>> representative gowdy: yes.cans are the best i've ever seen it taking good facts and overstating them and therefore changing the narrative. i don't know what they meant by secret society. i didn't use the phrase. it is fair to ask them. but if it were a joke, then was also a joke to mention the insurance policy, was also a joke to talk about impeachment the morning after president trump won? was also a joke to say i have no interest in participating in an investigation if he is going to be cleared. there's a pattern and republicans are better served by letting the texts speak for themselves. i have no idea what they meant by that. i don't know if it was a joke or not. it's not my job to figure it ou out. these two witnesses need to come in and tell us what they meant by it and everything else they said over the course of 18 months, republicans would be well served, let the texts speak for themselves. let the jury make up their mind and quit engaging in hyperbole, which we seem to do a lot. >> chris: we look forw

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congressman trey gowdy and congressman john ratcliffe joined me now. thank you very much for being here tonight. >> good to be with you. >> martha: ed henry laid out a lot of the breaking news this evening and the memo that you put out. i want to go back a little bit because with regard to lisa page and the fact that she says in these text messages -- let's put up what she says. she is referring to the fact that loretta lynch has said at this point that she is going to step aside, that no politically appointed official is going to make judgment on the hillary clinton situation, she's going to let the fbi do it and that's all we know comey came forward and made his announcement. she says about that, she says this. it's a real profiling -- she knows no charges will be brought. here's an exchange with james comey and congressman ratcliffe. let's watch this. >> director, did you make the decision not to recommend criminal charges relating to classified information before or after hillary clinton was interviewed by the fbi on july the second? >> after. all

so you heard congressman gowdy there. he among other republicans reportedly want to see this secret memo released. what is in it that dhoeth step in he the litany of things he said, if you want these things answered. many of these things we know the anxiouses to. >> we don't know what is in these moments. even the people calling for these memos the don't know. it is classified and that's the basis for the justice department saying they really shouldn't be released. it is not the way we go about doing things. releasing classified information. it seems so far that this is a part of, not. so getting more information about this investigation but trying to discredit this investigation and push a narrative that says that this was some politically motivated investigation into president trump and his campaign that goes back to getting fisa warrants, that led to some information we found bout michael flynn. so it is a counter narrative being pushed here on the other side of folks who want to protect robert mueller. let this invest

trey gowdy should have had his committee figure out what was going to happen ahead of time. we need to make sure while a lot of this is only politics that we do get answers that the american people deserve. it never comes out of a congressional committee i have to say, it has to come out of jeff session's office. somebody like bannon, it's not even throwing manafort under the bus, it's i saw something he allegation that i found to be troubling. but none of these things have to do with the president, just like his health report on tuesday. everyone is going to be disappointed. because it's going to not be about trump. >> with the grand jury, would i expect more indictments. >> martha: there's no grand jury though. >> there's not an open grand jury. bannon was subpoenaed for the grand jury. >> martha: he's ploib in the negotiating room. great to see you. up next. >> a lot of people on both sides of the aisle trying to get an outcome. >> martha: we're hearing that republicans don't have the votes to avert a government shutdown this friday. ed henry is live at the white house wi

gowdy doesn't think the public should see the information this is based on. the justice department doesn't know what's spin or take on all that information, that real source data the republicans took. democratic new york congressman told me the memo is this. a list of republican talking points designed to discredit the fbi and the russia investigation. >> it's a political document designed for one purpose and that is to discredit, disable the fbi and the justice department and any -- it's part of a long term campaign by the republicans, by the administration and some republicans in congress to disable, discredit and any agency that is involved in the investigation of the president. >> all of this today coming as the deputy director suddenly stepped down. he was gone by noon today. trump has attacked him for months railing about his involvement in the clinton e-mail and his wife's run as a democrat for statewide office in virginia. mccabe is a registered republican. we're learning mu ining much mo what may have forced him out. we'll have a lot more on that. we

trey gowdy has a good reputation, suggests to me there might be something there.the bigger question to me is whether or not what he is talking about on these sunday shows, a partisan -- democratic piece of opposition research that was the basis for the f.b.i. investigation. it is important for us to see all the documentation not simply the nunes memo which is a partisan, republican writing an analysis of the fisa process, and see all the information so that we can all be the judge of whether or not this was something corrupt or whether it was the basis for a legitimate f.b.i. investigation. that's what is in question at this point. >> sandra: gowdy seemed to suggest over the weekend talking to chris wallace that we could potentially learn a lot about that anti-trump dossier and potentially its use to issue those fisa warrants. what if we did learn based on what he is suggesting, how would that change the russia investigation? >> well, it depends on what -- depends on what we learn. if the dossier was used in some sort of corrupt way, if there were conversations go

it's not gowdy's seat in particular.ut it will make it harder for republicans to hold on to the seat. charles: i'm an advocate of term limits. the rules gingrich put in for how long you can be a committee chair is acting like a deterrent. tammy: i think this is a good chance. i like to see a turnover as well. we see people staying there for decades and we end up having problems and a disconnect with the people. these kinds of races are local races. i think it's not a guarantee because of some national perspective there might be a problem. and this a record amount of money the republicans are raising. the democrats are having a huge problem with mommy. charles: a problem with money, message and management. tammy: trey gowdy said he's going away forever. he would make a great attorney general or head of the fbi. but i don't think it means republicans are in trouble. charles: some breaking news we are getting from fox news. sources are saying the fisa memo could be released as early as late tomorrow morning. devin nunes rel

>> well, gowdy came as a bit of a surprise. he was far from hitting his term limit as chairman of the house oversight committee. his direct is not considered competitive. he likely could have been re-elected with ease. he's never built himself as that career politician and he's hinted he wanted to return to south carolina for a while. so he's exit right now is suggestive, illustrative of the rest of the gop's mood, which is if you're not in this for the long haul, maybe now is the time to get out. some republicans are bracing for being in the minority come november. >> you have any time there's good news or developments concerning the president and what is widely received as a state of the union address, we joked about it last night in washington, that means there's bad news to follow, troublesome news. either the gowdy resignation or the word that the fbi is not keen on the release of the republican memo. on that and the fbi and its concerns, the president seemed fine when caught off mic leaving the house yesterday to have tha

he will leave, south carolina republican trey gowdy. then of course the influence of the russians or lack thereof in the last presidential election. he's not sticking around. 30 some odd republican congressmen and senators who opted not to hang onto their jobs here and that could be a problem for republicans trying to recruit big names and ran for those jobs themselves. so far having a tough time. senior fellow patrice, when you think of this? >> it's an interesting time he's decided to step aside. is it going to change the math? hardly not. his seat is relatively safe. both president trump and mitt romney won by over 20 points. >> were you expecting this? it was not on a couple -- lot of people's radar. this was just coincidental but today's event. it do send the message and they are just tired of the partisan bickering. i thought it was interesting when i read ambassador nikki haley street to him saying you've always been tired of not being able to get anything done in washington and partisan politics and she congratulated him and pro

congressman gowdy, thank you.llow developments in the week and in the future. >> yes, sir, thank you. chris: special counsel gets closer to interview with the president while bias grows in the fbi. the panel returns next. starts with financial stability. once i heard it i was shocked. i just thought, i have to go get it! ♪ ♪ it's our tree! ♪ ♪ see how a personalized financial strategy and access to j.p. morgan investment expertise can help you. chase. make more of what's yours. >> i am shock today read exactly what is taking place. i would think that it would never happen in a country that loves freedom and democracy like this country. >> conspiracy theories with virtually no fact, paranoia, delusion, why? they are afraid of the truth of the mueller investigation? chris: house freedom caucus mark meadows and senate democratic leader chuck schumer at odds over allegations of bias inside the fbi and the justice department who are back now with the panel, congressman, you were the former head of the committee that tr

by no means was trey gowdy in danger of not winning re-election.ct, republican is likely to win it. it doesn't affect the balance of power in the house at all, most likely. here is a chairman of a committee. the institutional knowledge walking out the door irrespective of how the balance of power shakes out, because a lot of these senior republicans are leaving is going to make a mark on the next congress. >> courtroom and congress. i agree. that part of his statement totally jumped out. a new poll is out. the president's approval rating has climbed from 42% up from that low of 32%. it's his best mark in the polls since march of last year. what do you attribute that to? >> this is a really good poll and going to be really welcomed numbers in the white house. it's one of the best polls they've seen in a long time. you see that ten-point jump there just from last month you noted since that low of 32. what's behind it? the passage of the tax cut, definitely now the numbers have completely flipped when asked in that poll. now 55% of americans say donal

you heard our exchange with trey gowdy. we're learning more.sident weighed in saying it's a huge story. final thoughts on the president and his thinking on what we're learning through these text messages. >> clearly these missing text messages. it is quite outrageous. it seems there is a bit of political play coming from this individual and something that needs to be looked into. attorney general sessions is on the case and looking into seeing what happened with these text messages. >> sandra: he said he will leave no stone unturned. thank you for your time this morning. >> bill: in a moment a multi-car collision after a stolen pickup goes in the opposite direction. that doesn't end up. is the governor of washington state protecting illegals in his state with bold moves? we'll have more coming up. okay folks! let's team up to get the lady of the house back on her feet. and help her feel more strength and energy in just two weeks yaaay! the complete balanced nutrition of (great tasting) ensure with 9 grams of protein and 26 vitamins and minerals

we've all known trey gowdy, he loves the law, he loves government, but he doesn't love politics.he's made a decision, he's going to return to the judicial side of things. >> i don't know whether he doesn't love it. >> dana: that's what he said. >> well, i mean, that's what you gotta say when you're in politics. he's too good at it. he's been too good at it to hate it completely. i take him at his word when he says he's leaving because he wants to go back on the judicial side of things. who do you think will be the most sought after attorney in south carolina when he gets home? he'll be the number one defense attorney in south carolina before they can get the yellow pages out. >> dana: this comes on a day after the president's state of the union. i wanted to have you look at two things. the republicans have been way down in the generic ballot. but this just in from monmoth, a poll that we take seriously. showing republicans are only two points down in the generic ballot, which basically said if the election were held today, who would you vote for? that's serious ground the republi

gowdy or others, but it has been hard to be a republican under donald trump. >> is that fair? they put a number of republican judges into position. a lot of republicans say that donald trump's gotten a lot done for their agenda. do you think this is a frustration on the republican side? >> donald trump has consistently put republicans in a really untenable position of backing conservative principles or backing just donald trump and whatever his ideology and whim is at the given moment. with this memo, the very contentious memo, the house is debating it. gowdy was on the side of it being released but let's go through proper channels so let' investigation. make it clear this is not the mueller investigation. and he is arguably far more responsible. >> are democrats, are they able to capitalize on all of the energy that is out there, these retirement, do you see anything for stalling a through wave in 2018. >> honestly no. i'm not supposed to say that and raise expectations but i think if you look at what happening with the exception of the tax cut and with the exception of the m

there talk from trey gowdy, republican trey gowdy that they want james comey to come back.uestions about whether he was truthful in his testimony and it's over these memos. what do you make of that? >> the report dark he was interviewed by the special counsel unit last year and he testified in june about these leaked memos and i would've expected the specific testimony to the special counsel to be prior to that. the testimony was probably vetted by molar, someone who call me in molar worked with in the past and certainly they should not be any news that he gave testimony in respect to this investigation. cheryl: trey gowdy is making an interesting charge here, basically saying he decided not to pursue any kind of charges against hillary clinton over her e-mail server after he interviewed her. now it looks like according to trey gowdy that he made the decision before he ever spoke to her. there might be evidence to back that up. >> good point, cheryl. what needs to be discussed at these back before congress is this memo that was started prior to the hillary clinton interview

devin anyone's, trey gowdy. it's taken months for the department of justice to provide these documents. they had to threaten a subpoena and get the speaker involved. now supposed lire they are going to turn over -- supposedly they are going to turn over the documents. judge jeanine: let's assume the fake dossier paid for and full of absurd allegations against the president was created for the purpose of bringing in fisa surveillance. why don't we have the application for the warrant? who do we have to go to to get the application for the warrant? >> well, it was jim jordan in the house judiciary committee that asked the attorney general and rod rosenstein to provide it. judge jeanine: they said no. my viewers want to know, now, where do we go? how do we find out? enough of this stuff and going on and on about this thing. let, finds out what the application for the fisa warrant looks like. is there anyone other than sessions and christopher wray and the fbi? >> you have to have mitch mcconnell involved with the c

also congressman trey gowdy isis revealing that the day after president trump's election and his win, strzok in his fbi lawyer mistress talked about a "secret society" within the fbi. is this a banana republic? and the doj that could have been working against donald trump from november 9, 2016 on? representative gowdy is also saying there is a text between strzok and page about destroying all their messages. we've seen this movie before. congressional republicans are now moving forward with a plan to publicly release that classified memo that highlights massive fisa abuse. sources are telling fox newsig tonight that it could happen any day. we are asking your help, those of you watching. help make this happen. tell your members of congress to release the memo. #releasethememo. all of that in tonight's opening monologue. tonight, the vindication continuous. we have a lot of brand-new information to share with you, the truth about the russian investigation is being exposed as a sham. a democratic political operation, and it has now turned into a witch hunt. the entire basis of robert mu

another person not seeking reelection -- trey gowdy, south carolina.y: facebook reports its fourth-quarter earnings after the bell, the key things you should watch coming up next. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ vonnie: this is bloomberg markets, i am vonnie quinn. shery: facebook is set to report before quarter earnings today after the bell, the first earnings report since the social media giant announced major -- amidto news feed and mounting criticism over its influence on users while being that in political elections, a risky move as that is the most prominent product they offer. joining us is our technology reporter. what do we expect from the company? ,> and terms of the numbers they are expected to have another strong quarter with record revenue. analysts are not concerned about that. what we will be listening for, we want to hear what these changes to the newsfeed will mean to engagement for growth, for their measurements of itself. mark zuckerberg talked about things like optimizing the newsfeed for time well spent, for meaningful interactions. what do

is telling to me that trey gowdy has been outspoken as he has about these revelations.er minded judge on these matters and is given every benefit of the doubt to the fbi and the miller investigation that he possibly could. these things are troubling. the continued bias that we've seen through these text messages has to be troubling to anybody who believes in the fair application of the law. if you look at the kinds of things that have emerged in the past couple days and marry them with what we've learned before, it's very clear these were not just the private views of this couple having an affair. there was discussion about taking those private views and acting upon them in the public service, in the duty peter strzok had as a public servant. that's where you have i think real problems and this begs for additional questions to be answered by the fbi, doj, by those two in particular. these are real questions. this is a legitimate, substantive issue. >> bret: here are the representatives. >> when you look at these texts and the aggregate, it shows more than just an extrem

i've been in trey gowdy's shoes. trey gowdy is absolutely right.f you get called before a committee of congress you can not make up this idea you get executive privilege. that has to be invoked by the executive branch, not the person coming to testify. david: i understand that. i am curious by robert mueller. prosecutors looked for people who were consistent, not people all over the map like steve bannon. >> well, his credibility is, you know, much like general flynn. here he pleads guilty to lying to the fbi. well his credibility is now gone. so mr. bannon's credibility will be highly questionable because he has been all over the map in his public comments but there is a difference between lying, say in public and lying when you're under oath having to raise your hand when you're lying to perhaps an fbi agent or going before a committee in congress. that is a whole another level. at least it es supposed to be. it net always played out that be but it is supposed to be different. david: because of the tribute to bob dole we had to cut the segment sh

trey gowdy will not be seeking re-election.e is now the 36th, count them, 36 republicans announced they're leaving. whatever skills i may have are better you'd lissed in a courtroom than in congress and i enjoy our justice system more than our political system. end quote. he is a former federal prosecutor who made a name for himself running the whole house benghazi investigation. remember this? >> madam secretary, i understand there are people in both parties who have suggested this investigation is about you. let me assure you, it is not. madam secretary, not a single member of this committee signed up to investigate you or your e-mail. we signed up to investigate and therefore honor the lives of four people that we sent into a dangerous country. my question is, how did you decide when to invoke a people this process and who just got to come straight to you? because it looked like certain things got straight to your inbox, and the requests for more security did not. >> yes. personal e-mail dime my personal account. work-relate

i'll talk with intel committee member and house oversight chairman trey gowdy coming up. also, president trump and republican lawmakers huddle at camp david this weekend to layout a vision for the 2018 agenda. what are the priorities in the new year, house majority leader kevin mccarthy just back from camp david joining me live. immigration reform will republicans and democrats strike a deal that includes the president's promised border wall i'll talk to a senator tom tilli s as we look ahead on sunday morning futures right now . and now this. this week, the house intelligence committee will finally get access to justice department documents regarding the russia investigation. congressman defer an nunes the committee's chairman wishing a deal with deputy attorney general rod rosenstein to let the panel review documents in un rediagnosed form as lawmakers try to determine whether anybody tried to use the unverified trump dossier to launch a probe about russia and wire tap the trump campaign. rosenstein has also agreed to turnover all e-mails sent between fbi agent peter st

but one thing i will say, those who know trey gowdy very well and those who work with trey gowdy, both and republican, say he has higher aspirations. those higher aspirations one day could wind up being 1600 pennsylvania avenue. >> you're saying there are political ambitions in congress? >> so he may realize that right now to save himself for later on, for his aspirations, he may need to leave now and possibly move somewhere else and be appointed to a seat, but he wants to make sure he's clean for something else. he doesn't want to fight with this president, being a high-ranking republican that he is. i just want to say one thing too. congressman elijah cummings has outlived darrell issa and trey gowdy. >> not totally surprising he made this decision. he had expressed interest in becoming a judge. i think he filed for re-election at the deadline last time around and threw people off a little bit. i deon't think it's that surprising, but it is significant because it's another republican who's not running and a prominent chairman at that. it does make a change. >> no question. there's ot

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i think trey gowdy raises one of them. stop for a second and think about what trade gowdy said.n exoneration memo two months before interview of hillary clinton the subject of the probe. that is extraordinary. i don't care how are, i don't care where you sit politically, how do you draft an exoneration memo before have you interviewed the key witness? >> katie: can you imagine robert mueller drafting exoneration letter of president trump? >> sandra: the defense of it has been it is not unusual to draft it in the direction that you think it's going to come out. >> but you haven't interviewed the key witness or as gowdy pointed out 12 other keyens withs. his second question was there a second memo pushing towards something else. >> maria: i think that's an interesting question were they just sort of trying to get ahead a or b? we don't know? there are lots of questions. he will answer them. and i feel fairly confident there is not some like big pro-hillary clinton conspiracy inside the fbi. and we will get some answers to those questions. >> katie: don't they have an obligation to

and we have people like trey gowdy and devin nunez who have been so staunch in their desire to renew section 702 of the act and allow for more warrantless spying on american citizens and now all of a sudden they have a problem with only part of it? they may be people who have problems with all of it. there are institutional weaknesses, show us what they are so we can see and make up our own minds for ourselves instead of having these intermediaries who keep driving things that are apparently so agreed to send to your point, we started the special counsel because of some leaked information to the media. but now this is trying to end it, at least it's going through a protocol and legal means. >> sandra: if this does tell us about the dossier that we do not know and trey gowdy has insinuated that's what we will learn about we will learn more about that anti-trump dossier from all of this, jason chaffetz this morning laid out both cases. the case for revealing this in the case were not revealing this book four page memo. this is the debate that's happening at 5:00 today. >> guy: "the new

i don't know -- lou: to hell with trey gowdy. it seems like we have some people who need jail time. this isn't time to play those games. >> at the very least trey gowdy is a good prosecutor and good investigator and interrogator. but these questions have to be answered. republicans should leave no rock unturned in getting to the bottom until all of these questions are answered. if it means usual going through firing people and prosecuting people, i say put them all in jail. what they are doing to this country is the most of reprehensible thing i have ever seen. >> talking with constitutional scholar josh blackman saying there is very little the president can do without political consequence. he is the president of the united states and he will decide those consequences and the course. he can't be burdened with a corrupt fbi, a corrupt department of justice and watching as the deep state and the dems subvert, chuck schumer subverting his administration. only one person in washington is full time 24/7 on the national interest and it is president trump. we can't afford less. >> these g

talking to trey gowdy and others, i got to tell you, it's something that we need to know about. and the other question i don't hear anybody asking is what is the department of justice and the attorney general doing about it. you don't need a house panel to uncover this. we nod know there's an inspector general report. but what is the attorney general himself doing because they can't just walk away from this. lou: as our audience i'm sure recalls, you are among those who have said that the attorney general sessions should resign if we can't do his job or doesn't want to do that job. it's an open question as to what the heck he is doing and how much progress is being made if he is working. so you raise, i think, an absolutely pertinent question and one that does need answering. but for that matter, the entire odor that surrounds the top echelons of our justice department and the fbi is such a stench now, used to work at thai think we have to have a house cleaning no matter. what do you think? >> well, look, my grandfather was a career fbi agent. i grew up thinking that g men and t

then trey gowdy, a republican said look at these e-mails between cambridge analytica, which is a firmnnon, posting of just such contacts with wikileaks and assange. so gowdy catching bannon not in a lie there but certain lay difficult place calling that treasonous but saying, hey, wait a second. your firm was doing something very similar. >> this is the first bit of substance getting this close to our hearing with the former chief strategy thrift of the white house. let me turn the page and talk to you about this other headline we've seen from this interview that the president did with reuters. where he was talking about this immigration deal. we've all been talking about will or won't the government be shut down in two days? and he was talking about the bipartisan plan. graham, durbin, it sounded like he was keen or interested over the phone but now he described it as horrible. and is quoted as saying, it is the opposite of what i campaigned for. a lot of people are wondering, what happened to the donald trump who said hand it to me and i'll sign it. whatever you send to me. >> even

. >> bill: trey gowdy's position is quite clear. no evidence of collusion saying no evidence has surfaced at this point. we'll talk about that and a lot more with alan dershowitz to answer the tough legal questions next. >> sandra: also it has been a scary flu season and continues to be so. 49 deaths so far connected to the virus. what you should know and what you can do to protect your family. but do you take something for your brain. with an ingredient originally found in jellyfish, prevagen is the number one selling brain-health supplement in drug stores nationwide. prevagen. the name to remember. exwith a class-leading8 31 mpg combined estimate.d lease the 2018 nx 300 for $339/month for 36 months. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. >> bill: fox news alert. steve bannon expected back on the hill testifying for a longer period of time before the house intelligence committee. he was there for 12 hours this week. trey gowdy said this when asked about collusion on our program just yesterday. >> i have seen no evidence of collus

let's start with trey gowdy. he said the fix was in. clearly reading through the text messages the latest that were apparently lost because of a technical glitch they have now been discovered clearly continue to show as trey gowdy is pointing out that they did not want donald trump to be the president and they certainly thought hillary would be. >> that's hardly a surprise. i think we all believed that and understood it. it is why this whole russian interference in the election story has just become a yawner. the real story is were there people in the highest levels of government who actively did everything they could to make sure donald trump didn't become president? i hope the american people let that sink in. would it be a big story if the russians attempted to influence the election? yes, it would. the biggest story of all is if our own government tried to influence the election and more and more the evidence is pointing in that direction. and that ought to scare everybody in this country who loves the constitution and who loves a f

gowdy probably wants to be a judge someday and i think he's looking to his own future. bloomberg d.c. reporting coming from capitol hill. thank you. straight ahead, the fed decides for the final time under janet yellen. special coverage of the decision just moments away. this is bloomberg. ♪ scarlet: we are live from bloomberg world headquarters in new york. this is "the fed decides." ♪ in under five minutes the federal reserve will announce its latest monetary policy decision. here's what you need to know. janet yellen signs off. the fed chair has a flock -- has a hawkish note in her swansong. the world's most powerful central bank comes just in time for a fresh approach. how yellen's successor will tackle the inflation puzzle. plus a march move. investors place their bets on the policy action. we speak with bill gross of janice henderson. my colleague on every fed day is tom keene. tom, thank you for staying late. tom: good to be here on an important day, a historic day. very quickly before we get to michael mckee, and elevation of yesterday's equity prices. the dow u

gowdy is best known for the benghazi investigation. 21 republicans are not running for re-election. in the state of the union last night, the president called for a $1.5 trillion to fix the nation's crumbling infrastructure. much of the money would come from private companies. but laws in several states, including tennessee, present some roadblocks. for more on this, here's transportation correspondent cleave cleave, along a bumpy stretch of i-440 in nashville. >> reporter: interstate 440 is the road nashville residents complain about most. >> it's like riding on a dirt road. >> it can rattle your teeth. >> reporter: what makes 440 so bad? >> everything. >> reporter: it's a pothole-laden, roughly seven-mile stretch of decades-old concrete linking three freeways. the state plans to spend about $100 million to rebuild and expand 440 starting this summer. it's part of a $10 billion backlog of infrastructure projects statewide. >> it just needs to be worked on. >> reporter: nationally, u.s. infrastructure earns a d-plus, according to the american society of civil engineers. at least $2

trey gowdy is 1 of 9 house committee chairs announcing they won't seek reelection. their focus is on getting things done. republican lawmakers intend to set their agenda for the rest of 2018. >> we'll be spending time around infrastructure, workforce development as well as the budget process itself. >> one area expected to attract democrats support is on rebuilding infrastructure. >> we've been through so many battles. hopefully we get the ability to start putting the real meat on the bone. >> house leader mocked the president's proposal. >> the president presents himself as a man of big ideas and then he presents a lame, puny infrastructure proposal. >> facing the government funding deadline next week and a daca deadline in march, a senate republican says it's time for democrats to get serious. >> we have to do something on the border and want to make sure that on march 5 or whatever we don't have 670,000 people in school or currently employed losing their work status. >> adding to the deadline pressure, congressional budget office said lawmakers would likely need

risks the perception that he's being pulled out of the loop that trey gowdy got a better interview. >> i can imagine being on some of those committees, you want access to that information, and you have people who are going to be running again, and there's a lot of different calculations that's going to figure into how they play themselves in this. >> i'm going to go ahead and ding adamship, reading back what he said. the broadest effort to effectively gag a witness we have ever seen. i'm sorry, that's a little trumpian, the congress has a long history and there are many white houses that have gone to great lengths to gag people. i don't know that we know yet whether this rises to that level. do you have a view, a of fact checking that statement, and b, why the congress seems particularly upset about bannon? >> well, the white house has an absolute right to protect the concept of executive privilege and try to exercise it wherever possible, and that's happened across administrations forever. but what it does for me, is it simply hammers home the purpose for the special investigation,

and to trey gowdy's point, who knows what else is in those text messages that can be found? >> josh: i was always taught that everything you do on the internet is automatically preserved forever where everyone can see it. but there is an exception in the role when it comes to high-ranking liberal officials because in this case and if you think back to hillary clinton email case an irs investigation all of these emails went missing. they've got a secret hear the rest of us need to get in on because. >> sandra: as the president points out, this is during that crucial period making this potentially huge news. >> marie: and potentially not huge news. we'll see. honestly of all the things that concern me, this is not in the top 20 of what's happening in the world today and in our country. i've always said we need to hear from these two individuals because there's been so much speculation about what their text messages meant and if anyone read our text messages, who knows what people would think. >> harris: can i suggest why might not want that, because one of them is married. i'm

and now she says she told trey gowdy that someone signed those unmasking's and her name. to be what i'd like to know who. let's find out who was impersonating the u.n. ambassador and were unmasking americans. fundamentally, dan bongino, this five months gap. this is so much bigger than the watergate tapes. five months, the most critical time. merrick. with your experience in law enforcement and secret service and the new nypd, are we able to retrieve those forensically? i don't believe they are lost. >> let me tell you something. i'm willing to put my credibility behind us on your show tonight. those messages aren't lost. i absolutely believe this is some kind of canary trap to out them again. we've seen this pattern before pitfalls information put out there to catch people leaking information. we saw it in the donald trump jr. wikileaks stor story. we also sought with the mike flynn story. let me say something here. that five month period back his and important because that's where the logan act confederacy, or what i've been calling a reverse engineering of a crime,n th