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gowdy. mr. gowdy: thank the gentleman. director johnson, i don't want to beat a dead horse but i do think it's important, the last time you and i talked i wasn't 100% sure but since had confirmed the dnc never turned the server over to law enforcement, so twice now you have said that you could have camped out in front of the dnc and i would say in defense of you it wouldn't have made any difference if you had because they weren't going to give you the server. so if you're investigating either from a law enforcement or from an intelligence standpoint, the hacking by a foreign hostile government, wouldn't you want the server? wouldn't that help you, number one, identify -- when we learned of the dnc hack. if they turned the server over to you or director comey, maybe we would have known more and make there would have been more for you to report. so i guess what i'm asking you, why would the victim of a crime not turn over a server to the intelligence community or to law enforcement? sec. johnson: i'm not going to argue with

that's a different headline, because i'm eluding here to trey gowdy. what's the thought here, jesse, as to why and how that might play itself out? at some point might he do what the former chair did and was looking into? they did have an emphasis on this question? >> yeah, i think that we're seeing from trey gowdy, who is a former federal prosecutor, that, you know, he's moving, it's a sharp contrast from jason chaffetz and looking at trump and russia and that's not the focus that gowdy seems to want to take with this committee now under his purview, so he has said, he's cited robert mueller, the special counsel, saying he doesn't want to step on his toes, he's going to allow any criminal prosecution or investigation to continue separate from his committee, but we'll see. there are several panels, obviously, already in the house and senate looking at potential ties between trump and trump's campaign, rather, and russia, and so we'll see if that for the house oversight committee if there's not some pressure on them, at least the periphery to go after so

gowdy: i'm just struggling to understand how this ever could have turned out any other way.soon as the gun leaves the parking lot, unless you're maintaining constant surveillance, then you've lost the gun. and then if it crosses the border, god knows what you're gonna do with it. and then when you learn they didn't even let our mexican counterparts in law enforcement know what was going on. this is the most imminently predictable tragedy that i've been connected with since i've been in congress. it could not have turned out any other way. sharyl: what are some of the outstanding questions today? john dodson: well, i think that some of them -- and they all might not pertain directly to the terry family -- is the amount of homicides or murders that have been caused by the firearms that we allowed to be trafficked, what the ultimate cost of this strategy was. sharyl: although the governmen delineating the crimes that have been committed by criminals using guns trafficked during fast and furious, i've found evidence of at least 43 killings, including two u.s. federal agents, thr

gowdy. can you elaborate more on what the dhs's connection with the dnc was or consultation with the dnc after it became aware of the hacking as to what was offered them, what they accepted? was there any level of cooperation at all? >> to my disappointment, not to my knowledge, sir. and this is a question i asked repeatedly when i first learned of it, what are we doing? are we in there? are we helping them discover the vulnerabilities? because this is fresh off the opm experience. and there was a point at which dhs cybersecurity experts did get in to opm and help them discover the bad actors and patch some of the exfiltrations or at least minimize some of the damage so i was anxious to know whether our folks were in there and the response i got was, fbi had spoken to them, they don't want our help, they have crowd strike, the cybersecurity firm and that was the answer i got after i asked the question a number of times over the progression of time. >> that was i assume totally different from

to working alongside his fellow committee members, tray gowdy with the new job.c senator described james comey's testimony today as absolutely chilling. i've noted how comey said president trump asked him to end the investigation into the former national security adviser mike flynn and his ties to russia. senator richard bloomingthal of connecticut has more. >> this is a threat to our national security. it's a chill ago because of power. >> shepard: paul ryan tried to defend president trump's action. >> the president's new at this. he's new to government. so he probably wasn't steeped in the long-running protocols that establish the relationships between doj, fbi and white houses. >> shepard: paul ryan. speaker ryan said it's important for the fbi to have a degree of independence from the white house. mike emanuel is on capitol hill. what did you hear from republicans after they had a chance to question comey in there? >> some didn't want to talk. saying they were only looking forward to the closed session. john cane said there was a double standard between the w

congressman gowdy saying grateful for the opportunity.e oversight committee chairman to be trey gowdy. >>> beltway is buzzing from fired fbi director james comey. some democra were callg for impeachment of president before that before it got started. california congressman brad sherman joined with texas congressman al green yesterday, and two of them announced they were starting documents for that process. >> this is about democracy. governor of the people, by the people. for the people. the president will not be indicted while he is in office. while there is some merit to talking about the judicial process, the impeachment process is the process that will bring the president before the bar of justice. connell: that of course was a political process. congressman sherman does join us now from capitol hill. thank you, sir, for coming on. i appreciate it. i want to dig in with what today's testimony. not what was said at your news conference yesterday. but what did you hear from former director comey? some legal experts said when he was told

brian: accusation by the question we saw by trey gowdy.you said to john brennan was there ever a u.s. ambassador that asked for the unmasking of a name not that i remember it's kind of fuzzy. now you know samantha power gets subpoenaed. was it the u.n. ambassador. >> what does the u.n. ambassador do had? she is diplomat. pete: she is not involved in intelligence. >> correct. she should not have had nothing to do with this unless it was for political purpose. the unmasking is a below the radar screen crisis that occurred at the tail end of the obama administration when they began to fear hey, donald trump might really win. we have got to do something about it. ainsley: from a legal standpoint, what does this mean? you get subpoenaed. there is going to be an investigation. they have to talk in front of the house -- this committee. but what happens next? >> this comes under the bailiwick of bob mueller next. unmasking for legitimate intelligence purposes, you have in your hands the transcript of a conversation between an american and a foreig

trey gowdy, thank you very much. good to see you, sir.ay is the longest day of the year as it is hot in new york city. we decided to go out to times square and ask some folks in the crossroads of america, as it is known, what do you think about this russia investigation, where it is going? here are some of their responses. >> they haven't done anything substantial. he is the president. they should get over it and do what's important for the countr country. >> what is important for the country? >> jobs. >> exactly. i feel the same way. >> i don't think anyone knows what happened. it was probably some emails and obviously, there is something there. whether it is material, who knows. >> there's a lot of weird behavior. >> i don't think anyone knows what happens. >> i don't know if that i am stodgy and trying to avoid things. that usually means i have done something wrong. i think congress should get to the bottom of what is going on with the rush of our share. >> martha: some of what is going on at times square today. tonight, we have someth

gowdy questions and your responses establish that this is a not a new thing. this meddling and we heard from others that the meddling in the 2016 election was unprecedented. so i wonder if you'll take a minute or two and help us better understand what was unpresdenned and what was different about this array of meddling versus what we've seen in the past. >> what we've seen a history of various different types of various cyberactors intruding into infiltrating political organizations, political campaigns. and that's what i was referring to when i say that this effort was unprecedented, what i mean is that we not only saw infiltrati infiltrations, but we saw efforts to dump information into the public space for the purpose of influencing the ongoing political campaign. and it was widespread. and in that respect, and we knew it was happening. in that respect, it was very much unprecedented. >> distilling your testimony, we had seen scanning queries, what we might consider espionage, trying to gather information. but we had never seen the, what the russians call a

. >> shannon: just days after congressman trey gowdy alluded to it.ubpoenas have been sent out focusing on three former obama administration officials. >> bill: new reaction on hillary clinton's election loss. blame game as that continues. >> i think short of getting 5:00 shadow and wearing wing tips on the beach her transformation into full nixonian bitterness is complete. >> bill: opening bell on wall street went off a moment ago. traders keeping a close eye on a 3:00 announcement later today from president trump in the rose garden. he will announce whether or not the u.s. will remain in the paris climate accord. many world leaders, major corporations urging him to stay. others in the west wing say keep your campaign promise and get out. more on that coming up shortly here on "america's newsroom." >> shannon: big news today the house intelligence committee issuing subpoenas in the russia probe. michael flynn and president trump's lawyer michael kohn being called to testify. three major intelligence agencies also being subpoenaed. they are seeking do

experience amazing. >> loretta lynch has explaining to do, trey gowdy demanding answers from the attorney why she asked fbi director james comey to call hillary clinton's private email server investigation a matter. >> i would love to hear her explanation of why she wanted to call an investigation a matter. we never referred to it as matters. i don't know what her point was. i think i do know what her objective was. mahmoud abbas the word choice was political in nature. heather: congressman steve scalise is upgraded from serious to fair condition after being shot in the hip during baseball practice. capital police officer took a bullet coming to his defense, just released from the hospital, at the congressional women softball game. and a second laptop, more than 200 rounds of ammunition and rifle parts in a storage unit in alexandria, james hutchinson. >> college professor under fire for suggesting congressman steve scalise should have been left to die because he is white. heather: here is more on the disgusting post in his one minute commentary. >> nation colleges and universities infect

gowdy said he would investigate things as they come up. chicago,to robert and democrats line. go ahead. we are talking about the idea of term limits for the supreme court caller:. caller:20 years should be it. host: why 20? because the congress voted that we had to retire at 66. washer they have a job for a lifetime? -- why should they have a job for a lifetime? how do justices think? seeing a you prefer a length of time limit or mandatory retirement age for justice? caller: 20 years is it. if you are over 70, you should be out of there. host: because why? caller: i'm 69 and i forget things. when you get older you start to forget. you can say that you are on top of stuff, but time waits for no man. that's the bottom line. host: robert in chicago sharing thoughts on the matter of term limits for the supreme court. we will continue on with this 202-78 three, 8004 democrats, and for independence 2-748-2002. our facebook page is available to you as well. line here is matt from virginia. comment on whether or not the supreme court just the -- the would it was huge, it drove a lot o

theerday on capitol hill, former homeland security secretary was asked by trey gowdy, the republican congressman, about any sort of , and he said -- this is the answer that mr. johnson gave -- "not beyond what has been out there as an open source." whether trey gowdy had any evidence of collusion between , "not beyondpaign what has been out there open mr. johnson replied, "and not beyond anything that i am sure this committee has already seen and heard before directly from the intelligence community ." as we told you, president trump in iowa yesterday, and he proposed new immigration rules when he was supporting -- talking to his supporters out there. president trump proposed new immigration rules that would bar newcomers from the united states -- to the united states from receiving welfare for five years. the welfare law signed into law added adent clinton prohibition on immigrants becoming public charges has been law for more than a century, but experts say enforcement of both provisions, particularly the public charge requirement, have been lacking. mr. trump also vowed he would s

trey gowdy and i introducing legislation that we hope to advance before the judiciary committee.incarcerate more people in this country than any other country in the world and it's largely the result of the failed war on drugs started in the '70s and hasn't yielded anyublic fety rests. our bill would hopefully increase the age by which people can pursue expungement for minor drug offenses, from 21 where it's currently at, to 25. we have a significant number of democrats, republicans, progressives and conservatives on the legislation, hopefully it will serve as an example of the cooperation that can emerge from washington even in the midst of these difficult times. >> will you keep us apprised of its progress? >> looking forward to it. >> thank you very much, congressman. appreciate you stopping by tonight. another break for us. when we come back why the former vice president's name was in the news today. and what's next for the democratic party. always discreet. incredible protection... in a pad this thin. i didn't think it would work. but the super absorbent core turns liquid to

for instance, today, congressman trey gowdy issued a statement saying they were completely clearing the lanes and that he didn't want his committee talking with any of the witnesses mueller was talking to, talking about any of the topics that mueller was investigating. so the take away from that is that bob mueller is speaking with both house and senate subcommittees, telling them or advising them about the scope of his investigation, and i suspect giving them good reason to not interfere in any way. it must be compelling information that he's taking to them to elicit this kind of response from people like congressman gowdy. >> that's a great point. and jeremy, does mueller investigate or is he fueled by what we now have in testimony the president not expressing any curiosity or anger to the former fbi director, the president not expressing any curiosity or anger to his sitting attorney general over the fact that this country was attacked in our election process by russia? >> yeah, he appears to have no concern at all. just want to take slight issue with what janice just referenced. i d

trey gowdy hasn't seen them.anyone who has seen them, unless they have been given to senate intel in the last 48 hours or so and nobody knows anything about it. >> martha: you would expect that the notes that he took after that meeting, because he kept a record, what have been turned over to department of justice. >> they seem to be federal records. when i spoke with mr. james comey, we were having a conversation, but i asked him specifically, do these documents reside at the department of justice or do you personally happen? he said he would not comment whatsoever. that struck me as odd. so, we have since followed up, as the oversight committee, to say we would like to see all of your documents. not just about your meetings of donald trump -- >> martha: will he hand them over? >> if he has them. i want to see, not only the things that he has with his interactions with donald trump, but what about barack obama? attorney general loretta lynch? bill clinton? what about -- if he is making records of these things, as

gowdy questions and your responses established this is not a new thing, this meddling in our election. we have seen it before. wasn't to come back to that. you also stated and we heard from others that the meddling in the 2016 election was unprecedented in its scope and reach. i wonder if you might take a minute or two and just help us better understand why it was unprecedented, what was different versus what we have seen in the past. >> we have seen a history of various different types of bad cyber actors intruding into, infiltrating political organizations, political campaigns. that's what i was referring to. when i say that this effort was unprecedented, what i mean is that we not only saw infiltrations but we saw efforts to dump information into the public space for the purpose of influencing the ongoing political campaign. it was widespread. and in that respect -- we knew it was happening. in that respect it was very much unprecedented. >> can i just distilling your testimony, we had seen scanning, quarries, what we might consider espionage, trying to gather information. but we h

. >> former senator joe lieberman congressman trey gowdy, senator john cornyn-- all were originally floated by the white house as contenders, and all said that they wanted to be removed from consideration. >> the white house is having trouble finding a replacement for the outgoing communications director. four potential successors are said to have declined to be considered. ( laughter ) >> trevor: i'm sorry, wait. do you have any idea how insulting it is for people to say they don't want to work for you before you even ask them, right? ( laughter ) that's like randomly walking into a dunkin' donuts and just shouting, "never gonna happen, guys! never gonna happen! i'm not interested!" ( laughter ) but you know what, i think i see the problem. i think i see the problem. the trump administration can't fill positions because everyone knows that working there is so volatile and it's so insane, so the people have been scared off. but maybe the ministration should use that to its advantage. think of it this way-- if you have a house that's creepy, you don't try to put it up on airbnb. that's not g

that election she stated strongly that he thought rest and played a part in the election and trey gowdy this morning actually had a very interesting points and he said if clinton were the victim to a so-called crime then why not turn over the server the d.n.c. never turned over the server to law enforcement so do you think she really sees rest of the reason as to why she lost the election or is she merely using russia as her scapegoats well i do believe that she's using it as her scapegoat we actually know this from a book called shattered which came out by some folks written by some folks who worked on the clinton campaign in new and talked about the fact that she in her campaign concocted this whole russia gate idea after she lost the election in order to essentially you know deflect. attention from her own shortcomings as a candidate and in fact the interesting thing is right after the election right after it before she you know thought up this russia scheme she in a moment of candor said what really destroyed her campaign in the eleventh hour was the james komi letter three weeks be

congressman trey gowdy just took over as chairman of the house oversight committee, also served on the house intelligence committee and he joins us. thank you for joining us. >> trey: i hope you're feeling better. spent feel vigorous. but i have lost track of the point of all this. what is the point of this investigation just to remind those of us were following at home? >> trey: for hyperfocus on collusion is not congress' fault, i would say folks in your line of work have been focused on collusion much more than certainly republican members of house. there are four things were looking at, russian active measures with a subset of that being collusion. the u.s. response back in 2016, which has nothing to do it from, that's an obama administration response. and the leaks and the unmasking, which has everything to do with the reauthorization of certain surveillance programs. there are four things that the house until committee is looking in. one of those involved active measures in a subset of that would be collusion, not just between mr. trump and the russians, but between any american

out there happens during barack obama's watch, he was the president of the united states and as trey gowdyut of the homeland security secretary, the homeland security department tried to help the democrats and the democrats refused their help. >> for obama administration officials are giving it is unfair to base 2016 on what we know in 2017. reports of russian meddling -- with that sweet last night it appears donald trump for the first time has publicly acknowledged it was not a hoax and russia did not try to interfere in the 2016 election. elizabeth: thank you so much. leland: this new report brings up questions how candid the obama administration was with congress. congressman, thanks for being with us. this brings up an important question. is the president, and members of congress, so upset over how the obama administration handled the russian hacking and russian attempts to influence the election, why is the administration and why aren't republicans in congress pounding the desk demanding more be done against russia as punishment? >> people want something done, there are investigations

and i know trey gowdy, trey will be in charge of oversight and government reform. he's a former prosecutor. he's the best. >> even dianne feinstein, a liberal democrat from california said this is very troubling. it's frustrating because there was no special counsel appointed for the clinton email case when bill clinton meeting with loretta lynch. talking about keeping her on as attorney general. yet we have a special counsel for the russia matter where there wasn't even a crime identified in the special counsel regulations require that. judge jeanine: collusion is not a crime. but i want to move on. you had a rough week. you were at that ballgame. you spoke to the shooter. >> this is a guy that came up to me and jeff on duncan. the shooter had a list and jeff duncan was on that list. he wanted to know if there were republicans or democrats out there and jeff told him it was the republican team. he walked toward the field and five minute later began to shoot. this guy appreciated what he was asking us. he responded. i think he was unhinged in a mitt cal sense and f

congressman trey gowdy asking those questions.st i have no objection to anyone on it. lou: will he get an apology from the democrats? >> absolutely not. they will continue to chase rabbits. they are not interested in making the country great again. they are interested in finding something to complain about. lou: i have a sneaking suspicion at this rate the democrats aren't going to have much to you have a come 2018. is the supreme court clearing the way for the president's travel ban? it turns out there is a constitution that's in effect and it does apply to president trump. i don't think the dems understood that. but apparently they are getting lou: in our online poll we asked do you think there is enough evidence to show former attorney general loretta lynch obstructed justice and gave hillary clinton cover? only 96% of you say yes there is. eboni, let's start with the blockbuster with the supreme court. i want you to weigh in on this one. this has been hanging over the head this president from almost the moment he walked into t

congressman trey gowdy asking those questions.another name to the list i have no objection to anyone on it. lou: will he get an apology from the democrats? >> absolutely not. they will continue to chase rabbits. they are not interested in making the country great again. they are interested in finding something to complain about. lou: i have a sneaking suspicion at this rate the democrats aren't going to have much to you have a come 2018. is the supreme court clearing the way for the president's travel ban? it turns out there is a constitution that's in effect and it does apply to president trump. i don't think the dems understood that. but apparently they are getting ♪ art. it can be sculpted, bringing to life beautiful detail. or painted in luxurious strokes. and in rare cases... both. ♪ you totanobody's hurt, new car. but there will still be pain. it comes when your insurance company says they'll only pay three-quarters of what it takes to replace it. what are you supposed to do? drive three-quarters of a car? now if you had lib

congressman trey gowdy asking those questions.d another name to the list i have no objection to anyone on it. lou: will he get an apology from the democrats? >> absolutely not. they will continue to chase rabbits. they are not interested in making the country great again. they are interested in finding something to complain about. lou: i have a sneaking suspicion at this rate the democrats aren't going to have much to you have a come 2018. is the supreme court clearing the way for the president's travel ban? it turns out there is a constitution that's in effect and it does apply to president trump. i don't think the dems understood that. but apparently they are getting the idea now. e pain these feet... liked to style my dog as a kid... and were pumped to open my own salon. but i couldn't bear my diabetic nerve pain any longer. so i talked to my doctor and she prescribed lyrica. lyrica may cause serious allergic reactions, suicidal thoughts or actions. tell your doctor right away if you have these, new or worse depression, unusual

congressman trey gowdy asking those questions.other name to the list i have no objection to anyone on it. lou: will he get an apology from the democrats? >> absolutely not. they will continue to chase rabbits. they are not interested in making the country great again. they are interested in finding something to complain about. lou: i have a sneaking suspicion at this rate the democrats aren't going to have much to you have a come 2018. is the supreme court clearing the way for the president's travel ban? it turns out there is a constitution that's in effect and it does apply to president trump. i don't think the dems understood that. understood that. but apparently they are getting ♪ whoa that's amazing... hey, i'm the internet! i know a bunch of people who would love that. the internet loves what you're doing... ...so build a better website in under an hour with... ...gocentral from godaddy. type in your idea. select from designs tailored just for you and publish your site with just a few clicks-even from your... ...mobile phone.

the new karm for issuing the subpoena, but right now gowdy is not commenting on this letter and they're not saying they'll agree going forward. there should be any subpoenas going forward and the white house may just brush this aside, wolf. >>> the russian election is being trading to vladimir putin and lawmakers are saying there should be no reason for a let-up in the kremlin's efforts. what's the latest, jessica, on the russian investigation? >> two separate hearings, both of them offering alarming details. intelligence officials and election experts disclosing that hackers were hitting five times a second 24 hours a day, and with the russian efforts likely to continue, former obama official jeh johnson asked congress, what are they going told. >> in 2016, vladimir putin orchestrated cyber attacks on the u.s. for purposes of interrupting our election. that is a fact, plain and simple. >> reporter: pinning the russian attack squarely on russia but also facing scrutiny for not sounding the alarm sooner. >> why did it take so long to say that a russian was hacking our elections? why did

and i know trey gowdy, trey will be in charge of oversight and government reform. he's a former prosecutor. he's the best. >> even dianne feinstein, a liberal democrat from california said this is very troubling. it's frustrating because there was no special counsel appointed for the clinton email case when bill clinton meeting with loretta lynch. talking about keeping her on as attorney general. yet we have a special counsel for the russia matter where there wasn't even a crime identified in the special counsel regulations require that. judge jeanine: collusion is not a crime. but i want to move on. you had a rough week. you were at that ballgame. you spoke to the shooter. >> this is a guy that came up to me and jeff on duncan. the shooter had a list and jeff duncan was on that list. he wanted to know if there were republicans or democrats out there and jeff told him it was the republican team. he walked toward the field and five minute later began to shoot. this guy appreciated what he was asking us. he responded. i think he was unhinged in a mitt cal sense and f

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gowdy's people are either late 60s and 70s so that's amazing to me and again it looks at the weaknessh in terms of young people and i don't know there's any great surge of young folks on the republican side but i will say this donald trump's looking under by the minute when you compare it. kennedy: when you look at someone like joe biden you know he has capacity and his he seems like he could raise money and people talk about others would have had a better shot at beating president trump joe biden's name comes up a lot. >> i find it so interesting because if i was a republican i would have thought get me biden. i have plagiarism he's rubbing women's arms from the back and saying this is a big linking deal. they would have called him uncle joe and a clownish figure but now he is revered on the right. kennedy: i also think he attracts independents that hillary clinton could never track. >> that's another problem here because at the moment president trumps numbers have been falling sharply among independents. if you get a democrat who in fact and this is why i think you were in target at

this happened during obama's watch and astray gowdy was able to get out of homeland security, the homeland security department try today help in help democrats and guess what, the democrats refused their help. >> meanwhile obama era officials are standing by his decision. >> you know, i know that the obama white house in a very difficult situation and they made the best positions they could. we call the 5149 decisions. >> we use to call them crumby and crumbier. >> joining me now retired four-star general jack keane, chairman of the institute for the study of war and also fox news military analyst. good afternoon, general, great to have you with us. jack: hey, julian, great to see you on that side of the camera. >> thank you, likewise. the obama administration including the president himself considered dozens of retaliating against the russia cybers interference and presenting future attacks of the same nature, cyber attacks and even releasing epl basis asking cia information about president putin but ultimately as you know, they didn't decide to go with any of these options and decided to

. >> republicans like trey gowdy recall how the democratic national committee refused to cooperation with the fbi and the department of homeland security despite being warned russia had hacked into it's computer system. >> dnc never turned the server over to law enforcement? if you're investigating either from a law enforcement or from an intelligence standpoint, the hacking by foreign hostile government. wouldn't you want the server? wouldn't that help you, number one, identify who the attacker was? why would the victim of a crime not turn over a server to the intelligence community or to law enforcement? >> i'm not going to argue with you, sir, that was a leading question, and i'll agree to be led. >> interesting. i'll agree to be led, if you don't speak court speak, that was jeh johnson, saying the democratic national committee during the clinton campaign was stupid, it would not let the fbi in to do something. why is this significant today? much of the investigations, much of the conversations in washington is about did people in trump's orbit collude, coordinate, have any improp

you were primaried out of congress in an election that gave the world trey gowdy among other things. what is the 60-second version of your journey from denier to activist and what you have to say to fellow republicans in congress these days? >> brian, you are right, it started with six years in congress, of me saying climate change was non-sense. didn't no anything about it except that al gore was for it and if you represented the conservative district i represented then that was enough. i was running especially real estate, my son came to me in 2004 and he said dad i'll vote for you, but you have got to clean up your act on the environment. that plus a trip to the great barrier reef and an impact with an aussie climate scientist cause my to see the rmt of climate change and let's do something about it. >> a fellow republican of yours, and a friends of ours, and a frequent contributor, steve schmidt wrote this, i saw it on social media today, on twitter. for the first time in the post warld war two world, the u.s. president lacks the moral authority to lead the western alliance. that

right about trump-russia collusion, they should take a look at this exchange between congressman trey gowdynd former obama dhs yesecretary jeh johnson from yesterday. it's not going to help their optimism.ta take a look. >> you have seen no evidence that the russians were successful at changing voter tallies or voter totals.re >> correct. >> at the time, had you seen any evidence that donald trump or any member of his campaign colluded, conspired, or coordinated with the russians >> not beyond what has been out there, open sourced and not beyond anything that i'm sure this committee has already seen and heard before directly from ethe intelligence community? >> sean: johnson is the latest in a long list of former obama officials to say the exact same thing.g. they have not seen any evidence whatsoever of trump-russia collusion. voter tallies were not changed in the november election. and johnson also testified that the dnc rejected help from the dhs after it was allegedly hacked last summer. why would they do that? they also blocked the fbi from having access to their servers. maybe the des

ambassador samantha powers conducting unmasking of people as was alluded to by trey gowdy in his questioningnan, the size and scope of this thing is beyond anyone's imagination, and when all the little details come out. lou: are they going to come out? chris: they will. they can't keep a lid on this one. they kept a lid on the irs, no criminal prosecutions there. they kept a lid on fast and furious. but this is a question of, you know, fourth amendment constitutional right issues and there's a fisa court that essentially the obama administration lied to for years. lou: well, the fisa court, by the way, talked about how stern their rebuke was. >> yes. lou: it was a slap on the wrist. that was a violation of the constitution of the united states and our laws. somebody should have been held accountable at that point by that judge. chris: you know attorney general sessions, call your office. this is the time for grand juries to be impelleand for folks to take legal action against this kind of abuse. time for grand juries. time for the attorney general to step up. this unmasking, i don't want to

the benghazi was a phony thing, and gowdy himself was using a private server.ll these factors you mentioned also do contribute but i think there was a very concerted, very concerted effort where in the last ten days, when comey went and put his thumb on the scales by bringing up this phony e-mail thing, when he knew this russiagate investigation, very serious level, was the top spies, was connections to these people was going on. my question is, didn't all these questions -- all these factors contribute towards her being very cagey and mismanaging and not having a specific message? bus i think in the end, her policies were not very well-reported by the press. >> her policies were easy to find. i'd be hesitant to look at a campaign and say, wow, there's a campaign against her and it was unfair there was a campaign against her. when you talk about -- we haven't talked about this before but talk about russia. here's an example of she we now. we knew the russiases has been trying to tamper with our elections and were behind the dnc hacks and good reason to suspect

gowdy said he will investigate things as things pick up. let's go to robert robert is in chicago, illinois, democrats line. we're talking about this idea of term limits for the supreme court. what do you think? caller: 20 years should be it. host: why 20? caller: because it should be age limits. the congress voted that we have to retire 66. why do they keep their job for a lifetime? i shouldn't be subject to lbj's pick. his idea. he picks his ideas according to how the justices think. host: are you saying you prefer a length of term limit or mandatory retirement age for a justice? caller: both. 20 years is it. 20 should be it. if you over 70, you should be out of there. host: because why? caller: because i'm 69. i forget things. when you get older you start to forget. you can say that you on top of stuff. ages make you forget. fast the bottom line. host: robert in chicago, sharing his thoughts on the matter of term limits for the supreme court. few more minutes as we continue on with this topic. show you the court and talk to you and get yo