judge mukasey thank you for joining us. we just heard my interview with dierb cuccinelli about the horrors of the political prosecutions what he knowledges by the obama administration and his experience certainly has some implication i think for the russia investigation as we look at the unholy alliance of f.b.i. director jim comey and the doj prosecutors. what do you beening the run away prosecution that we are concerned about? >> in a normal course that case would have been prosecuted with the outcome being a fine. it's not one of the brighter chapters that he participated in prosecuting this in the way they he did. we'll e we've had a couple of other ding and debts, but that was i think a pretty substantial one. >> laura: judge mukasey, adam schiff said the pardon of dierb cuccinelli is a transparent effort by the president to signal to others, look if you do right by me, i'll do right by you >> it is a further evidence of a corrupt attempt on the president's part and obstructing and in the firing of comey and other effo

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look at the language that mo mukasey uses, surveillance of the building.dividual, someone like carter page, walks into trump tower with the cell phone that the fbi is listening to. would you say that trump tower is being surveilled? i think you could say that. but what the president is trying to suggest that mukasey said trump tower is being surveyed. that's not what the judge said. >> and we want to point out those comments from michael mukasey, former attorney general, were made a year or so ago. they weren't made in the last few days. so sabrina, where is all of this heading? >> look, i think that the president is trying to revive what was an unsubstantiated claim that president obama had somehow wiretapped trump tower, as phil alluded to. and this is part of a long list now of falsehoods that the president has perpetuated with respect to the russia investigation. because he has only one objection, and that is to discredit the work of the fbi and the special counsel. i also think it's notable that every time you return to this idea of rod rosenstein as

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tweeting former attorney general micha michael mukasey -- keeping them honest, then fbi director jamesat he had zero information to support those claims. again, no records found and in fact the justice department last friday reiterated if a court file that neither the fbi. with all that, i am joined by former attorney general mukasey. >> i know what he said, this was a statement made in 2015. and i think what i said at the time was there had probably been surveillance but hadn't been done on orders of president obama. >> and you were talking about surveillance on fisa report. >> based on that, there had been surveillance. we have learned a lot more since then. but that is what we knew at the time. >> i am wondering what you are seeing, the recent polling shows the criticism seems to be having an impact. what do you make of that? doin does it concern you? this drum beat is having an impact. >> on what? >> an impact on public perception. >> does it concern me? not really, because robert mueller isn't guided by and shouldn't be guided by the percentage of opinion poll. if i were in his pl

in fact mean there was change in policy let's play the sound bite, get your reaction to mike mukasey. >> when you say we have to close out the investigation, that is not expression of opinion, that is statement of what you have to do on your job. strzok was one of the super supervisors. she was counsel to the director of fbi. these are not street agents. david: shortly after donald trump was nominated, peter strzok said get rid of hillary email investigation. move on to trump russia. did bias translate into anti-trump policy for the fbi. >> without a doubt. the attorney, the good gentleman is exactly right, it actually translated into actions that they took. peter strzok had disproportionate amount of leadership, of decision making over this particular investigation. i can tell you based on documents i've seen, some not reported on, there is a real issue of bias as it relates to donald trump and the russia investigation. >> very quickly, only 10 seconds, it has to be yes or no. are you running for speaker of the house? >> i am not. i am not. david: really? that is definitive no? >> t

mukasey, thank you very much. >> good to be with you. >> laura: you may have suspected samantha bee's apology to ivanka trump -- what she said behind closed doors when the press wasn't invited. don't move. ♪ with expedia you could book a flight, hotel, car and activity all in one place. ♪ >> laura: time for friday follies. is that really follies? >> the follies looks a little beaten up. a little beaten up. >> laura: that's okay. samantha bee's apology to ivanka trump seems fake. here's what she said, "the new york times" best selling author, raymond is going to tell us, raymond, this was a television awards ceremony. what great timing. >> this is from the television academy, that grants the emmys. they gave samantha a special award, samantha bee, for her social activism. this is a woman who told ivanka trump, you're a feckless "c" word and you should wear something tight and low-cut so your father will change your immigration policies. she had to apologize for that. but the ceremony in which the media wasn't allowed into, we don't have the audio, but we have the transcript. here's wha

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there is a former attorney general mike mukasey who was on fox news yesterday who talked about how thatrocess worked. >> that's true, ebb has got a right to an opinion. but when you say we have to close out this investigation. that's not an expression of opinion. that's a stwaivment you have to do on your job. strzok was one of the supervisors and lisa page was counsel to the deputy director of the fbi. these were not treat agents. david: you are entitled to your opinion but you are not allowed to let it affect your job and that's probably what happened. they probably changed the investigative course of what the fbi was looking at moving the hillary clinton investigation over to russia with all the false narratives coming out of that. >> peter strzok was a prime mover when it came to the dossier and surveillance. the idea it's anti-trump bias where he was highlighting the role in the investigation. in stopping trump, making up for what he allegedly did to make make hillary clinton's election more challenging. i don't know how you can separate the two. that's where the i.g. failed. the f

mukasey that said he was not right.g that the phones were tapped and there was a fisa warrant. so he's just tweeting out things that are not true. >> well, he's proved throughout this investigation that he's willing to say things that are not true. and in a criminal court, every juror in has said if a juror deliberately lies the, you can throw out anything they say. liars will lie. i think the fbi saw concerning contacts with people traveling to russia, his family members were taking meetings to russia. his fixer was trying to put a trump tower in russia. they didn't disclose any of this. of course we would want the fbi to look at this. we don't want any american president to be compromised. >> when we come back, the president suggesting undocumented people deported without due process. what about the over 2,000 children still separated from parents? . i am all about living joyfully. ♪ hello. the new united explorer card hooks me up. getting more for getting away. rewarded! going new places and tasting new flavors. rewa

mukasey that said he was not right.s were attempted and there's a fisa warrant. so he's just tweeting out things that are not true. >> well, he's proved throughout this investigation that he's willing to say things that are not true. and in a criminal court, every juror in has said if a juror deliberately lies the, you can throw out anything they say. liars will lie. i think the fbi saw concerning contacts with people traveling to russia, his family members were taking meetings to russia. they didn't disclose any of this. of course we would want the fbi to look at this. we don't want any american president to be compromised. >> when we come back, the president suggesting undocumented people deported without due process. ♪ ♪ wake up early, o. ♪ slap on some cologne ♪ i'm 85 and i wanna go home ♪ ♪ just got a job ♪ as a lifeguard in savannah ♪ ♪ i'm 85 and i wanna go home ♪ ♪ dropping sick beats, they call me dj nana ♪ ♪ 85 and i wanna go don't get mad. get e*trade, kiddo. (barry murrey) when you have a really traumatic i

let's get reaction out from former attorney general mike mukasey. it's great to see you. you just heard from the congressman, this is wild. the justice that you have received all the documents that you are essentially entitled to. where are we tenant, judge? >> i haven't seen the subpoena for the document so i'm in the dark about where we are. but it's not an impossible task to turn over documents. we would have to do more discussing between and amongst themselves then posturing publicly. >> laura: it looks like the documents nunez requested were about informants placed inside the trump campaign, or who approach the drum campaign. i think they are trying to determine when this investigation really began. they were saying that it began at the end of july 2016, but indications are that it began really in the spring of 2016. the state department was very well involved, christopher steele and that dossier, i think that's what they are worried about. and who was the impetus judge from the very beginning. >> that's what we need to know is when it started and how. to the extent

>> that's the criticism that has come from others, the former attorney general, michael mukasey. >> neil point. i don't like to see the exercise of criminal power with regard to a situation in which even if the statutes allow it to prosecute in the absence of criminal intent. it's a dangerous game to play. >> neil: that was the issue for him as well. >> i think that's right. >> neil: that could be proven. >> and i think the question is unless you can prove really an extreme case of gross negligence bordering on recollectness -- in other words, the equivalent of intent, you ought not to be prosecuting. that's the judgments that michael horowitz came to. that was correct. look at the host of problems that were occasioned by this investigation when leadership wasn't in place. >> neil: thank you. we did want to pick your brain on that we're going to hear from the present fbi director and what he makes of this, christopher wray. very rare to him to have a statement on this and of course he will talk to reporters and get his take on this on what happens to the fbi, where to from from here. "th

he serveas a justice department official as well, under former attorney general michael mukasey. gentleman, we welcome you to the program. we've been waiting for this report forlonths. john c, to you first. so on the one hand the report says that james comey as insubordinate, he exercised serious error in judgment, but then it goes on to say there was no evidence of bias in what he did. what are we to make of this in. >> i think report is quite clear that after over a yearlong investigation, 500 pages, what the inspector general found was that thedejusticartment, f.b.i., and career prosecutors made their decsions for te right reasons. it said quite clearly noev ence that the prosecutors were affected by any bias or any other improper consideration. that's thest important takenaway when it comes to vital institutions like the justice department. >> woodruff: is that how you see it, thomas dupree, that that's the most important thing, even though there's finding of insubordination? >> it's a sad day for f.b. the sense that a former senior official has been found to haven ged in mis

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former attorney general michael mukasey had some interesting comments. he knows about these realms.'re finding out about the way he did his day job. including his participation and putting informant into the trump campaign, maybe we're better off with him as kind of an amateur pundit. i think he may be projecting his own views, if i may be an amateur psychiatrist for the moment, on to the president. because he is going to have a lot to answer for. i believe when the entire story gets told about what the cia was doing in connection with the running of the investigation and what it was doing with regard to what had been its informant. pete: i like it with michael mukasey says what i said even though i didn't know he was going to say it. he is going to have a lot to answer for if is he wrong. abby: that's exactly right. what he also said he is putting his own personal political beliefs on all of this. that's a dangerous place to be especially when you are a role. >> interesting another bigster this week is the president again trying to negotiate better trade deals. fairer trade for ame