senator grassley: grassley no. senator crapo: crapo no. >> no. >> no. [laughter] >> no. >> no. >> no. >> no. >> no. the clerk: mr. sanders. senator sanders: aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. the clerk: mr. whitehouse. senator whitehouse: yes. [laughter] the clerk: mr. warner. senator warner: aye. senator kaine: aye. senator van hollen: aye. senator harris: aye. senator enzi: no. the clerk: there are 12 nays and 11 yeas. senator enzi: the amendment is not agreed to. next amendment is sanders number 34. does anyone seek recognition in opposition? proponent's recognized for 30 seconds. senator sanders: this amendment says that the time is long overdufort us to end the corrupt campaign finance system we have which allows billionaires like the koch brothers and others spend hundreds of millions of dollars in order to buy elections and pass legislation like this piece of legislation which gives huge tax breaks to billionaires and cuts programs that working families desperately need. senator enzi: for reasons i stated earlier and for freedom of speech, i oppose the

chair grassley: thank you very much. senator: attorney general sessions, i would like to pick up on where we left off on this issue of privilege. to refresh your recollection, we were talking about the process reagan 1982 order for the assertion of executive privilege, and your concluding remarks were about the importance that there actually soan executive privilege that the president can have conversations with his immediate staff and cabinet members and so forth, and that is a principle that i think everyone in this room agrees to. there is an offsetting principle, which is that congress has the power of oversight over the executive tell,, and as best i can where those conflicting prince was come together is in that conflicting-- principles come together is in that 1982 reagan order. that is the prevailing order right now under which the department of justice is operating, so i go back to that says that executive privilege shall not be invoked without special -- specific, sorry, specific authorization. as we go on thro

chairman grassley. that's why i was referencing the fact the letter referred to imgration issues broadly. chairman grassley: senator franken. senator franken: i want to thank the witness force being here and be clear from the outset that what we're talking about when we're talking about ending daca. we're talking about completely upending the lives of over 800,000 young people. people who came here as children, worked hard, played hard by the rules, all for a chance to take part in the american dream. and people who will contribute mightily to our country. we talk about our fiscal health and the fiscal future and our country. we always demoan the demographics that we have. when we get in those debates it's always like if we just had more young people. this is a thousand young people who are working and are studying. those who we're talking about. -- we're talking about people like marlon. this remarkable young woman was an intern in my office in minnesota last summer. her mother, a sing the parent, -- s

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thank you, senator and thank you senator mcconnell, senator grassley. thank you so much for including me. let me also say thank you to all the other senators standing here today in support of professor coney barrett. in standing for her you stand for women of faith who are routinely mocked and derided for our beliefs. as the ceo and president of concerned women for america, the largest public policy organization for women in the nation, i'm-- to support professor barrett as a more than qualified candidate for the 7th circuit court of appeals. in fact, no one's really questioned her qualifications because she is a standout professional and academic. however, i was disappointed to see in her confirmation hearing the inappropriate questioning of her faith and by the way, we saw this also with russell's confirmation omb. it's a concerning trend. the christian dogma that a few find appalling embodies the best of humanity. it calls us to love others as we do ourselves, to speak for those who can't speak for themselves, to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, at

senator grassley today insists that this is not over.at there will still be cooperation between the two sides. when reporters asked senator feinstein what she intends to do differently, she told reporters today, quote, you will find out. you will find out. watch this space. girl's trip. remember nashville? kimchi bbq. amazing honky tonk? i can't believe you got us tickets. i did. i didn't pay for anything. you never do. send me what i owe. i got it. i mean, you did find money to buy those boots. are you serious? is that why you don't like them? those boots could make a unicorn cry. yeah, tears of joy. the bank of america mobile banking app. the fast, secure and simple way to send money. accused of obstructing justice to theat the fbinuclear war, and of violating the constitution by taking money from foreign governments and threatening to shut down news organizations that report the truth. if that isn't a case for impeaching and removing a dangerous president, then what has our government become? i'm tom steyer, and like you, i'm a citize

grassley: well, we can break, so we should reconvene at 1:25 exactly. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> when i first went in -- it is a long story, but i was barely able to get back to the surface. ,hen a bunch of them jumped in and there is a picture, which i am sure you will show, of them pulling me out of the lake. you can see my arm is broken. of course, once they pulled me out, they were not very happy to see me. >> why not? sen. mccain: because i just finished bombing the place. so i got pretty rough. hurt my kneelder, again. but look, i don't blame them. i don't blame them. we were in a war. i did not like it, but at the war time, when you are in a and you are captured by the enemy, you can't expect, you know, to have tea. announcer: 50 years after his capture, arizona senator john mccain talks out the impact of the vietnam war on his life in the country, today at 6:00 and 10:00 p.m. ea

grassley: the rise of unaccompanied children is very closely connected with the government not doing its job. pres. trump: i will suspend immigration from areas of the world when there is a proven history of terrorism against the united states. al martinez: i thought that was the end of his campaign. >> should muslims be fearful? al martinez: he wasn't talking about muslim americans, he was talking about people moving to the u.s. what news reporters nowadays s i just heard?" [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] ♪ sharyl: hello. i'm sharyl attkisson. welcome to "full measure." today, we begin with an extraordinary interview with a sitting member of congress. it will make you mad, but it's something you should hear. republican ken buck is speaking out of school about the shocking, transactional nature of washington politics. about party elites he says, "live like kings and govern like bullies." and he's lifting the curtain on why he says nothing gets done in congress, describing collusio

chair grassley: thank you very much. senator: attorney general sessions, i would like to pick up on where we left off on this issue of privilege. to refresh your recollection, we were talking about the process reagan 1982 order for the assertion of executive privilege, and your concluding remarks were about the importance that there actually soan executive privilege that the president can have conversations with his immediate staff and cabinet members and so forth, and that is a principle that i think everyone in this room agrees to. there is an offsetting principle, which is that congress has the power of oversight over the executive tell,, and as best i can where those conflicting prince was come together is in that conflicting-- principles come together is in that 1982 reagan order. that is the prevailing order right now under which the department of justice is operating, so i go back to that says that executive privilege shall not be invoked without special -- specific, sorry, specific authorization. as we go on thro

senator chuck grassley from iowa, the senate judiciary chair.l media treat -- hearings going on today. he will tell us what he will talk about with social media companies like google and facebook. this is bloomberg. ♪ who knew that phones would start doing everything? entertaining us, getting us back on track, and finding us dates. phones really have changed. so why hasn't the way we pay for them? introducing xfinity mobile. you only pay for data and can easily switch between pay per gig and unlimited. no one else lets you do that. see how much you can save. choose by the gig or unlimited. xfinity mobile. a new kind of network designed to save you money. call, visit or go to xfinitymobile.com. >> some breaking news p are the japanese bank that reported earnings, a proprietary trading group in london. it is a relatively small group of 10 people. they invested in bond currencies. they largely went out of fashion at her the volcker rule one out of -- of effect. after it display number, particularly overseas on it has to do with debt traded -- debt

with that, let me turn to our chairman, chuck grassley. senator grassley: thank you, leader. our country has benefited from leaders from a variety of religious faiths, our loyal leaders don't have to abandon their religious faith to hold public office. article 6 of the constitution, quote, no religious test shall be ever -- shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust in the united states. professor barrett is a brilliant legal scholar who earned the respect of colleagues and students from across the political spectrum. she's also a committed roman catholic and has spoken passionately about the role her faith plays in her life. this isn't inconsistent with being a federal judge. at her hearing, some of the comments and questions from my democratic colleagues crossed the line. we even heard a question about whether professor barrett considers herself a quote-unquote orthodox catholic. she wasal told that quote-unquote, the dogma lives loudly within her. these remarks were entirely inappropriate. at the beginning of the hearing i gai professor barrett

chuck grassley has a hearing with jeff sessions on the seat. i think you will hear some interesting questions. >> sean: sara, this is stunning. eric holder hid the information? he knew about the bribery, they kickbacks? the extortion and money and he also knew as well as hillary and had to sign off along with hillary clinton on the deal even though it we know they are trying to influence every aspect of our security and get control over americas uranium customer if they still allowed the deal to go through? >> it's many of the same players. rod rosenstein was head of this investigation when he was in maryland looking at the trucking company. give a trucking company moving american uranium that is involved in bribery, kickbacks, all kinds of issues. they are moving national security asset, uranium. you've andrew mccabe, a deputy director of the fbi who was also charged with that investigation. there is a lot of questions here. here. >> sean: 's meal are involved in this? >> yes, he was charged. >> sean: how does he investigate himself? and enter

>> chuck grassley from iowa. i came to this realization ask i'm trying to ask all of these questions on capitol hill. he is an iowa republican. veteran senator. he is in the middle of everything on capitol hill these days. he is leading one of the main russia investigations. but he has a role in other major topics such as working other republicans on a potential daca deal. and confirming justices, which i know is important to you, hugh. >> you bet. >> he and a bipartisan group of senators ruled out a sweeping criminal justice reform measure earlier this month and with a powerful ally in the white house of jared kushner, the senior is adviser and the president's son-in-law, maybe it could happen sometime in this congress. >> seung min, i want him to burn the blue slips. mcmitch connell wants him to burn the blue slips. has senator grassley confided in what his policy will be? >> he has not ready to burn the blue slips just yet. there are democratic senators still, at least four who are holding up circuit court nom

lou: holding accountable, senator grassley deserves credit for at long last an investigation begin itat quietly, and carefully, but an invest -- investigation to conflicts of interest this surrounded hillary clinton's time as secretary of state, and a secretary of state, her pay for play foundation that in former president bill clinton, and all that russia did. you talk about meddling in an election? they were running a racketeering enterprise in this country with the lot of people in washington, d.c., that swamp, aiding and abetting them. >> this is a massive bombshell, everything you said it true, but it also goes further than that. what is congress in washington been preoccupied with? president trump and russia collusion, after all these months, how much evidence is there, swri zilch, zero, nada. you have robert mueller, that is the guy who was heading the fbi when this russia stuff was going on. that is a significant conflict of interest, that is something that congress and house we have to take this head on. the clintons, the foundation, uranium 1 and also comey, mueller, rosenst

you also have the senate judiciary committee, committee chairman chuck grassley, ranking them a credit number dianne feinstein. -- ranking democratic member dianne feinstein. aside separateet committee goals with separate committee staff. large, it is accurate to say the judiciary committee is doing its own parallel investigation as they continue their oversight of the fbi and doj. host: what is the focus of the robert mueller investigation in particular? guest: from what we know of assembling all the various media sources, so far the focus has down on paulven manafort and a lot of his business dealings with foreign entities like russia and ukraine. obviously, there will be a lot of investigating and research into michael flynn, his activities, is disclosures, and his foreign contacts with turkey. investigator, folks can read your reporting on washingtonexaminer.com. do you focus your part of the story? what are you trying to find out? guest: one of the things i have been able to follow in the last six months -- fight is the wrong word, there is a little struggle going on at the secret

republican chairman of the committee, charles grassley. he noted that professor barrett had been outspoken aboutut her catholic faith and asked her when it was proper for a judge to put religious views above applying the law. chairman grassley also asked in his second question how she would decide when she needs to recuse herself on grounds of conscience. senator mcconnell comes to the floor and suggest that any reference to that article somehow raises question of religious bias. let me say for the record, i do not believe that chairman grassley is guilty of religious bias, nor have i ever seen evidence of it. it was hard to imagine how he could avoid the obvious. she had written a lengthy article, co-authored an article, on the subject and he felt duty bound is to ask her questions about her beliefs on the subject. i don't believe that chairman grassley would everou apply a religious test to any nominee but he and many of us felt it important to asky professor barrett to state her position clearly on her face, conscience and duties as a f

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grassley: senator franken. sen. franken: i would like to just touch on a less conversation and then move on. a.g. sessions: don't spend all your time on it. sen. franken: i would like my five seconds back. i want to touch on the doj's record on lgbt people, and their rights. i wanted to get this clear. youhe end of your answer said i felt the need to respond and i responded on the spot. this is an interim transcript so i may have it wrong, but this is how i recollect it. it has been six hours in the hearings. it is at the end of the day and i said i am not aware of those activities, which is a surrogate's key medication to the russians. and i wasn't and am not -- i don't believe they occurred. was that what you were saying? you don't believe that surrogates from the trump campaign had communications with the russians? a.g. sessions: i did not and i am not aware of anyone else that did. i do believe it happened. sen. franken: you don't believe it now. let me ask -- that is what i wanted to ask. the you believe michae

fox news has also been told that senate judiciary committee chairman, senator chuck grassley, he rightly is pushing for public hearings with the fbi informant. we have to remember that in each of these scandals, laws were broken. fox news legal analyst gregg jarrett has put together a list for us. take a look at the side of your screen. these are all the laws that were potentially broken by the clinton campaign and the dnc and the fake news dossier scandal. there's the uranium one scandal. gregg jarrett back at work. federal statutes involving crimes like bribery, mail fraud, wire fraud. racketeering. beyond serious stuff. this is "go to jail" type of things. the clinton email scandal. they are now up on the side of your screen. house committees are looking into how the fbi and the department of justice during the obama administration handled these issues and for good reason. james comey led hillary clinton off the hook despite the

complete due to supplemental to fund the government because of us you have noticed from chairman grassley and others making changes to the federal judiciary. >> [inaudible] >> bad of a gas outside activities will have tax reform but with regard to the electoral process let me point out once again we had an experience in 2010 and 2012 with candid it's in primaries that could not win in the general election. like o'donnell and richard murdock. what did they have in common? that a democrat is in the senate. our goal is to nominate people who can actually win in november for goods and pour into remember those moves don't make policy only those who win the elections so to go forward is to protect incumbents for those that can actually win the elections.

enzi: senator grassley. mr. grassley: senator sanders is going to laugh at me for opposing the amendment, because there are more sanders t-shirts than grassley t-shirts at my rallies. i'm going to oppose this amendment. this amendment is an attack on freedom of speech as guaranteed by the first amendment and reaffirmed in the famous supreme court case citizens united. here's what i want to challenge senator sanders with. we have this joel goura, law professor, campaign finance law expert and longtime lawyer for the american civil liberties union told "the times" that it was, quote, a great day for the first amendment because the citizens united ruling checked the chilling effect on free speech caused by, quote, again, quoting, our incredibly complex system of campaign finance rules -- about ions about who can speak and what can be said and when it can be said presided over by government bureaucrats. the protections of the first amendment have long been extended beyond isolated individuals to groups and associati

afort grassley interview a little later on this program. all right, now let's get back to the great economy, town hall editor fox news contributor look this is a story i don't think is covered at all in the main streaming e stream media they are ignoring this and i think they're not doing their job of informing public about what is going on with issues that affect their lives. what do you say? >> thank goodness we have you varney to make sure they have prosperity we're seeing in america but you're right. we've seen aenemy pick gdp growth overs past eight years and over the last year, and certainly in the last quarter with the 3% gdp that is a significant increase driven confidence in consumers and employers. there are more people entering the work portion people now are excited to get out there and spend a little bit more money than they have been spending previously. so that is people are not necessarily talking about and it's because it is a free market at work the president has decided he's going to deregulate take a bunch of these feder

because when you talk about charles grassley bringing up the fired fbi director. flashback to the stated reason why the president fired james comey in the first place. it was because comey had been unfair to hillary clinton. in ten months, does that not -- what happened? >> that is how you sum it up. you start in one place and end up in the other. the reality of it is, the attorney general has been on the bubble with this president for some time. still on the bubble with the president. and i think, you know, part of this is going to the hill to do some clean up with the members to, you know, patch up the relationship certainly and to sort of rebuild his brand in the administration. but it also doesn't take away from the fact that there is still these conflicts that are out there that the administration doesn't want to have to deal with. and the only thing they are hoping for right now is that he doesn't make it worse in any kind of answer that is he gives. >> well, we're going to see that when he gets questioned in the next three moninutes. and nick ackerman, i wa

chairman grassley has done an extraordinary job of processing these judges and getting them out on the senate calendar and therefore available for us to move forward. and that's what we intend to do beginning this week. we often hear our democratic friends talking about the war on women. three of the four judges that will be before the senate this week are women. we are going to lead off with professor amy barrett at notre dame who is a nominee for the seventh circuit. professor barrett says faith is important to her, her faith is important to her, she's spoken freely about it. she's allowed to do that in this country, by the way. but she also understands the role of a judge, which is to not let personal beliefs dictate how cases are decided. my colleagues on the judiciary committee are here today and will discuss professor barrett's nomination and how democrats raised concerns about her religious faith during her hearings. with that, let me turn to our

i thank senator grassley for his willingness to do that. i want to thank -- the only thing i would say to those who want to negotiate further to get more flexibility is to keep in mind with the cost-sharing payments, you can't get most of those changes without 60 votes in the united states senate. now, i want to thank senator murray for being an able and effective negotiating partner. we worked on many pieces of legislation together. she's tough and respected in her caucus and she does what she says she will do. and she's interested in getting a result. i respect that. and i thank her. i want to thank president trump for his encouragement. he's the one who called me ten days ago and culled me again last saturday and called me twice yesterday. i want to thank him for his encouragement to encourage a -- someone to come up with a bipartisan agreement to cover these two years so people wouldn't be harmed, and his willingness to consider what we're offering today. i want to thank senator mcconnell and senator schumer because they've created an e

let's move on, you've got the judiciary committee through chuck grassley, republican chuck grassley of iowa chairs that committee and talked about why a special counsel is needed in this investigation, i want to get your thoughts on that. >> obviously there was and is justification for special counsel russia versus trump, now we've got problems with the previous administration. it seems to me there are so many people within the justice department that that be have conflicts of interest. that i asked for a special counsel in regards to the investigations of russia versus the obama and clinton involvements with uranium one. >> harris: what do you think? >> certainly it is a possibility and i wouldn't disagree with the chairman. from my experience, any time you do a special counsel, we are seeing it with mueller, the first thing that happens is nothing for a period of time, everything goes quiet. my preference for now would be active and open investigations by the committees of jurisdiction, judiciary, oversight and so on on both sides of the house. i also believe we are long overdue to w

good job, senator grassley. we appreciate it.babies need to know before you spit it out. steve: indeed. remember when the democrats called donald trump jr.'s meeting with that russian lawyer perhaps treason? why now is hillary's dossier no big deal? that man, dan bongino is going to join us live to explain that right? ♪ ♪ you're going my way ♪ i want to drive oh...sorry i'm late sir...had a doctor's appointment. so was your doctor's appointment at a steakhouse? when your t-shirt smells more like a t-bone... that's when you know it's half-washed. add downy with odor protect for 24-hour odor protection. unlike detergent alone, downy conditions fibers to lock... ...out odors all day. hey your shirt's making me hungry. so don't half-wash it. downy and it's done. the strikingly designed impolexus nx turbore. and hybrid. lease the 2017 nx turbo for $299 a month for 36 months. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. ♪ ♪ brian: let's bring in dan bongino because he showed up this morning. we brought him over. he is a secret service agen

and senator grassley started making inquiries.ants to get to the bottom of how this actually happened. brian: peter, 20 seconds left. it's time for this justice department to lift the nondisclosure with this witness and let us all find out what he or she knows. right? >> that's exactly right. there is absolutely no reason, i think any justification for this guy to be under a gag order anymore. let him testify before congress. let him go to the media and tell his story. and then people can decide what they think about what he has to say. brian: wow. did you an incredible job with clinton cash and it's still spawning investigations. petepeter schweizer, thank you so much. >> thanks, brian. brian: meanwhile a fox news alert. isis could be plotting a 9/11. caliphate looking. man are they trying. it's alarming our homeland security. and the man who took down bin laden seal team 6 rob o'neill joins us next. you know and love him from "dancing with the stars." john o'hurley is dancing with janice dean right now. i'm not sure who is leadi

grassley are this. the fact that rosatom subsidiaries were under investigation around the time cfius approved the deal raises question about whether that information factored into the decision to approve the transaction. i can assure you we think not. the uranium one deal all part of vladimir putin focus to ch expand russiar russia's share in the nuclear industry. today owns 60% of the global market in nuclear power plants and the united states must import 90% of its nuclear fuel. how could such a deal ever been approved. joining us tonight, gregg jarrett. this is extraordinary, the develop 89s we are with it -- the developments we are witnessing here. and there is no order from attorney general jeff sessions to lift the non-date -- to lifte non-disclosure and have that informant get over to the senate judiciary committee. gregg: sessions should have said i will tear up the order gagging the investigation. but sessions is way over his head and he's being manipulated by people in the justice department t

. >> i don't know, i don't know it is up to them, but i can tell you, senator grassley wants to look into it others do, but to me that is a very, very serious charge.

saw what grassley said, saw what lindsey graham has said.h mcconnell all now being threatened by bannon to be primaried and you got leadership members like senator barrasso who's hardly a raving liberal. he's a member of the leadership. >> and did you hear the radio silence when bob corker went after the president? you didn't have people like mitch mcconnell running out saying this is our president, you can't speak to him like that. you didn't have -- they weren't on capitol hill so people like me couldn't chase them down the hallway and ask them questions. >> they're on recess. >> yeah, they're on recess. there's this idea that republicans have silently been shrugging their shoulders and saying this behind the president's back for a while and sources inside the white house have told me john kelly is not used to getting screamed at as an adult male who was a general, he's not used to a president throwing tantrums and yelling at him much like jeff sessions isn't used to -- these are the most embarrassing moments of these men's lives, these me

about open investigations but that hasn't stopped grassley before. he is a very aggressive investigate for. i think he will get to the bottom of this. >> jon: at the time hillary clinton's defense was as secretary of state i had one vote in approving this deal that gives russia control of 20% of the united states uranium processing ability but there were other people in the government who voted for it as well. >> that's true. it was a unanimous vote 9-0. she has said -- it came up on the campaign trail. it is something that then candidate trump raised repeatedly. she delegated her authority to a state department official and that secretary clinton never intervened. maybe this investigation will go into who that -- is asking that person about the state department. what did you do? did you have any communication with secretary clinton? a lot of unanswered questions here. >> jon: according to the secret witness, the russians were -- this is not a clean deal, put it that way. there was a lot of sub tra faouj getting the russian government to buy 20% of t

this was made -- let me repeat, the judiciary chairman, chuck grassley, made this request to the justice department last week. >> they are confirming the president did play a hand in this. we have reached out to the justice department about the president's role in this, but right now they are not commenting. >> hillary clinton was heading the state department at the time and she was asked about it last week, and she said this is over and done and put to bed. this is what she said. >> i would say it's the same bologna they have been peddling for years and there has been no creditable evidence by anybody, and in fact it has been debunked repeatedly and will continue to be debunked. >> that doesn't seem like a full answer, because there's reporting from "the hill" says there was an tpeb investigation and it's unknown whether congress or the obama administration was made aware of it before the sale was approved, right? aren't there still burning questions? >> there are. that's really what republicans are touching on here. there was that fbi investigation into bribery and corruption, and it w

what senator grassley did is what we are seeing from a lot of senators. you were in the room. at one point you stood up and said, is anybody going to answer any questions about this? and the answer was, no. >> reporter: yeah, right. that's exactly what happened, haley. there were a half dozen republicans in this press conference, including mitch mcconnell. i use the word press conference loosely because a press conference involves reporters asking questions about whatever topic you may want to ask a question about. in this particular case, they all insisted they would only take chemical weapons about the topic of the day. they were talking about the catholic faith during her hearing and they refused to answer any questions. you're right, at the conclusion of the press conference, mitch mcconnell slipped out, mike lee, you saw chuck grassley slip out in the middle of the questioning that became rather awkward. at the end, i said to the half dozen or so left standing, would any of them take a question about the paul manafort indictments, they all declined. there are some republi

finally, i'd like to express my gratitude once again to chairman chuck grassley for his continued work to bring these outstanding nominees to the senate floor.

senator grassley. senator grassley: thank you, mr. chairman. thanks to both of the senators for leading this discussion, nd thanks to the corporations. the press has reported that russian government placed ads in facebook that were largely aimed at influencing the election. so i want to highlight what i consider inaccuracy in that reporting. the committee is reviewing the ads that facebook produced. overall the ads do not support a specific candidate, either republican or democrat, and about half of the ads, my staff have reviewed, were placed after the election. the large majority exploits controversial issues in our country and effort to further divide us as a country. for example, some ads target users in ferguson, baltimore and cleveland. these ads spread stories about abuse of black americans by law enforcement. these ads are clearly intended to worsen racial tensions and possibly violence in those cities. it might be true that these ads were intended to influence elections but it's important to be clear that the nature of the ads. russia

to be a continuous issue with the trump administration especially when you have people like chuck grassley who are looking into this a republican pretty loyal to trump even the oversight committee was starting to look into price's travel so i think you'll see this with continuous administration officials. >> dagen: stacey trump says do you know what republicans are supposed to be cheap. this is the taxpayer's money. it's not my money. >> stacey: you know what? this is the way i look at it. one of my favorite slogans on my show is scratch a scandal find a democrat. they better be careful what they wish for, if you think this lasts they might find democrats spending money improperly because that's a hallmark of their party. one of the best things about this whole story is that it shows president trump doesn't put up with a lot of stuff. if you messed up and he can't find a good justification for it like any businessman you're out the door and monday we're talking about tax reform and if the president can explain why a family like mine shouldn't trigger the alternative minimum tax why we shou

. >> chuck grassley this week has actually sent all these letters to opening this case again and he wantso know if those involved in approving this deal knew of the criminal investigation as it was happening. it's unclear if they did. if they did, it looks pretty bad on them. but that's not clear, so that's what he's been pushing for this week. >> yeah, i think as we talk about russia in the vain of elecon they may have done or may not have done with the trump administration during the campaign i feel like now you have russia on the other side of it so it seems like russia is cutting both ways here. >> right, exactly. >> i'm just curious. what's the thought from other people, from democrats? is this -- do they think the president or chuck grassley are just throwing this out there sort of a smoke screen so we stop talking about the russia collusion issue and we start looking at this again. >> that's one thing many democrats are saying but as you can see, trump during the campaign did that a lot. he used to say hillary clinton was responsible for now russia owning 20 percent of the united s

he was pressed by senator chuck grassley of iowa about the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein. watch this. because i would like to remind you that deputy attorney rosenstein directly supervised a criminal case when he was u.s. attorney in maryland. i don't think it would be proper for him to supervise a review of his own conduct, do you? >> it would be his decision. he is a man of integrity and ability. if he feels he has an inability to perceive any of this investigation, it would be his responsibility to make that determination and should consult -- as i told you i would and as i have done -- with the senior ethics people at the department. >> sean: i am sorry, this is shocking that the attorney general is refusing to flat out say rod rosenstein needs to recuse himself if the doj opens an investigation into this russia bribery scandal. it sessions was also asked about having the fbi, having evidence that russians kicked back money to the clinton foundation. he refused to comment on that publicly. we've been saying this for months. if the attorney general believes in equal jus