grassley: mr. chairman. >> aye. nays.yeas, 2 sen. grassley: with that majority vote, mr. williams will be reported to the floor. nt, assistant attorney general, civil division. arer. chairman, the votes 18 years, three nays. sen. grassley: with that majority vote, jodi hunt will be reported to the floor. i believe we can consider the executive nominees by voice vote. we will consider the following nominees. steve gladden, u.s. marshal, middle district, north carolina. brendan heffner, united states marshal for the central district of illinois. theodore short, u.s. marshal district of maine. those in favor, say aye. >> aye. sen. grassley: opposed say no. the ayes have it. these will be reported to the floor. we turn to senator hatch to discuss s-994. you wanted to discuss it, didn't you? havehatch: i think so -- i to -- sen. grassley: go ahead, but if you want to put your statement on the record, we will take it. sen. hatch: i will put my statement on the record. i think everybody agrees with this. i am going to thank the chairman for bringing the protecting religiously af

senator grassley is going to be the opening statement for this hearing. a two-minute introduction, the rules of the road for a joint hearing. >> when was the last time you saw testimony like this with all these photographers and tape recorders? >> james comey. >> the power move would have been the t-shirt in the hearing. >> this has got to be a nerve-racking moment for him, obviously he is a ceo of an extraordinarily powerful company, politically powerful. he's young, he's 33, 34? >> 33.

thank you very much. >> you bet. >> one-on-one with senator grassley next.ext, i will talk about the most outrageous comments we have heard this week. don't go away. jeanine. >> so believe it or not, some people out there still think james comey is a truthful person. take a listen to none other than eric holder on this. >> i think he's a truthful person. i think he's a man of honor, a person of integrity. i think he's also a person who made some really serious mistakes. >> and that's just one of the most outrageous things i heard this week. here with reaction to that and more former secret service agent, what say you to eric holder? >> obama made a big mistake appointing eric holder who is the only attorney general in modern u.s. history to be held in contempt of congress. what a mistake that was. but getting back to comey, judge, listen, your opening statement was great. jim comey needs to be held to account. there are two jim comeys. there's the jim comey in front of congress that hid the fact that he was engaged in an illicit investigation against the pre

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let's turn it back over to senator grassley. >> proceed, sir. >> chairman grassley, chairman thune, ranking member feinstein, ranking member nelson, members of the committee, we face a number of important issues around privacy, safety and democracy. and you will rightfully have some hard questions for me to answer. before i talk about the steps we're taking to address them, i want to talk about how we got here. facebook is an idealistic and opportunistic company. for most of our existence, we focused on all of the good that connecting people can do and as facebook has grown, people everywhere have gotten a powerful new tool for staying connected to the people they love, for making their voices hear and for building communities and businesses. just recently, we've seen the me too movement and the march for our lives organized at least in part on facebook. after hurricane harvey, people came together to raise more than $20 million for relief. and more than 70 million small businesses use facebook to create jobs and grow. but it's clear now that we didn't do enough to prevent these tools from

chairman grassley's amendment has additional defects. it requires the attorney general to appoint a special counsel in certain circumstances and announces that the special counsel is not, in fact, subject to the day-to-day supervision by the attorney general of the united states nor is this person subject to the acting attorney general of the united states or the removing the special counsel from the normal chain of command within the executive branch conferred upon the president by the appointments clause and the vesting clause. i understand these provisions codify existing department of justice regulations. but there is a very meaningful difference between internal regulations, procedures adopted by an executive branch agency like the department of justice and statutes that we put in place that purport to tie the hands of the executive within the executive branch of government. it's very difficult, it's a very different thing what we're trying to do here which is for congress to mandate how it is that the executive branch discharges th

we can give you an idea of that senator grassley: ok. instead of asking a question, unless you disagree with this percentage, i'm going to say that revenue is a percentage of over has averaged 17.4% the last 50 years. according to your analysis, what will revenue as a percentage of g.d.p. be in 2025, which is prior to the expiration of the ndividual tax reforms? dr. hall: i think it's somewhere north of 18% of g.d.p. a bit higher. senator grass lee: if you're saying north of 18%, that's better than i thought it was going to be, 17.5%. sovepb with the tax cuts enacted last year, fully in effect, revenue as a percentage of g.d.p. will exceed the historic average. dr. hall: that's right, i did misspeak, i was looking at the next year. senator grassley: turning to spending is it correct that over the past 50 years spending has veraged about 20.3% of g.d.p.? dr. hall: yes. senator grassley: what do you expect spending to average over the next few years as a percentage of g.d.p.? dr. hall: i don't have the number in front of me but it's someth

why is grassley wasting his time with thisin kind of a bill?> senator grassley has done a lot to contribute to our investigation of the fbi and theirha wrongdoing. my concern is we have some senate republicans who are more worried about protecting bob mueller then protecting the united states border. and of our constitution. i wish the senate will take up the 500 bills the house has sent over to advance the trump agenda and restore constitutional principles. instead they are wasting time on this frivolity. the constitution could not be clearer. the employees of the executive branch work for the president that he can't fire them. >> judge jeanine: thereo is no question about that. ik want to go back to congressmn gaetz. one of the things that chairman grassley answered, the house passing almost 500 bills, the senate doing nothing, he said we've got the filibuster, so i can't do anything unless i have bipartisan support. what do you stated that? >> they have the filibuster because they want to have the filibuster. if a democrat wants to filibuste

why is grassley wasting his time with this kind of a bill. >> well, senator grassley has done a lot totribute to our investigation of the fbi and their wrongdoing. my concern is that we have some senate republicans who are more worried about protecting bob mueller than they are about protecting the united states border. and our constitution. i wish the senate would take up the 500 bills the house has sent over to advance the trump agenda and restore constitutional principles. instead, they are wasting time on this. the constitution could not be clearer. the employees of the executive branch work for the president and he can fire them. >> there is no question about that. i want to go back to you congressman gates. one of the things that chairman grassley answered when i asked him that very question the house passing 500 bill senate during virtually nothing. he says we have the filibuster. i can't do nothing unless i have bipartisan support. what do you say to that? >> they have the filibuster because they want to have the filibuster. you know what, judge jeanine? if some democrat wants

grassley: now senator hatch. mr. hatch: well, in my opinion this is the most intense public scrutiny i've seen for a tech-related hearing since the microsoft hearing that i chared back in the late 1990's -- chaired back in the late 1990's. the recent stories about cambridge analytica and data mining on social media have raised serious concerns about consumer privacy. and naturally i know you understand that. at the same time these stories touch on the very foundation of the internet economy and the way the websites that drive our internet economy make money. some have professed themselves shocked, shocked, that companies like facebook and google share user data with advertisers. did any of these individuals ever stop to ask themselves why facebook and google don't charge for access? nothing in life is free. everything involves tradeoffs. if you want something without having to pay money for it, you're going to have to pay for it in some other way, it seems to me. that's what we're seeing here. these great websites th

senator grassley is going to be the opening statement for this hearing. a two-minute introduction, the rules of the road for a joint hearing. >> when was the last time you saw testimony like this with all these photographers and tape recorders? >> james comey. >> the power move would have been the t-shirt in the hearing. >> this has got to be a nerve-racking moment for him, obviously he is a ceo of an extraordinarily powerful company, politically powerful. he's young, he's 33, 34? >> 33. this is intimidating for anybody. >> roger what is it like for him right now? >> i don't honestly know. i mean knowing him well from years ago, i actually think he will rise to this occasion from a performance perspective. to me that's not really his big challenge. his big challenge is this is based on trust and they have lost the trust of practically every constituency they need to succeed. and we need to as a country look at the fact that they have not shown any ability to do anything other than apologize for their mistakes. >> it's also very addictive. i have a faceboo

why is grassley wasting his time with this kind of a bill. >> well, senator grassley has done a lot totribute to our investigation of the fbi and their wrongdoing. my concern is that we have some senate republicans who are more worried about protecting bob mueller than they are about protecting the united states border. and our constitution. i wish the senate would take up the 500 bills the house has sent over to advance the trump agenda and restore constitutional principles. instead, they are wasting time on this. the constitution could not be clearer. the employees of the executive branch work for the president and he can fire them. >> there is no question about that. i want to go back to you congressman gates. one of the things that chairman grassley answered when i asked him that very question the house passing 500 bill senate during virtually nothing. he says we have the filibuster. i can't do nothing unless i have bipartisan support. what do you say to that? >> they have the filibuster because they want to have the filibuster. you know what, judge jeanine? if some democrat wants

grassley: meeting adjourned. announcer: senators today discussed legislation that would require just cause before a special prosecutor can be fired. it would make it so that only a senior justice department official can do the firing. the proposed legislation sponsored by two republicans and two democrats would limit president trump's ability to remove robert mueller, the special counsel investigating alleged russian interference in the 2016 election. >> the proposal the legislation committee was talking about was for a cause before special counsel can be fired and would make it so that only seen her justice department official could do the firing. senator grassley says that the bill will be taken up next week. minutes, in about 10 we will bring you a discussion on congressional oversight of the justice department and fbi during the trump administration. participants include. jerrold nadler as well as tom davis. live at 2:00 p.m. eastern. floor,y on the senate the senate in session today, the house is not in sess

so i urge senator grassley to schedule a hearing and markup on this bill, to report it out of his committee. we must be sure not to water it down with amendments or accept changes that would render it useless. i urge leader mcconnell to then take that bill to the flood put it on the floor where we can debate it and pass it. surely something this serious deserves the time and attention of u.s. senators, and i dare say if legislation, bipartisan legislation like this came to the floor, it would pass by a large majority, members of both parties, and pressure on the house to do just the same would be large. the rule of law cannot be a partisan issue, should not be a partisan issue. we cannot let it become a partisan issue. the congress must speak clearly, loudly, with one voice by passing legislation to ensure that any effort by the president to remove special counsel mueller, deputy attorney general rosen tine would be rendered unsuccessful. i yield the floor and note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call:

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i want to particularly praise chairman grassley. we've worked together on many things, we've had our differences on many things, but this morning he is rising to the occasion and history regards such moments very favorably. i hope we will get a large vote this morning -- a large vote. now, while we're speaking about bipartisanship, there's another bit of good news. there are two chiewts of bipartisan -- chiewts of bipartisanship, one on the committee's action to prevent the president from firing special counsel mueller and the agreement between leahy, shelby, leader mcconnell and myself to try to begin moving appropriations bills the way we used to in a bipartisan way, and we had a very good meeting yesterday where we laid out the perimeters -- parameters of how to do this. we talked about not allowing ex strangeus amendments disrupt the process. wele talked about doing our job the way it used to be done, doing all the appropriation bills this year, doing them in a bipartisan way with the chair and ranking member of the subcommittee

as grassley said today, it would be suicide.ohn kennedy said today he doesn't think he would do that because he knows congress would act if he did. why not act now to make sure mueller has to stay in place? is it just the sensitivity that you would be, i don't know, poking it in the eye? >> planning a narrative that i'm not overly worried about. i think the president knows where most of us is at. if senator grassley wants to bring it up for a vote, that would be fine by me. i'm not worried about president trump firing mueller. i'm going to do everything i can to make sure mr. mueller can do his job without political interference, and i wish there was a special counsel looking at the doj and fbi abuses of the i ff fisa process, but we'll see. >> thank you for joining us. >>> the ceo of facebook is set to face a grilling on capitol hill with a whole lot of senators. his company in major crisis mode ro right now. what will mark zuckerberg say? that's next. get it for jean who's always cold. for the sales team, it and the warehouse

earlier senator grassley spoke to us. here is what he had to say. >> so this brings up what can we do either, through legislation, regulation, or better yet, if the companyies will do it themselves to make sure people know about the restrictions that they have on privacy and are they going, once they have good rules, are they going to abide by those rules, because quite frankly they presumed they had those rules but they didn't enforce them. >> senator grassley also told us that he thinks how mark zuckerberg performs here today is really going affect an influence the kinds of regulations that may be imposed on facebook. i want to mention as well, trish, facebook is offering a bounty of anywhere between $500 and who -- $40,000 if you find the next cambridge analystca. we know in the past 48 hours, facebook should off connections to two third-party developers because they felt like they were getting close to abusing data and becoming the next cambridge analytica. one was a i.q. that was generating the kind quizes we saw thr

grassley: senator tillis, can you hold for a minute? senator flake has to go and wants to make a statement on a nominee. sen. flake: thank you for moving through the nomination of dominic lanza. he coordinated with federal and local law enforcement just this past week to raid the homes of page.com's owners and sees the website. as we know, it is an online public forum that has been used to traffic underage girls and women through online ads. last year the permanent subcommittee on investigations found evidence demonstrating that the owners of backpage k new= the website was used to facilitate sex trafficking. the owners refused to take the website down. they were not legally obligated to do so. these recent raids led by mr. disconfirmed, came just two weeks after congress passed legislation holding websites liable for knowingly facilitating human trafficking confirmed,ho we just came just two weeks after congress passed legislation holding websites liable for knowingly facilitating human trafficking online. i am proud to be an original

chairman. >> senator coons. >> thank you, chairman grassley. i just want to begin by thank you and your staff, ranking member feinstein and her staff, senator booker, my great partner inin crafting this legislation, and senator tillis and senator graham. this is what the senate should be. an opportunity to work together to close differences that we and ourr staff had, to craft a significant amendment that showed your ongoing dedication to transparency and oversight, purchase, and to get to a -- mr. chairman, and to get to a positive result. i want to specifically thank erica and andy in my office who worked very hard with staff in other offices for their dedication to getting us to this point. i g have lengthy arguments whici will submit for the record about the constitutionality. as my friend and colleague senator booker pointed out, morrison v. olson is remains good law. by 7-1, a wide range of members of the supreme court from justice brennan to justice rehnquist rendered this opinion, as i mentioned previously, it's been cited by dozens of

senator grassley: i think your interest is financial. i think -- senator grassley: - - guest: i think your interest is financial. we know from a g.a.o. report that states and localities continue 20 break records every quarter with their spending. they are always looking for new forms of revenue. host: we'll continue on our discussion with our guest f you want to ask her questions about this internet sales tax and what the support -- supreme ourt brings to it 20 -74 8-8001. and independents 20 -74 -8002. as far as the court was don't know if you attended or not, the nature of the interest the justices. what do you think they brought as far as their questions. where don't know if you attended do you thinker in goin? guest: i have learned not to make prediction abouts the supreme court in deference to them. they had some great questions about what we were speaking about the clines cost to small businesses. also a concern about changing the rules about 50 years into the rules being set. a lot of these have been based on how we have been doin

is that senator grassley?guest: it could be senator graham. , the judgesng of chari committee -- the judiciary committee, walk us through what is coming up in committee. committee,judiciary chuck grassley has signaled an interest in bringing up legislation that is bipartisan, supported by numerous senators, that would protect the mueller investigation, raising the bar for the white house to fire him. it would create a review process through the ministration would have to show the firing was legitimate. this is tied up in another partisan dispute. there are democrats concerned that republicans will try to stick in an amendment that new jersey at. grassley says that is an unfounded concern. get to the long to floor. anytime mitch mcconnell is asked he said i am no concerned -- i have no concern that he will be firing mueller. if it gets through the senate, it gets through the house it would have to be signed by the president. guest: exactly. it is difficult to see the president signing that legislation. if he ve

the senate judiciary committee will be led by chuck grassley. and going before the senate today and the house tomorrow and i have a copy of his opening statement which is lengthy. he'll start by saying it was my mistake, and i'm sorry. i started facebook and i run it and i'm responsible for what happens here. now the mistake he's talking about is facebook's release of 80 million users' personal information to cambridge analytica that used the data to help the trump campaign. we also know he is going to address the russian issue. a group of american intelligence agencies believe was backed by the kremlin, able to fool facebook users into believing they were passing around news and memes about trump that -- and clinton that were legitimate but created by the russians. so two apologies today. but as several journalists pointed out, facebook is often apologizing. we messed this up in 2006. we did a bad job and apologize in 2007. sometimes we move too fast, 2010. apologies in 2011, and 2013 as well. and the ftc is likely to take action. facebook ente

the president have to say to republican lawmakers who believe firing mueller will be suicide, as grassley has side? firing rosenstein could mean the end of the presidency for donald trump, as lindsey graham said? sarah: i won't get into hypothetical situations. reporter: republican lawmakers not take an action like that? sarah: as with a number of issues, the president talks to a lot of different lawmakers on a number of topics. he'll continue consulting with them not just on this but on some very big issues that our country is facing and that's what his focus is actually on. thanks so much, guys. happy friday. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> sarah sanders answered reporters questions at today's briefing but on other days you'll see deputy white house press secretary at the podium. a profile interview. talked about his family and growing up in connecticut as well as his early beginnings in politics. he also talked about the re

you just heard chairman grassley speak about this situation.ike you need to hear from elected republicans today? >> well, i think what they're saying is this say hot potato and don't you dare fire mueller and put this in our hands. senators tend to speak in poetry, it is hard and vague. what they should be explicitly saying is that you obstruct justice by firing mueller, otherwise tampering, obstruction, this investigation, you risk impeachment. i think that's what they're inching up to and slow senatorial ways. because if trump did fire mueller, that is an admission that whatever political risk you take of firing mueller is lesser than what mueller might have. it is almost an admission of guilt in itself. it is a sign of weakness that he could not survive the investigation and so no one wants trump to go there. and i think that's what you see senator grassley expressing in that clip. >> so, paul, our friend, hue hewitt said something, i want to get your take on it. the president said last night, this is an attack on our country. hue hewitt bas

it's clear that several republicans, including chairman grassley, senator tillis, senator graham, and others, see a need to pass this legislation. let them prevail upon the republican leader to reconsider his position. i yield the floor and note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll.

senate judiciary chair chuck grassley will join us in a minute. david kirkpatrick, who literally wrote the book on the facebook effect, he has been studying this for over a decade. we begin tonight with the senate judiciary chairman chuck grassley. thank you for being here tonight. tell me what really stood out to you today? what was accomplished today, do you think in this hearing? >> i wouldn't say this has been accomplished, but it's pretty clear that facebook does not have any sort of record or a total amount of information that's been transferred. they don't seem to have an audit of what's going on or at least it hasn't been audited to this point. they don't know how much of that information has been shared with third parties and the third parties, what they have done with it. it seems to me that this is pretty essential for not only facebook, but other platforms to get this under control in order to establish or reduce the skepticism and cynicism people have about these platforms in the privacy and for the protection of privacy. >> martha: t

dagen: i'd just point out, senator grassley, chairman grassley, just one thing, that the individual -ew york shepherding this investigation and also the fbi director, christopher wray, those are individuals appointed by president trump. >> well, they have to do their job regardless of what president appoints them. they're in the front lines of seeing that the law's enforced, and that's what we all ought to expect out of everybody in the department of justice and fbi, to make sure the law's carried out. we don't know enough about this raid yet to know for sure why, but it looks to me like the only real issue is the extent to which lawyer-client relationship between cohen and trump might be violated. and i'm sure that the judge that gave the order that this raid could be made would be confident that that would not be an issue. if it is an issue and with the privacy of the president in this regard, they surely wouldn't want to go down that road. dagen: senator, great to see you, as always. senator chuck grassley, thank you so much for being here. he's going to have a busy afternoon. we c

everything is working just like it should ♪ (♪light musical cords) gregg: judiciary chairman chuck grassleyng ahead with a keep state exercising futility, his committee will vote next week on a bill to protect special counsel mueller, joining me to talk about it, former reagan political director. fox business political analyst. ed rollin. >> grassley is a strong chairman, i am sure he will get it to his committee, and mitch h mcconnell will not give it a vote on the floor. gregg: there have been hundreds of media reports that president will fire mueller, he probably thought about it, i wouldn't blame him, he has two glaring disqualifies conflicts of interest. but media is now the thought police. >> the president talking about firing made him more on straight and narrow, you get in special counsels you need guidelines and barriers. and i think that to the best of my knowledge, and what we have read, that you know he was doing a pretty good job of keeping it on straight and narrow, he just needs to get it shut down. gregg: i wonder if he has been influenced by the president's comments and twe

. >> let me get your quick reaction to the chairman of the senate judiciary committee, chuck grassleyday when he was asked about the possibility if the president could fire robert mueller. listen to this. >> i think it would be suicide for the president to fire him. i think the less the president says about this whole thing, the better off he will be. and i think that mueller is a person of stature and respected, and i respect him. just let the thing go forward. >> that is hugely important. >> why? tell us why you believe that's important. >> i testified before senator grassley's committee back in june, and the import of my testimony was that the judiciary committee needed to protect robert mueller against the potential for firing, just what's been discussed and what has been reported to have been the case back in june, when the president supposedly asked his counsel, don mcgahn, to orchestrate the firing of robert mueller. so this is the very, very powerful republican chairman of the senate judiciary committee speaking, saying that this would be suicide. that's a huge statement warni

despite the fact that senator baldwin did not return a blue ship, chairman grassley moved him out of committee anyway. the blue slip tradition was faithfully honored by the chairman. it was used to an extent that would certainly be, quote, historic obstruction -- six years a seat was vacant on the circuit court and not the only one that had long-term vacancies. and now all of a sudden because democrats want to discuss this, mull this for few days, senator lankford wants to change the rules. i know he only came to the senate in 204, but he ought to look a bit at the history before he does something like this. the issue of nominations has been fraught and it's true there have been escalations on both sides. i'd be the first to say that. democrats, despite the rhetoric from the majority party, have worked this year in good faith to clear noncontroversial nominations expeditiously. when nominees require vetting, the senate should have the tools to consider them thoroughly because clearly this administration is not taking the task of vetting seriously. and this is a final argument there a

senator lindsey graham and chuck grassley, two supporters of the republican party leadership both at of his presidency. neil: why would that be? >> would appear as though the president is pardoning those that can harm him, firing those who are tormenting him, abusing the powers that he has two get himself peace of mind, knowing this will create a constitutional crisis. the constitutional crisis comes about when one branch of government thinks the other branches illegitimate and you think members of the congress would begin to think that about president trump. my columnist argues his biggest threat in his own lack of self-restraint and if he can exercise self-restraint and see this through following prudent legal advice rather than lashing out in firing. neil: when someone reads your lawyer's office, much like his reaction with paul manafort, these are tactics that are eyebrow raising. why would they be allowed to send? >> the quality and quantity of evidence that must have been presented by federal prosecutors in new york city to a federal judge to get to sign the order. it's a very

senator grassley is up to that task. people to get involved and not publish some of the things that they have found through his lawyer. how we ever seen anything like this happen before and what happens next? terry: not with the president. but this sort of thing happens all the time. apparently what is going on is cohen is being investigated for a number of things. stormy the payments to daniels were proper, whether they violated some sort of law are not, and what the president and his lawyers are trying to do is make sure and limit the scope of discovery. to say, you can do what you like with cohen, but you cannot misdeeds toged get at the basics very bit of relationship we had is lawyer and client. that is quite common. they are trying to work that out before the united states district court. francine: how alone is this president? terry: i do not think he is particularly alone. different presidents have different styles. nixon was a famous loner and a lot of different ways. other presidents are more inclusive. biograph

past with senators grassley, flake, and graham favoring the legislation. this is just over 1.5 hours.

that's a red line for chuck grassley.or the president to fire him. i think the less the president says about this whole thing, the better off he will be. >> to be clear, he's talking about rbob mueller and "the new york times" is reporting at this moment that trump sought to fire mueller in december. after there were reports that mueller subpoenaed trump and the trump family bank records at deutsche bank. now, those reports turneded out to be inaccurate and nutrump std down. "outfront" now, democratic congresswoman, jackie speier, who's a member of the house intelligence committee. good to have you with me. first, the breaking news, the president is considering firing rod rosenstein. who of course has the direct authority to fire bob mueller. do you believe the president is getting ready to get rid of mueller? >> well, we certainly don't know what the president's about to do. but he wants this investigation to come to an end. he doesn't respect the rule of law and has shown in recent months and numerous and uber confidenc

that puts grassley on a direct collision course with the senate majority leader who says he will not advance the bill to a final vote. >> there's no indication that mueller is going to be fired. i don't think the president is going to do that. >> obviously a number of your colleagues fear it enough to say it should be in there. >> i'm the one who decides what we take to the floor. that's my responsibility as the majority leader. we'll not be having this on the floor of the senate. >> it's possible mcconnell doesn't read "the new york times" which reported on two separate occasions when the president has already tried to order pluler fired. in one case backing down only after his own white house counsel threatened to quit over it if he went through with it. tonight concerns about mueller being fired are urgent enough apparently a police commander in pittsburgh just ordered detectives to bring riot gear to work in case people take to the streets. that's happening in america. on capitol hill, a handful of republicans signed on to a house version of the mueller protection bill. it is wor

remember, the grassley-graham memo which found out that the bulk of the fisa application consisted ofhis unverified, uncorroborated clinton bought and paid for russian lies. now, once again, without any evidence to back up his claims, comey also entertained the idea that donald trump, the sitting u.s. president, had been compromised by russia. really? i guess he wouldn't have bombed syria on friday night. take a look. >> you think the russians have something on donald trump? >> i think it's possible. i don't know. these are words i never thought i would utter about the president but i don't know mike it's possible. >> that's stunning. you can say for certain that the president of united states is not compromised by the russians? >> it is stunning russians? >> it is stunning. it always struck me as unlikely and i would have been able to say it -- i can't. it's possible. >> sean: where's the evidence? by the way, if you don't know if it's true, how does it get presented in a fisa court to get a warrant is by an american citizen? you think is a former fbi director, how can comey make suc

people like chuck grassley know robert mueller and they know him for decades.hey say he is a honorable person with a stellar reputation. all the concerns republicans have had with the department of justice would actually touch mueller himself. they predate him as being named as special counsel. i think the president -- if you listen to republicans -- treading on dangerous ground, and they are thinking of abandoning him in many cases if he did this. shery: steven dennis on capitol hill, thank you very much. coming up, carter smith of kentucky, ranking democrat on the budget committee thinks will be moving up to chairman next year. that is next. this is bloomberg. ♪ welcome to the xfinity store. i can tell you about... streaming the most free tv shows and movies on the go. yeah, and... xfinity internet. it's so fast! and you can save by... by getting up to 5 mobile lines included. whoa, you're good. i'm just getting started. ♪ simple. easy. awesome. come see how you could save $400 or more a year with xfinity mobile. plus ask how to keep your current phone. visit

chairman chuck grassley doesn't criticize, he doesn't call for constraint by the special counsel, instead this is what chairman grassley, who's been in the swamp for almost 40 years, said today. >> i have confidence in mueller, the president ought to have confidence in mueller and i think to answer your question, it would be suicide for the president to want to talk about firing mueller. lou: our first guest tonight, outraged over the fbi's double standard, the special counsel targeting cohen while hillary clinton's blatant violations of campaign finance laws ignored all together by the fbi and the justice department. he also says contempt proceedings need to occur now in the wake of the doj and fbi's failure to comply with congress' constitutional right to oversight. joining us tonight, congressman ron desantis, member of several key committees, including foreign affairs and judiciary. he is also the leading republican candidate to be governor of the great state of florida. great to have you with us, congressman. let's start with, first of all, grassily. glassily. he's been sitting in wa

there was a letter from senator grassley to rod rosenstein in january of this year where grassley explained go into a skiff, a secure facility to read the comey memos. and he said four were marked classified and he knew comey leaked four those memos to professor richmond. the thing that's amazing to me about all of this, trish, you have this guy who wants to portray himself as the last honest man in d.c., a boy scout for the ages. trish: the other thing that kills me is how the media eats it up. he was saying he would love to string up some of these reporters who were leaking and throw them in jail and he and the president talked about judith miller. judith points out comey did effectively put her in jail for not revealing a source. the guy who is now friends with the media is the same whown was happy to lock them up if they didn't reveal their sources to him. he is what the media wants him to be right now and that's troubling. >> it seems like he's cashing in and trying to sell a book. and that's not appropriate for a former fbi director. classified information, there is a reason to it. it