i add to our professors a professor dershowitz said.he regulation must provide for the special counsel expressly provide for an alternative to appointing a special counsel. that is an inquiry. i would like to say one other point about this.t i think it's an inherent conflict in the regulations. the special counsel is only to be appointed when a conflict with the department of justice is found. how is it possible that so many members of his team have directly from the department of justice? >> sean: sara, i give you the last word. >> i can't say more than what david schoen just said. there is inherent conflict of interest. the president and his counsel have every right to question it. so do the american people. >> sean: by the way, let me address trey gowdy. act like you're innocent. the way you act like you're innocent is to say "i didn't do it," i which is with the presidt did. you guys have been amazing. thank you. when we come back, speaking james comey, a "hannity" mini monologue and we'll talk about his upcoming media tour. geraldo

maybe alan dershowitz declined.ll ask him. >> dershowitz comes in at the end of some big high-profile situations. >> knowing alan dershowitz, knowing the president of the united states, i suspect he may be joining the legal team at some point. we'll see. guys, thanks very much. >>> there's more news. facebook in crisis over the alleged misuse of users' private data. investors are suing, lawmakers are demanding answers, as ceo mark zuckerberg remains silent. there's new cnn reporting when we come back. ♪ the fastest samsung ever demands t-mobile, the fastest network ever. right now get the new samsung galaxy s9 for half off. ♪ the energy conscious whopeople among usle? say small actions can add up to something... humongous. a little thing here. a little thing there. starts to feel like a badge maybe millions can wear. who are all these caretakers, advocates too? turns out, it's californians it's me and it's you. don't stop now, it's easy to add to the routine. join energy upgrade california and do your thing. >>> hea

professor dershowitz, that's wild. >> that's the smoking gun. the smoking gun is the attempt to meet with him with a cover so that nobody will be able to say that they met in a way that required recusal. this guy, strzok, seems like he's really a piece of work. he should have recused himself initially from any involvement in this case because of the messages he sent. mueller didn't know about the messages. mueller didn't act improperly. when he found out about the messag messages, he took himself off the case. strzok should be fired. he violated every possible rule of ethics in the fbi. >> laura: unbelievable. >> he has to go. i can't believe he's not been fired. >> laura: he uses the phrase "with some other work people cover." cover for action. it's like -- >> that's the smoking gun. >> cover, harmeet. he needs cover. >> and this type of ex-parte communication is outrageous. if this is not a conspiracy, i don't know what is. there's a conversation in the texts and a dinner party for six. you have multiple people around strzok and page conspirin

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professor dershowitz, what are the pitfalls? >> what i couldn't believe is what i heard on television shows, he actually offered a job to be his lawyer to bob bennett. bob bennett. i wonder if anybody told him, was the lawyer who got bill clinton impeached. bob bennett was the lawyer who told bill clinton it's okay, you can testify at a deposition about your sex loif. that's what got him -- sex loif. that got him impeached. he could have settled for $750,000. i called it the greatest lef blunder of the -- greatest legal blunder of the 20th century. bob ben the was offered a job to come and become trump's lawyer? i don't know what's going on in that white house. he of course should not testify unless he absolutely has to. and if he has to, it should be under the most rigorous restrictions of time, and type of question, and he should be prepared to answer yes, no, i don't recall instead of giving long, long answers. because the one thing they're trying to get him on, is perjury. and there's no defense against that. perjury is one

i think dershowitz is out there saying things. would love if i were cherry-picked a lawyer to say i don't know anything about the facts of the case but i don't think you ought to be prosecuted. sounds good to me if i'm the president. but it doesn't make any sense. >> chris, in your question you bring up a good point. why is this still going on? that's what we're hearing again and again from the president. we're hearing why is this taking so long? the simple answer is there is no timeline because the investigation is on going. but as that narrative is coming back, chris, how is this starting to impact, how is it bleeding into daily life in the white house and what is and isn't done. we can't ignore that fact of it, the distraction. >> i think that's the key piece of it outside the mueller investigation which is sort of a closed borks for us. to phil's point, we don't get a lot there. i think the distraction not just on this stuff but for whatever you think by stormy daniels, the apprentice contestant, those are a distraction, too.

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trump quoting famed attorney and frequent fox news guest alan dershowitz tweeting the following. special counsel is told to find crimes whether a crime exists or not. i was opposed to the selection of mueller to be special counsel. trump was right when he said there was no probable cause for believing there was any crime, collusion or otherwise, or obstruction of justice.

also breaking constitutional law expert allen dershowitz agreeing with president trump that the special counsel should never been appointed and he is calling for the mueller probe to be suspended and for a nonpartisan commission be created. he will explain tonight. plus we have andy gibbs and others demanding the report that lead to mccabe's firing be released to you, the american people. mccabe was canned friday for lying to the d.o.j. investigates under ath multiple times and they are crushing the liberal talking points out there about mccabe being wrongfully terminated and ray is saying everything done by the book without bias. we have that and so much more in breaking news opening monologue. ♪ >> sean: tonight, more incontrovertible evidence that the deep state actors are doing everything within their power to damage, unseat duly elected president. president trump. what is worse that that the partisan press cheering them on and using this leak to bludgeon the president politically. not surprisingly, members of the deep state ran to the favorite liberal media outlet the "washington p

so stated by harvard law professor alan dershowitz.dent is quoting harvard professor alan dershowitz. rand paul, first, you weigh in on mueller. where do you think this is going, senator? >> i agree with the tweet by alan dershowitz -- >> bill: to be clear, it was from the president quoting alan dershowitz. >> i agree with the president quoting him that the prosecutors have run far afield for what they're empanelled for and get down a wild goose chase and i think special prosecutors have too much power. i would not have appointed mueller. now that it's going it's more difficult to end but there's no reason why mueller should be investigating things other than russian collusion. if there is no russian collusion, he should wind up, close his investigation and move on. what i don't like is they can subpoena your business records for the past 20 years and if you didn't fill out a form correctly with the irs you'll be convicted of something unrelated to russia. if there's no russian collusion, let's move on. >> bill: do you have a sense whe

alan dershowitz said he should never have been the special counsel.ity to say we couldn't find anything, we're going away? >> i would hope so but i really believe it starts one level above that. i don't believe the attorney general is up to the job. he's recused himself out of everything he needs to do. until you get rid of the attorney general you're going to have this problem. lou: jason chaffetz, great to have you here. good to see you. that's it for us tonight. thank you for being with us. tomorrow not ed rollins, greg jarrett among our guests as we focus on the deep state. please be with >> this was major and i'm really sorry that this happened. we have a basic responsibility to protect people's data. if we can't do that, we don't deserve to have the opportunity to serve people. lauren: after five days of silence for mark zuckerberg admits to mistakes and how your data is shared. is that apology enough? >> at the trump administration gets ready to rock tariffs on steel and aluminum, and china prepares to retaliate on tariffs with farmers. lauren:

alan dershowitz said he should never have been the special counsel.ity to say we couldn't find anything, we're going away? >> i would hope so but i really believe it starts one level above that. i don't believe the attorney general is up to the job. he's recused himself out of everything he needs to do. until you get rid of the attorney general you're going to have this problem. lou: jason chaffetz, great to have you here. good to see you. that's it for us tonight. thank you for being with us. tomorrow not ed rollins, greg jarrett among our guests as we focus on the deep state. please beless further each time. thank you. the man himself is next. lou dobbs. keep it right here. lou: good evening, everybody. these are our top stories tonight. federal offices in washington are closed for a snow day. congressional leaders, however, actually made it to work. they're trying to hammer out a $1.3 trillion spending bill to prevent a government shutdown on friday. >>> conservatives outraged with the legislation np nay say the e republican leadership have planned

joining me, harvard law professor, alan dershowitz.without comment or analysis or explanation against the state of arizona in support of daca recipients whose only claim to be in this country is an illegal executive order by president barack obama. what in the world is going none our court system. >> the supreme court denies review 98% of cases and reviews only 2% of cases. a denial of review by the supreme court is not a decision on the merits. it may be they are waiting for a better case. but there is still room for more litigation. stay tuned. this is just one step in a longer process. lou: i'm staying tuned, but i don't think the court system is in tune with the times in which we live. i think the supreme court is being awfully haughty to have no comment and simply dispatch an issue to the american people which is frankly too important to be just simply dismissed when illegal immigration, border security and states rights are critical importance to this republic. >> then blame it on the trump administration because they didn't seek

alan dershowitz said he should never have been the special counsel. we couldn't find anything, we're going away? >> i would hope so but i really believe it starts one level above that. i don't believe the attorney general is up to the job. he's recused himself out of everything he needs to do. until you get rid of the attorney general you're going to have this problem. lou: jason chaffetz, great to have you here. good to see you. that's it for us tonight. thank you for being with us. tomorrow not ed rollins, greg jarrett among our guests as we focus on the deep state. please be with us. good night from new york >>> i'm tom in for kennedy no night, another major white house leak designed to make the president look bad. how many people had access to the putin phone call memo? ed henry is live at the white house. >>> plus, mark zuckerberg tries to apologize for exposing the data of millions of users but is facebook doing enough to keep our info safe >>> and the austin bombing suspect is dead. but what do we know about his motive? we've got a live report

while he is not sort of saying it in his own voice exactly, he is echoing points from alan dershowitz that reflect exactly what the president and close allies have said, attacking the underlying basis for the special counsel investigation. it's not really a factually accurate statement. the question of probable cause -- robert mueller was not appointed this investigation under james, was not initiated to find evidence of collusion between president trump and russia. it was about russian interference in the american election which is obviously a demonstrated fact. but this is the argument that you're starting to hear more publicly and from people closer to the president himself. >> and the president himself, and repeatedly. i should also note that in the article that dershowitz writes, he says there should be an independent congressional commission to look at russian election meddling. i'm not totally sure the president would support that for either. salin salena, it seems the president is in a different place, based on the fact that he tried to hire ted olson, the most powerful of pow

listen to what dershowitz said. >> i don't like special counsel at all. i think special counsel really violates the core and fundamental precepts of justice. they're told to find crimes if they exist or not. i city am opposed to it. i think president trump was right when he said there never should have been a special counsel. there was no probable cause. >> the white house continues to insist that the president has no intention of firing robert mueller but that has not stopped his criticing from warning what would happen if he did. listen here. >> that is one of my greatest fears, that the president would try to dismiss robert mueller. that is -- has been said without cause, would precipitate a constitutional crisis. >> despite the criticisms coming from the oval office and the residents, the president's outside legal team continues to talk with mueller's office about the possibility of the president sitting down for an interview. they have been making a legal argument over the last few weeks that if mueller is seeking in i information from the president,

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look, dershowitz said it should have an independent committee.ave taken it out all the way. shouldn't have gone this route. that's an argument to be had. but this is the route they decided to go. that's why there is this special counsel. >> i think the professor is making a theoretical argument against special counsels without probable cause. okay. let's put that there. let's deal with where we are and what trump is using the argument for, which i don't think is exactly what the professor intends it to be. not just rod rosenstein as an appointee but bob mueller, george w. bush's pick for fbi director. >> and sitting across from trump in the oval office. >> as a potentitential -- so, a if you scrape the surface, and you don't have to scrape a lot, the idea that this is some sort of partisan witch-hunt that should never have been started and was started because democrats can't deal with the fact that donald trump won, it just doesn't hold water. i make this case to anyone who asks. if you are donald trump, per trey tkpwoudy, you are only full exone

dershowitz's point is that the special counsel should not have been appointed. no evidence of any crime commit bid the trump administration but there was plenty of evidence that russian operatives had tried to interfere with the 2016 presidential election and other elections in hoept of destabilizing democracy. is it worth an investigation to see if a crime was committed? how do you see it? >> dershowitz has famously been on the trump side of this question for a long time. you don't have to have hard evidence of criminal conduct. in fact, that's exactly what the special counsel is for, to try to dig up evidence like that. to me, there was indications that there were crimes by the russians, likelihood that they had some help by americans, which we actually know to be true from the one indictment that's been issued. to me it's very clear that the appointment of robert mueller fell squarely within the special counsel statute. >> jennifer rodgers, thank you. >>> next up how the first lady, melania trump, is handling these allegations made against the president. >>>

we have harvard law professor alan dershowitz. we have a claudia rose set, jamie weinstein of the james my weinstein show and forbes media chairman, steve forbes. david: terrific lineup. the dow moving ahead led by walmart, caterpillar. nicole petallides on floor of new york stock exchange. i will take the green, nicole but we lost a little bit of steam, right? >> you're right, david. we came off the earlier highs. it was nice to end up with up arrows. very heavy, very much volume today. its known as quadruple-witching. options expirations happening. rebalancing on some indices. nasdaq moved higher. s&p snapping the recent losing streak of four days. that was its longest losing streak in three months. so an up arrow there. we did have winners there. ultimately ulta beauty and western dig. look at markets for the week. not having up arrows because the dow, nasdaq, s&p all finished down more than 1% this week. russell and transports finished lower. not as bad as the other three. they finished down half a percent roughly. energy is a

the president accurately represented what dershowitz said on fox news and fox business. the president is being subjected to a quote legal colonoscopy. listen here. >> i don't like special counsel at all. i think special counsel really violate the core and fundamental precepts of justice. they are told to try to find crimes whether crimes exist or not. but when you bring in special counsel, i was opposed to the appointment of mueller to be special counsel. i still am opposed to it i think president trump was right when he said there never should have been a special counsel appointed because there was no probable cause. >> all of the criticism coming from the president has, again, raised speculation particularly among his opponents that he may seek to have mueller fired. >> the white house shot that down yesterday at the daily briefing again insisting the president has no intention of firing mueller. sarah sanders did indicate yesterday that the president does have a certain degree of frustration about the whole thing. listen here. >> look, the president has been very clea

joining me is harvard law emerit emeritus alan dershowitz. president said he has no intention of firing robert mueller but speculation is running wild. >> it's the democrats fuelling the speculation. i can't see a feasible reason why the president would consider firing mueller. that would create a real problem on the republican side of the aisle. i don't think he'll fire him or should fire him. >> sandra: the president with his tweets over the weekend and monday morning saying this is the ultimate witch hunt adds fuel to the fire saying this investigate never should have began in the first place. so what is the strategy there? why put those things out there? >> first of all, the president's 100% right. there never should have been an appointment of special counsel and there was no probable cause that crimes were committed. i've seen no credible evidence that crimes were committed by the president. as i said from day one, there should have been a special investigative commission, non partisan with subpoena power to do something about preventin

that was dershowitz as trump points out, so stated harvard law professor alan dershowitz. few republicans are concerned trump set his sights on mueller. jeff flake said he would support impeachment if mueller ends the probe without cause. strong words. washington post, little less strong in flake's comments in nbc news today. >> you said yesterday in a tweet and in an interview that you felt that there should be ramifications for firing special counsel mueller. what do you think those should be? >> all i'm saying i'm hoping that the president doesn't go there, and i'm concerned that he may be softening the ground for that. obviously it is undermining independent counsel. i just hope he doesn't fire him. >> joining us now is jill wine-banks, assistant federal prosecutor now an msnbc contributor. jill, i want to ask you right off the top, you have seen the dynamic by which republicans -- president's party -- shifts from full support to eventual impeachment or threats of impeachment. you saw it up close. this was the first time yesterday, flake, lindsey graham sort of using t

the misspelling of the council is not the fault of alan dershowitz, but is fault of the president. the editorial tomorrow is based on what john brennan said today in the "new york times." the headline is why is trump so afraid of russia. it goes on to catalog a list of weaknesses in the face of putin's aggression. the last line of the editorial is, if mr. trump isn't mr. putin's lacky, it's past time for him to prove it. this afternoon, four star general barry mccaffrey said this. >> why is this president of the united states acting this way? do they have something on him? i'd say there's a significant they do. putin is going to stick it to him for sure sooner or later. he has a rope around his neck if there's actually incriminating, embarrassing evidence. >> joining us now is jim macina and john hileman is still with us. jim, i wanted to get your reaction to what john brennan had to say, having worked in the same administration as he has. this is the former director of the cia talking about the president being afraid of putin. >> it's unprecedented. lawrence, there's an old countr

harvard law professor emeritus alan dershowitz to take us through it. thank you for joining us. attorney for stormy daniels. we expect to put the president and his fixer under oath in the coming months. sunday night, the interview with stormy daniels and there was a post-game show i've been saving for you. a democratic attorney from california and this is how he framed what he just saw on "60 minutes." roll it. >> i just am perplexed by all of this. i know that as a cnn in the i'm supposed to give you some smart legal insight here but i really am somewhat perplexed and bewildered by what the end game is here. i get the lawyer says he believes her. i believe both the women but at the end of the day it's so so what. >> bill: you respect him too. what do you think? is it a "so what" or not for you? >> i'm not at all perplexed. the end game is simple. to get president trump under oath and get him into a he said-she said swearing contest with one or three of these women. that's how they got bill clinton. they turned white water in and got him impeached based on perjury. i don't think

t we have cnn chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin and harvard emeritus professor, allen dershowitz.e being pumped out by president trump as proof there should be no special counsel. you made a strong argument in the hill where you suggested there was no crime so there needed to be no special counsel. let's start the debate there with this question to you, you know better than i for sure, that the language establishing this special counsel wasn't just about looking for crimes, certainly specific to the int interference and what arises out of it. and also to coordination of those efforts, so the standard of looking for probable cause of a crime was not part of the purview of this special counsel. why are you so adamantly oppose to its existence? >> i've been opposed to the special counsel from the beginning, along with many judges, the advice of the special counsel is they have better come up with proof of a crime, otherwise they have wasted the public's money. in terms of coordination, it's not a crime to coordinate with russia, you have to find criminal conduct. >> but he's not char

often quoting alan dershowitz presidents actually write this investigation never should it be done and the question is now how does he deal with it and i think what he's doing is he's playing good cop bad cop b.s. some of his lawyers cooperate and some of his lawyers attacking. with doug on one of the so-called good cops has quit he urged the president to cooperate with the special counsel added to the team joe digenova who believes the exact opposite that make no mistake about it a group of f.b.i. and d.o.j. people were trying to frame donald trump of a falsely created crime as the investigation gets closer to the president he's going on the attack trying to discredit the investigators now he has a legal team much more likely to go along with that strategy pedicle al-jazeera washington at least fourteen people have been killed in a car bomb attack in somalia's capital market issue the blast took place near our hotel on a busy road which has been the target of similar attacks in the past ten others are thought to have been injured in the blast. well moving to nigeria now west school ch

alan dershowitz from harvard. geraldo will be with us.tion to me wearing the green tie and rob kicking himself. we are going to have dolly parton on the program. dollywould is going to open up. rob: i have one green tie and don't like it and this is the one day of the year i should have worn it and i forgot. >> you get 14 minutes left in your show. that is all i have to say. rob: we will be right back. jillian: 5-time deported illegal immigrant acquitted of murdering kate steinle is suing the federal government claiming federal charges against him are vindictive and not valid and it shows collusion between federal and state governments and have the federal case against him dismissed. he is using donald trump's tweets slamming the verdict make is case. he was cleared of manslaughter but convicted of weapons charges and released after the trial for time served. >> and illegal immigrant facing prison for supporting isis. the honduran national pleaded guilty for providing material support to the terrorist organization arrested in october afte

joe: alan dershowitz calls what mueller is doing legal colonoscopy. you nailed it in our interview. this feels like anything but collusion with russia as far as this investigation is concerned. and there was a poll that came out, mayo marist. 75% of americans think this is political and trying to take down a president for thing they can't prove, and that's collusion. it feels like ken starr and 1998 and we know how president clinton emerged from that. 65% approval rating. >> everyone on the right can agree, the left should agree, there is something going on with the fbi. not within the rank and file. but when you have people text messaging back and forth about a political candidate. we have people leaking to the press. the fact we have andrew mccabe saying he got approval from james comey to leak the press, that's concerning. tom: does it mean we need a second special counsel? >> i don't even like special kownls. who is going to investigate them. you can't trust the attorney general. jeff sessions sits on his tail all day it's his job to manage the fbi, but i don't think he many com

dershowitz, a famed attorney on earlier in the day, he says this shows the incredible lack of real strong character witnesses in the case of mr. mueller. he doesn't have a very strong case if these are his star witnesses. ed: i think the fbi is tipping the scale. they are putting their finger on the scale. they want an advantage. you want them -- they want you to investigate. and the flynn case, here is a three-star general. they threatened his son which is part of the reason he copped a plea. i don't know what his son did and i don't know what he did. but i know he served his country ably and effectively. but if all this evidence we are talking about tonight is true, he's not going to be convicted. some judge will say this deck was stacked against you. david: a lot of fbi personnel, it's reported by "the washington post" and some other newspapers, they didn't think that he lied in front of them. he actually copped a plea for lying base was being squeezed by strzok and lord knows holes was against trump getting elected and anybody in the trump administration and he felt compelled because

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he writes: harvard law professor alan dershowitz the democrat. >> half of the academic world has beenpposed to the special counsel. half the judiciary. >> your position is there should never be a special counsel ever for any case. >> almost never. >> shannon: let's bring back our panel to discuss it. in the piece in "the wall street journal," it talks about the fact that there are two problems. he says the hysteria has made top-level fbi officials lose their professional discipline and says the president has to stop talking about his constant admiration for putin. david. >> sure. the president is the one picking at this. making it a distraction. he could sort of put into this i do not respond to the daily news cycle that's obsessed with the russian story and focus on his agenda. he wants to fight it. i think if you were to fire mueller, it would be the one thing he could do where it would cause republicans to revolt. lindsey graham, who is an ally with him. earlier he said it would be an impeachable offense. i think that's sort of the redline. he gets away with a lot of stuff that goe

we had dershowitz on air saying exactly the same thing.hether he can be charged for pardoning someone he can be charged with abuse of office, an impeachable offense. irrespective of whether he can be indicted, whether he can obstruct justice, if he does something with a corrupt intent with the intention of interfering with mueller's investigation or shaping witness testimony, that is abuse of office that exactly the shy crime and misdemeanor that alexander hamilton had in mind when writing the federalist papers. >>. >> let's talk about this now. there is now, according to special counsel's office, a direct link between the trump campaign and russian intel officials. so people have been waiting for dots to be connected. here are some being connected. this is a court filing from special counsel's office in the sentencing of alex van der swan, a dutch lauren tangled in all of this. here is the court filing. the lies and withholding of documents were feeler to the special counsel's office's investigation. that gates and person a were directly

alan dershowitz is a liberal. he gave a course titled "the legal founding of israel."icted list. >> tucker: are you convinced after going through this long process and digging into the suit that google's motives are ideological? >> there's no other possibility. we have videos on the same subject as liberal and left-wina videos. they are never censored. ours is. here's an amazing proof that is recent. not something that could have told you the last time i was on your show. i debated a man from left at a synagogue in san francisco. that was put on the internet. they have put that on the restricted list.t a debate in a synagogue known for pornography and violence. needless to say.y apparently they feel that i did better than the man on the left. they put that on the restricted list. it's transparently ideological. >> tucker: are you convinced that they're doing this to a greater extent to sites on the right than the left? >> there's no question about it. our lawsuit provides chapter and verse on precisely that. there's no question about that.c >> tucker: this is frighteni

stated by harvard sor alan dershowitz. with the pres lawy mueller should be wed to finish his job. think it was an exce appointment. i thi ll go wher facts lead him." senate majority lead ch mcconnel stands eral republicans wh calling on e president to stop icism er and the stigation.. though -- part >> i agree with the president's lawyers that, um, bob mueller should be allowed to finish the job. i think it was an excellent appointment. i think he will lead -- he will go wherever the facts lead him. >> senate majority leader mitch mcconnell stands with several republicans who are calling on the president to stop his criticism of mueller and the investigation. party leaders have not issued protections that would prevent the president removing muller from overseeing the probe. democrats say legislation is necessary. >>> federal investigations dropping stock prices, and the new drop facebook hashtag. coming up, the latest in the fallout in the data scandal. >> plus, why the state of arizona says it has no plans to rein in se

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