the end they worked together to fine the truth. >> what's happening now then, liz. >> the house judiciary committee- let me finish. >> absolutely. >> the house judiciary committee then started its impeachment proceeding not because some special prosecutor told us or not because the republicans wanted it or the democrats wanted it but because the american people after the saturday night massacre, after archibald cox said we are not a banana republic and the house judiciary committee, congress you have to do something. it didn't start out on a partisan basis. and the people who led the house judiciary committee understood that there was never going to be an impeachment unless it was bipartisan. >> what infected our politics now. >> people don't put the country over their own personal interests. that's the difference. >> simple as that. >> simple as that. >> john i want to ask you because this "washington post" article by woodward and bernstein from june of 1973 process this is how it reading former presidential counsel john w. dean iii has told senators and prosecute prosecutors disclosed aspects of

washington democratic strategist julian epstein he said his chief minority counsel to the house judiciary committee and is a former staff director of the government oversight and reform committee he's. gentleman thank you for being with us what's your takeaway from the government shutdown lanny what do you what do you see the result. well you know larry we're stuck in this really unfortunate cycle of lurching from continuing resolution to continuing resolution without any real long term. solution insight i think unfortunately in this particular situation a little bit a pox on both their houses type feeling i think for many americans for the democrats i think the challenge was it's not entirely clear what they got out of the two days of the shutdown they got some assurances maybe that they'll be discussion on immigration but at the end of the day it seems to me that this was a much ado about nothing julian yeah i think he has it pretty much right and i think he was charitable towards the democrats i think if you look back at the government shutdown and into that in one thousand nine hundred five and

john bonifaz: so, the first process involves the house judiciary committee taking up the question. e house of representatives would need to pass a resolution that would advance to the house judiciary committee the question of an impeachment investigation or articles of impeachment. you know, congressman al green has said that he wants to go to the floor with a privileged resolution immediately, that will force a vote in the house of representatives as early as in the next few days in this coming week. but, you know, beyond that process, the process of having the house judiciary committee take up this question would then involve subpoena power, would then involve taking witnesses. this is what happened during the nixon impeachment proceedings. i understand why people say -- well, the republicans control the house judiciary committee. they control the house of representatives. they control the senate. where do we think this process could actually go? but, you know, there were plenty of people who argued on the day that we launched this campaign, on inauguration day, that there was jus

house budget committee. retired four-star general jack keane. jim jordan, house judiciary committee. we have howard kurtz on ground breaking meeting. neil: it was historic. speaking of the market, historic today. the dow posting fourth record close of the new year and its 75th under president trump. nicole petallides on floor of the new york stock exchange. open the bottles of champagne, here we go again. is 2018 going to be like 2017? >> why not. it has been a lot of fun. you mentioned great stats. how about the 92nd record close since election day when we were hovering around 18,300. here we are at 25,386 today. records across the board, david and melissa. did notice the russell is down just fractionally. that doesn't close with a high. across the board gains. interestingly enough only some sectors gained. we'll watch for the financial earnings later in the week. look at 10-year treasury bond this is very telling. moves above the 2.5% level. that is the highest in 10 months. this is all based on a stronger economy. rising energy, oil above 63 bucks, passing of sweeping tax cuts. we

we have republican mike johnson, house judiciary committee member.essman johnson, the one thing that bugs me and i'm sure everybody else, will we fund out whether the trump dossier was used to get a fisa warrant to spy on the trump campaign? >> that is one of the big questions. the republicans on the house judiciary committee have been probing and asking these questions all year, all through 2017. we're just not getting to the real information. you know, we called for the appointment of a second special counsel to look into all this the clinton foundation's involvement with the dossier. the dnc during the election cycle. all smells to high heaven. the problem here it eroding the american people's believe and their faith in the law. that is -- david: forgive me for interrupting. we don't have much time. will we find out an answer to that question. >> we certainly hope so. we're pushing as hard as we can. attorney general jeff sessions has told us he is on top of this of the they have oversight over the fbi of the doj says they're committed. we'll find

also, gop lawmaker on the house judiciary committee reportedly indicated there are plans to call back director james comey to testify. former hillary clinton campaign staffer and former dnc advisor and back from "outnumbered overtime" lisa booth and fox news contributor. let's start with the gap of the five months of text messages from the fbi lisa. it's really good finding stuff. >> of course it raises questions. particularly because these were text messages from peter strozyk who was the lead investigator at the hillary clinton investigation as mark meadows pointed out on twitter. he was texting about the need to end the clinton investigation and no less than 48 hours later, allegedly he tampered with the statement from james comey removing what would have been criminal definition to just gross negligence to carelessness. it should be questioned. this is the same guy who tweeting about an insurance policy and having secret meeting. >> i want to talk to you about a secret society. >> there's a handshake. it's eyes wide shut. it's very serious. there's a coordinated campaign to smear

we have matt gaetz, house judiciary committee. etime around 5:00 the house intel committee will vote whether or not to release this memo. even if they vote to release it won't be a couple days until we see it but is there anything in the memo, you read it, i know you can't be specific about it, but was there anything in the memo that might have lead mr. mccabe either to resign or be dismissed? >> unfortunately i can't answer that question because potentially confirm or deny what was in the memo. based on what is publicly available, the text messages, particularly between peter strzok and lisa page referencing meetings in andy's office to discuss their insurance policy to save the american people from donald trump, that to me was sufficient basis for the mr. mccabe to move on. david: have we confirmed that the andy in the text is andrew mccabe? >> seems obvious to me based on totality of the facts that is the case. mr. mccabe may have a different viewpoint. that may be hard to maintain in factual inquiry. david: you have friend on t

washington democratic strategist julian epstein he said just chief minority counsel to the house judiciary committee and is a former staff director of the government oversight and reform committee us. gentlemen thank you for being with us what's your takeaway from the government shutdown lanny what do you what do you see the result. well you know larry we're stuck in this really unfortunate cycle of lurching from continuing resolution to continuing resolution without any real long term. solution inside i think unfortunately in this particular situation a little bit a pox on both their houses type feeling i think for many americans for the democrats i think the challenge was it's not entirely clear what they got out of the two days of the shutdown they got some assurances maybe that they'll be discussion on immigration but at the end of the day it seems to me that this was much ado about nothing julian yeah i think lanny has it pretty much right and i think he was charitable towards the democrats i think if you look back at the government shutdown and into that in one thousand nine hundred five in tw

the house oversight committee, as well as the house judiciary committee. they plan to meet behind closed doors to get the update on his own investigation. and that is highly anticipated. it could be released in the coming weeks and they want to see if there is any intel to essentially given they will more ammunition for their investigation going forward. >> stand by. evan, the inspector general at the department of justice. we're now hearing he may have played a role also in the sudden removal of andrew mccabe. >> i think what he is referring to helps explain what we are seeing today. they are expecting it will come out in march or april. that's the guidance that they have given. i think that there is a certain number of factors that have come into this. but chris wray, the memo that he sent to employees within the last hour, hinted at the fact this ig, the inspector general report was coming out and suggest that had might have played a role to lead. it appears there is a mix of being pushed and nudged out of fbi and mccabe's own realization that perhaps h

. >> the top democrat on the house judiciary committee said it was profoundly unfair the house republicans have not shared the memo with the fbi and justice department, the very agencies the memo claims to unmask. >>> new details this morning from the latest cache of text messages exchanged by two fbi officials who were later removed from the russia investigation. in one newly revealed text, counter-intel specialist peter strzok seems to suggest he doesn't think there is any there there in the mueller investigation and for that matter doesn't want to be part of the investigation. strzok and lisa page discuss a "secret society" and ways to "fix damage done by the fbi investigation" into hillary clinton's e-mail server. >> this is the latest ammunition for republicans already suggesting there may be something nefarious behind the loss of months of text messages between the pair. the republican chairman of the senate intel committee says don't read too much into that. >>> today senate democratic leader chuck schumer has pulled funding for the border wall off the table. he offered the wall in

chairman, as you join us this morning, you are the chairman of the house judiciary committee. .o.j. and the f.b.i. what is the relationship between your committee and these two institutions? >> i think we have a professional working relationship and again, this does not call into question the entire federal bureau of investigation. it's a very important organization with many, many, many dedicated people in it. but these are serious issues and i will say this, compared to the obama administration, when we've been requesting documents and many of them are classified so we have to examine them in a classified setting in a skiff, a security location, we're getting those. maybe not always as quickly as we would like or everything we would like in the five months of texts is a good example of that. but they are working with us and -- >> sandra: sounds like you are digging deeper. >> much more needs to be done. >> sandra: the president has been tweeting about it this morning. he is blaming samsung because this is being blamed by the f.b.i. on technology and a lapse there. a lot of qu

matt gaetz, a member of the house judiciary committee on what happens now. melissa: many on social media are convinced romney is going to run. david: north and south korea speaking to each other for the first time in years but what difference does it make as president trump calls out the north korean leader, reminding him, regardless of his threats the u.s. has a bigger and better nuclear arsenal. lieutenant-general thomas mcinerney weighing in on this and a lot more, including iran and pack ton next. >> nuclearized north korea is not just a danger and a threat to america and to any freedom and democracy-loving people but to the entire world and the world is responding. i tried hard to quit smoking. but when we brought our daughter home, that was it. now i have nicoderm cq. the nicoderm cq patch with unique extended release technology helps prevent your urge to smoke all day. it's the best thing that ever happened to me. every great why needs a great how. david: nuclear war of words. president trump firing back at the north korean leader via twitter warning

liberty act in the house judiciary committee last year by an overwhelming bipartisan vote which is no easy task. however, we were able to responsely balance civil liberties with national -- responsibly balance civil liberties with national security. it is not perfect and the process getting here was not ideal, but the bill requires for the first time a warrant to access 702 collected communications on u.s. persons in criminal investigations. moreover, in routine criminal cases, when the f.b.i. accesses u.s. person's communications that were incidentally collected without first obtaining a warrant, the f.b.i. will not be permitted to use those communications in a criminal prosecution. this will prevent a national security tool from advancing run-of-the-mill criminal prosecutions. these are meaningful reforms. the bill that was presented to us before christmas with its optional warrant construct was not real reform. the bill we are debating today, however, contains meaningful reforms. i would have preferred to include additional reforms but i cannot stress to my colleagues enough that o

committee. is it perfect? i never voted for a perfect bill in this house. i also want to thank your commi that relate to our constitution. and the members of the judiciary committee. on intelligencyou have a very few members who are deputiz by the speaker and by the leader, each party, to go to the inteigence committee to deal with iues that rete to the balance between security and privacy. with a the respect in the world for the magnificent members of the judiciary committee, all of whom i respect, it's not right to say there is nothing in thisill that protects the privacy of the american people. in fact, when i was supporting the judiciary committee bil the outside groups were complaning. they wanted the zo lofgren endment. they didn't want that bill. they were complaining abt it. today they are saying that's what they want. issue, one ying the of the differences along the way is when it is issue, one apprri terms of warrant. pleased that we would be offering a motion to recommit that addresses just that concern, which is what i'm hearing from folks about. pleas we would be offering a the amendmt, the motion to recommit, addresses concerns of people o

subpoena from the congressional hearing from the congressional hearing, the committee, the house judiciary committee, or the intelligence committee, rather, said he needed to answer questions about his time in the white house. originally he refused to talk about that. they issued a subpoena on the spot saying he had to talk about the transition process and his time as a senior white house adviser. laura: also, hope hicks is due to give evidence on capitol hill. currently the communications director. she could be key. anthony: she could be, and she has already talked to robert mueller, not under subpoena, but in a sit-down interview with his team, the way that a lot of inner circle members of the white house have met with mueller, like sean spicer and reince preibus. she has been there from the very earliest days of donald trump's presidential campaign. she was one of the advanced people, communications person from the get-go. moved to the white house and had a lower level communications spot, has been elevated to communications director. she has had a front-row seat for pretty much the entire rise o

you used to work for the house judiciary committee. , the chairman of the house judiciary committee, bob goodlatte, has put out a daca bill, but democrats don't like it because it has things unrelated to daca, having to do with the wall, having to do with chain migration, having to do with the visa lottery. so, republicans have done something on it. it's just not what democrats want. >> well, i don't think -- i think that there could be a meeting of the minds. i think if you left it to goodlatte and the democrats on the hill, i think there could be a meeting of the minds where you would resolve the daca issue and you could do more things on border security. i think that's perfectly reasonable. >> on that note, let me bring you in here -- >> when you start the debate off where trump has had three different positions on whether daca's tied to other things or not, he's consistently changed his position, nobody knows what he wants, then he insults entire groups of people, that's the wrong place to start for a constructive dialogue. >> final

he sits on the house judiciary committee. welcome. good to have you with us tonight. tell me more about that. in terms of this investigation and what you want specifically. one of the concerns here is it looks liked the attorney general had turned over all of the fbi texts in december of 2017. now it appears that they disappeared. >> that is the operative question. are these texts really missing? that's why tomorrow i'll be demanding to find out where the phones are. what the operating system upgrades were. when there was an original notice that there might have been missing information. the key information, martha, is that hahn december 13th of 2017, we had mr. horowitz, the inspector general for the fbi send a letter to senator ron johnson saying that they had these texts all the way through the month of june. so that would include the five month period that the fbi says that they don't have these text messages for. so we have conflicting information. are the texts truly lost? or does the inspector general have them? that's what congress needs to find out immediatel

melissa: here is arizona congressman andy biggs, member of the house judiciary committee. kumbayah moment we saw earlier in the week, everyone in the room working towards something, seems like we'll get something done, that is up in a puff of smoke at this point or are there people on the side behind the scenes still working? what is going on? >> well, i think that the plans that you're seeing out there are not really satisfactory to anybody. and so they're going to just keep working. my problem is, they're conflating the idea of daca with the "dream" act. they're putting the cart before the horse. i think we need to be building the wall. melissa: there is a lot of different competing interests is basically what you said. one thing i want to clarify the president said he would sign whatever came before him, if everything was negotiated. what came apart today was not final thing negotiated by the final group. this is one phase, right? >> oh, exactly right. i have seen at least four potential plans that are out there combine daca with "dream" act or keep daca separate but ha

joining me right now is chairman of the house judiciary committee , congressman bob goodlatte of virginia. congressman good to see you. thanks maria. maria: thank you so much for joining us. what bothers people out there is you have to be able to trust your fbi, your cia, your irs, because there is a thing called the rule of law and what we've learned from some of these text messages is that there's a whole lot of bias and corruption going on at the top. tell us what you've learned? >> it's important to emphasize there are tens of thousands of great men and women whoever are day keep us safe, prevent terrorists attacks, solve crimes at the fbi but they're by several people in the leadership of the fbi that have a shocking contrast in the way they took the approach they took to the clinton investigation and the one they've taken to the trump investigation and it is stunning the more we see of these texts the more concerning it is and hats off to the inspector general at the department of justice who had these texts that were missing for five months and has figured out how to get access to

committee. is it perfect? i never voted for a perfect bill in this house. i also want to thank your commi that relate to our constitution. and the members of the judiciary committee. on intelligencyou have a very few members who are deputiz by the speaker and by the leader, each party, to go to the inteigence committee to deal with iues that rete to the balance between security and privacy. with a the respect in the world for the magnificent members of the judiciary committee, all of whom i respect, it's not right to say there is nothing in thisill that protects the privacy of the american people. in fact, when i was supporting the judiciary committee bil the outside groups were complaning. they wanted the zo lofgren endment. they didn't want that bill. they were complaining abt it. today they are saying that's what they want. issue, one ying the of the differences along the way is when it is issue, one apprri terms of warrant. pleased that we would be offering a motion to recommit that addresses just that concern, which is what i'm hearing from folks about. pleas we would be offering a the amendmt, the motion to recommit, addresses concerns of people o

as soon as i graduated and got my first job on capitol hill working for the house judiciary committee. now, i had always wanted to focus on national security policy but that opportunity was not open at the time so i took a good job on the house judiciary committee. to graduate school. i went to grad school at the u.s. naval war college. and got a masters degree and national security and strategic studies. and then focused my studies more narrowly. and then i got a job for the congressman who is on the house foreign services committee and began specializing in strategic security. that is missile defense, nuclear deterrence, and counter proliferation. and that is a very short timeline. if you have more questions about the particulars of that afterwards, i am happy to spend some time talking with you all. in networking for the congressman and we launched the bipartisan missile defense caucus. it was to be a forum for republicans and democrats to discuss the challenges to the u.s. from the threat of ballistic missiles and because ballistic missiles have become one of the -- i would say th

was once of the bases as phil knows far better than i, the impeachment proceedings in the house judiciary committee74. presidents cannot obstruct justice. that is not one of the powers that the president has. >> philip, do you want to weigh in on that? i have another question if you're okay with what he said. >> i fully agree with jeff. i think the key thing here to remember is that what's being investigated is whether the president's efforts to fob off the russia investigation by firing comey and doing other things, perhaps trying to fire mueller, were designed to protect general flynn, his friend, perhaps his close family member who's have been involved apparently in russian contacts, and also perhaps to keep the prosecutors from getting at his own financial affairs. and i think that's why jeff is absolutely right that that sounds like a corrupt, meaning self-interested effort, to terminate an investigation. >> all right. so, phil, let's think about, you know, how this all goes. robert mueller now knows from his witness -- from his witnesses that the president ordered the don mcgahn to fire rober

trump or the white house and obviously both sides, especially on the house side, it's been less of an issue on the judiciary committee in the senate than it has in the house intelligence committee, this type of partisan, but obviously on the house side, there's been a lot of leaking from both sides and often for very different partisan reasons. grassley and feinstein have typically worked well together. feinstein did put out that transcript. clearly grassley was ticked off about it, at least to the extent he was willing to throw that little jab underneath there. historically, they've worked well. this kushner thing has been a real sticking point the entire time. clearly he's concerned about something. >> kristen, on the other side of the coin, there's donald trump making an impromptu entrance yesterday to the chief of staff's office to talk to reporters. you, among other, asked him if he was willing to talk to the special counsel under oath and he said yes. >> he said yes, and he was definitive, katie, that he was willing to meet, to sit down, in person, with the special counsel for an interview. it's a notable shift

sensenbrenner: the house judiciary committee committee passed the bipartisan liberty act with bipartisan votes this bill fails to do necessary reforms. the program should be authorized if done in the right way. this bill is the wrong way. it is time for congress to put the f for foreign back into fisa. there's no f for foreign in this bill. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from georgia reserves his time. the gentleman from florida. mr. hastings: thank you, mr. speaker. i'm pleased to yield four minutes to the distinguished gentlewoman from california, my friend, ms. lofgren from the judiciary subcommittee on immigration and border security. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for four minutes. ms. lofgren: thank you very much. i agree with mr. sensenbrenner for the reasons he outlined that this bill should not become law. however, i am also speaking in favor of the amash amendment that has been put in order that would fix the problems he has so eloquently outlined. before 702 was enacted into law, the n.s.a. and f.b.i. woul

as soon as i graduated and got my first job on capitol hill working for the house judiciary committee. now, i had always wanted to focus on national security policy but that opportunity was not open at the time so i took a good job on the house judiciary committee. and i went to graduate school. i went to grad school at the u.s. naval war college. and got a masters degree and national security and strategic studies. and then focused my studies more narrowly. and then i got a job for the congressman who is on the house foreign services committee and began specializing in strategic security. that is missile defense, nuclear deterrence, and counter proliferation. and that is a very short timeline. if you have more questions about the particulars of that afterwards, i am happy to spend some time talking with you all. i specialize in networking for the congressman and we launched the bipartisan missile defense caucus. it was to be a forum for republicans and democrats to discuss the challenges to the u.s. from the threat of ballistic missiles and because ballistic missiles have become one

jerrod nadler will take over the house judiciary committee, which is very important, especially if the democrats are successful in their efforts to take over the majority in the house. do we know anything about jerrold nadler's attitude towards the impeachment process? darren: for now he is taking the lead, along with what you have heard from nancy pelosi and others. let the process play out. let's have a more proactive, positive message. he's been bird dogging the chairman of that committee, criticizing him again today as he goes after fbi officials and turning the rush investigation on its heels. flipping it up upside down by looking back to hillary clinton and the fbi. on the republicans' case, he's trying to push it forward. if nadler were in charge, it would be a much more intense case to try to see what happened. 10 or 11 months for now, it will be a very different place. susan: thank you niall stanage and darren samuelsohn for being here on "newsmakers." [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit n

attending several included usa liberty act as a senate companion to build reported out of the house judiciary committee and a strong bipartisan vote. offers a sensible compromise. protect national security, something we want to do. it protects american civil liberties which i hope you want to do. strongly support a warrant amendments that were close the vector loophole. these amendments, others offered by senators paul and wind, senator lee and senator paul who spoke so strongly to the problems, they are to be heard and have a chance to offer amendments. instead the only bill were voting on is the house bill insurance to comply with the fundamental constitutional imperative. we can do better in the united states senate than to accept a flawed house bill. to not be deceived by the warrant in the newness bill again why we should have a senate bill that speaks to the things winner senators and not applied the want to newness bill. that warrants the exemptions are so large it renders it meaningless. normally when the government to let police national security and risk a privately harm are not implicated. o

>> well, it was jim jordan in the house judiciary committee that asked the attorney general and rod rosenstein to provide it. judge jeanine: they said no. my viewers want to know, now, where do we go? how do we find out? enough of this stuff and going on and on about this thing. let, finds out what the application for the fisa warrant looks like. is there anyone other than sessions and christopher wray and the fbi? >> you have to have mitch mcconnell involved with the chairman of the committee, devin nunes, and trey gowdy and senator grassley to grow a spine and do their job and hold this administration accountable. it's a republican administration, i get it. but it was the same thing in the democratic administration. there is a deep state that is we'll seated. have goats -- well seated. it's just going to play along. judge jeanine: these people shouldn't get a salary unless they are doing their job. they shouldn't get a salary until they remove the effort to stop a candidate for president of the united states by the fbi and department of justice. these people have to go. i just go over this e

republicans in the house judiciary committee will put forward a bill today, to get negotiations rollingsome democrats are skeptical. major garrett reports. >> should be a bipartisan bill. this should bea bill of love. truly. we can do that. >> speaking of republican and democrat lawmakers he called for bipartisan legislation. in an unusual move. cameras were allowed to film for nearly an hour. >> we are all going to have to give a little. i will be the first one willing to. >> republicans zeroed in on four priorities, border security, ending visa lottery. limiting immigration based on family ties and daca, obama era program ended by mr. trump that provided legal status to undocumented immigrants, brought to the u.s. as children. >> california democratic senator dianne feinstein tempted the president with a bill that would only deal with daca. >> what about a clean, daca bill now, with a commitment that we go into a comprehensive immigration reform. >> for a moment, mr. trump appeared willing. >> we're going to come up with daca, do daca and start immediately on the phase two comprehensi

let's bring in a member of the house judiciary committee. great to see you. starting with you, congressman gates. i talked to one of your colleagues earlier and he said the following, a republican -- a senior house member, he said i'd be careful in the hyping the content of this memo. he said, i think some of my colleagues are over selling what's in it. this is not the smoking gun that's going stop the mueller investigation. i inink they're building up people's expectations to a ridiculously high extent. i heard that and this is someone i really respect and it made me nervous. congressman. >> i would say the memo has to be evaluated in the context of all the other stunning information we learn from andrew mccabe's message on a pro-hilary bias and the text messages between lisa page and peter strzok and i think yes the memo in and of itself, doesn't the full foreee. the mueller probe is rotten to the foundation. >> laura: the democrats have tried to push off the dossier to the side and it looks like it was used multiple times to justify if he surveillance. what

joining me is congressman matt gaetz, member of the house judiciary committee.e have been hearing for months about fusion gps, the dnc. hillary clinton we find out paid for this document that was created. and then we started hearing this document which was false and a fraud was the basis of a fisa warrant. there is talk, a report that there is now a report that will show us and shock us about the abuses. can you tell us about that report? >> there are four pages of a memorandum prepared by the intelligence committee that will shock the conscience of this country when it comes to the horrific abuses from the last administration and the intelligence community. we are fighting to get this memo released to the american people. i don't think the right answer is to just allow congress to be shocked and horrified. judge jeanine: when do i get to see it? >> at any moment in time the intelligence chairman who has done an excellent job, devin nunes. he can schedule a vote in the intelligence committee. if the committee votes to release the information and the president do

joining me now is congressman ted deutch from florida, on the house judiciary committee. greetings.ing with us. there's a little confusion about whether democrats will or won't meet with the inspector general. is this meeting going to happen? >> there is going to be a meeting with the inspector general because the inspector general wanted to have it when he learned the first meeting was a republican only meeting. john, that shouldn't be surpr e surprising because it's consistent with the way this entire effort has gone on the part of republicans in the house to distract and attack our institutions and sew discord. that's what we've seen. yesterday, john, there's this new approach where they've decided they're going to selectively release intelligence. that's the kind of thing that the russians do and hear it came on the same day we decided, not the president decided not to impose sanctions on russia and in the midst of the investigation into russia's attack on our elections. it's very, very troubling. >> you just said a whole lot there all at once. let's try to piece it together a l

in the house judiciary committee, i'm proud of our work.e had an interview of andrew mccabe under oath, sworn testimony and within hours of him giving that testimony he announced his retirement. i think one of the reasons may be the inconsistencies of his very testimony. we've got a series of investigations closing in on hillary clinton like a noose. lou: you know, congressman, this has to frustrate you as much as it does any one of us in this country right now, concerned citizens. we have some people running the fbi and the department of justice who frankly look like they're the ones who should be behind bars. and we hear about people retiring suddenly. in the case of mccabe. others are being reassigned. but no one is being told you're fired, you're losing your benefits, taxpayer funded benefits. and by the way, we're also going to send you to jail. this is disgusting conduct. i mean, and by the way, part of my disgust in all of this is that it goes on and on, the investigations where they're in the house or senate committees, whether the

charles: gop support building for even immigration bill authored by house judiciary committee chairman bob goodlatte. go through the bullets with us if you will and why this could be the answer that bridges the divide that right now seems to be a stumbling block. >> i think what the president did nernding an illegal programmed called daca, then calling on congress to take care of the dak recipients and at the same time secure our borders and end the advice ra lottery program was just right prescription to get the house and senate republicans and democrats talking to each other. the bill i introduced along with chairman mccalm and the two subcommittee chairs does just that. it provides for daca recipients, but also calls for what we need at border. what we need to make sure when people are apprehended at the border can be returned safely home. people who continue to come across the bored and violate kate's law, and setting the stage for a merit-based immigration system is a great thing, and i think the president did a great job yesterday. tie was happy we had the opportunity as citizens

politico is reporting that the house judiciary committee wants comey to come back to testify again to straighten out what she aare inconsistencies. nbc news is reporting mueller also questioned cia director mike pompeo, dan coates and mike rogers. the president was asked if he's concerned at all about what attorney general jeff sessions told the special counsel. watch. >> no i'm not at all. i'm not concerned. >> not at all concerned. judge? >> the president has been saying since day one that he knows of no inappropriate communication collusion or agreements between the trump campaign and russian government. he's being consistent in that respect. let me give a little background here. the special counsel cannot compel you to an interview. he can ask you for an interview and you can say yes or no. if you say no, he can compel, even the president, to testify against your will before a grand jury. in front of the grand jury, you can refuse to answer by invoking the fifth amendment. there will be political fallout to that. but no legal fallout. should the president submit to this interview