he called into jeanine pirro's talk show and campaigned and complained about his opponents.ere is the thing, he called into jeanine pirro's show, he made some news, some misstatements but he knows how powerful and influential piro is. piro, sean hannity, others on fox have been pressuring him to hold the line, demand funding for the border wall, keep the government shut down if that's what it takes. here is a couple of those examples. >> i am pleading with you. >> i want the president to hold firm. >> it's time to build the wall. >> that's been the message. lately those conservative hosts have shifted into an anti-democrat message, making sure they're challenging the democrats with regards to the shutdown, but the call to jeanine pirro was trump's second interview with a friend this week, he also brought sean hannity along for his visit to the border in mcallen, texas, and then chatted with him there. >> you know, i watched last night, you are not fake news, actually, you are real news. >> he was talking about what he was hearing on hannity's show, what he had learned on han

invite judge jeanine pirro to come to speak. [applause] quicker than you can say lock her up or -- [laughter] well, here you have it, the reagan auditorium is filled. let we tell you, that's a testament to judge pirro. we have had former presidents of the united states up on this stage, presidential candidates, first ladies, foreign dignitaries, famous authors of famous books, tv possessor ifalty, network anchors, fortune 500 ceos, war heroes and pro football quarterbacks, except for colin kaepernick. [laughter] [applause] but few of them, very few of them can attract an audience of this size so quickly. it's a testament in part, i guess, to the power of fox news -- [cheers and applause] but judge pirro didn't just materialize before us as a legal expert and news personality on air out of thin air. she's come to us as a woman with a long and distinguished public service career earned the hard way. now, by the hard way i mean the crucible where personality and character and just plain true grit are forged in the hot and most inte

he answered a question to jeanine pirro and the media is giving him the benefit of the doubt.d no such thing. carole simpson, i wonder as somebody who did nightly news and had the job of explaining in 30 minutes what is important, what to focus people on, what have you made of the fact that it has been difficult for people in our profession to focus the minds of the american people on how alarming it actually is that an american president is being investigated for having these kinds of ties to a foreign power, of all countries to russia? >> i agree with you. i don't know why the nation is not up in arms that it is possible that our president is in collusion, yes, i'm going to use the word he won't use, collusion with the russians. a declared enemy of the united states. i don't see why people don't see -- the media is doing a good job of pointing out the lies he tells. almost everything that comes out of his mouth is a lie. and it's been pointed out to the american people. i think the government shutdown has maybe focused more attention of the people on what's happening in the

there is nothing to suggest what the president told jeanine pirro last night. notable, she asked him, are you now, have you ever, work ford russia? the obvious, direct answer would be to say, no. but the president didn't do that. instead he said it was an insulting question. we've heard from white house officials, richard, that the president has been clear all along that he wants to see a better relationship with russia and so in many ways we shouldn't be surprised by his approach. that is true up to a point. it is within a presidential prerogative to forge a better relationship with a country that might have at one time been an adversary. nixon did it with china. obama with cuba. when it comes to this, you have u.s. officials say pir s so ala are taking their opinions to the press. that is noteworthy. >> and ask you this. as we look at these two major developments. first off the president, again, bringing up the names of those fires. a great job laying out how and why the president may be thinking this. there's the "washington post" report of five, at least fi

it is just a hoax. >> weird he doesn't say it was a disgrace to jeanine pirro asking that question. and as the shutdown enters day 24, the question of the president's loyalty to his own nation has never been more in doubt. that raises another question. what is to be done about it? greg miller covers "the washington post" and broke the story that trump concealed details of face-to-face encounters with putin and offer the "the apprentice" and first take us through what your reporting indicates of how anomalous the president's behavior around his talks with putin compared to other talks with world leaders. >> it is beyond anomalous. it is abnormal approaching unprecedented as far as i can tell. all of the presidents that we've known in our lifetimes have had meetings with the russian leader but go into the meetings with abundant staff, with detailed preparations. they want witnesses for the meetings for multiple reasons. one, to make sure there is no misunderstanding of what transpired to generate a record of what happened and then so they -- partly so that that record can then be shar

that interview with jeanine pirro on fox, chockablock with news for us this morning. he had an opportunity to express his latest view and stance on that national emergency. >> by waiting to build the wall, using those funds that are available to you in a national emergency, aren't you negating the point of the emergency itself? >> well, i have the absolute right to call a national emergency. other presidents have called many national emergencies for things of lesser importance, frankly, than this, and i have the right to do it. >> he's right, that there have been national emergencies declared in the past for matters both major and trivial, dating back to the civil war, the suspending of habeas corpus and even a postal strike in 1970 by president nixon. but again, a lot of republicans, particularly conservatives, do not favor the use of these powers to declare a national emergency, alex. >> okay, mike, stay with us because we're going to extend the conversation and we're joined right now by daniel lippman, reporter for politico and co-author of "politico's playbook." g

i'm judge jeanine pirro. thanks for being with us tonight. thanks to all of you for making justice number one last weekend. we have a big show on deck. former alabama governor mike huckabee, david bossie, dan bongino, lou holtz and sebastian gorka. whether you like the president or not, what separates him frommer other president is that he's not one to hold his

i'm judge jeanine pirro. thank you for making "justice" number one last weekend.e have a big show on deck. corey lewandowski, dan bongino, candace owens and more. but first my open. this week newly elected congresswoman rashida tlaib just hours after the honor of being sworn into the united states congress had this to say. >> when your son is 15 and says mom look you won. bullies don't win. and they don't, we are going to go in there and [bleep]. judge jeanine: our country allows your family to come here and enjoy the protections and privileges, nothing like what you experienced in palestine. and your first act after the privilege of running for congress and winning a seat in that hallowed chamber is to curse out the president of the united states? promising his impeachment with absolutely no facts to support the charge, violating the very constitution you just swore to uphold. by the way, show me where in the constitution rashida it says you can impeach a president because you hate him. greatest nation on earth opens its doors and lays out the welcome mat for you

i'm judge jeanine pirro. thank you for making "justice" number one last weekend. a big show on deck. corey lewandowski, dan bongino, candace owens and more. but first my open. this week newly elected congresswoman rashida tlaib just hours after the honor of being sworn into the united states congress had this

i'm judge jeanine pirro.r being with us and thanks to all of you for once again making "justice" number one last weekend. you saw it here live as the president put a deal on the table for the democrats that could end the partial government shutdown and solve the crisis on the border. but all i

i'm judge jeanine pirro.hanks for being with us and thanks to all of you for once again making "justice" number one last weekend. you saw it here live as the president put a deal on the table for the democrats that could end the partial government shutdown and solve the crisis on the border. but all indications are the democrats are more than willing to let the madness go on. tonight white house deputy press secretary hogan gidley, michelle malkin, dan won begin oh, charlie kirk and more. politicians are elected to represent us. here here to put our interests over political interests. refusal to work towards compromise is putting politics over people. president trump has been at the white house virtually every day waiting and work, and trying to make a deal. bend and compromising and trying to find solutions. they not only disrespect him. they sometimes don't even show up. they refused his every overture, putting a stake in the ground, proving that politics are more important than putting people back to work.

i'm judge jeanine pirro. thanks for being with us tonight.nd thanks to all of you for making justice number one last weekend. we have a big show on deck. former alabama governor mike huckabee, david bossie, dan bongino, lou holtz and sebastian gorka. whether you like the president or not, what separates him frommer other president is that he's not one to hold his fingers to the political wind before he makes a decision. he tries to make decisions that are right. decisions that are best for you and me. they are not always popular, and of course the most of difficult ones will always be questioned. yesterday's decision was one of them. the deal was to reopen the government through february 15, creating a bipartisan, by camera committee with gore yachting an agreement on border security. the president made it clear, though, he' he's sticking to building a barrier. president trump: we have no choice but to build a powerful wall or steel barrier. if we don't get a fair deal from congress, the government will either shut down on february 15 again o

hello, and welcome to justice, i'm jeanine pirro. thanks for being with us.aking "justice" number one last weekend. if coming up in just a moment, the president of the united states, donald trump, will be calling in to "justice." president trump will headline an all-star lineup tonight with house minority leader kevin mccarthy, congressman jim jordan, my exclusive sit-down with i.c.e. director and dan bongino. but first, my open. ♪ ♪ >> the issue, border sec

i'm judge jeanine pirro. one last weekend. you saw it here live as the president put a deal on the table for the democrats that could end the partial government shutdown and solve the crisis on

his thinking changed over the weekend when the president called in to fox news and told judge jeanine pirro to look into michael cohen's father-in-law. at that point, his concern shifted to what am i going to say, how many people are going to watch this, to what is this man capable of, who is he going to go after? and is my family going to be safe if i do go and testify? what are they going to do to protect me and my family to make sure that the most powerful man in the world isn't going to go after other members of my family or keep going after me if i do, in fact -- >> he's also annoying, the also most powerful man in the world, vladimir putin, who probably doesn't want all this out there. >>> there's a whole other story out here, phil rucker, "the wall street journal" story, that's what you initially spoke to rudy giuliani about earlier. these allegations that michael cohen hired an i.t. firm to rig some online polls and he paid the guy with two walmart bags fill of $12,000, $13,000, and a boxing glove. one of the weirder stories you and i have ever covered. it speaks to the steaminess,

. >> the response from the president today was more direct than the one he gave judge jeanine pirro on fox news saturday fight. >> are you now or have you ever worked for russia, mr. president? i think it's the most insulting thing i've ever been asked. i think it's the most insulting article i've ever had written. if you read the article, you'd find they found absolutely nothing. >> the "times" and "post" stories raised concerns about past meetings with vladimir putin and house democrats are considering issuing a subpoena to the interpreter for the notes taken during thehelsinki meeting in july. before that meeting, leon panetta raised the possibility on this program that russia might have some influence over trump. >> there's no question that there is something here that intimidates the president of the united states. whether the russians have something on this president or not, no one really knows. but the way he behaves, there is a clear signal that the russians have something on him. >> today, secretary panetta reacted to this latest reporting on whether trump was compromised by t

. >> the president is repeatedly calling publicly on judge jan e jeanine pirro's show, on twitter, repeatedly calling for an investigation into michael cohen's father-in-law ahead of michael cohen's testimony before congress. by your own definition, isn't that obstruction -- >> no, it's defending yourself. >> or attempt to intimidate a witness? >> no, if you made that obstruction, i can't defend anybody. >> congressman, what's your response? do you agree with rudy giuliani? >> i have no idea what rudy giuliani is talking about. you can't go ahead and threaten witnesses because that's actually a felony. and just because a president doesn't so publicly, doesn't mean it's not a crime and that's why we need do an investigation. i know that lanny davis who is michael cohen's attorney clearly says that michael cohen feels like he's being threatened and with have to look at this as issue to investigate. >> do you see the president's comments as obstruction, witness tampering or threatening a witness? is. >> that's how i read it but one of the issues is intent. what did the president intend to do? we

now, let's go back -- >> but she asked it as a joke, jeanine pirro. she was like, mr. president -- you know, she was joking when she asked it. >> you just answered everything. you just summed up the whole thing with what you just said, a joke. so, listen, i'm not saying -- let's just say that you don't believe that the president lies, that you believe that he's a truth teller. then you go back over his statements and the answer -- and i'm talking about beyond russia. the answer to the same question, the answers to the same question are different every single time. and often they negate each other. why would you ever believe anything that comes out of his mouth even if you are a die-hard trump supporter? why would you believe someone who -- some people believe he's a liar, or some people don't, but he never answers consistently and sometimes the exact opposite. >> you can't. so what you must do is run away from that as the test. and what you must run toward is what we see. the probe -- the probe is screwed up. they were out to get him. they put him in a box, don. he had

no, he was more like unpaid intern." [ laughter and applause ] on fox news this weekend, judge jeanine pirroed trump if he'd ever worked for putin. and he called it the most insulting thing i've ever been asked. other than the time when stormy daniels said, "was that it?" [ laughter ] but -- [ cheers and applause ] but in trump's fox news interview with judge jeanine, it seemed like jeanine had a a little trouble getting a word in. watch this. >> and many other things, so which is obviously -- >> what -- >> everybody knows there was no collusion, mccabe, lisa page -- wait until you see how that all ends up -- >> will you -- >> including some others that i could name. but i better not. >> will you release -- >> we'll make -- we'll make front page news. and that's a big difference -- >> but -- >> in the college, in the electoral college. >> which of course -- >> so that's for certain. but it's really -- it's really a shame, janine. [ laughter and applause ] >> jimmy: what, okay, yeah, that's right. [ applause ] eventually, jeanine went out to dinner, came back and trump was still talking. yeah

getting prickly, that was our own kristen welker getting the president to answer a question judge jeanine pirro could not. >> are you now or have you ever worked for russia, mr. president? >> i think it's the most insulting thing i've ever been asked. i think it's the most insulting article i've ever had written. and if you read the article, you would see that they found absolutely nothing. but that the headline of that article is called the failing "the new york times" for the reason. they've gotten me wrong for three years. they've actually gotten me wrong for many years before that. >> proof that he reads the paper. joining us from "the new york times," one of the reporters who broke this latest development, mike schmidt, and fraat the tab msnbc and national affairs analyst and co-host and executive producer of soon to be back on the little screen, showtime's "the circus" mike schmidt. take us through what you and your colleagues saw the other night and what the fallout has been. >> what hand over the last year and a half since mueller was appointed is our attention, public and media, had be

fox host jeanine pirro started by asking him about the shutdown and right off the bat, trump told anie. >> you're sitting there waiting for a deal. democrats are not sitting with you. if this isn't an emergency, i don't know what is. >> well, i haven't actually left the white house in months. >> seth: what? [ laughter ] we've seen you leave the white house repeatedly. last week, you went to the southern border, and in december you visited the troops in iraq. remember? you were wearing one of those oversized jackets you borrowed from tom brady? [ laughter ] why is your coat so big? are you sneaking immigrants over the border? [ laughter ] "keep it down, guys. we're almost -- we're almost back on the plane." so trump claimed he hadn't left the white house in months which led pirro to grill him with a series of super-tough follow up questions. >> mr. president, i mean, when are you going to get out of the white house? i mean, washington after a while gets very depressing. >> well, i love it. >> mr. president, i really hope you get out of the white house. i really do. i think you deserve

that is now even being asked on his favorite channel of the president by his personal friend, jeanine pirro. >> are you now or have you ever worked for russia, mr. president? >> i think it's the most insulting thing i've ever been asked. i think it's the most insulting article i've ever had written. >> but she had to ask. and then the president went on to say this -- >> i can tell you this, if you ask the folks in russian, i've been tougher on russia than anybody else, any other -- probably any other president, period. but certainly the last three or four presidents, modern day presidents, nobody's been as tough as i have, from any standpoint. >> tough on russia? well, the president ee's behavi doesn't really back up his words. take this. "the washington post" is now reporting that the president has gone to, quote, extraordinary lengths to keep the specifics of his five face-to-face conversations with putin secret. he's even confiscated notes from his interpreter after a meeting with putin. and of course, he has taken putin's word over that of united states intelligence agencies, refusing t

last night the president appeared on his friend judge jeanine pirro's show on fox news and piro askednt was working for russia against the united states. the president then said the question was insulting but also said this about why fbi leadership was fired. >> andrew mccabe, peter strzok, his lover lisa page, they it, and, you know, they're all gone. most of those people, many, many people, from the top ranks of the fbi, they've all been fired or had to leave and they're all gone. this is what they were talking about. >> of note, the president did not say yes or no to that question. joining us now,

he's done that before, he did it when he spoke to his good friend and fox news host jeanine pirro, saying without any specifics, look at the father-in-law. we have learned from our team who has sourcing close to cohen that he has been rattled by that and concerned about his family's safety. the specter of an accusation, somehow that the cohen family might be in some additional jeopardy after all they have been through and will be going through as he heads to serve a prison term. we don't yet know if the white house will go beyond that. but spokespeople here have, again, said that the report is lacking credibility because of its source, buzzfeed, and also saying that cohen lacks credibility, not addressing the underlying issues, and kind of rewarning the sorts of attacks on cohen that we've heard on earlier steps of the investigation. andrea? >> there are a number of significant parts to that presidential response. it misstates that michael cohen was never convicted of percentaperjury per se. cohen has said he was reconsidering whether he was going to testify on february 7th as had been ag

after another potential competitor -- former vice president joe biden -- when he called into judge jeanine pirro three times, i never got above 1%. then obama came on and took him off the trash heap and he became a vice president. and now he's probably bleeding. he is weak. we will see what happens with him. >> harris: leslie, how popular is joe biden among democrats, considering how often he hasn't been able to advance? >> leslie: after that interview, even more popular. [laughter] no, he is very popular. i have said before, i said -- >> harris: 's winning popular? because he hasn't been able to do it. what's changing? >> leslie: i think his personality is the type of personality that could go head-to-head with the president's personality. >> i agree. >> leslie: honestly come of the field, which we want customer democrats that is. to make trump a one term president. i think joe biden is the guy. i think the fact that the president specifically has called him out means that out of this large and ever-growing field he might be the guy. >> harris: i asked about the winning portion because i want t

over the weekend president trump told fox's jeanine pirro that he would be open to sharing those notes but when he was asked about it again today here's what he said. >> i just don't know anything about it. i read it this morning. it's a lot of fake news. it was a very good meeting. it was actually a very successful meeting. talked about many subjects that i have those meetings one-on-one with all leaders, including the president of china, including prime minister of japan. we have those meetings all the time, no big deal. >> but democrats like senator mark warner say it is highly unusual if not unprecedented for a president's own advisors to be kept in the dark. >> why wouldn't the president of the united states want to share at least with his closest advisors what he's saying with someone who i think most americans would agree is a rival if not an adversary in the form of vladimir putin, particularly since we now have bipartisan consensus, at least from the intelligence committee that russians and russian agents tried to interfere in the 2016 election in an effort to help trump and h

you might remember there was that interview over the weekend with judge jeanine pirro on fox news, president the the spectre of michael cohen's father-in-law vaguely. to some it was interpreted as rather threateningly as well. that was something that played a factor in this. our own chuck todd spoke with lanny davis who was close with michael cohen just last week and davis was emphatic and nearly emotional when he talked about you have to put family first. family should be out of bounds when it comes to this kind of thing. there have been a series of tweets from president trump over the last several weeks, even before that, that have been read by some observers as potentially trying to intimidate cohen who promised, remember, to reveal ard correspondeding to what we were told by sources close to him, dirty deeds from donald trump when he did go and speak publicly about this. chris, can't overstate enough what -- i don't want to call it a spec cal, but how profile this hearing was going to be. it was nationally tell advised, public, in front of members of congress, it was going to be this rea

hello, and welcome to justice, i'm jeanine pirro. thanks for being with us. and thanks to all of you for once again making "justice" number one last weekend. if coming up in just a moment, the president of the united states, donald trump, will be calling in to "justice." president trump will headline an all-star lineup tonight with house minority leader kevin mccarthy, congressman jim jordan, my exclusive sit-down with i.c.e. director and dan bongino. but first, my open. ♪ ♪ >> the issue, border security. the wedge? the partial government shutdown. the collateral damage? federal employees who didn't get a paycheck yesterday. yet they refuse to negotiate, sit for serious talks or work for the safety and security of the american people. their mantra? there is no cry -- crisis at our open, porous borders. their goal? troy donald trump. destroy donald trump. and yesterday reports are an even larger caravan is staging in honduras, about to cause an even greater burden on our border patrol and the system at large. the president has shown he is capable of negotiatin

jeanine pirro is acting like the mob boss's affiliate. >> and she's asking for a name. >> meanwhile, elijah cummings called cohen's concerns legitimate and added "our nation's laws discourage efforts to discourage, intimidate or otherwise pressure a witness not to provide testimony to congress. the president should take no action to obstruct congress's independent oversight and vebtiveb investigative efforts, including by seeking to discourage any witness from testifying. here's more from congress and committee member jackie speier. >> this is something that should upset every single american. this is the united states of america. this is not russia. >> this is called witness tampering. this is a crime, and the congress of the united states has to exert its authority against a president now who's acting more like putin every day. i feel like i'm in the middle of a "godfather" movie. if all of this is indeed true, we've got yet another article that could be posed in an impeachment trial. >> reporter: the congressman said he's unsure if he'll subpoena mr. cohen to appear before the com

to finally address and give a straight answer on it after dancing around in his interview with jeanine pirro saturday night. >> it needed to be asked a second time because he didn't directly respond the first time he was asked by a friendly interviewer. we're coming up at the two-year mark since president trump's inauguration, and it seems to me we're back to a fundamental puzzle from that campaign, which is what accounts for the president's -- donald trump's attitude toward russia that we saw at the republican convention and during that campaign. that is a question that has not yet really been answered. this latest piece of evidence, this shocking "new york times" story about serious consideration of the united states withdrawing from nato, it's -- these are just extraordinary times. >> it really is. mika, i hate to keep going back to this but it is so crate cait. i remember jay norlinger saying he thought the most important moment may have been when donald trump came on our show in december of 2015, when pressed on vladimir putin, called him a strong leader -- >> yeah. >> when pressed seve