i want to ask you about this. it says lynch threaten and never showed up and it's a picture of you smiling. >> they didn't really know it was that many blacks living in this area. once they figured out what was good they called that off. people was up on the houses they had shotguns and that's one thing about in this area, we watch out for each other, black, white, everybody. community work together, it's say. a good place to live i'd >> all right. before i go can i check out the old gym? >> oh yeah. >> let's check that out. >> played a lot of basketball, that was a big thank ying here. basketball game. >> it's a stage over here. >> stage there. bands, singers coming from all over the country. >> really? >> yeah. >> any famous people? >> james brown, cab cabaret toe. >> when you're the only black hang out for 50 miles and there's a black people meeting going on, well, black folks show up om nowhere. it's like we sent up the black signal. >> a lot of people don't realize a lot of plaque people had to do with coal mining. >> i sh

. >> theyey'll lynch you. you know? because they don't have too many trees. i don't know where they'll handing you from. >> i'm'm always eager to come here because this is my home. and then when i go back, i take with me a lot of guilt leaving these people behind. >> when are we going to get to the humane level? people should be incensed. not just the palestinians. we should fight arabs and jews to preserve that. >> my opinion is that both sides, people are tired, fatigued and brainwashed and they will not reeble in a way that they would march? the streets. people are saying i care about my four corners and my garden, and it's out of my control and i don't see this rebellion happening. >> clearly i'm the optimist of 2002 of us. in fact, i believe that rather than creating two separate states, one israeli and one palestinian, that we should have a one-state solution where everyone shares in the same land and has equal rights. i know i'm in the minority with this idea. still, the situation in the west bank and in israel is so complicated now that you have a scr

>> yeah. >> wow. >> i want to ask you about this. it says lynchthreatened but they never showed up and a picture of you smiling. >> they didn't really know it was that many blacks living in this area. once they figured out, they called that off. people was up on their houses. they had shotguns. that's one thing about in this area, we watch out for each other, black, white, everybody. community worked together. it's just a good place to live, i think. >> all right. before i go, can i check out the gym, the old gym? >> yeah. >> let's check that out. >> played a lot of basketball. that was the big thing here, basketball game. >> there's a stage over here. >> a stage there. >> bands, singles come in from all oefrt country here. >> oh, really? >> yeah. >> any famous people? >> james brown. >> james brown? >> cab callaway. >> yeah. >> one of them old coal miners. >> when you're the only black hangout for 50 miles and there's a black people meeting going on, well, black folks just show up out of nowhere. it's like we sent up the black signal. >> so many

you cannot look at this stuff in isolation, chris. the lynch thing is goo gofy, bu not significant. ary investigations and full investigations. anybody who said yesterday, you got to be kidding me. if we are spending time on one sentence from the former attorney general, it is goofy, but not worth our time. >> i did say everything that comey said about the president yesterday. i did give you the full context. i take your high text in stride. mike rogers, what do you say to your republicans and democrats, who saliy lynch is the obstruction. everything that comey said doesn't impress me? what do you say? >> if you are looking at this as a legal matter, i agree with phil mudd. the fact the attorney general wanted to change the terminology, but not interfere with the investigation. i think it is inappropriate. i don't believe it rose to any level of criminal activity. this is when you throw criminal action around on significant public act ors, you better be right. >> even if the democrats, even if they somehow magically wound up in a situation where they were trying to impeach the presid

you. merrill lynch recruited you.e kamensky said you were so good as a consultant, come in and actually do the job here. and what was your job at merrill lynch? james: first job was to run marketing, then it was to run the sales organization for the brokerage business. david: you were doing that, and then somebody calls you from morgan stanley and says, you are doing a great job at merrill lynch, why don't you get an even better job and come over here? is that how it happened? james: well, they had a business that needed fixing, and i had some expertise in that business. actually it was a very struggling business at the time. it was the old wealth management business. john mack called me when he got recruited back to morgan stanley in 2005, i think, and asked me to be part of the team, which i thought was a very exciting challenge, so i did that. david: so when you came over to run the wealth management business, did you ever think you would be the ceo of morgan stanley? james: i did not. i told john actually when he

that but it is what it looks like to me. >> let's get back to the former attorney general loretta lynch. yout she operated independently and loyal to the letter of the law or do you believe that mrs. lynch showed deference to president obama? >> i absolutely do not believe that mrs. lynch operated in different to the line agreement she operated in very strong clear political deference to mr. obama. i see that in this clarity. >> congressman frank, that is the way you see it. unfortunately we do not have mrs. lynch or to speak for herself or someone representing her. we will have to let your words stand at this time. we appreciate talking to you. >> we hope you will have her read the statute and its plan herself. >> thank you, sir. >> thank you. >> meanwhile tens of thousands of people are flooding the streets. here in new york city right now the annual puerto rican day parade. the celebration you see there comes a made a backlash against the parade organizers. and plans on a convicted terrorist. we will have a live report from the parade and controversy, next. y 3-month old business... plus.

the clinton email investigation and even now, perhaps, but you clearly were troubled by the conduct of the sitting attorney general, loretta lynch, when it came to the clinton email investigation. you mentioned the characterization that you'd been asked to accept that this is a matter and not a criminal investigation, which you said it was. there was the matter of president clinton's meeting on the tarmac with the his wife was a subject to a criminal investigation, and you suggested that perhaps there are other matters that you may be able to share with us later on in a classified setting, but it seems to me that you clearly believe that loretta lynch, the attorney general, had an appearance of a conflict of interest on the clinton email investigation. is that correct? >> i think that's fair. i didn't believe she could credibly decline that investigation, at least not without grievous damage to the

you. the loretta lynch story is a big deal. don't understand why the networks are refusing to cover it? >> hey, trish, yes you do, but you're too decent to admit it. look, this is, i think donald trump's greatest achievement, trish, he outed the media for the dishonest leftists they are. abc, cbs, nbc, cnn, they are obsessed, i mean obsessed with russia, trump, collusion, 24/7, it is actually hurting them. here we have an example, a year ago, you nailed it, a year ago yesterday, you talk about potential obstruction, bill clinton meets on the tarmac with loretta lynch with the pure design to try to pressure loretta lynch to drop the investigation into his wife and not, not anybody in the media is talking about it. this is what disgusts trump supporters. trish: there now is an investigation into loretta lynch. the point is the media doesn't want to talk about that because they only want to about these so-called investigations which there aren't really investigations but all this collusion, innuendo, between donald trump's campaign

loretta lynch said you can announce that but you must use the term matter. when he learned about the meeting between loretta lynch and bill clinton, that's what tipped him to give that public explanation of why there were no charges. judge napolitano: the why no charges still sticks in people's craw. he can say the corn general conflict herself. there isn't enough evidence to indict and if there is, there isn't enough evidence to con sixth. but for him to say here is the evidence of her guilt and there is a mountain of it, that's what caused people to scratch their heads. f.b.i. agents saying to him, hey, director, are you now the director of the federal bureau of matters rather than the federal bureau of investigation? he lost his cool. it's a criminal investigation, that's what we do. that was before the meeting on the tarmac. but she has a lot of problems and a lot of answering to do. jeff sessions -- necessary's going to recuse himself from that -- his deputy rod rosenstein should be opening up a formal investigation on loretta lynch on the jim comey well

is much question in the mind of many that the leftovers of the obama administration, the loretta lynch you met with former president bill clinton and directed again admittedly on the part of james comey to alter his language as well as the direction of his so-called investigation which became a matter on hillary clinton to support her campaign. we will see if that gets investigated. bill, thanks for being with us. appate it. good news out of travis air we just received word from fairfield, california, the base spokesperson said the lockdown has been lifted. the reports of shots fired turns out to be a false alarm. the lockdown at travis air force base has been lifted. up next late-breaking news that the special counsel witch hunt is apparently targeting the president. but that is based on reports by "the washington post" based on unidentified sources. we'll have more for you. robert mueller reportedly investigating the commander-in-chief for obstruction of justice. i'll be talking with former federal judge michael mukasey. we'll be right back with that and much more. will you be ready when

is much question in the mind of many that the leftovers of the obama administration, the loretta lynch you met with former president bill clinton and directed again admittedly on the part of james comey to alter his language as well as the direction of his so-called investigation which became a matter on hillary clinton to support her campaign. we will see if that gets investigated. bill, thanks for being with us. we appreciate it. good news out of travis air force base. we just received word from fairfield, california, the base spokesperson said the lockdown has been lifted. the reports of shots fired turns out to be a false alarm. the lockdown at travis air force base has been lifted. up next late-breaking news that the special counsel witch hunt is apparently targeting the president. but that is based on reports by "the washington post" based on unidentified sources. we'll have more for you. robert mueller reportedly investigating the commander-in-chief for obstruction of justice. i'll be talking with former federal judge michael mukasey. we'll be right back with that so tell us your bi

. >> did you record conversations and memos with attorney general lynch or another senior member of the obama department of justice. >> no, not that i recall. >> in your statement for the record you site nine private conversations with the president, three meetings and four phone calls not discussed in your statement for the record. what happened to those phone calls? >> the president called me i believe shortly before he was inaugurated as a follow-up to conversation on january the 6th. he just wanted to reiterate his rejection of the allegation and talk about he thought about it more and why he thought it wasn't true, that the verified -- unverified and salacious parts and he asked me again hope you're going to stay, you're doing a great job and i told him i intended to. there was another phone call that i mentioned, i think was -- could have the date wrong -- march the 1st as i was about to get on the helicopter. there was a secure call we had about an operational matter not related to any of this about something the fbi was working on, he wanted to make sure i understood how importa

do you think lucy loretto lynch testified can there be charges brought against her? dianne feinstein is calling for an investigation into the red at lunch. the biggest bombshell from the comey testimony. you have loretto lynch using her powerful government position to campaign for hillary clinton. the claims they been so worried about russians interfering in our election get their own department of justice and attorney general by protect dean hillary clinton. this is a disgrace that should outrage every american and yet those on the left continue to defend her. nancy pelosi saying it no big deal about the rather lynch did this. can you imagine if the tables were turned and this were reversed? imagine if jeff sessions, can you imagine the headlines coming out? cheryl: the difficult it would loretto lynch is how do you prove what happened. you have the tarmac grinning with bill clinton, but they said it was a private conversation. >> totally different. if the judiciary committee gets into the m.a. should be testified, you have to look for evidence of obstruction of jus

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comey testified then attorney general general lynch asked then fbi director to call it a matter not an investigation as a result youeard senator graham saying miss lynch should testify before senate judiciary committee. should she? has the attorney general's position become politically compromised? >> you know, i -- i think it would behoove the nation to have miss lynch a private citizen testify in public i think everybody and this point involved, in these kinds of charges needs to lay out the instead of relying on reporting he said she said allegations i think we need each major players in past two years of drama to kind of lay out facts tell us their side of the story so american people can make an independent judgment. now there is not as far as i know an open investigation into hillary clinton's e-mails therefore loretta lynch has no personal vulnerability or let me jeopardy by testifying unlike attorney general sessions may really have a problem if it is perceived that he lied to the senate about his contacts with you rurn you rurngs standards different let's just hear from players stop pussy footing around sa

a liar, always brings up lynching, you know. riots during the obama administration were a regular thing. antifa, ly democratic college adults, children, going out and disrespecting american society, fed up.why everybody is host: okay. rick, a republican in florida. democrat, rapids, good morning. caller: good morning. call. you for taking my yes, i'm calling in regard to his conquer and divide mentality. the narrative seems to be pitting americans against due to race, sexual preference and that really ddressing the issue of economics and nobody wants to pay taxes at the top level to life better for everyone. when you talk about education or mean, i haven't seen jobs coming back, other than jobs and seems to me a lot of jobs are being lost. when it comes to what has happened, a terrible, tragic hing, you have to look to the white house. i mean, this man is calling and getting es people fired up and angry and many guns, i that mean, this is going to be a problem that is going to go on very, very long time, because there are so man

lynch. thank you for coming in. good morning.elief, something that germany has been adamant that greece must repay all of its debts in full but the imf said we must have some debt relief because the act is unsustainable. it's looking like greece make its debt relief in some form. they have beenin debt relief in some form. they have been in this chicken game for the last nine months. i think the agreement is a compromise which is the best outcome given all the constraints but it isn't the final solution. the reason of broad understanding that debt relief could be acquired at its another kick off the can down the road. sir you won't think we will see an agreement for a chunk of debt to be written off, you think it is more extending repayments? this is exactly what they are discussing. depending on they are discussing. depending on the fiscal performance and economic growth, they have to agree to maturity extension to allow greece to eventually repay the debt. we are talking about an extension of between 0— 15 years, this is the dis

since we will stay in the past here for a moment, moving to the present, but you would have former attorney general loretta lynch come before the committee. >> absolutely. >> dickerson: to answer these questions. >> absolutely, and sessions too. >> and, you know, i think it is inappropriate for the president to testify publicly, but if you are so obsessed, and i know you are frustrated, he doesn't believe he did anything wrong with the russians and i tend to believe him. he can't collude with his own government why do you think he is colluding with the russians, so there is a part of this that genuinely frustrates the president but mr. president let's not make a circus out of your presidency, if you want to come to the judicial i didn't committee and testify under oath we will put comey by you and the highest rated tv show in the world but bad for the president. >> dickerson: the colonel, no not the cool lucian question but the -- >> mere is what i think. i think the president believes if we pursue how russia interfered consider the election, we are suggesting he did not win fairly, i see no evidence of a presid

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then i'm thinking of the time he was expressing concern about bill clinton meeting with loretta lynch, youat a tarmac at that airport. i'm thinking, well, that's a big deal and yet very little, if any, coverage on it. what do you make of that? >> i'm 100% with you. i think the idea that an attorney general of any stripe would suggest not using a word like investigation and using a word like matter because it was somehow less pejorative, potentially, is a real problem. there was also this discussion that maybe she wanted to use the word matter because that's what the campaign used. that's just speculation. it's not good, it's not appropriate. i don't know that it rises to the level of criminality. but it'sing problematic, and i don't think that any democrat should be defending it. neil: matt, obviously, the president went back on offense or tried to this week talking of infrastructure, very little tweeting going on this week, and an economic agenda he thinks is sound. separately, a congressional committee moving fast to overturn dodd-frank, the financial law. so they're trying to get back t

lynch story. fill us in, adam. reporter: right. i will read to you that the letter that the judiciary committee sent to loretta lynch. detailing what you talked about. did she at the same time to stifle the investigation of the clinton campaign and email scandal that erupted. first part of the letter this say specifically, the fbi is reported to obtained an. mail, memo, written by a democratic operative who expressed confidence miss lynch would keep the clinton investigation from going too far. it goes on to talk about james comey, former fbi director's testimony in congress, talking about matters he could not discuss but when we learned that loretta lynch had told him to refer to this as a matter, the already then goes on to get specific these contacts between lynch and the dnc and the clinton campaign. i am going to read to you what it says. more specifically the russian intelligence document reportedly quote, referred to an email supposedly written about it then chair of the democratic national committee, representative shults debbie wasserman sch

. >> did you record conversations and memos with attorney general lynch or another senior member of the obama department of justice. >> no, not that i recall. >> in your statement for the record you site nine private conversations with the president, three meetings and four phone calls not discussed in your statement for the record. what happened to those phone calls? >> the president called me i believe shortly before he was inaugurated as a follow-up to our conversation, private conversation on january the 6th. he just wanted to reiterate his rejection of the allegation and talk about he thought about it more and why he thought it wasn't true, that the verified -- unverified and salacious parts and he asked me again hope you're going to stay, you're doing a great job and i told him i intended to. there was another phone call that i mentioned, i think was -- could have the date wrong -- march the 1st as i was about to get on the helicopter. there was a secure call we had about an operational matter not related to any of this about something the fbi was working on, he wanted to make sur

charles: it could open up the door to beyond loretta lynch, to you know who made the request for somef the unmasking and helped to leak it. can this be that one opening? a lot of people want to understand what is going on. we lost confidence in our intelligence community. >> right, and no one is satisfied with the course of this investigation, so jim comey. the fact it was impression of it, he shared that with congress makes it imperative that congress investigate this. otherwise have you a chief law enforce am officer in the country, whose impartiality is brought into question that opens up the other issues. charles: real quick on draining the swamp judiciary version. 58 representatives have called for ruth ginsberg to recuse herself. >> 28 u.s. c 445, say when a judge's imparrialty is called into question, they need to recuse themselve. if this was a lower judge they would have to. supreme court justices get to decide for themselves whether they recuse themselves, there is no higher court to review it. she should recuse herself because of all of her public statements involving donal

you would not be -- of course you'll throw her under the bus now with loretta lynch. they're gone. resident -- >> no, no. principles. >> oh, principles -- >> i don't like -- >> they're terrible. >> it's principles. >> thank you, congressman. we're going to talk more about -- >>> welcome back to "squawk box" everybody. let's take a look at shares of snap this morning. citi downgrading the parent company to buy from neutral. among the reasons they're saying that the pace of growth and monetization may not be as fast as they had thought because in part slower than expected rollouts of new channels for platforms. that stock is off by just over 1.8%. >>> rico has released a 2013 letter that's getting a lot of play. a lot of people sending it around to everybody this morning. if you haven't gotten it, recode, i'm going to tell you about it. it's probably not work safe for some of the things i'm about to say. if you've got kids around. here we go. coming from unceo travis colinic sent to employees advising them on party rules. the e-mail getting attention because two law firms are investig

he'sologist brought up hillary clinton and loretta lynch. you cover the white house right now.you getting the sense from people close to the administration, or surrogates like jeffrey here, that there is an effort to draw focus away from the matter at hand here, a specific focus? >> not to that extent of let's go look at the clinton foundation and the russians and hillary clinton and the russians. hitting hillary clinton and hitting barack obama is always going to be fun for republicans and it's always going to be a winner with some of their base. this is so much bigger than that. those normal talking points aren't going to work. hillary clinton is not running for anything right now. obama is out of office. while those talking points are good standbys. they are more focused on painting comey as a disgruntled ex-employee rather than going after hillary clinton. >> all right, guys, thank you. carl, i'm -- we did run out of time here. >> that's okay. >> i'm so sorry. >> carl, i really appreciate it. thanks so much, everyone. this is the best segway ever. they chat about bourdain's

you might even have said this is wrong, i can't do this. like that time when loretta lynch asked to you lie to the country and not say hillary was under investigation and instead use the parallel language the clintons did? you did so and you were dishon yeast with the american people. even though you knew loretta lynch was violating justice department ethics by meeting the husband of the target of a longstanding investigation. you weren't along with calling it a matter and not an investigation. but quote it wasn't a hill dying on. man, are you dramatic. how many times were you pressures to do things during the obama administration that were not right? why not report this. why not leak? why nod ask for a special counsel for her. truth? you are a political operative, you always have been. one that's addicted to drama and center stage. but like the main character in all great tragedies your downfall is the consequence of a tragic fall, a major weakness. your hubris. that's my open. joining me now, kellyanne conway. >>y first impression is i'm pleased to be on your good side an

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sandra: another question you brought up lorreta lynch. youppen with lorreta lynch? do you have anything on the cover of the "new york times" after what we learned this week? >> this is amazing. lorreta lynch, jim comey just testified under oath that his boss the attorney general of the united states specifically instructed him not to talk about an ongoing active criminal investigation into the hillary clinton campaign and call it an investigation but to call it a matter. that directly lines up with the talking points that the clinton campaign was using for political reasons to discuss it as a matter. number one it, goes to show how weak jim comey was as fbi director and further tells us why he should have been fired. but, number two, there is clearly something wrong here where the attorney general is directing the fbi director to not talk about something that he should be talking about and using specific language. there needs to be an investigation of when lorreta lynch had that conversation. was it directly after the tarmac with bill clinton

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ha and were you aware ms. lynch counsel and had refused? >> yes, from, i think, congress -- members of doing had repeatedly asked, yes, sir. >> yours truly did on multiple occasions. and that heightened your concerns about the appearance of a conflict of interest with the department of justice which caused you to make what you have described as an incredibly painful decision to basically take the matter up yourself and led to that july press conference? >> yes, sir. after former president clinton met on the plane with the attorney general, i considered whether i should call for the appointment of a special counsel and decided that that would be an unfair thing to do because i knew there was no case there. we had investigated very, very thoroughly. i know this is a subject of passionate disagreement, but i knew there was no case there, and calling for the appointment of special counsel would be brutally unfair because it send the message, ah-ha, there's something here. that's my judgment. >> if the special counsel had been appointed, they co

the clinton email investigation and even now, perhaps, but you clearly were troubled by the conduct of the sitting attorney general, loretta lynch, when it came to the clinton email investigation. you mentioned the characterization that you'd been asked to accept that this is a matter and not a criminal investigation, which you said it was. there was the matter of president clinton's meeting on the tarmac with the sitting attorney general at a time when his wife was a subject to a criminal investigation, and you suggested that perhaps there are other matters that you may be able to share with us later on in a classified setting, but it seems to me that you clearly believe that loretta lynch, the attorney general, had an appearance of a conflict of interest on the clinton email investigation. is that correct? >> i think that's fair. i didn't believe she could credibly decline that investigation, at least not without grievous damage to the department of justice and to the f.b.i. >> and under department of justice and f.b.i. norms, wouldn't it have been appropriate for the attorney general or if she had recused herself, which she d

you look at loretta lynch, and you say absolutely there is no there there. you look at trump and say there is no there there. but, at least comey actually said that loretta lynch pressured him to use campaign language to help hillary win. he's actually saying that that happened, and the only reason it is being ignored -- coat >> kimberly: and is proof of the! >> juan: that is not proof. i'm just saying, it's not just a meeting between the two of them, but a group of people come together and she says the fbi doesn't disclose that we are doing an investigation or not doing an investigation. >> kimberly: how do you explain snakes on a plane? how do you explain the whole thing teaming on a plane? bill clinton's involvement. >> greg: i'm saying snake on a plane for him. there was only one snake on that plane. >> kimberly: i beg to differ. before she begs to differ. >> kimberly: never mind. >> greg: i think were saying the same thing. >> kimberly: okay, the point is, there are actual statements to back this up. the problem is that when you look at this, and i want

tarmac, and what you said with a uranian deal, know what happens with the clinton foundation if they are going to continue. >> trish: there is no media coverage, we saw that about loretta lynchy zero coverage on the networks of that investigation happening. you compare that to the coverage of the russia collusion, it is night and day, people will not be looking at that nearly as much. >> bill: is there still a clinton foundation? when was the last grant? >> meghan: they are certainly still tweeting. >> bill: don't tell them. to tell nancy, she is in charge. she should stay in charge. >> meghan: president trump slamming democrats over their resistive strategy, calling them obstructionists, democrats doubling down on the opposition to the president's agenda despite recent election losses. if two party leaders need to change course and head of the midterm, we debate next. ♪ hi i'm joan lunden. today's senior living communities have never been better, with amazing amenities like movie theaters, exercise rooms and swimming pools, public cafes, bars and bistros even pet care services. and there's never been an easier way to get great advice. a place for mom is a free service that

investigation with russia and i want to ask what is a greater offense, thank i hope you can get past this or loretta lynch the matter, not an investigation. >> there is no offense for saying i hope you can get beyond, that is not an offense, the president has the power to direct this is over, i am pardoning this come in the end, obama legally obstructed justice over and over, there is a crime against attorney general to instruct fbi director to live. no offense by donald trump and a crime to instruct an fbi director to live. that is where the offense lies with the former attorney general. >> you question how comey really truly felt, how it made him feel uneasy at the time why did he wait until after he was fired. >> if others traveled like there had been obstruction of justice, they conspire to violate the law by together holding a setback so they could blackmail him later. obviously they didn't think there was obstruction after reading a memo and colluding with comey. where they try to smear the president later. rob: thank you for coming on. heather: come back tomorrow. eve. that's why i have the spark c

running for president of the united states, who absolutely wasn't under investigation, and you have loretta lyncho call it a matter. hopping on a plane with bill clinton. none of this looks good. when you think of what the allegations are against president trump, you compare it to what the allegations are against loretta lynch, if the loretta lynch stuff is not good. i'm a republican rhino, i want that story out there. i want them to go after the hypocrisy. if they don't know exist, she was under investigation. >> harris: when he puts together his war room, battles with the g.o.p. there? you need all hands on deck. you need a section that is doing that in a section over here that is beating the drums on what they're doing well. i am wondering, it does the g.o.p. members have enough cohesion at this point to help the president out? to help themselves to move forward towards a mentor? >> chris: to a broad belief in washington is by the time the investigation is on, there will be some damage to the president as he reported late described. james comey is a satellite. are there any satellites that did

you think that is exactly what loretta lynch was? political? democrats wanted to be taken seriously, if the democrats wanted to start winning elections again, they would come to face with this matter. they would be calling for the investigation of loretta lynch, trish. this is the thing though. when you look at things like benghazi, that just didn't even matter to democrats. we look at even the corruption going all the way back to bill clinton's administration. the man was impeached crying out loud. what were the ramifications within the democrat party? this is why they are losing voters hand over fist because they don't take, they don't police their own. if there anything, anything on donald trump, the republican was hold him accountable for that, the democrat know it, but democrats will not hold loretta lynch accountable or this or the democrats. trish: maybe scott bolden will. scott, did loretta lynch do something wrong? >> with a benign comment, let's callt a matter, t an investigatio trish: let me get back to that meeting on the tarmac tho