and the members of the judiciary committee. on intelligencyou have a very few members who are deputiz by the speaker and by the leader, each party, to go to the inteigence committee to deal with iues that rete to the balance between security and privacy. with a the respect in the world for the magnificent members of the judiciary committee, all of whom i respect, it's not right to say there is nothing in thisill that protects the privacy of the american people. in fact, when i was supporting the judiciary committee bil the outside groups were complaning. they wanted the zo lofgren endment. they didn't want that bill. they were complaining abt it. today they are saying that's what they want. issue, one ying the of the differences along the way is when it is issue, one apprri terms of warrant. pleased that we would be offering a motion to recommit that addresses just that concern, which is what i'm hearing from folks about. pleas we would be offering a the amendmt, the motion to recommit, addresses concerns of people on both sides

and the members of the judiciary committee. on intelligencyou have a very few members who are deputiz by the speaker and by the leader, each party, to go to the inteigence committee to deal with iues that rete to the balance between security and privacy. with a the respect in the world for the magnificent members of the judiciary committee, all of whom i respect, it's not right to say there is nothing in thisill that protects the privacy of the american people. in fact, when i was supporting the judiciary committee bil the outside groups were complaning. they wanted the zo lofgren endment. they didn't want that bill. they were complaining abt it. today they are saying that's what they want. issue, one ying the of the differences along the way is when it is issue, one apprri terms of warrant. pleased that we would be offering a motion to recommit that addresses just that concern, which is what i'm hearing from folks about. pleas we would be offering a the amendmt, the motion to recommit, addresses concerns of people on both sides

chairman goodlatte, along with members of the judiciary committee, worked diligently on legislation to implement meaningful reforms while ensuring the law enforcement and against committees still had the necessary tools available. this bill includes many other reforms from the u.s.a. liberty act, enhances section 702 protections and maintains law enforcement's abilities. i would ask all members to join me in voting yes on this legislation. to implement real remorms while ensuring that we still provide the tools necessary to keep american citizens safe. and in conclusion, as a u.s. attorney, i have used this, my office used this section. we followed the law to the letter. there are no complaints. and i want the american people to realize something. mr. marino: we in law enforcement, law enforcement throughout the u.s., we have to be right and on spot every second of every day. a only takes a terrorist moment to get lucky and set off a bomb to kill americans. with that i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york. mr. nadler: thank you, mr. speak

it has limited the judiciary committee review to the chair, this senator, the ranking member of the full committee -- that war senator feinstein -- and the subcommittee on crime and terrorism. that would be senator graham and senator whitehouse. the government has also tried to severely limit the number of appropriately cleared staff who can review documents and even take notes. we have reviewed some information related to whether the fib used the so-called trump dossier and the extend of its relationships with its author christopher steele. as we know now, mr. steele was hired by fusion g.p.s. to research mr. trump's alleged ties to russia. his work was funded by the democratic national committee and the clinton campaign. now, remember, it took a subpoena and a court battle with the house intelligence committee to force that fact out into the open. lawyers for the democratic national committee and the bill clinton campaign officials denied it to the press for months. in other words, they lied. the founder of fusion g.p.s. denied that his firm was, quote-unquote, democratically linked. t

for the other judiciary committee members and appropriately cleared staff but the department refuses to provide access or even to breathe the other members on the underlining information. i have encouraged the committee members and their appropriately cleared staff to do just that. look at the memo senator grant and i sent to the deputy attorney general and fbi director. members can then make up their ownat minds. i've also encouraged them to review the committee's transcripts and other unclassified materials that have been available to them and t thr staff for a long periodme of ti. we mad may agree certain informn should be released at the appropriate time of care to preserve classified information and the integrity of any investigation. i've already been pushing the department to review the classified referral memorandum. three of the unclassified paragraphs each contain the same or single classified fact. now that really surprised me. of the nongovernment sources do not claim to repeat or confirm any information for any government document. evenid after the portions that reference

she saw her republican colleagues -- the judiciary committee is not the most partisan committee in the senate. historically, it's been a place where there has been bipartisanship on investigative matters. and to see her republican colleagues go so far and so hard to the pro-trump side i think provoked the kind of act, the extraordinary act we saw from her today. >> tim o'brien, your organization, bloomberg reporting tonight that michael cohen, donald trump's long-time lawyer is now suing buzzfeed for releasing -- being the first one to release the fusion gps so-called dossier and suing fusion gps and suing christopher steele. what do you make of this lesson? >> i think michael cohen, like everyone else in the trump universe, needs to get schooled on the libel standard. it's actual malice. they would have to show that buzzfeed published this document with strong -- either outright knowing or strongly believing that anything in the document, everything in the document was false. they clearly didn't. they thought there was a public value in publishing it. and they did. i don't think a new

we also heard from judiciary committee ranking member nadler, congressman farenthold, congressman amash, congresswoman lofgren and also congressman poe. in addition to the vigorous debate before the rules committee, both the judiciary committee and intelligence committee held markups on legislation to re-authorize section 702 of the foreign intelligence surveillance act. today, we have the opportunity to pass an important piece of legislation that will enhance our national security and strengthen protections of americans' privacy. mr. chairman, i'd like to publicly thank chairman goodlatte and chairman nunes for the important work on this legislation. as a result of their efforts, the legislation we will consider today will protect the privacy rights of individual americans without hindering the intelligence community ability and identities of our enemies. the value that we place on these duties is reflected by the fact that they are enshrined in the preamble to the constitution, to provide for our common defense, the dedicated men and women of the intelligence community try to defeat o

and the members of the judiciary committee. on intelligencyou have a very few members who are deputiz by the speaker and by the leader, each party, to go to the inteigence committee to deal with iues that rete to the balance between security and privacy. with a the respect in the world for the magnificent members of the judiciary committee, all of whom i respect, it's not right to say there is nothing in thisill that protects the privacy of the american people. in fact, when i was supporting the judiciary committee bil the outside groups were complaning. they wanted the zo lofgren endment. they didn't want that bill. they were complaining abt it. today they are saying that's what they want. issue, one ying the of the differences along the way is when it is issue, one apprri terms of warrant. pleased that we would be offering a motion to recommit that addresses just that concern, which is what i'm hearing from folks about. pleas we would be offering a the amendmt, the motion to recommit, addresses concerns of people on both sides

and that russian lawyer. >> that's right, the judiciary committee will put out those transcripts that are relevant. i caught up with dianne feinste feinstein, the democratic ranking member on that committee. she said she does think this is a good idea. but the one sticking point for the judiciary committee throughout all of this has been they have not been able to figure out how to talk to jared kushner. as you noted in your lead-in here, they think he has been spooked. here's what senator grassley had to say about it earlier. >> we've interviewed everybody but kushner. looks like we're going to get kushner. i think he spooked by the release of unilaterally release by other people of what transcripts are out there. and he probably like everybody else an opportunity to go through it. >> so the subtext there is that kushner was spooked by dianne feinstein who released unilaterally the transcript of glen simpson, the interview, after simpson's words in the view of some democrats were distorted in the press and through the reporting about the steele dossier and how that came to be, who pa

standing committee on the federal judiciary. or are not fully forth coming in their senate judiciary committee questionnaire or in their hearing. many senators have tried to be a check on this administration and have asserted their constitutional responsibility to provide advice and consent by withholding their blue slips, those little blue pieces of pape that are significant nat to the senate judiciary committee chair that the senators from the state where that nominee would serve are supportive of that nomination. the long standing practice has been that the senate committeer judiciary committee chair would only proceed with that nomination if it had the support of both of their home state senators. yet just last month the senate judiciary committee chair made the unfortunate decision that he will be the sole ash tror whether a nominee moves forward. here talk to about this and more is a panel of amazing women, working with them in many of our other incredible partner, many of them who are in the room tonight, is a true horn.

[ inaudible ] >> all right, the chairman of the senate judiciary committee, chuck grassley there, answeringuestions from manu raju. of course, dianne feinstein, the ranking member, the democrat, released the full transcript of the testimony that glenn simpson gave the committee. chuck grassley was not happy about that, but he used that as an opportunity to run down glenn simpson and fusion gps and criticize the dossier and the idea of russian meddling. >> and interestingly, he did say, when they asked, can you work with dianne feinstein still, he said, of course. but others on the committee have said, this essentially ends their investigation, their cooperation. we'll see. >> we shall see. >>> all right, just two days ago, he was the unknown backup. now alabama's freshman quarterback is a superstar. >> andy scholes has more on the bleacher report. good morning. >> hey, guys, tua tagovailoa has a very bright future. tua hadn't played a meaningful snap all season before he became the hero of the national champion gameship the hero of the national champion gamesh games. so now that he's an ala

show up at the judiciary committee. these are public meetings. >> barrel of laughs. >> depends which day. peterson was one to be in. so open to the public. but i think the most important thing is to talk to other people and get activated on the senate. focus on the senate. they are supposed to be the independent check. everyone has two senators. and if you live in d.c. then your trask ask is to go to the markups. because senate is supposed to act as independent check. but sometimes we do have an enthusiasm gap getting members to understand this is an important issue to is half the battle. senators do need to hear that the independents of the courts is important. and they usually only hear it from lawyers. so also talk to your nonlawyer friends. because it matters to them too. it's impacting their lives every day just as it is lawyers lives. >> i grew he with all of that. and, again, so many different ways in which individuals can exercise their voice. it can be calling your senator. it can be writing letters to the edit

to put this in historical context, the judiciary committee held four such hearings in the entire eight years of barack obama as president. and it held each of these hearings with the consent of the republican minority on the committee. during hearings on circuit and district court nominees, each committee member generally has only five minutes to question nominees. many of whom are highly controversial and deserve maximum scrutiny. five minutes, which includes the time the nominee takes to respond is not nearly enough time to engage in meaningful dialogue about a nominee's judicial philosophy or to examine controversial cases a nominee may have decided in the past. the american people deserve much more as we consider lifetime appointments to the federal bench. i'm also concerned about the erosion of the blue slip process which has traditionally been a collaborative mechanism to enable senators to confer with the white house on nominees from their states. although there have been exceptions over the years, presidents and senate majorities of both parties have respected the blue slip pro

head of that opposition research firm fusion gps, his interview that he had with the senate judiciary committee back in august. republicans on the committee did not want to do this and she did this over his own objections. now, what we've learned from this transcript is an effort by christopher steele to inform the fbi about what he learned when he went to russia dispatched by fusion gps to investigate candidate trump's business past with his dealings with russia. according to his testimony that steele was so alarmed about what he found he felt obligated to brief the fbi in the summer of 2016 about exactly what happened. now, a lot of questions, too, about whether or not christopher steele was doing this on behest of the democrats given that the clinton campaign and the dnc had been paying fusion gps at the time that christopher steele had been investigating all of these allegations in russia, but fusion gps said it had nothing to do with it, this they did not edit and they were not involved in the dossier's production release of this transcript. really caught everybody by surprise yesterday, a

the complete transcript of the senate judiciary committee's interview with the co-founder of the firmthe dossier is now out. senator dianne feinstein, the ranking democrat on the committee decided to release it despite objections from republican chairman chuck grassley. he says putting it out there only hurts the committee's probe. this is outnumbered. i'm sandra smith and here today there she is harris faulkner, the editor of town hall.com katie pavlich is here. former deputy spokesperson

. >> we already have republicans in the house intelligence committee and in the senate judiciary committee accused of doing too much to protect the president. things seem to be working out in the senate intelligence committee as of now. then there is the mueller probe. how do you interpret that, republicans should finally take control? >> there are kind of multiple tracks here. you've got the one going on on the house, which i think was fatally compromised last summer with all the activity that took place with regard to unmasking. the senate cooperation seems to have been more bipartisan. it's got longer legs, it has lasted longer but now we're beginning to see that fracture as well. and you've got bob mueller's criminal investigation over here. that's going to go to the end. i know director mueller, i know how he works. >> you have a lot of respect for him. >> i do. i worked fwith him for many yeas within government. that's going to go to this point. i think, jake, that's going to be insufficient. i think the american public deserves more than just a legal resolution as to what went on he

well, today the judiciary committee's top democrat did that for him. senator diane feinstein of california released the testimony against the wishes of committee chair republican chuck grassley. >> i think people are entitled to know what was said, and the lawyers also wanted it released. i see no problem with releasing it. what we're trying to do is keep some investigation going on, and i don't think it harms it at all. i mean, we're looking for information, and whoever can provide it, that's useful. >> feinstein's unilateral move comes just days after grassley, without the full committee's backing, referred the author of this dossier, the former british intelligence officer named christopher steele, to the justice department for a criminal investigation. today a spokesperson for grassley issued this statement about feinstein's actions, saying, quote, it undermines the integrity of the committee's oversight work and jeopardizes its ability to secure candid voluntary testimony relating to the independent recollections of future witnesses. fusion gps hir

here is what glenn simpson told the senate judiciary committee.losed hearings but been released, internal trump campaign source or human source from inside the trump organization reported his or her concerns to the fbi. now to me, what that says is that the fbi was actually spying on the trump campaign, working in cahoots with fusion gps. >> why would they tell christopher steele, that the fbi, had another source. steele sells simpson, and simpson testifies there is another source. that strikes me as extremely unusual and, i would agree with you, david, your conclusion. it sort of points to this idea the fbi was systematically and strategically leaking information to undermine the trump campaign and the trump presidency after he is elected because they did some of this stuff during the transition between election day and inauguration. david: i just want to remind our viewers that the democratic party paid for the trump dossier in large part, if not entirely, millions of dollars from the hillary campaign went into fusion gps that created this repor

about harvoni. >>> so the day after senator dianne feinstein, the ranking member of the senate judiciary committeeook it upon herself to release the interview transcript of fusion gps co-founder glen simpson, the reaction from the republican chairman of the committee and other republicans on the committee to my great surprise was not outrage. instead, the republican reaction suggested it was no big deal. >> i'm actually okay with that. i want the public to know about the dossier and how it was used by the fbi. i want the public to see some of the things i have seen about mr. steele. >> and even more to my surprise the almost always cantankerous sounding chuck grassley, the chairman of the committee, who's usually very easy to anger sounded like he wanted to make peace with senator feinstein. >> obviously i was a little disappointed because i had an understanding, i had a time to be released when we both agreed to release it. and i think i've shown my cooperation with the other side by just yesterday agreeing to two interviews that they want of their -- at their request. and so, i think we're going

dana, as the meeting was going on and dianne feinstein, the top democrat on the judiciary committee, was in that meeting, she asked the president some pointed questions, made some specific points. shortly thereafter, she released that 300-plus document, the transcript of the glenn simpson testimony before the senate judiciary committee. what was extraordinary, not only the details that were released, and some of them are very significant, but that she did it against the wishes of her chairman chuck grassley. >> she did. it's not the first time she's released things against the wishes. even members of her own party, she released a report on torture during the obama administration and the president of her own party didn't want her to do that. in this particular case, she's trying to take the political air out of the balloon for republicans, who are using this dossier, using the genesis of it, what's in it, how it was used and kind of bounced around between political campaigns and the fbi, using it against -- against the president. against mueller, against democrats. that was the goal t

we also heard from judiciary committee ranking member nadler, congressman farenthold, congressman amash, congresswoman lofgren and also congressman poe. in addition to the vigorous debate before the rules committee, both the judiciary committee and intelligence committee held markups on legislation to re-authorize section 702 of the foreign intelligence surveillance act. today, we have the opportunity to pass an important piece of legislation that will enhance our national security and strengthen protections of americans' privacy. mr. chairman, i'd like to publicly thank chairman goodlatte and chairman nunes for the important work on this legislation. as a result of their efforts, the legislation we will consider today will protect the privacy rights of individual americans without hindering the intelligence community ability and identities of our enemies. the value that we place on these duties is reflected by the fact that they are enshrined in the preamble to the constitution, to provide for our common defense, the dedicated men and women of the intelligence community try to defeat o

>> steve bannon ought to be a witness before that committee as well as the judiciary committee where i sit -- >> has your committee asked for him to testify? >> we have not yet, but let's be very blunt, wolf, what steve bannon thinks about that meeting, whether he calls treasonous or not matters a lot less than what robert mueller thinks about that meeting. and robert mueller as special counsel can follow the law and pursue a criminal case based on treason or violation of money lawn e laundering statutes, fraud against the government or any of the other possible criminal violations that may be involved in that meeting which raises the serious prospect, it is chilling, shattering evidence of collusion with russians by the trump campaign. >> because in this new book, steve bannon suggests that there is a problem with the trump organization has with money laundering involving russia which of course would be illegal, by the way, the cofounders of fusion gps, the condition that russian, that dossier on russian connections with trump, they also think that money laundering is at the heart of

iowa is the home of chuck grassley who's the chairman of the senate judiciary committee. in august, the head of the firm gave ten hours of testimony to chuck grassley's judiciary committee about his firm's role producing the so-called dossier, the raw intelligence reports and their relationship with trump and the trump campaign. now, as you know, republicans in congress supposedly leading congressional committee investigations into what russia did and whether they had help from any americans, congressional republicans have largely instead focused their efforts on trying to get the real russia investigation. in large part, they have focused their efforts on denouncing the dossier with all of their might and denouncing fusion gps, the firm that paid for it. senator grassley and senator lindsey graham right now are trying to get the justice department to bring criminal charges against the british intelligence agent who compiled the dossier. other congressional republicans have subpoenaed the bank records from fusion gps. congressional republicans have forced the fbi to hand

i thank him for his service on the judiciary committee. mr. speaker, at this time i would yield such time as he may consume to another of my colleagues on the judiciary committee, the gentleman from texas, mr. farenthold. mr. farenthold: i'd like to thank the gentleman from florida. he's definitely been a leader on this issue. and i've got to tell you, i too am happy. the intelligence committee has agreed to release the memo. when i was back home in texas last week, it was the number one issue people were talking to me about. and i want to take a minute and step back and do a little bit of a history lesson. the fourth amendment to our constitution erode -- arose from some of the abusive practices that were going on in the colonies. the king of england would send his troops to rifle through people's effects without a warrant. and our fourth amendment said, we're not going to let that happen. in these new united states of america. we're going to require the government to get a warrant before they go and go through people's papers and we're prote

only the judiciary committee can frame and craft legislation that will help to protect the f.b.i., and senator whitehouse and i and senator feinstein and others on the committee will be proposing such legislation, based on what we know so far. it is legislation that essentially protects the rule of law against such efforts to obstruct justice and politically interfear. the intelligence community's conclusions about russian meddling did not rely on the credibility of glenn simpson or christopher steele. the two guilty plea convictions that the special counsel has already secured do not rely on the credibility of simpson or steele. without fear of contradiction, i can predict that the additional conviction and indictments will be based on fact and law, not on the credibility of simpson and steele. and the conclusion reached by simpson, steele, or anybody else are relevant only insofar as they are supported and backed and proved by facts and comply with relevant law. now, in fact, as we know, christopher steele tried to blow the whistle on the russians. he brought to the f.b.i.'s attentio

and phil mudd, it was amazing today, pretty significant that the ranking democrat on the judiciary committeeeleased the testimony, 300 plus pages from the co-founder of fusion gps involving the russian dossier even though the chairman of the committee opposed it. >> i think it is. i would be focusing in on just one key moment in those hundreds of pages. and it's not just what the steele dossier said but what we should have known from moment one. it's smoke and mirrors from washington, d.c. here's the point. people have been saying from early on in this investigation how could the fbi based an investigation on information collected by a former intelligence officer for the british service who was himself running intelligence assets in russia? we learned from this interview that was never the case at all, the fbi had its own independent avenues to collect information. and anyone who was a professional who looked at the case from day one would have said the fbi is not going to predicate an entire foreign investigation on a presidential candidate based on what christopher steele said. he isn't th

the people in this firm fusion gps are under pressure from republican leaders on the senate judiciary committee and senate intelligence committee to come and testify in a public session before their committees, both those republican senators chuck grassley richard burr saying that they should come forward. the committee -- the fusion gps put out a statement saying that -- responding in particular to chuck grassley, saying that they appreciate his request but they also said that he should also call on other people the committee once had wanted to bring in a public session encolluding donald trump jr. a fight there between republicans and this opposition research firm continues here on capitol hill, even as democrats say a lot of the revelations and what is in the steele dossier needs to be investigated further, wolf. >> all right, manu, thank you. manu raju up on capitol hill. by the way, senator warner will be joining me live here in "the situation room" in just a little while. >>> joining us right now, democratic congressman eric swalwell of california. he's a key member of both the intelligen

the senate judiciary committee operates under different rules than we do in the house intelligence committeemore latitude than to release transcripts than we do. but i was also calling for the their release so the public could see exactly what glenn simpson had to say and what the situation was in terms of christopher steele and put away some of the misinformation campaign that has been put out there by the administration and its allies. so i think it's very positive that she has done this. also say i can certainly understand her concern if this was a part of our calculation with the letter that senators grassley and graham wrote urging an investigation of christopher steele. i think that's a terrible thing to do. and just part of an effort to go after christopher steele and go after fusion gps, go after the fbi, go after the doj. look at anything except what russia did in our election. tremendous disservice i think to christopher steele who really did a patriotic duty in alerting the fbi that a presidential campaign may be compromised by the russians. >> senator grassley has raised the conc

development this week was the appointments of senators cory booker and kamala harris to the senate judiciary committee which is such an important committee, it's the committee tasked with initially vetting and vetting properly all these judicial nominees being put forward. i think it's important that we have diversity at every level of our government and really pleased that we've now gone from one african-american having ever served on this committee in its more than 200-year history to 3 this week with the appointments of booker and harris, we'll be looking to them to play a critical role in lifting up issues of race and civil rights as we move forward. let me come back and just add a personal point to the debate, discussion we're having right now. as an african-american woman, as a mother of a 13-year-old black boy, you know, there is something troubling with what we're seeing with this administration when it comes to racial diversity and their, you know, inclination to without hesitation put forth white men for judgeships, for u.s. attorney positions, for critical positions across the administratio

- let me finish. >> absolutely. >> the house judiciary committee then started its impeachment proceeding not because some special prosecutor told us or not because the republicans wanted it or the democrats wanted it but because the american people after the saturday night massacre, after archibald cox said we are not a banana republic and the house judiciary committee, congress you have to do something. it didn't start out on a partisan basis. and the people who led the house judiciary committee understood that there was never going to be an impeachment unless it was bipartisan. >> what infected our politics now. >> people don't put the country over their own personal interests. that's the difference. >> simple as that. >> simple as that. >> john i want to ask you because this "washington post" article by woodward and bernstein from june of 1973 process this is how it reading former presidential counsel john w. dean iii has told senators and prosecute prosecutors disclosed aspects of the watergate cover-up with mr. nixon or in mr. nixon's presence on at least 35 occasions bet

the testimony was released by the ranking democrat on the senate judiciary committee this afternoon over of the committee's republican chairman. i want to bring in cnn's jim sciutto. glenn simpson, the co-founder of fusion gps, claimed in his testimony that steele told him that the fbi had similar intelligence as to what he was telling them from a, quote, internal trump campaign source. is that accurate? >> that's right. and that would be quite an explosive thing for the fbi to have someone on the inside, in effect a whistle-blower. here is the exact quote from the testimony. simpson testified before the senate that the fbi, quote, believed chris, this being chris steele's information might be credible because they had other intelligence that indicated the same thing and one of those pieces of intelligence was a human source from inside the trump organization. i should say that since that, this testimony of course was in august, since that glenn simpson, a source inside fusion has clarified this referrings to the information that the australian ambassador passed on to the fbi. you rememb

>> i had not heard about that and we've had some testimony in the judiciary committee that's public and then we have those transcripts that we'd like to release but the ones that i have seen are not related to this. >> how might the book "fire and fury "and the details of the decision to fire comey, the concoction of this fake reason why jared kushner and others had the meeting at trump tower, how might that impact the senate judiciary committee's investigation? >> i believe it's very important we continue this. you have to let director mueller do his job and these attempts to undermine it have been so concerning to my as a former prosecutor, everything from people calling on sessions to resign because of this to saying the special counsel got his documents illegally when in fact he had to come out and say that's not true and it makes me think we need to continue the judiciary committee investigations. the public has a right to know this. we have an election that is less than a year away and we have information we have to get out there about the coordination that was going on with russi

washington democratic strategist julian epstein who served as chief minority counsel to the house judiciary committee a former staff director of the government oversight and reform committee julian where they make of republican lawmakers another trump supporters of stepping up attacks on the f.b.i. questioning their credibility and objectivity and suggesting there is a conspiracy in the eye to oust the president. what do you think of that you know i think it's a campaign of deflection and mr action i mean i think that the republicans tried to do this on the steel dossier the famous dossier that the backgrounding on trump during the election and then it was discovered that it was a marco rubio a republican an issue investigation by this private organization and they tried to refer steele for a criminal prosecution the democrats put out the testimony of. fusion g.p.s. and that kind of dissipated quickly there is now this new question about whether f.b.i. agents were sending each other to f.b.i. agents that were involved in the investigation were and also having an affair were sending each other texts t

lou: and the how judiciary committee on what you said. why isn't there a turn there as well. vin nunes in my judgment is a hero. he is the only one in his committee to produce evidence of the -- first of all, it's excale president and any of the nonsense about collusion. but is also driving knowledge about what really was going on here and it's, i think at this stage it is a straightforward obvious attempt to subvert the president of the united states duly elected even before he got to the oval office. >> well, you're absolutely right. it's like the deep state got together to orchestrate a palace coup over our president. and chairman devin new nez has s been a fighter. without him we wouldn't know about the text messages when peter struck and lisa paige. in the house judiciary committee, i'm proud of our work. we had an interview of andrew mccabe under oath, sworn testimony and within hours of him giving that testimony he announced his retirement. i think one of the reasons may be the inconsistencies of his very testimony. we've got a series of investigations closing in on hil

the senate, judiciary committees are very important because those are public hearings and the publict a sense of what happened. we don't want anything that goes on in the senate interfere with what director mueller is doing. so we're very conscious of that and not letting that happen. >> senator amy klobuchar, thank you for joining us. >> thank you and go vikings. >> dimension she's from minnesota? >> coming up, an unprecedented announcement from the u.s. navy. we'll have that after this. >>> last thing before we go hi, i'm the internet! you know what's difficult? armless bowling. you got this, jimmy! you know what's easy? building your website with godaddy. pick a domain name. choose a design. you can build a website in under an hour. now that's a strike! get your domain today and get a free trial of gocentral. build a better website in under an hour. i love you. >>> last thing before we go tonight, the u.s. navy is taking the rare step of charging two of its commanders, five officers of all in negligent homicide involving the "u.s.s. fitzgerald" in june and "u.s.s. mccain" in augus

regularly denigrates the judiciary and individual judges and we have a senate minority leader and judiciary committee chair rushing their consideration of the president's nominee. right now there are more than 150 current and known future vacancies on the federal court which represents nearly 20% of the federal judiciary. this is by design after they took the step of holding the supreme court seat they also kept open more than 10 100 of tl work for vacancies and hope that they could confirm nominees they were confident in to fill their agenda and recently there've been proposals on calling on congress to dramatically expand the number so that this administration could kill more of them to reverse the judicial legacy of president obama. at the white house and senate majority have been interrupted to staff the courts and today the senate has confirmed 23 lifetime judicial appointments one as we know to the supreme court and 12 to the circuit court of appeals and by comparison in the first year in office the senate only confirmed 13 charges, three of them to the circuit court. this administration has be