don't have a -- host: jonathan turley. guest: in terms of the investigation of the clinton ngles, particularly dosier, fact be investigated. into t think going back the election to investigate some issues, but i think there is legitimate question here, if you are looking at influence, you probably need to look at russian influence generally. done in congress, regardless of what the special counsel does to look at whether fact there was information coming on the other side, as well. independent polis, caller. caller: yeah, good morning, yeah, i think debbie wasserman schultz is going to be something, i think it is related lot to real estate deals. my main question is about sessions. is going to be notgned, maybe the -- we're used to seeing republicans go on the offensive against the d.n.c., but he goes on the offensive against the swamp, i lobbyists, which is our main problem. health care has been chewed up lobbyists. the swamp and ot you've got the rhinos, mccain is inexcusable. host: joe, i'm not following, can you get to

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jonathan turley, stand by. we do note that this happened on this friday night during a major hurricane hitting the florida coast, which in some ways is a master class in media management. this is news dump 101 except it's not 101, brian stelter. it's an accelerated version. an advanced class in news dumps. >> folks who are in texas weathering this storm are not interested in joe arpaio tonight. for the rest of the country, once again, president trump back in the news. i have to wonder if it's because gorka issued a scathing resignation letter. he has a lot of critical words for president trump. he says true believers like steve bannon have been pushed out. this letter comes out. it's leaked to a pro-trump website and then you get news about joe arpaio. who knows what exact time line was. you said that arpaio's lawyer found out hours ago. it's curious that the president wants to make so much news tonight. >> the lawyer for sheriff joe arpaio told me that he was told at 3:00 pacific time, which would be 6:00 -- w

back on the phone with us, jonathan turley, professor of constitutional law. you just heard from the lawyer right there. the process by which this happened, the phone conversation last week between the white house counsel and sheriff joe arpaio, that was news to me, and this phone conversation today with the sheriff's attorney, is that standard operating procedure in this type of incident? >> there is a process by which you can seek pardons. there's a pardon attorney in the white house that filters through thousands of petitions. presidents often do not exercise pardon authority very actively at the beginning of their term. it's well known, i file these things myself, that the best time to ask the president for a pardon is when they're heading out the door. so the timing is rather good for the sheriff. this is the type of action that probably won't sit well with many judges. this is a president who has had some totable conflict with judges. he's criticized a couple of judges on a personal level. many of us have criticized the president for those comments. but

here's jonathan turley, constitutional law attorney, and professor at george washington university. why the institutions are concerned. the police are reluctant, they call it the ferguson effect, to step in. is it okay if these universities cancel these appearances? >> frankly, i think it's problematic. we saw this before the recent tragedy. schools like depaul university in chicago, other schools, started to, instead of saying they didn't want a speaker, like the conservative speaker on campus, they started to cancel them by saying they're worried about public safety, counter demonstrators. and that has become an easy way to bar conservatives, and people that have opposition. those are the type of people, quite frankly, that generate a lot of discussion on an academic setting. it's true they come with great risk. when student groups ask them in, they have a right to be heard. and there is a concern that many of us in the free speech community has for this new mantra, nancy pelosi said yesterday she wanted a permit reviewed of a group appearing in san francisco, because of, quote, p

jonathan turley, do you agree with that?t about antifa is that they are built on this intolerance for free speech. they recognize that they don't believe that people have a right to speak freely, that they believe that some people are unworthy of free speech because of their views. certainly, professor brady has commented that in his book with some apparent support with the notion that not all speech is equal. that challenge is a basic of our country. once you start to create this generation of speech intolerant kids, the question is where are we heading. who will decide what views are unworthy and what are not. i think the problem i have with nancy pelosi's statement is this effort to try to draw distinctions is not necessary and it's a bit dangerous. we are denouncing extremist groups, trying to keep others from speaking through intimidation or violence. that should be the measure. i don't see the distinction. >> martha: just saying you don't see in equivalents in some way, it ought to be fairly easy, marc, do say that vio

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devil's bargain later, the latest on the russia investigation with university of law professor jonathan turleyendous base and a tremendous group of support. the country is optimistic, and i think the general will just add to it. i think the country is doing very well. host: president trump yesterday with his new chief of staff, general john kelly, in the oval office. he was sworn in yesterday shortly after that, anthony scaramucci was out at the white house. president trump tweeting last night, "great day at the white house." good morning, everyone. we begin

george washington university law professor jonathan turley.to see you. >> thank you. david: before anything really happens of determining nature regarding these leaks, i think somebody has to get arrested. i mean, every kind of motivate that you have for leaking could be stopped if people are really afraid that they're going to be arrested and go to jail. what do you think? >> well, i think that's true. in the law, there's always been this belief, the deterrence that's really determined by the rate of detection or the severity of the crime. as the rate of detection goes down, you have to increase the severity of the punishment. and here we have a very low detection rate, and i think that's obviously contributing to much of this. what is quite clear is that this is going to be an emphasis of the trump administration. they're going to put a lot of resources towards this. david: well, a big question is whether jeff sessions will be the one that follows through on this or whether somebody else will be appointed. we have today john kelly asserting

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jonathan turley professor at george washington law school and he joins us tonight.ssor, how big a deal is this? >> it's a big deal in the sense that it's going into a new stage. the grand jury is the most powerful tool of a prosecutor. it does two things. it both investigates potential crimes and then decides whether to indict for those crimes. the investigation part is a heavy tool for prosecutors to use. you pull in witnesses, you pull in documents and you put people under oath. and if they say something misleading or false, you suddenly have a great deal of leverage over them with a potential criminal charge. so this is a very significant move. and, you know, it's hard to look at this as good news. it's like being in a cats sell and watching your neighbor build siege machines and catapults. it's not a good thing. obviously your relationship is not the best. here i think you are going to see a lot of people brought into this grand jury. they are going to have to go on the record. we have had a problem so far coming out of the trump administration of a consistent n

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jonathan turley is professor of public interest law at the george washington university.r your time. good to talk to you. the president's lawyer has been assisting again that there is no reason to think mr trump himself is under investigation. this development, though, does move the whole investigation into a higher risk for mr whole investigation into a higher riskfoertrump, whole investigation into a higher risk for mr trump, doesn't it? whole investigation into a higher risk for mr trump, doesn't mm does, and i'm afraid there's every reason to believe the president is the target of the investigation. the investigation is on multiple fronts. 0ne investigation is on multiple fronts. one of them is indeed an obstruction investigation, whether there was an attempt to obstruct the russian investigation, that was one headed by former fbi directorjames comey, the man that trump fired. but there's also a more recent front that was opened up with regard to financial transactions. it appears there's more looking into business deals and associations between the trumpfamily and de

joining us now, law professor at george washington university, jonathan turley. turley, good morning, good to see you. a new piece in "the washington post" has a lot of people talking. it's titled, "what's worse than leaving trump in office? impeaching him." professor turley argues that the chatter about ejecting the president is dangerous for america. okay, we'll let you explain a little bit and then we'll pass it around the table. reading through your piece, it seems to me the idea of impeachment isn't impossible for you, it's the idea of lowering the standard for impeachment that would be dangerous for this president and for future presidents. >> that's right. i mean, it's become a cottage industry of people who are arguing for impeachment. "newsweek" said, you know, that the president is just six votes away from impeachment. you have impeachment meters and people promising that now we're almost at that point where we can remove him. that's dangerous. because what people are really describing is what you have in great britain with a no-confidence vote, that is,

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later, the latest on the russia investigation with university of law professor jonathan turley. tremendous base and a tremendous group of support. the country is optimistic, and i think the general will just add to it. i think the country is doing very well. host: president trump yesterday with his new chief of staff, general john kelly, in the oval office. he was sworn in yesterday shortly after that, anthony scaramucci was out at the white house. president trump tweeting last night, "great day at the white house." good morning, everyone. we begin today's washington journal with the president -- with your thoughts on the president's white house team. .epublicans, 202-748-8001 democrats 202-748-8000. independents, 202-748-8002. you can also chime in on our social media pages. the phone lines are now open. the president tweeted yesterday. that was the president yesterday talking about his white house team. what is your confidence level this morning? the newspaper front pages are full of headlines about the president's team. the washington times about the ouster of anthony scaramu

and a talking about jonathan turley, gw is professor of constitutional law. ou probably know a deal about them. please welcome him right now. [applause] >> as you know, jonathan teaches, comments, writes amazing numbers of articles, dozens in various law journals and other publications i didn't know this until i was asking him to indulge us come i didn't realize you were the youngest chaired purpose in the schools history. quite remarkable, and thank you for coming. [applause] >> so let me set up what we want to talk about it we are doing and the kill of the conviction of the three weird sisters for words that they spoke about macbeth, for which they were convicted of aiding and abetting in the murder of duncan. in the news last week showed carter was convicted by a judge in the state court in massachusetts of involuntary manslaughter. manslaughter is the killing of one human being i another that is not premeditated. in massachusetts involuntary manslaughter occurs when someone unintentionally causes the death of another when the defendant is engaged in some t

legal scholar, jonathan turley, a democrat is out with a brand-new olympiced on the hill.com. he makes several key points about why he rightly believes that rosenstein needs to recuse himself, including this one. rosenstein is likely going to be a witness in this investigation that he caused because he took the lead in writing the letter to president trump on why former f.b.i. director james comby should be fired. by the way, they're looking into that as a possible obstruction. he's a witness. owesenstein is also the guy who appointed robert mueller, and apparently didn't know or didn't care about the fact that the day before naming mueller as special counsel, mueller had an interview with president trump. he wanted to be the f.b.i. director. you can't make this up. now rosenstein has also sat by quietly, turned a blind eye to robert mueller's massive conflicts of interest. like the fact that mueller and james comby are close friends. as colleague, and friend and attorney greg jarrod continues to point out, that relationship could be a violation of two laws >> then eight of hi

delivering, a friend of mine, a scholar, someone you all know of and have heard of, i'm talking about jonathan turleye professor of constitutional law and you probably know a good deal about him. please welcome him right now. as you know he teaches and writes amazing numbers of articles, dozens of various law journals and other publications. i didn't know this until i was asking him to indulge us. i didn't realize he was the youngest chair professor. it's quite remarkable. thank you for coming. they were convicted of aiding and abetting in the murder of duncan. in the new/week, michelle carter was convicted by a judge in the state court of massachusetts for voluntary manslaughter. the killing of one human being by the other that is not premeditated. in massachusetts, involuntary manslaughter occurs when someone unintentionally causes the death of another when the defendant is engaged in some sort of reckless conduct or while committing another serious battery on the person. voluntary manslaughter is the killing of another person that's intentional. circumstances can include the heat of passion or bei

. >> i'm joined now by jonathan turley, profes orof law. thank you for joining us., you're writing in the piece we're quoting from that you're not wild about the pardon of sheriff arpaio, but you've seen worse. we have a court system in this country, judges, lawyers, trials, we have juries, why do we have a presidential pardon? what's the purpose of the presidential pardon snrchlts that was debated by the framers. some framers did not want to give the president this authority, which is the same authority that the king had. they talked about the use of a pardon authority by a president to conceal his own crimes but all of that came up, but they decided it was necessary to bring an element of mercy, humanity to the criminal system. they were assuming the president would be the last possible resource for people who were either unfairly sentenced or in a few cases, even unfairly convicted. in the case of arpaio, he was neither. he was correctly held in contempt. and of course he hadn't actually been sensed. >> now so now there's the question of what the original intent

joining us now is jonathan turley, and norman eisen.mbassador eisen, what do you make of the white house saying the washington post report is much ado about nothing, the president was acting in his capacity as a father but admitting he did weigh in on the statement which contradicts what the president's legal team had been saying. >> well, anderson, thanks for having me. you'll note that the white house did not reject the statement. if you look at mr. sekulow's parsing of it, as well. president trump's outside counsel, he also tacitly admits that something happened. i think they've got another self-inflicted wound over there, anderson. this is a president who is already under investigation for obstruction, and now he's engaged in something which could be, we're not deciding it yet, but could be shaping a witness' testimony about a critical event. that is a violation of criminal law 101. you just don't do it because it can constitute obstruction or witness tampering. so they've got another problem on their hands. >> professor, should the

what does jonathan turley think? jonathan, first off, thanks for joining us this morning.ly and talking the significance of this impaneling of a grand jury. how big of a problem is this to the trump administration? >> i think it's a big problem. i think there is every reason to believe that they are investigating the president. it appears that they now have multiple fronts going forward on this investigation. one of them is obstruction where the president will be central in that investigation. by the way, on that issue, both rob rosenstein, the deputy attorney general and mueller himself could be potential witnesses so there is sort of a curious conflict there. it's also clear that they are ramping up and pushing forward on financial transactions and business deals. that's the red line that the president has drawn in the past. there is every indication that they have crossed that red line and are moving forward. including adding a bunch of prosecutors whose resumes compose financial fraud and foreign bribery investigation. steve: jonathan, explain to us why we knew the inv

as i think your network has shown with jonathan turley, i'm in agreement with the general notion that let's not try to turn every single disclosure event into it's an impeachable event or a possible criminal case. i don't think that's what we're really talking about here. whether he weighed in or dictated it, i mean the problem is for the white house is a credibility issue. but it doesn't really rise to the level of a criminal offense. it's not obstruction of justice and it involves a family member, you know, to boot. seriously, he's trying to, you know, orchestrate or impacting what donald trump jr. would testify to. that's clearly not what his intent was. he was trying to manage a news story. >> we don't know what his intentions were till he tells us what they were. just because it's not illegal doesn't mean it's not wrong. >> absolutely. >> this new standard for what is acceptable conduct coming out of the white house seems to be felonious activity. if it's not a felony, leave the man alone. that seems to be a little artificially low. john dean, back to you, the suggestion that oka

benjamin, let me read you what jonathan turley wrote about him, saying this in "the washington post,"t's dangerous course that can fundamentally alter our constitutional and political systems even if one were to agree with the litany of complaints against trump, the only thing worse than trump continuing in office would be his removal from it. what he's your response? >> the house of representatives should have sort of my read on his conduct in relation to his fitness for office or jonathan turley's read is a better one for the democratic health of the country. the structure for such a discussion is an impeachment inquiry. and so, you know, my point, and in that article is not that we should willy-nilly remove the president from office, though i personally think that's what's going on around the country's probably a good outcome at the end of the day. my point is that a conscientious member of congress simply cannot avoid at this point thinking about the president's fitness for office as both jonathan did in that op-ed and i did in my piece. >> thank you. >> thank you all for being on

brian: jonathan turley i'm doing a book on andrew jackson a big movement now.rson. 200 years, is it right to project today's values on anyone that lived 200 plus years ago? ainsley: good question. brian: no one should be proud of it. but should we run from it in 2008 barack obama said marriage between a man and woman. in 2012, he was full same sex marriage. was he a horrible personal in 2008 and was he enlightened person in 2012? who should would he be looking up to? >> i mean, i think you make the point. you can learn a lot from jackson. jackson did have a lot of flaws. but he was a character who represented his time. and i want students to go there and understand all the aspects of these leaders. i don't actually think it's useful to just treat leaders as blind heroes. brian: true. >> you learn a lot more when you find out that they made terrible mistakes. brian: i think 9 of the first 12 presidents had slaves outside john adams and john quincy adams. should we wipe them out of our book and look at them with disdain or understand we continue to evolve and the

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he handed jonathan turley investigates the top white house and russian. be sure to watch washington journal live tuesday morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern. join the discussion. president trump spoke briefly with reporters after secretary of staff john kelly was sworn in. pres. trump: we just swore in general kelly. he will do a spectacular job, i have no doubt, as chief of staff. what he has done in terms of homeland security is record-shattering. you look at the border, you look at the tremendous results we have had, and you look at the spirit and was a very controversial situation, there has been very little controversy, which is pretty amazing by itself. so, i would like to congratulate you on having done a fantastic job, general, and we look forward, if it's possible, and -- two an even better job as chief of staff. >> thank you. pres. trump: thank you very much trump: we will see you all in . i think we have done very well. lots of records, lots of records created, john. if you look at the stock market, the highest it has ever been. unemployment, lowest i