doj lawyers injecting themselves into the case of skydiving instructor donds zarda who claimed he was fired after exposing his sexual orientation to a customer. he was killed in a skydiving accident before the trial began. the case is moving forward. >> the justice department's involvement especially unusual because the doj is not a party to the suit. lower courts have been split on this issue for years. the american civil liberties union blasted the doj's position as a gratuitous and extraordinary attack on lgbt people's civil rights. >> that move after president trump announced on twitter his intention to ban transgender people from serving their country in the military. both the decision and the announcement coming without a plan in place to implement the change. it leaves thousands of active duty service members around the world who are transgender in limbo. they've been told by the president they are not supposed to serve, yet there they are in the military. >> what a mess. the president's decision met with bipartisan outrage on capitol hill. sources tell cnn house republican lea

and doj is really different than any of the other federal agencies. the department of justice is obviously part of an administration, but there obviously has to be an independence and a separation from that. and that's been a time honored concept through democratic and republican imageries at least going back to the post nixon world. i think the doj is the only agency that has a written memo that lays out what the rules are for compacts between the white house and the department of justice on specific cases. not necessarily on policy, because the department of justice will be involved in policy decisions in specific cases, and the rules, according to eric holder's memo of 2009, that there are really only two people at the department of justice that the person can contact and that is the attorney general or the deputy attorney general. and there's only three people you're supposed to be contacting at the white house, and that is the president, but this has been a tradition of the department going back administrations. i think it's absolutely essential

it will return us to long standing doj policy. that's all we're doing is return to the policies that existed for over three decades, that i used when i was a united states attorney many years ago. it will also provide additional supplemental protections for law abiding americans. this will make us more effective at bankrupting organized criminals and at safe guarding the properties of law abiding americans. under today's guidance, the federal government will not adopt seized property unless the state or local agency involved provides information demonstrating that the seizure was -- we will accomplish this through a new adoption form that state and local enforcement must fill out before they -- before we, the federal government, ill agree to adopt property, which will provide the kind of information dea and the government would need to proceed with the case. and which will include necessary information that the department of lawyers can review carefully to make sure the case is proper. further law enforcement agencies who wish to

it will return us to long standing doj policy. that's all we're doing is return to the policies that existed for over three decades, that i used when i was a united states attorney many years ago. it will also provide additional supplemental protections for law abiding americans. this will make us more effective at bankrupting organized criminals and at safe guarding the properties of law abiding americans. under today's guidance, the federal government will not adopt seized property unless the state or local agency involved provides information demonstrating that the seizure was -- we will accomplish this through a new adoption form that state and local enforcement must fill out before they -- before we, the federal government, ill agree to adopt property, which will provide the kind of information dea and the government would need to proceed with the case. and which will include necessary information that the department of lawyers can review carefully to make sure the case is proper. further law enforcement agencies who wish to

first of all, the committee will talk to inspectors general, the doj, and folks in charge of

doj, and folks in charge of criminal investigation units, the fbi to figure out this foreign agent's, you know -- this foreign agent's act, whether or not the trump campaign violated that in meeting with or having any interaction with folks from a foreign government. >> all right, molly cooper live in d.c., daniel here for us. we'll speak to you later in the program. thanks for joining us. >>> let's turn to health care. a key group of senate republicans worked late into the night to try to revive their stalled health care bill. just over 20 senators, including both moderates and conservatives, were in attendance at the roughly three-hour-long meeting. the discussion followed a luncheon at the white house where president trump urged members of his own party to get to work. take a listen. >> my message today is really simple. we have to stay here. we shouldn't leave town. we should hammer this out and get it done. the people of this country need more than a repeal. they need a repeal and a replace. we were very, very close, and

doj has mentioned that rod rosenstein was getting advice from doj regarding this recusal.j and said, we don't know what investigations are going on, we don't need to know, we don't want to know, but if there's any chance that there's an investigation going on that he is a member of the class of persons who potentially would be interviewed in connection with that investigation -- >> he must recuse himself? >> i need to defend attorney general sessions here because he did the right things. we told doj if there's any chance that he's part of the class of persons being looked at in this investigation, he must recuse. and doj has an excellent ethics office and they did the right thing and took proactive measures to be sure he wouldn't be 1r068d. this is what we do across thebr. this is how we're the prevention mechanism. so when i resign and when i'm telling the world that we've got a problem with our ethics program, oje is the canary in the coal mine with this departure from ethical norms, and it starts with a little thing like the president not divesting his financial interes

attention why it is happening and we don't give federal funds to cities that are getting money from doj and dos. i would like the senator to meet the family and listen to the president about the point. >> lou: congratulations on moving both of those bims in the house -- bills in the house. and the travel ban going into affect in less than an hour. and a terrific win for president trump and the country. >> it is. thank you. >> lou: we'll be right back. a lot more to cover tonight. stay with us. the house approves two bills to help make america safe again after the president applies pressure. >>in am calling on all of us to put safety of the american families first. >> lou: we'll discuss the crack counsel with ed rolins. and a bill victory for president trump's travel ban that takes africa this evening. stay with us. the white house warns syria it will pay a heavy price if they carry out a chemical attack on his own people. >> my hope is that the president's warning will get syria and russia to take a second look. >> lou: we'll discuss repercussions with general jack keane. michael flynn,

based privacy group that has done a whole endorsement of the doj proposal as it is written. i think for a couple of major reasons. the first is, when richard said this and jen said this, this isn't about u.s. persons, this is about targeting people overseas. i think that is a bit of a fig leaf. if i am an individual in the u.s., we communicate overseas. obviously the standard that can apply interpreting that overseas person affects the collection of my data, my conversation with somebody overseas. idea that simply because a target cannot be someone in the u.s., u.s. privacy interests are implicated is simply false. let's have a concrete example. governmenthe u.k. wanted to collect a conversation and their investigating that person for a crime they -- they would have to comply with the process that would require them to generally comply with a warrant. my data, my conversation is protected under u.s. constitutional standards. drop and theard is requirements are lessened and weekend, that affects the privacy. we are creating a system where incidentally, you can collect the inf

of the doj for these sanctuary cities. i grew up in a law enforcement family and i have always looked at law enforcement as cooperating at every level, from city police to county to state to the fbi and federal government all the way to the doj. we can't have the rule of law in america unless we do cooperate at all levels. all of them work together to enforce all laws. that's necessary and the immigration laws that are needed today. we've got to restore the rule of law in this country if we're going to remain a first world country, harris. >> harris: one of the ways critics have gotten around this is to make this about a money issue. but the way you're laying it out and the attorney general is that this is also about most importantly safety issue. you brought up hole in the wall gangs. he brought up gangs in a different way. let's watch together. >> since they refused to cooperate with the federal immigration authorities regarding illegal aliens who commit crimes even ms13 gang members. these jurisdictions are protecting c

march inomen's washington outside of the doj. of thelly and protest national rifle association after the organization released a controversial recruitment video. they marched from nra headquarters in fairfax yesterday to the doj today. new developments involving russia. president trump's personal attorney will appear on all five sunday morning talk shows. he will defend the president amid fallout over the june 2016 meeting with his son, son-in-law come and campaign manager with a russian lawyer and a russian intelligence officer. president and donald trump junior deny any collusion of wrongdoing. congressional budget office will issue projections on the impact of senate republicans revised health care bill. in a "washington post" op-ed, a white house adviser called the report fake news. with several undecided. the fate of the bill is uncertain. robotics team from afghanistan getting ready for a big competition in d.c. they landed at dulles international airport overnight and were greeted by afghanistan's ambassador to the u.s. th

as far as sanctuary cities, i don't know how they feel about recent actions taken by doj. but i'll say once again, sanctuary cities are criminals biggest friend. if you're an alien smuggler and you're smuggling people in this country for a living, that is one sales pitch we can get you sanctuary city where that city will help shield you from immigration. so, you know, i've said it, every time i speak i say sanctuary cities need to help us keep the community safe. sanctuary cities not only danger public safety, they endanger my law enforcement officers because when we can't get violent criminal out of jail, rather than arresting a violent criminal in the safety, security and privacy of a county jail, we got to go knock on a door, we have to arrest in the community, the community is put at risk, officers are put at risk, and the alien himself is put at risk. we have to start thinking about public safety and the men and women of i.c.e., the men and women of border control who we've lost many in the last few years at the hands of violent criminal aliens. we got to join forces

and doj who are unquestionably producing results every day in these fights against vicious cartels, senate republicans now have an opportunity this evening to deliver on one of our biggest promises to the american people. on the hill the senate is gearing up for a series of votes on the republican plans to finally repeal and replace obamacare and replace it with the freedom health care bill. congressional republicans have been telling the american people that given the chance they would save them from this increasing damage of this disastrous law. after seven years of skyrocketing premiums and dwindling health care options, now is their chance to act. the president looks forward to seeing the senate fulfill that promise later tonight when they finally repeal obamacare and end the nightmares it has caused for american families and businesses. i hate to start the q and a off on a low note, but i wanted to get ahead of some of the personnel-related questions and just let you guys know ahead of time that, no, i cannot confirm whether or not sean spicer will be on "dancing with the stars" upon

are you somebody who has been in the doj.hat is your sense of what is happening over in that building dpimpb what we saw this morning from the president? >> well, i think they see the matter pretty much the way the president does, by that i mean the president's problem is not with jeff sessions as jeff session's lawyer, personal friend or attorney general for that matter, it is with jeff sessions as someone who cannot talk to mr. mueller, the special prosecutor t. president is looking for a way to contain the special prosecutor. he's not upset with sessions and all this talk about not going after hillary is a trial balloon to check with his base to see how upset if he did, in fact, fire sessions, his objective is not that. >> you think the ends game is essentially trying to get eight at bob muler? >> oh, absolute lit. he has 100 problems that are huge, but none ensurmountable except one, that is the special prosecutor. now he has no one who can say to the special prosecutor, at least not at the attorney general level, look, y

it's handled by doj's national security divisions fara unit. a regular part of the fara unit's work is attempts to identify people who may be subject to fara but not registered. if credible information suggests that the individual should register under, the fara unit will send an individual of the letter advising them of the registration. if the individual does not respond or the response seems incomplete, we will follow up. in some cases we may decide a criminal investigation is appropriate and involve the fbi. often the recipients of those letters of inquiry will register. fara unit staff carefully review registration filings for deficiencies, seek amendments and conduct inspections to ensure continued compliance. fara unit staff also provided a visesory opinions regarding the application and requirements of the act and other tasks that i've describe misdemeanord in more detail. i will now respond to the 2016 report of the inspector general. the report made 14 recommendations, nsd agreed with all of them, has implemented most of them and is w

he harangues his own doj. his own attorney general. from a management perspective, he could have this conversation with jeff sessions. he chooses to have it with "the new york times." who wants to work for somebody who's going to publicly humiliate them on a daily basis? now we're reaching 10, 11, 12 people who worked for him, who h he has publicly humiliated. and i say this is -- i mean, the most dysfunctional white house i have ever seen. and i think more and more republicans, independents and democrats see that it's also unable to deliver results for the people. >> i want to thank you for your time. and insights. as for the dysfunction of the white house, we'll get another view from within the white house from the assistant to the president. and the report that we've been promising on president trump's tax returns. how special counsel robert mueller could legally get his hands on them, and potentially soon. this is crabfest at red lobster. and right now, we're serving up more delicious crab than ever. classic favorites like crab lov

he clearly frustrated that the doj and fbi is not defending the defendant. he would not have hired sessions if he known sessions would have recused himself. and lashing out at deputy attorney general rod rose epstein. and the president left open of firing special counsel robert mueller who is running an office rife with contrast of intchlt and warning mueller against expanding the russian collusions investigation if he were to include his family's finances. mueller may have already crossed that line. john roberts has our report. >> reporter: the president has no intention of firing jeff sessions, but he beat the stuffing out of him in public. at highlighting american manufacturing, the president ignored the questions of believing in the attorney general. and the daily off camera briefing sarah huckabee considered for her boss. the attorney is disappointed with attorney general sessions recusing himself. but he has confidence in him or he would not be attorney general. >> he said in the interview had he known sessions would have bowed out of the russian inves

day to day enforcement is handled by a doj national security division. a regular part of the work in that involves attempting to identify persons who may be subject but have not registered. on publicly available information and referrals for information provided by the government offices. if credible information success --suggests they should register, them of thevise possible registration obligation and request a response. if the individual does not respond or the response seems incomplete or untruthful, we will follow-up. in some cases we may decide that a criminal investigation is appropriate and involve the fbi. often recipients of those letters of inquiry will register. filingsefully review for deficiencies, seek amendments, and conduct inspections to ensure continued complaints. advisory and other tasks that i have described in my written testimony. how they haveress responded to the september 2016 sport of the in -- report of the inspector general. , has implement it, and is working to implement the few that remain. as a result in february 2017 th

one used to work at doj. another is one of the best defense attorneys in the country. as you said, don jr. and the rest of the trump family keep glorying up with mom lawyers are totally inappropriate. and are not doing what kushner's lawyers seem to be doing, which is getting ahead of the issues. it will be interesting to see how the tensions in the white house play out as kushner fall lows a cop legal strategy and trump and his father just stick to twitter. amy: a lot of questions being asked if christer is a person of interest and being investigated in all these to for ways, how he maintains the top security clearance a person can have at the white house. >> well, unfortunately, clearance in this country ultimately comes from the power of the president. been heldent has not to account for a number of things, including all of its financial conflicts. i think the clearance form is another side of this. i think we will see more pressure from the intelligence what kushnerut gets included in and what he doesn't get included in. he is central to this purported peace plan i

>> well, i think you would see great concern at doj. you would see an obvious -- you know, it would send a chill through the department when you have a president who -- it's the reason why he is firing him. the fact he wanted sessions to ignore the rules. look, the only reason he can care about this recusal is because he obviously wanted sessions to inappropriately influence, maybe even quash the russia investigation. i think you would see a great chill. then the bigger question is, what would happen afterwards. what would the next a.g. nominee look like and would that person try to fire bob mueller. that's when it would get they damaging potentially. >> stay with us. when we come back it's subpoena time for paul manafort. the senate judiciary committee issuing its first subpoena for the president's former campaign chairman. >>> also, the first message debacle. letting it rip on his former opponent and his glorious electoral victory in front of tens of thousands of boy scouts. >>> caught on a hot mike. two respected u.s. senators and a

. >> how come -- how come the doj doesn't act on it? >> how do we know they're not? >> how do we know they are? we don't know is the answer. i get what you're answer but at the end of the day. you still wind up where you are and what we just learned about we learned about a couple of different ways. one is from donald trump jr. himself and the other is from what you would call leaks i wouldn't. >> what would you call them? what would you call a conversation -- chris that the president of the united states that he gave to a third party to the "the new york times"? why is that not a leak? >> i don't think it's material. if that's something that's separately investigative that's fine. but as a journalist i look at the sum and substance of the actual information. >> but this was an fbi director having a conversation with the president of the united states. >> i understand. it's immaterial to our current conversation. >> no, it's not. you know this and i know this. conversation between the fbi director and the president of the united states are protected by what, the exec

it came out the same day as the doj. is that coincidence? >> we'll talk more about that throughout the program. >>> another setback for senate republicans on health care despite all the distractions around them. they've got problems in the main on the issue. they'll be debating the merits of something called a skinny repeal. any chance of it passing? why, why not? we discuss next. is to always keep track of your employees.r micromanage them. make sure they're producing. woo! employee of the month! you really shouldn't leave their side. vita coco coconut water, hydration comes naturally. why? we can't stay here! terrible toilet paper! i'll never get clean! way ahead of you. charmin ultra strong. it cleans better. it's four times stronger and... ...you can use less. enjoy the go with charmin. going somewhere? whoooo. here's some advice. tripadvisor now searches more than 200 booking sites to find the hotel you want and save you up to 30%. trust this bird's words. tripadvisor. our 18 year old wase army in an accident.'98. when i call usaa it wa

it doesn't impede the doj. jeff sessions is getting a heck of a lot done at doj.ent types would probably prefer it's a very close, cozy relationship between sessions and trump because then they could make all sorts of inferences about it. bit of tension between the ag and the president is not necessarily the worst thing in the word. >> how often do you think they talk? >> truly it's so poisonous between them. it's really deteriorated to the point of like trump -- whenever he thinks of sessions, top line association is that's the weak guy who threw me under the bus and caused all these problems for me. >> the association is no longer that's the first senator who came out and backed me when nobody else would. >> correct. >> jonathan swan for a little bit of an impromptu discussion. thank you very much. >>> another big headline, one of many we're following today. o.j. simpson. today is the day he's making his case to the parole board on why he should be a free man. we're headed live to the prison where simpson has been the last nine years. details on what we expect t

he clearly frustrated that the doj and fbi is not defending the defendant. he would not have hired sessions if he known sessions would have recused himself. and lashing out at deputy attorney general rod rose epstein. and the president left open of firing special counsel robert mueller who is running an office rife with contrast of intchlt and warning mueller against expanding the russian collusions investigation if he were to include his family's finances. mueller may have already crossed that line. john roberts has our report. >> reporter: the president has no intention of firing jeff sessions, but he beat the stuffing out of him in public. at highlighting american manufacturing, the president ignored the questions of believing in the attorney general. and the daily off camera briefing sarah huckabee considered for her boss. the attorney is disappointed with attorney general sessions recusing himself. but he has confidence in him or he would not be attorney general. >> he said in the interview had he known sessions would have bowed out of the russian inves