and i want -- melon, and i want to read a quote of lou hoover's, mrs. hoover's -- because president coolidge, who i'll be representing for the minutes -- [laughter] was a much more silent type and was a little unnerved when hoover would come around and show how effective and knowledgeable and modern and good at business and popular and all he was. and it was clear that hoover wasn't going to stop at commerce, right? and, well, what about coolidge? he only was elect his first time -- elected his first time, and was he going to have two terms, or was hoover going to take -- so two men of very different types. and mrs. hoover, and i've never seen this before, you undug this, heard rumors that hoover was pushing coolidge, the commerce secretary was pushing the president a little too much, and she said daddy is playing ball in a team, she wrote in a letter, in a family letter. and whether anyone persuaded him to run for the presidency or not, he certainly would not do it directly or indirectly while calvin coolidge was still apparently thinking of it for, of

lou: any time they say inspector general it means you won't get a straight answer to your question. ed: we spent many years trying to rebuild the fbi after j. edgar hoover fbi and the justice department is great. but the truth of the matter is the leadership of the fbi and the a.g., they are rancid with corruption. ed: certainly bad judgment and corruption is a good term to use. lou: what are we going to do? ed: if you wait for the inspector general it will two years from now or mueller will be at least a year. or the attorney general to fire them. he's the boss of that agency. lou: he's been absent. ed: since inauguration day. let's turn to tonight. these tax cuts. how important do you have think they are for the president, for the republican party, their chances in winning the 2018 elections and consolidating their control of both houses and the white house? >> i think it's very, very important it's a monumental under taking. they did the with severe opposition on the other side. it will benefit people. people will see it quickly. by the time we get to november, i think republicans need to talk about this every day and argue, democrats didn't want it.

lou: it should be demanded. we went through the period of jedgar hoover committed crimes and they decided to clean it up. it is not working. it is it a partisan operation and the american publicmentes the law enforcement to create criminals and not create crimes. everyone seems to say president trump is being attacked on partisan grounds and they are political hack and operatives who are lying and creating apparently with the gps and fusion gps smear machine dossier attacking the republican nominee last year, and using it then, that same dossier apparent leap and as congressman jordan points out is a foundation to create both a special counsel, and to discredit people in the trump campaign. >> that is outrageous and to a certain extent, we need a special prosecutor to go look at it and the attorney general to act like an attorney general and fully investigate this. this is his agency and under his jurisdiction. >> lou: i know that is your thought. but we have 16 intelligence agencies. not one of them apparently knew enough or had resources sufficient to forestall the intervention of the russians in our e