this is going to get really ugl ugly. >> unelected bureaucrats. >> sean: and obama holdovers. bigger danger is, you have the media colluding and that they are salivating. they thought tonight was the big night. sorry to disappoint. it was a higher rate than obama paid. sara carter, she is going to weigh in on the deep state actors working to take down the trump administration. sara carter's excellent reporting has uncovered no evidence, none, in spite of what nbc and cnn tell you every day. she will join us exclusively next and later tonight, matt and mercedes schlapp are here as we continue. here's to the heroes -- america's small business owners. and here's to the heroes behind the heroes, who use their expertise to keep those businesses covered. and here's to the heroes behind the heroes behind the heroes, who brought us delicious gyros. actually, the gyro hero owns vero's gyros, so he should have been with those first heroes. ha ha! that's better. so, to recap -- small business owners are heroes, and our heroes help heroes be heroes when they're not eating gyros delivered b

this is going to get really ugly. >> unelected bureaucrats. >> sean: and obama holdovers. the bigger danger is, you have the media colluding and that they are salivating. they thought tonight was the big night. sorry to disappoint. it was a higher rate than obama paid.e sara carter, she is going to weigh in r on the deep state actors working to take down the trump administration. sara carter's excellent reporting has uncovered no evidence, none, in spite of what nbc and cnn tell you every day. she will e join us exclusively next and later tonight, matt and mercedes schlapp are here as we continue. mercedes schlapp are here as we continue. ♪ if you have moderate to severe ulcerative colitis or crohn's, and your symptoms have left you with the same view, it may be time for a different perspective. if other treatments haven't worked well enough, ask your doctor about entyvio, the only biologic developed and approved just for uc and crohn's. entyvio works by focusing right in the gi-tract to help control damaging inflammation and is clinically proven to begin helping many patie

obama holdovers, state, intelligent, they have to go. whoever the leakers are, in the intelligence community, all these agencies -- they areth giving the profession a bad name. i'm certain it is a small few. a >> there only a few people that have this information. only a few people can be leaking that. they ought to run them down, take them out, prosecute them, punish them and fired them. >> sean: do you have faith in comey? >> everything i heard about the guy, he has real character, dignity and honor but i do not understand -- the guys in these agencies have an obligation to run out these people that betray their oath's. committing felonies. why does not the fbi investigate that? suppose somebody in trump's t campaign got on the phone after a night of drinking and called the russian ambassador and look, that's not a crime. james clapper says no crime has been committed but crimes are being committed regularly. >> sean: violation of the espionage act. >> the fourth state collaborators. first amendment protection working with these deep s

. >> for weeks we've been warning you for the deep state obama holdover bureaucrats who are hell bent on destroying this president, president trump, tonight it's time for the trump administration to begin to purge these saboteurs before it's too late. >> well, 24 hours after that, the white house did just that when it came to u.s. attorneys. at the same time, the ethics watchdog group citizens for ethics and responsibility in washington wrote this letter you see here to bharara. they asked him to investigate trump organization ties to foreign governments. attorney for the trump organization then told npr that the letter was factually inaccurate, legally erroneous and politically motivated. let's bring in nbc's monica alba at the white house. mon, ka what are you hearing if anything from the white house, of course u.s. attorney general jeff sessions all part of this request for these u.s. attorneys to resign? >> well, richard, we're not hearing anything officially from white house officials at this time. they're referring everything over to the department of justice, as you can imagine

my message.this simple, every holdover from the obama administration, they need to go.horough investigation of leakers needs to be conducted and people have committed felonies, violated the espionage act, like in the case of lieutenant general michael flynn, they need to be prosecuted and all of those who aren't actively working to fix the country need to be shown the door. it's hurting a lot of people. join us now, editor-in-chief nationally syndicated radio host laura ingraham is with us, the author of the big agenda, we've got all of these leaks happenin happening, all of a sudden they happening with some of the intelligence are politicized, not all, there are a lot of good people there, but some. look at what lincoln did, look at what clinton did, time for the same actions by president trump? >> i was scratching my head when i learned and i know you were concerned about as well, there were a number of obama holdovers that remained behind after inauguration. part of it was the slow pace of the transition after they showed chris christie the door and brought the new t

the deep state obama holdovers, the saboteurs. they are trying to prevent the president from doing his job. are they spending so much time on these things. i think that purge needs to happen. i think the u.s. attorneys was only the first step in my humble opinion. thank you both for being with us. up next, tonight, right here on "hannity"... >> i have no idea where they got it but it is illegal. and you are not supposed to have it and it is not supposed to be leaked. >> sean: president trump reacts to his 2005 tax return being leaked. somebody committed a felony. up next, newt gingrich weighs in on that. >> we are going to repeal and replace horrible, disastrous obamacare. >> sean: president trump during his rally, and nashville usa said obamacare must be repealed and replaced. all of that, jay sekulow, sharyl attkisson, and more straight ahead. americans - 83% try to eat healthy. yet up 90% fall short in getting key nutrients from food alone. let's do more. add one a day 50+ a complete multi-vitamin with 100% daily value of more

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he's an obama holdover, confirmed by the senate.nd he's widely respected within the justice department. now, we are expecting a new deputy, rod rosenstein, to be the next deputy attorney general. his confirmation hearing is up for next week. he too is a holdover from the obama administration. and not only that, he was -- he is the longest-serving u.s. attorney, having been appointed first by george w. bush. i think the justice department is going to argue that they can handle the investigation without the need of a special prosecutor or appointing someone outside the department. >> what's the likelihood, though, of a special prosecutor? what could make it happen inside of the justice department? >> well, in fact, it is up to the justice department and the attorney general and then i guess, in this case, the deputy tomorrow, to decide -- the deputy attorney general, to decide whether to appoint a special prosecutor. it's not up to congress. there is just a lot of institutional pressure here or prerogative to keep the investigation wi

are there deep state obama holdover operatives working behind the scenes to try and undermine the trump eadministration? former speaker of the house newt gingrich weighs in. later tonight. >> we ran on i repeal and replace plan, that's what this is that we ran on, now i am intent on making sure we fulfill our promises. >> sean: speaker ryan is correct, republicans promise for years, why so much infighting, why wasn't this resolved in four? also michelle malkin here, shehe will join us tonight as well comfortable you are in it. so find a venus smooth that contours to curves, flexes for comfort, and has a disposable made for you. skin smoothing venus razors. crazy. [ chuckles ] [ male announcer ] you get it all started... you bring them all together... [ chatter ] ...and sometimes cart them around, too. and when it comes to making custom t-shirts that make the event, you do it all with customink. with the best collection of styles and graphics to choose from, it's easy to go online and create custom t-shirts and more for all of life's events. free shipping and on-time delivery is guarante

there have been, yes, a lot of leaks, and they might have something to do with obama holdovers.ut i think we should take the president literally and seriously with regard to this. >> i think that's an important point, because if you look at obama's statement, he said "i didn't order it" and he said "no one in the white house ordered it" but he didn't say it didn't happen. he said he didn't do it. >> okay. let's do this. still no evidence, though. it is knowable, i've said this now for four days in a row, it is knowable, the president is the one to know it. still no evidence has been offered to back up the claims of the wiretapping. as for republicans who are now in charge of looking into this, they haven't seen anything as of yet. listen to this, guys. >> i'm not sure what it is he is talking about. if it's true, obviously we're going to find out very quickly. and if it isn't, then obviously he'll have to explain what i meant by it. >> i've seen no evidence of the allegations we've seen in the media. >> i have not seen that evidence. as you know, i think a lot of that was maybe

there's been a lot of pressure on the white house to clean out those obama holdovers. this is, i think, going to be part of a broader sweep that we're going to see. with all due respect to attorney general gonzales, he's right that the president absolutely has the authority and is often exercising it to remove people. but there is a -- you know, if -- it's just -- i don't think it's right to say you're going to get the same outcome in the investigations as you would if a new person comes in. it's not going to make any difference in the outcomes. if it doesn't make any difference in the outcomes, the president wouldn't be firing these people. the white house believes if you put in new people, you'll have an attorney general that will be more favorably inclined toward them. that's human nature. and i think we all -- the context is how we ought to see this. >> we're just getting this into our newsroom here, some new information, a source apparently close to president trump telling my colleague, jake tapper, that then president-elect trump told bharara wanted to keep him o

she was the obama holdover acting as attorney general who was fired by president trump because she said the justice department would not defend the trump administration's first travel ban. but just before she was fired, she was the very same sally yates who tipped off the white house to the fact that michael flynn wasn't telling the truth about his meetings with russia's ambassador to the u.s. yates also told the white house she was worried that flynn was further vulnerable to blackmail by moscow. sally yates was due to testify in a house intelligence hearing scheduled for today. here is what that testimony would have included, according to ranking member adam schiff. >> the chair did not want the hearing to go forward with sally yates because it would be very damaging to the white house. she has important information the public ought to hear about what led to the firing of michael flynn. that testimony involves flynn's secret conversations with the russian ambassador on the subject of sanctions. those sanction dealt with russian hacking of our elections designed to help donald trump. s

there's pressure from right wing media and within the white house to furge government of holdovers from the obama administration. these folks, these attorneys are certainly holdovers. whether or not they are act in a political capacity, they're not supposed to, they are sworn to uphold the law. they may be seen within the white house as part of hose holdovers trying to trip up the administration. >> talk about the timing here, because there is -- what are the investigation that this particular u.s. attorney may or may not have been looking into or will look into in the future that does in his district involve trump tour and the home of donald trump. the second piece is as beth was bringing up, he shouldn't just go into the sunset here because it's very typical for a new administration to say i want new u.s. attorneys. >> right. it's important to know as we've discussing that president trump did act within his legal authority. there's nothing improper or, frankly, unusual about a new president dismissing attorneys who are holdovers from the prior and the administration. the interesting thing is th

lot of concerns coming straight from the president and others in the administration about these obama holdovers a lot of their supporters, if you look at some of the right wing media, these deep state people. these are people that some in the administration believe are leaking to the media and are some sort of way working against their goals, the trump administration goals. now a lot of these, yes, they were politically appointed but they are professionals so that might have something to do with it. this is all happened very quickly, i'm sure we'll hear more about why they decided to do it in this matter. >> we know sean hannity was calling to get rid of some of these u.s. attorneys and asking trump to, where do you think the information got their advice on doing this? >> i think broadly the administration has been expressing great frustration with the idea that the bureaucracy and the people that remained in the administration from the obama administration are acting against their agenda and frankly they're not always wrong about that. i think a lot of the leaking we're seeing from the white h

are always directed at two times", the "new york and "washington post" because they know these obama holdoversn these intelligence communities that the "new york times" and "washington post" will run with this kind of stuff. barack obama is the first president in 238 years to stay in the city of washington and miles from thee white house. what he has done, he has turned organizing for action and indivisible, which is another far left-wing site, into an army. this is what is happening at these republican town halls. these people are given a manual on how to act and what to say and what to do at the town hall. this is the reason i think for donald trump's paranoia. it may just be paranoia. i don't know. this deserves a closer look. lovee, please, even if you him, do not dismiss the fact that barack obama and his people still that are the holdovers cannot dismiss that he has something to do with this or his people did. host: here is the response from the president's spokesperson that came out yesterday. here is part of what he said in reaction to the claims by president trump. he said "cardinal r

in which he said these are obama holdovers in government who are trying to undercut the president's agenda. >> uh-huh. >> this has been widely repeated on social media. does the president himself believe in this deep state? >> well, i have asked thi -- been asked this question before. i will a give you the same answer i've given before which is i think there are people that borrow into the government after an administration. this is going back since the gingham of time. they used to call it rams becking. is suddenly no longer permitted. but this has been going on since the country came to be, where people burrow in after an administration into a civil servant job. but, sure, there is people after eight years of obama that found their way into government. so it should be no huge secret. >> all right. >> okay? >> yes. by other question -- >> rams becking? >> oh, yeah. >> oh, google it. >> i remember -- >> have you ever seen my spelling. come on, ram speccing. it was named after -- we are going to go through a his three less on here, guys. >> a former congressman. >> right. >> my other questi

. >> for weeks we've been warning you about the deep state obama holdover government bureau cats whore 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 was maybe some method to the madness, that this was actually -- the trump white house wanting to show some muscle

in many cases, decisions are being made by obama holdovers.athetic that the democrats have not approved his entire cabinet. pa thethetic is the word to fil open jobs, and it is not the democrats who have that responsibspon responsibili responsibility. hope to see you sunday morning. a quick break, and wolf blitzer is in the chair. blackberry complex. younger looking skin can start today. absolutely ageless® from aveeno®. the slopes like i used to. i even accept i have a higher risk of stroke due to afib, a type of irregular heartbeat not caused by a heart valve problem. but whatever trail i take, i go for my best. so if there's something better than warfarin, i'll go for that too. eliquis. eliquis reduced the risk of stroke better than warfarin, plus had less major bleeding than warfarin. eliquis had both. don't stop taking eliquis unless your doctor tells you to, as stopping increases your risk of having a stroke. eliquis can cause serious and in rare cases fatal bleeding. don't take eliquis if you have an artificial heart valve or abnormal b

there were leaks during the trump campaign hardly the doing of obama holdovers.d, the sense of hypocrisy is a little strong here considering donald trump 100 times on the campaign trail extolled the virtues of wikileaks. he said, i love wikileaks. somehow, now that his goose is getting cooked, it looks a bit different. third, i think what is going on here is, trump has whopper after whopper, whether it is the electoral college, one after another. i think people in the administration don't know that the truth will actually come out. they say that see that the trus trump's energy, they say, it works for him, may be me too. >> jesse: the difference, that was john d podesta with leaks about chelsea clinton. these are between your national securityna advisor, conversatios trump is having with the leaders of countries. >> 17 intelligence agencies said that russians, they were trying to subvert the u.s. elections. that is serious. we don't know yet, that if any of paul manafort, roger stone, talking with theha russians, incidentally, not just a coincidence that wikileak

but let us get back to deep state shadow government and the fact that you have all these obama holdoversple that need to be confirmed, only last week that we get carson and rick perry. all these people, all these lifetime bureaucrats and now all these intelligence leaks, all of them are a felony, are they not? >> they are a felony. you basically have unelected unaccountable bureaucrats deep within the government. the shadow government. these bureaucrats are not locked up at all with this administration. they are counter to it. in their view, they are saving the country. then you have the leaks. the most telling aspect of this, something you and i talked about, 17 days before obama leaves office -- 17 days before he leaves office, he had been in office for eight full years, he changes the way in which signal intel is distributed. since the reagan era it would just go to the nsa. they decided where the raw data would go. he changed it with 17 days left. it makes a much more difficult to determine who is engaged in the leaks but what is getting lost in this entire discussionff and that is w

thes white hou white house t frame sally yates, not the white house, but republicans as barack obama holdover. she will be able to go to the hill and say this is what we saw. >> let's think it through. jackie, sally yates comes in and said i went to the white house and there is a mismatch here. they forced flynn to resign. what do they fear in terms of exposure? >> they don't want to talk about nie michael flynn anymore. look at the answers that sean spicer was giving. you saw the frustration are. the idea that new information coming out that makes it look like the white house is not being straight with the american people because it has nothing to do with the media. it has anything to do what explaining to the american people. one of the biggest issues with the russia debacle is they are not putting everything out there. it is drip, drip, dripping out. it turns out here and there and there are the turns where the white house is not telling the truth. >> they say there is nothing there. they say drip, drip, drip you hear is a dressing. >> russian dressing. >> let's play it. why not. >> april

. >> for weeks we've been warning you about the deep state obama holdover bureaucrats who are hell bentn destroying this president. tonight it's time for the trump administration to purge before it's too late. >> that was thursday night and the very next day president trump's administration asked for the resignation of all but two of the u.s. attorneys across the country. one of them was new york's bharara. he was fired on saturday after refusing to resign on friday. he was asked to stay on by trump in the beginning. his office is looking into fox's parent company 21st century fox skirted the law when it paid settlements to people when it charged fox news boss roger ailes. joining me now to go through this complicated case is jeffrey toobin. what are the chances of a coincidence of this? >> i don't think the justice department saw sean hannity on thursday and said, what a good idea. this has been in the works for some time. this anger in the trump administration of anyone who is not loyal to the new president. i think hannity was expressing a wildly felt view within the trump administra

this is why getting to the bottom of the deep state -- the lifetime bureaucrats, the obama holdovers,eak here and i think you are probably going to be the one to do it. thank you for updating us all week. we will have you back next week. coming up next, tonight, right here on "hannity"... >> millions of hard-working u.s. citizens have been left behind by international commerce and together, we can shape a future where all of us have a path to financial security. >> sean: during his joint presser with angela merkel, president trump spoke about putting america first. we will get reaction from lisa boothe and later tonight... >> [bleep] it was the best. >> a lot of cocaine. >> sean: we will have another preview of our spring break series which begins next week. do you really want to send your kids and see what t ♪ if you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis isn't it time to let the real you shine through? introducing otezla, apremilast. otezla is not an injection, or a cream. it's a pill that treats plaque psoriasis differently. some people who took otezla saw 75% clearer skin after

had there been obama holdovers leaking information sinls the early days of the administration, probablye there are people who didn't like what president trump is doing coming into office. jeremy knows this, a lot of the leaks coming from the administration are coming from the rival factions inside the white house and sometimes those leaks are embarrassing to the president, embarrassing to certain people at certain times in this administration, but to blame it on some deep state it sounds like a tom clancy novel that never got published. >> you worked as a lawyer at the nsa, why the administration would want to irritate career service agents, in the law enforcement agency, intelligence community, in the judiciary, so-called judge. what's the point? you only anger these folks and it could backfire. >> i don't think that he's at risk of sort of the intelligence community taking its revenge, they'll serve the president no matter what. i think the issue is donald trump has again and again besmirched the work and the expertise of the intelligence community. the question is these are people wh

. >> chuck, the other big story is the sudden firing of the obama holdover u.s. attorneys.stomary for a new president to put people in these positions, but the timing is being criticized as well as what happened to preet bharara. he says he was asked to stay on. what's going on here? is this protocol or is the president trying to send a message? >> i think it's a little bit of this. this is procedure protocol, number one. u.s. attorneys, that's a way that parties build their political benches. many u.s. attorneys go on to run for governor, run for the senate, things like that. this is how a political party essentially sees the government with future rising stars. it is totally customary for a new administration and a new party to essentially clean house among u.s. attorneys with a few exceptions. preet bharara thought he would be an exception. chuck schumer asked president-elect trump to keep preet bharara as district attorney in new york. apparently they had a verbal agreement. relations between schumer and the president have powered big time. he doesn't now have job zurt.

he is an obama holdover, that's only going to fuel the paranoia inside the white house about some sort of deep state that's aligned against him. but he is a guy -- these are all people working for the president of the united states. and we all agreed that this should be made public. >> we should not downplay this. what happened today, you're right. was extraordinary, and i see brian shaking his head in agreement with you, when you brought up that this happened in july, and you said that the fbi, they don't usually lead us on when investigating, they did tell us they were investigating hillary clinton's e-mails, that did not come up today, so brian, why are you shaking your head? >> well, because i think it's remarkable that the voters went to the polls on november 8th and they only knew about one of two investigations that were going on being led by the fbi at that point. it was only the investigation into hillary clinton's e-mails that was known to the public all those months. and i can sympathize to some extent with the trump white house and their allies which are saying, the effect

the bureaucracy of the obama holdovers were leaking classified discussions that the president had, almosthours, to embarrass the president. and nobody is talk about this. >> christopher ruddy, you know i love you. i think you're a good man. but i think every president who goes into office is under siege. every president is under a spotlight. there's no difference between this president and any other president. >> i would disagree. >> you don't think barack obama was under a spotlight? >> there were no special prosecutors. >> perhaps he didn't do anything that would draw the attention of people like having people in his campaign have conversations with russian -- people known to russia intelligence. >> let's peel the unyonion on t. it's deny, deny. who is denying there's surveillance on the trump campaign. every denial has been that obama did not order it. okay. it's a technicality, he does not order those type of things. and clapper came on. but clapper doesn't run the fbi. there were fbi quotes. but comey never said anything officially on this. and was he talking about a fisa warrant to

. >> but the argument now is that they're obama holdovers. >> i think that's far-fetched. if you're donald trump, don't you want to clear your name? if there isn't anything >> he's trying to clear his name from being a racist, from being a bigot, from being a russian enthusiast. he's doing a rlot of things in the black community that you don't know anything about. >> you mean the fact that he wants to deport people, you don't want to go down that road. >> he had over -- >> let's talk about the fact he ran on bigotry and racism. >> that's not true. >> you want to debate that. >> i talked to peter king yesterday, jason chaffetz. and he was one of the ones early in the day who said that significances shou sessions should recuse himself. he said the intel community is looking at this, they're not worried about anything. i actually really do believe that there's no there there. i think that's how most people who are close to it and following it are. i think there's a hell of a lot of politics involved in it. and the interesting things to me is while the democrats are scrambling

the attorney general asked for resignation letters from all 46 federal prosecutors who were obama-era holdovers. bah rah-rah refused. he tweeted, i didn't step down. i was fired. abc news learned there were crossed signals. sources say bah rah-rah received a voice mail thursday from the white house asking him to call back and speak with the president. no reason given. bharara believed speaking with the president would violate doj protocols and he contacted the attorney general's office instead and told the white house he could not speak to the president. the white house declined to comment on the phone call. sessions' decision to clean housca one day after trump loyalist sean hannity called for a purge. >> for weeks, we have been warning you about the deep state obama-era holdovers who are hell bent to get to the trump administration. tonight, it's time for the trump white house to purge. >> reporter: other presidents have appointed their own prosecutors, too. one big difference is that the trump justice department is already embroiled in controversy. investigating russian meddling in the elect

extent, which was acting attorney general before she was fired by president trump -- she is an obama holdover. had alerted the white house counsel's office to what she thought was concerning evidence about michael flynn's conversations with the russian abbasid or. ambassador. these conversations took place on december 29, the same day that president obama had imposed sanctions on the russian government over the election hacking. everybody at the white house from sean spicer to vice president pence had denied that flynn had talked to the russian ambassador about the sanctions issue. yates had evidence from the u.s. intelligence community that was not true, and she went to the white house to alert the white house counsel's office that public statements were being made about these conversations that were not factual. the intelligence community had evidence that flynn had in fact talked about sanctions. as a justin is that he was telling the russian ambassador, don't worry about what president obama has just done. we're going to take another look at all of this once we come into office in a few w

this is why getting to the bottom of the deep state, the lifetime bureaucrats, the obama holdovers, somethinggoing to break here and i think you're probably going to be the one to do it. thanks for updating us all week. we'll have you back next week. thanks again, sara, appreciate it. >> thank you, sean. >> sean: coming up next tonight right here on "hannity." >> millions of hard-working u.s. citizens have been left behind by international commerce and together, we can shape a future where all of our citizens have a path to financial security. >> sean: today during his joint press we're angela merkel, president trump spoke about putting america first. up next, we'll get reaction from rick grenell and lisa boothe. later on tonight ... >> [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. >> sean: all right, we'll have another preview of our spring break series which begins next week. you really want your kids to see what they're doing down there? we'll shock you, i'm sure. straight ahead. four minutes. are you kidding me? no, looks like he took a wrong turn. don't worry, this guy's got like a four-star rating, we're good.

maybe a obama holdover. maybe a career bureaucrat that dislikes president trump. fbi and the department of justice needs to get the bottle of it. but i will sayay this. the organization of congress, house and senate, need to hold investigations and use their subpoena power and disposition authority that they have to be able to able to uncover exactly what i happened here and do it very quickly. devin nunes and others on the hill can call people like james comey. -- i want to do it in congressional hearings so that it can become and be made public. >>om even better, sean, we have the freedom of information act. at his appointees, it can order the release of this information. obviously, there is a direct classified information that cannot be released. we don't want to see that. we can get the details necessary to draw conclusions about whether what was going on was right or not. this is a tool available to the president right now, and certainly to the administration. let it all hang out, force the transfers are laws on this issue. it's interesting. nunes comes out a

though, that -- i mean, as some would characterize this as an epic cleansing of certain positions, obama holdovers. and you make a great point about the fact that bharara did meet with president trump in november and was informed that he would stay on. some are concerned that maybe this is to do with high-level investigations, some of which may have to do with emoluments clause breeches for this current president. >> well, i can tell you this, thomas, having been attorney general of florida, the third largest state in the country, we had a lot of investigations ongoing while i was there. obviously, i departed of my own volition and ran for governor and won in 2006, but the important point there is that if you have ongoing investigations of a significant nature, and it sounds like that was the case here, dealing with significant public servants, perhaps, if that's the truth, if that was happening, and all of a sudden, you pull, you know, the legs out from underneath this sitting united states attorney who was conducting those investigations, then you have to wonder, what's the underlying reason for

administration officials who do believe that in the national security council and beyond that there are obama holdovers are putting out this damaging information about them. what they don't seem to realize is, as michael was saying, there's these professionals who don't like what they see and feel like this is their right as american citizens to speak out. and they know people like me, people like michael, and they reach out and share what they think needs to be set right. so there is a little bit of truth to these accusations, but to call it the deep state means that they are ignoring the fact that you've got these professionals who once things get going in what they believe is the right contribution, they'll settle down and get to work. >> ronald, here's a chance for you to talk about the president's personality here because among those let go is manhattan u.s. attorney. he was called to a meeting within president clekt elect trump during the transition. he was asked to stay. let's listen to it and then we'll discuss it. >> president-elect asked presumably because he's a new yorker and is aware of th

their own way and he's also mad about the leaks which he thinks are coming from career people and obama holdovers and he's hot which is one of the reasons why he's lashing out. what's going on inside the white house? >> it's really a tough environment right now. what you've seen happen with the president is every time he sees that a story is out of control and turns to his team and blames them for lose control. that's his main focus right now. he doesn't understand why they couldn't ahead why they couldn't get ahead of the mike flynn and doesn't understand why they couldn't control the jeff sessions thing and why sessions recused himself. they follow directions sometimes only to follow out that that's not actually what the president wanted and in a white house where you're dealing with a lot of incoming but also trying to have a proactive agenda, i think they have basically are at a point where they are stuck right now. >> one point. lindsey graham, senior senator, used the term watergate twice in that clip. it's important to note, it looks like we're in a moment where republicans are very nervou

administration officials who do believe that in the national security council and beyond that there are obama holdovers are putting out this damaging information about them. what they don't seem to realize is, as michael was saying, there's these professionals who don't like what they see and feel like this is their right as american citizens to speak out. and they know people like me, people like michael, and they reach out and share what they think needs to be set right. so there is a little bit of truth to these accusations, but to call it the deep state means that they are ignoring the fact that you've got these professionals who once things get going in what they believe is the right contribution, they'll settle down and get to work. >> ronald, here's a chance for you to talk about the president's personality here because among those let go is manhattan u.s. attorney. he was called to a meeting within president-elect trump during the transition. he was asked to stay. let's listen to it and then we'll discuss it. >> president-elect asked presumably because he's a new yorker and is aware of the grea

. >> the allegation now is that it's obama holdovers or the deep sate or in the case of carter page.that's farfetched. paris, if you're donald trump, don't you want to clear your name? if there isn't anything that you've done? >> he's trying to clear his name from being a racist from, being a bigot from, being a russian enthusiast. >> it's going to be hard. >> he's doing a lot of things for the black community which i don't know the about. >> you mean the fact he wants to deport people? if you want to argue that, you don't want to go down that road. stick with this. >> let's go back to the fact he had over 70hbc presidents in the oval office. >> let's talk about the fact he basically ran an entire campaign based on bigotry and racism. >> if you want to debate that -- >> i want to make a couple points. i talked to peter king yesterday. i talked to jason cha vets yesterday. jason was one of the ones who early in the day said that sessions should recuse himself but he also was saying the intel committee is looking at this stuff. and then the house oversight committee is, as well. they'r

hours of those conversations, the transcripts of those secret conversations are leaked out by obama holdovershis administration, and no one in the press is making an issue. that's a federal crime, and so when he sees this type of behavior that this targeting has been going on, i think he's acting with some emotion here, and he obviously likes to do it by tweet. i'm not so sure that's the best way for him to communicate very serious issues like this, but i do think that he feels passionate about it. >> now i do think that what the obama spokesperson said was that neither president obama nor any white house official ever ordered surveillance on any u.s. citizen. is there they're not legally allow fod do that. >> correct. >> but the question when did he know it, and they're not denying that surveillance took place. >> certainly -- >> the fbi denial, we don't even know what the fbi is denying. >> but general, former general clapper, the head of the nsa, the dni rather, the director of national intelligence, who is in charge of 17 agencies, he on camera denied it to chuck "today" on "meet the pres

. >> folks, there isn't any evidence of anything except the obama administration and its holdovers in the deep state trying to sabotage the president of the united states. that's the story. >> are they targeting the administration as a part of sabotage? >> shannon: in the middle of all this brand-new video showing russian fighter jets buzzing a u.s. navy ship overseas. what u.s. officials have to say about that. >> bill: the story got a bit sidelined yesterday. president trump calling for a military build-up while touring a brand-new aircraft carrier and said this. >> president trump: american workers are the greatest anywhere in the world. this warship and all who serve on it should be a source of shared pride for our nation. we're joined today, better believe it, right? that's me. then out of nowhere...crying. third time that day. i wasn't even sad. first the stroke, now this. so we asked my doctor. he told us about pseudobulbar affect, or pba. it's frequent, uncontrollable crying or laughing that doesn't match how you feel. it can happen with certain neurologic conditions like stro