john brennan, jim comey and andrew mccabe and others.

foreign minister serge lavrov, who was in the oval office for donald trump relieved he had fired jim comey because he was a nutjob. lavrov's readout of the talks is that they went "better than super." is it your assessment that the russians gamed president trump? >> well, let me say this first, i agree with john brennan that trump was outmatched in this meeting. but with regard to outgaming trump, trump just outgamed himself. he's allowed himself to be put in a compromised position. you can see how easily compromised this president is. he's now gone on public record saying i misspoke, i didn't mean to say that. but yet we know that putin has to have a tape of what went on in their private meeting. if indeed it contradicts this correction today, then putin's got him once again. he's fallen into this trap. so we don't need putin to trap the president. the president has compromised himself today. >> let me just press you on that. there's a lot of speculation that at the root of this trump-putin relationship lies some compromising information. you just gave us another example that that effort

case in point, jim comey now in the democrats' corner, providing campaign advice. did such a great job as an entire leader, tweeting "democrats, please, please don't lose your mind. and rushed to the socialist left." good luck with that. the report by the ap democratic socialism is surging in the age of trump. [laughs] you cannot make this up. which way is the party going to go as we raced towards the midterms? here to analyze his democratic pollster doug schoen along with former arkansas governor, fox news contributor mike huckabee. doug, you have to speak to the democrats because when jim comey is your avatar or alexandria ocasio-cortez, i don't know what to say but take it away. >> i guess i would say jim comey, you screwed up the last election and a multiplicity of ways. when i just keep your opinions to yourself? we democrats have enough problems with you interposing yourself. as for the democratic party, my goodness. it has moved so far to the left. as as a free-market capitalist myself who believes in a mixed economy and a strong national defense, i have not

if you need more proof that the democratic party is having an identity crisis, either jim comey or charismatic socialists could soon become their new face. we will explain next. comey or charismatic socialists could soon become the >> laura: don't you love a good identity crisis? the democrats are having one. practically every day. case in point, jim comey now in the democrats' corner, providing campaign advice. did such a great job as an intel leader, tweeting "democrats, please, please don't lose your minds and rush to the socialist left." good luck with that. a new report by the a.p. claiming that democratic socialism is surging in the age of trump. you cannot make this up. which way is the party going to go as we race towards the midterms? here to analyze is democratic pollster doug schoen along with former arkansas governor, fox news contributor mike huckabee. doug, you have to speak to the democrats because when jim comey is your avatar or alexandria ocasio-cortez, i don't know what to say but take it away. >> i guess i would say to jim comey, you screwed up the last election in a multip

it's no longer loretta lynch and eric holder and jim comey. it's our folks.f they had systemic abuse or potential criminality, they have an obligation to prosecute it. my fear is when you have the head of the fbi stand up in front of the entire world and exonerate her the way jim comey data, i don't know a prosecutor in the world that is good enough to win that case. so our opportunity to find out whether or not she violated the espionage act, i think jim comey -- they ruined it by not interviewing her seriously. then they ruined it by that unprecedented press conference. so we will never know the answer to your question. >> sean: congressman, profound words. i think you did a great job today. we have a lot of ground to cover. when we come back, sara carter and gregg jarrett, the event at the forefront of this breaking story. it is a big, sad, historic but important night as we continue from london. r under $15. a 120 quart igloo cooler for under $50. plus bring the kids for free workshops and activities. metastatic breast cancer is relentless, but i'm relent

it's no longer loretta lynch and jim comey. if they have uncovered systemic abuse or criminalality. they have an obligation to prosecute it. but when the head of the fbi stands up in front of the entire world and exonerate her like jim comey did i don't know a prosecute good enough to win that case. so to find out whether she -- jim comey ruined it by not interviewing her seriously and ruined it with that press conference. we'll never know the answer to that question. >> sean: profound words. i think you did a great job today. when we come back, sarah carter and gregg jarrett, they have been at the forefront of breaking so much of this story. it's a big, sad and important night as we continue from london. metastatic breast cancer is relentless, but i'm relentless too. mbc doesn't take a day off, and neither will i. and i treat my mbc with new everyday verzenio- the only one of its kind that can be taken every day. in fact, verzenio is a cdk4 & 6 inhibitor for postmenopausal women with hr+, her2- mbc, approved, with hormonal therapy, as an everyday treatment for a relentless disease.

jim comey. >> sean: scary. it's scary.u can get them on the crime, they will get them on something else. >> it doesn't matter how serious the crime is. >> sean: let's go to mueller -- >> let's get a celebrity tweet. >> sean: what about that she worked there. >> i have no objections to them. >> sean: why are they bringing in the cfo of the trump organization? >> a thousand reasons. i have been through, and our lawyers have been through, including our washington or new york lawyers, we have been through every one of the documents they have given us, every document relating to president trump. he is whistle clean and that investigation. that is why we quickly weaved the privilege. the minute comey leaked that first conversation between cohen and the president where he secretly recorded the president and lied to him and pretty much threw himself out of the bar, i mean, the legall bar, we put it out. then he said -- putting out stuff about the cuomo tape, where he went through this horrible stuff, hiding his tape recorder -- >>

it's tweets like this president trump says he wants to strip jim comey of his security clearance. comey have a point, though? >> well, first of all, i guess comey has also pointed out he no longer has a security clearance, and i did think that even more than the iran tweet, the decision to have the white house press secretary announce essentially a white house enemies list from the podium today that included james comey and other national security -- >> right. >> -- former officials who have criticized trump really smacks of something very un-american, very anti-democratic, small "d," and something that even for trump, you know, is an ill thought through diversion. you know, they didn't even bother to check that the list of names included people who didn't have security clearances. >> comey and mccabe. >> we'll see. >> thank you both. >>> next, breaking news. trump's team going back to mueller. they've got a new counteroffer about this interview. this interview is like waiting for goodell. so what's on the table and what's not? >>> plus, trump's push to drill in alaska's wildlife

never fail to recognize the obvious, which is that at least when it comes to former fbi director jim comey, general michael hayden, andrew mccabe, at least half of the individuals on this list are republicans. so the idea that they're targeting i think everyone on this list also with the exception of perhaps susan rice has served democratic and republican presidents. so the idea that they're now turning post-partisan into something with an entirely new meaning, it's sort of post republican democratic president, this really is this loyalty strand or streak that jim comey writes about, that you and i have talked about. what do you see when you hear an announcement like today? >> i think that -- >> i'm sorry, jill, this was for frank. i apologize. >> i apologize. >> nicolle, while this is really disturbing, what we're seeing is not surprising because it's the next troubling step on this downward spiral toward weaponizing and politicizing intelligence for political purposes. once again, the president is putting his personal interests over the national interests. but we shouldn't be shocked by

obviously we all knew about his long standing friendship with jim comey. we raised it on the first night he was appointed. that was certainly no secret. do you know what the president is talking about, congressman, though, when he says, quote, very nasty and contentious business relationship? do you have any idea what that refers to? >> no, it couldn't have been that nasty if donald trump considered robert mueller for the position of fbi director in the first place. i also do want to note that the department of justice ethics experts cleared any conflicts of interest that robert mueller might have had in may of 2017. in addition, robert mueller's supervisor, republican rod rosenstein, testified before congress, saying there were no disqualifying conflicts of interest. so the president right now is really just grasping at straws. i think he's trying to distract the american public. he doesn't want to talk about the fact that health care costs are rising and that wages are, in fact, decreasing. >> your republican colleagues on the house judiciary committee,

in september 2016, carter page wrote a letter to the director of the fbi jim comey about false leaksut him. strzok's reaction: at a minimum this letter provides us the pretext to interview carter page. in other words an excuse. in another memo strzok tells page he is placing the hurry the f up pressure on mccabe to get a fisa warrant to spy on carter page. even after the election they didn't stop. strzok stresses the need to share any derogatory information. these are the same people who wound up as members of the mueller investigation. there is no defending any of this. yet the left is. carter page is on the receiving end of this for years and joins us tonight. thanks for joining us. let's go back on the timeline to the letter you sent to jim comey then director of the fbi about the leaks against you. what were those leaks? >> well, i sent that on sunday september 25th of 2016. 2 days before that, on the friday september 23rd, there was a big defamatory article put out by yahoo news. as we learned from the house intelligence memos, that was part of the fake news article. it was used

also so many important topics that we have covered, jim comey may be headed back to capitol hill. the president is now pushing forward with the strong plan on immigration which is now an important issue, 98 days. and that's rooting against america strong economy. it's time for tonight's multipronged opening monologue. >> it's a worse example of political persecution. it supposed to be a deep dive and how russia was attempting to metal and cause chaos and our presidential election. instead for months, robert mueller has been searching for something, anything, to malign the president and all the allies. now the special counsel's judgment and political president is in the spotlight today. is robert mueller going to release a conflict of interest with respect to president trump including the fact that we had a very nasty contentious business relationship? i turned him down to head the fbi one day before his appointment as special counsel and jim comey is his close friend and he continued also. why is mueller only appointing angry democrats, some who actually work for crooked for crook

was fbi director by the time this case opened 2015, press conference happened jim comey standing in brooklyn announcing it, towering over loretta lynch, and so a lot of -- we think of trump's they call on fifa -- >> one -- yeah. >> you get -- one thing i am thinking about about this timing of this, this russia the cup in russia, and back at england, russia, utterly una qualified to get it perfect place for world cup probably except for -- the next that is ball of wax. but russia didn't have the money the airports, and they say tradition maybe soviet -- so not a lot of good reasons why they should be but they win in, 2010. this is period when obama was president and in russian reset russia u.s. buddies obama hugging putin, at the same time christopher steele finding out stuff that was happening, russia sanctions against iran, and taking russia off sanctions list one warm fuzzy time, hard it is easy to forget that we think of russia in pretty stark terms this is a warm cuddly russia in 2010, what we see now that is this was in a sense the first sign of what russia was getting the firs

fired jim comey after comey asking for a proffer of loyalty.stion then becomes whether that loyalty extends to his son. donald trump jr., per the associated press, scores of e-mails to natalie as a well-connected attorney who was a ghost writer of top russian lawyers. don junior is now very much caught up in this, implicated by cohen. should we expect an uncharacteristic loyalty to the son, that donald trump may be willing to go out on a limb to save junior? >> there are questionings if ivanka is still his favorite child? that's still out there. in terms of jodon junior, he ses to be at the center of a number of investigations when it comes to russia. he's been involved in the nra mueller prong of the investigation. we know that he's -- his name has come up with the maria discussion. we know that that meeting at the trump tower, you know, he was right in the middle of it. we also know that he actually put out a statement dictated by his father. we know that he's in the center of this. now, will donald trump's loyalty actually be shared with his

jim comey was unique is because written a book and become a polarizing figure. john brennan a little more circumspect but pretty aggressive lately. you make a statement in your book are the complementary to the president. mike flynn i think of you sitting at the table together took a different path. whatever you think of donald trump he became one of the most aggressive flamethrowers that we have seen. obviously that's not end well. what you think happened? >> you have to salute mike's 30 plus years. very distinguished military career. it's probably spent more time deployed in afghanistan or iraq and most of the army contemporaries. i salute that service yet today. i was of coefficient at his ceremony to lieutenant general. you work for me as a staffer about 11 months. i supported him for his direction as direction of the defense. an agency i have but in the '90s. so special concern of mine. for one reason or another, did not work out. my concern was mike's impact on the workforce. doctor mike vickers who preceded me also had a role to oversee dia of her a diffe

and i think i can speak, as well, for all of us to say -- and i include jim comey in this. only reason we've spoken out about all of this is our genuine concerns about this president and this presidency. and who is assaulting values and institutions and standards of this country, which collectively we've spent decades defending. as for the beautiful letter that i wrote to then president-elect trump, it was a note that accompanied the first daily broefing he received after he became president-elect. one of the things that i made a point of in that letter was to join him or ask him to abide by, support and protect the principle of truth to power, which dan coates, to his great credit, is doing. and so, anyway, i'll stop there if you have more questions. >> i do have. general clapper, he's basically accusing you and john brennan, general hayden and others of plotting against him during the campaign while he was running for president, trying to undermine him. this is the president of the united states making an accusation like that. >> it's an absurd allegation. there's no basi

we all know jim comey is a liar. he said this in an interview with abc in new york. then, by the way, he attacked me and tucker just yesterday. i thought he never watch? yesterday pleaded, "this republican congress has proven incapable of fulfilling the founders designed that ambition must counteract ambition." all who believe in this country's values must vote democrat this fall. history has its eyes on us." yeah, jim, we've been watching you. the leader of their party, president trump, it's time to devote all of them out because jim comey doesn't want the investigation to continue. i will have a full montage of all these high-ranking former deep state officials trashing trump later in the show. why would he ever trust political hacks in the intel community that abuse their powe power? it's first important to call out what is a blatant double standard. despite what we see and hear it from this bubble media echo chamber, president trump and his peace through strength russia policy has been so incredibly tougher than that of obama, who they worshiped and adored in the

in september 2016, carter page wrote a letter to the director of the fbi jim comey about false leaksut him. strzok's reaction: at a minimum this letter provides us a pretext. in other words, an excuse. in another memo, four weeks before election day, strzok tells paim he's pleasing the "hurry the f up" pressure on andy mccabe to get a fisa warpt to spry on carter page. after the election they didn't discuss. he discusses any need to strike any derogatory information they may have dpleend from confidential informants. the same people who wound up as members of the mueller investigation. no defending any of this. yet the left is. carter page is on the receiving end of all of this for years now and he joins us tonight. carter page, thank you for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> tucker: on the time line, let's go back to the letter sent to jim comey, director of the fbi, about the likes against you. what were those likes? >> well, i sent that on sunday september 25, 2016. two days before that, on the friday september 23, there is a big defamatory article put out by a yahoo news. a

why in the name of all that is holy did president trump keep jim comey on as the head of the fbi?ed was well-known for years, even when he was here in new york and the justice department as an attorney. why did he keep him on? it doesn't make any sense. maria: why did he put jeff sessions in? why did he put rod rosenstein in there as deputy a.j.123? there's the question. >> i think on the one hand they made the decision to keep comey because normally the fbi director is there for 10 years. all right. and it looks like you're just being fair. comey did this on one side, he did this on the other side. let's see who the guy is. the president meets with him, next thing you know jim comey's writing documents that he's going to use in the event he ever gets fired. maria: no notes on hillary clinton. >> you're right. i think the thing with jeff sessions was donald trump, he's a loyal man, i've known him for decades. jeff sessions says i want to be the attorney general. he was a u.s. attorney. he lost the prosecutor y'all hutzpah. maria: did he say he would recuse himself on all things ru

this is the investigation that donald trump has said he fired jim comey over, bragged to russians inoffice about relieving pressure. so that does raise questions related to other lines of inquiry, for example, what his motivations were in shutting down this inquiry. and whether or not that could constitute obstruction of justice. >> right, because this is the indictment and the narrative, a stunningly detailed narrative of what the russians did, but we don't know yet, and it is to be determined, and probably stay tuned for, the next installment, which is almost surely to focus on the american that is named in here, but not blamed. and others who could have been involved on the american side, either knowingly or unknowingly, with these russians, trying to, as it says, as preet was telling you, very clearly, for the first time, to stage the release of stolen documents to interfere with the 2016 u.s. presidential election. >> and to sew dissent here in the united states. which clearly, which clearly was their objectobjective. on that front, jeffrey, mission accomplished, as well. >> and

lisa page and other heretofore not identified i fbi agents, remember when jim comey, i think you werethe room, he said the fbi didn't give a hoot about politics, go read these texts. they give a lot more than a hoot about who is going to be the democratic nominee and whether donald trump would win. >> real quickly, only got a few seconds. lisa page was on the other end of those texts. was going to happen with her? >> she's coming, too. i heard your graph, i disagree. anytime you have a chance to spend 12 hours with a witness, you want to spend it. i get 5 minutes with peter strzok and the public hearing. i got ten hours with him last week. so we'll interview her and i hope we have a public hearing with her but it's more important to me that all of these questions get asked on the record, talk about -- if you want a serious investigation, take the ten hours over the 5 minutes is what i was told my fellow citizens. >> jason: need to get the documents from the department of justice. trey gowdy, thank you so much. coming. up on the special editin of "hannity," president trump earlier prev

that john brennan thinks he should be in the dustbin of history, that jim comey thinks impeachment isoo good of a remedy in jim comey now thinks that everyone should vote democrat so bernie sanders will be the head of the budget committee and dianne feinstein will be the head of intel. these are the people that were supposed to be dispassionately, objectively investigating a fact pattern and they have much animus against donald trump as anything i have seen in my eight years in politics. add into that peter strzok, lisa page and the other unidentified fbi agents who also wanted him to resign or be impeached or thought he was destabilizing. so if you are donald trump and you see all of these people in positions of responsibility that think you -- that think you are guilty of treason, a crime for which you can be put to death, by the way. that's what john brennan said. what i would encourage the president, those are all people from yesterday. you have your own people in place now and it is possible to conclude that russia interfered with us and it still does not delegitimize your presid

, and apparently rudy giuliani is confirming jim comey's version of events. >> and i can tell you exactlys somebody else out there, there is another witness that had a conversation with donald trump after that meeting between him and comey and trump admitted to that person. it could be hope hicks. it could be reince priebus. it could be a whole host of people. but the bottom line is rudy giuliani is anticipating that donald trump is going to be shown to be a liar very soon on that issue. >> and in fact, there's a pattern here. he keeps coming on the air and admitting things that the president denied. remember the knowledge of the payments to michael cohen? >> and that's going proven too by michael cohen's own records. >> right. because he knows -- giuliani knows that this stuff is documented other places. that's what you're saying. >> so they have to move the goalposts. otherwise, they're going to have to just be stuck with a baldfaced lie, which it is anyway. >> nick akerman and joyce vance, if you bo thank you both for joining me. coming up, cot president's ties to russia be even more e

the president quietly and secretly asked jim comey to lay off of michael flynn.o other things like that in combination with the things he's doing publicly, as i said a minute ago, can begin to weave together into a story of obstruction or nefarious conduct. >> that's a good point. the other big story, the "wall street journal" reporting that allen weisselberg, the trump organization's cfo, chief financial officer, executive vice president, he's now been subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury in new york in the michael cohen investigation. as you know, he was mentioned in that recording that cohen released about the karen mcdougal payment. so what does that tell you? >> it tells me that the people in the southern district of new york are doing their job. they have a very, very important witness. one would expect that everyone who is in a chain between michael cohen and any of these payments we've been reading about or anyone has mentioned in the conversation that was recorded by michael cohen surreptitiously with his client, the president of the united

he said he did exactly that with jim comey.d and no tapes ever came out. >> he did it as a test of comey. >> did he tape jim comey? > he did not, as he said three days later after he said that. >> did they tape the interview that happened in helsinki where he said we'll put out the tails later and you'll be able to see what was done and not done? >> i don't know anything about helsinki. >> sarah sanders was supposed to give them to us. i'm saying it goes to credibility. >> you're talking about the meeting between -- >> yeah. >> i have no idea. >> no, no, no. it was in an interview that he had done about nato, and he said, i record all these interviews now, and you'll get that tape. we never got the tape. the idea of the president -- >> didn't the reporter tape it? >> um, yeah, and they said, we have our own to show the true context. it never came out. what i'm saying is this. he's got credibility issues on things small, medium, and large. that's why those tweets are being relevant because he's been lying about this investigatio

he's succeeding jim comey, who was a very different personality, flamboyant, very public leaning, was out giving press conferences, talking all the time, many times to his detriment. chris wray is a very different person so he has to send a signal to the people inside the building. at a time the fbi is under constant attack and there is an attorney general not standing up for the fbi, not standing down for the justice department, is laying down over and over in the face of those attacks, wray is sending a signal to the building that he does have their back. you hear stories about him visiting field offices and being very candid. i think he's trying to send that same message publicly. while he's more mild mannered than jim comey and he doesn't have as much bravado, that he has just as big a spine when it comes to standing up to a president who asks him to do inappropriate things. >> chuck, how important is it for christopher wray to get this message not necessarily to the audience there last night but to the women in the fbi that he's got their back? >> well, it's very important, nicol

and people find it funny because donald trump is essentially saying jim comey was too mean to hillary clinton. >> and, frank figliuzzi, there is some extraordinary irony in the layers of rod rosenstein being peeled back the day after such brutal attacks from members of his own party. rosenstein, a lifelong republican under blistering attacks from republicans in the house judiciary committee. when it turns out he wasn't ever comfortable being the fall guy for the president's decision to fire jim comey. >> yeah, so yesterday was quite a disgrace to watch and most americans should just be very troubled by the blatant personal attacks on both the fbi director chris wray, appointed by president trump, and the deputy attorney general rosenstein, a republican, brought in with trump. and yet what we're seeing, nicolle, is essentially a slow-motion train collision about to occur between the republicans in congress who are hell bent on finding a way to get rosenstein out and stop the special counsel investigation and the d.o.j. train, and these two trains are about to collide, sitting squarely

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dagen: you evened had jim comey who had the audacity to look at brett bare and say -- bret baer and say, of course, we know that this was paid for, so obviously it's compromised. and the fact that it was in this application is troubling to many people. dagen: mitch, i should clarify that, he said he only knew who paid for it, it wasn't actually running the fbi, that they didn't bother to find out who paid for it, he'd read reports that the clinton campaign had paid for it. >> mercedes -- >> and, dagen, anybody that comes forward and has an application for wiretapping, it is such an extreme measure that when you make these applications, you have to fully vet the information that you're providing to the judges. and that's what's so troubling to everyone, because this is an extreme measure taken by the doj. >> mercedes, the documents that were released were heavily redacted, i don't know that i've ever seen a document so redacted. >> right. >> one of the things judge napolitano's talked about with us is potentially are going to a judge and letting a judge read the unredacted version, do yo

director jim comey and of people felt that was a potential violation and potential case of obstruction oc ju they're telling him to calm down and let it go for now but anything can happen and we're seeing this now, including with bueller looking at the oresident's twitter feeds possible obstruction of justice. at the end of the day, president trump is alone with his phone sometimes, he's tweeting without consultingis lawyers sometimes so you honestly never know what to expect so it's nothat surprising that mueller would look at the tapes. robert: how long can this last? paul manafort, former campaig chairman, his trial starts next week. michael cohen is makingesll these m a movement in the house tompeach rod rosenstein. it's up to bob mueller, that's the answer. thanks, everybody, for joining us. our conversation will continue on the "washington week extra." we'll look back asecretary of state mike pompeo's congressional testimony this weeknd find white it revealed about u.s. foreign policy. you can findhat later tonight at pbs.org/washingtonweek. i'm robert costa. thanks for joining u

we just got through jim comey.hree weeks later, he is working on donald trump's campaign and the russia probe. i think that group was then transposed to the russia probe, many of them were trance to the mueller probe. the moment he found out about these test, he got rid of peter strzok. if it was bad enough for bob muller to get rid of him the moment he found out about those tax, they weren't written in march 2017. they were written in march 2016. he never should have been on any of these three probes. that should have been enough to kick him up when he said it, that was early in 2016. completely the wrong person. the fbi's reputation. there are lots and lots of fantastic fbi agents. 99.9% of them. hamm, lisa page, other people not identified. number one jim call me, you were there. comey said they didn't give a hoot about politics. go read these texts. they read they gave more than a hoot. >> jason: lisa page was on the other end. what will happen with her? >> she is coming to. i heard your guests were on before m

what did the president know, what did jim comey tell him.s important for the media, but they are not talking about that at all. howie: i don't think we learned anything new. but there have been a lot of congressional hearings. has the coverage of the supreme court nomination been fair? david: i agree with mollie earlier saying it's important to know what debts do they have, what do they spend their money on. but "the washington post" had a breaking news story in the middle of the night announcing breathlessly that they uncovered this baseball scandal. that brett kavanaugh loves the national past times. they try to make it one. that's what they do. that's what reporters do, that's what newspapers do. they wanted to inject something that fell flat. why? brett kavanaugh bought some baseball tickets and paid off the credit card debt. there is nothing there. the bottom line is he likes the washington nationals. they went 5-15 during the same period is not helpful. howie: do you think kavanaugh is likely to be concerned liberal commentators are tr

he should be disqualified for conflict of interest, because he was involved in the fire firingf jim comey, he signed off on the fisa spying warriors ants -- warrants based in part on unverified, unsourced dossier. he also signed off on something he should not have signed off on. now he may be involved in spying on u.s. congressmen. >> you left one out. i think it will is disqualifying. he, mueller and weisman and possibly comey. were involved up to their necks in the original russia investigation for their effort to try to buy u.s. uranium. they had to stifle that investigation, the information and forced their witness they had behind the scene sign a nondisclosure agreement, so they would not prosecute him, they stifled the information that would have prevented sale from going through. because cfius, commission on foreign investigation of u.s., had to approve that we know hillary was on there. after it goes $. >> if -- >> not to mention money that bill clinton got are in speaking. >> if there was wrong doing by rod rosenstein, mueller and weisman in this original russia investigation, th

the only reason is jim comey went out and mouthed off is because the southern district nypd was goingrn him in for not doing anything on the laptop of the dirt bag anthony weiner. why is the mueller investigation, only a 48 approval where last moisture was 55. the american people aren't buying this anymore. >> as much as dan wants to compliment plea for the job i do. you guys are fantastic. you pelt mueller every single day. i respect the effectiveness of protecting the king. look at mueller's timeline. the notion that he's taking too long is comical. the benghazi hearings took twice as long. i don't think this is about whether mueller is popular or not. when this is said and done, he might have 100%. judge jeanine: it is the american people's democracy. >> there were four body bags in benghazi, philippe. people died. there are no body bags for collusion. not only are there no body bags which is an awful analogy. but there is not a scintilla of evidence collusion even happened. don't you think that may be why the american people on both sides of the aisle have had enough of this? judg

feeling is mutual, and i consider myself in very good company when he criticized me with people like jim comey, that's a badge of honor. thank you very much for joining us. >> all right, joining us. i don't want to let them slide here. james clapper who saw on the intelligence the russian attack on the u.s. election saying after he watched the helsinki press conference, i really do wonder if the russians have something. a guy that by the way he saw the intelligence for a year. after the press conference, he says i really do wonder if they do have something. >> i think it is a pivotal spoemt for people. trump who is so obsessed with the idea of strength at there on a teenage as a president of russia, and trump essentially made clear that he is the junior partner in that relationship. criticizing his own government and doing everything he could to pump up supt. even seasoned sbjs official vs. to ask themselves is trump compromised by sha? >> i just, we need to emphasize how surreal this is. that there is serious, sober minded people that are openly wondering whether or not the president of the u

in-flight may have come from the unholy alliance of james comey, jim clapper, and john brennan. it was a headline that something media apparatus into apoplexy. "the new york times" blaring from the start, trump has muddied a clear message, putin interfered. of course, this meeting was not a secret. on the findings not exactly new. don't believe me? here's the headline from "the washington post" on januar. "declassified report says it putin ordered effort to undermine safe and u.s. elections and help trump." so what can we glean from "the new york times" repackaging a report just days after the president's much criticized meeting with vladimir putin? first, let's look at some of the key officials who were in that meeting. john brennan, the cia director of the time. james clapper, the director of national intelligence at the time. and at the time, the fbi director, james comey. second, let's take a look at what these men have been saying since the trump-putin summit. >> what mr. trump did yesterday was to betray the women and men of the fbi, cia, nsa, and others. he betrayed the a

coming up, a new reporter on rod rosen stein, feeling shaken and used by the white house in jim comey's firing, and why is bob mueller delaying the sentencing anotherity 60 days. and a special break down on trump's legal week, including the losses you may not have heard about. when needs to fall back this week. special guests joining arie's for fallback friday. you are watching the beat on msnbc. with a pen. how about using that pen to sign up for new insurance instead. for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise their rates because of their first accident. liberty stands with you. liberty mutual insurance. can make you feel unstoppable. ♪ but mania, such as unusual changes in your mood, activity or energy levels, can leave you on shaky ground. help take control by talking to your doctor. ask about vraylar. vraylar is approved for the acute treatment of manic or mixed episodes of bipolar i disorder in adults. clinical studies showed that vraylar reduced overall manic symptoms. vraylar should not be used in elderly patients with dementia due to increased risk of dea

i want to -- going back to the case, i got to tell you there's a reason why jim comey, former director of the fbi, is openly tweeting, a democrat, because they want to get rid of the investigation. they want democrats to be in charge. they know that democrats won't hold them accountable. the democrats will rue the day when they fought against the openness and transparency. at some point they are going to want documents. republicans are going to look over and say where have you been we've been trying to get documents out of the department of justice. you are no help. you think we are going to give you documents now? i think it is a huge monumental mistake by the democrats. >> a huge, monumental mistake by them. the republicans unable to come to terms uniting behind president trump's agenda. we had -- you know, paul ryan today trolling out there with a little pamphlet. the better way pamphlet. he was mopping his brow with the dead pass. he failed the property for the political ambitions failed before they begin to be realized >> there are only eight -- on the house calendar there are onl

and remember, don, very important, jim comey, the whole reason he's critical of this investigation, the whole reason he's a witness is because mueller's theory is that he was fired, he was absolutely fired as a result of what he was doing visa vi a russia collusion investigation. that is -- that is quintessential obstruction of justice. >> all right. julia, it seems you agree with guy that the president is not going to sit down. i saw you were shaking your head. can we move on now because i want to switch gears. >> yeah, i don't think he's going to testify. >> let's talk about michael cohen. lawyers for trump waived attorney-client privilege on that recording. trump speaking to his former attorney about a payment to former playboy model karen mcdougal, which would allow the government to use it in their investigation. court filings show prosecutors have 11 additional tapes including conversations he had with members of the media. why would the trump legal team waive their privilege? what is the strategy behind this? >> last friday there was a discussion about whether there was a distrac

they stated that the former fbi director, jim comey testified to the committee, remember this?did not believe that flynn intentionally lied about talks with the russian ambassador. that is what he has pleaded guilty to. lying to fbi investigators. so if comey told the house intelligence committee one thing, he said some things altogether different on this book to her. so, again, before a judge accepts a plea deal, for something, you have to get to the bottom of did he really do it or not? >> maybe get some different flavors of popcorn next week. fruit baskets, popcorn. >> coming up, the president with a one on one with vladimir putin. new sanctions. this as iranian lawmakers claimed the obama administration granted citizens to thousands of iranians after the nuclear deal was signed but what this means going forward when it comes to dealing with the islamic republic. back after this. ♪ on every purchase, everywhere. actually, that's super easy. my bad. ...to give you the protein you need with less of the sugar you don't. i'll take that. [cheers] 30 grams of protein and 1 gram of