greg: the firing of robert mueller. okay. if there's was admired unrest iy the streets when trump won in 2016, do you think would have been escalated if trump was reelected after four years of media driven hysteria? hell no. we boarded up the country in case trump won. not the reverse. so spare me the cries of what about-ism. that's all history is. to show you the mistakes of fools who prefer that you forget them.. the left hates what about-ism because their past is rife with error. we know what happened wednesday was wrong, very wrong, just like we also know that many of today's yo outraged voices dismissed mayhem months before. some bailed the marra uders out of jail. .the media won't have the desire to do the responsible thing and ewonder how this happened. they made an industry out of division and anger. theif the media is a civic institution as they claim, shouldn't they be haven like ony -- behave like one? what if we didn't label half of america racist rubes. what if we took the concerns of those suspicious of fraud se

i believe americans would not stand for the firing of robert mueller. greg: the firing of robert mueller are okay but if it was unrest in the streets when trump one in 2016 do you think that would have been that escalated if trump was reelected after four years a media driven hysteria? no. the boarded up the country in case trump one, not the reverse. so spare me the cries of one about it. that's all history. to show you the mistakes of fools who prefer that you forget them. the left hates what about-ism because their path is rife with air so we know what happened wednesday was very wrong just like we also know many of today's outraged voices have dismissed mayhem month before. some even failed the marauders out of jail. no republican leader will be allowed to wednesday's violators out of the pokey and of course the media won't have the desire to be doing the responsible thing and wondered how this happened. they make good industry of division and anger. could they be complicit? the media as a civic institution as they claim shouldn't they behave like o

from the left, the resistance movement if, phony investigations by the fbi and special counsel robert muellerd now, after having failed the first time they tried to impeach him, the radical left giving baseless impeachment a second effort. in the president's final days in office. talk about pure, unadulterated banality on the part of the democrats. during the house debate today, republicans -- including congressman matt gaetz -- passionately defended president trump. >> this president has faced unprecedented hatred and resistance from big need ya -- media, big tech and big egos from congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle. the speaker said to us just moments ago words matter. but apparently, those words don't matter when they're uttered by democrats. when the gentle lady from massachusetts calls for unrest in the streets, when the gentlelady from california brazenly brags that she called for people to get in the faces of those who serve in support of the president. i denounce political violation from all ends of the -- violence from all ends of the spectrum. but make no mistake, the

even special council mueller, robert mueller was aware of this.d i'm not going to get into the conflicts but you should know, andy mccabe, you'll probably be a witness in my russia investigation. mccabe still doesn't step aside. that's stuff we did not see going on, it was in the back room dealing. maria: john durham is continuing a criminal investigation. we are going to be talking this morning about the biden agenda. do you expect durham to come out with indictments even in the face of a new administration and the biden agenda unfolding? >> everything that i see in the activity of the investigation, everything i hear from defense lawyers and other ofs that are familiar with what's going on is that if he is building a small number of indictments trying to get the evidence to get there, there have been some delays. there's fights over evidence behind closed doors, grand jury fights but all the evidence is pointing him trying to bring criminal charges probably in the first quarter of this year. there's a new sheriff in time, when merck garland gets

we'll get some perspective from the former lead prosecutor in robert mueller's special counsel's office. >>> also, we're taking more of your questions about the coronavirus pandemic and the vaccines. a member of president-elect biden's transition covid-19 advisory board will bring us some answers. >>> and we'll dive into what's next in the fight against climate change. what that would look like under the biden administration and what roadblocks may bd in the way that's coming up when "the week" continues from washington on msnbc. hington on msnbc the rx crafted by lexus. get 0.9% financing on the 2021 rx 350. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. >>> there have already been more than 100 arrests in the investigation since that deadly capitol riot. law enforcement agencies have opened more than 300 cases so far. investigators are examining more than 150,000 pieces of evidence, including photos and videos from tipsters. meanwhile, the second impeachment trial of donald trump is set to begin. theoretically, it could start this week. there are growing calls for prosecuting the president

paul from the left in his report special counsel robert mueller concluded the documents came from russian state hackers that has cost the sands more friends a sexual predator a narcissistic self publicist a stooge of foreign intelligence a tireless campaigner for journalism and transparency these are just some of the views of julian assange on monday a judge at london's old bailey will decide whether he can be extradited to the united states but both sides can appeal a decision that goes against them so either way sand is legal struggles to set to continue. al-jazeera london. time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera us media outlets have obtained recordings of an extraordinary hour long phone call between president donald trump and georgia's secretary of state brad robson's but it can be heard appearing to pressure him to recalculate the election result in that state which was won by president elect joe biden through the people of yours you're angry at the people of the country or even and there's nothing wrong with saying that you know. 2 that you've recalculated well m

if you recall, during the robert mueller investigation, there was a call from the senate — investigation they -et presidents, that is just when they get the _ presidents, that is just when they get the most profile, but historically there is precedent, under— historically there is precedent, under the _ historically there is precedent, under the concept of impeachment, for impeaching people after they have left office, so i do not think it is a _ have left office, so i do not think it is a strong argument that it is unconstitutional, i think it is a distraction _ unconstitutional, i think it is a distraction from the facts, which are surely— distraction from the facts, which are surely compelling and very serious — are surely compelling and very serious against mr trump and, frankly, — serious against mr trump and, frankly, in— serious against mr trump and, frankly, in terms of the threat to the american democracy, it is very important — the american democracy, it is very important for the constitution that this process unfold, in my view. i�*m this process unfold, in my view. i'm auoin

even special council mueller, robert mueller was aware of this.d i'm not going to get into the conflicts but you should know, andy mccabe, you'll probably be a witness in my russia investigation. mccabe still doesn't step aside. that's stuff we did not see going on, it was in the back room dealing. maria: john durham is continuing a criminal investigation. we are going to be talking this morning about the biden agenda. do you expect durham to come out with indictments even in the face of a new administration and the biden agenda unfolding? >> everything that i see in the activity of the investigation, everything i hear from defense lawyers and other ofs that are familiar with what's going on is that if he is building a small number of indictments trying to get the evidence to get there, there have been some delays. there's fights over evidence behind closed doors, grand jury fights but all the evidence is pointing him trying to bring criminal charges probably in the first quarter of this year. there's a new sheriff in time, when merck garland gets

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robert mueller and his team and the fbi agents who worked on crossfire hurricane before them amassed cast a shadow on this administration. and president trump has become obsessed with trying to undermine the russia probe. he's denied that russia did what they did and he has tried to make the american law enforcement and intelligence officers who investigated what russia did into the real villains in this story. he's still doing it, even at this late hour. he's still trying this. tonight the white house released an oddly and vaguely worded statement saying that the president has ordered the last minute declassification of what is described as a binder of materials from crossfire hurricane. that's literally what they give as the description of this material. it's a binder. a binder of information the president has apparently decided to declassify tonight despite the fact that the fbi has deemed it too sensitive to be released. what do we make of this? why are they talking about it as a binder full of material as if the container in which the papers reside are the most important things

. >> joining us now andr with teisman he is a former senior member of robert mueller's russia probe.hrough this. in your mind is impeachment what congress should be focusing on or should they leave it up to state and federal prosecutors? >> i don't think this is an either/or, stephanie. i think that you can do both. i actually think one of the strategies that i've heard about which is to impeach now but not refer to the senate for 100 days may actually be the best strategy not just because of biden's agenda but because it gives 100 days for the new administration to uncover additional evidence. remember, the administration is going to come in and is going to see what the trump administration has been up to. for instance, there was no evidence given over by the trump administration in connection with the ukraine call and that's going to be laid bare for the new administration to see. but i do think the criminal strategy is one that would be consistent with what the trump administration said should be done when they were considering the riots and protests over the summer involving the

i was the first in congress to call for the termination of robert mueller and now we sort of see how that turned out. i was one of the first to defend the president in the ukraine impeachment. i think i got a pretty good record. a president that has been innocent and helpful to the american people in terms of the policy. >> this is such a honest, straightforward tail. with great beauty of the library thank you for what you do to preserve what i think was the last great transformational presidency that inspired so many americans we can see how it is at its most successful self. >> you are welcome any time. >> i read it at least a book a week

europe and those who want to strike a pragmatic deal and so now that hasn't gone away there peter robert mueller a long term watch and of the conservative party probably know more about it and the workings the threat of the journalists what issues do you expect to mess with in the party of the ideological issues which are going to match or is the path to peace with itself. i have written about the conservatives for 30 years 3 to cats. and it's important to understand this party we have now is almost unrecognisable from the party which existed until only 5 years ago. instead of the pragmatic arcee of going to little souls rates and your major you've got a sense and interests a sax much more in common actually with all band sitters in hungary it's all too right party in many ways same night macit you a shit of course the republicans in the united states and the trauma and so it's almost not a concern city but it's almost a revolutionary movement captured by the vote leave people now is that sustainable given that they've driven up boris johnson quite deliberately consciously drove the old fashione

the russians who robert mueller indicted in his investigation were charged with the same kind of crime namely interfering with the government function of holding a fair and proper presidential election that was the crime charged under federal law and here we have the president of the united states doing precisely the same thing but that was also quite difficult because with that with them pietschmann it's over that about ukraine coercions also are argue beeping interfering in an election and trying to coerce and even with the pressure from the russians. trump space and a good part of the u.s. don't actually believe that that was a criminal offense do you think this is a similar. this can be spun in a similar way by president trump supporters that he's done nothing wrong he was merely exploring options well maybe his supporters will but you need to remember it with regard to criminal liability but well president trump in his office his own justice department has taken the position that he's immune from indictment or prosecution he can't be charged so the fact that he wasn't charged crim

before the 2016 presidential election cost him support from the left in his report special counsel robert mueller concluded the documents came from russian state hackers that has caused to sound more friends a sexual predator a narcissistic self publicist a stooge of foreign intelligence a tireless campaigner for journalism and transparency these are just some of the views of julian assange on monday a judge at london's old bailey will decide whether he can be extradited to the united states but both sides can appeal a decision that goes against them so either way to sanjay is legal struggles to set to continue to reach out and al-jazeera london now the number of people killed in attacks on 2 villages in western news year has risen to about 100 the prime minister visited the area where it happened the region neighboring mali became a faso and many reporters from the. villagers in western asia gather to pray in the wake of one of the deadliest days in their nation's recent history these graves are just 2 days old the prime minister of malaysia air flew in to see the devastation for himself don't l

the serious ties were raised in the inquiry into donald trump that took place under robert mueller but i don't know enough about it to say with any certainty where he got the information from. him but you could speculate on a number of scenarios about where the information came and who hacked it because it was katie illegally hacked material and that poses big moral questions not not only for the centers of this well but for you know papers like the new york times and the washington post who went on to use that material i'm not sure it's necessarily meaningly hack you chose to use it when it came to war crimes in iraq of course. that material yes no i mean that that was no question that was in the terms of the american espionage act it legally change as well as the edward snowden material and that's why i said as there are there are no easy answers i mean my general view as an editor was you have to look at the material itself rather than look at the motives of the leakers which were this which is not an entirely relevant but is the material that sitting in front of you is that all suf

favor the issue was did trump and his campaign collude with russia and you may recall that the robert mueller investigation could not conclude that there was actual collusion. although he said there were a lot of contacts between the russians and the trump campaign some of which he criticized but donald trump has all along been calling that the russia hoax and he's still trying to prove it 4 years later he has had the f.b.i. declassified documents we don't know exactly what's in those documents we do know that the f.b.i. has redacted them and trump has accepted the redactions so 4 years after being elected under the cloud of russian assistance donald trump is still trying to prove that van investigation is a hoax and he's using f.b.i. documents to do it and john we've been hearing all week about president trump possibly granting dozens of pardons before he leaves office what's the latest on that. that's right we still have not seen those pardons but we know a few things about them the final list of pardons will come in a list given by his daughter who is dealing with the pardon vetting proces

before the 2016 presidential election cost him support from the left in his report special counsel robert mueller concluded the documents came from russian state hackers that has caused to sound more friends a sexual predator a narcissistic self publicist a stooge of foreign intelligence a tireless campaigner for journalism and transparency these are just some of the views of julian assange on monday a judge at london's old bailey will decide whether he can be extradited to the united states but both sides can appeal a decision that goes against them so either way julian assange is legal struggles are set to continue. al-jazeera london. we return to corona virus news now and brazil's health regulator has agreed to import 2000000 doses of that oxford astra zeneca vaccine we saw earlier even though it hasn't actually approved the shot for you and the 200000 brazilians have died from cove in 19 and there have been more than 7000000 recorded infections is more from allison. in bogota. well the brazilian government hopes that this announcement will show some progress when it comes to this issue at a t

i was the first member of congress to call for the termination of robert mueller and we sort of see how that turns out. one of the first to defend the president in the ukraine impeachment. i think i've got a pretty good record telling the truth, calling these scandals what they are, and defending a president who's been both innocent and i think very helpful to the american people in terms of the policies he's implemented. >> let me say this closing, congressman, this is such a refreshingly honest, straightforward tale and i hope 40 years from now, whether president trump is reelected or not you'll write the next book so we can continue to follow the journey of a guy with a lot of courage and heart and really i hope succeeds in the future. >> thank you. if we're doing this in four years let it not be over a zoom call. let us enjoy the wonders and great beauties of the reagan library and thank you for you do to preserve what i think was the last great transformational presidency, one that i think inspired so many americans and continues to inspire so many americans and i think the more we

after a nearly two-year investigation and interviews with over 500 witnesses, special counsel robert mueller same conclusion. no collusion between trump nor anyone on his campaign and russia. >> i thought it was just false information. and nobody ever was worse to russia than me. >> it's all a big hoax, it's a witch hunt and a hoax. >> the investigation by doj inspector general michael horowitz would reveal multiple abuses by fbi and justice department officials in obtaining wiretaps of carter page. the report also dropped another terminal bombshell. >> the email from the cia saying that page had been helpful, had been a source on russia for the cia was altered by an fbi official to make it appear that he had never helped the cia, had never been a source. >> that fbi official kevin kleinsmith would later plead guilty to falsifying documents as part of yet another new investigation. this one a criminal overseen by former u.s. attorney john durham. that investigation is ongoing to this day as the questions continue to rage over who from the obama administration knew what and when. did presiden

cabal to replace comey, former senator joe lieberman, general john kelly and former fbi director robert muellereporter, fox business contributor, great american. sara, great to have you with us. your reaction to these latest documents, an fbi that had already decided to take the course that, ultimately, was followed by president trump which resulted in a special counsel investigation. rod rosenstein the has really been neglected here. his actions now leave a stench through this entire sorry scandal. >> well, you're right, lou. and i like the way john, my former colleague, john solomon, headlined his story when he called it boomerang because that's exactly what it was. back then, i mean, even in 2017, you know, john solomon and i wrote a number of stories regarding rod rosenstein, the actions taken by the justice department, actual discussions that actually became public from committee hearings where even james baker, the general counsel, had says, you know, look, rod rosenstein had offered to wear a wire to record president trump. he was in discussions regarding the 25th and, remember, during t

whether it was his campaign, whether it was robert mueller's special counsel investigation, the monthsinvestigation that preceded that special counsel, a sham impeachment proceeding or this, the latest effort to steal a presidential election. today 174 of this country's top business leaders joined together, as if this were not already joined, to urge congress to certify the electoral college results in favor of joe biden. aren't you astonished that the business establishment wants joe biden to be president? arguing that attempts to thwart or delay this process run counter, in their words, to the essential tenets of our democracy. doesn't a, an absolute effort to steal an election run counter to the tenets of this great democracy? shouldn't that be with considered as well? -- be considered as well? not, apparently, in their opinion. ing an obama-appointed judge today also rejected another lawsuit are challenging the election results in five battleground states. judge moseberg made that ruling, serving still as the presiding judge of the fisa court. yes, the very same counts used -- and

impeachment when there is no special prosecutor, no special prosecutor report, no kenneth starr or robert muellerolved, no cross-examination, just one day wham and we are going to have a senate trial and all looks like something we in america don't do and he will be leaving office in 7 days so the left always does this, they create this hysteria and then get back lash and that is happening and i don't think they are aware of it but they are going full totalitarian and there's going to be a reaction. shannon: we cover and have covered and have people on this show and across the channel covering people who maybe went to the president's be sure the rally had no idea what was going on in the capital, never wind down, they say they are losing jobs, business are being canceled and having all kinds of trouble. you mentioned some of this may be making the president and his followers more empathetic to people. to democrats risk going too far with this and torching themselves in 2022? >> absolutely and we will see more and more of it because what you just described is something in america we have poor call

completely deranged, unhinged conspiracy theory for which there was no evidence of robert mueller's investigationd then we are the monopolist of truth and objectivity and anybody who questions anything that we are saying not only is wrong but doesn't deserve a platform and should be kicked off the internet, shouldn't be allowed on cable. it is all about power and this hatred they have that they believe they are the only ones who ought to be heard and ought to have a platform. before turning them out, that is what is so angering them. that is where they want control again. >> brian: they are not going to get it. we know this, every time you see carl bernstein on they are is worse than watergate. that's all i know for sure. thank you so much come appreciate it. >> thanks, brian. >> brian: from brazil. up next, team biden begging thousands of migrants to turn around. how is that going? it doesn't usually work, but let's see if it works for him. one of the men on the front lines will join us next. ♪ ♪ (quiet piano music) (loud music & noises) ♪ ♪ (quiet piano music) comfort in the extreme. the lincol

robert mueller hinted that while criminal liability may be off the table, there were other constitutionally proceedings like impeachment that may curb a wayward president. as we go forward into a new administration, i think there will be a lot of questions about what sort of guardrails we have in place that would protect the country, protect our norms from a president who seems to be complete lly incognizant of wha those are. i think there will be a lot of questions going forward about this kind of use of the presidential office for one's own particular purposes and whether or not those kinds of uses exceed the kinds of bounds that we expect of our sitting president. >> when it comes to trump's recent pardons, you wrote, quote, once seated, the next congress should immediately begin the second impeachment of donald trump for abuse of power and obstruction of justice. i don't mean this as a symbolic gesture. if it is kicked off in 2021, the impeachment process may prevent trump from running again in 2024- >> i wrote that when trump was pardoning paul manafort and roger stone, people who had

an impeachment when there is no special prosecutor, no prosecutors or reports, no ken starr, robert muellerination, it is just one day, whammo, now are going to have a senate trial. then it looks like something that we in america don't do and he will be leaving office in seven days. the left does this. they create this hysteria and then they get a backlash. that that's what's happening to them and i don't think they're aware of it. they are going full totalitarian and it's going to be a reaction. >> shannon: we cover and we have covered and have people on the show. across the channel were covering people who maybe went to the president station and went to the rally. never went down there. they say that their businesses are being canceled and d platforms and all kinds of trouble. you mentioned that some may be making the president and the followers more empathetic to the people. do they risk going too far with this and torching themselves in 2022? >> absolutely. we will see more and more of that because what you just described is something that we call guilt by association. mccarthy, this ty

andrew weismann was of course the former lead prosecutor for robert mueller.osecution of trump campaign chairman paul manafort who has been parted by the president now. weismann has been arguing and it's important to note he waited until the moment biden was sworn in to make this known publicly, but he now says that trump's pardon for manafort was sort of done wrong. it's very, very narrowly tailored to only specify that manafort is pardoned for the crimes for which he was convicted. that might not be enough to keep paul manafort out of prison. because as part of his plea agreement that he did before the court, a plea agreement he later violated, manafort actually admitted in court to many additional crimes beyond the ones for which he was convicted. crimes for which he was never formally charged, never convicted of them. and he's also not pardoned for them now. weismann says, quote, the trial on such charges would be unusually simple proving the case could consistent of introducing manafort's sworn admission to the charges from his plea agreement. weismann al

we got robert mueller, the fbi director. get vice president cheney but we cannot because secret service agents burst into his west wing office and told him they needed to move him to the bunker. i had a weird day because we were sitting there. the president is sitting at a table meant for kindergartners. all of the adult furniture is gone. he sitting at a little table meant for kindergartners, about this far off the ground in one of those little plastic chairs. writing what he's going to say to the country. and three of us were talking with him about what he's going to say. and the head of the secret service came in a little guy. , not very tall. very slim. very soft-spoken. he says mr. president we need to , get you to air force one and airborne as quickly as possible. they were afraid that the president's whereabouts were known and that somebody was going to crash a plane into the elementary school and they wanted to get him the hell out of there. so we want to the motorcade. normally i would be in a car two or three behin

i said that robert mueller has set up the john kiriakou task force and peter strozk had actually arrestedme. i was looking for a pardon. it turned out that donald trump was watching the episode that night, and he called jared kushner and said, john kiriakou on fox news, you should get in touch with them. so the next day, my attorney got a call from jared kushner's attorney and a couple of days after that we met in kushner's attorney's office. shner was very cold. he was very stiff and not at all friendly amiable, open. what he said was, what do you want? i said, i went a presidential pardon. he said, give me one page, i went three quarters of the page explaining your situation come your case, your background. the other owner of the page i want you to tell me how a pardon for you hes donald trump get reelected. i did what i could. my attorney wrote this one page. we sent it to kushner and never heard anything again. juan: how does that compare with the normal process is sposed to be for someone seeking a presidential pardon? >> the normal process is you would not even know who jared kushne

let's bring in andrew weisman, working under special council robert mueller, he's a distinguished seniorellow at the nyu school of law. good to have you. we've been tossing out a lot of names. the one we seem to know right now is steve bannon. what is your reaction? >> it's very hard to say that you're surprised. given that the president has pardoned murders, corrupt politicians, corrupt law enforcement, major fraudsters. the fact that he and bannon had a falling-out doesn't seem to be something that would preclude his granting a pardon. in the same way he wasn't particularly enamored of paul manafort, and he gave him a pardon. just to focus on something you were addressing, this idea of would he pardon people who engaged in the january 6th insurrection, i think the real question is, if the president, since he's really just a creature of what is in it for him, if the president were not facing a trial on the impeachment, would he in fact pardon them? because i think that is really the issue for why he is not doing it. it's not because there's any love lost, given that he's pardoned people

and those 81 million voters who voted for joe biden did what no lawmakers, what no robert mueller could do, they made a decision and they got rid of president trump. >> well, you know, it is not an accident, right, that one of the phrases that's so famous that will stick with us is this notion of an alternate facts. that was the infamous label given by kellyanne conway to some of the early lies of the administration. i do think that the lying was endemic to trump, not just as a character trait, but as a foundation not only of what he brought into this most sacred high office, but also what he was peddling to his followers. and so you can say that reality won, but you can also say that we enter this inauguration day still a very deeply divided country and the numbers are unsettling on this front, alisyn. when you look, there were some recent polls that suggested as many as 77% of americans did not believe that biden was legitimately -- sorry, 77% of republicans did not believe that biden was legitimately elected. i think that the question is, can there be a coming together of these two t