enter the department of justice. just for the independent counsel ,tatute was set to expire attorney general janet reno promulgated regulations -- not a statute. this is unilateral executive action -- providing for an office of special counsel. those regulations took effect on july 1, 1999, and assuming they are valid, which they are not, they are still in effect today. ther these regulations, attorney general can appoint a if proceedings by the department of justice would present a conflict of or extraordinary circumstances, it would be in the public interest. notice that the special counsel has to be a lawyer with a reputation for integrity -- nobody else has to be a lawyer with a reputation for integrity, including the solicitor general. just has to be learned in the law, right? last clause, that special counsel shall be elected from outside the united states government. in the regulations that the special counsel cannot be somebody who is already a constitutional officer of the united states. that's the rub here.

department of justice recommendations within the police department. i will also take this opportunity to remind my colleagues that we won't be having hearings on related items one of them would be the implementation of the police department. that will be coming up soon. also there has been a task force that has been tasked to look at the staffing and what it needs to fully protect our citizens. that report will be coming up later. before we begin, how are we going -- how we will do this is we will have supervisor fewer start off her opening remarks, then i will have police chief scott come up and presents what has been done, and after the full presentation, then i would like to invite my colleagues to ask questions. after that we will have public comments. supervisor fewer, would you like to make some opening comments? >> thank you very much, president yee. colleagues, i call for a committee of the hearing to shine light on the implementation status of the recommended reform for the san francisco police department that were released in 2016 by the u.s.

there's a lot of problem with clearly something in the faa and the department of justice. >> the department of justice and the faa operate as one >> the department of transportation they are subject to investigation and along with the guy he wrote to it >> i'm perplexed to the point of wondering where you've done work for boeing number two, i'm -- >> i've never gotten a nickel from them. >> let me finish my thought. if the management knew of these messages, some months ago to the point that they turned them over to thedepartment of justice, presumably the head guy, knew that those messages have been turned over to the department of justice, was aware of those messages and if he did not until yesterday hand them over to congressional investigators, isn't he then responsible for that omission? isn't he then, at least, implicitly culpable for withholding information from his chief regulator? >> no. >> why >> the reason is in a criminal investigation you have to is ask the department of justice why they didn't want this information turned over. >> do we know that we don't know whether the depar

investigation that has already led to indictments and guilty pleas it shows you just how far this department of justice> bret: michael horowitz is getting ready to turn in his report on the early stages of the pfizer investigation. meanwhile the u.s. attorney john durham is finishing his investigation and we have reported that will be a criminal investigation now and there is a reaction much like you heard from mayor pete -- this is jerry nadler and adam schiff, these reports if true raise profound new concerns of the department of justice under attorney general william barr has lost its independence and has become a vehicle for president trump's political revenge. if the department of justice may be used as a tool for potential retribution or to help the president with the political narrative for the next election, the rule of law will suffer new and irreparable damage" a lot of reaction to that statement. former white house press secretary ari fleischer, leslie marshall democratic strategist and jonah goldberg editor in chief of the dispatch. it's interesting to hear some of the reaction -- we don't

people politicizing and trying to interfere with the 2016 election, including people at the department of justicend the fbi who were trying to undermine the trump campaign. of course, we've already seen a lot of information about that. you saw both schiff and nadler hit the panic button. they really understand this is bad for them and their case where they are trying to impeach a president based on false information and innuendo in secret behind closed doors and in fact what you look at, both what horwitz is doing and what durham is doing, they've actually been looking at facts, talking to real people, giving things that they've risen to the level of criminal probe. it's a really big deal, bad news for those people who try to undermine the trump campaign illegally using their positions in the fbi and other agencies. >> jason: andy biggs, when you see chairman nadler, chairman schiff use their chairman schiffs to belittle, badger, anm politics on attorney general bad mr. horwitz, who by the way unanimously confirmed as an obama appointee by the united states senate, when you see these people's apo

justice reform was passed. this president is moving forward with his agenda in spite of what the house is doing. lou: the justice departmentn front of a federal judge seeking to block the house from getting grand jury testimony from the mueller witch hunt. it's -- the judge making clear to the justice department attorneys that precedent is on the side here of releasing them because as she points out, impeachment per se is considered a judicial proceeding, but this is nothing like any proceeding before it trying an impeachment inquiry of a president. >> the law is clear, grand jury proceedings and transcripts and evidence collected as part of a grand jury can only be released as part of the judicial proceeding. there is no way under the law that staying in the house having voted on to start could be considered a judicial proceeding. this is something americans are frustrated with our courts and the system of justice. they can read the language of the law and the way it's interpreted is completely different. lou: i think americans are not only frustrated -- and we are looking at a lot of polls here about their confidence in

president don't trouble a court ruled that the department of justice must give democrats a full copy of the report into russian meddling in the 2016 election. plus in german sawka the bundesliga spheres this rivalry always in flames of passion the passions of football fans and on saturday afternoon it's that time once again hold on to your seat when shall to take on dortmund the latest edition of the royal dog . hundreds of thousands of people out on the streets across chile in the 7th day of mass anti-government protests in the capital santiago more than half a 1000000 demonstrators have converged on the city center demanding economic reforms and the resignation of president sebastian pinera protesters also turned out in the poll. city of valparaiso where some tried to force their way on to the grounds of chile's congress at least 18 people have died in unrest across the country. for more let's go to santiago where correspondent john bartlett is standing by john you've just come from the demonstration can you describe what it's like there. yes it's an incredible moment it's historic

and because of that, judge beryl howell ruled that the department of justice must turn over to congress all of the grand jury material that has been redacted in the mueller report by next wednesday. even more specifically, judge howell said, "the department of justice claims that existing law bars disclosure to the congress of grand jury information. doj is wrong." now, i should tell you, usually congress does not have a right to view grand jury material, but back in 1974, in the midst of the nixon impeachment proceedings, the court ruled that lawmakers were allowed to look at grand jury material so they could weigh in on impeachment. and so now, a lot of the stuff that we did not know from the mueller report will be turned over to the democratic-controlled house judiciary committee, pending appeal of the ruling. the decision is a big win for democrats, who have wanted to see the full mueller report since it came out, but it also boosts the legitimacy of their court claim related to the impeachment inquiry. just today, the house impeachment committee subpoenaed depositions from two offi

eric serves as the assistant attorney general and the department of justice. prior to that, he was a partner at the jones day law firm. he also serves a special counsel at the equal employment opportunity commission, at the u.s. department of labor's wage and hours commission, and as associate independent counsel with ken starr. he received his law degree from northwestern university. he also worked for judge william bauer. after eric, we will hear from reed rubinstein. reid is the acting counsel at the department of education. before transitioning over to the department of education, he was -- at theociate justice department. reid was a partner at the department -- he also served as a senior vice president in charge of litigation. before that, he served as senior counsel at the environment technology and regularly -- regulatory affairs for the department of commerce. he got his graduate degree. his masters in political science, and his law degree all from the university of michigan. go wolverines. finally we will hear from roger severino. roger is the director

this week by media here in the united states that a criminal inquiry has been launched by the department of justice into the arjun's of the mauler inquiry so another busy week here in this ongoing inquiry. now to some of the other stories making news around the world the united states is running its highest budget deficit in 7 years that's according to the u.s. treasury reporting its figures at the end of the u.s. fiscal year the ballooning debt is largely due to the trumpet ministrations tax cuts it's the 1st time since the early 1980 s. at the deficit has risen over 4 consecutive years. in iraq at least 30 people are dead after police fired at anti-government demonstrators at several protests across the country crowds gathered in cities including baghdad and basra and set fire to around 50 official building they want the government to resign and calling for anti corruption forms. the head of the world jewish congress ronald lauder has visited the german city of holland weeks after gunmen killed 2 people while trying to break into a synagogue there lauder's visit comes amid numerous signs of a ris

, so what we're really talking about is the department of justice is investigating the department of justice, his case will be whether or not people should be charged. emily: right. think about it as the appropriate sort of jurisdiction. so when you talk about a criminal investigation, the ig never had the power to compel witness testimony, to subpoena. especially those that were former employees, right? durham, as we know, had a much broader reach. steve: james comey couldn't really bring them in, force them in, until now. emily: exactly. brian: it's going to be interested. the ig report was submitted in september to the fbi to look through to make sure it could be redacted when necessary, not giving any intelligence information out or means or procedures. they have yet to get back. i believe october is coming to a close. i wonder why that is? meanwhile, the "new york times" says this: some cia officials have retained criminal lawyers in anticipation of being interviewed. i guess they know what they did. it was not clear whether mr. durham was scrutinizing other top intelligence

records the department of justice previous lur -- previout couldn't find. find. ing us, hans, good to have you with us. and sara carter. let's start with the ukraine. we have a transcript of a presidential conversation with ukraine president zelensky, straightforwardly. it is according to the justice department harmless and certainly no culpability of any kind on the part of the president. so what do you make of what we are witnessing now in the house? >> well, i would have to say i'm not sure why we need to hear witnesses such as the lieutenant colonel who testified today who listened in on the telephone call. who cares what he heard when we have the actual transcript of what was said. particularly, he simply is disagreeing the foreign policy negotiations and judgment of the president which is not his place to do as an army officer. and what he has to say about all of this is oat alley irrelevant' and does not provide any impeachability offense against the president. lou: there is a lot at work here,. here,sara sara. this radical dim * conference doesn't care wha

it comes from the other side, people saying the department of justice is discovering the fbi and cia or -- are corrupt. both of those things are bad. if you are running the department of justice you want to stare at the policy that allows you to offer transparency to the american people when there is a strong public interest. we don't talk about pending investigations much except when it matters most. this strikes me as an opportunity to say here is what we are investigating to clear that up. it is unfortunate that somebody decided to talk to the media. clear it up and offer transparency. >> to clear up a lot of these questions, bob mueller. his investigation captured the attention and imagination across the ideological spectrum for different reasons. people who thought it couldn't answer what russia's role was in 2016 didn't matter what else had happened and wanted to know the extent of the trump campaign's coordination with or aware of the russian hack and people who watched in real-time donald trump's efforts to construct the investigation into the package's involvement. do you thi

it comes from the other side also saying, a-ha, the department of justice is discovering the fbi and cia are corrupt. both of those things are bad, so if you run the department of justice, you ought to stare at the policy that allows you to offer transparency to the american people when there is strong public interest. we don't talk about pending investigations much except when it matters most. this strikes me as an opportunity for the attorney general to say, folks, here is what we are investigating to clear that up. it is unfortunate someone talk to the media, ok, now cleared up and offer transparency. >> i want to ask you about clearing up -- about bob mueller. captures thetion attention and imagination across the ideological sector for different regions -- reasons. people who thought they could russia'sr exactly what role was in 2016 and wanted to know the extent of the trump campaign's coordination with or awareness of the russian hack, as well as people who watched in real time donald trump's efforts to obstruct investigation into the russian attack and his involvement. do you t

department of education. before transitioning over to the department of education, he was deputy associate at the justice department. reid was a partner at the law firm of dinsmore and stoll. he also served as a senior vice president in charge of litigation. before that, he served as senior counsel at the environment technology and regulatory affairs for the u.s. chamber of commerce. he got his undergraduate degree in, a philosophy masters in and his political science, and his law degree all from the university of michigan. go wolverines. [laughter] finally we will hear from roger severino. roger is the director from the office of civil rights at the u.s. department of health and human services. prior to joining hhs, roger was my colleague here at heritage where he served as the director of the de vos center for religious society. prior to joining heritage, roger served for several years of the office of civil rights division where he litigated cases involving the fair housing act, the religious land use and institutionalized persons act, and titles two and six of the civil rights act of 1964. he also previously se

i imagine the department of justice would appeal this decision. i would hope they would not, but i have no illusions under this attorney general which of course is acting more as the president's elected attorney than an attorney general and chief elected officer. i imagine they'll proceed with an appeal. so we're going to follow the facts where they lead us, and that is important work that lays ahead before the congress. >> i was just checking my phone to make sure that appeal hasn't been filed yet because i think you're right, it probably will happen. but thank you, congressman. good to see you again. joining me for more what we have learned and what we could learn on the impeachment inquiry and this new development with the judiciary committee, mimi roca, and carol lenning whose latest reporting tonight is how the president is frustrated about white house efforts to stop witnesses from appearing before the impeachment inquiry. let me start with you the ruling by the d.c. district court at the mueller report, the unredacted portions of of it or at

this week by media here in the united states that a criminal inquiry has been launched by the department of justice into the arjun's of the mauler inquiry so another busy week here in this ongoing inquiry. now to some of the other stories making news around the world. in iraq at least 30 people are dead after police fired at anti-government demonstrators at several protests across the country crowds gathered in cities including baghdad and basra and set fire to around 50 official buildings they want the government to resign and calling for anti corruption reforms. the head of the world jewish congress ronald lauder has visited the german city of holland weeks after gunmen killed 2 people while trying to break into a synagogue there lot his visit comes amid numerous signs of a rise in anti semitism in germany on monday he will present chancellor angela merkel an award for her commitment to fighting. thousands of l.g.b. t.q. people and their supporters have arrived at taipei city hall for this year's edition of taiwan pride parade 2019 this year marks the 1st event and parade held since same sex marr

department of justice. according to the times tonight, that gives the justice department prosecutor in charge of this investigation the power to, quote, subpoena for witness testimony and documents to impanel a grand jury, and to file criminal charges. among the things that prosecutor john durham has apparently been asking in the course of this investigation that he's been carrying out in conjunction with the attorney general william barr is whether c.i.a. officials might have somehow tricked the fbi into opening the russia investigation. tricked them. as the times notes tonight, quote, the opening of a criminal investigation is likely to raise alarms that mr. trump is using the justice department to go after his perceived enemies. mr. trump is certain to see the criminal investigation as a vindication of the years that he and his allies have spent trying to discredit the russia investigation. >>> and i mean, we have seen -- we have seen this -- from the very beginning, right, we get sally yates during the t

this week by media here in the united states that a criminal inquiry has been launched by the department of justice into the arjun's of the mauler inquiry so another busy week here in this ongoing inquiry. now to some of the other stories making news around the world in iraq at least 30 people are dead after police fired at government demonstrators at several protests are protests across the country crowds gathered in cities including baghdad and bezerra and set fire to around 50 official buildings they were. want the government to resign and are calling for anti corruption reforms. in ethiopia 2 days of protests have left $67.00 people dead including 5 police officers the demonstrations began as a standoff at an activists home then they spread the protesters are challenging the rule of a man who won the nobel peace prize this month. protests have continued in bolivia after president evo morales was declared the winner of last weekend's elections despite allegations of fraud critics called the election rigged following an unexplained 24 hour pause in vote count the united nations also backs an inde

federal rules of the house impeachment inquiry fees legal that's the justice department must give democrats a full copy of the mole report into russian election. and is it a bridge is it a building an art gallery or a work of art itself we give you that haven of high design norway to take a look at the twist. a michael thanks for joining us across chil a massive crowds have taken to the streets for a 7th day of antigovernment protests demonstrators are calling for economic reforms and the resignation of president sebastian pinera aside of the largest demonstration by far was in the capital santiago. a march such to go down in the history books as possibly the largest ever seen in chile an estimated 1000000 demonstrators converged on downtown santiago bringing traffic to a standstill as crowds made their way to central plaza italia. protesters vented anger over low wages and pensions inequality and the rising cost of education and health care their fury has been fanned by president sebastian pinera response to a week of unrest imposing a state of emergency and night time curfews protesters c

we must use our department of justice and the department of education's civil rights division to go afterools that are denying people equal rights and equal protections and that's the last point i want to make. again, this is very personal to me, because there was a time that people used every excuse possible to deny rights to women in this country, to minorities in this country and folks literally had to march and fight and struggle to allow there to be laws that govern equal protection. my parents and grandparents had stories of being denied the ability to stop at restaurants traveling across country or use restrooms and bathrooms and had people look down on them and there are associations that the bible didn't justify their associations. we as a society now reject that kind of bigotry and hate. as your president, i will actively, as much as people who are activists who fought for that equality for black americans, i'll fight for it with the same verocity, and with the same sense of urgency every single day for lgbtq americans. i will stand up and call this country to remember the patri

of pages of testimony but for example lisa page admitted under oath they were told by the department of justice that no charges would be brought against hillary clinton and comey stood in front of cameras said the department of justice doesn't know what i'm about to do but they knew. they were directing him. so a lot of people believe nothing like this could have happened without the president or vice president being aware you cannot find proof of that the people just half to understand how high this went. >> as i lay out the facts in the book witchhunt when the exoneration statement cleared her first implicating her then clearing her. >> he seems pretty upset about that not emotional but he was fitful. >> because it was wording he was not a comfortable mom - - comfortable because he was so aggressive with the language. >> it all came to an interview that barack obama had had done several months before on fox news and did another and said the same thing that this was a public instruction i don't want hillary clinton to be prosecuted. he said what she had done was careless. that is the language

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of truth and justice. but make no mistake. justice always prevails. this week the departmentf justice opened a criminal investigation into the russia collusion claims of the obama administration essentially investigating the investigators. the ones who decided to open a counter intelligence investigation, then seek secret warrant to spy on an american citizen to ultimately spy on the campaign of donald trump. you know the story. but this criminal investigation is different from the i.g. report which we expect to finally see with quote few redactions. although the i.g.'s report may indeed provide a blueprints much what was done there will be is no official consequence to the report. john durham, the united states attorney in connecticut running the investigation for the justice depth is widely respected on both sides of the aisle. having worked under president bush, obama and now trump. he's not a politician. it's not in his blood. he's a truth seek were, pure and simple with an expertise in intelligence investigation. he is the ultimate lawman. prosecuting without fear or fav

the questions but i'm not sure the supremacy clause is the way to answer them either. >> the department of justice brief, there seems to be differences between the department's position in mister trump's lawyers position. could you speak to that quick. >> one of them is they seem to maintain its flattened he's not bringing this in his official capacity representing the united states and that's a flat contradiction in terms of what capacity he tries to assert as a sovereign that brings those sovereignty principles that don't belong in litigation. the other thing that is different in the doj brief is they actually contemplate the president in this position should allow the subpoena to be complied with this is a test which is undertaken which is a red herring. >> speak to that why is it a red herring and how do you assess quick. >> what it means is that yes he has to respond by producing documents but that means he is not immune from investigation in the first place that is a fundamental contradiction to the absolutist point that is being abrogated so not only did nixon long line of cases stand again

it also comes from the other side, people saying, the department of justice is discovering the cia and fbi are corrupt. both of those things are bad. if you are running the department of justice, you ought to stare at the policy that allows you to offer transparency to the american people when there is a strong public interest. we don't talk about pending investigations much, except when it matters most. this strikes me as an opportunity for the attorney general to say, this is what we are investigating. it is unfortunate somebody decided to talk to the media. now clear it up and offer transparency. --olle: i want to ask you bob mueller. theinvestigation captured attention and the imagination across the ideological spectrum for very different reasons. he couldo thought if not answer exactly what russia's role was in 2016, it did not matter what else happened, and wanted to know the extent of the term campaign's coordination with or awareness of the russian hack, as well as people who watched in real time donald trump's efforts to obstruct the investigation into the russian attack and h

. >> but that is different it seems to be someone from the department of justice view as to immunity. >> as to presidential immunity. >> i don't think there is real daylight between our position and the department of justice, i will answer both questions in order. with respect to the extent of the organizations those are targeted not just respect - - with respect to them but to the information of which they have possession. there has to be the anti-circumvention rule otherwise they don't work. you can imagine a multitude of scenarios one - - scenarios that is personal records of the president. >> you are ignoring the corporate forum as these entities operate to conduct business. >> that is true there also wholly owned by the president and they do hold his personal records and those are being sorted out. and this raises a broader question that there are things the district attorney could have said that could have made this case somewhat different and your question raises those issues but the district attorney has declined to do so, to say the president is not a target has declined to s

department of justice never provided any final report in terms of what the department did. since this reinitiation, we are now working with the california department of justice. >> supervisor fewer: yes. i understand that. >> as it stood on october 26, 2018, i might have to defer to the chief on some of the numbers, i believe it was 29 recommendations. >> supervisor fewer: i see 29. is that substantial compliance, is that correct? >> am. >> i was just going to add, this might help clarify, as well. when the usdoj concluded the work, they were actually in the process of compiling our first report, and that report kind of got pushed back, pushed back. but before we got that report, they concluded the work, so we never got it. how the process used to work, it -- there weren't clear cliens standards. basically, how the process used to work, we were kind of left to say you submit to us when you think you've met the mark. we will review it and let you know. now, there was conversations in between, but we never got the report. we now have compliance measures, and we all know what w

testimony, but, for example, lesa page at the fbi admitted under oath that they were told by the department of justice that no charges were going to be brought against hillary clinton. you know, comey stood in front of cameras and said the department of justice doesn't know what i'm about to do. they knew. they were directing it. >> host: so a lot of people believe that nothing like this could happen without the president, the vice president being aware of that. your research, you couldn't find any proof of that, people just have to surmise how high up the food chain this went. >> guest: as i lay out the facts in the book, "witch hunt," when the change in comey's exoneration statement was made to clear her, first implicated her then clearing her, and he seemed pretty upset about that publicly. not emotional but seem like he was fitful because it was strangely uncomfortable and is being so aggressive. it all came to an interview that barack obama had done several months before actual on fox news but he given another one and sit pretty much the same thing. this was sort of a public instruction, i do wan

>> we were aware of the department of justice litigated position. >> so you just disagreed with it? >> no. we didn't weigh in on the merits of the question that the department of justice litigation was addressing. that's the merits of whether or not there is a violation of the onstitution in the causes. here. all we engaged in was really an issue spotting exercise. because before we were about to criticize attorneys for failing to address an issue, we wanted to make sure don't share they were right when they realized that was a potential constitutional issue. that's what our report was about. >> so the key word here is potential. is that correct? you're not making a definitive statement. you are not suggesting that the supreme court is going to come down on your side or gsa's side. you're not making an opinion there. you're just saying it could be a potential issue. >> that's why we are not trying to weigh in one way or the other. we don't know. >> when you did your report did you look and analyze the potential legal and financial exposure to the taxpayer that the contracting officer