so that plot was supposed to be fortified by a sham probe by the doj, and that's the doj interference and you remember a conservative loyalist bill barr left as he got wind of what was going on and that's part of the plot and the failed plot to get the doj to interfere at the state level with the line criminal effort to launder those state election laws. we know this chain of events now. the ruling, basically revisits them as a kind of map that could convict trump, and i want to tell you, this section of the ruling which i show you the highlighters and here show you the arrows got much less attention last night because the ruling is long and the big headline that the trial itself is back on, but this is important because the judges are actually following these plots all of the way to the end showing how they were supposed to do something quite specific, build enough support, pressure and a wider context to get mike pence to act to overturn the vote on the 6th and when that failed the violence came. trump sat by and watched if it would work and he's continued to hammer pence and he's n

that is totally independent doj. do i trust doj to vigorouslyt pursue this case against mrs. bush?on't. but there is smoke at least.t $120,000 of payments to what wa a bodyguard. now her head of security/husband who apparently had a history as a moving company person and i think one other job, but nothing to do with security until realb late in the game 2021-2022. it is at least bad judgment and it may not be criminal or something that helps axon butav when you have that kind ofra nepotism, it is pretty embarrassing for her. >> trey: she is presumed innocent as it relates to the criminal process , politics is a different story. but that is why i like having you on, jim, we focus on theth law. tha thank you for joining us ona sunday night and i look forward to our next visit. >> sounds good, great to see yhr you, trey. henry mcmaster joins us tos th discuss the upcoming republican presidential primary. plus, it is called artificialt intelligence, but is iret really intelligence if it is fake? frederick, a tech policy expert at the heritage and joins us right after the break. ♪ ♪ >>

in her statement she said the doj did not comment.t is unclear whether or not their scope is larger than the ethics entities in congress are pursuing. the department of justice is currently investigating her but it is unclear if the doj is looking at something broader than paying her husband above market value for security services. host: axios is reporting house democrats are organizing a task force to look at security. guest: tom marelli the top ranking member that oversees the capitol police when issues arise that are of concern to members they get together and get briefed. marelli, a couple of representatives from the capitol police and talk about best practices and how to stay safe one example was the israel hamas war broke out in the data briefing on keeping the member safe. as current events happen, they will get together and hear from the house sergeant at arms and security experts on those fronts. host: chris marquette, you could find our next president of the united states nikki haley. [applause] ♪

and they are saying it's gratuitous, they are saying this is inappropriate, this is inconsistent with doj policy and practice, it's them saying. we agree, you know, you heard the president speak about this last night, and the vice president speak forcefully about this today, we agree it's gratuitous but we are in a pressurized political environment and when you are the first special counsel in history not to indict anybody, there is pressure to criticize and to make, you know, statements that maybe otherwise you wouldn't make and i think it leaves you wondering why some critiques are in there, but important to fundamentally distinguish between the prior case you mentioned, i want to be careful in terms of commenting on that, but the special counsel report goes into great detail about the distinctions there, and the criticisms you are hearing of the gratuitous comments in the report, which are wrong, frankly. >> on the many issues related to memory, prompt an angry response from the president and from his advocates. is there anything being done to address that issue in an ongoing way? obvi

tonight, one of them is here to speak out against biden's doj. first, trump, trump, trump and that is the focus of "the angle." major polling is pepsi and the consul poll showing trumpes leading biden and seven key h swing states. four states that trump lost ini2 2020. he is now winninwig in 2024. wisconsin where billionaires spending huge for joe, f trump s up by five pure pennsylvania, look out, he is up by a three. nevada come a state run bydi democrats, four democrats, trump trouncing biden by 18 points. ditto george appearemichd trumps north carolina by ten points and michigan by five.we arizona, he is up by three. well , turns out overwhelming theange country with billions of demanding, ungrateful, dangerou? migrants isn't a good campaignwe strategy after all. who would've thought that? democrats used to cry how toants help the poor migrants hiding in the shadows and will bring themh out ofem the shadows and give t. jobs?d they ain't hiding anymore. they are brutally attackingl ha new york cops who are doing their job. we will have monitors

and then the doj responded. this is what it said. lawrence, do you want to read it? >> lawrence: this is what it said. identified language neither i can't do you tus or unduly prejudicial. it's not offered to criticize or demean the president. the special counsel regulation specifically requires the special counsel to prepare a report for the attorney general. that explains the special counsel prosecution. and the declination decision. the identified language in the report does just that. so, this is such a good point right here. the biden administration's point of view is that the reasoning for the special counsel, talking about the president not being fit to go to trial what's the problem here? he is saying, look, it requires me to present some type of report to tell you why didn't do it. the only reason why i decided not to bring this to the jury and a judge is because he wouldn't be fit to stand trial, brian. >> brian: i read -- you would be proud of me, lawrence. i know you love reading. it took me two and

and unfortunately i think you've been willing to stand up to the senior because doj being treated.i want to talk in particular about the investigation into multiple allegations of corruption involving hunter biden and joe biden. because the department of justice has i think from the outset tried at every step to stop investigation into corruption from joe biden. as you're aware a whatsapp text message was send to henry zall a senior communist which names as follows. i'm sitting here with my father and i want to know why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. tell the director now now means tonight. if i get a call or text from anyone involved the from anyone other than you, zhang, or the chairman, i will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction. i am sitting here waiting for the call with my father. this is a text that is direct evidence that is stating that it is his father that is going to retaliate. now, an irs whistle blower testified before the boa

and, tonight, one of them is here to speak out against biden's doj. but, first, trump, trump, trump. that's the focus of tonight's angle. >> laura: oh, some major depolling for liberals today. bloomberg morning consult poll showing that trump is leading biden handily in seven key swing states. and in four states that trump lost in 2020 he is now winning in 2024. wisconsin, where billionaires are spending huge for joe, trump is up by five. pennsylvania look out, he is up by 3. nevada, a state run by democrats, for democrats, trump trouncing biden by 8 points. ditto in georgia. trump's got north carolina by 10 points. and michigan by 5. in arizona, he is up by 3. well, turns out that overwhelming the country with millions of demanding, ungrateful and dangerous migrants isn't such a good campaign strategy after all. who would have thought that? now, remember when democrats used to cry about how he had to help all the poor migrants hiding in the shadows bring them out of the shadows and give them jobs. they aren't hiding anymore. instead brutally attackin

doj does not control trial dates as we just showed, it's a judge. and so trials are technically not part of the 60 day rule. >> you >> could argue they're within the same spirit though in a quick follow up, if donald trump is elected and is potentially going to trial, what doj allow the trial to go >> forward if he's the incoming president, short answer is no. doj has a longstanding policy that they will not indict or try a sitting president so question number >> five, we've got potential for delay is here can to trials happen at the same time, we give you a very simple answer here. >> no, you cannot have two trials at the same time because the has the right to be physically present at his trials. he obviously can't be in two places at once. it's a core constitutional right. we will not have two trials. said that's not right now. >> loud and clear for anybody at home. we wanted to see. okay. that leads us right to question number six. he has a right to be president. yes. does he have to be present? >> but generally speaking, yes. with some very, ver

the doj tries to imprison biden's chief political opponent.is staggering to watch in realtime. >> laura: let's watch. >> we don't have it, sorry. ned, the point here, this is biden family operation. you have valerie biden, jim biden, hunter biden, kind of mofris of roles. democrats keep insists that tony bobulinski is lying. his attorney said it is catagorically false to assert mr. bobulinski failed to provide evidence that biden was involved in business dealings, bobulinski's motivation will soon be available for all to see, called it false characterization and no place in debate. they sound confident that bobulinski will be debunked or his motivations exposed. >> there are a lot of receipts, text, bank accounts, millions of dollars flowing to biden family members and cnn said it was uncorroborated, there is a lot of evidence building up what the biden family was doing. the thing that is amazing to me -- >> laura: what did he get? >> corporate propagandist. >> laura: what did chinese energy giant get from hunter biden? is he an energy expert?

i do think that there's some things like what i want to see from doj, not that it is up to me. but it would be great to see from doj that they actually really tell the story, >> reporter: they did do a good job of that in the indictment, i think that the indictment was very clear. you didn't need to be a lawyer to understand what was going on with it but we need to see them make that case to the people because we are not going to be able to see what is going on in the courtroom. but what we've seen with the courtroom has been happening. and that is why the cases are being successful. >> that is why it comes to the e. jean carroll case? >> now we are starting to see so many people follow those rules that we are seeing private litigants. i think we saw an even greater example on it with a new verdict. >> this is a great book. for those who are not -- you can read all about it in the book, that would be a good tactic, thank you so much. we will see you again soon, the book, taking down trump, 12 rules for prosecuting donald trump by somebody who did it successfully. we will go to

leslie, the doj case also has some news today.d we saw the supreme court has now gotten the briefs and the responses, and they'll make up their mind over whether to review, slow down, or fast track that case. with the new york case going first, what do you think about that? i think you and i, if we talked six months ago or whatever,what know that one would go first. i don't think anyone would say it's the most serious. >> that's absolutely right. i think that it's in some ways unfortunate that case is going first because that case really had to do with the allegation is that the former president who was campaigning at the time committed campaign finance violations to essentially pay off stormy daniels and hiding the fact that he had asked michael cohen to pay it off, falsely document it, and then pay him to all make himself look better with connection to the campaign and keep out negative information. he did that as a candidate. the actions that were taken in connection with january 6th were taken as a president. even though he ha

we're also running up against the doj's internal guideline. >> does that apply? you say, no, the 60-day rule -- >> i think if we keep getting further and further out that is going to be a discussion. can we get so close to the election the entire process gets tainted by it? >> i think the policy as it stands applies to investigative steps. it doesn't apply to a trial per se. but i think melissa is right that the policy concerns and debating doj's own policy how to treat a trial before the election at least have a discussion how appropriate a trial is as you're bumping up against an election. >> when it's a presidential candidate. >> yes, let's not lose sight of the sort of -- it's a day for history. we know that the first criminal trial of an american president will be starting next month, a little over a month from today. lisa rubin, melissa murray, don't go anywhere. we're going to talk about the rest of all of it in just a few minutes. coming up fulton county d.a. fani willis took to the stand to argue in the election interference case. but first trump has dro

review at this time, i'm reading from the middle of page 3 to both of u yo, the government then, the doj asks to treat this petition as a writ of certiorari, and then a fast schedule would permit the court to quote issue its opinion and judgment, resolving the immunity issue this term, and rejects the

and so there's no way that one can't construe these comments as directed, obviously, towards doj andven a warning or a message, but separately i will say her point about gratuitous information in the report i tend to agree with that. we saw this with the mueller report, hundreds of pages for what, for no charges, and on hur and biden, and the special counsel investigation we saw this with comey on clinton. and why the reports are problematic for the department of justice. doj is a black and white world, you are guilty or not guilty, the reports allow the department of justice to trash people, ruin their administrations and end their reputations, oh, but no charges. i'm not sure that's fair, no matter whether you are a democrat or republican. >> john: on the subject of fairness, what biden said initially yesterday afternoon when asked about the report, he was focusing in on what he thought was the differentiation contained in the report between what he did recording classified documents and what donald trump did. listen to what he said. >> i was especially pleased to see special couns

this investigation over past seven, eight years the biden family has been investigated by fbi, the doj irs, securities securities and exchange commission commission goes on and on investigating family for financial crimes 177 suspicious activity report reports, there is so much smoke here, you mentioned earlier the media continues attack me i think american people he deserve truth have not been given truth by major media or government agencies. >> like a dirty little secret about biden family everybody knows democrats blow it off? >> that is right. >> your take on structure of deals, because tony bobulinski, was very clear, in terms of what he remembered, now he told me that he met with joe biden, on may 2, may 3 in 2017. james biden other day on the record testimony told you, he wasn't involved joe biden wasn't involved at all did james biden commit perjury? >> well if you look at texts messages that bobulinski proud, between he and jim biden they talk about the meeting. and it is a confirmation the meeting happened. but then jim biden under oath, testified that he that -- that -- bob

they did not hand over the documents -- just -- >> from joe biden's doj ordered by merrick garland not to prosecute against joe biden, even though it's basically found he willfully broke the law. on top of that, the reason why they are not prosecuting is because they say he is mentally unfit to put and pursue that. that is unheard of. it is selective prosecution. it is why people inherently know across this country, if -- biden or clinton, you get to live by defensive ross than every day average americans. >> i think hunter biden would disagree with that. i will note -- >> he got a sweetheart deal. let's talk about that. hunter biden -- >> hunter biden was indicted, with a special counsel -- >> and got a sweetheart deal from joe biden's doj. >> i want to talk about you, because i think in a lot of your public appearances and comments, the resolutions that republicans are introducing on capitol hill that you are a part of, people want to know if you are discerning to be donald trump's vice president. have you handed over any documents or any vetting process with the trump team regarding

doj. they're doing it for election interference, and in a way, i guess you consider it part of the campaign because if you really look at it, they are doing this, it's never been done like this in this country. >> donald trump playing the victim again as he rails against a slew of federal charges brought against him by the justice department. it comes as voters in nevada go to the polls in the state's primary, although they won't find the former president on the ballot. that's because nevada's gop will hold caucuses on thursday to divvy up the delegates. a new cnn poll shows what voters want resolved before the november election. harry enton is going to tell us what voters want resolved. in the polling, when do voters want these cases decided? >> looking at our poll, essential that the federal trial on trump's election trials be resolved before the 2024 election. this is among all voters. what a surprise, an even split here, 50% say it is essential. now, there is an additional 16% who woul

certainly trump comes along and the doj throws the policy of the window.p on top on top, they charge him with obstruction for doing exactly what the clinton did. clinton resisted. the proper legal remedy here was from merrick garland to file a civil action not criminal of which is under the act and it is the governing authority. that is how the clinton case was handled. let a judge to decide who gets what instead they criminalized it because it is donald trump. another example of how the doj has a two-tiered system of justice. >> sean: alex burns had a pretty good name. he called it law fair in a column that he wrote and that is recognizing and criminalizing political differences and just a different way of saying it but pretty astute analysis. gregg jarrett, thank you for that update. we appreciate it. as we await the release of this report, the house there continuing their existing impeachment inquiry of joe biden and encourages the transcript, one witness and your interview obtained by justthenews.com, that is john solomon's group that he said he had no

i'm told doj need to look at factors if the attorney were to turn over the transcript.orneys general's office received the letter from congress and will respond by monday. >> kayleigh: we'll be following it. white house was asked, will you release the transcript, samms speaks for the and his personal counsel. here is what samms said about releasing the transcript. >> the redacted version, would president support the release as long as you can keep what needs to be kept secret? >> we will look at that make a determination. >> kayleigh: if i'm the president and i say, i am all with it, i'm the partly cloudy we'll do the super bowl interview. we'll do the competency test. i don't believe he is with it. >> kennedy: i believe joe biden is in the dark, as well. he is greasy and i wanted to use his soul to fry my chicken. so uncomfortable watching that. he must have been exhausted throwing everybody under the rug. points made in the special counsel report was we're not going to indict the guy because he can't remember a thing. i found out great pyramids are in mexico, so every

office of affairs of doj, back to me. giving something of an answer to this. the third is a letter off of their website, reflecting the plea agreement between the southern district of new york, and the attorneys for charles mcgonagle. at this point, what i asked in the letter, was somewhat independent from the fbi? are they taking a look to see if there were fbi shenanigans during that period in that office? i have received no confirmation that anything is going on. the plea agreement reflects no signal or sign of cooperation. this is often a feature in plea agreements and sentencings. there is no assignment that they are looking to do, outside of the plea. i have been unable to determine whether or not the inspector general is eyeballing this, to see if somebody independent from the fbi, someone in the department, should take a look. what you know about the status of this? would it make sense? would it not make sense? let me put it that way, to have a look at what they know, to have a placement office at that time. this is while he is in this helpful position

. >>> doj special counsel jack smith has now just moments ago, we just got this printed here in our newsroom, filed his reply to donald trump's effort to stop the trial and the win that jack smith got in that appeals court. they are citing donald trump's alleged effort to perpetuate himself in power, the charged crime strike at the heart of our democracy, and smith says the supreme court should not stay or delay this case, that the trial should commence on the planned schedule, which means if he won,

but his doj and fbi were investigating trump when he was making comments on the investigation.neral, this is your boss, these are signals, messages. another one, he was urging his department of justice to prosecute january 6th committee subpoena holdouts. he did say later it was inappropriate. and one of the most notable examples biden has commented on an open investigation and prosecution with respect to his own son. how many times has he said my son has done nothing wrong, never made money from china, and both of those are false. not just false but are misleading. it's his government agency investigating and prosecuting his son and he is saying things that are not true with respect to the investigations. and said trump supported an insurrection, his department of justice declined to bring the charge against trump and media leaks, complaining to his inner circle that they have not been prosecuting trump quickly enough, that had he done that, the election would be a different story. just some examples but certainly violating norms. >> john: i think it's interesting he's taken a

doj should allow him to come in.n biggs, your word on the president's calamitous press conference last night from the white house. why call a presser from the white house itself? that seems like over the top. >> yeah. i think -- to me, it was an unforced error on their part. they had him go out there, and then it was just a terrible presser. and they should know i think what most of america know, that he can't handle that kind of press conference. and then you throw that in with what the i.g. reported about his cognitive abilities, and you just go, that was bad staff work. and it's sometimes, you know, if you're really conspiratorial, you can say, well, this is, this is the deep state trying to finish push him out so they can get, the democrats can get the candidate of their choice. elizabeth: wow. andy biggs, congressman, thank you so much. have a good weekend. we appreciate you coming on. >> thank, liz. elizabeth: thanks for your insights. appreciate you. i'm liz macdonald. thanks for watching "the evening edit." h

for facilitating this cash for influence scheme the purchasep cop bobulinski testified the fbi cia doj local law enforcement noun have contacted him to follow occupy on al investigation. maria: out outrageous the sweetheart deal will would ininfiltrate him from acting as foreign agent burisma china kazakhstan we know it was biden's doj, that broker that had deal, is it biden's doj that gave the order to no wrong interview ton bobulinski cia doesn't do it special counsel probe doesn't have do it fbi doesn't do it was it biden that made call to cover this up. maria: a great question, back in december tony bobulinski told me, he said i said look, the president assessing, that he has nothing to do with any of this he told me, tell joe biden to stop lying. maybe when i testify i can remind him of the meetings we had together, one-on-one with others, more on biden naem this morning the department of justice veiled hunter biden cell phone had photos of alleged drug use november and disease 2018 show cocaine crack cocaine, drug paraphernalia on his phone. cheryl: look at the end of the day, it

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we're also running up against the doj's own internal divine -- >> does that apply though? the 60-day rule -- >> no, but i think if we keep getting further and further out, that will be a discussion. can we get so close to the election that the entire process gets to be played by it? >> yeah, i think the policy as it stands applies to investigative steps. it does not apply to a trial, per se, but i think melissa is right that the policy concerns animating the oj's own policy about how to treat legal proceedings before an election, well, at least prompt a wider scale discussion about how appropriate a trial is, as you are bumping up against the election. it went beyond september. >> of a presidential candidate, which has never happened. >> let's not lose sight of the store of, it's a day for history, we know that the first criminal trial of an american president will be starting next month, in a little over a month from today. lisa rubin, melissa murray, don't go anywhere. we'll talk about the rest of all of it in just a few minutes. coming up, fulton county d. a. fani willi

but we do have a voice that worked at the doj, andy mccabe joins us now. andy, to the point that norm was making. if you are the special counsel, and you are trying to argue that a jury would look at president biden and see an elderly man who has issues with memory, someone that would be perhaps sympathetic, as a reason to not go after him and press charges of mishandling of classified documents, should not he then outline instances in his interview's, in which his memory was faulty? is that not something fair to put in this document to justify the fact that he didn't push for charges? >> i think it is absolutely relevant to talk about the fact, or to refer to the fact in the report that a witness, a key witness, in this case the subject of the investigation, had a faulty memory about certain facts, that might bolster his defense of the charges. that is relevant to the special counsel's duty. but i agree with norm, it is the way that he characterized that, that faulty memory, that goes beyond what is necessary to communicate a potential weakness in your ca

i will tell you that, for an internal doj document, the kinds of things we see mr. her rock right about wouldn't be that surprising. for every case that you investigate, you write a prosecution memo. either recommending we seek an indictment or readout. that prosecution memo sets out all the evidence that would be used to meet the elements of the crime to ethinking of charging. it also said at all of the evidence that detracts from that. we're undermines your evidence. i'm would also set for things like a witness might be sympathetic to the jury or the defendant if the defendant syto the stand may be sympathetic tot the jury. or might even mention memory issues. it's not crazy that it internal doj document would go through all of these things. but mr. herr knew he was working under the special counsel regulations, which explicitly say that he has to write a report and that report, if the attorney general approves, will be made public. he knew that the attorney general garland has said, all make it public. he gadidn't want to be perceive as hiding anything. it would

informant is feeding the fbi russian disinformation -- and that could be the case, even though two dojld offices said it wasn't before they flip-flopped -- why they buried it in 2020 to help democrats and then exploit it i? according to claire mccaskill on msnbc, we are not even allowed to ask that question. >> i move that every newspaper in america quits doing any fact checks on joe biden until they fact-check donald trump every morning on the front page. it is ridiculous that "the new york times" fact-checked joe biden on something. i mean, he vomits lives. trump vomits lies. >> jesse: the media moves to ban fact-checking of the president. that almost sounds russian, doesn't it, red claire? former agent johnson gilliam and brian dean -- this has now come full circle again to the 51 letter-writing agents. they were right all along, it was russian disinformation. this is kind of sloppy. you think they'll be able to pull this off? >> i'm not sure. the way they portray these things and the way they build it up in mainstream media, they been able to pull this off before, convincing some v

> one of the cases is we're talking about pro-lifers who put on that demonstration in tennessee and dojs after them to the tune of more than ten years in jail people have been kick thed on felonies yet there are things like we've covered more than a year almost two years of protesting illegally outside of supreme court justices -- houses clearly violating federal statutes in some cases state statutes not a single arrest that we know of -- so those are things that just don't square with people at home. >> there are two tiers of justice and these are political topics you're talking about on your show anything else you want to tell us about on fox news sunday? >> admiral kirby and graham for a warmonger but he says listen whaing we've done so far is ineffective you have to strike inside iran and we'll discuss all of the brand new fox news polls with our political panel and legal panel looks at the arguments this week at the supreme court over kicking president trump off the state ballots. >> all right shannon bream we'll be watching. thanks for joining. as she does every sunday at 8:00 pre

we should have more funds at the og -- it doj.f united states uses every penny of your savings and you have to hire these expensive lawyers and you get down to the end, i think you deserve to be made whole. >> well said. [applause] >> finally, let's talk about the first amendment freedoms. freedom of the press is not the first one, sorry guys in the back. they always things the first one but it is important. what is going on? >> we are trying to dig into this. what happened here looks really wrong in my judgment. they have grabbed everything. this is her sources, or information. it does not happen when you are talking about -- cbs fired catherine heritage who has done an amazing job she's an amazing journalist and a fair journalist. [applause] >> they grabbed her stuff. they literally grabbed her stuff. this further encroachment by folks on the left which no unfortunately controls the democratic party is an encroachment on first amendment rights. think back to covid. they told americans, governors and mayors told americans you can

." >>> and the doj turning its focus to health insurance.t is launching an antitrust investigation of the giant. unh. >> unh is really under siege. it's a great american company. it's under siege like almost no other between the hack and the justice department. >> we'll talk about that. that said, it's doing pretty well for a company under siege. let's talk about another company that's done pretty darn well for a very long period of time. that is apple. of course, you've seen these published reports. any number of them, by the way, at this point. so, we do believe it is the case that they are scrapping what's been that really decade-long effort. i can't believe it's been that long since we first started hearing about it. yeah, we're going to build potentially an ev. sources have told bloomberg that some of the employees on the project are going to be transferred to the a.i. division, of course, generative a.i. becoming so important, tim cook saying as much recently, jim. give me your broader thoughts and we'll talk about apple itself, which

it started in 2016-15 with the clinton investigation, the fbi and doj taking a dive on that one.ople from ballots is draconian. that is just rubbing out the political opposition anyway you can and they do it because they hate donald trump. regardless of how you feel about donald trump, they feel like the ends justify the means, that he's a bad person and they are going to do what they can to ruin him and get him off the ballots or prosecute him or get rid of him, that is not how the system works. that's not the american system. maria: we saw that in plain sight during the russian collusion where nobody was held accountable at all. we are lucky enough to have former cia official here, mike baker, what are your thoughts on this? mike:i want to pivot a little bit can't curious to get your assessment of the hunter biden deposition from yesterday. >> it was what i expected and a lot of people expected. he was coming outcome on the offense, punching back, he was well coached. i really think the committee, the republicans need to act almost like a prosecutor in this case and give him ye

reporter: former doj officials. this white house right now is of the stance by this white house that this report was issued in part with a motive and a goal to inflict political harm on the president? ian: i heard the question the first time. i have nothing to object to on what the vice president said. i thought she was powerful and forceful. reporter: to follow-up. the administration -- you said republicans have often attacked prosecutors. it created an environment where there is an incentive by the special counsel to include some of this language. but i have heard from democrats and this white house a the attacks against independent systems can't sew this trust with the public and independent institutions. by saying this is politically motivated does this not also sew distrust with the public? ian: i reject that question. . it's in the report the letter the president's lawyer and white house counsel's office sent talking about the department of justice norms and policies that they see as being violated by some of

neil, the doj met today's deadline to reply to congress about the transcript of the interview betweenr sent late friday to the chairman of the three big committees looking into impeaching joe biden, the president, the doj official wrote the transcript of the interview that took place in october must be looked at by intelligence agencies to make sure there's nothing classified. the process is underway. the premise of the investigation was special robert hur probing classified information found at the home and personal office of president biden. once that classified information is redacted, the white house would invoke any sort of objective privilege that is subjective. if that happens, that could slow down the process for doj turning over the transcript to capitol hill. when it comes to executive privilege, there's not much that doj is do from invoking executive privilege. attorney general garland is putting the pressure on the white house to cover. they want to force the white house to make a decision and takes pressure off of the justice department. robert hur slated to testify march

and now appointee from own doj basically saying the same thing now. >> laura: i want to pointed out thathite house said in response today, congressman, just got out a mouthful there in a statement to fox digital they compared to you a simpson's character basically saying you have no credibility. you know, implying that, you know, you kind of fudged trump's cognitive test and that you have no credibility on. this that's absolutely ridiculous. laura, i was at the white house. i was a white house physician for 14 years. i took care of you president bush for three years. i took care of president obama for 8 years and took care of president trump for three years. i was there 14 years for three different administrations including 8 years in the obama administration in which i was the appointed physician for the president for obama. most of these people. a lot of these people in the west wing right now with joe biden i took care of them. so for them to make that claim is ridiculous. they spend all their time watcher watching the simpsons. >> laura: they are smearing you. i want to oint out some

doj could do that. the white house could say sure, just go ahead. they're not doing that either. >> martha: it's also interesting that they peppered everybody with stories that there might be embarrassing things about where the documents were kept. they're trying to soften the ground before that report. we had no idea how very forceful it was going to be with regard to his abilities. you're right. they could put it out any moment. how much credence do you give these discussions about sort of throwing the whole thing up in the air, come convention time and maybe going a different route here? >> i think it's a long shot still. i think that the odds went up a little bit when you had last week and all the fall-out from it. but i still think it a long shot. the democrats have an easier time doing that than republicans do. republican delegates have to be tied too who they're tied to by their rules. democrats are not. so there is a possibility of doing something at the convention with super delicates and unhinged delicates. but it's still a long shot in my

it's just not a doj thing. >> john: the transcript release, "wall street journal" editorial board onen-hur interview transcript. did he offer detail or was he an old man. it does not implicate the contents of his classified files. dispute is how well mr. biden performed in answering questions under pressure which the public rarely gets to see. so your fitness for president is your ability to perform under pressure. biden's out there, and everybody else around biden is out there saying he's doing great, thought it was funny when jon stewart said do you have any video of him being great or is it just the video we see? so, why not for public consumption put the transcript out there. >> what are we gaining from it. >> john: better understanding how he is cognitively and who you want to vote for. >> if joe biden wants the transcript out, i would have less of an issue because if he does feel the justice department was unfair towards him, which is very possible, then fine. but i think it should come from the person who sat for this interview understanding that it was a confidential intervie

then he says if you must review this, if you feel somehow the doj is wrong, that there's some reason you've got to get into it, case of first impression, things we heard from attorney general holder about that recently on the show, and i apologize to the viewers, it's so new, we don't have it yet for the screen. but he says, if the court believes that trump must have this review at this time, i'm reading from the middle of page 3 to both of u yo, the government then, the doj asks to treat this petition as a writ of certiorari, and then a fast schedule would permit the court to quote issue its opinion and judgment, resolving the immunity issue this term, and rejects the immunity claim, a timely fair trial can begin with minimal additional delay. that's part of what you were referring to. break that down, and then andrew. >> what we're likely to hear from the republicans who are trying to defend trump is, look, jack smith is signaling weakness here. he's saying the supreme court should set an expedited briefing schedule, not deny to hear the case. that's not what smith is saying. there

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reporter: former doj officials. this white house right now is of the stance by this white house that this report was issued in part with a motive and a goal to inflict political harm on the president? ian: i heard the question the first time. i have nothing to object to on what the vice president said. i thought she was powerful and forceful. reporter: to follow-up. the administration -- you said republicans have often attacked prosecutors. it created an environment where there is an incentive by the special counsel to include some of this language. but i have heard from democrats and this white house a the attacks against independent systems can't sew this trust with the public and independent institutions. by saying this is politically motivated does this not also sew distrust with the public? ian: i reject that question. . it's in the report the letter the president's lawyer and white house counsel's office sent talking about the department of justice norms and policies that they see as being violated by some of

doj is defending special counsel hur's report.saw a lot of pushback against that special counsel report from president biden, the white house, all kinds of trism. now the doj is pushing back against that? >> that's exactly right. and we obtained this letter from the doj to the white house sent to the white house counsel's office defending robert hur saying -- and i want to read in part that the identified language in the hur report is neither gratuitous or unduly prejudicial because it is not offered to criticize or demean the president. you may remember just one week ago today, president biden, who was furious, gave a statement to the press at the white house when he says that hur asked about his son's death and raised the issue, including the fact that the president was unfamiliar with the date. watch this. >> there is even reference that i don't remember when my son died. how in the hell dare he raise that. frankly, when i was asked the question i thought to myself it wasn't any of their damn business. >> david: that was a week

how did it then proceed to an investigation by the doj?d was, there is someone who made a complaint. they sent the complaint, i believe, to the fec which that moves really slowly, is what i hear. and so, because, you know, nothing had happened, they didn't see any movement, they decided -- there are articles about it. they decided, hey, i want the doj, i want house ethics, i want all of these different entities to investigate now. so they did at one time, just asked all of these different entities to investigate. >> so these agencies are obliging a complaint. your husband is named courtney merits. military veteran. >> yes. >> why was he the choice that you made in terms of your personal security? >> so what was happening, there were a lot of issues with us retaining just good staff. what was happening, we had -- you know, we couldn't pay the big cost for security like some of my colleagues are able to do. and so, we went with what we could afford. it worked out for a while, but then we started having call-offs, you know, people just not sh

but some sort of response from the doj to the hill by monday. i don't think it's the full transcript, but something. >> john: interesting to hear the recordings as well. >> yes, it was. >> aishah: as calls grow for the transcript to be made public, house republicans are making it clear they intend to keep questioning about president biden's mental acuity front and center, keep that front and center ahead of the 2024 election. listen to this. >> the american people know that if someone is mentally unfit to stand trial, they are unfit to serve as commander in chief. >> i think if there was ever, ever a time we need a cognitive test for a sitting president of united states it's now. if he thinks he's fit to run the country, prove it to us. >> aishah: karl rove, former white house deputy chief of staff and fox news contributor. good to see you. on the transcript and the audio recorders and trying to bring in robert hur, i imagine that house republicans will try to do, it would seem to make sense to me that the white house would want to release these

doj is pushing back saying nothing overdone or salacious, and hur explained why he made his decisionute criminally and assessment with the president's mental acuity, so a war of words in the branches in the executive branch, the more they fight the more attention back to it. >> john: the doj pushed back hard against the letter sent to merrick garland, having carefully considered your arguments, the report is submitted to the attorney general and release are consistent with legal requirements and department policy. that was after attorneys for the president argued that this was way outside of policy. so it's interesting to see now. there's an old bugs bunny cartoon, of course you know this means war. the white house and the doj are barely on speaking terms. >> as you point out, they go to great pains to say there is no coordination between the two of them, investigating hunter or anything else, independent agency acting without the president's input but it's a dust-up now. >> jacqui: they picked the wrong moment. we had all moved on to the national security threat, and the letter from

mcgonagle did and what he knows. >> so, the doj, inspector general is involved or notified? >> it has been-- engaged. >> yeah. >> okay, well, that is good to hear. let's go back to 702 for a moment. i understand that 702 which was originally designed for a counterterrorism purpose has also been deployed against the international fentanyl trafficking apparatus? is that correct? and has 702 been important in combating the international fentanyl trafficking apparatus? >> 702 has been important in the fight against the score just fentanyl. more so, i would say, by our intelligence community partners . the cia, for example in their work overseas, to pursue some of the foreign dimensions of the fentanyl crisis, which, of course, then have massive ramifications for communities all over the united states. >> so, that is in excess of 702? >> so, that is a success of 702. >> you also mentioned the role of 702 in reaching out to victims of crime of potential foreign intelligence operations, could you elaborate in our last minute together a little bit more on the role of 702 in supporti

some involve the doj and some do not involve the doj at all and are civil cases in new york. >> todayparticularly unusual because it's a meeting, at least part of it, with just his legal team and the judge. maybe he really is just looking for face time with judge aileen cannon, who is overseeing this case, which is interesting to think about there. kristen, great to have you. thank you so much. sara? >> with me now is cnn legal analyst norm eisen. he is also the former house judiciary special counsel in donald trump's first impeachment trial. mr. eisen, i am so happy to see you this morning, very close to us here, trying to get everything set. i do want to ask you a question about what the arguments are today that donald trump's defense team is making in front of this judge in this classified documents case. norm, do you got me? i think we're having a bit -- we're going to take a quick break. norm eisen, it looks like max head rum right now because we're having a technical issue, for all of you that remember max headrum, we're going to hand it over to john. >>> all right. the dramatic