that statement by a constitutional officer like rob rosenstein is disgraceful, it's an embarrassment the department, but it is of a pattern of what mr. rosenstein has done there since he arrived. he is a careerist. he believes the department can do no wrong and that he is going to resist calls for more information. when you realize that he appointed a special counsel, robert mueller, someone he's very close to and who was very close to james comey, to investigate no crime and put this country through 15, going on 16 months of interruption of a new president, that tells you something about rod rosenstein. he is resisting all of this because he created the original sin, and investigation of no crime. >> tucker: i'm just confused. rod rosenstein has a gun, he has the power to arrest you or me. lying to him it is a felony. he has a lot of power. where does he think that power comes from if not from the congress and the voters who elected those members of congress? >> when you are as arrogant and as deep in the belief that you have been given a duty to do whatever you think is right for t

rosenstein is rob about his daughter and dealing with the media. my daughter wrote for the school newspaper, gee, some inocuous issue. is try to avoid talking about issues. innocuous issue, i told her it wasn't true, i knew this wasn't true. said, but dad, if it isn't true, how can they put it in the newspaper? was taught in her high school journalism class that you sources.iable, credible unfortunately, here is the reality, i don't think most mislead are trying to people, the problem is, they are hostage to their sources. leaking? i'm not leaking. the people who are leaking are people who have some personal reason to get their side of the story out. sometimes when you see leaks, relate to , that matters we're investigating, recognize it not to be, unlikely leak from law enforcement because it is wrong in a ignificant or subtle way, a mistake we wouldn't make. what do you do if you are a what is iguring out source. advice i give my kids, when you read a story, first thing you look to see if there is a named source. if not, be skeptical. false, mean

i heard it rob rosenstein has some significant problems ahead of him. >> all of the people now have beenired or forced to resign. that includes sally gates, jame, comey, andrew mccabe, james rybicki, lisa page, and we are still waiting for the demise of peter strzok but that should be imminent. all of these people are under investigation i suspect by the ig, and are in legal jeopardy. >> sean: okay, joe, same question. >> i would concur with that numberns and i would say rob rosenstein is in serious jeopardy of contempt. i believe he should be held in contempt and i believe his arrogant statement said he was being extorted by congress because they were demanding oversight and documents that are so outrageous that he should no longer serve as deputy attorney general. and after that beat down, this has not been a good week for him and his witch hunt. when we come back, ed henry, with some breaking news out of washington. the secretary of state has arrived in north korea so we will get an update and also update you on these primary elections. you won't see these folks at the post office the

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the office of mueller was created by rob rosenstein illegally. and all of this leads to the ultimate conclusion that the perpetution of the investigation by muller is doing grave damage to the united states and foreign policy and grave damage to u.s. law enforcement because of the thug- like tactics used in the manafort case. and after watching the deputy attorney general of the united states, rod rosenstein accuse congress of trying to extort him and others in the department by conducting legitimate constitutional oversight. i would say between mueller and rosenstein, and the absent attorney general, god bless him, we have a serious crisis in american federal law enforcement. >> sean: i agree. i think it is it a biggest abuse. and he would be a witness on that part. and rod rosenstein, we talked about the fisan applications that relied on unverified and dossier paid for by hillary clinton. they never told the judge it was paid for by hillary. and if there are false information presented to a fisa court, he is implicating himself when he said he

here the special counsel i'm sure in discussion and consultation with rob rosenstein is deciding whichthe cases that have arisen from the investigation he should try personally and which should be farmed out to others. while certainly within the judge's prerogative to ask the questions i don't think it bears on the legal issues and so i think that bob mueller will prevail in the sense of being able to go forward with the litigation. i don't think there is legal question about that. it is concerning that the judge would express this opinion. >> the president's lawyers have been wary of letting mueller part with president trump. sources say mueller raised the notion of a subpoena. rudy giuliani argued this morning that president trump would not need to comply with any subpoena. is there any circumstance in the world in which president trump could dodge the subpoena? >> no. he will need to comply with the subpoena if they take the case to court they will lose. i have to say i'm a little taken aback by the new lawyer rudy giuliani's strategy. his legal defense seems to be a bit orthodox an

rosenstein is rob about his daughter and dealing with the media.daughter wrote for the school newspaper, gee, some inocuous issue. is try to avoid talking about issues. innocuous issue, i told her it wasn't true, i knew this wasn't true. said, but dad, if it isn't true, how can they put it in the newspaper? was taught in her high school journalism class that you sources.iable, credible unfortunately, here is the reality, i don't think most mislead are trying to people, the problem is, they are hostage to their sources. leaking? i'm not leaking. the people who are leaking are people who have some personal reason to get their side of the story out. sometimes when you see leaks, relate to , that matters we're investigating, recognize it not to be, unlikely leak from law enforcement because it is wrong in a ignificant or subtle way, a mistake we wouldn't make. what do you do if you are a what is iguring out source. advice i give my kids, when you read a story, first thing you look to see if there is a named source. if not, be skeptical. false, means it

for example, martha, five weeks ago we sent a letter to rob rosenstein saying we want to see the august was an addendum to the memo that outlined the special counsel's investigation, the scope of that investigation. we got us a response back from them last tuesday saying we are not going to show you that. two days later a federal judge says he wants to see the same thing. >> martha: is a great point. >> you now have two branches of government telling rob rosenstein, who has never had his name on a ballot, you know have two branches of government saying that scope of the document, scope of the investigation is critically important. >> martha: it's pretty tough to understand i think for the american people why the scope of the investigation, in other words, the mandate to robert mueller in terms of what the parameters are of what is involved and what he's allowed to pursue. why that would be a mystery and why the department of justice is funded by u.s. taxpayer dollars would have any right to keep that information from the american people. as you say, the federal judge wants to see that a

. >> brennan: congressman meadows had been drafting articles of impeachment to get rid of rob rosenstein you just talked about is that how americans should understand this, the political move or is this something more? people hear spygate they think there is something more to the story. >> two things. first of all, undermine the outcome of the muller probe. one of the things they're trying to do at one point was possibly fire due fee attorney general that is sort of prepared as not politically feasible. it does appear that this most recent wave of demands for documents that they know the justice department would be hard pressed to be able to disclose is pretext to try to proceed with this idea of impeaching rob rosenstein. politically and legally that's probably not actually realistic. >> brennan: mark landler, i want to give you a chance to respond to the president's tweet because they have been about your story that you cowrote with your colleague saved sanger where he is calling into question some of your white house sources and whether they exist. >> thank you, margaret. the presiden

i think while the country understands bob mueller's role, understand rob rosenstein's, which puts him at risk. he has two decisions to make. the first is, what is the scope of bob mueller's investigation? if rob mueller can be fired, -- if rob rosenstein can be fired and replaced by someone who will simply do the presidents bidding, that person can surreptitiously, effectively hobble the mueller investigation and we wouldn't know it, by limiting the scope of what robert mueller can do. of equal significance, when bob mueller makes a report to the justice department, and it goes to the deputy ag, and the deputy ag makes the decision of what to report, if does that it contains evidence of potential criminality on the part of the president of the united states, does it go to congress? does it get released to the public? doesn't get buried? this is why his role is so important. i can't tell you where we are headed, because i don't know all the facts that bob mueller knows. a share of thew facts, which i find deeply disturbing, but in the investigation we have been allowed to do, and we ha

can you tell us more about the meeting with rob rosenstein. the congress would like to see documents opened up. a lot of people are saying they had spies in my campaign. that would be one of the biggest. it would make every political event ever look like small potatoes. we want to make sure that there weren't. some men get paid based got paid based on what i read in the newspapers that's not a normal situation the kind of money you're talking about. the department of justice wants to get that. hopefully they will all be be able to get together. setting up a meeting between congress in the various representatives and they will be able to open up documents and take a look and find out what happens. during my campaign for political purposes that would be unprecedented in the history of our country. seamen can you give an update on that. president she and i gni there is no deal. we will see what happens. we are discussing deals in various deals. where we can to say look this is what we want and this is what we think is fair. if a negotiated deal d

robert: rob rosenstein has been defiant. final thoughts, jul t about possible impeachment move against him. he went out in public and fought backs week. julie: it is extraordinary as carol said to see congress taking this kind of position between thear justice dent or the republicans in congress. teat prompted a pretty extraordinary snt by the dispute attorney general where he said we will not be extorted. people are attacking me publicly and privately and i think he is including the oresident because we've heard president trumpfter rosenstein somewhat in public but definitely behind closed doors. he is constantly railing against him and pondering whether he should get rid of him. rosenstein basically said i'm going to do my job. we won't be forced into any result. so this may end up being a showdown but you do have justice department sor staking out its territory and saying come at us and it'll be interesting to see what the publicans end up doing. robert: showdown. it is certainly a showdown. and it wi be a showdown i'm su

i would suggest i am willing to come back and join rob rosenstein m a we will sit together, he can bringhis talking points, i will bring my facts and he will be able us we will be able to debate it and you can moderate that. we will be glad to do that. that is, i am so sure of the mannere we have and the in which we have gone about this, there is no good excuse for the department of justice to continue to delay. >> have you spoken directly to the deputy attorney general and we report they have concerns an intelligence source of theirs that could be compromised. has that objection been presented and what is your response? >> i have spoken to the deputy attorney general not on that manner -- matter. that is a common reoccurring theme. these are national security secrets, we need to protect our assets. they are right. that is the reason why we have an intel committee. it is the reason why we set that committee up so they can -- could see this types of documents, not all of congress, we have given that authority to some of our colleagues and so there is no plausible reason. -- no plausible r

jeff sessions and rob rosenstein is actively hinderring ongoing noeshgszs. no one is above the law and what are they hiding and obstructing cocaine. and the deep state did not have a good weekend after a federal judge issued a stunning rebuke of mueller's witch hunt. and's judicial beat down and the judge rejecting a crucial request from mueller's team. it is it a horrible weekend for mueller's witch hunt. and we'll show you that and highlights from the judge and braking on the friday. lisa page and yams baker resigned from the fbi. is peter strzok next. and a offer to withdraw because she's too tough on terrorist x. high lights from melania trump's best campaign and later breaking news about the liberal new york attorney general who may be in big trouble. but breaking news opening monologue. tonight we start with what is shaping to be's horrible pad five days for robert mueller and the office of special counsel. the out of control witch hunt suffered two massive blows. on friday and the single biggest beat down i have seen. a federal judge utterly rebuked t

we saw this, i think it may be the case, rob rosenstein and the mueller investigation, the comments we this week, sounded like a guy thinking that he had every reason to do what he has done so far, which i think would put fear in the white house. >> seems like they are taking it seriously and staffing up, if you will, matt. i would say the legal change, the "new york times" wrote a story back in march saying there would be a shakeup in the legal team coming up. the president march 11th tweeting that the "new york times" purposely wrote a false story saying i'm hiring another lawyer. no, i'm very happy with my lawyers. chase is still there. two others gone. timing is everything and tweets. >> first of all, there has been a lot of talk about don mcgann as the white house counsel making an exit as well. i think the opposite is true. they put a team together now for the question of separation of powers and con constitutional question of what does the president need to do with a counsel investigation like this. next thing obvious by the questions we have read about, there seems to be no cle

. -- rob rosenstein. all of this political noise, how much does this affect him?political noise is the way to put it. not affecting rosenstein, he will not do it. he was clear. i saw the president's tweet that indicated he may have to step in. the president may have to step in. that is where it gets odd. to give congress information about an ongoing investigation, carter page and how the russian investigation started, would be difficult, the leaks from congress for documents from the department of justice, you cannot have that. is a lot of redaction's, i do not expect the documents to be forthcoming. david: the president said yesterday you cannot have obstruction of justice with no crime, is he right? >> he is to some extent. all you need for an instruction is an ongoing investigation. that investigation may have proved fruitful or not. it is the obstruction itself, you have to step back 30,000 feet. if people can of struck justice and obstruct an investigation, and you cannot get to the culmination, the crime or there was not a crime, you can have obstruction bef

the idea that rob rosenstein and jeff sessions won't turn over to congress a co-equal branch of government information regarding the surveillance of the trump campaign. that's an impeachable offense. >> laura: you think obama had no knowledge? >> on the contrary, what did the president know? >> laura: how did the president of the united states not know about this? >> peter strzok's text message indicate. >> laura: i go back to rice's message. sal, narrowing the scope of the questions. is that giving you any sense of comfort they would go in there and answer questions by mueller given everything we know now? >> as i said many times on this show, if donald trump were any white collar client, famous or not in this circumstance, i would physically prevent him from going in for that questioning. on the point that roger raised about the information that the doj doesn't want to give over. there are good rens for not giving over sources of and methods. the problem with the doj and the fbi, they were caught saying several times, we can't turn this over because it's sensitive. when they back down an

. >> laura: the big news yesterday with the freedom caucus, i focus on rob rosenstein, it was kind of a brushoff of rosenstein just there. there picking it up, you guys seem to be picking it up in the house and rudy himself said this about comey, devastating. let's watch. >> i know james comey, i know the president. sorry jim, you're a liar. a disgraceful liar. every fbi agent in america has his head down because of you. it would've been good for god if god would've kept you out of being head of the fbi. >> congressman? >> amen to that, that's one of the comments when he says that i stand up and cheer. we've been saying that, we've been trying to make it clear. thank goodness for rudy giuliani saying that. mr. comey has been a disgrace. trey gowdy said great. nobody has brought more disrepute on the fbi than james comey. this is where we are as a nation, i can't go to j constituents -- they are all upset, what's happening with comey, why isn't he behind bars he needs to be investigated himself. >> laura: we have this moment about extortion. when rod rosenstein yesterday said we aren't

second of all that there's the possibility, as we're talking about mueller, the issue of rob rosensteinght be imposed on him. >> one thing i have heard informally, the kind of circumstance would be firing rosenstein or firing mueller, anything that would upset the normal course of a normal legal process. >> at what point would you step forward and say we need to do this. >> we're watching closely. i've been content so far to let the mueller say out. no one has ever said anything bad about bob mueller. >> i want to move to another topic that the president brought up this week, and many were surprised when he did do this when he was on the road. he brought up the idea of immigration, and he repeated one of his ideas of a federal shutdown to get a border wall in place. also tweeting on immigration that he says -- we are going to demand congress secure the border in thing cr. what is the president saying and is he just on the campaign trail? or why is it significant today? >> let's hope he's just on the campaign trail. the scary thing was sending his decision to rescind the temporary protec

can you tell us more about your meeting with rob rosenstein and director wray yesterday? a routine meeting. congress would like to see documents opened up. a lot of people are saying they had spies in my campaign. if they had spies in my campaign, that would be a disgrace to this country. that would be one of the biggest insult anyone has ever seen, and that would be very illegal. it would make probably every political event ever look small potatoes. we want to make sure there were not. i hope there were not. paid based on what i read in the newspapers and what you reported, some person got paid a lot of money. that is not a normal situation. i think the department of justice wants to get down to it. i can tell you congress does. hopefully, they will all be able to get together. general kelly will be setting up a meeting between congress and the various representatives to open up documents and find what happened. if they had spies in my campaign, during my campaign for political purposes, that would be unprecedented in the history of our country. >> can you give us an upd

the impeachment document lists eight reasons for potentially impeaching rob rosenstein. suppose andf office after obtaining documents demonstrated throughout the course of the ongoing investigation. regarding charging decisions in the investigation surrounding former secretary clinton's private email server in 2016. a member of that conservative group called impeachment a last option. >> i think people expect us to do something in congress, and maybe sometimes you have to come in and say, maybe we should impeach someone. >> other members of the freedom caucus say if you are not willing to do it, you are likely to keep getting stonewalled. >> last night it was announced the justice department had reached an agreement with several people. and fox told the justice department is making about 400,000 documents available for review. viewing rooms have been set up for 12 congressional staffers to review that paperwork. a short time ago, fox asked the deputy ag about that impeachment threat. >> i can tell you, there have been people who have been making threats privately and pub

and rob rosenstein. shannon, take it away. >> we're going to talk the i word, impeachment tonight. there's a showdown over daca. plus, new reaction tonight to fox's exclusive senate primary debate in west virginia. that is ahead. and she a six-time olympic me l medallimeda medallist that's saying california is making it nearly possible for her to train. >> with talk of a presidential subpoena and questions allegedly for the president leaking out through the new york times. a former attorney to the president saying, "this isn't some game. you're screwing with the president of the united states." rosenstein facing potential impeachment. >> the department of justice is not going to be extorted. i just don't have anything to say about documents like that that nobody has the courage to put their name on. >> let's bring in chief national correspondent. he knows what's up. >> you know better than anyone. it means this showdown could go to the supreme court. mueller raised the possibility to use the subpoena compelling the president to testify. he said to mueller, this is not a game. you'r

rob rosenstein is trying to strike a balance here between diffusing the situation, but also protecting the rule of law and the institutional integrity of the department. >> carter page, as i pointed out in the opening anger. the government under the obama administration has surveilled people and lied about that. and with clapper, whether it was the fbi under holder, surveillance journalists, they had a problem telling the history. your reaction? >> going to michael's point about things they did to me, president trump during the campaign would often say, this is not about me, this is about us. it's about terrible things that have been to so many people like michael, like some of the other people that are involved. they actually spoke very positively. i got a positive impression about the informant and a couple of people i mention him to. and the campaign, i was pretty positive with the endorsement. i hope and pray that all these allegations turn out to be false. and that's why i'm somewhat open with my communications, it will lead to some truth finally for the department of justice. i h

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committee chairman and the oversight committee chairman a meeting today with deputy attorney rob rosensteinfbi director christopher wray, senior intelligence officials, but lawmakers did not respond. >> i think that invitation was just to come and talk again. we have asked for documents, 46,000 documents that justice has told us to get an we've received 9,000 over the last six months. with that pace we will be in the second term of president trump. >> the house speaker continues to back the committee's request for records, bret. >> bret: we will follow all the elements, thank you. a major setback for house republican leadership and the trump administration. 30 g.o.p. lawmakers teamed up with democrats to defeat a controversial farm bill supported by the speaker and of the president. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel shows us what happened. >> on this boat the eyes are 198 and the names are to 13. the bill does not pass. >> reporter: they defeated a five year farm bill defining g.o.p. leaders and president trump. the conservatives ministry vote on a security focused immigration

it is conceivable that mueller can go to rob rosenstein and say let's request new opinion. >> he refused to answer a question when asked specifically that and said all i can say is in the past here is what the guideline is. >> the fact is that as doj guidelines currently exist i don't see how mueller could indict the president. if they wanted to change the guideline they could do that and pull back that opinion. it doesn't seem like it is likely to happen. >> when you look at the list of people that mueller has talked to, pull that up. is there somebody who is maybe missing here? roger stone is not on that list. but jason sullivan who is a social media guy apparently has been subpoenaed by this special counsel. >> nbc news confirmed that jason sullivan who did work for one of the superpacks, a social media guy has been subpoenaed for documents and testimony before the grand jury. it tells us that this investigation is very much ongoing. it is active. it also suggests and other data suggests that they are honing in on roger stone in the question of did he have interactions? did he have ad

and rob rosenstein. shannon, take it away. >> we're going to talk the i word, impeachment tonight. there's a showdown over daca. plus, new reaction tonight to fox's exclusive senate primary debate in west virginia. that is ahead. and she a six-time olympic me l medallimeda medallist that's saying california is making it nearly possible for her to train. >> with talk of a presidential subpoena and questions alleged

the authority will come from a letter written by rob rosenstein which could be written retroactive. is just form over substance. the retroactive letter will authorize over prosecution. >> shepard: so why are they in court then? paul made a fort wants these charges dropped. >> what he did is, he charged him in two different courts. he has one case in federal court in washington, d.c., and another case right across the river in federal court in arlington, virginia. one trial starts in july and the other trial starts as soon as the other one is over in september. different sets of crimes, nothing has to do with running the campaign. both have to do with his personal, financial dealings in the years before he worked with donald trump. so he is really shoveling against the tide and the government is going after him with everything they can with reasons that are probably what judge ellis said. they want him to cave. >> shepard: so why not call out the elephant in the room? >> that does not nullify the prosecution, they have real serious evidence against him. so if judge ellis prosecutes t

that is why we heard just a couple of fridays ago, judge ts ellis the third demanding to see rob rosenstein'scope of ♪ ♪ that gave mueller the ability supposedly to carry out this witch hunt. it was the rated mueller's team and his pit bull andrew weissmann for going after paul manafort on the 2005 tax fraud allegation. that has nothing to do with russia. he called out to mueller for putting the screws, the judge's words, demand paul manafort, t, remember, singers can also compose and flip on trump. as far as rod rosenstein goes, rosenstein could be fired and very soon. we'll have to wait and see what that is all about. also tonight, take a look at this headline from the american center for law and justice. it was a fever factory. deep state forced to turn over thousands of clinton era state department emails to about the clinton foundation, debunking supposed firewall. the acl jay reporting with the state department will be turning over nearly 30,000 emails between hillary clinton's state department and her family foundation. this is why i keep saying, i know it takes more time, we are unapp

on c-span, deputy attorney general rob rosenstein because of the first amendment and the mission of the justice department. 9:30, the2 at justice department executive for immigration review director, james mchenry. p.m., a look at the future of college sports and the potential implications of athletic compensations. speakers include athlete ches, andoa players. >> "washington journal," live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up this morning, american enterprise institute's danielle discusses the future of the iranian nuclear deal and upcoming talks with north korea. parnes andrs amy jonathan allen talk about the paperback edition of their book, which includes information about 2015ry clinton's presidential run. next, a look at how states are improving the voting systems ahead of the 2018 elections. courtier was a guest on washington journal. this is about 30 minutes. fortierining us is john with the bipartisan policy center.

. >> fox news' brian yenis tells us rob rosenstein was among those at the roundtable meeting today. >i called them animals the other day and i was met with rebuke. they said, they are people. they are not people. these are animals. >> reporter: the president defending his comments on gang members during a forum on the violent street gang ms13. mr. trump holding a roundtable meeting on new york's long island wednesday. deputy attorney general rod rosenstein among those praising the president for his work to combat the problem. >> the feedback we are getting around the country is that state and local law enforcement are appreciating -- >> reporter: the meeting's goal to highlight what's been done in the fight against the ms13 gang and what more needs to be done to win the battle. >> we are taking them out by the thousands. now, if we had laws that were proper, they wouldn't be coming back to the extent but they have taken them out by the thousands. >> reporter: the fbi says the gang has as many as 10,000 members in 40 states. here on long island where there are at least 2000 members, au

mccabe attended a meeting in may of 2017 shortly after deputy attorney general rob rosenstein wrote his memo that claimed comey was fired for his handling of the hillary clinton investigation. well, "the times" sources say in the meeting, rosenstein said that the president had originally asked him to reference russia in the memo. rosenstein did not elaborate on what he wanted him to say. >> that seemed like the possible evidence that the firing was actually related to the fbi's investigation into the trump campaign ties to russia and that rosenstein helped to provide a cover story by writing about the clinton investigation instead. the fbi fired mccabe in march after an internal report determined he had not been fully truthful in his answers about the handling of the clinton probe. at the time, mccabe said, quote, i'm being singled out and treated this way because of the role i played, the actions i took and the events i witnessed in the aftermath of the firing of jim comey. >> and president trump went to bed with the u.s. attorney general on his mind, it seems tweeting a quotation at 1

the country role,tands bob mueller's they will -- robert mueller's role, they will understand rob rosenstein's, which puts him at risk. he has two decisions to make. what is the scope of bob mueller's investigation? be fired,ller can replaced by someone who would do the presidents fitting. that person can hobble the mueller investigation and we wouldn't know it's. of equal significance, when bob mueller makes a report to the justice department, the attorney general is refused -- the deputy ag makes the decision of what to do with it. that report contains evidence of criminality, the part of the president of the united states. does it go to congress? does it get released to the public? doesn't get buried? this is why his role is so important. i can't tell you where we are headed, because i don't know all the facts about mueller. share of thenow a facts, which i find it deeply disturbing, but the investigation -- we have been allowed to do, this committee by being able to follow the facts. there are still significant missing pieces. just to give you a quick illustration, george inadopoulos was i

prosecutor robert mueller who is a republican appointed by trump's own assistant attorney general rob rosenstein blamedp the blame. just like they didn't want to solve the daca problem, why didn't the democrats pass gun control legislation when they had both the house and senate during the obama administration. >> here's attorney general jeff sessions earlier this month discussing the administration's migrant policy. >> if you smuggle illegal aliens across our border then we will prosecute you. if you are smuggling a child, then we will prosecute you and that child may be separated from you as required by law. >> asan, why is the president trying to pin the blame on democrats now after his attorney general made the the announcement about the law which legal experts have said is not correct. >> a lot of it is playing the president playing a knee jerk pr move here. he knows that the sentiment and policy his administration is going with is at least in sound bite form unpopular and he's trying to put some distance himself between that and himself by playing one of his favorite games which is blaming

tonight, what is deputy attorney general rob rosenstein agreed to do. ed henry has details on all of that. >> great to see you. it's finally came on. fox news alert that on thursday house until chair devin nunes will get a look at this classified intelligence that could finally settle the question of whether or not president trump's campaign was spied on by obama officials. but tonight there are signs the agreement to see the intel is not pleasing leaders. there still a lot of secrecy surrounding exactly what will happen when nunes and republican trey gowdy go behind closed doors with the fbi director christopher wray and rod rosenstein you mention from the justice department. some republicans are saying this feels like a shell game where they may only be briefed on the sensitive documents rather than actually seeing them in the fbi and justice department officials can put their spin on it. while some senate democratic leader chuck schumer is lashing out charging this meeting is a partisan move that shows nunes is just trying to help the president under

had are leading the department of justice, and they are republicans, steve, when you look at rob rosenstein. >> that doesn't mean anything. such a red herring. to say they are republicans -- ana navarro claims to be a republican what does that mean, it don't mean anything. the republicans have been as obstructionist as the democrats have been towards donald trump as he got into office. here's the thing. it is donald trump against the washington swamp so the idea that they are registered republicans, comey and mueller, does that mean a thing, of course it doesn't? >> are you hearing yourself. steve, this justice department is not the trump justice department. this justice department -- >> yes, it is. >> does not work for the president of the united states. >> oh, yes it does. study the constitution. >> this justice department works for the american people and that's exactly what this president who is so inept and unfit does not understand. >> the american people hired him to lead the justice department which is part of the executive branch. if you need -- if you need -- listen, if you need t

eastern deputy attorney general rob rosenstein will comment on the role just on the rule of law and the mission of the justice department speaking at that this afternoon at 2:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. be with us tonight for an event featuring dr. priscilla chan, the wife of facebook ceo mark zuckerberg who was one of the featured speakers at a recent discussion on education posted by the bush presidential center. spend 99% pledge to of their facebook fortune on issues like health, criminal justice, and education. you can see her remarks starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. on

many people that he has powers and why has he not sacked rob rosenstein.ssor, these are thorny question i think donald trump seems to think as he is head of the executive ranch article two that he is essentially justice and he can call the shots including with respect to investigations on himself. i think underlying the 3—part system of the constitutional government is the assumption that no one branch has unlimited power. ithink assumption that no one branch has unlimited power. i think that in particular is erroneous. traditionally they have been just a separation between the president and the justice department notwithstanding that the president has the authority to hire the attorney general. there has been a matter of decorum and a norm that has operated and the theory that we as americans, as the public, do better if we have a neutral and independentjustice department that is not politicised. because otherwise politics determine who gets justice and that is essentially what mr rosenstein was saying, we are career public servants, and he was appointed

rob rosen steve rosenstein signy then they knew it was lies. >> absolutely. other thing is fake news propaganda which led to the phia warrant. >> why didn't ty say t the fbi spring of 2015. why didn't they say -- you never met trump, right? >> never. >> why didn't you say this guy went to russia, we are worried about him? >> there's nothing to d it. >> why were you in russia? >> gave a speech. >> you didn't get paid for it? >> no. >> it's been reported you are a double cia operative. > >>> you cooperated with your country? >> absolutely. >> for the betterment of your country? >> absolutely. >> you were debriefed? you don't like the questions, do you? >> not necessarily. >> you love america? >> yes. >> you were trying to help your country meeting with intel cia people. they asked for my help and i didn't say no. absolutely. >> sam clove is, let's start with you. you were approached -- i knew who the guy was two weeks before mentioning his name. you were approached by this guy. what did he say to you? >> what he wanted, he used carter paim page as the person o

meanwhile they are probing some of james comey's leaks sending a letter to the attorney general rob rosensteints on a friend, daniel richmond that comey used as a go-between to get out some of his memos. rose and stayed by the way fire back today at house republicans preparing articles of impeachment saying the justice department in his words will not be extorted. i can tell you republican mark meadows has fire back at that and that that rosenstein should focus on facts, not rhetoric. >> martha: thank you very much. good to see you tonight. joining me now, jonathan turley, constitutional law attorney and law professor at george washington university. good evening to you. when these questions started pouring out, we all poured through them to try to figure out what they tell us about the direction of this investigation. what was your overall take away with the tenor of these questions and what he's going for? >> first of all, the release of these questions was a very aggressive act and its most likely someone who doesn't want the interview to occur. if you don't poison the well that you intend

eastern oprah winfrey, representatives steve scalise, rob rosenstein, and joe catch an. rustling gauge brewer, and nikki haley. wednesday at 8:00, hillary clinton, rex tillerson, james mattis, and justin trudeau. thursday at 8:00 p.m. eastern, ,im cook, governor kasich governor brown, and congressman gutierrez. friday at eight :00, jimmy carter, betsy devos, representative meadows, and ttoms.bo >> today on the civil war, "reconstruction: a concise history." the 14th andpite 15th amendments the reconstruction failed to solidify the promise of african-american equality in poor leadership of andrew johnson. here is a preview. >> when the southern states secede from the union, johnson's own state of tennessee secedes, but he stays at his post in the united states senate , defying the secessionists. his tennessee is reoccupied by aderal forces and lincoln points johnson the military governor of tennessee. it is one of the few successes that lincoln can boast. choosing johnson to be his running mate seemed like a perfectly logical thing, until it turned out it wasn't a perfect

rosenstein represent a part of the department i thought we had lost a long time ago when the obama administration people left office. robrosenstein has been in a position less then a year and a half. jillian: a tough day for nbc as the network was forced to correct itself over this fake news story. >> something breaking news, nbc news exclusive investigation, we are learning federal investigators wiretapped the phone lines of michael cohen. jillian: the story which was first posted online was wrong. the feds were monitoring calls but were told they were not listening to cohen's conversation. the network made changes to the story four hours after it was published. rob: indiana candidates battling out with big bucks. and nasty race in the primary, $9 million on their campaign this year. >> mike tobin has the latest from indianapolis. >> the gop primary shipping up as the most expensive in the nation loaded with insults. >> the swamp brothers. >> congressman luke metzler, businessman mike brown, former state representative who campaigned as an outsider all brand themselves as closest to the president. >> that is why i back

has a story saying republican ofmakers are in the process drafting impeachment articles against rob rosensteinng a document underscores a chasm between -- special counsel robert uhler -- -- robert mueller -- would be support.to garner it calls it a last resort. members of the conservative house freedom caucus finalize the draft in recent days. disputefter weeks of after a request for documents and behaviorisions of federal law enforcement officials working on the russia investigation. on the democrats line, brenda, hello. caller: good morning. thanks for taking my call. dinner -- youents know, the young lady did not call her fat. she said facts. then when you burn the paper, you have ash. upsetthey are getting about her calling her names. sayinge donald trump -- then whatever he wants about women. saying obama is illegal. then, you want to call black men because they express and use what their rights are with the amendment because they get on their knees. he meant what he was saying. she was just joking. people need to relax. -- relax, sit back, and enjoy. or just do not watch it. host: walter

the statement here from sarah huckabee sanders, remembering the president had a meeting with rob rosensteinector spoke about the tweet yesterday in which he demanded the department of justice investigate whether or not anybody associated with the obama administration in 2016 had used surveillance for illicit political purposes, demandsing action from the department of justice, had the meeting at 3:00, since has broken up, and now there's a statement, planing what the outcome was they say, "based on the meeting with the president, the department of justice has asked the inspector general to include any irregularities with the federal bureau of investigations or the department of justice's tactics concerning the trump campaign and it was agreed the white house chief of staff kelly will immediately set up a meeting with the fbi, doj, and dni director of national intelligence target with congressional leaders to review highly classified and other information they have requested. it appears the president's demands from twitter resulted in two pieces of action one is expanded inspector general's

oprah winfrey, steve scalise, rob rosenstein. the me too movement founder, the haley,ks coo, and nikki wednesday at 8 p.m. eastern, hillary clinton, rex tillerson, james mattis, and justin trudeau. ceosday at 8 p.m., apple tim cook, john kasich, kate brown, and congresswoman luis gutierrez -- congressman luis gutierre