chairman gowdy. ranking member cummings. it's an honor to testify today for this hearing. as you know, i'm the dean of the miliken institute scoofl public health at the george washington university and we conducted a recent study about the excess mortality in puerto rico from hurricane maria. i submit for the record my full testimony, as well as the summary of my report. using sophisticated models that account for migration, annual and seasonal deaths rates and adjustments for demographics like, we found that there were 2,975 excess lives lost due to hurricane maria for the six-month study period of september, 2017, through february, 2018. all regions in puerto rico were affected but those living in municipalities with the lowest socioeconomic development, older adults especially males, experienced the greatest risk of excess mortality. the two highest risk groups continued to have excess mortality through february, 2018. like all the u.s., the physicians in puerto rico do not have the correct items

gowdy: thank you gentlelady of new york. i neglected to swear the witnesses so i would ask you to stand and raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear or affirmd nothing but the truth so help you god? may the record reflect the witnesses answered in the affirmative, with the gentleman of the ohio chairman jordan. >> rep. jordan: let me pick off with the ranking member left off. i want to thank the chairman we appreciate his leadership. and i want to that can our witnesses, in particular inspector general horowitz we've had a chance to talk many times i'm going to focus on you on a different set of questions and subject matter and we'll see what you can respond with. let me start with the press release you issued on march 28, 2018, said inspector general horowitz will initiate a review that will examine the federal justice department and the fbi legal requirements with applicable doj and fbi policy ands procedures. in applications filed with the u.s. fortune intelligence court relating to a certain u.s. person. how is that

we heard from your colleague trey gowdy. where do you stand on what should happen next based on what we're learning about ivanka trump and her use of private email for government business? >> i support chairman gowdy's position on this. our job is to gather data and records. you are subject to oversight any time you are using your personal email to conduct any form of government business. now, i know my friends on the left are running around with their hair on fire right now but so far as we know there is no secret server in the bathroom. no acid watch or bleaching going on. not to rehash it. this was about hillary clinton's human struggle in life to tell the truth. >> sandra: you are clearly marking the distinction between what has been reported about her use of an email and hillary clinton's use of a private

>> gowdy is an interesting guy.s obviously very partisan, but he's also made some morse counter-productive to the republican narrative. there is a fight several months ago over the house intelligence report and the memos and the gowdy contradicted the line. he said there was nothing untoward about the carter on page fisa warrant. he bucks the gop line on occasion, perhaps he's doing that now. he's got nothing to lose. now, on the other hand, he's not likely to be super-aggressive. the other thing that happens is when elijah cummings takes over in january, he will be very aggressive, so perhaps the thinking is let's get the sting out now. >> perhaps, thank you guys so much. good to talk with both of you. >>> up next how the migrant crisis hits home for a congressman-elect, and what he wants for all americans. why did i walk away? well, not because it was easy. i mean, the game is all i know. you think back to your draft. it felt like a fantasy. but the second you know you can't compete anymore, you owe it to yourself

i think trey gowdy as usual is absolutely right. if the inspector general's also coming up with a report about potential pfizer abuse. nobody has talked about that. he will come out with the report and i do hope that the president appoints john radcliffe, the congressman out of texas as the next attorney general. that would be the right move. >> shannon: harry, your thoughts on the potential mueller report? >> first on congressman trey gowdy, nobody knows what bob mueller is going to do except bob mueller and matt whitaker. only point of what happens to the report, it is really important. he will have the latitude to not issue it. it will be up to him. as you know, team trump has said that they prefer that it not come out. it is hard to imagine it will never see the light of day but he will have the authority to keep it bottled up if he wants. >> shannon: tonight we have an acting attorney general, matt whitaker and the deputy rod rosenstein who many folks have thought would be on his way out. he remands there as well. gentlemen, th

congressman gowdy, good to talk to you. thanks for joining us today. >> yes, ma'am. thank you. >> brennan: we turn now to senator angus king, an independent from maine who caucuses with the democrats. he's on the intelligence and armed services committee. senator, thank you for joining us today. >> pleasure. >> brennan: in your role in armed services, you will be looking in some way at what's happening with the use of u.s. troops at the border. we saw this week that white house chief of staff john kelly signed an order here that seemed the loosen the restrictions on military personnel and what they do at the southwest border, aw enforcement or sn f of lethal force. that was the phrase used by the president. what exactly are u.s. troops being asked to do? >> well, the way you asked the question indicated the grayary we're in, because there is an ancient law going back 150 years, no use of federal troops for law enforcement. it gets gray when you get to the border. now, if indeed there was an invasion, which there isn't, clearly we can defend ourselves. that's one of t

gowdy is the out going republican chair. he said republicans are going to do their due diligence when it comes to investigating ivanka trump's personal and private e-mail account to connect in her capacity as a senior adviser to the president. he seemed to disapprove on the attempt to rejudge all of this. we have seen because of all of the obvious parallels between the ivanka trump issue and hillary clinton e-mail saga we have seen them do their level best to highlight is the key differences. they say he didn't have a private e-mail server in her basement and she only used this private e-mail to adjust scheduling issues. both clinton and trump both used private e-mail to conduct private e-mails for a time. they both pleaded ignorance about the government rules that dictate e-mail usage. so here is what gowdy had to say about how he seals his role in taking a look at all of this. >> i have always talked to trump's attorneys. we have already written a letter to the white house. they have a right to make sure that the records a

it appears based on what congressman gowdy said on our air that at there's public forum might be. susan, what does this mean for the case, the special counsel, and does the american public need more public hearings on this? >> this about james comey and lore ritz that lynch. they must have thought they were in the clear. it's hard to see this as anything but a stunt as the republicans are about to give up power in the house. it is hard to see this as a really serious effort to conclude some kind of meaningful investigation. >> brennan: well, it was interesting to hear what seemed like an offer, maybe not an official one to, have this deposition be on tape and perhaps edited and released. we'll see if that happens. i want to ask you, ramesh, about something thaty t l into u.s. policy, which is our closest ally has finalized its divorce from the e.u. the u.k. is exiting in tor theresa may, the prime minister. what do you think this signals? is this a one-off? is this more indicative of the kind of forces we're seeing in the world today beyond the u.s. where institutions are being ra

trey gowdy is retiring at the end of it term. no lift wants to equate ivanka to hillary clinton and her fry at server, president said there is no comparison. >> ivanka can handle herd, these are historical records, there of no deleting unlike hillary clinton. who delighted 30 thought e-mails. this is early on. she came in, these calls not closclassified. unlike hillary clinton's calls, it is fake news. >> wellest vision go anywhere, can we agree one of these thing ofs is not quite like the other. let's welcome our panel. >> thank you. former congresswoman, board member. nan, happy thanksgiving. >> we're having a dits cusion about stuffing versus stressing, regional differences. nan with you, about comparison that i think is kind of -- >> i agree. >> strikes he apples and oranges. >> i would agree, they are fruit, and e-mail. issues. in fact, wording that senate hockey hockey chairman ron jon john used, we want to determine whether or not there was anything substantive in the e-mails. or classified. which are all archive is, retai

trey gowdy saying we need answers in two weeks on this. >> he's leaving congress.e's free a bit more than the typical republican who will be serving under trump's administration right now. i do think it is critical that they are giving democrats some cover. they will investigate into this. this is something where donald trump, the president, on the campaign trail, hit hillary clinton over and over and over. >> lock her up. crooked hillary. they were all launched by this assault on hillary clinton. >> i think you'll see democrats think we have some red meat here. we're going to pounce on this. absolutely. i think the question really is what we don't know. what was the substance of those e-mails. >> we appreciate it. we hope you two will stick around with us. >>> southern hospitality is coming up after the break. right out the door in the mississippi race. the candidates getting into it last night over race and the controversial comments by the republican incumbent. cin cindy hyde-smith blaming her opponent about what she said about public hangings. nent aboud about

gowdy would know about the carnival atmosphere. he oversaw the benghazi investigation. he subpoenaed former secretary loretta lynch. >>> ukraine says russian boats opened fire on three ships near the kerch strait. the standoff is another complication with russia days before presidents trump and putin are expected to come face-to-face with the summit in argentina. we have matthew chance with the latest from moscow. matthew. >> reporter: polo, thank you very much. that fact that presidents trump and putin will meet at the g20 summit is one of the reasons why russian television is saying this took place. they are accusing of ukrainian authorities of orchestrating it to disrupt the meeting. the fact remaining the ukrainian navy says three ships were fired upon and boarded by russian special forces in the kerch straight between the crimea peninsula and russia. that was yesterday local time. there was dramatic video of a russian patrol vessel apparently ramming the ukrainian tugboat. the ukrainians say the second incident, at least sailors were injured. the fate of the crew n

seriously, trey gowdy.secret service set up in her house in chappaqua, deleting e-mails with bleach bits and a hammer to smash her phone, not a glove laid on her, and now trey gowdy calling for this on ivanka during the transition period. >> i think that this is a grand standing, he should knock himself out over the whole thing. there snow comparison to hillary's secret server she had classified and special access program material. none of which should have left the state department, this is apples and oranges, ivanka's e-mails were personal. that not the issue, and miss clinton had classified top-secret and special access program on her secret server, it was unsecured and she districted justice -- destruction of the justice when she destroyed it. >> moving on, before i get too angry. justice roberts, moving in on the political arena. >> justice robber robert, woulde correct but president is expressing reality, and opinions of the american public. who see what they see. yes. unfortunately, judges have becom

certainly if trey gowdy doesn't get to the bottom of it in the next 20 days, certainly you'll see the democrats pick that up down the road. is it something personal in nature? is it something sensitive? nature thee trying to hide? or just an honest mistake? >> ashton, any chance that congressman goodlatt, does it have a chance of actually happening? >> to have the clinton e-mail issue rise to do level of a special counsel, that's something that jeff sessions resisted. we know he's been ousted in favor of someone more politically aligned with the president. we don't have any indications that that is coming or on its way. there's a lesson they have taken from these mid terms, hug the president's message as closely as possible. they ingested the president's line of thinking on the november results saying those people who tried to play both sides of the coin with me have lost. so you have seen congressional republicans lean more into a trumpy messaging than previously. it's not surprising you have people bringing up the greatest hits of a trump rally, like the clinton e-mail scandal, at t

>>> good afternoon, chairman gowdy, members of the committee. i am proud to stand before you today as the director of prisons. it is truly an honor to be part of our prison nation. protecting the public, our staff and inmates while also providing inmates with skills needed to successfully return to our communities. i also wish to thank the inspector general and his staff for the audit of the bureau's female inmates. we agree with the recommendations and we are implementing changes to address them. the bureau recognizes that females require a dedicated focus. to address this, we are enhancing our emphasis on programming for female inmates that is both trauma informed and tailored to their unique needs. it is a particular honor to speak on behalf of the nearly 37,000 bureau staff. corrections professionals who carry out our law enforcement mission. these dedicated public servants are on the job 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and it's through their hard work and dedication that the bureau has earned its excellent reputation. most people do not real

. >> we hear trey gowdy has told bret baer that sessions had been a dead man walking for months. what do you know about the timing? >> based on my reporting leading up to the midterms one of my contacts says if the republicans could expand the majority in the senate they expected the white house to take swift action shaking up justice department leadership, specifically jeff sessions because they had that comfort zone the with the next nominee they would be able to get it through fairly seamlessly. >> and the house may have changed the calculations. what does it mean for the deputy attorney general. >> we have been in a blackout period with the special counsel because as an attorney you don't just announce investigations or prosecutions 60 days from an election. that also applied to the inspector general. was waiting in the wings is their report on the surveillance abuse and deputy attorney general, in the center of that and also if you think back a few weeks house republicans wanted rosenstein on the hill to testify under oath but allegations that he advocated recording the pres

chairman gowdy posed one, which is you fully video it.hat not in realtime with an audience there the way a live hearing is but do it in a deposition format. that's standard procedure to videotape depositions under federal rules. that's one possibility. the alternative would be a live but no studio audience, if you will, deposition in which that streaming video would be available in realtime. that's a possibility. let's remember one thing. we don't and shouldn't expect loretta lynch to listen to comey to get her answers ready for vice versa and a host of others. no federal -- no federal prosecutor would ever want to have his first witness be heard and seen by the next 10. as you know, that even in a normal trial, which is not televised, the witnesses that will be called next are normally kept out of the room. the normal process of investigation says it should be closed. if there will be some modification let's first understand that it's a decision of congress, not a decision of the witnesses what those modifications will be. and certainly

. >>> trey gowdy looking for middle ground with the fight with james comey and the judiciary committee. house chairman goodlatt subpoenaed comey privately over the actions of the 2016 campaign. comey wants to testify publicly. gowdy suggests a compromise. >> the remedy for leaks is not to have a public hearing where you are supposed to ask about 17 months of work in five minutes. i think the remedy is the videotaped deposition. i am sensitive to leaks. i think they undercut the authenticity of the investigation. the remedy is not to have a professional wrestling type carnival atmosphere. >> gowdy would know about a carnival atmosphere. he oversaw the benghazi investigation. go goodlatt subpoenaed loretta lynch. she has yet to kbhecomment. >>> looking ahead, united nations security council is calling for an emergency meeting over the tensions with russia and crimea. bumping a boat. that could have serious consequences here. this standoff with a russian ship ramming a ukrainian tugb t tugboat. this is days before presidents trump and putin come face-to-face at the g20 summit. we have cnn

more about the sessions retirement, really firing with south carolina republican congressman trey gowdy who sits on the judiciary and intelligence committees and chairs the oversight and government reform committee. thanks for being here. your thoughts of this news. >> it was going to happen, i knew it was going to happen after the election. i didn't think it would happen before all the votes had been counted but he's been a proverbial dead men walking for several months now. >> bret: chuck schumer had a real problem with the acting attorney general, take a listen. >> our paramount view is that any attorney general whether this one or another one should not be able to interfere with the mueller investigation in any way. if they shouldn't be able to end markets, limited or interfere with mueller going forward and doing what he thinks is the right thing. that will help guide us as we go through this process. >> bret: their concern is that matt whitaker is going to do that. >> every prosecutor has jurisdictional boundaries. i don't know a single prosecutor that does not. mueller's jurisdic

gowdy's likely successor, democrat elijah cummings says he's also likely to investigate.ays he's also concerned. the president says there's no controversy here. >> she wasn't do anything to hide her e-mails. i looked at it very briefly today. the presidential records, they're all in presidential records. there's no hiding. there was no deleting like hillary clinton did. there was no service in the basement like hillary clinton had. >> there are differences, but there also are similarities and the hypocrisy and arrogance question is interesting. trey gowdy, chairman only for a few more weeks, says he wants answers. >> this is bipartisan interest already, not to mention that elijah cummings is excellent at his job and this is going to be a big, big point of contention. >> i caught up with ron johnson yesterday leaving the senate, chairing the homeland security committee, a republican, he's investigated the hillary clinton e-mail issue for the last two years. he says it's not like the clinton e-mail issue but has serious concerns that she may not have complied with the law.

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but today representative trey gowdy said that's not like what happened.listen. >> leaks are counterproductive whether jim comey or the fbi or congress is doing it. the remedy for leaks is not to have a public hearing where you are supposed to ask about 17 months's worth of work in five minutes. the remedy is to videotape the deposition. videotape the transcribe interview so the president can see if the question was fair and judge the entirety of the answer. there was no founter on the planet who tries to discover the truth in five-minute increments and i can't think of one that does it on national television. >> what's your interpretation and is he saying this is not trustworthy whether it's 18 hours of hillary clinton or james comey being publicly questioned? we shouldn't believe any of that? >> i think what trey gowdy is trying to say and i agree, that the questioning by members broadcast on television just typically does not lead to truth and lets to show boating. it's not productive in terms of getting to the truth. if the copies are intended to have

current house oversight chair trey gowdy is here to react to that, coming up next.o those rumors, coming up. (chime) - [narrator] meet shark's newest robot vacuum. it powerfully cleans from floors to carpets, even pet hair, with ease, and now for cleaning surfaces above the floor, it comes with a built in shark handheld. one dock, two sharks. the shark ion robot cleaning system. steve: the new congress is coming in in january. will they be able to work out america's problems? let's bring in republican congressman currently, trey gowdy, chairman of the house oversight committee, member of the judiciary committee on the house as well. ainsley: from the great state of south carolina. steve: congressman, good morning to you. what do you make of the news congressman elijah cummings of the great state of maryland, who is expected to chair what you're doing right now, the house oversight and government reform committee, he has suggested that when mueller's findings come out, they don't necessarily have to become public, however, he would do everything he could to make sure

hurwitz. >> good afternoon, chairman gowdy, members of the committee. i appreciate the upper to appear before you today to discuss the operation of the federal bureau of prisons. to serve asan honor the agency's director and be a part of all the poor does for our nation. i want to thank the committee for the support of our bureau. our mission is challenging, protecting the safety of the public our staff and inmates , while also providing inmates with skills needed to successfully return to our communities. i also wish to thank the inspector general and his staff for the audit of the bureau's management of female inmates. we agree with the recommendations and we are implementing changes to address them. the bureau recognizes that females require a dedicated focus. to address this, we are enhancing our emphasis on programming for female inmates that is both trauma informed and tailored to their unique needs. it is a particular honor to speak on behalf of the nearly 37,000 bureau staff. corrections professionals who carry out our law enforcement mission. t

trey gowdy said forget the public congressional testimony.otape comey's testimony, then make it public. >> when he was head of the fbi, a lot of my fbi buddies and i had a lot of admiration for him. he always supported the troops, the fbi agents in the field who risk their lives every day. i don't think he wants the public hearing for self-an gra self-aggrandisement. i think he wants to run out the clock. liz: is it valid when the democrats take volume? >> no. on the substance much it i agree with him. i think the secret hearings are terrible. the public has the right to watch the questioner and the witness and draw their own conclusions. if this hearing is held in secret, republicans will leak their version, democrats will leak their version. and the public are treated like children. liz: trey gowdy says a public hearing is worse because you only have 5 minutes with the guy. >> when only certain people know the questions and answers. liz: are they going to get this done? >> i don't know the answer to that. liz: why did it take so long? >> th

. >> thank you, chairman gowdy, ranking member cummings, members of the committee. thank you for inviting me to testify at today's important hearing. the b.o.p. is the justice department's largest employer with over 36,000 employees in its roughly $7 billion budget which represents approximately 25% of the department's discretionary budget. 20 years ago, b.o.p. was only about 16% of the department's budget, which means we're spending more and more money today to support our prison system than we did 20 years ago. the oig has issued and conducted extensive oversight of and issued reports concerning a number of b.o.p.'s operations, and its programs including its management of residential re-entry, and release preparation programs. its use of restrictive housing for inmates with mental illness. its handling of an aging inmate population. its monitoring of federal contract prisons. and its efforts to intradict contra band. most recently in 2018, the r.g. released an overview of the b.o.p. management of the female inmate population. our review showed several challenges f

in contrast, chairman gowdy would not even send a letter to the white house. he would not ask for a single document. we have not received a single document. this committee walled off the white house from scrutiny at the same time that president trump was claiming that up is down and down is up. i respect the chairman as a person, as an attorney and as a friend, but this is not transparency. this is not accountability. this is certainly not oversight. with that, let me take care of a few housekeeping matters and ask unanimous consent on several motions. first, i ask unanimous consent to enter that the record all of our letters regarding the botched $166 million to deliver 30 million meals to people of puerto rico. >> without objection be. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i ask to enter into the record all of our letters regarding the trump administration's failure to respond to urgent pleas from grocery stores and to obtain fuel to run generators to prevent food spoilage. >> without objection. >> thank you. in addition, i ask unanimous consent that the new e-mails i

. >> both graham and gowdy have been whispered to be ag nominations as well. that means graham would have oversight authority of whittaker and the doj. the president doesn't think there's a problem though. on sunday he told chris wallace he has no idea whittaker was critical of mueller or the russia investigation. we know he has been because we have seen it on television. we are scheduled to hear from mueller's team a week from now. next monday, prosecutors will be in court giving an update on paul manafort's cooperation and whether they will ask for more time to talk to him before he's officially sentenced. the i venvestigation has lasted yearlonger than president trump's lawyers have promised him. ty cobb promised 2017. he said i'd be embarrassed if this is still haunting the white house by thanksgiving and worse if it's haunting him by year end. cobb did not specify how bad it would be if it lasted longer than that. he resigned as white house lawyer in may. cobb did want the president to engage with the special counsel early on. the president still has not.

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midterms, the president pounced earlier today on special report, house oversight committee chair trey gowdy said it was only a matter of time. >> it was going to happen, i knew it was going to happen after the election. i did not think it would happen before all the votes had been counted. but he's a better proverbial dead man walking for several months now. kennedy: democrats including senate minority leader chuck schumer crying foul. >> i find the timing very suspect, number one. but number two, our paramount view is that any attorney general, whether this one or another one, should not be able to interfere with the mueller investigation in any way. they should not be able to end it, should not be able to limit it, should not be able to interfere with mueller going forward and doing what he thinks is right thing, and that will help guide us as we go through the process. kennedy: the democrats said shut the chuck up. the acting attorney general matthew whitaker, they claim he's been openly hostile to the mueller investigation and just a white house puppet. there's the question of what will

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- he is in a different posture now because he is being challenging, whether it is fox news or trey gowdy suggesting there may be a question of law. i see what you're saying, but he is acting even worse. i think his behavior is worse than it was then. maybe not worse but he is the president of the united states. and he does have checks. this is the first time, he can't leave the situation. he's always been able to walk away from a business deal. he could have walked away from an election. he is so boxed in, so cornered now, he has nowhere to go. and that leaves him in a different position than before. >> i think very much depends on what is revealed in the mueller investigation. by no means it is certain what will be revealed in the mueller investigation. also by no means certain that whatever is revealed will change his political calculus. >> there's a line in a movie, taking a lie detector test, saying when will you have the results. right away. you know when you're lying, don't you? donald trump knows if he is lying. he knows what's been done. he is probably coming to the fact that he

i think the investigation will show that. >> i think trey gowdy is doing the right thing, if you learne to look at it. you have to discover what happened. i think the most important distinction of all the ones you listed are the ones that she has already turned them into the historical record and there was no classified information. a rookie coming in, we were talking during the break, when your new out of position you sometimes don't know everything you're supposed to know. when she found out this less than 100 batch of emails got turned over and she's using the account. >> julie: she is also not the former secretary of state. she was a regular person headed into the white house, i don't know that you can call any of the trumps regular people. >> a civilian. >> julie: you can't necessarily blame her for not understanding how -- because the president made hillary clinton's emails on a private server such a big deal on the campaign, she should've known better. >> it's a rookie mistake, where we are at year. i think there is a distinction between an actual email server and a gmail or hot

this is what trey gowdy said this morning about it. >> i've already talked to ms. trump's attorney. i've already talked to mr. cummings. we've already written a letter to the white house. congress has a responsibility to make sure that the records and the presidential records act is complied with, and that is true no matter who the person is. we've taken steps. we've done more in the last week than some of my house democratic colleagues did the entire time we were looking into benghazi. so i'm at peace with what we've done but we need the information and we need it quickly and then the public can judge whether or not those two fact patterns are similar. >> liz, why do you think it's so important for gowdy jump on this quickly and wrap it up just as quickly? >> republicans are very sensitive to accusations of hypocrisy on this. they spent so much time on hillary clinton's e-mails it would look just like very hypocritical to not even look into ivanka trump's private e-mail use since there are obvious parallels there. and i think he wants to wrap that up with a bow on it before democra

jillian: prediction from a top republican, what trey gowdy says needs to happen to plug the leaks before they even happen and democrats just days away from deciding the next speaker of the house. rob: why all signs point to nancy pelosi despite rumor of rebellion, "fox & friends first" continues right now. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ rob: kind of funny playing the song while looking at a shot. jillian: calming before easing to the workweek. i kind of like it. rob: soothing song. you're watching "fox & friends first" on monday morning i'm rob schmitt. jillian: and i'm jillian mele, we begin with fox news alert, our nation's busiest port of entry reopens after hundreds of migrants storm the u.s.-mÉxico border. rob: border patrol agents forced to fire tear gas in uncontrollable crowds. griff jenkins live in washington with the trump administration's response to what happened on sunday, hey, griff? >> good morning, rob and jillian, hundreds of more than 500,000 migrants rushed given the trump administration with real test toward caravan, began and evolved into chaos when they became violent, mexican officials a

all of that in addition to trey gowdy today. republican overnight committee chair from south carolina said the appointment is an open legal question. any validity to the legal claims so far against whittaker's appointment? >> absolutely. and actually, i rarely agree with trey gowdy, but i'm going to today. it's an open question. a lot of people who are immersed in the constitutional and statutory interation law on both sides -- meaning from both political views j conservative legal analysts have said this is not legal. there are strong arguments to support that. i don't know that this will have time to play out in the courts. the office of legal counsel's opinion was flawed in some serious ways. it did a statutory interpretation analysis but overlooked a couple things. it blurred the lines. they were looking to support a decision that had already been made. the really important fact i think here is regardless, again, of the legality because while that's important, i don't know that we're going to have time to see this play out i

gowdy says the hearing should not be public but videotaped and released.e difference between the two? >> reporter: there's a couple different things. first, house republicans know this is their last chance to go after a perceived enemy of the president in james comey and the former attorney general loretta lynch. they want to get them back here and ask more questions while they have the authority to do so on their own. the idea of a closed door hearing, we've seen it with various elements of the investigation into the president. lisa paige and peter strzok, and there have been selective leaks that have come out of the hearings that paint one picture and then when a transcript is released or there's more information, it doesn't live up to that. here you see james comey saying let's do it in the open so nobody can twist what i say under this questioning. >> garrett haake on the hill for us on this monday. garrett, thanks as always, sir. >> you gbet. >>> president trump will head to mississippi to rally for a controversial recipient. we are there ahead of the

security and government fairs chair ron johnson, as well as the house oversight committee and trey gowdyif the first daughter violated federal laws. they're sending a letter to the white house chief of staff john coally this week saying, listen, we just want to make sure, can the administration make information to prove ivanka trump is not in violation of the record keeping requirement. everything will play out and they will provide the committees what they need and we move on. what's going to happen? >> yeah. that's actually probably what e we'll end up seeing. i agree with boyd. they need the oversight committee, which is so vital, get back to sort of doing the people's business. elijah cummings has already stated that's really his plan and they're not looking to turn this into the witch hunt issue and everything el that happened that we saw with hillary clinton. there are a lot he would like to address and go forward so they can get that information and turn it over and we would be what you pointed out. >> thank you. gotta go. thank you very much to both of you. more outnumbered overt

trey gowdy and i are concerned about that.ince jim comey claims he wants transparency we've already indicated that we will release the transcript of this under oath private interview the next day after it takes place. we're almost done with this investigation. he is one of the last witnesses. 16 other people have testified under oath in the same setting that we're asking him to do it. and his claim that he needs to do it in public is in my opinion a farce. quite frankly, five minutes is not enough time for an experienced former prosecutor like trey gowdy or john ratcliffe to follow all the threads that need to be followed, the hundreds of questions that need to be asked. and that needs to be done in a private setting. but we're happy for the transparency. >> bill: if there are hundreds of questions, give me one that's on your mind. what do you need to know, sir? >> well, we need to know just as one example, what jim comey was doing during the time between when he wrote a statement that exonerated hillary clinton and when he ac

republican trey gowdy sending a letter to white house chief of staff john kelly for more informationanka's personal e-mail use. democratic congressman elijah cummings could be asking for a lot of this information. he says he is going to look into it. jeff zeleny is "outfront" now in west palm beach near the president's mar-a-lago resort. ivanka trump defending herself as well. her excuse, essentially, she didn't know. she didn't know this wasn't okay. >> reporter: erin, that is her excuse. good evening, and that's a statement from her lawyer, saying that, look, when she was making her transition into the white house, her transition into government, she started several months into 2017 and she wasn't as up to speed on all the rules and regulations, so she, you know, simply did not know the rules and she was, you know, mainly using her private e-mail address. her lawyer says, for logistical things. but the reality is the watchdog group that found all this found a variety of e-mails, perhaps hundreds of e-mails sent to members of congress, members of the cabinet, so much more than logis

>> well, first of all, chairman gowdy of the oversee it and reform committee and i have been very careful to read our task force away from the investigation conducted by robert mueller. we are looking at what happened and contrasting the dis8 between how the investigation was conducted into hillary clinton and how it was con vuctd into donald trump before the appointment of robert mueller. mr. mueller and his team have been very quiet about what they are doing. we don't know the nature of the questions. we don't know much about how he intends to proceed with this investigation or wrap it up. but we think it's very important that he do so and do so quickly. it's clearly an impediment to any administration to have this dogged investigation going on for more than two -- this began when donald trump wasn't even the republican nominee for president, and it's still going on without any evidence being brought forth thus far that anyone in the campaign quliewtd russians regarding election interference. liz: the "new york times" reporting that's the push for prosecution of' clinton'. >> the congre

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house oversight committee chairman trey gowdy responded to the claim yesterday. >> leaks are countercomey is doing it shall, the fbi is doing it, the congress is doing it. the remedy is not to have a public hearing where you're supposed to ask about 17 months worth of work in five minutes. i think the remedy is to videotape the deposition videotape the transcribed interview, that way the public can see whether the question is fair, they can judge the entirety of the answer. maria: judge, we know that loretta lynch and jim comey have been subpoenaed and comey keeps saying i want the public hearing versus the private hearing. i've been told that the reason you don't want a public hearing is because he can just come out and say i can't answer that, that's confidential. that's classified. whereas in a private hearing he will have to answer all questions. >> well, if they have the same level of classification that he does or did -- maria: exactly. >> the answer to that is correct. actually i agree with both sides. i agree profoundly with congressman gowdy that leaks are horrible, generall

i think his fellow south carolinian, trey gowdy, federal and state prosecutor, will get a serious looke will be looked at seriously as well. heather: lindsey graham released donald trump's telephone number on twitter but now they are buddies. what about the acting attorney general, matt whitaker, taking over? >> he has a lot of experience as well. the senate confirmed united states attorney from iowa and served with distinction in that position for the last year. he has been the chief of staff to jeff sessions, certainly familiar with jeff sessions's thinking and all the political appointees at the department and have a relationship of sorts with the president. he accompanied jeff sessions to the white house on a number of occasions. shannon: a lot of people have a problem already saying he should not take over the russia investigation. what does it mean moving forward? should whitaker stay in place a one of these other folks take over for the russia investigation? >> any talk of interference by matt whitaker is premature and far-fetched. he was a commentator before coming sessions's c

congress should be public, democrats argue open session and transparent but republican congressman trey gowdy comey interviewed video taped and released because public congressional hearings have become carnivals, last week the president warned of government shutdown if he doesn't get funding for a border wall. hold on, heather, another round of potential shutdown. >> there's always a deadline coming up. this one is very fast approaching, thank you so much, great to have you with us, matt. >> thanks for having me, heather. heather: with written answers submitted to robert mueller the white house awaits the final report on russian interference, alan dershowitz law professor says although mueller's findings could be politically devastating for the president they still won't prove criminal wrongdoing. >> it would be foolish mistake for mueller and say this is a crime because the other side will be able to rebut it, if he simply lays it out and leaves to american public he would be much wiser and i think the report will be devastating to the president and i know that the president's team is alrea

would say a pr move for the republican base and the chairman is retiring from congress as is trey gowdy seen other republicans, jim jordan comes to mind and rallied the bases and themselves around the tarmac meeting. those with the fbi and the russia investigation. this is a big political move before the tables turn in the house. >> i want to change gears and talk about president trump. let's listen to that. >> matt whitaker is a highly respected person. once i choose somebody, they go through hell. matt whitaker is a highly respected man. the justice department respects him and i spoke to a lot of people. they have been nasty to matt whitaker. i can tell you he is a he highl respected person and he's doing a really great job. everyone says it. >> i'm not sure who he is speaking to. most people said this was an inappropriate appointment. whitaker has a predetermined position on the mueller investigation. he is involved in a fraud investigation with respect to a federal trade commission inquiry and he is now under inquiry about campaign finance problems in his run for the senate. this is