rod wheeler did not talk about asking for a job. i told rod come along and meet him.maybe somehow you can smooze and get to develop a relationship with him. another point rod wheeler sent me a text message saying can you get me back in to see sean. i want to give him some information. i have a text message that i'll bring to you. >> all right. good. the fox news retracted the story as we now nope. >> right. >> do you still believe there is something to the suggestion? >> i don't believe there's anything in that story that isn't accurate. >> you believe it's all accurate. >> let me finish. i believe rod wheeler's saying that he was misquoted is the reason they pulled it. rod wheeler wasn't misquoted. what rod wheeler did the night before, he had a crush or has a crush on a lady named maria morocco with fox five washington and he leaked the story to her the night before. she wrote a lot of stuff. and i have a text message showing rod saying i need to sue fox 5 because they misquoted me. so now fox 5 misquoted rod wheeler. and then you got to bring in this lawyer womened

>> rod: that would give the number. i think we've been very clear about that, with only talk about the proportion, a tripling of the number of referrals so far. >> chris: i take it if it were 1-3 this wouldn't be a serious problem. >> rod: 1-3 wouldn't be as many as we have, that's true. i had a feeling this would be a tough interview and i'm preparing for it. some of the people who engage in leaks, i don't have to tell you, are not the so-called members of the deep state faceless bureaucrats inside intelligence agencies, they are white house officials, members of congress. if you find any of them have committed these leaks, have disclosed classified informatio information, will you prosecute? >> rod: what we need to look at in every link referral we get, look at the fact and circumstances, what was the potential harm caused by the leak in the circumstances. that's more important to who is the leaker. if they violated the prosecuted. >> chris: included w congress? >> rod: including anybody who breaks the law. the policy

what rod just said, rod has a huge battle with the truth. that's not true whatsoever.nd you can look, there's lots of info out there and ali, if my lawyer lets me, i'll senld you mig it. and you'll see, rod, this wasn't so much about the russian hacking and so on. it turngs out that what sigh hurs said, if it's true, it does did he bunk this whole russian hacking trump thing. and, you know, am i republican? yeah. okay. am i huge trump supporter? no. i'm a conservative economic guy who that's what i talk about when i go on television and that's what i live by, okay. so the idea that i was pushing some narrative, rod is just out there trying to make money. this -- ali, this is about rod wheeler. >> right. >> divulging a story to a lady he had a crush on in washington named media reamore rock oh and she published it and rod wheeler right after that said i had blue it. he said she misquoted me. he's said so many stories. he has a huge battle with the truth. did i at some point say this will did he bunk the russian hacking thing? i'm sure i've said that. i'll say it right h

rod can attest to that. >> rod, you said something earlier i want to pick up on. talked about your shirts. by the way, it is a nice shirt. >> right. >> objectively stated. >> hey, i got it at macy's. >> ed butowski says that's what the meeting with sean spicer was about. are we ready with that sound? all right. here is what he said. >> my conversation with sean about this recording lasted about one minute. he said, ed, i don't know anything about it, i didn't want to know anything about it, i can't do anything, and we ended up talking about many other things, believe it or not, including because he and i both get our shirts at the same place through some company and we talked about the new cotton material on these shirts. chris, that's the truth. >> is it? >> i have something to say about that, chris, and that is if that were true, then why do we have a text message the day before april 19th, ed is texting rod to say, make sure your investigative report is up to date and finalized in pdf so we can bring it with us to our meeting with sean spicer, that's what happe

deputy attorney general rod rosenstein actually talked about that today. listen. >> the special counsel is subject to the rules and regulations of the department of justice, and we don't engage in fishes expeditions. that order you read doesn't detail specifically who may be the subject in the investigation, bu we don't rereal that publicly, but bob mueller understands and i understand the specific scope of the investigation. so, no, it's not a fishing expedition. >> so matthew, what's your reaction to that, and how does that, how is that interpreted now by the white house? >> well, my understanding of the scope is that it is limited. this is one of the discussions i've been having with lots of people. in fact, in writing an editorial pieces that should be up on cnn.com soon about, that there is a red line. there is a very specific scope to this investigation, and anything that is outside of russian coordination or the 2016 campaign would be outside of the scope of that investigation. i think rod rosenstein, who i served with in the department of justice a

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this is rod wheeler and this guy disagreeing.o john's point, what are you seeing here -- sorry to sigh -- but what you are seeing here is a coordinated effort to deflect and blame where there is not deflection and blame to go around. this is a murder, plain and simple. that's what the police have determined, and you're seeing it being twisted for political and partisan reasons. even if it didn't come in the midst of a long-running and what i think to be fundamentally disingenuous attack on the idea of fake news -- i put it in air quotes because that's not what it is -- this is creation out of nothing and using the death of a kid. let's not forget that. this is painful enough for seth rich's family, but now to say, really, he was a mole within the dnc leaking all this information, i can't imagine losing a child much less having him dragged through the mud in this way where there is no real evidence here to suggest that's the case. it's a bad look broadly speaking for the white house and i think an absolute repudiation that somehow

we found out her nickname for a-rod. it's bubby. >> in chicago. wheels up.ubby. >> after five months together, here's why it works between 48-year-old j-lo and 42-year-old a-rod. jennifer doesn't mind taking a backseat when it's his time to shine. she watched as a-rod signed autographs. of course, the couple who sweats together stays together. both are super keeping their bodies in amazing shape, and they are the perfect snap of a blended family. have you seen how happy the kids are with a-rod? >> when you have kids, it becomes not about you. it becomes about them and what's going to make them happy. we just don't want to ever fail them. >> speaking of celebrity kids, check out michael jackson's daughter, paris. she shared this topless photo on a spiritual retreat, and she went on adventure with her godfather, and paris and max. >> matching spoons on their arms, that's the ink paris and macaulay got done in l.a. on saturday. sporting a clean cut look and that's the tattoo on his arm. paris has more than 50 all over her body. no explanation on what the spoon

and rod can attest to that. >> rod, you said something earlier. you talked about your shirts.acy's. >> ed butowsky said that is what the meeting with sean spicer was about. here's what he said. >> my conversation with sean about these recordings, lasted about one minute. he said, ed, i don't know anything about it. i don't want to know anything about it. i can't do anything. and we ended up talking about many other things, believe it or not, including, we both get our shirts at the same place. and we talked about the cotton material on these shirts. that's the truth. >> is it? >> i have something to say about that, chris. if that were true, why do we have a text message the day before, april 19th, ed is texting rod, to say, make sure your investigative report is up to date and finalized and pdfs to with presented with our meeting. >> that's what we did. we had this meeting. we met about 10 to 15 minutes. i'll tell you quickly how the meeting ended. sean spicer said, i'm not sure how i can help with the investigation. he said, if you want to talk more about this or i can put yo

doug is an attorney for rod wheeler, joining us from new york.anks very much for joining us. what's your response to what we just heard from butowsky? >> well, you know, i watched that interview last evening with your colleague, chris cuomo, and actually was highly entertaining because much of what he said made absolutely no sense. you know, take, for instance, the text message that he sent to rod wheeler. he said that the president read the article, he wanted it out immediately, and now he's trying to say that that text was somehow a joke. i mean, this was not a laughing matter. this was a text message. there was no emoji at the end, no smiley face. it wasn't a joke. ed butowsky, as he said in his text, was in conversations with the white house, with the president. he was actually brought rod wheeler to the white house to meet with sean spicer. sean spicer admits that. and what we see, actually, is that sean spicer says the meeting had no agenda. they just sort of arrived at the white house, and they had no agenda. that makes no sense. and then

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>> i mean, lawyers across america have to be laughing at rod rosenstein. you have to recuse yourself under the canons of ethics, and the department of justice's own regulations, and yet he is ignoring them with immunity. normally you would -- impugnity. normally you'd go to a judge and say he's going to recuse himself. the problem here is the case isn't right yet because it's only an investigation. no charges have been filed yet, so no federal judge is going to intervene yet to make rosenstein recuse >> i can't believe, because we moved from trump campaign, russia conclusion into all these other areas, now it's obstruction. now it's finances. you know what this is like? look at patrick fitzgerald. it started out, he knew on day one richard armitage was the leaker, and we ended up three years later with what i would argue is a personally trap because -- perjury trap because scooter libby wouldn't give up the vice president >> rosenstein, it was a very cleaver subterfuge on fox news sunday when he tried to imply there is a scope, and mueller has to be within

>> i think rod wheeler decided to go along with this.ad to make a conscious decision in the beginning that he was comfortable with this fox figure, this clear trump supporter being the benefactor there. i do think rod wheeler did not fully accept or appears from his public statements to have not been fully comfortable with the conclusions of metropolitan police that it was clearly a botched armed robbery or the assertions by democrats and by the rich family that there's no links. on the other hand -- and you've seen that from some of the responses that the rich family has had for some of the things that rod wheeler has said. on the other hand, rod wheeler strongly feels and has material strongly supporting the idea that he did not want to be saying publicly a lot of these things that were cut against what he knew he couldn't support. >> i want to play a little bit of rod wheeler when he was on sean hannity making the case about seth rich. take a listen. >> what did you discover in terms of the contacts with wikileaks? >> right. well that

♪ we're just gonna call a-rod super confident in his super sexy five-month relationship with j-lo. mean, who needs a music video when you've got social media? ♪ >> baseball's $500 million dollar man talks more about j-lo in the "hollywood reporter." jennifer even facetimed him right in the middle of the interview. a-rod says the couple binge watch tv together and, quote, we both appreciate where we are in our lives. we appreciate being parents and we're so similar. we're both kind of workaholics. >> first thing i do when i wake up is brush my teeth and catch up on e-mails. >> how many e-mails do you usually have? >> at least a hundred a day. >> a-rod's also not ashamed to at mitt, j-lo's the bigger star, saying, "paparazzi were telling me to get the hell out of the way so they could get a good shot of jennifer." >> hello, nischelle turner and hello, lady gaga. check our her out walking hand in hand with her boyfriend in vancouver. >> that's where mother monster kicked off her tour last night. she has been he reversing and we are all in. ♪ >> 22 songs, more than two hours of on-poin

i have a message for the deputy rod rosenstein. tonight we demand you stop rob better mueller mission investigative creep and put an end to the political witch hunt against president trump. that's tonight's opening monologue. the russian investigation overseen by the deputy attorney general is it beyond corrupt and political and an open ended phishing expedition and just like mueller, rosenstein has glaring conflicts of intchlt he had this with the chris wallace on fox news sunday. look at this. >> the special counsel is subject of the rule and regulations of the department of justice and we don't enchange in phishing expedition. this does not reveal who is the subject. but bob mueller and understands and i understand the scope of the investigation and no, it is not a phishing expedition. >> you say any matters that arose or arise in the course of his investigation of the issues that he is looking at. if he finds evidence of a crime, can he look at that? >> if it is in the scope of what director mueller and i agreed he can. if it i

>> right, rod wheeler claims he asked her to remove the quotes. she doesn't, and then in the material that's recording their exchanges. she said, this 1 what fox news told me to do, keep them in there and keep the onus on you. he goes and complains to the new president of the fox news division. he explains everything that happens and gets no response, no satisfaction. jay, the president says they also talked to zimmerman, and after those two discussions, he says, after ten weeks, they just don't know what happened yet. >> this is the president of the united states allegedly according to a text message saying, to somebody at fox news, we really like this story, please get it out there, it's going to undercut this idea that the russians were hacking into our e-mails and giving them to wikileaks in order to also help me win the election. i don't want that story out there, so we need to come out with an alternative narrative. i have a statement from seth rich's family. we can't speak to the evidence you now have we hope this brings an end to the most

rod, let's start with you. that the fox reporter, malia zimmerman, made up two quotes in this article atri attributing them to you. what do you say ifalse? >> well, the quotes that she added to her story specifically references me as saying that i knew for a fact that the decedent in this case, seth rich, sent e-mails to wikileaks. and that just was totally fabricated. i never said that. let me also go back real quickly, stephanie, and say this. my heart and prayers go out to the rich family. i hate, stephanie, that they have to endure all of this stuff that's in the media. i even reached out to the father of aaron rich the day after this story broke -- >> seth rich. >> that's right, seth rich. the day after this story broke. i said, this is terrible for this story to be published, i told him that. i said i'm hoping that fox will retract that story because those quotes clearly did not come from me. >> you went on fox news, though, after the story was published. >> right. >> why didn't you make it clear then? >>

spare the rod and spoil the child. mister alcott thought of the rod like a staff to guide. he would not strike the students. the allowed questions in the classroom which again was frowned upon by most teachers because it would promote rudeness. the teacher knows what you are up to the why are you encouraging these questions? he had a lot of difficulty with people eating nervous about these unusual techniques they had heard of and yet the children were learning more and really loved mister alcott so it was really the right thing. he was about 100 years ahead of his time. his lifelong dream had been to teach adults as well and he did find that he could finally do that in this room in 1879. over here we have one of the cofounders of the school of philosophy, that's what bronson alt.chose to call his adult learning opportunity in this room in 1879. mister emerson once said of bronson alcott that mister alcott is the foremost genius of our day. he's the gentleman are closest of friends. they walked together on a daily basis and supported each other in everything so it is not a s

she is jennifer lopez. >> you watched j-lo and a-rod fall in love together. >> she is awesome.reat guy. >> here's what i want to know. do you think she is giving him dance lessons? >> i don't know. who knows? here's the thing. once you have had a few tequilas, everybody is a dancer. >> that's a simple way to look at it. >> i don't think a-rod needs dance less sons. >>> still ahead -- >> he walks around and i'm, like, my hard heart. >> tyra an how she balances her busy career and her baby boy. >>> then -- ♪ >> miley. ♪ >> james corden's taking us inside his new star-studded "carpool karaoke" series. >> i really enjoyed the whole cyrus family. >>> closed captioning provided by -- >>> we dream about, you know, having a little bit of a farm one day, and -- >> these are the work years. the graver years are to come. >> did difficulty balancing career and family drive chris pratt and anna faris apart? anna definitely felt the pressure of being a couple in hollywood. >> the jealousy, the tabloids. anna detailed her struggle in a new memoir. it hasn't been published yet, but tonight, he

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obviously it's a lawsuit filed by rod wheeler.s is rod wheeler's version of events, but it's pretty damming, if you read through the claims made in the lawsuit. >> has there been a clear message from the white house on what they think out? butowski was -- was asked if he had any knowledge of this on the day that the fox news came out allegedly linking the dnc and seth rich. he said i don't know anything about that, he told npr yes, i did meet with them, but they wanted to keep me updated. now yesterday at the press briefing, sarah huckabee sanders who's now sandeean's successor that role. and so that's where we're at. pending lawsuit, we're going to find out more, we're going to get the other side of this, but i would encourage folks to go and read the wheeler lawsuit, there are claims in it extensively as it relates to fox news and the white house. >> the claim of course, everyone should have their say, but also doesn't look good for fox news if its at all true that there was any coordination or any creation of a story. >> wheele

rod wheeler is claiming fox knowingly used made-up quotes from him. as a pawnhe was used in a plan by the white house to "shipped the blame from russia" speculation.ed wheeler was being paid for investigate the rich killing by a trump supporter in texas named ed petoskey. the lawsuit also claimed he received a text message from and saying "not to add any more .ressure to the president read the article. he wants it out immediately." he alleges he told him "one day, you will win an award for having said those things you didn't say." we will have more on the story later in the broadcast. we will be speaking with marcy wheeler. the u.s. is testing an intercontinental ballistic missile this morning from the vandenberg air force base in california, amid rising tensions with north korea. on july 28, north korea launched a similar missile, which experts say may be capable of reaching the west coast of the u.s. on on tuesday, secretary of state rex tillerson said the u.s. is willing to engage in direct talks with north korea, and claimed the us is nonot seekin

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mueller, if he's really going down paths of unrelated financial transactions, then he has to go back to rod and get that additional authorization. >> so, craig, also in your article and in "the republic" you wrote after a -- quoting now, "review of the public record revealed a clear and disturbing pattern. trump owes much of his business success and by extension his presidency to a flow of highly suspicious money from russia over the past three decades. at least 13 people with known or alleged links to russian mobsters or oligarchs, run, owned and lived in or run out of trump properties. is it your belief when investigators say they're following the money, those two are threads they'll look into? this was information that you quote in your article based on court records. so not accusations you're making? >> right.

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. >> here's that briefing with the attorney general, deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein, and director of national intelligence, dan coats. >> good morning. i want to thank director coats for being here. dan coat is one of the finest people i've ever known no public service since -- and i have tremendous respect. the task force was start note 2011 that has an important role to play and one we are taking seriously. progress has been made and we intend to reach new levels of effectiveness. first let me say that i strongly agree with the president and con tell in the strongest terms the staggering number of leaks undermining the ability of our government to protect this country. just yesterday we saw reports in the media about conversations the president had with foreign leaders. no one is entitled to surreptitiously fight to advance battles in the media by revealing sensitive government information. no government can be effective when its leaders cannot discuss sensitive matters into confidence or talk freely in confidence with foreign leaders. we are here today to talk about the dramati

sending a message loud and clear, rod rosenstein warning that those involved in the leaks coming outf the white house could face prosecution. no matter who they are. >> we look at the facts and circumstances, what was the potential harm caused by the lead, what were the circumstances? that is more important than who is the leaker coming my identify somebody, if they have violated the law, we will prosecute them. >> including white house officials and members of congress? >> anybody who breaks the law. >> sandra: after jeff sessions addressing a major crackdown, the leak investigations have tripled since president trump took office, and the outrage not limited to key members of the administration. to top officials in the obama administration as well say that this has to stop. >> the leaks were now are really bad. i've never seen it this bad. there should be a concerted effort to identify and go after leakers. >> i think they are dangerous when it involves classified information. and you can refer to the fbi, you can revert to the justice department. obviously where it involves classif

homicide detective rod wheeler. >> when you look at that with the totality of everything else that ind in this case, it's to begin to think, well, perhaps there were some e-mail communications between seth and wikileaks. >> the lawsuit also names a wealthy supporter of president with him to steer attention away from the russian hacking of the dnc e-mails, but less than a week later, wheeler told our web site: i am of the personal opinion that the information/article reported last tuesday was essentially correct and worthy of further investigation. jay wallace, fox' president of news, said in a statement: the accusation that foxnews.com published malia zimmerman's story to help detract from coverage of the russia collusion issue is completely erroneous. the retraction is still being investigated internally, and we have no evidence that rod wheeler was misquoted by zimmerman. additionally, fox news vehemently denies the race discrimination claims in the lawsuit. the dispute has nothing to do with race. the story was first reported by npr. wheeler was hired to investigate seth rich's de

and you know rod rosenstein can investigate any evidence of any crime. think the president's threatened by that? >> again, trying to anticipate or know what's in donald trump's mind is a pretty hazardous occupation. but the point is that the grand jury protects a protection of perm pans in because it is an arm of the court. the president can perhaps try to fire the special prosecutor would be an egregious extreme step, but he can't fire the court or the grand jury. and that's why also we need an extra level of protection which our bill would provide. i'm going to fight for it and work for it as well as addressing the other problems and issues that are our nation very, very urgently needs to address. >> the target of the president's attacks today, senator richard blooumen that will, thank you for your time. appreciate it. >>> and when we come back, dan rather will join me. i'll get his take on the president's falling poll numbers and whether trump's own party is abandoning him after just 200 days. are upgrading their watere filter to zerowater. start with