only signed a deal a few years ago with eric holder saying that they promise never to commit any more crimes and these documents show that they can continue to launder money for drug cartels and other people really incredible so raises h.s.b.c. i remember that they they cut a deal with eric holder under obama and that they wouldn't commit crimes anymore and then there's they're recidivist you know they just continued to do so blithely can knowing that there's no rule of law go google kaiser report eric holder and you'll see exactly we confronted him on this issue we told them they would commit crimes again he said they wouldn't commit crimes and he thought he did a good job at extracting a 1000000000 or 2 from them and that that was all he needed to do and that eric holder doctrine does say that they can't go after these big banks because that might jeopardize the entire financial system so what you're seeing as a response from wall street goes into it is that there's a consolidation another wave of consolidation because after the crime wave that led to 2008 you saw consolidation afte

it's not even fair to say eric holder because eric holder i don't think would be doing any of these thingsm his career, but are you hearing anything from any republican senators about republicans or the hill, period, about these actions? >> the senate, we're in an empty capitol now, the senate is out for the week, so they're spared some of the cross-examination we would be giving them i have two important thoughts that i think we should be considering. number one, republican senators, here's what they will say. we shouldn't pretend that attorneys general are not partisan we shouldn't pretend that they don't have views i'm not endorsing this, just telling you what i think they'll say. that we shouldn't pretend like these are people who are divorced from the political maelstrom in washington and on capitol hill and in government what he's doing is just expressing it out loud, where most attorneys general were dishonest about it again, i don't think that's the case, but i think that's what republicans will say i would be very -- i would not be surprised, katy, in the next couple weeks to see

let's listen to eric holder.d about you would have a conservative majority on the court, illegitimate conservative majority on the court, ruling on these matters that will affect the nation you know for generations to come. i think that what democrats have to do, assuming that biden is president and there is a senate majority for the democrats we need to think about court reform and at a minimum, as part of that reform package, i think additional justices need to be placed on the supreme court. elizabeth: all right. critics are saying there are multiple problems with his rhetoric here. he is calling what is happening quote, illegitimate. he is talking about packing the court, when even the late ruth bader ginsburg said don't pack the court. it is not right. don't do that. your take on what eric holder just said? >> eric holder is the most illegitimate attorney general we ever had. he had substantial role in everything that has gone wrong in the country in the eight years of the obama administration and continuing

where is eric holder and why aren't they speaking up?f the political leaders of the left. biden in particular, he could come out and discuss it, perhaps, honestly and openly and encourage civility e and a peaceful resolution of issues in the black community. instead he is, he's hiding. and it's the entire radical -- the party of hate, the radical dems have become that and, i think, now worse. larry elder, it's always great to see you. thank you for being with us, appreciate it. >>> former italian prime minister silvio berlusconi says he got away with it again. he survived a two week hospital stay. he was being treated for the covid-19 virus, or as it's known here, the china virus. berlusconi has gotten away with it again. he's also responsible for our ldt tonight word of the day. the word is bunga-bunga, name for the 83-year-old's notorious parties at husband lavish absolutely la -- at his lavish villa while he was prime minister of italy. and there it is. >>> up next -- wants more foreign workers in the united states for big tech. we'll

and sally yates having lunch with a cohort of eric holder.hicken, in your view, because of that? >> oh, i think it does thicken, lou. we had already picked up tidbits of information from covington that there were other people on the flynn file that we did not know had participated in the case in any way at all, and that includes lanny breuer who was holder's assistant attorney general for the criminal division of the department of justice and michael chertoff who had had been head of homeland security and other people billing on the file. and they have not provided us those communications even though they pertain to the flynn case, and we should have everything from that. and it was the next day after sally yates had lunch with gary grindler that she went to the white house to make sure that she got general flynn fired from being national security adviser. i mean, that was one of their primary goals we know from the notes of one of the agents, general counsel at the fbi who said that. so -- lou: are we going to find out, are we going to find

and so i am not at all in favor of that solution. >> so we have eric holder expressing support for itstice goldbergginsburg says she was not in favor of it. i have wronlder if the fixes you're approaching, i wonder fmd then people satisfying enough. the supreme court one of the most popular partisan footballs right now. are you sure, do you believe that two political sides are ready to put that football down for the good of the country? i'm skoept cal. highly. >> no. >> what do you think? >> no, no, not yet. i think this will only have -- we're going to be in this for quite some time. i'm just -- you know, my frustration with this whole situation is that we've got everyone to this point where we knew in 2016 that republicans were going to play hard ball and what was the democrats' response? not talking about merritt garland at the democratic national convention? fast forward four years and the democrats mentioned for half a second chuck schumer standing near the statue of liberty mentioned the supreme court during those four days and that was, rights. the idea thauf an 87-year-old jur

as i want to get your reaction to what we just heard there from eric holder, are democrats needing to stack the court if biden wins. what do you make of that? >> first of all, this would be a huge symbolic victory for trump if he gets to aa point the next justice. trump would get to replace ginsburg, a progressive juress with an anti-choice ood log. that would be a huge setback for voting rights. lgbt and abortion rights, but one response from the democrats may be to pack the court. so there are nine justices now, but that number is determined by congress and in fact, the court has ranged from as few as five justices to as many as ten. it would be kind of a nuclear move by the democrats and congress, but many democrats think that the republicans would go to support. >> so taking a listen to what paul said, let me inject, not a good idea, what are your thou t thoughts on what holder said? >> nuclear, as paul says, is the operative term. you have a whole party that will be stepped on a hornet's nest if someone new is ram med through and the gorsuch legacy already is still sticks in the

action a law and the people how in our government as sorrowfully our attorney general for example eric holder at the time wrote a letter to your minister of justice and he said now please give us back it's not one torture room we promise we promise not to torture him. my god that's a low bar that's. this is the attorney general the highest law enforcement person in our government saying no if you give us we promise not to torture i tell you that spoke volumes to me and i am happy and i've seen it snowden in near russia a couple times since he sought refuge there i'm happy that he's able to to lead a somewhat respect or a somewhat decent life now under the protection of his own security people and the russian authorities who are now going to not going to allow anyone toward thing happened to ed the particularly since as is now old and right now revealed by the 9th circuit court of appeals he revealed illegal activities which were all was unconstitutional the bottom line is it takes our courts several years often to to catch up with illegal activities and finally here after how many years now t

in proving and snarky towards hillary clinton and bernie sanders and towards loretta lynch and eric holder and a lot of other people and not to mention his swearing repeated tyrann. the only active political figure who express their feelings about it is john kasich. >> jury present general found that his personal views did not affect any of his work. >> before his troubles. and, along with everybody else at the highest gefl wlevels. peter strzok served in the 101 airborne. and 22 years as agent in the united states. boy, does he know what actually happened the last time the russians did this to us in 2016? and per this book "compromise," he said the bottom line is twofo twofold. >> number one, yes, this is why this book is called compromise. the president of the united states is compromised by russia. strzok makes the case over the 400 pages that russia has leverage over him that causes him to act in russia's interests. number two, russia is back doing it again to reinstall him as president. we need to be better fighting at this time since last time we blew it. peter strzok joins us live,

see a trump official get around, make a crowded push back, think about former attorney general eric holderthey go high we go low. many officials have said things that have encouraged violence and it is a problem, certainly is a problem, one in which the, justice system really should come into play and the law should be used to the fullest extent to punish those who choose to do things meant to disrupt and be destructive when it comes to the american people. >> thank you for joining us, appreciate it. coming up in the next hour of "fox and friends first" prosecutors digging deeper into jeffrey epstein's past, details about his private island the rich and famous want kept secret. >> i promise you this. >> joe biden spent the last 47 years shipping your jobs to china. >> reporter: who has the edge on the economy. professor bromberg shares his analysis in the next hour. ♪ here? nah. ♪ here? nope. ♪ here. ♪ when the middle of nowhere... is somewhere. the all-new chevy trailblazer. ♪ feeling heavy? probioslim promotes healthy digestion and helps you lose weight. patented probiotics ease constipa

then a year and and a half later in january 2015, eric holder, pre-baraga and john harlan senior dojfficials in the obama biden administration came out this indictment of three alleged russian spies they gave highly sensitive information in the open indictment, i have supported them and given them a lot of accurate and information in the way the information presented. i had no forewarning that this would be taken to the next level in terms of making this a public indictment and actually filing these charges. even worse is the fact that some of the things that i had laid out and told them in my original meeting with them and particularly the way they juxtapose it with other information in this indictment really missed the trade the information i had given them which one thing leads to another and unfortunately with not a very professional way of managing that case or recognizing someone who had long supported the u.s. intelligence community and the justice system for many many years really just essentially putting my life at risk because eventually, i explained it all in the book and

. >> laura: senator cruz, i know you are texting friends, buddies with eric holder, so you probably already know this, but this is something he said i guess today. sorry, on saturday, about the current court majority. watch. >> you would have a conservative majority on the court. illegitimate conservative majority on the court. we need to think about court reform. at a minimum, as part of that reform package, i think additional justices need to be placed on the supreme court. >> laura: obviously the future court majority. so court packing, very quickly. >> it's clear the democrats, if they get the majority, they're going to try to pack the court. history is abundantly clear that when the president and the senate are of the same party, the senate confirms an election-year vacancy. that's happened 29 times in our nation's history. 19 of them were when the president and senate were of the same party. 17 of those were confirmed. on the other hand, when the president and senate are of different parties, that's happened ten times. the senate's only confirmed it twice. it explains the difference b

including section 2384 which is what they are talking about under the statute, attorney general eric holder mcquade brought charges under this section against nine defendants in 2010. they are saying it falls under the broad area of sedition. >> bill barr is in charge of the justice department, part of that speech today was him saying why should i let all these prosecutors, these junior prosecutors make decisions, i think he compared them to kids in a montessori school. that's true, he's the top law-enforcement official in the country. but it's interesting, you've got him warring with his own department, you've got the president warring with the cdc director and a saying he is confused, throwing him under the bus. there's a lot of turmoil inside this administration. in terms of the trump administration's push on law and order, wanting to crackdown on demonstrators, that is something they clearly think is going to help them in the suburbs. there is polling that shows suburban voters who feel unsafe tend to gravitate towards trump, suburban voters feel more safe they aren't worried about ride

others like obama wingmen eric holder, when they go low, we kick them.emocratic senator ed markey. they are calling for the democrats to pack and stack the supreme court. add as many liberal justices as they can. more democrats are threatening to end the filibuster altogether meaning now on legislation which has never been done before, that's never happened. some are vowing revenge by adding washington, d.c., puerto rico, as new states. why? they figure it will be four more democratic senators to guarantee them a democratic senate in perpetuity. as chuckie schumer is now threatening and pelosi threatening, nothing they are saying is off the table. they are threatening the entire country to upend every precedent we have ever had. they are the only ones who've done it in the past. they opened the door and this is what they are threatening now. >> we must also commit to using every procedural tool available to us to ensure that we buy ourselves the time necessary. >> once we win the majority, god willing, every thing is on the table. >> if, in fact, they ar

it includes eric holder to fight any election related court battles.g deal to your mind about lawyers protecting a fair democratic election? >> jesse: it's not a big deal at all. the democrats are late to the game. the republicans have been doing this about 1 1/2 years. they have massive amounts of resources. they have regional directors, state directors, they recruit 40,000 volunteers per state to become poll watchers, election judgers, ballot counters. they filed litigation to make sure that signatures must match and that ballots can't be accepted after the election. they've been filing litigation on how you count ballots, who counts the ballots and the democrats are trying to say we don't want any rules. signatures don't have to match and you can count ballots in december. republicans all they want is transparency and rules. that will happen this time. >> juan: all right. so dana, the president has threatened i believe michigan and nevada over mail-in voting. what do you think is going on here? from the democrats' perspective, they're trying to make

he wasn't nearly as partisan as eric holder was. bill barr is welcome on "the five" any time.ure he knows that. dana, what are your thoughts hahn this kerfuffle? >> dana: well, i think that emily makes a good point about the difficulties of overcharging. by overcharging, remember the government has to prove beyond a reasonable doubt. and sadition might be hard to prove. that's why they haven't done that. just basically trying to make a point. but i think there are some good ideas. own andy mccarthy put them forward about using the rico laws in order to see about the coordination and stop this in terms of specially fund-raising. i notice that in minneapolis today -- i'm sorry, in wisconsin today, we had a reporter there that was basically showing hillary vaughn that a lot of those businesses that were riots, looted, that it's still not cleaned up. so i imagine that if you do live in that area, you would want -- you'd be more responsive to a law and order message than you might have been before the summer started. >> jesse: greg, wrap us up. >> greg: i really admire barr. what h

he says, listen, eric holder charged a lot of people under this law, too. because i wouldn't recommend it. i could see where you could fit this conduct into that statute. up but he just gave a great speech a few days ago where he warned against justice department officials trying to present creative theories and crimes. i think there's already a lot of criminal statutes we could use -- they could use. not me, sorry. that they could use against antifa like the rocket sharing laws, like direct attacks on federal buildings and personnel. i think there's plenty of laws they could use to but some of these people away for a long time. sedition really does run up against the first amendment, which is why it's not use all that often. i don't think this justifies in the justice department of all places. >> shannon: there was a long list of all of the attorneys to consider. attorney general jeffrey a rosen wrote a memo today saying the possible application of section 84 which is the statute has been leaked to the press and was misrepresented and criticized in the med

watch democrats, nancy pelosi, joe biden, eric holder, maxine waters, started making comments two years in 2018. celebrities started in three years ago. we warn you. some images may be disturbing to viewers. watch this. >> i just don't even know why there aren't uprisings all over the country. maybe there will be. >> they asked me would i like to debate this gentleman. i said no, if i were in high school i would take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him. >> make sure we show up wherever we have to show up f you see anybody that from cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. and you get back on them. you tell mem they're not welcome anymore anywhere. >> enemies of the state. >> they're not going to stop. this is a movement, i'm telling you. they're not going to stop and everyone beware. they will not stop before election day november, and they will not stop after election day. that should, everyone should take note of that on both levels. they're not going to let up. they should not. we should not. >> there needs

and seek pelosi, joe biden and eric holder. try to make it, two years ago in 2018 and fighting and tax and unrest . celebrity starting three years ago . let's warn you, these images may be disturbing to the viewers . >> i just don't even know whether art uprisings all of the country. maybe there will be. >> asked me what i would like to debate this gentleman i said no, if we were and high school, i would taken behind the gym and beat the heck out of him. >> you don't see anybody from the cabinet and restaurant. in aar department store at a gasoline station. new get out. and you tell them their unwelcome. elisabeth: enemies in they' sta. >> they are not going to stop this is a movement and every one beware. because not going to stop. before election day november the not going to stop after election day. that should beot in everyone should take note of that's . both levels. they're not going to let up and they should not let up and we should not . >> there needs to be unrest in the streets first long as there is unrest in her liv

and obama officials like eric holder now backing that plan.iberal senators pushing them to add more states to the union and spend these next weeks grinding it to a halt. and then double down if democrats win in november. you see there several planks of that. that's one liberal approach, fight fire with fire but risk partisan escalation. then there's also the more conventional approach coming from democrats who actually lead the senate caucus. senator schumer laying it out, a strategy that focuses almost entirely on trying to recruit partisan republican senators to turn against donald trump. now let's be clear, facts are facts, and the core of chuck schumer's strategy has already fallen apart. >> there is only one way for us to have some hope of coming together again. >> senator lamar alexander pledged in a statement to consider president trump's scotus nominee. >> and that is for four brave senate republicans to commit to rejecting any nominee until the next president is installed. >> senator graham said he's happy to go ahead with plans to fi

attorney general, eric holder.oining me now is former senator max backs and former the ambassador to china and radio talk show host, who also teaches constitutional law and is a political analyst. let me go to you first. do you not agree with mr. holder and me when we say this strikes of hypocrisy for the senate under mitch mcconnell at the recommendation of this president to act in any way different with this election year than they use the rationale of saying we couldn't moval forward on justice garland when it was nominated by president obama. >> good evening. thank you for having me. i don't agree. i believe it's the reed rule, which harry reed put into place, which is the majority rules in the senate. i do agree justice ginsburg was a great american, she was very nice to me and i mourn her passing and salute her record. but the constitution's pretty clear the president has a unilateral right to nominate and the senate, a majority, confirm, if it chooses to. if there are 50 votes, then that individual will be c

advocates include not just liberal activists, but some obama veterans, and former attorney general eric holder. >> if, in fact, they are successful in placing a justice on the court, i think that what democrats have to do, assuming that biden is president and there is a senate majority for the democrats, we need to think about court reform. at a minimum, as part of that reform package, i think additional justices need to be placed on the supreme court. >> so just as mitch mcconnell temporarily cut the number of justices, holder supports adding it. now, should congress do this? yes. the constitution gives the congress full power to structure all the courts. that means it can create or abolish lower courts and decide how the supreme court runs. it was a six-person court which shifted in size over its first 80 years, settling into the nine-person format that we know of in the late 1800s. but that tradition doesn't bind congress if it sees important reasons to change it. congress used its power to alter the number of justices to what it viewed as an illegitimate president in andrew johnson, tempor

would likely be democrat grade might not be true but what they are suggesting and something that eric holderry nadler are among those that are putting it into the bloodstream as an option. >> this is outrageous to a degree that the individuals that are complaining that mitch mcconnell is using his position of authority to achieve a political end is willing to go to the extreme of actually modifying are very governing documents as well as doing whatever it takes to give them an advantage to give a liberal majority on the court. they've proven that what they don't care about is the constitution itself. but they don't care about is the rule of law because the ends justify any means you have to get there and that's what i don't want to see. i don't want to see the republicans do that if they were in power for the democrats to do it if they are in power. >> martha: so you worked at the senate judiciary committee. is a very tight time frame. what should we be watching in terms of how this is going to go? >> i will tell you the president needs to nominate and do it immediately and they need to have

eric holder says pack the court if bidens wins.thers say shut down the government, others threatening street riots. your reaction to that? >> there has been some crazy stuff coming out of the left right now. the nancy pelosi impeachment thing is really hard to understand. basically xi was asked would you take impeachment off the table as a way of delaying a senate decision of a trump supreme court nominee? she said no, no, it is on the table. really makes no sense. we learned during the impeachment battle that the house controls impeaching the president and then the senate controls the trial. the house really doesn't have any clout in what the senate does. so i think that really makes, doesn't make a lot of sense this idea of packing the court has actually been around in democratic circles for quite a while. in the last primary race a lot of the democrats didn't show much enthusiasm but pete buttigieg, who did well in the race, actually explored interest in expanding the size of the supreme court to give it a democratic majority. a

toward bernie sanders and toward then-attorney general loretta lynch and former attorney general eric holder and lots of other people besides, not to mention his swearing repeated tirades against the cheating mothereffing russians. i'll tell you if you're looking for signs of his bias and how that might have infected what he did, the only active political figure he expresses any positive feelings about appears to be john kasich. so kasich, he seems to like kasich, okay? what does that do for you? the inspector general found that his personal views didn't affect any of his work. but for his troubles and along with everybody else at the highest levels who fought the initial fight against what the russians did to help install trump as president four years ago, peter strzok, army artillery officer who served in the 101st airborne, 22-year fbi veteran, chief counterintelligence fbi agent in the united states, peter strzok is the one who has been drummed out of public service and vilified by the right and the president as if he was leading some sort of anti-trump cabal. and that's always been nons

you've had eric holder calling for democrats to do this. longer just some sort of fringe idea. this is quickly becoming, i think, a mainstream notion in the democratic party. >> i want to ask you about republicans, of course, because you have susan collins a few hours ago, issuing a statement saying that the person who wins the presidency should choose the next justice. that, of course, echos some comments from senator murkowski. i do want to underline, though, that saying that the next president should choose the nominee isn't necessarily saying, i will not vote for the nominee if a nominee's name is put to a vote. so i wonder both what you make of collins, and i don't know if you got to see some of the sound earlier from president trump at this rally in north carolina, but there was a very stark contrast, where he evoked susan collins' name. you heard the crowd jeer, and then you heard cheers for thom tillis, who has come out very adamantly in support of this idea that the president should be able to put forward a nominee and that a vote

so i guess she really likes him. [ laughter ] it's me, you, and eric holder. >> seth: oh, yeah.hese are your cats by the way i want people to see them. your cats are rescues, correct >> yes >> seth: they're gorgeous. what are their names >> chit chat is the black one. and my way is the tiger one. >> seth: chit chat and my way. those are very unique names for cats those sound like kentucky derby horse names. >> well, i named them because that's how i'm doing life, you know i'm divorced, i'm single, i'm a thoroughbred i'm not -- [ laughter ] >> seth: how -- hey, when you rescue cats, how quickly do they feel comfortable, you know, around a new owner like yo >> no. the tiger one immediately fell in love. they were born in the alley, by the way. >> seth: okay. >> their mom was, you know, attacked by some guy cat and then she had eight babies, but the other six ran away so chit chat and my way chose to stay with the mom and say "what are we going to do now?" [ laughter ] and then the rescue found them i know, it's funny, but this is my story for you >> seth: technically, it's their s

stevens, of course, was asked to be dismissed by eric holder, but that wasn't what happened in this caseabeth: the fbi text messages talk about how the flynn probe was based on, quote, conspiracy theories, was a nightmare, that basically, you know, if this ths becomes public, there's going to be tough questions through freedom of information act requests. william barnett, he's the fbi guy who work on the trump-russia probe and the -- sit right there, sidney, we're going to cut to president trump. he's speaking right now. let's listen to president trump. >> [inaudible] >> well, she's outstanding, but i haven't said that. i'll be announcing it tomorrow at 5:00. we are going to make a round table now, and then i'm going virginia, as you know. we're doing a rally tonight. and then we'll call it a day. i would say that's a pretty good day. >> [inaudible] in florida? >> say who? >> [inaudible] >> no, i did not. by the way, a very highly thought of person, but i did not. >> [inaudible] amy coney barrett. >> is that what they're telling you? >> [inaudible] >> you'll find out tomorrow. she's very

to get it right and do better and certainly to never be political and that was a key theme for eric holder president obama, but also for the other administrations that i served under. i was a republican hire as an assistant united states attorney during the first bush administration. that's not to say about a political hire. i just happened to be hired then. and the expectation across administrations and up until now was one of loyalty to the constitution, not the president. now that seems to have changed. >> catherine, is this having an impact on bill barr and the president? we know that the trump does not like to have other people front and center in news and the fact that bill barr is trending. will this have any impact? >> i think the president's focus at the moment really is on his re-election campaign. he's out this weekend campaigning in nevada. he'll be in arizona tomorrow. heading out to look at the california, to look at the wildfires. so i think that is the focus but i think that also underscores a key point here as you look at the actions, the prosecutor leaving as well as the

former attorney general eric holder spoke to my colleague al sharpton last night about how democrats should respond. >> i think that what democrats have to do, assuming that biden is president and there is a senate majority in for the democrats, we need to think when court reform. and at a minimum, as part of that reform package, i think additional justices need to be placed on the supreme court. >> i want to bring in phil wiser, attorney general for the state of colorado and a former clerk to the late justice ginsburg. i want to talk about the legacy of justice ginsburg but i wan to get your thoughts on the strategy of packing the courts. >> first alicia, congrats on the new show. it is great having youen ga eng in such important issue. the court is in the balance. as an institution, centered on the rule of law, vice president biden talked about it. the credibility of the court at issue. and the senators, whether they rush this through without a thorough vetting and without keeping their word, what is at issue how the public sees the court and as an institution that engages the way