and what james stone and i set up to do, and "animalkind" and show the animals from all around us, every single day, not mythical at all do have what you might call superpowers. but people down badly underestimate the other animals, even those who care deeply about them sometimes. you may be showing love for an animal by calling them your for baby but also they are not babies at all. you are absolutely whole and complete and thinking and they are feeling individuals and they have interest that need to be taken into account. experimenters often call other animals nonhuman. if it's not fair i would find that amusing because it's like a non-hamster. it makes so little sense . they're not non-anything. they are whole beings with an norm is an often fairly unrecognized intelligence. they have emotions, love, fear, pain, joy, they like to be free but they're often totally ignored. that's what joaquin phoenix was talking about, a mother's love for her calf. it's not even considered a factor if somebody wants a cheese topping on their pizza. not a thought for that cow. so i'm going to give you t

taking shot at trump supporters after the president called out james comey, and lisa page and peter strzok for their lies. >> roger stone said trampled the law. and public servants like james comey. the things he was saying about these individuals and talking about peter strzok and lisa page and others. he played to this debased group of people who are listening to what he is staying in terms of trashing good public servants. lou: gren brennan is always debecause himself going back to when he spied on the snaints tell jones agency and initiated spygate and exploited a fraudulent dossier that led to spygate and of course spying on the president and the worst political scan dplal this president's history. the main author of the nunes'-'. the director national intelligence, cash patel will be senior advisor to the acting head of intelligence ric grenell. he was the principle offer of the' memo showing the bias against president trump and his administration. joining us now, john solomon. good to see you. this idea that cash patell will be with ric grenell at to clean it up. your thoughts. >> cash can keep a good secret. i h

prosecutor for blagojevich, and as you heard, president trump connects to james comey, james comey connects to stone. it is kind of interesting, connecting those dots. >> bret: remember, kupperman six was accused of trying to sell former president obama's sentence. we were not only that, extorting a children's hospital. of course, he did spend eight years in jail and a president is saying his sentence was extensive at 14 years great he will be out soon, no doubt we will all hear from him very soon, i'm sure. bret baier, thank you so much for the quick turnaround, we appreciate it. >> bret: sure. >> dana: let's get more on the president's decision to commute former illinois governor kupperman six a simpsons, matt finn is live outside of speech when he sixes house. >> dana, this house behind me, the house in this neighborhood really served as that headquarters and at ground zero for the family. it the former governor would be seen drying and his neighborhood, he often interacted with media and spokespeople for the family held press coverage is here. 5:30 two chicago reporter larry allen is now reporti

taking shot at trump supporters after the president called out james comey, and lisa page and peter strzok for their lies. >> roger stoneke james comey. the things he was saying about these individuals and talking about peter strzok and lisa page and others. he played to this debased group of people who are listening to what he is staying in terms of trashing good public servants. lou: gren brennan is always debecause himself going back to when he spied on the snaints tell jones agency and initiated spygate and exploited a fraudulent dossier that led to spygate and of course spying on the president and the worst political scan dplal this president's history. the main author of the nunes'-'. the director national intelligence, cash patel will be senior advisor to the acting head of intelligence ric grenell. he was the principle offer of the' memo showing the bias against president trump and his administration. joining us now, john solomon. good to see you. this idea that cash patell will be with ric grenell at to clean it up. your thoughts. >> cash can keep a good secret. i had him on my program and he didn't say a word

now you have roger stone, who is investigating on what is now a total witch-hunt, the fisa warrant that whole process. >> our viewers are looking at a picture of jamesolf. >> so think about this he gets a couple months, sh he should have gotten more, today, roger stone who never should have been investigated, because dirty cops knew in january of '17. months before mueller there was no collusion between the russian and trump campaign, this was a bogus investigation from the beginning. so roger stone gets drug through the mud. okay? he gets busted for what? for lying to congress. okay. if you remember democrat on that committee did all they could to trip him up. look, not okay to lie to congress. it is a problem. illegal. lou: not terrible because james wolf got two months. >> he gets two months for leaking. >> stone gets 7 to 9 years. >> i want to make sure you understood that with correlation weacorrelationbetween wolf and s no sense. lou: and general flynn, whose sentences by judge sullivan has been delayed for what reason? because the justice department wants to hang him high. >> i would say -- >> there is something wrong in that justice departme

general's job harder but he's going to do it anyway and he has talked about roger stone and then pivoted to his targets, james comey, and andrew mccabe, claiming they have been liars or leakers in the past and that is somehow a mitigating circumstance in the president's view based on his tweets. he's retweeted about potentials for pardon for roger stone. we know the president has pardoned more than two dozen people, commuted the sentences of ten other and is would he use this power which is an unmatched power that the president has to either commute a sentence and expunge a conviction. we don't know what the president's thinks is on that currently. he has a team inside the white house to help review potential pardons. traditionally, that's been done through the department of justice long after someone has served their time and publicly been sorry about their convictions, whatever they might but that's the old way of doing things. president trump wants that done inside the white house, along with his son-in-law jared kushner. will the president use that power for someone who's been a long-time loyal friend. th

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furious department of justice hasn't done more to punish perceived enemies like james comey and andrew mccabe when friends like stone and michael flynn are facing jail time. hans nichols at the white house. the official word is there's no division between the president and the attorney general. tell us what's happening here? >> reporter: i think we saw in the tweet from the president where in bill barr's words, he is adding grist to the mill. the president saying look, i will weigh in on cases as i please, it is my right to do so. what's fascinating about the tweet from the president, the first half starts off defensive, which is not a posture we typically get from the president, trying to claim bill barr was defending him. then the president lays down the law. where you look at where bill barr is publicly, it is not as though he established a red line, but came close. that is to say if the president continues to intervene, continues to tweet on criminal matters, those are the caveats before the justice department, it makes it difficult to do his job. the question for william barr is if the president continues to tw

the flynn case, the roger stone case and then inquiries into what the president sees as adversaries and former fbi director, james comey and former deputy director, andrew mccabe and more recently, as yesterday, we saw what happened with roger stone. so what officials are saying is you take all these things together and you're seeing a stort of -- an attorney general moving in as power grab to try to get control of cases that typically would be independent of the white house. but in this instance are very important to president trump and he wants to be able to put his thumb on the scale on those. >> i think that what you're saying is so important. i just want to push one level beneath it because your story includes some reporting about the ousted u.s. attorney, that d.c. office, as you said is this offices that's always been the place where the most politically sensitive places land. and for that reason, it's always tried to be -- there's been attempts to buffer it from politics. but there was a very abrupt and opened, i guess t investigation to jim comey and over saw the prosecutions of flynn and stone. talk abo

james comey like. >> donald trump taunting prosecutors who stepped down over recommendations roger stone get reducedsentence. the former trump advisor was convicted of lying to congress and witness tampering stemming from the mueller probe. he faced up to nine years but when senior doj leaders said they would seek a lesser sentence four people quit. the president tweeting and part who are the four prosecutors? mueller people who cut and ran after being exposed for recommending ridiculous 9 year prison sentence? democrats calling for a doj investigation. the man who intentionally ran down attentive republican volunteers inside that tend was motivated by anti-trump feelings was a police report revealing the suspect reported himself driving towards the tent in jacksonville florida and the video cut out before he hit anything which he described as the good part. he is charged with aggravated assault, no one was injured. kobe bryant and his 13-year-old daughter have been laid to rest. into entertainment tonight up your -- private funeral was held friday. the indian legend, his daughter and 7 others were

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during the debates at the federal convention of 1787, james madison, alexander hamilton and others relied heavily on sir william back stone's work, commentaries on the laws of england which madison described as, and i quote, a book which is in every man's hand. with his work blackstone discussed high misdemeanors which included many crimes against the king and government including maladministration. according to blackstone, maladministration applied to high officers in public trust and employment and was punished by the method of parliamentary impeachment. it is from this understanding that the framers selected high crimes and misdemeanors for the impeachment clause in our constitution. the term high crimes and misdemeanors had a limited and technical meaning that was well known to the framers. it was a term of art. as early as 14th century england, high crimes and misdemeanors were a category of plit crimes against the state and were tried in parliamentary impeachments. it should be understood that the word high in high crimes and misdemeanors is a modifying adjective and also applies to the word misdemeanors. high misdeme

ago, decrying the sentence that had been recommended for roger stone and in the same breath, calling for the imprisonment of myself and james comey. that is an absolute abrogation of everything we know and expect from our system of justice here as americans. and it's disturbing to see the department of justice playing a role in that politicization of the work that doj should be doing. >> you know, our system is set up, you know, in a very well-thought-out way with checks and balances. but when you start to look at what has gone on, you know, the president has -- they've packed the courts with a lot of judges. you know, it hasn't got a lot of attention over the last couple of years, but they've been very successful in getting a huge number of judges appointed by the president. obviously, the senate is not standing up to the president, at least, the republicans in the senate are afraid, clearly, of the blowback of contradicting this president and mitt romney is now a case study in what can happen if you do. there's the justice department, which now seems to be weaponized. i mean, the next step, i guess, is sort of weaponizing

stone's nine-year sentence for being unclear as to what he did. the president actually just said nobody even knows what he did. he is going on on a rant about james comey and the mueller investigation and all of this. i just want to be really clear about roger stone. he was convicted in november of lying to congress and tampering with a witness to prevent investigators from learning how the 2016 trump campaign tried to benefit from stolen democratic party emails. five counts of making false statements including lying to congress. one count of witness tampering. one count of obstruction of an official proceeding. yet the president continues to go on and on and on about how nobody even knows what he did. i don't know if we have ken dilanian. i think we have cynthia oxny. >> yeah. >> this is kind of remarkable. i mean, this is -- this goes to a whole new level. not just the president potentially influencing his attorney general to influence a court decision. that would be problematic in and of itself. it may be that bill barr did this of his own accord. that would be problematic. but the president next to the president of ecuador in the oval office

>> i mean, here'sho man is pushing prosecutors to prosecute james comey and andrewccabe, enter convenience for mike flynn and for roger stonerog stone? i think there's open speculation and very plausible, roger stone is the one person that can tie donald trump to wikileaks and to the russians in the016 -- judy: you mean after all that investigation? >> after all that investigation. that's what he did. that's what.e was lying abo he was the enter immediate area. or affection. ot out i think it's out out vu serability. hell concerned with that 2016 election rather than worried about 2020. judy, how about -- how do you if you're rob portman? if you're joanie ernst oh, yeah, we voted to acquit. but he's going to be chaissonned. th is the new chaissonned trump? i mean, he's unburdened and unfettered and scary. judy: thank you, both. the fallout and the real-life plication of president trump's immigration policies are now coming into clearer view. amna nawaz reporteds from human rights watch. on >> theoversial u.s. remain in mexico policy forces asylum seekers to wait an unsafe often crowded and unhealthy conditions. some reporte

stone. >> jimmy: yes. >> he has urged the investigation, prosecution of james comey, adam schiff, you name it.f law. and then just this week of course he fired the head of all the intelligence agencies for doing his job, which is briefing congress on the threat to our elections posed by a foreign power. and he's replaced him with someone who has no experience except being a lackey of the president. this is just so dangerous for the country. >> jimmy: when you are -- you're in the house intelligence committee, you run the house intelligence committee. you're there with your colleagues, some of whom are republicans. do they share this concern? do you get any sense from them that they feel like something is wrong? >> you mean like devin nunes? >> jimmy: devin nunes, for instance. devin nunes who for whatever reason just kind of came out of nowhere and really has devoted his life to protecting donald trump, for reasons that are unknown to me. i have no idea why. i don't know if he's dumb, if he's evil, if he's some combination of the two. i'm pretty sure he's dumb. i won't speak to evil. but what'

stone receive. how disproportionate is that sentence? let's put it this way, jamesn brennan are both confirmed perjurer's. they did it in public.

stone receive. how disproportionate is that sentence? let's put it this way. jamespper and john brennan are both confirmed purge errors, they did it in public. they will never be prosecuted. at this moment they are getting rich on television. meanwhile for the crime of sending explicit sexual photos to a child, the serious felony, former congressman anthony weiner got just 21 months and he served less. wiener has an admitted sex offender but he was also a close personal friend of bill and hillary clinton's. and in the end that's what mattered most. see how this works? prosecutors want roger stone to serve nine years not because he hurt someone or hurt this country. he didn't. but because they hate him. as status liberals they hate his politics. but, above all, they hate his attitude. stone made fun of the ruling class. that's not allowed, and they never forgot it. they are trying to kill him for it. how unscrupulous are they in pursuit of that goal? prosecutors lied about what stone did. they linked him to foreign election interference. when he had no tie to that an

that has all of the politically contentious cases, oversees the roger stone case and michael flynn case and deciding to charge jamesomey and other things we don't know about and he also sent this an outside team of prosecutors, some from st. louis, some from the deputy attorney general office to impose a new layer of sup supervisory review handling the cases to be in a position to second-guess and micromanage these cases. whether trump knew this was happening or barr did this on his own is an open question. but it is extremely unusual and part of the reason that that office was already in an uproar before this happened with roger stone and the pulling back of the sentencing guidelines recommendation that led those four attorneys to quit the case. >> charlie sykes, are we seeing corrupting of the justice department here where the president and his attorney general who sort of walks in lockstep with him and thinks and acts that way are out there to use the justice department to clear his political attendants. >> yes. and there is nothing stealthy about it. this is the thing about donald trump. he says the quiet part

here's a man who's pushing prosecutors torosecute james comey and andrew mccabe and intervenes for michael flynn and roger stoneger stone? i think this open speculation and very plausible, roger stone's the one person that could die donald trump to wikileaks and to the russians in 2016. >> woodruff: after all that investigation? >> after all that investigation. that's what he did that's what he was lying about. he was the intermediary. and i think it's not out of nkyalty or affection, i thi it's out of vulnerabiity. he's still concerned with tha20t election rather than worrying about 2020.dy how about -- how do you feel if you're susan collins, if joni earnest and yd, oh,ou're yes, we voted to acquit, but he's going to change, he will be chastened. he will be chastened -- i mean, this is the new chstened trump, i mean, he's unburned and unfetterednd sca.ry >> woodruff: mark shields, michael gerson, thank you both. >> woodrf: the fallout and the real life implications of president trump's immigration policies are now coming into clearer view. amna nawaz explains the findings of an alarming nma report from rights

james, all right, thank you very much john at 8.17 happening now roger stone is currently being sentenced in washington dc. no word on an official. >>verdict or sentence yet but we're keeping an eye. this is video of him arriving for his sentencing hearing this morning. the former trump adviser was convicted of lying to congress obstruction and witness tampering related to the russia investigation all for federal prosecutors you may remember all 4 for prosecutors in his case quick last week after attorney general bill barr retracted their sentencing recommendation. they had asked the judge to sentence stone to 7 to 9 years in prison will see if the judge goes along with that. >>in national news after last night's debate. the question is which democratic hopeful won yet throughout the tense to our debate. there are a lot of jabs thrown at each other and also with the president including at michael bloomberg first time we saw him on stage to kill alvaranga takes a look at the highlights. well this was a major debate, the nevada caucuses this saturday. so of course all eyes are right here on

stone himself. former justice department official james trusty on all of that.ted reading about this juror 1261, tamika heart, she had a long history of not being a big fan of the president and saying some stuff that even popped up on social media that illustrated the point. how did that go unnoticed? >> hard to know at this point. the jury selection process is not, the transcript of it is not open to the public at this point but the question comes down to what questions the judge asked had to do with bias and whether or not this person was forthcoming. then the next layer of question or maybe a more fundamental question, if you're representing mr. stone, you heard any of this information and that is an open question, why would you let her on? that should be one of the strikes you want to use. a lot of jurors can say things about politics but if they answer a bottom line they can put that aside, be fair, to assess the evidence they will not be judged by the judge for cause but the parties have a number of strikes to use to get rid of somebody like that. neil: th

stone. they talk about he lied to congress. look at john brennan and his lies to congress. james comey and his lies to congress.ames clapper when he lied to all of america when he said there was no spying, warrantless spying on americans, and we found out that was not the case. none of these people have been prosecuted, but roger stone is being prosecuted. >> the president -- if the president had not spoken up in defense of stone, and against such a heinous effort to put him in prison for as long as 9 years on the part of those four merry prosecutors of the justice department. how is it that the justice department can afford to put four prosecutors on one case? that's assinine. how can thee afford to send out s.w.a.t. teams for a guy who lied to the fbi. >> they were sending a message to anyone in trump's sphere, we are coming after you and we'll use the department of justice. they sent an a madda bay -- they sent an armada to stone's home. he would have turned himself in. but they sent an armada with a message. cnn knew about it, nobody else did. they wanted it to be out there publicly. there should be a group

michael flynn, roger stone, and enemies of the president that he attempted to get the justice department to go after, andrew mccabe, hillary clinton reopening the email investigation, james comey, they were not. they were not charged. a sign that the justice department proceeding with cases as best it can without listening to that interference. i wonder if you see stone sentenced today and the president pipe in immediately with a pardon, does that begin to unright that balance inbut i seen in these cases that you just mentioned is really the intersection of the department of justice with the actual justice system working properly. i mean, remember most of those convictions came from a special counsel investigation which was largely insulated from political influence. and in terms of not prosecuting mccabe, that was because the allegations against him did not support a charge. they couldn't get a grand jury to indict him. so there are checks that have been in place. i think, though, that the pardoning of these people, especially if it extends to flynn and manafort, will undermine a sense of equal justice before the law and that, you know, you have to be friends with the p

stone receive. how disproportionate is that sentence? let's put it this way. jamesfirmed purge errors, they did it in public. they will

roger stone is facing prison because he is a high profile, trump supporter. it's that simple. if you want proof? here it is. john brennan and jameser tonight.p at home both have been caught lying under oath on camera about matters of national importance. and yet neither is in jail. neither has been indicted. neither ever will be. the stone case, by contrast, was transparently political from day one. the lead prosecutor, andrew weissmann, is now literally an msnbc contributor. the judge in the case, amy berman jackson is an out-of-control democratic partisan whoho purely out of spe stripped roger stone of his first amendment right and prevented him from making a living. coming on the show, for example, speaking at all in public. stone and his wife, who is 71 years old and death, have lost r home because of this. they have no insurance, they are out of the burrell potomac bro broke. the d whole thing is shocking ad it's disgusting. it's a's farce that discredits e entire american justice system. the president seems to understand that. "can't allow them to -- he's right on a couple of levels. what's happening to roger stone is total

james comey. we know the president was frustrated charges weren't brought up to mccabe. but the stone matter is the most egregious example. but now he's reopening, perhaps the flynn case. and now, for him, largely in the rearview mirror politically. but he's still personally -- he gets angered by it and feels like it's a stain on his administration and on his tenure. we've been talking about how emboldened he's been and he's fired vindman, got rid of sondland. put his thumb on the scale for stone and other things. and part of the reason is william barr has let him be that way. and we have an attorney general who's largely gone along. >> what's it like the watch -- i don't know anyone that left the government, that doesn't leave with deep affection -- i worked in the white house. i have deep affection. i drive by the building and feel something. what do you feel when you see the department of justice under barr's leadership? >> i know how they feel when they work there, as you say. and it's a tremendous sense of pleasure to do something you really believe is highly principaled and you'

president after talking about how bad he felt for roger stone then rebounded into talking about how -- how -- >> vindman. >> -- insistent he is that james comey and i be prosecuted and thrown in jail. >> and vindman should be sent back to the military. >> exactly. >> his people keep selling us this soft landing thing. he's going to go to the war college. that's a huge gig. everybody wants that. now the president says he should be investigated by the military. what's to stop that from happening? >> absolutely nothing. absolutely nothing. we know this president makes his desires known to the agencies, to the agency heads, through his public statements on twitter. we know that. we saw that, of course, in this own case. i saw it in my own case, december of 2017, he claimed he was racing me to my retirement. i guess he won that race. so that's the way that he works. for him to step back now and say that he had no influence on the roger stone decision whatsoever is utterly preposterous. >> also, preet, question the source. i'm sorry to say this, i don't give the president the benefit of the doubt about telling the truth that he didn't have an

stone sentencing. >>> tonight, american troops coming under fire in syria. the u.s.-led patrol and the confrontation with pro-syrian troops. the americans firing back. james longman is in syria, where americans remain tonight and the russians are right there, too. >>> the massive fire here at home tonight. the refinery and the warnings about air quality. questions about gas prices. smoke seen miles away. >>> and the scare on the ice. the hockey player collapsing on the bench during a game. teammates calling for help. and tonight, we have news on his condition. >>> good evening and we're back from new hampshire tonight, and the results from the first in the nation primary are now setting the stage for the next big battles to come for the democrats hoping to take on president trump. bernie sanders winning overnight. pete buttigieg right behind, getting the same number of delegates out of new hampshire. and amy klobuchar with her very strong finish in third. elizabeth warren and joe biden, fourth and fifth out of new hampshire. tonight, which candidate will have the broadest appeal as this race now moves forward? and there's someone else waiting. billionaire

james and the la lakers. good evening and thank you for joining us at 10, i'm j r stone and i'm justine waldman it was very close game. but the warriors ended up losing to the lakers, but. >>more importantly tonight it was all about remembering kobe and gianna and the 7 other victims from the helicopter crash on for santorum is live for us now at the chase center and and how was that tribute to this basketball legend. >>well justine it was a nice tribute that the warriors put on they were the last to nba team to host a home game since kobe bryant's death and the fans also showed up in droves today sharing with us what koby meant to them. >>in their return to chase center the warriors pay tribute to nba legend kobe bryant, his 13 year-old daughter gianna and 7 others killed in a helicopter crash. fans were shown emotional video of kobe's accomplishments shortly before tipoff. it also shared a 24 2nd moment of silence. the area koby fans coming out in droves to remember their favorite player, it means so much to i would be you know is composed of all my childhood memories here to celebrate >>you know, and i think

if you are looking at roger stone they talk about how he lied to congress.s. look at john brennan and his and james comey and his lies to congress and james clapper when hepp lied to all of america back in 2013 when he said there was no spying on americans and we found out that was not the case. none of these people have been prosecuted but roger stone is being prosecuted. lou: and the president come if the president had not spoken up in defense of stone and in such a heinous effort to put him in prison for as long as nine years on the part of those four married prosecutors at the justice justice department. first of all how is it that the justice department -- department can afford to put four prosecutors in one case? that's asinine. how can they afford to send out s.w.a.t. teams for a guy who lied to the fbi? they knew what they were doing. they were making their point. thes >> exactly. they were sending a message to anyone who issa in trump's -- think about how frightening that is. they sent an armada to roger stone's home while he was asleep with his wife. he would have turned himself in if the

stone, who was convicted by a jury of his peers. sglil >> it's outrageous he would try to make any moral equivalency with james comey and others. you can question their decisions and judgments but trying to carry out their duties responsibly and integrity. he wants that laughter in the room. >> they barely laughed. >> unfortunately, i did hear laughter. and talking about peter struck and lisa page and others. he plays to this debased group of people who are listening to what he is saying in terms of just trashing good public servants and defending people like roger stone? i mean, give me a break. >> phil rutker, it's so interesting and has to be from your perch with all the fantastic reporting out of your bureau there that we're all covering and watching the revenge tour in overdrive. the political installation overnational security agencies. this pardon palooza, i called it yesterday. convicted felons and people convicted of fraud and corruption and the political and business world and then live tweeting the sentencing of his longest serving political advisor. what are you sort of on high alert for in the coming hours? >> well

james comey, john brennan, the list goes on and another level. >> tucker: jim clapper. >> and another level of justice for roger stone and george papadopoulos.page, j.d. gordon. and there is no climb in between them. the fact of the matter is we know now, just by the things that they have exposed accidentally with the prosecutor's manipulating guideline enhancements to drag it up to 7-9 with the jury foreman revealing she is a lieutenant in the resistance. there is enough corruption, malice and ulterior motive here for the president to pardon roger stone immediately. but, indeed, there is enough corruption, malice and ulterior motive here for a new trial at the very least. but, we know that roger stone is never going to get a fair shake in the district of columbia. no republican ever does. but andrew mccabe, look at him. he is celebrating tonight with his lisa page toasting him on twitter. it makes one just sick. >> tucker: i just want to be clear unlike maybe some people who have my politics, i'm not for sending andy mccabe to prison for nine years. i'm just not. that's fine. and am not for sending a lot of nonviolent people, criminals, to

things he said this morning in a tweet was they say roger stone lied to congress oh i see so did coley he's referring to the former f.b.i. director jamescomey he goes on to say f.b.i. exclamation point fairness question mark what is insinuating is that everybody lies to congress and why is this bad and not for another individual so expect the president may have something to say about this he has been doing a bit of a west coast tour and we expect that he may have something to say at a rally when he speaks later on some hours from now in colorado but the bottom line is the judge addressed the highly partisan nature of this case saying that if roger stone go some polish it will not be a victory for any one party she said in the midst of all this everyone loses ok kimberly how could their life as i inside the white house for now i thank you very much indeed just reminds our fears of who wrote your story is and why he is so critical were his works with richard nixon ronald reagan george h.w. bush and george w. bush because his role in donald trump's campaign which has landed him in court in the warm up to the 20 $816.00 election he tried t

stones. the supremes. and the godfather of soul whose moves electrified her. what was it with james>> no one ever took their eyes off of him. there was something in this surprise. and he or began i cannily would choreograph the band and the chart live as it was going on audience feels. >> in her dance studio, basil gave me a james brown tutorial. >> so just show me real quick like a james brown. >> this would be james brown in here, here. going in here. always keeping the groove. >> oh, yeah. >> what's the matter, don't you like it. >> basil has been in some big films, that's her with peter fonda in "easy rider" and with jack nicholson in this scene from "five easy pieces." >> you want me to hold the chicken. >> i want to you hold it between your knees. >> and her credits don't end there. you may be surprised to know basil has been the choreographer for "american graffiti." "peg see sue got married," "my best friend's wedding" and "legally blonde." and most recently director quinton tarantino hired her to choreograph his oscar nominated film "once upon a time in ' d known as theony.

stone. she later became the department's top national curity official, and is now a litigator at georgetown waiversity. and, jamesstpreviously a federal prosecutor in maryland before becoming chief of the judice department's "organi crime" section. he is now in private practice. thanks to both of you for being here. mary mccord, i'm going to start with you. what do you make of what's happeng surrounding the sentencing of roger stone and what do you think it mighto toib the crity of the justice department? >> i think this causes really credibility and reputation of the justice department. the prosecutors here signed a sentencing memorandum with a recommendation in it, and te judiciary is entitled to rely on those representations as the voice of of justice in this criminal case. and under department policy, i any hgh profile case, decisions such as sentencing go all they the flag pole. so this would have been discussed with the deputy attorneyeneral's office, the attorney general's office before any recommendation was made, so to have thaat then pulledck and unermined and a new filing come the next day is very unpr

james comey, we would not have found this stuff. when i fired that sleeze bag, all hell broke out. it was leakers and liars. it was all [bleep]. these people have gone stone cold crazy. but i have beaten them all my life and i will beat them again in i have to. >> laura: he torched them. but he's right. excuse me if i don't give a fire extinguisher to the people throwing flames at the president since inauguration day. when they say we need more civility what they mean is they want total control where they call the shots. you sit down and shut up and you keep sohovelling taxes to washington for promise you never supported. the democrats are a party spent. they are a party at war with itself. one that even in defeat has grown corrupt and decadent. they can't count votes in iowa. they are incomp pent or the ultimate election meddlers. the democrats loved things during the bush years when republicans mostly played nice when the democratic critics hit them hard. how did that work out for the gop? the president demonstrated with all of this stuff going on, all of the attacks, he will work with anyone and he has. he's done this with incredibly smart and powerful

stone case but mike flynn case where "new york times" reports politically leadership intervened to back off the tough sentencing recommendation and recommend something lower, they're investigating into james comey and eric prince, a trump supporter whose sister is betsy devos, education secretary. it appears there's direct political appearance in fair administration of law and that's a very, very dangerous thing for the country. >> steve bannon, former close adviser to the president, one who said repeatedly time to disrupt and break the system, he was quoted in your paper saying this. the president is mad and he should be mad. now he understands how to use the full powers of the presidency. the pearl-clutchers better get used to it. does that match what you're hearing from people inside the white house? i went to the trump rally monday night. they're laughing their way through this. >> well, stephanie, yes, it does match with what we're hearing inside the white house and in other parts of the government as well. talking a lot here about the justice department, you certainly hear that sentiment that this is the president's government and the president picks how it runs, coming from the jus

james comey hasn't conneme under investigat. >> so the president doesn't think bill barr has gone far enough. >> that is the concern akoccordg to our reporting we heard in light of the roger stone the department of justice sent down guidelines of what the long-time ally should receive and the justice department revised it and four prosecutors removing themselves from the case and one quitting the government entirely. in part it was to quell the uprising at the department of justice. career officials were very upset at the perception, even if it's not reality, the perception that the president was playing a role in the process and barr felt like he had to say something to quiet the show. >> how real is the possibility that the only reason we saw bill barr sit down for that interview is they were about to burn him in effigy at the justice department and this was, in fact, an attempt to appease the range and file? >> yes, rk, this certainly see like an attempt to quell an insurrection at the justice department that the attorney general heads. he's got folks not just here in d.c. but prosecutors all over the country who are seeing this happen, seeing the justice department step in

lawyers who quit roger stone's case, they refused to be bullied and receive tremendous accolades for that. former ukraine ambassador marie yovanovitch refused to be bullied. today, a.g. james responded to trump's tweet, "when you stop violating the rights and liberties of all new yorkers, we'll stand down. until then, we have a duty and responsibility to defend the constitution and rule of law." the way trump works is he intimidates people in to giving up ahead of time or alternately, he wears you down with the duration of the fight. trump is weak. he's unpopular. i'm not making this up. here's just the last five polls. you can see in his last four polls, approval ratings are at 41%, 50%, 40%, and 41%. that 50% is rasmussen, which tends to poll pretty well for him. the way trump loses is when the people refuse to be cowed. the other thing that has to happen is people have to speak out about what they know. it's scary and maybe for certain ex-officials it might impair your speaking fees, but yesterday night trump's last chief of staff john kelly was able to give a little hint of how he really feels about the president at a paid speech. he criticized the president's handling

roger stone's sentencing, it is inappropriate and the justice department not the best example i can give you. >> dana: if you go back to the doj during the bush administration, the media loves james comey when he went to the bedside of attorney general ashcroft to try to get of the terror surveillance program, so amazing because he is pushing back against the president. >> jesse: he didn't like the recommendation to begin with, they came in and lied and said they were going to go soft and he went hard. they came in and said they weren't going to recommend seven to nine, they flipped the script on him, came in and settled it down. >> juan: let me just remind you, for, not one person who said one thing, for career prosecutors resign. too many prosecutors. >> jesse: what you think about this trial now? looks like one of the jurors, the foreman very corrupted in terms of the bias against the president. >> kennedy: regardless of what you think about roger stone and some of his associations and things he's done in the ways that he has broken the law, we all hope that if we are ever in the criminal justice system that we receive fair treatment throughout. doesn't matter who you are or w