i know jim jordan well. jim scarborough couldn't wipe jim jordan's nose if he had a cold. a critical question right now, which, by the way, honorable man jim jordan has asked. was this dossier used to spy on americans or not? have you noticed, sean? nobody could answer the a question. rod rosenstein said, oh, i have the answer but i can't answer it. that's the critical question and thank god people like jim jordan are asking it right now. >> sean: what did you think of the comey letter from may 2nd or exoneration before investigation? geraldo is being gracious and generous tonight. >> i appreciate it mightily. >> sean: jessica, he is in the christmas spirit. >> hanukkah spirit. >> sean: it's happy hanukkah right now. >> thank you. >> sean: seriously, that is a smoking gun. peter strzok and comey had the fix in and it shouldn't surprise anybody. >> i think personally if you are asking me, that the pressure on the specialal prosecutor now to wrap up this investigation, i fear that when we go to these other at that point general issues we lose sight of whatnt is important to

the interview with jim jordan is so striking because jim jordan doesn't seem to want to know what happenedon day. he doesn't seem to want to know what trump campaign aides may have done and if president trump is somehow compromised. it's as if, john, we are all out in the woods and we can see a fire, a burning fire. we can't quite reach the fire but we smell the smoke and see the smoke and there are these folks in right-wing media and near the white house who are saying, don't look at that fire. look over there. look in the opposite direction and, actually, beyond that, let's lay off the firefighters. let's not even have the fire be extinguished. that's what's so disturbing about this moment. >> yeah, but i would just say, i think that's a valid argument but these are not crazy things to bring up. when robert mueller, who is highly respected, has a team that consists of only like 15 people or less and almost half of them have donated to hillary clinton -- >> which means half of them didn't. but more importantly, these people who are doing this investigation, it's all you ever talk about is

that that happened. >> lou: there is so much evidence, as a matter of fact, that i think it is jim jordan, congressman jordan has said, there should be an absolute second counsel. i have reservations. i am not sure it is the correct answer, but even the request said, we have an immense problem of corruption in the top of the fbi and the department of justice, that we need to fix it. that means to me, people need to be fired. they need to be some of them going to jail. because what we are witnessing is awful conduct on the part of men and women who are supposed to be behaving to the highest standards. >> it needs to be scrubbed. i am not crazy about the institution of the special counsel. i think there is a better way to do it. get a strong u.s. attorney in the and someone outside of virginia and washington who can look at this thing and look at the conduct of our law enforcement and intelligence agencies through the 2016 campaign. >> lou: what if i said to you. i don't need the investigation. i have the admission of bruce ohr and the compliceit of his wife, nelly ohr working for fusion gp

that i think that there is as jim jordan, congressman jordan said, that there should be an absolute secondcial counsel, i have some reservation, i am not sure adding more special counsel is the correct answer, but right now it does even request says be we have such an irvetioirk months prob -- immene problem. corruption at top of fbi and department of justice that we need to fix it to me, that means people need to be fired and some of them go to jail. what we're witnessing is awful conduct on part of men and women who are supposed to besetting behaving accord doing highest standards. >> it needs to be scrubbed. >> i am not as crazy about institution of the special counsel, i think there a bet wear to do it -- better way to do it with a strong, independent judge. someone outside of virginia, outside of washington, who is look at this, and look at conduct of our law enforcement and inteligent agencies through the 2016 campaign. lou: what if i said to you, i don't neat an investigation, i already have the admission, of bruce orr, the come blissty of his -- come bliss ti compliesty, working fo

jim jordan raised the theory and tried to force chris wray to contradict him for various reasons. it is so political, so tribal. it wasn't that long ago during the 2016 presidential race the democrats were accused of favoring trump in the new york field office. now the tables are turned. it is strictly political with the republicans all raising these types of questions. it wasn't that long ago when the shoe was on the other foot. >> last question to you, ruth. i had a column in your paper, "washington post", my paper as well. saying second special counsel. it drew 3,000 comments. most unhappy with it. >> yea! no, i mean, they can be happy or unhappy. as long as they're commenting, bring it on. i think we have a process in place that is the inspector general who was already looking at this. they don't -- they can make recommendations. we need to figure out before we start. i thought conservatives weren't into the notion of special counsels. before we start leaping into those extreme things, we need to think about whether we have an institution in place that can deal with these sign

lou: congressman jim jordan. thanks for being with us. we are coming back with much, much more on the deep state, the swamp. where are we in draining that thing? stay with us. democratic senator sphal franken is -- al franken is leaving the senate, but he's going to take his time in doing so. >> today i'm announcing in the coming weeks i'll be resigning as a member of the:u.s. senate. lou: ed rollins joins us here next. wildfires raging across southern california, brutal santa ana winds strengthening with warnings gusts could reach 80 miles an hour. we'll have the full report on the record wildfires in lou: another resignation on capitol hill, this one to take effect immediately. republican congressman rent franks of arizona announcing he's reef signing. he's stepping down after the house ethics committee opened an investigation into him after a discussion of surrogacy with his female staffers. he said i clearly become insensitive of how such an intensely personal topic might affect others. the ethics committee is investigating whether hi

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for more on the tax deal ohio congressman jim jordan. thank you for coming back here. i have a lot to go through, are you ready? will the tax deal pass? >> yes, yes, next tuesday. good deal. >> bill: next tuesday. that means you are a yes vote. >> yes. the bill cuts taxes, simplifies the code and i do believe it is conducive to promoting more economic growth than we're already getting. the expanded growth we're already getting under president trump. those are the three key principles we've always had and i think they'll happen. >> bill: no issues from the freedom caucus. >> we all voted for it when it passed the house a few weeks ago. we'll vote for us, almost all our guys will be voting for it next week. >> bill: i know you're on the house side. do you think there will be friction on the senate side? >> you never know. >> corker, collins or mccain going to stop it? >> you never know. we hope not. i think the momentum what the president had to say is on target building to a good bill to help american families and grow our economy. you never know with the senate. >> bil

here is congressman jim jordan. he didn't take your question on that.r bite at the apple? how does it work? >> mr. rosenstein will be there next week, we'll ask him some of the same type of questions. they can give us what they took to the fiza court. we're the judiciary committee. let the congress see if, in fact, he took this national enquirer garbage robert called dossier, if you use that as the basis of securing warrants to spy on americans. let us know if that happened or not. i think it did. >> harris: if it did what's the accountability? what happens there? >> well, harris, understand what took place. this is a democrat financed, clinton campaign paid the law firm who made the mi-6 agent who paid the russians for this document. for this report. so it's opposition research. paid for by the democratic national committee. and was the fbi working with that democrat national committee to take this document, dress it up, take it to the court so they can go after the other party's campaign and other party's nominee. that is as wrong as it gets. everythi

jim jordan said this, quote, you had, i'm convincinged the fbi actively trying to stop donald trump from being president of the united states. this is what some of the congressman had to say tonight. >> you say you believe there was a plot in the fbi to prevent donald trump from becoming president. if that's true, was this not the worst plot ever? the fbi director days before the election reopened the investigation into hillary clinton's e-mails. >> yeah. you got to remember the context at that time. mr. comey reopened it after he did the reexoneration letter, after going public with -- after he made the decision, not loretta lynch, after the exoneration was changed to a noncriminal extreme carlsonness. remember the context when mr. comey does that. evan thought clinton was going to win. no big deal, he can do this because he thought she was going to win. >> listen. strock was on the team that changed. we do not know if he was the one whoing changed it again. so you are suggesting part of this plot to keep donald trump from becoming president included james comey reopening the investigat

. >> congressman jim jordan demanding a second special counsel investigate whether strzok's politicaleliefs affect the decisions at the doj, this gets deeper and deeper. >> outside the dc bubble when you shop at walmart you smell different, you smell like a hard-working american. appreciate it, more on this, jim jordan on the story last night continuing to push for accountability from peter strzok. >> he needs to be in front of the unitary committee and we need to bring him in and put him in the same place and ask him questions so the american people can see what this guy was up to blues this guy who thought he was the super agent diet the fbi needs to be there answering questions. we talked about subpoenaing him, lisa page, they need to be subpoenas and brought before the committee answering questions we are asking. jillian: is the rocks by deadly rides bracing for more unrest today. police planning to block streets as massive crowds turn out for the court hearing of james fields junior accused of plowing his car into a crowd of protesters at a white nationalist rally in august, have

lou: congressman jim jordan. thanks for being with us. we are coming back with much, much more on the deep state, the swamp. where are we in draining that thing? stay with us. democratic senator sphal franken is -- al franken is leaving the senate, but he's going to take his time in doing so. >> today i'm announcing in the coming weeks i'll be resigning as a member of the:u.s. senate. lou: ed rollins joins us here next. wildfires raging across southern california, brutal santa ana winds strengthening with warnings gusts could reach 80 miles an hour. we'll have the full report on the record wildfires in california. stay with us. zar: one of our investors was in his late 50s right in the heart of the financial crisis, and saw his portfolio drop by double digits. it really scared him out of the markets. his advisor ran the numbers and showed that he wouldn't be able to retire until he was 68. the client realized, "i need to get back into the markets- i need to get back on track with my plan." the financial advisor was able to work with this

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what did you think, josh, of jim jordan's line of questioning? interesting. >> that's right. jim jordan unleashed a potent accusation not only did peter strzok have some anti-clinton texts but he kind of was the point person in terms of authorizing surveillance against the trump campaign. he really said that was a theory. he didn't have any evidence behind those allegations but he really put wray on the spot and wray as he did throughout the hearing deferred, ignored the question and deferred a lot of these questions about that specific case of peter strzok to the inspector general's investigation. >> his summary made some sense on the surface, or his supposition. that peter strzok had been involved in questioning hillary clinton aides huma abiden and cheryl mills. he has been involved in questioning hillary clinton herself. he had changed the language in jim comey's filing taking it from gross negligence -- grossly negligent to extremely careless. but then when he sends some and i trump text messages to a woman who is also working for the f.b.i. he was romantically involved

my co-pilot typically on the show john berman, spoke to jim jordan.ere's the exchange. >> was james comey part of a plot to keep donald trump from being president? >> we'll find out. all i know is the texts message from peter strzok to lisa paige points to that being what looks like took place. >> why then did he come out again and reopen the investigation of hillary clinton's e-mails and never even tell us before the election about the investigation into alleged trump collusion? it if he was trying to keep donald trump from getting elected, don't you think he might tell voters that? >> we'll have to find out. >> watch the whole exchange about 20 minutes long on-line. joining me now republican senator of mississippi, roger wicker. nice to have you. thanks for being here, sir. >> glad to be with you. >> what do you make of asergsz like that, what we heard from representative jim jordan last night, republican colleagues of yours in congress making assertions like this, not based in fact that we see, is it responsible? >> i haven't heard much talk about

jim jordan joins us live with the inside scoop. >> i will be resigning as member of the united states senate. >> shannon: "in the coming weeks" rather than immediately. could al franken be looking for cover? stirewalt investigates. the so-called mike pence rule comes under fire from the left even after an avalanche of sexual harassment allegations continue. we will debate what the vice president's former spokesman. hello and welcome to "fox news @ night." i am shannon bream in washington. from al franken to turn frank's come allegations are turning into resignations. we have brand-new developments. senator franken, democrat, says he is resigning soon, raising questions about why the delay and who will fill the critical minnesota senate seat. commerce min franks, a republican, has just resigned among us scathing goodbye from paul ryan. ed, let's start with the developments on trent franks. >> he was one of the first tea party members in the house of representatives. he is somebody who's coming out tonight saying he and his wife had problems with fertility. they wanted to have a child c

jim jordan think that they are incapable of investigating the fbi?e's playing partisan politics. can we talk about irony? so president trump runs the justice department, and the sense that he selected all of the high-level leaders, and he thought that that department was good enough to investigate the allegations about russia. he and the republicans complained about a special counsel in that situation. here, there's been no allegation that there have been any rules broken. if there are policies are the department by people texting stuff on fbi telephones, then the office of professional responsibility and the office of the inspector general, that's their job, hundreds of people. all they do is investigate department of justice employees, but for a special counsel there's got to be a law broken, maybe like when the attorney general of the united states does not tell the truth about his own dealings with russia, and he's supposed to be supervising the russia investigation, and that's when you have a special counsel. >> ann gearan, i have to say, as som

jim jordan and i spoke with the speaker. he correctly says we deserve this information.e wants the information if we can get that before the hearing, great. but if not he's absolutely prepared to authorize a contempt citation against the deputy attorney general. just think about that. being held in contempt. eric holder i think was the only other high government official held in contempt in the last couple years. judge jeanine: but nothing happened after he was held in contempt. ron desantis, congressman, we'll have you on next weekend to hear what happened. and what's the most of outrageous thing you heard this week? we'll run down our list. [♪] judge jeanine: republicans are on the verge of a huge tax bill victory, and democrats aren't taking it all that well. take a listen to nancy pelosi talking about it this week. >> the debate on healthcare is like death. this is armageddon. this is a very big deal. america is a great country. and the greatness of america and the fact that god is always with us is what gives us hope. judge jeanine: armageddon. that's just one of th

jim jordan is a responsible member of congress web wouldn't just make that up. jesse: in the senate, al franken resigned. we think, we are not sure. here is what he had to say on the senate floor. >> some of the allegations against me are simply not true. others i remember very differently. i am announcing that in the coming weeks, i will be resigning as a member of the united states senate. i of all people are aware there is some irony in the fact that i am leaving while a man who has bragged on tape about his history of sexual assault sits in the oval office. jesse: let me ask you first, when you were in the halls of congress, were you hearing things? was this a problem, sexual harassment. i know a lot of young people go right after college and work for congressmen. what was your take on the situation. >> there was always somebody doing something stupid somewhere. and there are some people who shouldn't work in congress and shouldn't even work in a chuck e. cheese. jesse: were you aware of the rumors when you were serving? >> there are rumors and guesses. i wo

that was asked by jim jordan today. was the dossier a political opposition research document used to get an affidavit to spy on what would've been under any circumstance, a law-abiding american in michael flynn? if that is the case, mark my words, you saw the first hijacking of the fbi by the democratic national committee and a major candidate in the hillary clinton campaign. >> sean: thank you both for being with us. >> look at the double standard, hillary skates the servers in the basement, the emails are deleted, and she skates, and all of the sudden -- >> sean: they covered for her, larry. the fix was in for hillary clinton. it was all a cover up. the whole thing. it is provable now. all right, thank you both. there is a lot more to cover tonight. powerful edition of "hannity." sara carter, gregg jarrett, john solomon, newt gingrich is here. ventura county, san diego raging wildfires leaving a trail of destruction as we speak in southern california. we will have a report on that and more. ♪ is this a phone? or a lit

congressman jim jordan.ave you here, sir. >> thank you. >> martha: she was one of the put's fiercest supporters for quite some time. omarosa is now out of the job though. you remember her from the apprentice. did she quit request? did she get fired? governor mike huckabee joins us on that and other things as well tonight when we come back. that's drug free, wire free for deep penetrating lower back pain relief. get aleve direct therapy with $10 back and extra bucks rewards at cvs pharmacy. and i know that we havethe phone accident forgiveness.nt, so the incredibly minor accident that i had tonight- four weeks without the car. okay, yup. good night. with accident forgiveness your rates won't go up just because of an accident. switching to allstate is worth it. just serve classy snacks and bew a gracious host,iday party. no matter who shows up. do you like nuts? >> as my first year as first lady comes to an end, i have had privilege to witness the spirit and of so many people in our country. i have seen people

jim jordan and i spoke with the speaker. he correctly says we deserve this information.wants the information if we can get that before the hearing, great. but if not he's absolutely prepared to authorize a contempt citation against the deputy attorney general. just think about that. being held in contempt. eric holder i think was the only other high government official held in contempt in the last couple years. judge jeanine: but nothing happened after he was held in contempt. ron desantis, congressman, we'll have you on next weekend to hear what happened. and what's the most of outrageous thing you heard this week? we'll run down our list. are you done yet? does it look like i'm done? shouldn't you be at work? [ mockingly ] "shouldn't you be at work?" todd. hold on. [ engine revs ] arcade game: fist pump! your real bike's all fixed. man, you guys are good! well, we are the number-one motorcycle insurer in the country. -wait. you have a real motorcycle? and real insurance, with 24-hour customer support. arcade game: wipeout! oh! well... i retire as champion. game hog! ch

jim jordan actually said -- it's unbelievable.ve a national security adviser that is now, he's pled already and he's cooperating with bob mueller, we have the president's campaign manager during the campaign who has been arrested and is going, obviously, is probably going to be pleading out also. you've got a person that donald trump's told the washington post was one of his top foreign policy people that's already pled guilty. who else am i missing? is there a fourth? so it's just starting, this momentum is just starting. how many days ago was donald trump's national security adviser arrested and pled and is now cooperating with the fbi? >> two weeks. >> two weeks. jim jordan thinks the american people are stupid enough. maybe because he's not wearing a jacket and he's one of us. hey, look at him. his ties are untied. why don't he just roll up his sleeves and put on a hard hat? so jim jordan is saying that now that they're actually getting close to figuring out what went on and people have already admitted to wrong doing and they

by congressmanw jim jordan, a republican of ohio and a member of the house caucus.oe. >> congressman, jordan thank you very much. about the immediate situation at hand, keeping the government open. you thatistic are we're going to get a deal to at least keep the lights on for the next few weeks? that will happen. we would like to know what's going to come next and are we to break this pattern of democrats hold up national defense funding, spending for troops, they always hold up and say we're not going to pass the defense bill, the defense appropriations bill until you agree to increase social welfare to breakand we've got that pattern so how are we going to break that? do what the voters elected us to troops havee our what they need to defend this great country but not increase so weng everywhere else can have a better chance of getting a grip on this huge debt we currently have. >> congressman with hasn't the president broken this pattern once already this year by saying that look, as far as his party is concerned in the gop if to try to hold him to ransom he'll m

. >> lou: my first guest who grilled the fbi director this morning, republican congressman jim jordan of ohio. he's on the over sight committee and toe founder of the freedom caucus. you gave fbi director ray quite a grilling today, are you satisfied with the answers that you elisted. >> i will be satisfied when they release the application from the court. i believe peter took it to the court where the court grant that application based on the dossier with all of the garbage in it. so they can prove i am wrong by releasing the application and in hope they do that. >> lou: stunningly as a result of the house committee information and not from the fbi itself that bruce orr, a top member of the management team with the fbi had contact it is with fusion gps and christopher steel, the former british spy who was involved in the dedestruction of discredited fbi. >> he would not answer the question. and did they look at the dossier and go through and it is disproven as a bunch much national enquirer garbage and "fake news" in this thing. did they check it out before they took it to the fiza c

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some republicans like congressman jim jordan say those texts are good reason for a second special counsel. others seem happy to let the doj inspector general who found those he text messages keep looking. arthel: let's go out to the latest on the thomas wildfire raging in southern california. nearly 2-week-old fire burning 267,000 acres and destroying more than a thousand buildings. will carr is in santa barbara, california with the latest. reporter: the conditions have calmed down dramatically compared to this point yesterday. but this fire is threatening 18,000 homes. there are helicopters in the air. they have been circling around. we have seen helicopters making water dumps. this is the type of brush that these firefighters are having to battle when the em% are pushed down and his brush surrounds this community. take a look at what we were seeing yesterday when the winds were blowing 50-60 miles per hour. we have seen a number of bonfires in the past couple hours it's a challenge for the firefighters because the santa ana winds are pushing the embers throughout the air and dropping sp

jillian: jim jordan pressing the fbi director on possible involvement with the dossier. >> my hunch is dossier. the director -- did peter struck help produce and present the application to secure a warrant to spy on americans associated with the trump campaign? >> i'm not prepared to discuss anything about that process. todd: as fireworks erupted over the fbi fox news learned a separate senior official has been demoted after evidence surfaced of his contact with fusion gps, the research from behind the anti-trump dossier. an investigation is underway. jillian: house judiciary many member jim jordan appearing on fox news to call out the fbi and their past help to political campaigns. >> the speaker and devon nunez, were all pushing but each day we heard about mister or, we talked in the community, each and every day something new comes out which reinforces the belief that you had the fbi working with the clinton campaign to go after the other party's nominee. that is not supposed to happen in this country, it is not supposed to work that way. this dossier, clinton campaign paid christop

. >> laura: jim jordan posed a question about peter strozk to christopher wray.et's watch. >> did peter strozk help produce and present the application to the fisa court to secure a warrant to spy on americans associated with the trump campaign? >> congressman, i'm not prepared to discuss anything about a fisa process. >> what was presented to the fisa court? >> i do not believe i can legally share a fisa court submission with this committee. >> laura: i'm not sure that is correct. >> it's false. >> laura: what the fisa court down is still -- you can still have a check on that. congress can still check on what the fisa court does. you have an obligation to do that. who submits an application, that's not any type of confidential or classified information. >> we don't want to list in the world where the fbi can use the fact that they have submitted documents to a court as a should to oversight. we didn't get an answer as to whether or not the fbi used taxpayer money to buy this dossier. peter strozk that hated the president was probably the person that packaged thi

brian: frustration from jim jordan.ainsley: fox news contributor jason chaffetz is a former member of the house judiciary committee and he joins us now to weigh in off the fox news contributor. what do you think about this? do you think second special counsel needs to be appointed because the public trust is gone? >> i think the gut reaction is yeah, let's have another special counsel. how is the first one working out? brian: terrible. >> >> i don't think you do a second one. put this on the inspector general. 450 employees under michael horowitz. they have been looking at this for a year and a half. part of the reason we know about all this bias and all these things coming out is because of the inspector general. by the way, it's not just bias but we're moving quickly towards collusion within the department of justice. steve: right. >> that needs a deep seeded look. the inspector general is in a better position to do that than another special counsel. brian: there is no reason for congress to get kicked to the curb whi