the president meanwhile did chalk it up to dianne feinstein's primary challenge in california. i'm not sure if that's the reason why. again, you would have to ask her. clearly the president's trying to assign some motive to this move that she made. >> jon: it's also unusual especially on something like the judiciary committee for senators to sort of run around behind one another's backs and release information like this. isn't it? >> of course. but these are strange times. i mean, i thought every time i think something is a strange, i'm -- it's topped the next day by something else that happens. it's also not normal for the president to use twitter like he does. i mean, there are tons of things that are not normal. you are absolutely right releasing this transcript is not standard fare in washington. not something that's usually done. >> jon: we have the president's lawyer suing buzz feed and fusion gps over the release of the dossier that came out a year ago. buzz feed is, you know, after all, a website, you know, kind of a purveyor of journalism. does this lawsuit stand a cha

thanks, my frighten. >> what dianne feinstein did today was the single most important act by a united states senator since donald trump took the oath of office. nothing less than that. senator feinstein reached the breaking point with her republican colleagues on the senate judiciary committee. it was her howard beal moment, that moment in patty shievski's moment when he shouts i'm mad as hell and i'm not going to take this anymore and the entire country starts shouting with him there is nothing more rare than the howard beal moment. they happen once in a generation, if that. the last one, as i said to rachel, the last one that comes to mind for me is from 1984 when daniel patrick moynihan announced his resignation from the vice-chairmanship from the intelligence committee because the cia director had violated his obligation to fully and openly brief the committee, privately brief the committee on the mining of the harbors in nicaragua before going ahead and mining those harbors. the republican chairman of the senate intelligence committee then, barry goldwater, was as outraged as his

let me, you know, in his conversation with dianne feinstein. so i think the outcome is still, you know, people are really puzzled as to where this ended, but as far as the conversation itself, it shows the side of the president that's very affable, that's a people-pleaser, that gets along with everybody. when he won this election, many democrats were saying amongst themselves, well, he's actually not a true republican. many republicans were saying the same thing and were worried about that. so many puzzled people today, but i think we also saw a fascinating display of this president really on a charm offensive. >> yeah, and if the president, dana, wanted to counter what's in this new book, this bombshell new book, he was effective in this meeting showing he was in charge. >> there is no question that's one of the major goals the president had going into this meeting and having the cameras there. i was told by two republicans who were in the room that before the cameras came in, the president said we'll just have the cameras come in, i'll make a

. >> senator dianne feinstein has been at the center of trumps policies. is this the or she faces a serious challenger? >> we have a lot of work to do and it will be in marquis matchup.>> i will run for mayor . i am excited. >> we gauge the intensity of the fight ahead for mayor. the full review. >>> welcome to this special, the state of california. i'm heather holmes. >> i am ken wayne. with the presence of the union  address, politics are the for from. >> for the next hour we will breakdown the statewide and local races that matter to you starting with the race to see who will fill governor jerry brown's she is. >> brown has turned out of office of the race is wide open and this is a crowded field all vying to become the two top contenders to be named in the june primary. >> cristina rendon sat down with the kids to learn their stances on the issues. >> reporter: we are starting to see a little mudslinging. each candidate claims they are about getting things done while the others are about rhetoric. those candidates are busy courting voters. in last wee

that was a slap at dianne feinstein and democrats. and what he recommended christopher steele for prosecution for was saying something different to the fbi. he was is lying to one of us. either you or us. you should prosecute him. this is my interpretation this is her saying okay, you acted this way. so now i'm going to act this way. >> sandra: that's not very professional. >> this is what happens when you take a highly sensitive political matter such as this and put it in the hands of politicians. even good patriotic seasoned ones like chuck grassley and dianne feinstein have a hard time keeping their sabers sheathed. >> white house is defending dianne feinstein, watch. >> what they have tried to do is to create this sense that there is some collusion between the russians and christopher steele. when you look at glenn simpson' testimony, it's clear that that could not be farther from the truth. and rather than just argue the point, i think senator feinstein did the smart thing which is just throw the whole transcript out there and le

watch this exchange between the president and dianne feinstein, democrat dianne feinstein yesterday.et's try to figure out what's going on on the other side. >> what about a clean daca bill now? with a commitment that we go into a comprehensive immigration reform procedure like we did back i remember when kennedy was here, it was really a major, major effort and it was a great disappointment that it went nowhere. >> i have no problem. i think that's basically what dick is saying. we are going to come out with daca. we will do daca. then we can start immediately on the phase two which would be comprehensive. >> would you be agreeable to that? >> yeah. >> so the president right there is saying yes, let's do it clean, do daca first, then do phase two, talk about immigration reform, and border security, in a second push. mccarthy, congressman mccarthy, the republican, came out immediately after that, almost hold on, hold on, i don't think you know what you're saying. then later, the president tweeted and reiterated that a border wall must be part of any daca agreement. after that, then,

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dianne feinstein, here we go, look out sloppy steve.tein who said kol ution has not been found would release testimony in such an underhanded without authorization is a disgrace. must have tough primary. that from the white house. ultimately, brad, here is what the american people need to know. what are you using in order to unmask the names of americans? is that information legitimate or not? and if it's the former, we've got a world of trouble in america and we need to figure this out. otherwise people like senator rand paul will filibuster over the next week and a half the reauthorization of the fisa law. we need to know what our government is doing with this information. >> if anything comes out of this investigation you hit the nail on the head. we'll find out there was no collusion, no conspiracy, no criminal liability but what we may find out is the f.b.i. relied to the detriment of americans on information that was incapable of belief or corroboration and used that information to spy on americans. that's unlawful. that's what wi

i mean, for senator dianne feinstein to do this under the guise of transparency.want the facts to get out. so much of the report is redacted. it's just absolutely nonsense. but, look, the media continues to be distracted by tabloid trash books and this type of unsubstantiated dossier that even senator feinstein said that there was no collusion with russia and this president. but, moving forward in this, we realize that the media will be distracted. but this president won't be distracted. in fact, in the face of all of these things, he has record setting accomplishments in record setting time. now, as you just pointed out we are moving forward trying to protect the american people, do something about immigration but also focus on infrastructure, which was the subject of the cabinet meeting just now behind my shoulders here. this president is not going to be deterred by simple petty politics by senator dianne feinstein. >> harris: from what i'm reading and we will talk with representative jim jordan more. we want to find out how this actually impairs or affects the

sneaky dianne feinstein. using a term like that, sneaky, on someone who had put out to the public what's been going on in terms of this probe, this russian probe, it just seemed to me -- what do you think? it's the kind of language we've been getting from trump and i think it's bringing us all down. your thoughts? >> i think the worst thing this president does is basically tweet out his emotions and what he's thinking and using the kind of terms that he used against senator feinstein. it really demeans the office of the presidency and, frankly, it demeans him. i just don't see how you can conduct a presidency when one day you're sitting down with members of congress trying to see if you can work out a resolution of some serious issues on capitol hill and then the next day start tweeting names against senators who are participating in that meeting and also beginning to denounce the very things that you tried to work out. i mean, it's that kind of roller coaster ride that i think makes most americans very uncom

dianne feinstein weighing in.hat was left off the transcript from the white house, but fortunately thanks to the free press that was on tape and the white house is going to be issuing a correction. we're going to take them at their word that it was just an oversight. okie doke. now back to my panel to discuss all of it, josh earnest and peter winter. also joining the conversation, heidi przybyla. many republicans, many moderates were pleased with yesterday's meeting. thegsd this is a great turning point but then president trump just tweeted out, it shows everyone how broken and unfair our court system is when the opposing side in a case such as daca always runs to the ninth circuit and almost always wins before being reversed by the higher courts. should this give people who were happy yesterday pause that, well, this is a reality show administration and every day you get a different president? >> i'm reminded of that cliche, fool me once, shame on you. fool me twice, shame on me. fool me for the 3,500th time, i'm

the fact that sneaky dianne feinstein who has on numerous occasions stated that collusion between trump and russia has not been found would release

and he just sort of threw dianne feinstein under the bus. >> don't tweet. you have a lot of momentum from yesterday. it's actually substantive issues that are dealing with immigration, that are dealing ultimately with spending programs, the democrats have held back agreement on because they're waiting to use daca as leverage. you have all of that momentum, positive stuff, keep the story on productive things that washington can do, in governing the united states. >> shepard: john roberts tried to get to the bottom of are you going to cooperate. john, it was forthright, honest, straight forward question. >> it was. and i specifically asked it like that, shep, i know that the president's legal team has been going back and forth with the special counsel's office about the potential for a request for an interview of the president and what they believe will be the closing weeks of this investigation. they have been talking about setting strict parameters for what might be discussed if the president were to sit down for some sort of deposition or some sort of inqu

there's a point in there where he says -- he seems to agree with dianne feinstein. let's just fund daca without the security and wall. and i think it's kevin mccarthy steps in and said, well, mr. president. so what's really difficult here is i think the most revealing thing he said was at the end where he said my views are going to be the views of the people in this room. for all the focus on the wall, that was a political thing that he happened into that, yes, oh, people like the wall, okay, we will say more about it. he lacks any cohesive set of views on this and frankly most things. he is very flexible. i would not take that to the ba bank. >> hold on. i want to talk about style over substance if you will indulge me. forget if the wall comes out or if it's 700 miles or whatever. that moment is why people voted for president trump. they wanted him to shake up the establishment and do something refreshing. he did it. we're all used to nothing happening in the meetings. that's what we were predicting. it looks like the spur of the moment. because the lawmakers didn'

democrat dianne feinstein should never have released secret committee testimony to the public without authorization. very disrespectful to committee members and possibly illegal. she blamed her poor decision on

. >> senator dianne feinstein made a unilateral decision to release the transcript from closed-door interviews with fusion gps cofounder glenn simpson. rob: michael cohen has filed two lawsuits over defamation. ♪ ♪ ♪ i don't know why you don't take me downtown ♪ anywhere better to be ♪ give me the cold ground ♪ counting on your cancellation ♪ on my door ♪ heather: one minute after the top of the hour, you are watching "fox and friends" first wednesday morning, your first live show of the day was welcome to a brand-new day and a fox news alert breaking overnight. a pipeline for dreamers, blocking donald trump's plan to roll back the obama program comes hours after the president gave two cameras access to immigration. >> it should be a bill of love and we can do it. heather: what is going to happen today? that was unprecedented to watch yesterday. >> reporter: an hour-long -- first breaking news that a federal judge blocking the administration's decision to end the daca program in march, this ruling allows daca to remain in place and donald trump leading that meeting of lawmakers, the white hous

and eight days later, dianne feinstein resigned. so there was not the kind of overlap that we're seeing right now. again, the language that was just read is that the board shall appoint. there's not really a question about whether -- what it is that the charter provides. it does say that the board shall appoint it. i'm looking for the citation right here. it's 13.101.5b of the charter. says that the board will hold this vote. so the board right now is just doing what the charter says it's going to do. will we hold a vote? and so let me say that if london breed were -- if this vote didn't happen and london breed were just to continue, it would be an unprecedented power grab. we must hold this vote. then the second question is, who will that person be? we must at least hold the vote. thank you very much. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please? >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm lisa zonner, member of district 5. i would like to just tell you that right now at this point in our city, we need some consistency and g

but he's now calling her sneaky dianne feinstein. an amazing video showing the streets on my trucks colliding. creating the fire and the massive chemical spill. we will be right back. ♪ cheryl: welcome back. president trump slamming dianne feinstein code releasing the fusion gps testimony. the fact that sneaky dianne feinstein who has on numerous occasions stated that collision between trump russia has not been found would release testimony in such an understand of them possibly illegal way totally without authorization is a disgrace must have tough primary. working the fusion gps with large sections of the transcript so much for transparency. she blamed it on a cold. receive an exemption from the third-largest up short in history. other states are asking why madness. appealing to be left out as well creating the plan. all lanes of i. 65 in indiana have been reopened after a crash involving three semi trailers filled with hazardous chemicals and prompted evacuations. alabama state police say one of the trailers housing one of the tra

the president the fact that sneaky dianne feinstein, sneaky dianne feinstein, here we go.instein. >> trying to lull me, i know. >> shannon: no, 2-0. >> tucker: she is trying to lull you. i agree with that question three, ladies and gentlemen, and we got some more dianne feinstein for you. >> shannon: okay. >> tucker: she gave unusual reason for releasing that transcript of private testimony on the dossier without consulting any of the chairs clue committee chairman. what was her excuse. >> this is where shannon asks for. >> tucker: she did it but she said did i it cause lili i was off that day. >> tucker: medical issue, that's our first hint. it's something you can catch on the subway. >> shannon: narcolepsy? lili i will guess based on the hints a cold? >> tucker: a cold? lili cold, flu. we will see if the tape ratifies it. >> i don't make an excuse but i have had a bad cold and maybe that slowed down my mental facilities a little bit. shafn shan there you go lili that class of deductive reasoning. >> tucker: answer was not narcolepsy. >> shannon: you can catch it on the s

and grassley himself, the republican chair of the house, does that say that dianne feinstein did something sneaky? >> no doubt feinstein's move, however justified she thought it was, puts sort of -- ends bipartisan cooperation in another russia investigation. so that really is the only thing remaining. mark warmer, the ranking democrat, have a relationship of trust and they are going forward on a bipartisan basis. that's the one we're looking at for bipartisan cooperation, hallie. >> what does this mean for the special council, if anything, for the special counsel investigation? >> i think the special counsel has moved far beyond the cursory information in the dossier. he has many more details than crust fer. >> i appreciate both of your perspectives. thank you. >>> coming up after the break, we want to talk about what is happening out west. mudslides, bad flooding, at least 15 people dead in california. just a few weeks after wildfires absolutely devastated the area. so we're going to look at what rescuers are doing to find survivors with thousands of people out of their homes. you owned

the president just went after dianne feinstein on twitter saying, "the fact that sneaky dianne feinstein who has on a number of occasions stated that collusion between trump and russia has not been found would release testimony in such an underhanded and possibly illegal way totally without authorization is a disgrace. must have a tough primary." now, the earlier trump tweet that you read was that trump mentioned that republicans need to regain control of the investigation. the man who's in charge of the senate judiciary committee investigation, chuck grassley, just emerged from this hearing and i asked him, should he regain control of the investigation, as the president said. this is what grassly said. senator, the president said that republicans should take control of the investigation in light of the release of this transcript. are you losing control of this investigation and should you re-gain control? >> i don't know what the president has in mind and i don't think i better comment until i have a discussion with the president on that point. and i don't intend to have a discussion wi

i go back to the formation of how the city came together and supported senator dianne feinstein to be the mayor. there was no hesitation. what happened, when you have a tragedy, you come together. you don't separate. you don't forget about why we are leftist, why we are rightist, why we are indifferent. you come together and you try to make this city the city that you all need to make. positive. now, let's not change the rules. you don't get to change the rules in the middle of a football game. the warriors don't get to change the rules in the middle of the basketball game. and this board should not change the rules in the middle of a proceeding that is so important to our city. you cannot do it. you need to think bit. now i'm proud today -- i'm proud today because in 1978 this board looked a lot different. but let me remind you all of how proud you should all be, because the majority of you who stand here before this city and represent this city are women. this is the greatest city in america. it has shown that. be great, continue to be great. all of you. come together and -- >> than

but that is what dianne feinstein has said about this. doug heye, i want to get you on something very important right now, in an article in which you are quoted, my friend. jeff zeleny and a cast of all-stars from cnn reporting on what could be an exodus of people from inside the white house. people leaving. the chief of staff john kelly has told people, you need to tell us by the end of the month if you're going to stay through the midterms, because we need to plan for it. th they're worried that some of the departures could include don mcgahn, the white house counsel. the national security adviser, mick master. why is it so hard for this white house to hold on to talent? >> i think everything we've seen over the past year plus demonstrates why it's hard. this is a difficult job, regardless, but given the ma maelstrom of everything we've seen, these are problems for the administration. it's why people haven't just already left. and there have been a lot of staffers that have already left and even staffers who have left capitol hill and a

what dianne feinstein was talking about and what donald trump was talking about were two different things. lou: feinstein trying to roll the president saying let's do a clean daca bill. ed: sign here and we'll fiction the rest of it later. i think the key thing here is we need as we talked many times, a comprehensive immigration bill. daca is part of it. security is part of it and immigration is part of it. lou: every time i hear the word "comprehensive i think of ted kennedy and john mccain. ed: you can't do it piecemeal. lou: two points. build the damn wall. secure the damn border. >> that's one piece. lou: you decide how many people you want in. ed: that's a comprehensive bill. that's what i'm talking about. michael: i think the thing not on the table is the 11 million here illegally other than the so-called dreamers. >> how many dreamers are here? >> a million roughly. if you talk about the 11 million who are here, adults. then you open the gates to something you cannot possibly resolve. the dreamers you have to do the chain migration issue. 2/3 of all immigration into this country si

and that was where the president basically said to dianne feinstein.e, we'll do what the democrats want. and kevin mckaertcarthy had to in and bring trump back to his position. no, we're not doing a clean bdaa bill. the fact you can censor a transcript is a keystone cops episode from this west wing. but if you step back from this, you don't seed a lot of analysis, a tick tock and behind the scenes report of what's going on. it is plain as day for everyone to see. the president also said in that meeting that, whatever you guys bring to me, i will sign. whatever deals, the deal you guys come up with. and so, when it comes to policy-making, that's, you know, there were democrats who left that meeting who said this was more substantive than i thought it would be. it's a low bar. they said this on the record publicly. perhaps the president did set a tone for a deal to be made even if the shallowness of that exercise was apparent for everyone to see. but in terms of the president leading on this policy matter, i mean, you just basically heard him say to the

today the top-ranking democrat on judiciary, dianne feinstein, got tired of waiting. >> i think people are entitled to know what was said. and the lawyers also wanted it released. i see no problem with releasing. >> a spokesman for grassley slammed feinstein's move in a written statement claiming that it "undermines the integrity of the committee's oversight work and jeopardizes its ability to secure candid, voluntary testimony related to the independent recollections of future witnesses." but grassley may have had other reasons to object. according to the testimony, christopher steele approached the fbi in the summer of 2016, not as part of some shadowy democratic plot, but because he was deeply troubled by his findings in the dossier. "he said he thought we were obligated to tell someone in government about this information. he thought from his perspective there was an issue, a security issue, about whether a presidential candidate was being blackmailed. when steele finally did get in contact with the fbi, turned out he was not the first person to do so. according to this testimony.

senator dianne feinstein possible itted the idea of a clean daca bill which the president first seemed to embrace -- >> he embraced only if you look at what the president's definition of a clean daca bill is. within that bill he thinks that you have to include not just fixing the daca, but closing the loopholes and making sure we have solution on that front so we don't create a problem and find ourselves right back where we started in one, two, three years later. >> which is clearly different than her perspective on a clean daca bill. she states they should do a

the recent event that caused president trump to call a senator sneaky dianne feinstein. >>> it wasn't as smooth a vote as republicans hoped for. how the president's twitter almost c >>> renewing the controversial fisa agent. it came after the president threw lawmakers a curveball on twitter. they explained he blasted the surveillance act, even though the white house has been actively supporting it. >> reporter: the house approving a renewal of the controversial foreign intelligence surveillance act known as fisa. however, an amendment was shot down by lawmakers. >> on this vote, the bill is passed. >> reporter: republicans believed it would be a fairly smooth vote until the president began tweeting questioning the fisa act, suggesting it may have been used to badly surveil his presidential campaign, the tweet contradicting his party and the white house's official stance on the program. the president tried to clarify the tweet, but it already had caused confusion on capitol hill. >> we weren't confused. but some of you guys were. >> reporter: still democrats used the tweets in an attem

dianne feinstein had just said, look, let's do daca. let's do a bill that protects these 800,000 young people. >> a clean bill. >> and a clean bill. and then let's move o. the president said, yeah, let's do that and then we'll do deal with the security issues. that's when kevin mccarthy, republican leader of the house said, wait a minute, mr. president, we can't do that. we have to do it altogether. >> that is his interest in a deal over the doctrine. >> that gets tricky. it turns into a point of what can you believe about trump? the good explanation is he's not dog mattic. all right. but you have to have principles. he insisted that the wall was real. there was nothing she man particular or metaphorical about it. so yesterday he quit on that. he was open to go the wall meaning different things. remember him attacking jeb bush when jeb bush said, hey, listen, this isn't a criminal act. it is is an act of love. he said, oh, please. bill of love is an extension of act of love. do you remember how the republicans assailed president bush fo

his insistence comes just one day after democratic senator dianne feinstein released testimony aboutmous trump dossier from the company that oversaw it. president trump tweeted earlier today calling this the single greatest witch hunt in american history. and strongly denying any collusion with russia. the president has of course, made similar claims before. listen to this. >> there is no collusion. you know why in because i don't eke 0 russians. what has been shown is no collusion. no collusion. there's been absolutely no collusioning. > there is absolutely no collusion. that has been proven. when you look at the committees, whether it's the senate or the house, everybody, my worst enemies, they walk out, they say there is no collusion. but we'll continue to look. >> want to bring in amber phillips, miller for "the washington post" political blog the fix. you have a new piece comparing the president's words to the testimony we've now read from glenn simpson, co-founder of fusion gps. how does the testimony compare to president trump's claiming this is a witch hunt and that there's n

. >> the president remembers some of the hard line measures and talking to democrat dianne feinstein, it's dreamers first and then what he calls comprehensive immigration reform. curiously absent from today's meeting, not a word about this. >> we are going to build a great border wall! and who's going to pay for the wall? >> mexico! >> who's going to pay for the wall? >> mexico! >> who? >> mexico! >> it's going to be a great wall. mexico is going to pay for the wall. mexico is going to pay for the wall. mexico will pay for the wall. and mexico's going to pay for the wall and they understand that. mexico is going to pay for the wall, believe me, 100%. >> again, nothing at the meeting about mexico paying for the wall. however, on that note, the president did tweet about the wall. jim acosta joins us. any mention of who pays for it in that tweet? >> there's no mention of mexico paying for the wall in that tweet. of course, the president has not said since he's been in office, neither has his administration said anything about how they are going to force mexico to pay for a wall on the bo

chuck grassley and dianne feinstein are in a senate feud.clear she is angry about the christopher steele decision by lindsey graham and chuck grassley and then this released today. bill, we can have a debate about whose side are you on this, the fact of the matter is that they are not working together, it is the investigation that loses. >> yeah, and i think it gets to the thing we discussed before, trump and trumpism and reaction to trumpism is putting a lot of pressure on the institutions of washington. and my general line of the first year of trump has been the institutions have held up pretty well. the rule of law, the justice department, people -- military. it's not being ruined by donald trump as president. but i think here we see the pressure. serious senators institutionalists as ken said. >> grassley and feinstein, we're not talking about ex-house members coming in and messing with the senate. >> yeah, sort of blowing up the process. okay, it's a weird investigation, but it is a precedent. and it is a moment where this congress is n

was disappointed that his scleeg, the top democrat on the senate judiciary committee, senator dianne feinstein released this transcript. you spoke with feinstein. what did she have to say? >> reporter: she's saying sorry to chuck grassley. she's apologetic she did not inform him ahead of time to release the transcript. she defended her decision to release the transcript. saying the reason to do this it had been abused for so long. the testimony over glenn simpson's the public needed to see exactly what he said behind closed doors. jake, she pushed back on the president's tweet. she said she did nothing illegal as the president alleged she may have done earlier today in his morning tweet. she would not respond to the president calling her, quote, sneaky. she said she didn't want to discuss that specifically, but pushed back pretty aggressively on the president's suggestion this was done to help her politically. she said that was absolutely not the case. she release $this for the public interest but said, again, she did not do anything illegal as the president alleged, jake. >> interesting. ther

. >> reporter: donald trump taking a shot at senator dianne feinstein calling her sneaky over the releaseanscript between judiciary committee officials and the author of the dossier. a lot of moving parts, not even kid rock. heather: we will talk about what the president had to say about feinstein. the latest reports sparking outrage among president supporters as you would imagine who say it is true, blatant miscarriage of justice, nationally syndicated radio host larry elder wants to know what about hillary clinton, the blatant double standard and insults to the american people. >> that fake dossier was the basis on which they got the pfizer warrant and able to survey all these aids for donald trump, the american people can see this is a double standard, the path hillary got for having her server in her basement, deleting 33,000 emails after they were under subpoena. and james comey admitted loretta lynch came to him and told him can you call the clinton investigation a matter of not an investigation, what is that? anybody accused the obama administration of obstruction of justice when o

democrat dianne feinstein should never have released secret committee testimony to the public without authorization. very disrespectful to committee members and possibly illegal. she blamed her poor decision on the fact she had a cold. a first. the president, of course, is lying about what dianne feinstein said about her decision and about the kons dense of having a cold and the republican members of the commit tee all of whom know the rules of the senate all of whom know laws that control such issues in the senate, not one of them, not one of them believes that there was anything illegal. not possibly illegal. nothing illegal about it. in any way. the president is issuing a lying tweet about dianne feinstein tonight to try to take the attention off his hateful poison that he's spreading and spreading every day and spread more of today. and one of the principle spreaders of the poison for him was always steve bannon and now we learn tonight that steve bannon has changed his mind about something that appears in the michael wolff book. steve bannon proudly announces in michael wolff's n

why did dianne feinstein release the transcript? >> well, we haven't heard her explain it nicole, but one can only assume that it had a lot to do with that criminal referral against christopher steel on friday that was made yuan nauni ly on friday. accusing christopher steele of potentially misleading the fbi. >> you write most of the stories from which i learn these facts, but donald trump's allies in the media and some of them in congress are engaged in the smear campaign against the fbi, describing it as in tatters. what i deduce from reading the kra transcripts of glen simpson's testimony before the senate judiciary committee, is that christopher steele went to a meeting with an fbi contact in rome, i don't want to characterize it too much, but it had the impression that the fbi was unfazed by what he was telling them so he left with this belief that it hadn't been elevated. in fact the fbi had opened an investigation, they had this walk in whistle blower, which i understand from some reporting might have been george pop develop

i expect dianne feinstein will do very well in california. expect that senator dianne feinstein will do very well in california. but in other states, we have really, very few primaries whereas on the republican side, you have lots of very bitter primaries in a whole range of states. partly caused by the fact that the republicans were unable to so uit their top contenders you have very tough fights among the republican primary contestants. california a bit on there, in recent years, we've seen some cases where the republican campaign committee has had to spend money in primaries to help protect their incumbents. do you anticipate where they need to go into california, expensive state to help out senator feinstein? sen. chris van hollen: we strongly support senator feinstein but we also believe she's really strong position both in terms of her record and fighting for the people of california. and the campaign that she will run. so, i don't anticipate having to invest any funds in the state of california. >> zooming out a bit talking about the m

sneaky dianne feinstein.. >> tucker: wow! this is without precedent.ree with that. question three, ladies and gentlemen, we have some more dianne feinstein for you. gave an unusual reason for releasing that transcript on the trump dossier without consulting any of her peers, including the committee chairman. what was her excuse? >> this is where shannon asks for hints. >> tucker: what was dianne feinstein's excuse? she did it unilaterally. she just did it and she said she did it because... >> i was off that day? >> tucker: it's a medical issue. that's her first hint. it is something you can catch on the subway. >> narcolepsy? >> i'm up by two. >> tucker: from a child. leland vittert? >> i'm guessing based on the hints. b a cold? >> tucker: a cold? >> cold, flu, some type of -- >> tucker: cold is the answer and we will see if the tape ratifies it. >> i don't make an excuse but i had a bad cold and maybe that slowed down my mental facilities a little bit. >> there you go. >> tucker: there you go. >> the lack of deductive reasoning paid off. >> tucker: th

this as california senator dianne feinstein releases a 312 page transcript of fusion gps co -founderlenn simpson's close door testimony with senate judiciary recently, president trump responding tweeting "the fact that sneaky dianne feinstein who has on numerous occasions stated that collusion between trump russia has not been found would release testimony in such an underhanded and possibly illegal way, totally without authorization is a disgrace" let's bring in the former special assistant to president trump, former press secretary vice president michael pence. calling senator feinstein sneaky don't we need a senator on immigration reform? >> well obviously we will but you know let's remember that these kinds of back and forth on twitter don't have a lot of impact when it cops to voting on policies. liz: but the president said they're official statements right? >> it's not about being official statements. it comes to the fact these relationships these members of congress of both parties vote hopefully on the policy and hopefully you're trying to advance the policy and not letting a

so dianne feinstein obviously released this unilaterally. why did she do it and how problematic is it? >> this is the one-year anniversary of the trump dossier it's salacious, unverified, and by dianne feinstein releasing the testimony of glenn simpson. i'm all for more transparent hearings where people tell their story open to everyone. but we have to set those rules on the front end. kennedy: if senator feinstein were the chair of that committee she would have lost her mind if chuck grassley did the same thing and released a bunch of information. she is trying to prove how politicized this is in a politicized move. but the question remains, was the fusion gps dossier opposition research or an intelligence document? >> in this case we have absolute proof it's a political document. the dnc admitted to paying for the fusion gps dossier and we know hillary clinton had a strangle hold on the dnc and she was calling the shots. and it seems to indicate the fbi relied on this document. why was the fbi confirming the existence of an investigation t