>> moeller focuses on obstruction of justice why are all the others being listed?. >> as many people mentioned this is about rule of law and president trump hopefully will be the only president me ever have we have future elections and future presidents it is a terrible precedent to violation of the constitution if we do not address them them what message does that send to a future president? that is up to moeller to prove anything his grand jury would indict people to the house of representatives so there is some debate with my former law professor if they could be indicted and prosecuted i believe that they can but it is a whole different process even if they were why should we have someone still in office not only for their past crimes. >> part of that protective purpose of impeachment is to prevent president trump to commit these offenses but also the complete erosion of norms and that is why we concluded in particular to those statutory provisions others are based on abuse of power and not tied to a specific statutory provision but he had shattered to the norms

last eight to ten hours by the information in terms of how significant this is how much of a hold of moeller has over flynn and hopefully for everybody how much flynn will be singing at the right time before the right sort of people to move this ahead the second question is really the arrow pointed inclusionary and his role in it and in many ways that's the lead in to the president and all those who would hope that the president would be gone soon see that is sort of the the bright spot on the horizon beyond that there are a lot of unknowns and i'm not going to speculate on those understood bruce fein why do you think the hong oh i'm so long quote thomas pickering that i think they'll be hiding in on as long as they can just like richard nixon did when he was under assault because that they were have a complete sunshine and probably every zoltan more criminal convictions than we can anticipate today i remember if you have nothing to hide your government in the sunshine is what gives confidence the american people and the congress that there's nothing askew and they have done the opposite as

robert moeller, the special prosecutor appointed by the department of justice, is keeping his cards closeo his chest. many believe that they have much more on flynn then just this one charge of lying to the fbi. that implies that, indeed, general flynn has flipped here and is effectively a witness for the prosecution. brent: that would signal that flynn is possibly providing information on other suspects in exchange for leniency? >> we can expect that even though michael flynn hasn't said so publicly -- in a statement published today, michael flynn said that he assumed full responsibility, accepted full responsibility for his mistakes and he didn't name anyone else. prosecutors have stated that they believe flynn was directed by the trump transition team when he met the russian ambassador after the election. court documents say that mr. flynn called a senior transition official who was with other members of the team at trump's mar-a-lago resort and asked specifically what to talk about with the russian ambassador, if at all. clearly, this might be the direction that the moeller investigat

essentially laying the first embers for that fire and the question now is how big will it get and mr moeller is strategic in clearly understands how to play this game there were no leaks at all about the deal with flynn and how he was going to admit guilt and muller is three steps ahead of everybody else on this investigation and could in the congress so right now congress asking questions keeping the pressure on finding misstatements by jerry cushion or where he seems to say that he did not have any connections to wiki leaks and to russia and then there are e-mails from him that he forwarded about wiki leaks other campaign staffers so i think that the team in the white house has to be very concerned because they don't really know where muller is going but clearly he's laying the groundwork for escalating this into a very much of potentially an inferno for the white house thomas pickering who is michael steele and there have been rumors for a long long time i mean one remembers back in twenty fifteen he went to moscow it was a trip paid for we are told it's been reported by russia today the

how tough i went after fbi director james moeller he has been here when i went afterth moeller whilebush was president. he knows i've been after him-- >> the gentleman. >> the damage he did and what he stated about me is a lie and i would like the record to properly reflect about. >> the germans comment is noted in the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from california for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman according to an august 17, fbi intelligence assessment titled black identity extremist likely motivated to target law enforcement officers quote it's likely black identity extremistr perception of police brutality against african-american spurred an increase in retaliatory violence , so i tried to get to the bottom of where this report came from, who did itep, what te status is and i have asked attorney general sessions. i have asked rector ray and now i want to ask you. did you order the fbi to conduct this assessment. >> what was the date? >> august, 2017? >> no. >> do you know who authored the report or are you familiar with the report? >> not the report, but the general is

moeller should issue to and miss.about what i believe is the resolve of mending the political establishment to remove the president under any means necessary. >> who are we talking about? the secretary of state, the defense secretary, the vice president? tom, i cannot reveal those sources. i am not fair to do so. >> i'm sorry. i am not asking you to reveal your sources here. who are your sources telling you? who are the people that would be doing this? thehere are members of cabinet who have had this discussion, let me leave it at that. announcer: you can watch the rest of that interview with republican strategist roger stone this sunday at 10 a and 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. all this week, washington journal is featuring authors of key books published during the year. join us for our live conversation with authors about their popular books. sunday morning, michael eric dyson talked about his book "tears we cannot stop, a sermon to wide america." christmas, henry olsen with the working-class republican. ronald reaga

moeller's job easier? that's a nice thing to do, merry christmas. i want to get to president trump's critics with some of these recent tweets that we saw saying that it's not nice thing to do on christmas eve. do those tweets have any bearing over this investigation to mack what do you think? >> buck: no. i think at the end of the year, we saw some real signs that top leadership at the fbi is in for a rough 2018. it is very important to distinguish. not talking about the whole fbi. as a few individuals and very keen note that both hillary clinton email investigation and the russia collision investigation and somehow, the politicization or at least the appearance of the possibility always gets against trump and you see with the text messages and also trumped weeding out about this just stating what i think a lot of people already believe she is that we need to investigate investigators and that's what 2018 is looking to be about, not much of this russia collusion leading to impeachment stuff that we've been hearing so much about in recent months. >>

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plans many were making to take to the streets and demand trump's impeachment if he did indeed fire moeller democrats have also been trying to use allegations of sexual misconduct to get rid of trump but unless he decides to resign himself that's not an option because harassment isn't considered an impeachable offense even members of their own party have dismissed it i think we need to move on and not get distracted by those issues let's get on with the real issues that are facing peoples of this country right now. and i don't think that the president ought to resign at this point now if democrats are detectives pursuing trump for any wrongdoings he's certainly not a very cunning offender but he's leaving plenty of clues in the first year of his presidency democrats and even some republicans have formally accused him of an impeachable offense at least once a month senator al green alone has done it four times writes today mr speaker. to call for the impeachment trial and removal from office donald jiang trump by betraying his trust as present it democracy is at risk now here are just some o

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this just adds more fuel to the fire or of what they hope to be a growing fire a lit underneath the moeller investigation so that whatever the conclusions of it might be and we don't know when those conclusions will be revealed in the eyes of certainly trumps political base in this country it will be discredited and regarded as as immaterial as for the white house the white house spokesman was dismissive of the whole investigation and said that we expect this whole process in other words the investigation to be wrapped up rather soon. strong winds are continuing to power a massive wildfire in the western u.s. state of california so-called thomas fire is now the third largest in the state's history and has been more than two hundred sixty seven thousand heck dess that's the same area as new york city eight hundred thousand firefighters are battling the blaze that's destroyed more than a fouls and structures and threatened eighteen thousand more affine department says it's now forty percent contained. i watching out there i watch what i tell you about the program the politician his campaign f

bush to a top law enforcement position moeller so this notion about who is on the staff you know who gave contribution or to a political party is it or thought you were just appointed to the supreme court well i'm not you know i mean i just i don't know i'm not so worried about democrat or republican guys i'm more worried about the deep state that's what i worry about ok you know john one of the yes exactly one of the things i really worry about here is if you look because the way things are going man a ford in flint seem to have been unfairly treated because they said something that wasn't true i think a whole string of people. in the obama administration didn't forthright with the f.b.i. you know you got to be the saddest feeling guy right now in the whole world he was doing what everybody else was doing you know that but what i what i find worrisome and i hope richard can respond to that is a rapidly running out of time is that there is a very strong sense of bias here on the people that are doing the russian investigation nine out of the fifteen players on miller's team it's fact

comes at a time where there's been rampant speculation about whether or not the president might fire moeller and actually today he said that he has no intention of firing robert mueller dianne estimate there joining me live from washington d.c. . the polls have closed the vote counting is underway in chile's presidential elections who says would choosing between conservative billionaire sebastian pinera and the center left candidate handle gear so far with twenty five percent of the votes counted pinera it's leading the vote with fifty four percent while gear lags behind forty five percent results will determine if chile remains on its center left course or joins the tighe of latin american nations turning to the right recent years a latin america at this silly season newman says the election is expected to be very close indeed. the vocoded is already underway we're at the national stadium this is chile's largest polling station right behind me and the ballots are being read out one by one and from what we're hearing. and his rival. are more or less tied but that's only here and at this tabl

determined it is illegal and bush decided to re-up it anyway and only the threatened resignation of robert moeller -- robert mueller and james comey stops it. timehurch committee, at a when people's suspicion of the government was through the roof. americans will never trust the government again. this comes at the same time as the pentagon paper were -- watergate. the fbi has been infiltrating and destroying groups including peace activist. you can point to some things, that the fbi set up an assassination attempt in memphis, not that they did it, but they knew it was coming. when --introduced here heroin and then crack in the from envy to destroy it within. so, of course the suspicion is there. suspicious are we when we carry tracking devices everywhere we go, that always know where we are. soon they will be scanning your face here it we want please be wearing body cameras. taser, who is actually a company, developing software that will have facial recognition software. skin your face here and then police when you walked on the street, police will know you are. we use these who tracks everywhere

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maybe a prison term of less than six months in a fine that's clearly lenient in you'd expect that mr moeller would have done that only if he expected something in return namely cooperation which would lead to other dominoes to fall moreover mr flynn had indicated later that someone high up in the white house directed him to speak to miss the ambassador of russia and the only persons who would have authority in my judgment at that level would be those who are acting at the direction of the president himself the speculation is that gerrard questioner was the intermediary between the president mr flynn but the idea that gerrard questioner on his own initiative a junior official who's got no experience at all in government seems utterly ludicrous and that all means that the finger is pointing more and more towards mr trump suppose that mr flynn now testifies under oath that he acted in speaking to mr kosilek at the direction of jared questioner and now that brings then question or into the play and question or then is going to be asked well who spoke to you because we know somebody of that youth

bush to a top law enforcement position moeller so this notion about who is on the staff you know the contribution or to a political party is they were just appointed to the supreme court well i'm not you know i mean i just i don't know i'm not so worried about democrat or republican guys i'm more worried about the deep state that's what i worry about ok you know john one of the yes exactly one of the things i really worry about here is if you look because the way things are going man a fork in flint seem to have been unfairly treated because they said something that wasn't true i think a whole string of people. in the obama administration didn't forthright with the f.b.i. you know you got to be the saddest feeling guy right now in the whole world he was doing what everybody else was doing you know that but what i what i find worrisome and i hope richard can respond to that is a rapidly running out of time is that there is a very strong sense of bias here on the people that are doing the russian investigation nine out of the fifteen players on miller's team it's factually known they w

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moeller and his team. >> can the president actually be charged with obstruction of justice as sitting president? or would they have to wait until he's out of office to charge him criminally? >> i think there is no question, contrary to what one of the lawyers were saying that the president can be charged with obstruction of justice, the question is, when and what would be the remedy? >> for instance, president nixon, one of the main articles of impeachment against him was obstruction of justice, trying to get the cia to stop the fbi from investigating. there is no question about that, the only issue, is whether the result would be going through the road of impeachment, where the president would be taken out of office, if you could manage to get the house of representatives and senate to vote that way, or would you wait until the president is out of office and consider charging him of what is completely up in the air, it's the middle position, can you indict a prison while he is in office? that is unsettles -- that is unsettled. there are different questions about that. ? we heard -- >

moeller should do his investigation without interference from the president. >> all of this is fox newseports that james baker was removed from a prominent position on the general counsel. the council is read in on all of the investigation handled by the fbi. sources tell fox news speaker is not fired but reassigned. his reassignment may somehow be tied to a separate leak investigation. washington post says sources tell them this is a normal part of the new director coming into the bureau. political reported on friday that baker is tied to a mother jones journalist who first reported on the existence of the trump dossier that journalist says a bigger was not his source. fired director james comey fired defended him unclear saying he's now being attacked for political gain and someone who has honorably served the country for 25 years. lea: hopefully will get more clarity on that in the future. ellison, thank you for your reporting this morning. merry christmas to you. mike: for more on this of spring and kelly: a reporter for the washington examiner. kelly, nice to see. good to see you.

it raises questions about that and fundamental issues with the moeller investigation.they need to pause. i'm not a fan at all. nothing special counsel should operate at all. in the least is the least there's got to be an examination and maybe a pause in the least to where assured there's no politics. >> there never should be. that's why -- tom fitton. $90 million to justice causes to the anti-kneelers. will he keep them today? rachel: remember chicken soup or fight off a cold. but is it really true? thanks for the ride-along, captain! i've never been in one of these before, even though geico has been- ohhh. ooh ohh here we go, here we go. you got cut off there, what were you saying? oooo. oh no no. maybe that geico has been proudly serving the military for over 75 years? is that what you wanted to say? mhmmm. i have to say, you seemed a lot chattier on tv. geico. proudly serving the military for over 75 years. you ok back there, buddy? what's going on? oh hey! ♪ that's it? yeah. ♪ everybody two seconds! ♪ "dear sebastian, after careful consideration of your application

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just adds more fuel to the fire or of what they hope to be a growing fire or a lit underneath the moeller investigation so that whatever the conclusions of it might be and we don't know when those conclusions will be revealed in the eyes of certainly trumps political base in this country it will be discredited and regarded as as immaterial as for the white house the white house spokesman was dismissive of the whole investigation and said that we expect this whole process in other words the investigation to be wrapped up rather soon next week the investigators will be meeting with lawyers directly at the white house or with the white house lawyer. years and we'll see just how how much further this investigation will go right now we don't see anything developing between now and the new year but of course there's in this in this investigation and the developments that we've been hearing day to day leaking out there is there we really can expect anything in the in the days to come all right thank you for that tom i come in sixty million people in western india are waiting to hear their next l

maybe a prison term of less than six months in a fine that's clearly lenient in you'd expect that mr moeller would have done that only if he expected something in return namely cooperation which would lead to other dominoes to fall moreover mr flynn had indicated later that someone high up in the white house directed him to speak to miss the ambassador of russia and though only persons who would have authority in my judgment at that level would be those who are acting at the direction of the president himself the speculation is that gerrard questioner was the intermediary between the president mr flynn but the idea that jared questioner on his own initiative a junior official who's got no experience at all in government seems utterly ludicrous and that all means that the finger is pointing more and more towards mr trump so how does his team get from this this guilty plea. to proving that there was collusion. well suppose that mr flynn now testifies under oath that he acted in speaking to mr kosilek at the direction of gerrard questioner and now that brings then question or into the play and

will you admit that moeller and his team.s come to light they need to investigate that dossier how it was put together. how the fbi used it. was that why they open the investigation. isn't that part of it. i think it is appropriate to ask for as much information as possible. when we are talking about the bias of a person. i have heard it from conservative outlets particularly in the recent weeks bob mueller was a person who was above reproach. how can we investigate his former colleagues at the fbi. how come or just are just learning out that the agent that was sending the anti- trump text to his girlfriend how are we just learning about him now. he actually interviewed hillary clinton. he actually changed the language. james comey called it a matter a matter instead of a criminal investigation. the fbi has been completely politicized. >> what i have a problem with as this investigation has picked up a seam you are seen in this investigation move forward and i think it's really problematic that as a guilty pleas guilty pleas