you have mark meadows, jim jordan who sits on oversight committee, they have outstanding document requests, there are still hundreds if not thousands and thousands of important pages that they have not received. paul: yeah, i think if the president really does want this public to understand, he will have to declassify the documents or a big chunk of them and get them out. all right, still ahead as both sides gear up for contentious supreme court fight the political left attacking one group in particular for the president's election of kavanaugh. what is the federalist society and what does it try to do, we will talk with one of the ♪

off in less than two hours in moscow france in croatia do battle for football's biggest prize mark meadows from to tell you sport is here in studio with me and we're also joined by our moscow correspondent emily sure when from the russian capital i'm going to start with you what's the mood like in moscow with the game fast approaching. well i'm here outside of luzhniki stadium abbey and you might be able to see that droves and droves of fans are arriving behind me the mood is really great the presidents of both croatia and france have already arrived for the game as well and you might be able to see that the croatian side is kind of showing its colors a little bit more i'd say the croatian president. barchi tower of it as well has come arrived in jersey the croatian team jersey and she also addressed russian fans in russian in a facebook video today calling for them to support the croatian team now i say from the people that i've spoken to here in russia the russian fans are pretty divided when it comes to their support many of them are still kind of proudly sporting the russian flag paint

mark meadows from the values for is here in studio with me and we're also joined by correspondent barbara moore in the russian capital barbara it's good to see you what's the mood like in moscow with the game fast approaching. while excitement is very high of course there right before kickoff it looks very promising from what i've seen already in the meter on the way here and also around the stadium so many fans who came i would say red and white is definitely the dominant picture in the dominant colors here but you might also spot some let in american fans still in from mexico from brazil and of course friends fans all along i think a craze or made a very interesting move that trying to get all these new true fans behind their side and this is interesting because we have we still have so many new fans here all the eleven americans who were hoping to have their own team here and the final is now created saying come on join the underdog and you can be part of us part of our huge celebration i think that's a very clever move they made here some lobbying going on in moscow mark will come to

today jim jordan and some other guy -- >> mark meadows. >> stephen: of course, mark meadows, fascinating meadows and -- >> from your neck of the woods. >> stephen: where? carolina,. >> stephen: which one? one of 'em. ( laughter ) >> stephen: where are you from? >> i'm from philadelphia. >> stephen: philadelphia? he's from philadelphia, pittsburgh, it's one of 'em! ( laughter ) he's from north carolina? >> it originally was one giant carolina, wasn't it? >> stephen: you shut up. ( laughter ) i can't even remember what i was going to ask you now, i'm so angry. >> about impeaching rosenstein. >> stephen: right, rosenstein who's the deputy attorney general and the guy who can, you know, fire mueller, and the guy who's kind of defending mueller right now and not giving congress documents they've asked for that would kind of give away the investigation, really because they would probably just give it to the trump administration, just speaking two guys. >> just us. >> stephen: cameras are off. ( laughter ) they introduce articles of impeachment tonight. >> yeah. >> stephen: is there any rationa

congressman mark meadows and jim jordan have just filed, wait for it, articles of impeachment against the man tasked with overseeing the mueller probe. they will be here exclusively to dallas why in just a bit. raymond arroyo will be here to expose the literal and figurative stars broken by a pc gone totally mad. a special hollywood edition of our "seen and unseen segment is ahead. we have major stories to report about i.c.e. and the threat from china. first, trump wins while the resistance spins. that's the focus of tonight's angle. to listen to the media, you would think that these are the biggest stories in america. >> as the fallout from donald trump's disastrous summit from vladimir putin continues, so does the mueller investigation into possible collusion. >> there seems to be a system in place with the trump organization for things that needed to be fixed like stormy daniels. >> the conversation with donald trump that michael cohen secretly recorded is officially no longer a secret. >> the big story here is the fact you now have michael: , he has flipped on donald trump. >> lau

mark meadows forcing a vote before congress breaks.ormer congressman and author of the new book the deep state, jason chaffetz joins us live. we will get to the book in a minute. we want to start with this contempt of congress, impeaching rod rosenstein. does this really happen? >> the timeline is so short, only tween 9 full days of congress before the actual election, 19 days -- let's remember why rod rosenstein is so important, he accused himself of his investigation, should not have happened from a lot of experts because this is the counterintelligence operation, not a common investigation of the attorney general should never recuse himself but the focal point of the rob: 17 -- the fisa document, mark meadows make the point he is doing an investigation with the signature line of rod rosenstein, how could he be leading this investigation? rob: what exactly led to the beginning of the russia probe against the president? they think some dirty stuff with them down that path. >> the focal point is the dossier. the clinton campaign. rob:

mark meadows thank you very much mark. to some tennis news now in defending men's champion roger federer has yet to drop a set at wimbledon he breezed into the quarter finals defeating france as a rino it is a different story the women's draw however with the top seeds continuing to fall that means germany's angela cabot the eleventh a seed is now the highest ranked female player left in the competition she beat belinda bench in straight sets the exodus of top seeds plays right into serena williams hands she is through to the last eight after thrashing of genya. williams is a seven time champion at wimbledon she only returned to action in march after giving birth to her first child. now the trade war has car makers starting their engines monica you're more than that was certainly a specific u.s. car maker there sunidhi u.s. auto manufacturer tesla is the first to hike prices in the world's largest car market and that is china analysts say are likely to take the same road in response to higher tariffs chinese motorists will

mark meadows thank you very much mark. and to some tennis news now defending men's champion roger federer has yet to drop a set at wimbledon he breezed into the quarter finals defeating france as i know it is a different story in the woman's draw however with the top seeds continuing to fall now that means germany's angela khabar the love of the seed is now behind ranked female player left in the competition as she beat belinda bench in straight sets that the exodus of top seeds plays into serena williams as hands she's through the last eight after a thrashing again yet we're deena williams is a seven time champion but only return to action in march after giving birth to her first child time for business news now and is the european union ready to expand again monica that's a big question and that's what people were discussing yesterday and actually still today in london sumi european union representatives have been meeting with foreign ministers of six balkan states in london to discuss their prospects of joining the e.u.

now the first world cup semifinal kicks off this evening we have mark meadows from sports with us hi mark so this is france and belgium and france are the slight favorites going and yes you'd have to say so given they've won the world cup before in one thousand nine hundred belgium and never won it now of course there's no players left from one thousand nine hundred eight but there is the coach who was the captain that year he's now the coach so he can impart a lot of experience and knowledge and you have to say probably griezmann france have the player of the last two years and will football maybe even more so than messi dare i say it so yeah france favorites. the captain of france and the goalkeeper is a little bit worried by belgium let's take a little as. i think belgium of the most complete team in all possible aspects of the game at this tournament they know how to defend their hearts were tack to counter-attack very strong in the air strong in everything. they have everything they need to be a great team and they are a great team. it's a fantastic generation and to beat them we

i hereby appoint the honorable mark meadows to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, paul d. ryan, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: the prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, the reverend peter's niewski, st. catholic church wearksdz. the chaplain: america is blessed. the founders of our country believed it was by your ever provident hands that your country was born and today we believe that it is only by your grace and favor that this country will endure. we beseech your blessing upon this house of representatives who at their best assemble to propose and to debate and to legislate the laws that will keep our country secure, thriving, and just, always cooperating with your divine spirit. we rely on that spirit today, lord, and thank you for your hearing and for your mercy. bless each house member, their families, and their staffs that they may know your strength and encouragement and always a piece of the kingdom where you reign today and forever. amen. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to section 2-a of house resolutio

"politico" reports today house freedom caucus chairman mark meadows had the impeachment document on thent that rosenstein spoke to reporters and tv cameras friday. gop lawmakers have been plotting to remove rosenstein for weeks, accusing them of slow making their probe of fbi acts they have accused of bias against president donald trump. now, do i really have to explain to mark meadows why he's never going to be able to impeach rod rosenstein? should i explain it to him? or should i just let him keep going in his typical trump extremist way? let him just publically and miserably fail in his mad crusade? i'd love to see them try to run an impeachment hearing on rod rosenstein. so, i don't know, maybe i shouldn't tell them how hopeless the whole madness is. i will decide during the commercial break whether to teach mark meadows a lesson about impeachment votes. (♪) i'm a four-year-old ring bearer with a bad habit of swallowing stuff. still won't eat my broccoli, though. and if you don't have the right overage, you could be paying for that pricey love band yourself. so get an allstate agen

be in and why the hesitation to testify today, north carolina congressman, freedom caucus chair mark meadows. noted attorney alan dershowitz, author of the new book "the case against impeaching trump." congressman meadows, reading her lawyer's comments that the only reason she didn't testify today was because apparently they were not provided the requisite documents to have adequate preparation for the scope and breadth of the questions she will be asked. your response. >> i was willing to give her the benefit of the doubt this morning until i called doj. there's three problems with that. one, she's had seven months to prepare. because we started initially asking her to come in in december of 2017. secondly, she wasn't even going to be prepared. fbi reached out to her council to say by the way, you may want to come in and review some of these documents. the third thing is actually she reviewed documents yesterday at 3:45, reviewed most of the documents. the only thing she didn't review was top-secret documents but we didn't anticipate any questions arising from that anyway. the attorney is d

. >>> house freedom caucus mark meadows says they plan to give page two options. appear for a closed-door interview or testify alongside strzok today. no confirmation if she will take up the offer. the president tweeting about this at 2:00 a.m. eastern time on the way to the nato meeting. he asked when attorney general jeff sessions would get involved. >>> breaking overnight. thousands of asylum seekers may be turned away at the southern border because of a new trump administration policy. border officers who evaluate asylum applications have the guidance from the trump administration. it orders them to reject claims based on gang and domestic violence fears. officers are allowed to reject claims if they cross the border legally if they have a fear of persecution. >> the administration says they expect reunifications to being completed this morning. that excludes the 27 parents ineligib ineligible because of criminal backgrounds. the reunion appears imminent for the girl in this audio. >> crying for her aunt. the recording is a big part of events that forced the p

freedom caucus members mark meadows and jim jordan were leading the charge and they claimed they had enough of rosenstein's stall tactics. here is congressman jordan on the ingraham angle. >> when is the last time you saw the fbi take a disproven document with no credibility and take it to the court and not tell the court the guy who wrote it had been leaking information to the press and the last one rosenstein signed. kennedy: there is no question rosenstein is stonewalling. this morning house speaker wall ryan said that well he wants the documents on the scandal. and impeaching rosenstein is not the answer. >> it's appropriate to conduct oversight on the executive branch. do i support impeachment of rod rosenstein? no, i do not. kennedy: mark meadows says he'll give the department of justice one last chance to produce these documents or else. joining me now, attorney and author of the case against impeaching trump, alan dershowitz is back on the show. >> this is one of the most of foolish republican ploys i have ever seen. trying to impeach rosenstein without alleging he committed

i hereby appoint the honorable mark meadows to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, paul d. ryan, speaker of the house of representatives.

many complaints, gop lawmakers including freedom caucus representative mark meadows, congressman jimn and rhonda mcdaniels say their handles were hidden for months when users searched for them. mcdaniels demanding answers by calling out twitter for not responding to a letter she wrote with donald trump's campaign manager over the bias, twitter told foxnews the problem is the result of algorithmic glitch in the search function and now it appears they have corrected the problem. some say it is no surprise the search bar changes are not known to have impacted any democrats. >> i don't think there's any doubt big tech companies lean left. this is part of twitter's plan to encourage healthy conversation on this, twitter gets to decide what is healthy. >> frustrating experience, people want to control the discourse in regular media and social media and leads to frustration among the average population. >> sources telling fox news twitter's ceo is set to testify before the intelligence committee in september. rob: we will discuss this and show you graphics, how it looks when they do shadow

congressman mark meadows says rosenstein is off the deal for trump russia probe documents with the doj lawmakers back from capitol hill september 4th, there will be 19 legislative days before the midterm election. ohio congressman jim jordan announces his bid for speaker of the house releasing a statement saying donald trump is taking bold action on behalf of the american people, congress has not held up its end of the deal but we can change that. jordan received support from his colleagues in the house freedom caucus and conservative groups, paul ryan is not seeking reelection in november. congressman jordan will join "fox and friends" for his first interview since that announcement. >> donald trump set to meet on election security today as the meeting shows the us military be separate cybersecurity. the nsa director issued a stark warning thing china and russia are weapon icing information, he calls in an attempt to control disinformation. >> we are just hours from a big gdp report and the president is feeling optimistic. >> i don't know what they are. if i used these numbers during

. >> that was house caucus chairman mark meadows who's leading the efforts to impeach deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. rosenstein who oversees the mueller investigation who has under fire by house conservatives who accuse him of stonewalling on their requests for documents related to the fbi's handling of hillary clinton e-mails and the agency's use of fisa warrants. members of the freedom caucus say they will give the fbi until september to turn over documents, but democrats are calling the move nothing more than an effort to undermine robert mueller. congressman jeffries who sits on the house judiciary committee also weighed in tweeting, republican cover-up caucus introduced articles of impeachment against deputy attorney general. take a hike. congressman jeffries of the eighth district here in new york joins me now on set. let me get your reaction to this. this dropped over these last few days. you're in recess now, the district work period. pick what you want to call it. have cooler heads prevailed? how serious do you think your more conservative colleagues on the republica

let's start with this mark meadows and jim jordan, the freedom caucus takes on this issue, preparingst rod rosenstein. trey gowdy answered the question, impeach for what. i've got a list. do you? gowdy has a lot of trouble apparently with these affirmative actions. >> it's obstruction of justice if you defy a lawful subpoena. which is what he's done. there's your grounds, trey gowdy. you were a former prosecutor, although you did admit you weren't a very good one. here's the problem. you've got to have a majority in the house and you would have to have two thirds in the u.s. senate to convict. you probably can't get that with democrats. lou: i'm not sure you could get it in benedict arnold were to show up in the senate. i mean that's a strange place right now. >> yeah, it really is. lou: you've got ben sass running around, lindsey graham. it's a strange strange place nlt it's little cuckoo over there. lou: let's turn to brennan coming out against the president. i mean, you tweeted this, am i correct. whenever john brennan opens his mouth or tweets he removes all doubt about his ignor

the letter from congressman mark meadows reads in part, "the notion mr. rosenstein site to use his investigative powers to retaliate against rank and file staff members renders concerns that he has abused his authority in the context of this investigation. during recent and combative in congressional testimony in exchange with congressman jordan, the deputy attorney general's of the claims are false. >> who are we supposed to believe, staff members who we have worked with that have never misled us or, you guys, who we hiding information from us and tell witnesses not to answer questions? who are we supposed to believe? >> thanks for making clear it's not personal. >> they first reported the allegations, a justice department official said that the january incident was making a point after being threatened with contempt of congress over the russia record that he would have the right to defend himsel himself. and calling them as witnesses to demonstrate that the allegations are false. that is why he put them on notice to retain relevant emails and text messa

football kicks off in just a few hours the world cup final has come down to france and croatia mark meadows from d.w. sports is here with me in the studio and our correspondent emma was sure when has got into the moscow fan zone early so emily you're there on the ground right now at the kickoff is still a few hours away but can you give us a sense of what the anticipation is like in the russian capital. well there are already found and. found here and tourists taking selfies outside the found zone i would say the whole city is a lecture fied with football there are new flags hanging all around the city advertising the final tonight and throughout this whole world cup you could watch the football even in the metro as well as in bars around the city and russians may be out of the game but they are certainly looking forward to tonight's final as well i saw people around the city with russian flags painted on their cheeks draped in russian flags as well and i guess that their support will probably be divided today on the one hand they say that the croatians are kind of some kind of a brother na

off in a few hours france and croatia are going to do battle for football's biggest prize and mark meadows from your sport is here in the studio to talk through what we can expect so this is this is what we've been waiting for right this is the finale it is indeed i think everyone is looking for now is a showpiece final which sums up how great this tournament is being we've had so many wonderful goals drama excitement and you think about the fans who are all gathering now in the home cities in paris in zagreb what they want to see is excitement they want to see a great final however finals don't tend to go that way unfortunately because there's so much at stake it tend to be very tense affairs and those of the fans are going to be pretty tense as well you know if this is a final but there are so many stories linked to the game that make it so interesting even for example killing him back pay the france forward if he scores he's going to be the second teenager ever to school in a will cup final the previous one day which shows you what level we're talking about here and we can actually have

mark meadows and raj christian amortie.>> thank you. >> come back. we're minutes away from a joint news conference with president trump and prime minister may. the pair have held several hours worth of meetings this morning and it all comes with that explosive interview with "the sun" as a back drop. joining us now from london, nbc news white house correspondent jeff bennet. also in london in the heart of the protest, nbc news chief koern correspondent richard engle. and here we say on set, jillian tet and caddie kay is still with us, as well. jeff, we'll start with you. any sense of how the prime minister might address the president's interview with "the sun"? >> good morning, mika. 10 downing street says we should expect the prime minister to make her views known on this during this press conference. we'll be watching for all of that. given the president's incendiary comments, i think it's worth pointing out that he foreshadowed that this might happen. before he even left for his european trip, he slammed may's brexit str

mike: congressman mark meadows, doj had not notified page that lawmakers we wanted to question her forre than 7 months, with a republican administration why has this been so difficult for republicans in congress to get answers? >> it's quite a shocking development and it really does show the central frustration of lawmakers and president trump, the president has said consistently, why is the department of justice, jeff sessions and deputy attorney general rod rosenstein not complying with many of the requests of house republicans and house investigateory committees who want to see very basic documents on the origination of the investigation into the trump 2016 campaign. they're very concerned that politically motivated opposition research with the dossier played a very central role in opening that investigation and that's something that agent strzok really refused to talk about there. so to a lot of people and a lot of people that were critics of the justice department, they are saying that in a way a cover-up to stop the house and the public from learning inmate details of what origin

and i want to give the freedom caucus, jim jordan, mark meadows, matt gates, i mean the list goes on, ron desantis, credit for charging at the issue and moving on impeachment of rod rosenstein, demanding that their authority and responsibility for oversight constitutionally be returned to the house. and take charge of the leadership, take charge of the speakership because you're going into a tough race and with ryan there, they're going to get laughed out of -- they're not only going to get beat. they're going to be laughed at as they enter the midterms. >> well they think it's money alone and the reality is intensity. how are you going to get your voters intense. when you look at the women voters that are going to vote for democrats and the young voters who are going to vote for the democrats, they're intense. we got to get our side intense. the only way you're going to get them fired up is to go out there and give them smlg like the president has done over and over again. lou: we're over as usual, ed. that intensity, this president talking about the wall, all of his successes, he's

visit tripadvisor.com lou: house republicans led by congressman mark meadows and jim jordan now daysarticles of impeachment against deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. republicans plan to enter it as two separate resolutions to impeach rosenstein for his continuous stonewalling of congressional documents in defines of the constitution as well as the congress itself. rhino mcconnell, however, says calls for rosenstein's impeachment, as he put it, are pretty farfetched. wow. what an establishment figure mcconnell has become. the witch hunt goes on. special counsel robert mueller asking for immunity for five, five potential witnesses in the trial against paul manafort. his request was filed under seal. the identities of the five not yet public. manafort will face trial next wednesday on bank and tax fraud charges. joining us now, fox legal analyst, gregg jarrett, author of the new book "the russian hoax. the illicit scheme to clear hillary clinton and frame donald trump ." it hits bookstores july 24th meaning you can still preorder and appreciate it. >> a week from today it will hit

myself, mark meadows, devon nunez.ur of the strongest supporters of president trump and we have been very critical of the russia investigation so i'm not sure if that's the reason why we were supposedly inadvertently caught and twitters troll trap but it seems suspicious to me. >> first i have to say as someone that works on a college campus that invites people from both sides of the aisle, i couldn't let your comment about college campuses go by without a subtle pushback. when twitter announced back in may how they were going to go after trolling, my initial thought when i read it is, this is good. pushing for more civil discourse on social media is a good thing. trying to push back on those who are trying to push back is a good thing. but i remember thinking, they are going to get stuck here and catch the wrong people. it seems that this is what is happening here. and the fact that ronna romney mcdaniel had this problem, that seems to be counterintuitive to what they are trying to do. these social media companies are

i wouldn't say necessarily that i would call for the expulsion of jim jordan or mark meadows who haveterly reckless. they don't have the leadership post nunes had. he has brought dishonor on the house and endangered the country and i don't say it lightly. >> and there is continuing complaint about this, that jim jordan is complaining saying, you know, the application never said to the judges that this steel dossier was paid for by hillary clinton seeking information against donald trump. and that is technically true in the sense that it said all that, but it didn't identify the players. it refers to source number one, and it talks about a u.s. person and then it says that the fbi speculates that the identified u.s. person was likely looking for information that could be used to discredit candidate one's campaign. and of course we would never want them to mention to the judge who candidate one is because we don't -- we want the judges to be political impartial. all of these judges were appointed by republican presidents. >> four out of four. apparently they think the four republican fi

. >> harris: revoking congressman mark meadows and g.o.p. senator rand paul said he handled the situation appropriately considering the circumstances. >> it was a bold move to be willing to meet with putin one-on-one. no one is taken election interference more seriously than i have. at the end of the day, we need to make sure that we put this investigation behind us and beyond the offense in terms of trying to make sure that our election process is protected. >> i think we need to take a step back and ask ourselves is a good to have conversation with your adversaries? is a good to have open lines of communication with russia? i think having open lines of communication is very important for avoiding war and i think that's what i would see this meeting as. >> harris: president trump himself defending his performance at yesterday's summit on hannity. >> i thought it was a really amazing time i think it's a shame we are talking about nuclear proliferation, talking about syria and humanitarian aid, talking about all of these different things and

congressman mark meadows is leading this fight against rosenstein.ll give the justice department more time. >> one of two things will happen, we'll either get the documents that we're entitled to, or there will be some type of action in september. >> it's an effort to undermine mueller's investigation. joining me now is michael singleton, and adrian elron to break this down. >> thanks for being here. meadows says he may consider a contempt vote instead of considering impeachment. why this change of heart? >> i think for the freedom caucus, they recognize that for their base, which is the same base as president trump's. this is something that resonates particularly with those political voters. i'm extremely disappointed with the fecklessness. i have to ask, why aren't they focused on protecting our elections. they have a guy who's a republican, who was appointed by the president. it doesn't make any sense to me. >> jeff sessions continuing to back his deputy, however, take a listen. >> my deputy, rod rosenstein is highly capable. i have the highest co

mark meadows reportedly leading an effort to impeach rosenstein.m of stonewalling in their probe of the fbi agents accused of bias against the president. but fellow republican gowdy said he's against the move. >> i have had my differences with rosenstein. i talked to him quite often privately which again is a lot more constructive than the public hearings we have. he's a trump appointee. so is jeff sessions and so is chris wray. if president trump is dissatisfied with rosenstein he can fire him with a tweet. but to impeach someone, i mean, no. >> can he fire him with a tweet? rick wilson, jill spence and rick, do you think rosenstein's indictment announcement is going to deter this group of republicans? >> in no way whatsoever. this is -- this is a prank by some house members that want to get a little pr out there and rattle the cage. it's not going forward. >> joyce, impeaching rosenstein is all about derailing the mueller investigation as we have talked about for months with this regard. how would the removal of rosenstein impact the mueller inve

kim, is there any reality in which mark meadows and jim jordan have a point? do they have any kind of valid leg to stand on here? i don't think so. none whatsoever. the fisa application was authorized and signed by a federal judge. so we already have a system accountability in place for that and judge looked at it and determined there was sufficient evidence to go forward. that's irrelevant. the second thing has to do with this question with respect to documents and essentially congress wants to know how the justice department is conducting an ongoing investigation. which is deeply problematic. >> i was going to ask, they want more documents about the clinton e-mail documentation. is it unreasonable to want to see more information? >> there's no rule preventing that but traditionally there has been a respect for the integrity of the criminal justice system. the idea being we're going to let the prosecutors and fbi agents and investigators do their job based on the facts in the law. we're not going to plit size it. then it becomes winners and losers based on wh

you heard matt gaetz and mark meadows effusive in their praise of her. saying, i wouldn't with.emed to contradict what peter strzok said on the meanings of some of these text messages. >> first of all, laura, thank you for having me on. my book, "liars, leakers, andes liberals" talks about lisa page, people at the higher echelon of the fbi. you know what amazing to me, o this guy, peter strzok, goes before congress and in an unapologetic, defiant, sarcastic, smug way, says, none of you congressmen and women, you can't believe your lying eyes, just because i said it, i didn't mean what i said. when in truth, what he said as the textbook definition of biasd so now we've got lisa page. and so some of these congresspeople are more effusive about her, finding her to be more credible. that is no surprise. there was very little of what strzok said that was credible. but what was so telling to me, laura, was they said that there was a suggestion that based upon her testimony, the fbi desired a specific outcome. we don't know yet because we don't have the transcript and honestly, i don't

meanwhile, house freedom caucus mark meadows told reporters he supports jordan's run. scandal that in any other situation might have felled a member of congress, this guy is now running for speaker. >> so what kind of support are you hearing from washington in general for jim jordan's run? >> reporter: he's got real strong support among a very small handful of lawmakers. look, this is a dream come true for the democrats because this is what they say a sign of leadership in the trump era, someone who is facing very, very serious charges here by multiple members of this wrestling team, and his response to that is that they are all liars, number one, and, two, that this is the deep state. that he is a victim of the deep state. those are both echos of arguments we have heard from president trump when he has faced his own scandals. but at the same time jim jordan is really the culmination of a movement that's taken place since john bainoehner was in ofe to go after and scalp the establishment. jim jordan called john boehner a terrorist and they've been successful in grindin

. >> speaking to fox news in the last hour, the chairman of the freedom caucus mark meadows said that the ball is now in rod rosenstein's court. he said impeachment are on the table, and while it is not voting on impeachment today, they can bring it back after the recess. last night meadows laid out some strategy. >> we hope that it does not have to come to that, obviously, this is the first step tonight, but it does not require consent from the speaker. it is a privilege motion. so what we put in today was nonprivilege, gets driven to the judiciary committee, but starting tomorrow we can bring it up as a privilege motion. >> these articles of impeachment call out the deputy attorney general and alleged rosenstein has a conflict of interest, because he signed off on the final surveillance unit for carter page in june of 2017. the articles of impeachment read "deputy attorney general rosenstein failure to recuse himself in the conflict of interest and failure to recommend the appointment of a second special counsel constitutes a dereliction of duty." it's important to note that accordi

>> reporter: mark meadows is the leader of the house freedom caucus, trying to impeach rod rosensteinver their concern of not getting enough documents as part of their investigation into how the fbi carried out its probe about the clinton e-mail investigation, the russia investigation. the justice department has not complied with their request they said, something the justice department strongly refuted. i had a chance to talk to meadows. he said he is not trying to interfere with mueller's investigation. he would not rule out pushing for a vote today. you are asking for a scoping memoir. are you concerned you are asking for documents that could interfere with the mueller investigation? >> really, we're not about interfering with the mueller investigation. what we're about is doing proper oversight and transparency. it's been consistent there. we have been consistent for nine months. in doing that, it's critically important that we get the documents. i can tell you, most of the documents, if there's a legitimate reason on why they shouldn't give it, give us a privilege log and say thi

house freedom caucus chairman mark meadows, oo congressman jim jordan, and nine co-sponsors have introduced articles of impeachment claiming rosenstein has withheld documents and misled congress. >> for nine months we've asked for documents and that's all we want are the documents. and what we found is not only have subpoenas been nored, but information has been hidden. the efforts have been stone walled. >> conservative lawmakers have accused the of trying to smear president trump through the russia investigation. mewhile democrats are blasting the impeachment efforts against rosenstein. lifornia congressman adam schiff tweeting that it shows the extraordinary langths republ will go to protect president trump. >> michael cohen's secret tape sparking very public firestorm on capitol hill this morning. the release of the recording from before theleion has only furthered the rift between president trump and his long timeer la on the tape then candidate trump appears to discuss a payoff to silenc a former play boy model who claimed to have an affair with him. as nbc's hallie jackson ports, the