let's discuss with chris hahn and matt schlapp. along with peter schweizer author of "the new york times" best seller "clinton cash." peter, we haven't seen you for a while. what's your take on how this went down today with horowitz appearing on capitol hill. it's amazing that comey, you see him on twitter in iowa cornfields and he's at variousn national parks but no time to come to capitol hill. >> comey's strategy on this is to hope it's going to blow over. that it's going to go away, that washington will forget about it. i think the opposite has to happen. ethically have to think about it this way, laura.ity think about when we have cases of police misconduct or prosecutorial misconduct in the criminal realm. a cop is found having planted evidence or hiding evidence. we go and look at previous cases that that police officer handed. we want to drill down, find out how bad the problem was. i think we need to do the same thing here. the ig report as far as i'm concerned is the beginning. it's not the end of this investigation.in >>

bring in ae, we supportive for the president, matt schlapp, thank you for being with us. tt: great to be with you. david: you know the president and talk with the president. how much of this trait action is ideological? he says things that unfair and wrong, as opposed to getting jobs and good paying jobs for the american citizens? some people say this will not help overall jobs. matt: i think it is both. what the republicans who are -- for the republicans reflexively saying tariffs are bad, and i am not a tariffs guy, they just drafted a bill that would have had a border adjustment tax that would have put a tax or tariff on everything from socks to underwear to cars, dishwashers, everything. they are reacting to a tariff on that, a little bit strange their tax bill would have put a tariff on everything but they just did not call it a tariff. that is the problem with politics, the lingo get in the way of the intent. the intent of donald trump is to say or are critical markets and there are critical products that america must continue to play a role in producing. he believes

we have matt schlapp and ron williams. good to be with you, gentlemen.as pointed out, russia wassian was and annexed out and it was said he should be shown the esteem and those who have sacrificed long side us are being treated with contempt. this is realism and a short pass to diminishing america's leadership in the world. that's from a rebound. >> that's from john mccain a perennial trump critic. i think it caused a lot of questions with the president raising this. there's two things about donald trump, first thing is that if you go to the amusement park and like the teacups and not the roller coaster, he's probably not your kind of guy. he likes to say a lot of things and push on a lot of topics at the same time. he's pushing back on our allies at the g-7 at the same time he's going to north korea and what does he do as he thinks about north korea, he's always in the interesting position if he's pushing back on russia or china. you have to remember at the end of the day he views our number one adversary as china and he is focussed on china. i think wh

he clearly meets the mark. >> laura: matt schlapp, a lot of people on the list. >> i worked with brettor four rock solid. years. he would be fantastic. >> laura: you hear from the left. he's another white male guy from georgetown prep. you can already hear the left. they check off the box and say you can't nominate another white man. we need a diverse court. it is the jelly bean approach. >> we need to see 50 votes, and these democrats running in these red states, they have got to support the supreme court nominee or they are in big political trouble. >> laura: speaking of which, kamala harris went into total fearmongering mode today. let's watch. >> we are looking at a destruction constitution of the united states, as far as i can tell. based of the folks he is orbit pointing for lifetime appointments. this has got to be, and we all need to understand this, to be one of the most serious fights we have yet to have with this president. we cannot relent. >> laura: scott, they really turned up the volume today on cable. they were saying we are going to do everything except lay our bodies

matt schlapp, you said thank you, mr.ring james comey. >> the president waited a few too many days and months to fire james comey. my wife works over there for the president coming full disclosure. i think you are somewhat right and somewhat wrong. bill clinton went after ken starr and his special counsel which was a little different with a hammer. they did everything to destroy the credibility of that man and they were pretty successful at doing it. presidents tend to do this. the difference of bill clinton, he did it with a little bit more sleight-of-hand in a more deceitful way which he was very good at by having other people do it. donald trump, if he's going to go after someone, you know it's because it's on twitter. he leads the charge. i agree with you. very unusual in american politics to do that and i think his numbers are better today because this investigation looks political because it's been political. >> he has made it political. bill clinton did not use the same rhetoric as donald trump. >> shannon: we have

matt schlapp stolen from us but the ap just reported that about 500 children have been reunited with their families after being separated from their family since may. we'll have more throughout the hour as it comes to us. that breaking news first. and mission accomplished for the mainstream media, which has managed to dent the first lady's popularity. they ran weeks of stories with cool speculation why melania trump had disappeared from public view, living in another house, in new york, back in eastern europe. never mind the fact that she just had a fairly significant surgery. a new cnn poll shows her favorability rating is down to 51% from 57% last month. i don't know if i believe that. now that she's back in the public, the media, well, they found a new reason to pounce. today the first lady visited a texas shelter housing illegal immigrant children. good for her. but all the media could do was talk about her jacket. they went into a frenzy to search for the hidden meaning of the words emblazoned on the back of her jacket, which read, "i really don't care, do you." the first lady s

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in d.c., matt schlapp.y 3-1 opposition, we see in every poll, against the family separation policy. i also know that there is a new gallup poll out today that showed trump's approval rating dropped four points in the last week, probably in response to that. how much damage was done to the president and the republican party with this family separation policy? >> i think it was a rough week. we're good and tolerant people in this country and we hated the idea of families being separated. of course, that wasn't a new policy because that was a policy that we've had on the books for a couple of decades. the new policy that trump initiated was this zero tolerance policy where everybody who comes and crosses illegally will go through the prosecution system if they're not political asylee. the numbers you just went through, that's wildly popular. the combination of either sending people back to their homeland if they don't come to america legally or prosecuting them, you get near 60% of the american people say that

. >> thanks so much to first timer matt schlapp, did you love it?i did love it, did i pass the test? >> lots of stories still unraveling so much more to discuss. harris will take the baton now, live from d.c., harris faulkner, take it away. to be one of fox news on what could be a day of reckoning for former top obama officials. and at the upper echelons of the fbi and justice department. let's go out numbered overtime live from d.c., i am at harris faulkner. we are in the nation's capital as this big news is breaking. deputy attorney general rod rosenstein is looking at the agency's handling of the hillary clinton email investigation. michael horowitz's findings are intended to criticize james comey, loretta lynch and andrew mccabe. he reported concluded that comey, for instance quotes broke away from standard fbi procedures in his handling of the probe

bush director matt schlapp. u both had an investment in the outcome of what happened with james comey's decisions. so, matt, let me start with you. who do you think paid the bigger price for james comey's mishandling and bad behavior? >> it is a great question. let me say the idea that they were doing an investigation of how hillary clinton hammed her e-mails and her whole use of personal e-mails and james comey was doing the same thing, i think from a bipartisan perspective, the hypocrisy and the arrogance coming out of the fbi -- >> that was a jaw dropper. i want to stop you there. that was awe jaw-dropper that the fbi f out. i'm sure y agree that james comey was using private e-mail for fbi business. not a server but private e-mail. that was one of them. go ahead. >> just to foreperson my thought, i dealt with james comey, to watch him lurch in and out with fbi decisions in a way that was clearly going to impact the campaign and then to hear after the campaign is over on his book tour he was consulting polls a

. >> shannon: matt schlapp, with "the hill." a.b. stoddard, guy benson. welcome to all of you.sident has tweeted a lot, as he always does. he says listen i've been told by numerous legal scholars i have the absolute right to pardon myself but why would i do that when i have done nothing wrong? >> this is basically what they called a political question. you are the lawyer. i am not. the idea that we would be in a place where the president would be pardoning himself, maybe it goes to the nation's highest court, i think with the president is really trying to say is that there are a lot of constitutional questions about everything that has happened in this whole controversy, including spying on the executive branch, spying on members of the opposing campaign. lots of questions. he is saying i'm going to fight fire with fire. you are doing things i view extra constitutional, including a special counsel acting more like i said and confirmed actor. he says i'm going to fight it. >> shannon: i want to play a little bit of what ed markey had to say about this. here's his take. >> it's n

joining us is matt schlapp, chairman of the american conservative union. want to ask you about breaking news. a statement just made by the president on republican efforts to pass immigration bill in congress. the president just said, republicans should stop wasting their time on immigration until after we elect more senators and congressmen/women in november. dems are just playing games, have no intention of doing anything to solve this, on and on. did he just spike once and for all any immigration legislation? >> well, no, john. because the first problem we have is obviously they're trying to do a republican-only bill, pass it through the house of representatives. the goodlatte version got almost 200 votes. now we have this more moderate vats. even with their own republican bill. there is this idea of putting into law that we won't separate families who cross the border illegally. that, as you know, that policy was put in place by a concept decree between the federal judicial branch and president clinton. >> it was awe federal judge. >> that's right. and

board or patrol unions tucson office, as well as chairman of the american conservative union, matt schlappand ambassador susan johnson cook, a former advisor to president bill clinton and barack obama. it is great to have all of you on. we have a lot to get through here. there is so much misperception and misrepresentation about what has been happening at the borde border. art, the other night, you gave us a fact that i can't stop thinking about you. you said it on the show. about what happens with these children when they are -- they are under 18, and they are sent up through this journey from guatemala or honduras or salvador, and they come up through mexico, and you said, as a border patrol agent, agents find certain items on the girls, especially the girls. i want you to repeat this story because i think a lot of people who didn't hear it need to hear it. >> what we often times, we find them with birth control pills, and they are told that they use these pills because they may get raped along the journey. i'm going to go a little bit off of any talking points and explain that you were

chair of the american conservative union matt schlapp. congressman ben ray lujan. of new mexico.usteren. anchor of voice of america's plugged in. and abc news political director rick klein. so karen, let me start with you. the president says donald trump is on the ballot. >> you mean bannon says. >> sorry. >> no, he's not the president yet. whoo. that was a slip. >> steve bannon says donald trump is on the ballot. what do you think? >> he wants you to believe that. that's what -- >> don't you want to believe that, too? >> no. here's the thing. from the work that i've been doing, what people care about is their own lives. they're not as concerned about donald trump right now. he's not as much of a motivating factor in the way that he is potentially for republicans. what bannon is trying to do is keep the base stoked and fired up. >> the whole resist -- isn't this all about fighting, pushing back on -- >> here's part of the problem they have. at the same time, talking about immigration. the images of children. if you're a republican house member in a moderate district, you're on yo

joining me now to talk about it matt schlapp, former white house political director for president george w. bush and doug schoen, the former advisor to president bill clinton and fox news contributor. thank you for joining us. before we get into this let's actually bring up what patty blagojevich had to say in terms of mueller and comey. listen. >> the same people that did this to my family, the same people that secretly taped us and twisted the facts and perverted the law that ended up putting my husband in jail, you know, these same people are trying to do the same thing that they did to my husband just on a much larger scale. >> heather: familiar names we keep hearing and they keep coming up over and over again. so in terms of whether or not these people should be pardoned, doug, i'll start with you. what do you think about what the president is doing? he has this power and he can do it. >> well, i would say a couple of things. first it sends a very loud message to people who are under the gun in the mueller investigation currently going on that the president has an unqualified and ab

here to debate democratic strategist anton seawright and matt schlapp.ing to any of us. also a double standard when it comes to treatment who are conservatives or people who support conservative candidates. and, you know, roseanne barr got the death sentence for saying something putrid and repulsive. and it doesn't seem to happen on the other side. that being said, ed, whatever happened to someone apologizing and people simply accepting the apology? if joy reid really means the apology, i think that's a meaningful thing for her to do and people should accept it. ed: antwon, what say you? >> the only reason we are even having this discussion because there are people on the right who refuse to reject and denounce racism, bigotry and hate. and quite frankly, the red meat white wing toned down racist rhetoric is politically popular on the right. instead of denouncing that people on the right rather distract with something joy reid said 10 years ago who quite frankly was just in a political opinion and many people around here have indicated she has evolved ov

first let's get back to president trump and look who's here, ideally placed, matt schlapp, american conservative the studio in new york. how you doing, matt. >> how are you, stuart? wow, you got publicity yourself as well. stuart: just a little. >> a little bit. stuart: i'll take it. i think the president this morning totally dominated the media and put them in their place, and i think the country will love it. you say what? >> i have five kids, i don't let them act like that around the dinner table. interrupting, ten seconds into an answer and they are on top of them. this is the president of the united states, walks out to the front of the white house, with any reporter with a credential, they can ask a question. let him talk, let's hear what he has to say. he loss of that dynamic. stuart: be quiet, let me finish. >> sounded a lot like me at home. stuart: out of turn, twice, be quiet, be quiet, because he controls the situation. other presidents might be a little afraid of the unscripted freewheeling style but the president jumps right in and dominates. i want you to listen to how president tr

here to debate democratic strategist antjuan seawright and american conservative unit matt schlapp thankimmigration. would term limits change that dynamic. >> no. i think the only thing the american people need to do is put limits on the amount of republicans that they elect in november going forward. look, this president and the american people have literally failed this country for from a policy standpoint and getting things done for the best interest of the american people. as relates to immigration, we know that the majority of the americans want a comprehensive, bipartisan immigration reform bill. the president has let them down. the republican congress has let them down so here we are. whole distraction tactic. pete: matt, i will let you respond, go ahead. >> how about term limits for left wing pundits. i would like to see that. [laughter] i think congress -- let's get nonpartisan here for a little bit. >> can you do that matt? >> i can. i think congress really risks being irrelevant in the public policy process. pete, thank you about it. a republican congress, they are not even go