judge gorsuch joined the majority opinion of his colleagues -- an obama appointee, by the way -- in agreeing that it did constitute such a violation, and then wrote a brief concurrence outlining how unclear supreme court precedent was on this particular point. moreover, he stated how, quote, clear, unquote, that, quote, with a little effort, colorado could have achieved its stated policy objectives without offending, unquote, the constitution. in essence, judge gorsuch adopted a particularly narrow position on a relatively minor issue in the grand scheme of campaign finance law. meriting none of his opponents' extrapolations about larger issues of political speech. finally, several of judge gorsuch's writings have called into question the so-called chevron doctrine under which federal courts defer to administrative agencies' interpretations of the law. his opponents have seized on this skepticism to argue that judge gorsuch has somehow reflexively opposed to regulation. well, nothing could be further from the truth. these critics of judge gorsuch will recall the chevron deference first flour

to have an obama appointee prosecute a special investigation. >> here is what we have.eff sessions did the thing he did not have to do. he recused himself voluntarily, something his predecessor refused to do. he took the highest of high ground. he has to be the attorney general that he is and put this nonsense away. i suspect the political reality is going to be different though, we need to be prepared. you have those inside the government, deeply entrenched inside, that will do everything they can to stop any progress going forward because they disagree with that. it is not their role, they are creating the constitutional crisis. not jeff sessions. >> sean: thank you both. appreciate it. coming up, newt gingrich would join us to weigh in on jeff sessions and his recusal. later tonight, former advisor austan goolsbee is here along with lou dobbs to talk about the big impact that the donald trump has had on the economy. that and more on this busy night on "hannity." ♪ (music pla♪ throughout) ♪ ♪ ♪ announcer: get on your feet for the nastiest, most terrifying bull in the

the idea that she's somehow p t partisan or obama appointee, if that's the case, and i like jack ande good things in south georgia when he was representing us, but that means nunes, who was basically on transition team, has no business leading the investigation because it may be skewed some way. that's just not the system we have. sally is a professional. she was acting attorney general at the time. she was privy to information. it's not uncommon, i don't think, to have the attorney general give information to a congressional committee. this is really one of the most important things we can be talking about. that's whether or not we got in bed with the enemy. >> do you think there should be an independent committee? do you think they can still do their job? >> i think they can do their jobs. on cnn tonight you had james langford. people forget the senate has a totally different -- maybe the sniping back and forth that you see in the house is totally the opposite of what you have in the senate. they're going step by step, democrat and republican, and having a very dignified hearing an

judge gorsuch joined the majority opinion of his colleagues -- an obama appointee, by the way -- in agreeing that it did constitute such a violation, and then wrote a brief concurrence outlining how unclear supreme court precedent was on this particular point. moreover, he stated how, quote, clear, unquote, that, quote, with a little effort, colorado could have achieved its stated policy objectives without offending, unquote, the constitution. in essence, judge gorsuch adopted a particularly narrow position on a relatively minor issue in the grand scheme of campaign finance law. meriting none of his opponents' extrapolations about larger issues of political speech. finally, several of judge gorsuch's writings have called into question the so-called chevron doctrine under which federal courts defer to admisttive ancies' interpretations of the law. his opponents have seized on this skepticism to argue that judge gorsuch has somehow reflexively opposed to regulation. well, nothing could be further from the truth. these critics of judge gorsuch will recall the chevron deference first flourished

there is an entire federal bureaucracy and a bunch of obama appointees in all these positions, the senateonfirmed people, they have all of these holdovers of people borrowing and who are undermining his agenda. he needs people in these positions who are loyal to him. >> martha: thanks, you guys. great to see you both. coming up next, our exclusive interview with the fiance of sandra duran, the woman who was struck and killed by a five-time deported illegal immigrant who was driving drunk. plus, a new documentary has a set up a firestorm of controversy. we are back into this discussion and for good reason. raising new concerns about the hours before michael brown's shooting death in ferguson, missouri. we'll talk with a filmmaker, jason pollock, who says of the new video proves michael brown is innocent. we'll ask him to explain. st. louis prosecutor bob mccullough who says the video was edited to fit a false narrative. you don't want to miss this. coming up right after this. >> he traded the store a little bag of weed and got two boxes of cigarillos in return. he left it at the store and

also you have seen obama's appointees in general saying positive things, clinton appointees of said goodt him. the problem the senate democrats is going to have is the left is so enraged, and there is this movement that they will put pressure on senate democrats to obstruct. i think most americans are going to look at gorsuch and say he's a pretty common sense guy, why are democrats opposed to him? they're going to look like the extremists, gorsuch will not. >> interest income you mentioned the former solicitor general did not just say that this is a good guy. he said that if the senate is taken from anyone, gorsuch who sits on the united states court of appeals for the tenth circuit in denver should be a top on any list you put together. that is some love from a democrat. >> interesting when you heard richard blumenthal earlier today say, if he comes before us and is not part of the mainstream, than i'm really going to stand my ground and object. what is the mainstream right no now? there is no center. it really seems like all of these hearings, all of these press conferences, everyone'

just about one hour ago, judge derek watson, a federal judge in hawaii, a and obama appointee, and approvedwould cause irreparable harm to the state. it argued that number one, it was discriminatory towards muslims and secondly, it would harm hawaii's tourism and finally, it would deny about the 5,000 muslims living there a right to see their relatives. i have to tell you, there were multiple legal arguments today but the one issue that was on trial was undoubtedly donald trump himself. the state even conceded, we probably wouldn't be here if another president had proposed identical policy. it was campaign rhetoric by donald trump the proposed muslim ban, the complete shutdown of muslims coming to the united states, that haunt to the courtroom and again. the judge said he was conflicted for you to i supposed to do? turn a blind eye to the statements. context matters. in fact, he said, the feds argued, the administration argued, stay with a metaphorical corners of the document, the executive order himself. he said he could not. let me go to the quote. "because a reasonable, objective observe

the leaks coming out of this administration are not coming fr obama appointees. they're coming from people appointed and brought in by donald trump. what does it say about his administration that apparently his own people are leaking the conversations, his own staff are leaking the conversation, which, by the way are pretty incendiary, some things he's said about foreign leaders. is he going to purge his own staff, too? >> i don't know we can conclude those leaks are from only trump people. we don't know who all is listening in on that. we have an idea but we don't know. that's a single case that's there. we also know there are many stories that have been bled out into the press that were designed to hurt the trump administration. some looks like it was information achieved legally, then it was done so under fisa warrants. if it's released, that's classified information. fitz released, that's a violation of federal statute. so, we should look at that first. those are the stark ones. it's up to -- donald trump, i'm suggesting to him, i hope this echoes to him, if

and he is asking dozens of obama appointees to resign. weijia jang is at the white house tonight with the latest. >> reporter: ken, attorney general jeff sessions says he wants to ensure a uniform transition between the obama administration and the trump administration and that is why he wants 46 u.s. attorneys who were appointed by the former president to resign. the justice department says many of those previously appointed federal prosecutors have already left their positions but sessions wants the holdovers to step down, as well. there are 93 total u.s. attorney positions. it is common for them to leave once a new president takes over, but not automatic. also today, word from the white house that president trump did not know that ousted national security adviser michael flynn may have to register as a foreign agent. flynn was paid to represent turkey's interests during last year's campaign. the white house says lawyers for flynn told the president's transition team about the work, but that the president himself was not made aware. >> a

that's why i said on saturday he needs to purge those people that are obama appointees from this administration they are not loyal to him. you can't carry out your agenda for your people trying to push a different agenda. this comes from some experience. i will just say in general terms i received a briefing from a top cia officer during the middle of the iraq war that was directly contrary to the position and the agenda and the policy of the commander-in-chief. it was designed to undermine that agenda. when i see that and hear that in a place like that in a time of war always was someone like james clapper comes to a classified briefing the second thursday after then gauzy and he azi and he and hillary clinton perpetuate the same information from the sunday before, that arose my confidence in the accuracy of all of our intelligence community. i have great respect for them. there are many patriots. they have some cleanup to do in the run shop. host: they want more time for callers. wendi and roseville, michigan. good morning. caller: good morning. representative keating, mike -- king, my questi

been briefed on this situation with respect to the situation with russia, republican, democrat, obama appointee, career, have all come to the same conclusion. at some point, april, you are going to have to take no for an answer with respect to whether or not there was collusion. it seems like you are hell bep on trying to make sure that whatever image you want to tell about this white house stays because at the ends of the day. >> i am just reporting for -- >> you are asking me a question and i'm going to answer it. which is the president -- i'm sorry. please stop shaking your head again. >> there was plenty of reaction to that. maggie haberman of the "new york times" side on twitter, quote, stop shaking your head again april ryan, who is a grown woman, for her part, april ryan simply replied lord. michael, briana and charlie back with me. michael, you are in washington, you should have to bear an undue portion of this. i'm looking at the associated press. they don't do this often but they put out an advisory, ap fact check. spicer says case closed on russia. it's not. they point out fbi invest

one of dozens of prosecutors caught in the purge of president obama's appointees. this as president trump trying to focus his energy on the health care bill. here's abc's david wright. >> reporter: at the trump justice department, an abrupt changing of the guard. overnight, attorney general, jeff sessions asked for the resignations of all 46 u.s. attorneys left over from the obama administration. i didn't resign. moments ago, i was fired, tweeted preet bharara. u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. he is one of the most prominent federal prosecutors in the country, known as a crusader against corporate corruption. last november at trump tower, he told reporters the president-elect personally asked him to stay. >> we had a good meeting, and i said i would absolutely consider staying on. i agreed to stay on. >> reporter: not anymore. today, the attorney general spared only two of the obama-era prosecutors in virginia and maryland. on thursday, trump loyalist shawn hannity called for a purge. >> for weeks, we have been warning you about the deep state p

get rid of every obama appointee in this government and every obama hire in this government. has to completely clean the slate. 367. lou: chuck schumer is in charge of the confirmation process it's not as easily done as it would seem given their activism in off significance. i'm sorry we are out of time. we'll take this up much more over the next week. we want to recommend a book to you. "game of thorns" about hillary clinton's candidacy. it's available everywhere. thank you for being with us. 367. thank you for being with us. you have a magnificent weekend. good night from new york. >> announcer: from fox business headquarters in new york city, "wall street week." gary: welcome to "wall street week," i'm gary kaminsky. trish rsh -- trish: i'm trish regan. >> to accomplish our goaments ao accomplish our goals we have to make it easier for businesses to do business in the united states. i'm asking all members of congress to join me

get rid of every obama appointee in this government and every obama hire in this government.s it's not as easily done as it would seem given their activism in off significance. i'm sorry we are out of time. we'll take this up much more over the next week. we want to recommend a book to you. "game of thorns" about hillary clinton's candidacy. it's available everywhere. thank you for being with us. 367. thank you for being with us. you have a magnificent weekend. right here next saturday. end. but even today they are speaking. students want to have the space. >> safe space is where coaches go. it is not. these people are

it leaves temporarily an obama appointee in charge of it until he can get himself into the justice departmentdly speaking this russia thing is not going away. if you look at what happened with mike flynn, the national security adviser, it took several stories and several leaks before he finally went and we understood what really happened during his conversations with the russian ambassador. what is bizarre is that jeff sessions basically lied, or mis—remembered under oath during his confirmation hearing about whether or not he had had any contact with the russians during the campaign. he was one of the first senators to come out in support of donald trump. he was viewed as a donald trump surrogate so why he would not press the pause button when he got overtures from the russian ambassador in july when he met him is curious. when he did not admit that under oath was very bizarre. that is probably more of a problem than what they discussed. if you have got nothing to hide, if you are talking about a recipe for a borscht or something, you would say you had a couple of conversations and there was

we learned that obama political appointee's work to spread that information across the government so the trump administration wouldn't be able to run away from this story. obama political appointees kept intelligence analysis at the lowest possible level of classification so as many people as possible could access that information. we know the obama administration loved keeping tabs on russian officials including the ambassador. it's not outside the realm of possibility the trump or his associates would be under surveillance. we don't know who ordered the surveillance or the full extent of what went on. >> kelly: so we are all waiting for the details to come forth from the white house. we understand through sean spicer that they're working on it will get information out to us when they have it available. once this came up this morning the white house and the department of justice had to be scrambling to figure out how to show that the president was right in putting this out. if you is wrong what is that mean for their former administration and what do you anticipate president obama to

been briefed on the situation with respect to the situation with russia, republicans, democrats, obama appointee career have all come to the same conclusion, at some point, april, you're going to have to take no for an answer with respect to whether or not there was collusion. we are going to keep doing every thing are doing to make sure the president, what the president told the american people he was going to do, to bring back jobs, to grow the economy, to keep our nation safe, that is what he has been focused on. >> congress did not support this -- how does their relationship healed since he used a negative word? spicer: it is interesting you ask those back to back. what we doing to improve our image and then here he is meeting somebody that hasn't been a supporter of his. but april. hold on. it seems like you are hell-bent on making sure any image you want to tell about this white house sticks. you know what. you were asking me a question and i'm going to answer it. stop shaking your head, again. if this president continues to reach out to individuals who support him, didn't support him, to

this judge out of hawaii, and the judge out of maryland, barack obama appointees, really overstretched on the ruling here. charles: this is a serious issue. guys, thank you both have as much. really appreciate it. an interesting session for the markets. the deunt a & p -- dow and the s & p finishing down. at old dominion, we see freight... ...as a combination of products and customers. every on-time arrival is backed by thousands of od employees, ...who make sure the millions of products we ship arrive without damages. because od employees treat customer service... ...like our most important delivery. od. helping the world keep promises. searching one topic. that will generate over 600 million results. and if you've been diagnosed with cancer, searching for answers like where to treat, can feel even more overwhelming. so start your search with a specialist at cancer treatment centers of america. start with teams of cancer treatment experts under one roof. start where specialists use advanced genomic testing to guide precision cancer treatment... ...that may lead to targeted therapies a

briefed on the situation with respect to the situation with russia,, republicans, democrats, obama appointee career have all come to the same conclusion, at some point, april, you're going to have to take no for an answer with respect to whether or not there was collusion. .. when used a negative word >> it's interesting that you ask the questions back to back. on the one hand you're saying what are we doing to improve our image and here he is again needing somebody that hasn't been a big supporter of his. hold on. april, hold on. it seems like you are hell-bent on trying to make sure whatever image you want to tell about this white house because at the end of the day, okay. you're asking me a question and i'm going to answer which is the president, stop shaking your head again. at some point the reality is in this president continues to reach out to individuals who supported him, didn't support him, republican, democrat to bring the country together and move forward on an agenda that's going to support every american. if you ask what we are doing we continue to do it which is to bring group

. >> we are going to look at obama appointee, spreading out as much intelligence as possible about the will make sense of it. will they have to go nuclear? and the senate intel committee will take a look at the russian role in the elections. i know about it in july. why do you need to know about it? here we are about to start in april. two other people to talk to. if not just me droning on about something. abby: abby and i will join you. thank you, we will be watching. we will be right back. "fox and friends" first. ♪ i joined the army in july of '98. our 18 year old was in an accident. when i call usaa it was that voice asking me, "is your daughter ok?" that's where i felt relief. we're the rivera family, and we will be with usaa for life. real cheesreal cheese.w life is better100% natural cheese. doesn't matter if it's served on a kitchen table or a picnic table. under a roof or a starry night. the one destination where you can be antisocial with the virtual world, and social with the real one. sargento will always stand for 100% real, natural cheese. every table tells a story, we're

he also went onto talk about the leaks and the obama administration. >> director comey told the house intelligence committee that certain political appointeesn the obama administration had access to the names of unmasked citizens. such as senior white house officials, senior intelligence officials. before president obama left office michael flynn was unmasked and then illegally his identity was leaked out to media outlets. despite the fact that as the nsa director said unmasking and revealing individuals endangers national security. >> that press conference afterward was just fascinating. spicer saying paul manafort had little to do with the campaign and was only there for a short amount of time. paul manafort ran the campaign. >> i've said this a couple times before, but i think it bears repeating. we've probably all worked with sean spicer and knew him in his former life. and that is not the kind of work that we know that he has done in terms of speaking the truth. i mean, he is so wrapped around the -- >> like the stories of richard simmons being trapped in his house. [ laughter ] like what do you, it's like he's a hostage. i knew sean s

he is not wrong in feeling there are a number of obama appointees and people connected to the obama administration placed in different areas of government and that's a concern to them. that is true. they have been slow in putting a lot of the people in place. it's where you go from that to the larger point. there are people within his circle primarily bannon that have been skeptical of the larger intelligence bureaucracy. it's become a political tool but he felt this way for a long time. there's a difference between that and a sitting president saying this is what the president i succeeded did to me without offering evidence. you have to offer the evidence. this was playing to his base. they said i believed for awhile the president was set up. i heard from a bunch of supporters of president trump saying this. >> the amazing thing about the set up is that barrack obama wiretapped donald trump and didn't use any of it. let him get elected president and then the master plan unfo s unfolds. they feel that it's right but that's the difference between feelers and facts. >> he represents the president as

come out and publicly talked about it, republican, democrat, former dni, former cia directors, obama appointees, have said, no evidence. so i get that we keep getting asked -- >> that's not my question. >> my point is that's one of the tweets that he addressed, former dni continues to note, that is true. these are their quotes. this is what they've said. at some point the question has to be to the individuals who said this, chris coons from delaware, former collector clapper, former cia director morale, they are the ones who said these things on the record, they have been brief booed by the intelligence community, by the fbi and said there is no collusion. at some point to fact check the president for merely quoting them is not -- the question should be directed at them, not us. but over and over again it has come to the same conclusion. caitlyn. >> john. >> john, authenticate listen. that was nice of you. it's national ago day. >> thank you sean. thank you caitlyn. i have two questions. first, the author, david horowitz, in his book "the big agenda" writes of what he calls, quote, a deep state

he was an obama appointee. friday the justice department told him and other attorneys to resign and leave office. he refused. he tweeted saturday, that he had had been fired. it is customary for the presidents to pick their own u.s. attorneys, but law enforcement sources say the abruptness of trump's decision without new appointees ready to go and after asking him on caught many by surprise. chris pollone, nbc news. >>> the agency plans to begin raising the fence in the next year or two. those plans were revealed in a 2015 report. >>> be sure to watch this week's edition of "meet the press." chuck todd will have an exclusive interview with tom price. they're going to talk about the republican plan to replace the affordable care act and the effort to sell it to skeptical republicans. chuck will join us for a preview in a few minutes. >>> the 46th annual st. patrick's parade will glide down constitution avenue today. >> it kicks off at noon, will cause multiple street closures along the national mall starting at

and even insinuating former obama appointees could be the source of the leaks. >> do you know whether director clapper knew the name of the u.s. citizen that appeared in the "new york times" and "washington post"? >> i can't say in this forum. >> would director brennan have access to an unmasked u.s. citizen's name? >> in some cases, yes. >> congressman trey gowdy providing no evidence to back up his accusations. >> it wasn't simply that the russians had a negative preference against secretary clinton, they also had a pr positive preference for donald trump. >> comey repeatedly tried to avoid going any further on what the investigation has uncovered. >> i'm not going to talk about any particular person here today. i can't answer that. >> reporter: perhaps anticipating outcry from democrats, comey sought to explain the different between today's testimony and when he spoke with the investigation of hillary clinton as you use of a private server. >> some folks may want to make some comparisons. past instances have spoken about the details of some investigations, but please keep in mind t

but i think wait points to is this distrust of the obama appointees and all the people left over from the administration. the democrats push back and everything donald trump tries to do. so if you are not going to play fair and square with us, you all need to resign. that's part of come batting that anxiety that there might be pushback. >> i had the privilege of serving as a federal prosecutor in brook flynn the eastern district of new york. and there are presidential appointments where this happens all the time. there are acting u.s. attorneys. there is a bifurcation for the business of the government, the prosecution of bad guys, the removal worse guys can continue. the president should have in place the people he needs. whether you won or lost by a certain majority of the nation, the president needs his tools to do what he considers to be in the best interests of law enforcement. the trump administration marking its first 50 days. >> in just these first 50 days the president has taken many key steps delivering on his promises to the american people. complete added 235,000 new jobs

political appointees on left and right, elections have consequences, a lot of these folks are obama appointees, everyone should be concerned about national security, places like saudi arabia are not placed on this. the reason they are not as they have a functional government. unlike yemen. to go back to your original question there are absolutely some members of the left or progressives that are going to -- democrats from time and time again and i have always been critical of this lose the opportunity to shape debate, and expect the other side to fail and this place into that. and when in 2018. and bring ideas forward, focus on the economy and matters in the proposed budget which helps the most vulnerable americans. >> this is good ballot box politics. should something blowup or bad should happen unfortunately public opinion is going to shift so quickly without -- bad things can happen and that should worry all of us. trish: stay with me, and how is it shaping up. trish: looking at those things you may not want to funds, i was spending every dollar unnecessary items, let me give you some examp

sally yates is an obama appointee. lets rr see what the opposition party has to say. s appointed by president obama and i think -- >> didn't she have -- she had an extensive career that department of justice under many different administrations. >> she has been recruited by the democrat party to run for governor in georgia. it's not like she's a casual person who obama selected simply because of her intellect. >> she's not switzerland. >> she is considering running for governor of the state of georgia. but what is important is as you're saying her testimony. i don't see how she can walk that line and do justice for it. >> i'm not too sure why you would want this. her departure led to serious ethical questions about whether she acted correctly. those wondering whether she was acting -- >> you're -- >> yes, where she told them to stand down and not assist a sitting president. she can resign, the way it worked out in the nixon administration. >> i'm just a talk show host, okay. but all this talk about sally yates, misses the point. the point is the military have a phrase,

i think he will start to root out obama appointees across the administration. >> his name is jonathan tran, he was walking close to the exsuperior wall of the white house mansion, and he was carrying two cans of mace. >> to seize this opportunity to repeal and replace obamacare once for for all. we are counting on kentucky. >> this week the republican party are trying to unite the country by kcreating a health care plan everybody could hate together. >> i am christi paul. >> and i am victor blackwell. the republicans planning to replace the affordable care act. how many millions of people could gain or potentially lose their health care coverage. >> the congressional budget office expected to release the price tag for the gop bill tomorrow, and could release what could be a devastating report. >>> and law makers don't know if there's proof, and the deadline set for the committee for any alleged evidence for wiretaps. >>> and then a man facing a federal judge who breached steury and how close he really got to the president. >>> first, we are learning president trump through an assistan

but obama appointees were to keep the classification level a people as possible could have access to rd reports that obama administration officials were planting questions during briefings that would lead to answers about russian intelligence knowing that they would be archived and sending reams of information to members of congress asking questions about this. the obama administration is not necessarily known for its speedy responses to congressional requests when it comes to other investigations that they would rather not have proceed like the irs investigation or the benghazi investigation. they were stone walling. they wanted to make sure that trump wouldn't run away with this once he became president. >> neil: thank, sarah. all right. i'm sure you heard what she's saying, i'm sure you heard the allegations that donald trump has that president obama himself personally authorized tapping trump tower phones. donald trump's phones. you're probably saying, as we've been going around here with other news organizations, they're bogus, silly, must be made up. i've seen all sorts of chara

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i think you have people within the government, what you call the deep state, bureaucrats, obama appointeest hate donald trump. >> sean: congressman steve king at tweeted the following, donald trump needs to purge leftists from the executive branch before disloyal and treasonous acts sink us. supporn to hear this and act now. for months, deep state antagonists they've been working overtime to try to delegitimize donald trump's presidency, we have seen how low they'll go without insinuating any evidence that some sort of campaign with russia. there's no evidence come it's not true. just days ago, wikileaks published some very disturbing information about the cia. smartphones, other devices, and actually recorded sound images and even encrypt messages on your iphone and android. wikileaks has also alleged that the cia has the ability to utilize very sophisticated malware that can make it appear that cyber activity is being conducted by other nations when in fact they meeting those within our government may be responsible. in their press release they specifically point out that they could be d

they followed tradition and ask for 48 obama appointees. preet bharara treated that he was fired.at he was claiming independence in his fight against public corruption. he'd actually reach out to him. he reportedly refused to take the call the thinking is maybe he will give him a heads up. this is par for the course for early administration. obama did it, clinton did it, but that's just not enough. all of those on the left that are freaking out about all of this. isn't that important to remember we are calling it a phony scandal. part of the national media attention. the new york times. politico i love this. they did the cut. they won't will release. and replace. this is what they are trying to do. we're specific it supposed to get upset about the release. nobody else but the media cares about it. looks like about this particular gentleman. he dismounts his chance to have the spotlight on him. why is he making such a big deal out of all of this. >> they want it to be in controversy. bill clinton got rid of choices many attorneys. that's not the issue. that's not what the media is

director comey told the committee certain appointees in the obama administration had second quarter's to the names of unmasked u.s. citizens such as senior white house officials, senior department of justice officials, and senior intelligence officials. before president obama left office michael flynn was unmasked and illegally his identity was leaked out to media outlets despite the fact that as director rogers said unmasking endangers national security. not only was general flynn's identity made available director comey refused to answer the question whether or not he had actually briefed president obama on his phone calls and activities. director comey called these types of disclezures of classified information a threat to national security and said he will investigate and pursue these matters to the full extent of law. he also said that the leaking of classified information has become quote unusually active in the time frame in question. it's also important to note that both directors comey and rogers told the committee they have no evidence that votes were changed in the swing st

this wasn't, you know, obama appointees, i talked to career people who served republicans and democrats. it happened. we can't miss that context. that's why it's very, very different trump campaign officials having contact with russians versus chuck schumer as a gas station many years ago. >> and one that has been reported about is carter page. he was on with anderson earlier tonight. his name is out there because he apparently met with the russian ambassador during the campaign, but i want to play what he said about russia meddling in the elections. >> for that same reason, do you believe that russia meddles in the internal political affairs of other countries? >> i don't know anything about na. >> you don't know anything about that? >> listen, based on that intel report, it's all politics. if you read -- >> wait a minute. i got to jump in here. i only have an undergraduate degree, so i'm not as educated as you are, but i've studied the soviet union a fair amount. you have a ph.d. right? you can honestly say you don't knee anything about whether russia meddles in the internal political

. >> what happens to be a fact is that sally yates is a president obama appointee, what it's schiff, humer or pelosi, sally yates was appointed by president obama. >> she did have an extensive career in the department of justice. >> she is being recruited by the democrat party in georgia to run for governor. so it's not like she's just a casual person that obama selected simply because of her intel electric. >> she's not switzerland. >> she's obviously a partisan. she's going to run as a democrat for governor of georgia. i don't see how she can walk this line and do justice to it. >> i'm not sure why you would want this. her departure led to serious ethical questions on whether she acted correctly. and there are those who wonder whether she was acting for her own aspirations, that she told an entire justice department to stand down and not assist the president. she can resign, the way it worked out in the nixon administration, but many people have questioned that. >> i'm just a talk show host, but all this talk, sally yates, what is she going to say? misses the point, the military hav

1000 jobs in the federal bureaucracy, but most of them rmb or filled with former president obama's appointeesveral told bloomberg that they turn down jobs because the administration's lobbying ban. the white house says there is no shortage of candidates. the environmental protection agency chief scott pruitt says he doesn't believe carbon dioxide is up primary contributor to climate change. he tells cnbc, "there is disagreement about the degree of impact." comments are accounted to the conclusion of climate scientists, who blame record high temperatures across the globe on greenhouse gases. last year was the hottest to date the third consecutive record year. fresh off his reelection as european union council president today, donald tusk conceded he recognized the paradox involved in the process. he won the seat despite fierce opposition from his native poland, where some favored another top politician over the former prime minister. the government says tusk supports the domestic opposition and failed to protect the country's interests in the eu. he was elected in the eu summit in malta. globa

i want you to listen to sean hannity on fox news demanding that trump purge all obama appointees. ke a listen. >> for weeks we've been warning you about the deep state obama holdover government bureau cats who are hell bent on destroying this president, president trump. tonight it's time for the trump administration to begin to purge these saber tos before it's too late. >> is there -- listening to sean hannity there, do you think that the anger with obama leftovers has grown to such a pitch that the trump administration has said, you know what, we want them all out? >> look, that may be. and it's worth reminding the viewers that u.s. attorneys are essentially patronage appointees and serve at the pleasure of the president. it is not remarkable, in fact, it is expected that the u.s. attorneys will leave so that the new president can appoint his u.s. attorneys. the thing that's weird about this is the way it happened. you have to wonder whether it was intentional. i said earlier that perhaps it was just incompetence, but it seems so incompetent that you have to wonder whether there

of justice by political appointees until january 20th those political appointees for barack obama's appointeesjust like members of his national security council was. there's obviously a lot of leaks coming up from current or former administration officials did i suspect much of that information comes from former obama officials who have not been able to come to grips with the fact donald trump on the selection in the story right there doesn't make sense on its face. the information is preserved, almost always shared with congress. any effort to destroy it would not be effective. finally, as part of our inquiry on the senate intelligence committee, we've been given access to highly sensitive foundational documents that were the basis of the intelligence community for the bush assessment that didn't happen in the obama. that happened in the trump administration. chris: we had another development this week attorney general sessions recused himself from involvement in this investigation. do you trust the justice department now the session saturday to investigate itself were given the fact that if

these are not obama appointees. there's not a deputy for restriction tillerson at the state department. and state department officials are not taejd meetings between the president and other foreign officials. he likes to bring his son-in-law instead. and the state department only yesterday started its pressing briefings which had abruptly stopped after the obama administration. there's a 37% cut in its budget. 37%? we haven't heard a peep from the secretary of state. apparently that will not be a problem. looking at that thing that's happening in washington, turn telescope around freak and look through the other side. look through the other side of the telescope in terms of what is going on in this part of washington. if you're russia, whether or not you have a personal preference about who you want to be president of the united states, if you're russia, what you want is on end to the uni polar world where the united states leads the west, and you're not part of that. if you're vladimir putin, you have no desire to

he was an obama appointee. friday, the justice department told him and 45 other u.s. attorneys to resign and leave office. bharara refused. he tweeted saturday that he had been fired. it is customary for presidents to pick their own u.s. attorneys, but law enforcement sources tell nbc news the abruptness of trump's decision without new appointees ready to go and after asking bharara to stay on caught many by surprise. chris pollone, nbc news. >>> the i-team has been closely following the struggles the secret service had with the white house fence. the agency plans to begin raising it in the next year or two. the plans first revealed in a 2015 i-team report including new taller base, and the use of spikes to make the top of the self-defense harder to climb. >>> watch this week's edition of "meet the press," chuck todd is going to have an exclusive interview with tom price. they'll talk about the republican plan to replace the affordable care act, and the skeptical republicans. chuck is also going to join us for a live preview at 10:15 this morning. >>> a look outside,

attorneys, the country's most important federal prosecutors, all obama appointees, told the quit. this and of itself is not unusual. these political appointees are often asked to resign during political transition. but tonight some never even had the chance before they found out through media reports. speaking of the media, the administration acted just a day after a prominent right-wing talk show host loudly called for a purge. jessica schneider has been working her sources on this. she joins us on this. the u.s. attorney firings. what are you learning? >> we're getting new information, john. the president has phoned two u.s. attorneys tonight telling them he's declining to accept their resignation. those are the two acting deputy attorney general dana boente and rod rosenstein, up for deputy attorney general. we saw his confirmation hearings this week. as for the firings of the other 44, those came swiftly and abruptly. the people i talked with said they were flabbergasted this happen sod suddenly, no notice. it is normani for a president to want his own u.s. attorney appointees

i think he's going to root out obama appointees across the board. this is a high profile one and so people are going to pay taepgs to it, but it's part o a rooting out of obama administration people and that's exactly what he should be doing. >> ripyan, is this standard proceed yur or is he a victim of political warfare? >> i have to agree with what was just said. it's important to distinguish when we're koring trump with the episodes that really break with political norms and there have been quite a few and those that are the frankly business as usual. and i think the you know, the warning that you were going to be fired as a u.s. attorney came on november 8th and now look, you have two mitigating factors here that are interesting. one, he did have this private conversation with president-elect trump. trz in trump tour and seems to have had some asnurns that he could go out to the cameras and say he would be staying on and it's probably worth finding out more about if he character ied that conversation correctly and if so, why did trump change his m

preet was a obama appointee.ming in. it really is a intentional mischaracterization to make the president look back. >> of course. it's the permanent campaign against president trump. he is winning. he is leading this economy out of the mess. he is going to get a repeal and replace bill passed. he is on the right track and all they have to do is the permanent campaign against him. >> it's not just liberals this morning. as you know there are staunch conservatives out there that are not having it when it comes to the president's plan for health care. sarah palin in an interview from bit news saying this is government-controlled health care, the system that requires enrollment on a affordablal, unconstitutional medicine. and there is still an aspect of socialism and that's the whole premise here. she's calling the president's health care repeal replacement plan socialism. is this the battle they're about to face? >> well, it is and the white house, you know, needs to be paying very close attention. look, president

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