jeffrey tambor, can you feel the love?can feel it. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: oh, lord. welcome, everybody. welcome, welcome, welcome, to "the tonight show." this is it. you made it. you're here. [ cheers and applause ] here's what people are talking about, you guys. i saw that president trump gave a commencement speech at liberty university on saturday. and he said, quote, "always have the courage to be yourself and chase your dreams." then he stopped talking because he ran out of fortune cookies. [ laughter ] "a smile is the key into the hearts of others. lucky numbers five, nine, 34, and 33. thank you." [ laughter and applause ] i read that somewhere the attendance of the ceremony was mandatory and booing wasn't allowed. [ light laughter ] which incidentally, are also the rules when you have dinner with trump. that's the same, yeah. he's not allowed to do either. [ laughter ] i guess there was one awkward moment during the speech, when trump said that there are more job openings than ever. and the students said,

>> strong words from jeffrey toobin. i'm going to get back to you but i want to go to jim sciutto right now. actually, let's go to jeff zeleny first. senior white house correspondent. more reaction from inside the white house. then we will check in with jim sciutto. >> i've had time to reach documents here. via letters from the attorney general and deputy attorney general sort of laying out the recommendation to indeed fire the fbi director. wolf, so interesting here. this is not about anything that happened in the last couple of weeks. they are going back to something that happened last summer. particularly let me ride to you this, the director, meaning james comey, was wrong to usurp the authority back on july 25, 2016. that is the day that james comey had the press conference about hillary clinton. and of course at the time, donald trump is a candidate for office was very happy about that decision, talking about the e-mail answers other things. this is one of the rationals for the firing here. this is coming from the

i want to bring in jeffrey toobin, our senior legal analyst. jeffrey, this is an extraordinary moment in american history. >> you bet it is, wolf. and a grotesque abuse of power, by the president of the united states. this is the kind of thing that goes on in nondemocracies. that when there is an investigation that reaches near

jeffrey tubin with me here as well.lking to you about the white house agenda before we had to cut you off because we were hearing from chuck schumer. in a way he sort of answered the question. the minority leader is talking about a preshl prosecutor, calling on republicans to stand up and do something. hard to get anything done in this environment. >> it is. by the way, i have to make a political point. for chuck schumer to talk about people rising above party, wow. that's the most partisan majority leader for a while in the senate. but back to the point about the economic agenda, there is no question about it, that it has been blind sided by the events over the last week and a half or two weeks. and i do think that's one of the reasons that investors are getting nervous. you have seen a very jittery stock market. the markets, workers and employers do want this tax cut. they do want a resolution on the health care and i do think it is bad for the economy when you get this kind of scandal-ridden white house. >> those are

there's a thing, jeffrey, created.w you were in the reagan administration but since then there's a new thing out called the internet. you can find out all kinds of information if you go on your device and when you fill out your clearance form, the things he's being accused of or did, you have to put on the form. this is all the trump administration and it's indicative of the arrogance they've approached putting their team together in the first place. >> jeffrey, i'd like to talk to you about your experience. all these open jobs caused problems for staff, don't they? the state department and a third of ambassadorships have not been filled. positions are still open. we're talk iing about hundreds positions overall in the administration. doesn't this have an impact? >> one is unique to donald trump. that's number one. there is a second thing going on and i'm sure it went on as well and i can say a friend was nominate d to be secretary of transportation. he was cleared. he wanted to appoint a specific person as his communi

with jeffrey despeines.ciplinary board again for a second fight with despeines, one in which several officers were injured trying to break it up. >> when my fellow officers get hurt i'm very concerned. they don't understand when we order them to stop they should stop, because if they don't stop and continue to fight aggressively, then we have to try to control the situation, and we do end up getting hurt almost every single time. >> neither camp bell nor despeines have been forthcoming about the cause of the conflict. investigators suspect it has to do with gang rivalries. during his one hour of daily recreation, campbell reveals he fought despeines who is nicknamed jugs, over something else entirely. he sucker punched me. >> one, two, whammy. >> had to do it. >> had to do it because he wanted my red and whites. i told him i wasn't giving it to him. >> red and white outft. >> he wanted yours? >> yeah. >> red and white uniforms are worn by inmates on lockdown status in order to quickly identify them as proble

>> no, jeffrey.e that president obama was responsible for the creation of isis. my answer is that we need to look at what president trump is doing today, and among the failures in riyadh, there were pluses. it's not entirely negative, but among the two blatant failures was he had political capital to raise human rights. that's what makes us americans. we speak up for free speech. he failed to do it. jeffrey, let me finish, please. he failed to do it. and that is a failure. then, he took sectarian sides. he did not sufficiently remain balanced in the sectarian battles of the middle east. those are two substantial failures i think we need to focus on more than these outlandish and false claims about obama. >> norman, quickly, all i'm saying is we did it president obama's way and it failed and the american people want to go a different way. >> jeffrey lord, norman eisen, thank you both. >>> coming up here in the newsroom, melania trump in her international debut. a look at the first lady's agenda abroad

>> jeffrey, how can you turn around and say that it will stop?re has been no indication from the administration that this is some effort to shut down an investigation. that will keep going. that will run its course. but the -- >> hold on. the president also said that this is a hoax, this is fake news, there is nothing there there. so we dou know how he's incline to see the investigation. >> and the fact of the matter is feel do not think director comey was effective at doing his job. that report came from rod rosenstein and went up to jeff sessions and the president made the final decision. and if you look at the comments from democrats this tags papast they would agree. >> there have been reports that confirm that this was all about getting ahead of the russian investigation. there is a report in politico citing who white house advisors saying in recent days the president has increasingly been asking aides how can we shut down this russia investigation, the "times" reported that last week jeff sessions was given instructions to find a pretext to

this isn't normal, jeffrey. not normal. >> hold on. >> jeffrey, how does it serve -- how are you serving the president well -- >> he's not. >> by obviously distracting from his own concerns, bringing up presidents past. i'm not in any way saying we had perfect people in office before president trump. what i'm saying is if i ask you about what he said and why it's false and why he doesn't correct it, he's not instructed at all to say other people have done the same thing. >> chris, chris, chris, he's answering a question. you may not like the answer. >> incorrectly. it's not liking it, it's whether it's true or not. it's not an opinion. >> chris, it is your opinion. it's your opinion. chris, what you are doing here is constructing and you're certainly not alone, a media narrative about donald trump and i am countering it, that's all. >> jefrry, how is it a basis of opinion that when the intelligence community comes and has a consensus, when the men and women around the president at his own choosing say this is ab

jeffrey toobin is joining us. jeffrey, first of all, breaking news that we're getting, that white house lawyers have started researching impeachment procedures and even though these sources say that the white house lawyers think it's a distant possibility. >> well, it's rational and smart for them to do. and i remember in 1998, when this moment happened, first they started with the white house counsel staff. people like lanny davis and lanny brewer, later greg craig. but they brought in outsiders. david kendel, nicole sellingman. that became the impeachment team. another big similarity is the clinton people said look, we are not going to be forced from office unless democrats turn against us. our party. the person they were concerned about was not henry hyde or tom delay or newt gingrich or any of the republicans. they were concerned about geb hea gephardt, the democratic leader. in keeping their party in tact, just as the republicans are trying to keep their party in tact today, that's the key to staying in offic

jeffrey lord to you first. h.r.ome out and said that is absolutely not the case, i was in the room, that is not the case. he did not. he did not deny it. he said that was not the intent of the president, but it is significant that he did not deny it. how do you read it? >> yeah, i mean, i'm taking the accounts at face value that he said it. that's fine. look, he's the president of the united states. presidents get to say what they want in the oval office, good, bad or indifferent. so, i mean, these things will be out there for the public to make their judgment, but he certainly -- >> so, you're fine with it, jeffrey lord? you're completely fine with it? >> sure. >> you're completely fine if the president in that meeting, according to "the new york times" reporting, called the fbi director that he had just fired because of, in his own words, at least partly to do with the russia investigation, a nut job, saying it would take the pressure off the investigation and sharing, you know, u.s. intelligence from an important

jeffrey, thanks for joining us. jeffrey: thank you for having me on, kathy.lease, give me a break. you know they can't hear you, right? kathy: i must admit, i feel a little strange talking to you. the last time we saw each other was a year ago in the courtroom when i was prosecuting you for killing your wife beth. jeffrey: i'm glad you had the courage to re-examine the evidence and come to a more honest conclusion, which is more than i can say for some of your former colleagues. yeah, well, if he's so honest, how come you're hiding from us, and telling your story on the air instead of in a courtroom? the first trial ended in a hung jury, so tell me, why do you think the manhattan d.a.'s office is coming after you again? maybe because you killed your wife

the blame for this, i actually -- i'm with jeffrey. i think that donald trump could have very easily said on january 21st you know what? i wasn't happy with james comey, we need a change. the problem is he did it on may 9th, not on january 21st. the explanation for why he did it, which is what is the most important thing, has changed more times than i have fingers in the last 36 hours. the real reason he did it is fwaz he wasn't happy with him. he thought he was pursuing the russia thing instead of the surveillance. he makes that clear in the interview with lester. but again, it's very hard to be a staffer of donald trump's, because he does what we wants. and then you have to try to square that circle. >> yeah. >> that includes mike pence. >> you know what? laura, i want to ask you about something else that's very important. he said -- and we all saw it in the letter to director comby. he said thank you very much for telling me three times that i'm not under investigation. in this exchange he answered the question -- he said the first

jeffrey tambor, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] "are you anybody?"find my exclusive chat with jeffrey on late night's facebook page, because we're going to keep talking. we'll be back with debra messing. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: welcome back, everybody. our next guest is an emmy-award winning actress who will appear in abc's upcoming adaptation of "dirty dancing" airing next wednesday night at 8:00 p.m. let's take a look. >> what about paris? remember our honeymoon? walking down the champs-elysees? drinking vencrose at the bistro next to the hotel? >> go to paris if you want. i have to put a request in at the hospital. how about a year from next christmas? we can bring the girls. >> that sounds wonderful. >> seth: please welcome back to the show debra messing, everybody! ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> hey. >> seth: thank you for being here. >> so lovely. >> seth: i'm very impressed with french. are you a french speaker? >> so not. >> seth: so not. >> so not. >> seth: did you have to learn that stuff phonetically? >>

jeffrey toobin is with us. what is your reaction, jeffrey? >> this is an absolutely brilliant choice. there is no more respected figure in american law enforcement than bob mueller. fbi director. u.s. attorney in both massachusetts and san francisco. head of the criminal division in the justice department. someone who has been appointed to positions mostly by republicans but also by bill clinton when he was u.s. attorney in san francisco. someone of what unquestioned integrity. extreme confidence. just someone who has been respected his entire career, just recently judge chuck prior in san francisco named bob mueller to super advise the settlements in the volkswagen stand yell. this is someone who is respected in all quarters and i can't imagine any criticism of this appointment from democrats or from republicans or from anyone. when he was nominated to run the fbi by president george w. bush, in 2001, he was confirmed 98-0, which i think gives you some sense of the kind of esteem he has been held in throughout his long career. >> normally fb

you know. >> is this simply payback, jeffrey? >> no, i don't think so. very ideological, this is the kind of sentiment that is shot through the entire conservative movement and republican party. if president trump were not in the white house, but another republican, let's say ted cruz i am sure you would have found the same results here. >> so angela, i paused for a second here, that was a pause, we just got an e-mail from the white house. i want to tell you what it says and get your reaction. you know they sent this memo out, right, and the memo said the education secretary position would not be maintained. they're now saying there have been no changes to the program. they're going to change the brand, basically. the name. do you buy this? i mean, obviously, there is a lot more to figure out here. do you buy that near not coming o -- they're not coming out and saying that? >> yeah, i think it was consistent as what was said earlier the reason it was branded in a certain way is this is a notion that was rejected all around the world. what is the notion?

jeffrey, do you believe it? >> yeah. i mean, probably he did., donald trump in many ways is harry trumanesque. he puts it right out there. i don't have any reason to doubt that he would have said this. >> what was he referring to? >> that's the thing, martin. i don't think, look, i don't believe that there's any there there with this russian business. we're now in yet another day where there's no evidence that anything happened whatsoever. so all we're doing is running with a "new york times" story that's gossipy about what was said in the oval office, but produces absolutely no evidence, none, zero, there was any collusion with the president and the russians. >> maria, do you buy that? >> absolutely not. i love jeffrey, he has to take off his beer goggles when it comes to looking at trump for what he is. look, if there's no there there, you don't get a special counsel appointed to the investigation. not only that, we can see with our own eyes what happened this past week. look, trump fires comey, then the next day invites into the oval office o

let's bring in ian bremmer and james jeffrey, former ambassador to iraq.t's interesting that they're going into this, preparing this big arms deal with saudi arabia. the deal-making diplomacy. >> literally of all the american allies around the world, they're very happy with the trump administration for very different reasons, right? the case of the saudis, it's because not focused on human rights, focus more on defense, talking about radical islamic terror. in the case of israel, a long personal relationship that exists between trump and his family and mr. netanyahu. this trip is set up to go well except for the ability and propensity of trump to shoot himself in the foot, which he has done both internationally and has shown the capacity to do with all the distractions here in the united states. the headlines will be quite positive. >> ambassador jeffrey, are you as optimistic? >> yes, i am. there's an underlining theme with both of your stories in one word. ira iran. >> happy to have donald trump, they think he will stand up to iran. they feel iran's aggr

>> go ahead, jeffrey. >> i mean, i just think get a prosecutor out of it. commission with prominent republicans and democrats. people like condoleezza rice who was just on your show. get her on there. get the democrat equivalence of them and have them open this up and investigate everything. i would like to hear president obama testify on leaks. i would like to hear ben roads testify on links. >> i don't. >> there are stories out there. >> we know that you guys and the republicans some certainly the trump administration is more focussed on the leaks than it appears much of the ties were. >> do it all. >> fair it up. that's what you're calling for. are you saying, jeffrey, you have lost faith in the fbi to investigate this? >> no. i think the problem was with director comey. the fbi is a ma'am mouth institution. it will go on and survive and prosper. but i do think that the white house, i heard speaker gink rich saying this earlier today, i think the white house should instead of all due respect to my friend kellyanne and others, they should put the deputy a

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with me here still is jeffrey toobin.what we were wondering allowed before we went to break exactly what the warning was relating to. >> i think it's clear that president obama understood that president trump was going to appoint people with different policy views than the obama administration. he was not going to warn him away from people who simply had different policy views. this is an -- his concern as jake tapper has learned more specifically now related to mike flynn's relationship with russia. which ultimately led to his departure a little more than three weeks into the administration. but the fact that donald trump would ignore that advice is yet another example of how the trump administration and donald trump himself have looked the other way where russia is concerned. >> it also makes me wonder what does that say also about the vetting that was under way? we played a sound bite earlier of john kelly. when i became secretary of homeland security, my last 25 years were thrown out the door and they vetted me meticu

jeffrey lewis, thank you very much for joining us.s sounds like quite an advance on the part of the north koreans. tell us more about this missile test. what exactly was it yesterday? >> with well, it's a brand-new type of missile. we'd seen a version of this in a parade just a month ago, but what's really striking is it seems to use a new engine that the north koreans designed themselves. in the past they've cop idea engines from other places. this looks like the first engine that's fully north korean, so it's a big step forward for them. >> woodruff: a new engine, does that mean distance, power, what? >> well, what it really means is know-how, so that will translate into distance and power. in the past, the north koreans said if we could copy this, can we build it at i.b.m., looks like they have the design expertise to build this kind of missile themselves and i think in the future that should lead us toward an icbm. >> woodruff: so as i said in the introduction, 500 miles but the experts are saying it could potentially be 2500 mile

appreciate it jeffrey and david. poppy. >> thank you very much.of lost in all of this chaos of the last 12 hours, the fate of the president's halted travel ban. will the president's own words come back to haunt him once k n again? that's next. i get back to business. ♪ ♪ on mattress firmness? fortunately there's a bed where you both get what you want every night. enter sleep number and the semi-annual sale going on now. sleepiq technology tells you how well you slept and what adjustments you can make. she likes the bed soft. he's more hardcore. so your sleep goes from good to great to wow! only at a sleep number store. oh, and right now it's our lowest price ever on our temperature balancing i8 bed. save $700. go to sleepnumber.com for a store near you. on a perfect car, then smash it into a tree. your insurance company raises your rates. maybe you should've done more research on them. for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise your rates due to your first accident. switch and you could save $509 on auto insurance. call for

joining me now, jeffrey tubin are chris swecker. gloria borger, david gergen who viesed four presidents and david avelon. jeffrey, he says i accept this responsibility. we'll discharge it to the best of my ability. how big of a development is this? and as evan said it is truly independent. >> it is a major development because of the nomination of any special counsel but the fact that it's bob mueller makes it even more significant, because -- i don't think this is an exaggeration. this is the single most respected figure in american law enforcement. it's not just the 12 years at the fbi. all of which went by without a scandal or a hint of personal controversy involving mueller himself. head of the criminal division of the justice department, u.s. attorney in san francisco, u.s. attorney in boston. this is someone who really embodies the best of the american criminal justice system and the chips are going to fall where they may. i mean, i think people who think there's a -- a crime was commit, they'll learn that it was and if a kroim

. >> like wagner, jeffrey flanders is serving a life sentence for murder, and he is also felt vulnerable around other inmates but for a different reason. he is 4'6". >> prison is a place where they tend to prey on the weak. i let people know if they come into u my space, and trying to takeing something from me or trying to cause me any physical harm that they will be dealt with. nobody is going to come to take nothing from me. even if they won the battle, it won't be a battle that they will just win this day, because it is going to be a ongoing battle. >> flanders small stature is caused by rickets which stunted his growth and caused the legs to arc outwards and on the streets he was known as bow legs. >> it is prevalent in the '80s and a lot of kids had it, because it is a lack of vitamin c to the bone marrow, and causing the legs to be bowed. i have to walk around with a chip on my shoulder 24/7 and i have to walk around with a complex. i can't show no weakness, and i exhibit the traits that i am not to be played with 24/7, all day, everyday. and indeed, problems with the police. becau

our senior legal analyst and former federal prosecutor jeffrey toobin is with us. paul manafort, roger stone, they say they are willing to turn over documents, already have turned over documents to the senate intelligence committee. michael flynn's lawyers say he will refuse. just listen to what they say in a letter to the committee, and let me put it up on the screen. the context in which the committee has called for general testimonial production of documents makes clear that he has more than a reasonable apprehension that any testimony he provides could be used against him. multiple members of congress have demand that had he be investigated and even prosecuted. he is the target on nearly a daily basis of outrageous allegations, often attributed to anonymous shoreses in congress or elsewhere in the united states government which, however, fanciful on their face and you be substantiated by evidence, feed the escalating public frenzy against him. the letter adds, additionally, in the intervening time since the committee issued its subpoena the department of justic

jeffrey toobin, you're our senior legal analyst, the third sentence in this article of the "new yorkimes" says this, the existence of mr. trump's request is the clearest evidence that the president has tried to directly influence the justice department and phebe marr investigations into links between mr. trump's associates and russia. you're reaction to this bombshell report and the white house denial. >> three words. obstruction of justice. developing the fbi director to close down an investigation of your senior campaign adviser for his activities during your campaign for president, if that's true, that is obstruction of justice. why do you think director comey wrote a memo to the file about it? because he was so appalled that a president of the united states would behave in this way. close it down is an instruction to stop investigating president trump's campaign. richard nixon was impeached in 1974 for telling the fbi to stop an investigation of his campaign. that's what watergate was, and, you know, if comey was telling the truth in this memo, and obviously there's a dispute abo

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lawmakers will continue working on the nomination of jeffrey rosen to be deputy transportation secretary. mitch mcconnell announce announcing a confirmation is expected at 5:15 p.m. [background sounds] [background sounds] [background sounds] [background sounds] [background sounds] [background sounds] [background sounds] [background sounds] >> this is the scene outside the white house on this tuesday afternoon. the president is expecting the arrival of the turkish president in just a couple of minutes. we will watch his entourage drive up in just a moment. the president and the turkish president do have a scheduled news conference that will take place in about 20 minutes around 1:00 p.m. we are planning live coverage. we will have that on c-span2. later in the week, the full senate is expected to attend a secure briefing talking about the recent firing of fbi director james comey. that is expected to take place thursday. if there are any remarks "after words" we plan to bring them to you on the c-span network. hr mcmaster held a briefing this morning and answered questions about trump's m

branwen jeffreys, bbc news.liticians or officials will face charges for breaches of expenses rules during the 2015 general election. it follows allegations that the party had under—estimated the amount it spent in local constituencies. the crown prosecution service said it had examined files from 1a police forces in england but had not found enough evidence to justify further action. our home affairs correspondent, tom symonds, reports. i'm on the bus. the last general election, conservative activists tour the country by battle bus, staying in a string of hotels as they campaign for local candidates. party officials declared the cost of this as national election expenses, not local. and political rivals said the law had been broken. but today prosecutors decided there was no case to answer. after full and lengthy investigation, the legal authorities have confirmed what we believed all along, and what we said all along, which was that the expenses, that local spending was properly reported, was properly declared

we have a lot to discuss, so let's bring in cnn political analyst david drucker and jeffrey toobin. how remarkable was it to hear of sally yates' conversation with the white house counsel when she tried to warn him? >> think about this whole scene. it was like a cold war spy novel. this woman, the attorney general of the united states, she gets this information that the national security adviser, perhaps the single most important national security figure in the whole government, may be compromised by the russians. it really is. she goes to the white house, has two meetings, and nothing happens. nothing happens. they just sort of continue with business as usual until "the washington post" runs the story that shows definitively that flynn lied. then they essentially have to fire him. but, i mean, the white house clearly just didn't want to hear what sally yates was saying. >> so you don't have a huge surprise in what yates said. this was suspected that she would come out. she put more meat on the bones. but the shock has to be the reaction from the white house. you have the president

i think it goes both ways. >> jeffrey? >> yes.ris, i have to say first of all, the first amendment is everything here in this country. so that's a good thing. secondly, i have to say there hasn't been a president of the united states in american history beginning with george washington that hasn't been dumped on by their critics. this is part of life, when you're in the white house. i listen to my friend paul begala in that clip you just played and i have to say, with all due respect, there were plenty of americans in the clinton days who felt towards president clinton more or less as paul begala was describing president trump. this comes with the territory. presidents do things, harry truman said of a critic of his daughter, for heaven's sakes that he hoped not to meet him because if he did, he was going to, you know, punch him and hit him where he might need a supporter, and the letter went on at length and it was a letter by the way, it wasn't an off-the-cuff remark. this is par for the course here in america and gets more inte

branwen jeffreys, bbc news.hools under labour and the lib dems would be paid for by a significant rise in corporation tax. our economics editor, kamal ahmed has been looking at how much could be raised and what impact it would have on businesses in the uk. thanks, sophie. it seems a pretty simple equation, put more money into public services and pay for it by raising taxes. labour and the liberal democrats say they want to pay for the planned boost to the schools budget by increasing corporation tax which is a tax on business profits. the present rate is 19%, a figure which has fallen dramatically from 28% in 2010. labour has said it wants to raise the rate to 26% by 2021, one of the biggest tax rises business has seen for three decades. the conservatives on the other hand want to keep cutting the tax saying they will reduce the rate to 17% by 2020. the big question, of course, will a business tax rise bring in the £20 billion all labour's policy, for example, needs. the labour party proposals would certainly ra

joining me now is jeffrey toobin, alan dershowitz, and joining me us on the phone is michael mukasey, who's also served a as a federal judge. attorney general mukasey, let's start with you. so we should, again, jared kushner is not a suspect here, he's not a person of interest, he is just, we're told, a focus. they want to speak to him, because he basically, it seems like, a witness. what do you make of this? >> what i make of it is, if you read back what you just said, you used two terms that are unknown to any federal investigator. person of interest is not a term that any federal investigator ever uses. and it's not a term that's appropriate to this investigation. this is a national security reque investigation. it's not a criminal investigation. in criminal investigations, there are three kinds of folks that the authorities talk to. witnesses who may have some fact that they're interested in investigating. subjects, who may be looked at, because it's possible that they committed crimes. and targets, who people who they've already got enough evidence to indict, but as to whom they

jeffrey toobin and a.b.ard. 24 hours later, he is accepting victory on stage in that special election. is there some deeper meaning here? >> i think we learned after the alleged assault that 7 in 10 voters in the district voted. that is a really hard number to turn around in a republican distri district. many upset democrats who turned out yesterday likely did not make up for what was probably already his seat in the bank. the interesting thing in the surprise was how many voters were pouring in yesterday who not early voted told reporters said how perfectly fine they were with the congress member-elect pushing the guy to the ground and according to fox news, punching him several times and breaking his glasses. this is an awkward situation for house republicans. i think they made a deal with him, probably. i don't know this for sure. that is why they welcomed him by a statement from speaker paul ryan. he named ben jacobs in the apology. >> ron, to prove a.b.'s point. there were despicable things to our kyung

jeffrey toobin, that would be a crime under oath. >> it certainly would be.nd it is a pretty amazing accusation from the president of the united states when you consider he is the boss of the justice department, which can prosecute people for making false statements. this is just an example of how we have normalized donald trump's behavior. that idea that president of the united states is accusing people testifying before congress of crimes would have been thought outrageous had any president done it previously. but now it's just sort of business as usual for this president. >> but this is why the congressional investigation is so important. because mueller has to go and do his job and take years doing it. and he's got to decide if he prosecutes anybody, who he prosecutes. it is a criminal investigation. the congressional investigation is about getting the truth out to the american people in any way that you can and i think that the congressal committees have an important job to do here and let the american public judge whether brennan is lying under oath as

jeffrey, go ahead? sorry to interrupt, i apologise. victoria... jeffrey, go ahead?wn experience is the fact that the tribunals are working. the assessment process is dwp's responsibility, the tribums are the chancellor's. when i went to the tribunal they asked open questions, they qualified and clarified and quantified the situation with regards to the example i gave you for the wristwatch, they scored me positively on that. so my question for everybody involved is why did they not score positively on the wristwatch situation in my assessment? the assessment process is flawed. it's not a question of the tribunals so much, if the process was working properly they wouldn't have to go to tribunal. kayleigh, richard graham, points out that under pip more people are receiving the highest rate of support, 26% compared to 15% under the dla system, that's got to be a good thing? we want people to get the support they need the what is crucial is that the been fit is delivered in a way that gets that right first time. so at citizens advice, it is our biggest enquiry. last yea

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so a lot more questions to be answered. >> go ahead, jeffrey. you wanted to weigh? ?ha jared kushner thinking? why was he talking to this person? why was he talking to that person? why not talk to jared kushner. >> do you think it is coincidence we haven't heard from him? >> i'm curious, john kirby, you worked at the state department, pentagon, diplomatic back channels have been going on forever. when the obama administration wanted to have a nuclear deal with iran there was a very secret back channel. talks with iranians, world's number one leading state sponsor of terrorism that obama administration authorized through oman. that's where they were having a -- that was top secret. did you know about that back channel? >> i did not know about it. and that's fine with me. >> we're talking about the sitting administration. yes, back channels have a purpose. and yes it's been done before. by the sitting administration. what is hard to understand is why would an incoming administration with access to whatever information they wanted from national security council, pentagon

jeffrey, toobin, and that's the question we all have. why would the president be so loyal and take up michael flynn and put his job as president in jeopardy by trying to get him out of trouble reportedly with comey saying can you just back off this investigation? that's the million dollar question. >> it certainly is, and i don't pretend to have the answer. there are possibilities. the fact he was the outsider, the way trump was, the fact he was so reckless and angry in his denunsiations of hillary clinton, famously leading the chant of lock her up at the republican national convention. he also had some russian connections. turkey, obviously we know he was getting a great deal of money from turkey. you know, he had that meeting -- he went to russia at the ins tu -- he was paid by russia, where he sat next to president putin. it. >> what's interesting is there's so much exposure to the white house, and you have this new reporting by matthew. and then he notified the transition team, right? and the vice president, mike pence, in charge of

. >> jeffrey, stand by. we're going to get back to you. right now i want to bring in democratic congressman reuben gallego of arizona, an iraq war veteran. thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> let me read the quote one more time from the "new york times." the president referring to the now former head of the fbi. i just fired the head of the fbi. he was craze, a real nut job. i faced great pressure because of russia. that's taken off. i'm not under. he said that in the meeting with the russian foreign minister and the russian ambassador to the united states in the oval office. i want you to react to that? >> first, let's begin by state one of the most obvious things how unpatriotic it is for donald trump to be saying something about a civil servant, a career civil servant who has been protecting this country for many years to one of our chief and main adversaries in the oval office. it's sad. it's a sad statement, and it really is a -- that this occurred in the white house, and that's coming out of the mouth of a u.s. preside

jeffrey tu jeffrey toobin, your reaction it breaking news, how serious is this, jeff?>> it is certainly a potentially serious national and security problem. as you have said, it is not a legal problem for the president. he does have the right to declassify anything he wants including in the moment. vice president has that power too. so what might get someone else imprisoned, the president has freedom to do. it doesn't mean it is a good idea. doesn't mean if couldn't have problem national security implications if he discloses something that is potentially information that could cause risk to people or organizations. but legally it is an problem. if i could just sort of state the obvious about the political aspect, it is not just any country he disclosed this information to, apparently. it is russia. a russia is the full crumb and all of it is based on the trump campaign and trump administration giving them favorable treatment. potentially another serious example. >> indeed. and statements from dina powell, the story, the president discussing common threats that both cou

jeffrey brown looks at what's afoot. >> brown: it all has to do the way the e.p.a. government evaluates science underlying many regulations. earlier this month the e.p.a. and the interior department announced they would review and overhaul who served on key scientific advisory boards. the e.p.a. move attracted particular notice since its administrator scott pruitt decided not to renew the contracts for half the members to have the so-called board of scientific counselors. our scientific correspondent miles o'brien is here to help fill in the picture, so, miles, the board of scientific counselors. what is that? what do they do? >> jeff, a formerly obscure board at the e.p.a. made up of 18 scientists, most academics, a few of them from industry. their goal is to get really deep in the weeds with e.p.a. staff researchers and give them some sound advice on research priorities and equipment and techniques that allow them to do their work. they do not get involved in policy, however. >> brown: what exactly happened last week? >> well, nine of them whose term had come up,

let me get jeffrey toobin to weigh in. what is your thoughts on why the president asked mike pence and jeff sessions to leave so he and comey could have that private conversation? >> it certainly is as gloria suggests an incriminating fact. if i could just back up for a second and if we could discuss how this would be investigated, because we have this incredible bomb shell newspaper story by michael schmidt which suggests that donald trump said to jim comey, let it go, end the investigation. now the congress and fbi have to do real investigation of what happens. certainly you would start with any sort of paper trail. now comey took notes. did he take hand-written notes and turn them into a more formal record? fbi agent often do that. that becomes an issue in some investigations. hand-written versus typed up document. typed up document is known as 302. of course the question of tapes. donald trump has hinted that there is a taping system in the white house. that could certainly settle the issue of what was said in this con

dan five, gloria borger, mike preston and jeffrey tubin. let me start with you. sorry. i obviously have something in my throat. you are hearing from democrats, you have republicans coming out questioning what the president did toyed, to say the least. >> this is not a normal event in american shift. this is not something that presidents have done historically. there is only one precedent for firing a federal investigator who is investigating the president of the united states as jim comey was, and that was october 20th, 1973 when ribs ard nixon fired archibald cox. this is so far outside the range of presidential activities, it is so outrageous, so grotesque, it is so wrong that it is shocking that anyone in political life has even the shred of an ability to defend it. >> jason? >> well, i was a little bit surprised to hear senator schumer's n comments, considering on november 2nd he publicly stated he had lost confidence in director comey. but look, this is something that should have been done last year. the avalanche of democrats who came out and criticized director c