with that i give you general mukasey.[applause] spin thanks very much larry for your kind introduction and elaborate introduction. thanks to all of you here for the honor of this podium and the chance to be with you. this of course being the republican national lawyers association when somebody's invited here to speak you want to say something political preferably on the republican side or some combination of the two. i'd hope i don't have that respect is the point. going to talk for 20 or 25 minutes and if i don't cover a topic they expect me to cover i'm happy to answer your questions that i want to talk about something that's outside the usual framework for political or strictly legal discussion. what i want to talk about arises at least in part number problem that i have with the emphasis that keeps being placed more and more these days and with great pride on the claim that we are a nation of laws. it's a contrast to a nation of men or a nation of people. i guess i should stay politically correct. that is state-of-th

general mukasey, judge mukasey, you were on radio with me this morning and on tv tonight.s like we are playing the whole day today, i love it? >> me too. >> laura: judge, let's talk about this wild day. now we have an investigation going on at the ig, a criminal referral of andrew mccabe who is, of course, comey's deputy. now the insuranc inspector genes investigating whether comey knew some of this information was classified when he transmitted it to his pal at columbia. yeah, i think we ought to put to rest one of the things one of your guests said in the last segment. the mommies weren't marked classified at the time. they were classified as soon as he wrote them. i had an experience when i started as ag on taking notes on a top secret procedure. and when i got up to leave the meeting, my chen chief of staff leaned over and wrote ts/sci. top secret. secure deement mental. those weren't my notes they were the government's notes. they weren't comey's memos they were the government's memos. if the information in them was classified was classified as soon as they put it dow

former attorney general michael mukasey was one of the featured speakers at the national public and lawyers association. talk about the state of politics and took questions for just over half an hour. >> i am honored to introduce michael mukasey to discuss restoring the rule of law to the department of justice. judge in the case he was appointed by president ronald reagan to serve on the new york bench in the southern district of new york. he served as a district court judge from 19882006

. >> i am honored to introduce michael mukasey to discuss restoring the rule of law to the department of justice. judge in the case he was appointed by president ronald reagan to serve on the new york bench in the southern district of new york. he served as a district court judge from 19882006 and from 2000 to 2006 he served as the chief justice of the southern district leaving that corporate a footnote he was succeeded as chief justice from the honorable campbell would who is currently handling som

mike mukasey is back here in studio with us.ple are saying that comey leaked and it was illegal. if daniel richman was a part of it did he leak also? >> they're both guilty if comey gave the memos to leak richman is a participant. but the issue for me is really richman is a member of a faculty. he is on the law faculty at columbia university. i don't know whether they knew that he was a special government employee. i think that's something that a university would want to know when one of their faculty is out expressing opinions and views and so forth. >> bill: you know richman, right? used to work with him? >> bright guy, nice guy. nothing bad to say about him. >> bill: your circles crisscross everywhere. we found this picture from 2008 with you and president bush and bob mueller in 2008. i think there is -- i find such a crosscurrent of information that is hitting people all the time from so many various angles. take it up top a little bit for us. have you seen evidence of collusion? where are we on that argument as of today? >

maria: all right we will leave it there, michael mukasey, always a pleasure thanks so much >> good towith you. maria: we'll take a break when we come back the u.s. and its allies are sending a clear message to the syrian regime. congressman ed royce is a chairman of the foreign affairs committee joins me next to talk about the force taken between the u.s. , france and the uk more as we look ahead on sunday morning futures right here. when it comes to strong bones, are you on the right path? we have postmenopausal osteoporosis and a high risk for fracture, so with our doctors we chose prolia® to help make our bones stronger. only prolia® helps strengthen bones by stopping cells that damage them with 1 shot every 6 months. do not take prolia® if you have low blood calcium, are pregnant, are allergic to it, or take xgeva®. serious allergic reactions, like low blood pressure; trouble breathing; throat tightness; face, lip or tongue swelling, rash, itching or hives have happened. tell your doctor about dental problems, as severe jaw bone problems may happen or new or unusual pain in your h

maria: all right we will leave it there, michael mukasey, always a pleasure thanks so much >> good to be with you. maria: we'll take a break when we come back the u.s. and its allies are sending a clear message to the syrian regime. congressman ed royce is a chairman of the foreign affairs committee joins me next to talk about the force taken between the u.s. , france and the uk more as we look ahead on sunday morning futures right here. mom? dad? hi! i had a very minor fender bender tonight in an unreasonably narrow fast food drive thru lane. but what a powerful life lesson. and don't worry i have everything handled. i already spoke to our allstate agent, and i know that we have accident forgiveness. which is so smart on your guy's part. like fact that they'll just... forgive you... four weeks without the car. okay, yup. good night. with accident forgiveness your rates won't go up just because of an accident. switching to allstate is worth it. maria: welcome back. a bold move from the united states with allies great britain and france, helping the u.s. target the regime of bashar al-

maria: all right we will leave it there, michael mukasey, always a pleasure thanks so much >> good toou. maria: we'll take a break when we come back the u.s. and its allies are sending a clear message to the syrian regime. congressman ed royce is a chairman of the foreign affairs committee joins me next to talk about the force taken between the u.s. , france and the uk more as we look ahead on sunday morning futures right here. maria: welcome back. a bold move from the united states with allies great britain and france, helping the u.s. target the regime of bashar al-assad after the syrian dictator killed dozens of his own people in a chemical attack last week. the mission crippling syria's chemical weapons capabilities according to the pentagon but officials admit assad can still carry out chemical attacks. the u.s. warning it remains " locked and loaded" to respond should that happen. president trump on friday talking about two main allies russia and iran. president trump: i also have a message tonight for the two governments most responsible for supporting, equipping and financing

former ag mike mukasey where we are today coming up.xplain. big address before congress. sarah sanders on the trip of the french and will tell us if any minds are changed. big packed two hours coming up with sandra and me. join us seven minutes away. see you then. ainsley: here at fox news we have a one of a kind program for college students to launch their careers in the media industry while they are still in school. steve: that's right, this morning we're joined by our college associates. give yourselves a hand. [applause] they have been assisting us in every department this past year and we would like to introduce to you some of them. rachel is a student at michigan state university. you've been working on "fox & friends." >> yes. >> what don't people know about "fox & friends college associates? >> that you have to get up so early. [laughter]. steve: you're not complaining, are you. >> no, just waking up at 3:00 a.m. is different. steve: what do you want to do when you graduate from college? >> it has changed. initially i wanted to

the president's friends from legal circles, chris christie, rudy giuliani, former attorney general mukaseye been on the president's raid car for months and and rudy was the one he wore down first. >> you think about the joe degenova thing. the president is a restless client. he's calling up jay -- jay goldberg on the phone. trying to hire joe digenova. he's not happy with his legal team and you see him casting a ballot for legal advice. he either doesn't like the advice he's getting or doesn't like the way in which the lawyers he has present themselves. a big part of why he wanted digenova, is he wanted someonon to television arguing a vigorous case for him. he doesn't like these lawyers that sit around and do what lawyers do. he wants a television lawyer. he sees giuliani and says that's a guy that will go out and do what he did during the campaign. be a fierce surrogate on the tv. take the fight to mueller and rosenstein. i'm sure that's a large part of it. the second thing is the notion that rudy giuliani is talking about his role is going to be to strike a settlement with bob mueller.

former secretaries of state henry kissinger and george shultz and former attorney general michael mukasey, among others. now, as i said, we know that some partisans have already sought to twist and distort miss haspel's record and the decisions made in real time by accomplished professionals at a time when our country was under attack. in his haspel's case, there have been questions about intear occasion tactics used in the early days of the war on terror following 9/11. these questions are really pretty easily answered. the program complained of was investigated twice by career lawyers in the justice department. one under president bush and another under president obama, and miss haspel and others were found to have done nothing unlawful. as my colleague, the junior senator from arkansas, has said haspel did not go rogue or make these policies on the fly. she dutifully executed the approved policy as determined by the department of justice, and moreover, she did so at one of the most dangerous moments in our nation's history. i'm confident miss haspel will be confirmed, because if she is