only gone into a court and heard the indictments but that he pled guilty at once and that in fact it was clear from the bill of particulars that he was only charged with the most minor relatively minor of the potential offenses against him so hanging above him is the continuing cloud of possible further charges against him if he does not fully comply with all of the with all of the answers that the that the investigators are asking for so it's

congress can override the president with a 2/3 majority. now, to help in the president's law enforcement capacity because that's why we're doing this, congress created the justice department in 1870. it is part ofh. that's the president's branch of government. the fbi was created nearly 40 years later. long standing protocol prempbve the department of justice being run by the president to preserve the impartiality of the investigations. the president has shown he's simply not happy with this arrangement. in a recent swipe tweeting the bureau's reputation is in tatters, the worst in history. talking specifically about the fbi. now, the fbi director chris wray didn't mention the president's name but he did tell agents in a memo he is inspired by example after example of professionalism and dedication to justice demonstrated around the bureau, it is an honor to represent you. this is a sentiment that's been echoed by james comey when he was head of the fbi. by robert mueller when he was head of the fbi. nobody actually goes after the fbi in terms of their integrity and dedication to work. it is very unusual, highly unusual. it's not that people shouldn't criticize things. we exist in a business to

the chairman of the oversight committee and the chairman of the judiciary committee already initiated a review and re-opened the investigation themselves, not the justice department but members of congress. every time the russia investigation becomes more serious, when there are additional indictments and pleas, and they pull out the hillary clinton card, you know, it's the best thing to pull that card out, and vladimir putin interviewed to help donald trump and hurt hillary clinton, and by the way, the e-mails have been investigated fully. the attorney general came to a conclusion and the justice department made its findings public, and it already has been investigated and the american people see through this and this is an effort to distract from the very serious investigation robert mueller is leading. >> the president said mueller is going to be fair to him and democrats are voicing concern trump could fire mueller. do you think there's anything in the interview that may soothe democrats' concerns that trump could fire mueller? >> not at all. we have seen over the last few weeks republicans have been engaged in a very focused campaign, to undermine the credibility of robert mueller.

the president of the united states if those women choose to do it. what would be under scope right now would be covered under the department of justice, not congress. and there are certainly plenty of investigating happening with president trump. >> under the house rules, you can investigate anything! >> you can investigate anything. .and you can look at it. some of the things have been crazy. i think enwe're doing quite a l of investigating of the current president. i'm pretty interested in why there has never been a real serious investigation of the clinton foundation and a broad scope investigation. what has russia been doing with their engagement in the united states? and within scope, i'm hopeful between the department of justice and robert mueller, that they are doing a real honest investigation. not an inquisition. it increasingly looks like it is tilting towards inquisition. >> now we're going to an independent from colorado. >> good morning! i would like to congratulate you on having a very good story. i was curious, have you ever noticed his kinds of surveys that are taking about that where the countries are that have really the highest qu

the trump family. this column proves chris's point. man bites dogs. congress is supposed to get out of the way of a justice department special counsel investigation. it doesn't work the other way. we know that congress, republicans in congress are trying to avoid and slow walk any investigation of donald trump and russia. so much so that the chair of the house intelligence committee had to recuse himself because he was so biased towards the president. so this is a ridiculous joke, another example of a conservative media outlet trying to undermine mueller whose integrity has not come into question in this probe. >> i think their integrity has been called into point. >> mueller's integrity. >> no, his team. democrats want to say trump is working with the russians and republicans want to say it should be pushed aside. there is partisanship and why usually the investigators want to avoid congress. the evidence has gathered up so high that there is an actual partisan problem in the f.b.i. and worse than the partisan problems which so far the f.b.i. has been saying they're trying to deal with, they haven't been telling con

of a dramatic note i think we face in the united states a constitutional crisis it's really very much coming to. ahead we have a congress that is not answering demands. we have good department of justice in the f.b.i. they're not answering demands from congress we see an outright media war depending on what station you look at you could be looking at a very different country and i'm looking at like fox versus like c.n.n. very different views of the world it's getting to a critical point it didn't happen in two thousand and seventeen i think it's going to happen in two thousand and eighteen which your major takeaway picture thirteen changer in two thousand and seventeen is. russia syria and their allies against terrorist organizations that period for years against isis against a new city against other others and this is really a game changer not just for syria but for the middle east as a whole when i don't think it's over yet two thousand and over again but the severity very major step and it's a major setback for the united states and their allies mark if you take away from the viewpoint.

is a dangerous instinct when it's by someone in the high position of authority and the department of justice so the founders gave authority to the congress to monitor all this and as it has been mentioned today the survival of the republic depends on us there's been a lot of discussion about the members of the team of course it's been mentioned federal regulation strictly prohibits any of the employees from participating in a criminal investigation or prosecution if they for personal or political relationship with affiliation with any person under investigation. reports have shown it's been mentioned this morning that the lawyers on the team contributed more than 62,002 the democratic candidates and 752 republican candidates. i appreciate that question i have teenage daughters and have had the same conversations with them and i can assure you i understand the basis for the concern as i explained earlier we had a lot of experience as managers and the department and we understand our responsibility to make sure nobody's personal opinions are improperly allowed to impact the investigations. for my daughter back home what does that look like

the courts whashgs is going o. why has this not be discloeszed. strzok was fired in july. and the justice department and supervisors of the justice department with held this from the americans in congressful ritell you it is at the point where we may need a special council for the special council. >> sarah carter, you began this last night with this guy strzok and literally. im removed now tonight the girlfriend is remove anded from time to time find out the number one hit map with the oshg atrocious backgroundand drew riceman. >> i think what is most stunning is his relationship with sally yates and in the the department of justice they felt comfortable sharing e mails on their office e mail accounts. not only that, think about the relationship he had with sally yates. i think there is a conflict of interest here in law enforcement and the intelligence community. they said, look, she was after flynn from the beginning. if he is this close to her and has this much respect based on a decision she went against the president of the united states this should be called into question. and you know, tom, innocent the only one that says there is a some there needs a special council for a special

was somebody in the justice department that had an ax to grind or an angle to take and was more political, and i also wonder what the relationship is between certain members of congress and how they're interacting with the justice department. the whole reason we had a special counsel appointed was to take bias out of this. that's exactly what director mueller did. he got even a whiff of it, he removed it from the situation. that's why this happened in july. worried we have elements in the justice department against selectively leaking things at times for political advantage for one party or the other. bad either way, democrat or republicans. >> and many people believed the fbi was selectively leaking information for rudy giuliani throughout the last six weeks of the campaign, out of the new york fbi office, at least. i'd ask you this. the toothpaste seems out of the tube. chunks of americans left and right who actually agree with the president. that there's something wrong inside the fbi. how do you fix this perception? >> i think in terms of perception fixing it will come from the top. maybe that is about moving these investigations forward a little more quickly now