the question is what did rod rosenstein say in the oval office to keep his job?ght there beside bill barr when the mueller report comes out, in effect demolishing the mueller report. >> there you've seen the transformation in front of our very eyes of rod rosenstein who started out as a very respected independent prosecutor, who like many people, came into contact with trump and the price he paid for surviving was essentially to become the foot soldier for trump and stand there mutely while he heard barr make dem barr make demonstrably untrue characterizations of the mueller report. so those meet rgz critical. they were drafted the press release and he was being taken on the wood shed. the "new york times" reported he was going to wearer the wire. somehow he comes out with his job in tact. what did he say to keep his job and reassure trump? and in turn what did he do to keep mueller in the job? he was mueller's boss. what did mueller have to do or not do to keep from being fired by rosenstein? rosenstein's colleagues say in his defense his sole mission was to pro

republicans were going to impeach rod rosenstein. they drafted articles of impeachment.ou know, you are right, but it was also an extraordinary moment for the department i'm sure. >> well, and remember, the person who prevented that was paul ryan who kind of put the horses back in the barn, so to speak. >> you can call them horses. >> this is a mark meadows' driven production when he was trying to -- i'm not going to say -- >> meadows, jordan. >> it was the freedom caucus which had extreme power the last congress. and paul ryan did a lot to try to hold them back and successfully did for a long time. but, listen, this is the politics of today. people justify certain actions because they believe it will get them in the good graces of president trump. you see that now on capitol hill where you have voices of traditional foreign policy kind of turning away from that embracing conspiracy theories, embracing far-flung ideas. and you can't get into somebody's head. but what people are doing lines up with what the president believes and the president says. so you can put those t

seeing a once respected career, rod rosenstein was respected by people on both sides of the aisle aso down that path, herb stop putting identity statements and be used by bill barr and shut up until he's finished. >> chris, when you watch this going on and see the players on the judiciary committee which is going to return as soon as they finish voting on the floor, who on that committee is standing up and showing not to call out names but showing the strength and the integrity of the committee? this is -- >> andrea, they're players and playing in the script and we know what the script was going to be from day one. i wish we had a reasonable conversation about the facts and law. that is not how it's going to play out. the republicans basically playing to the audience of one, president of the united states and the echo chamber. it's an effort to smear everyone along the way and unfortunate because as jon meacham said, this is a historic occasion, a solemn responsibility and what i'm struck by is the contrast of nancy pelosi saying i won't whip votes on this and steve saying you vote n

you had rod rosenstein going to the hill early the next morning. useful foil. >> one of the things that's happened over the course of these past couple of years is that you've been sort of the apogee point in terms of the way the president and his supporters in conservative media have gone after it. but we've also seen different iterations of it in terms of career public servants, people like marie yovanovitch and lieutenant colonel alexander vindman and others who have popped up in the impeachment investigation as fact witnesses. i wonder if that too has sort of inflected your feelings about this or if you have anything you'd like to say in terms of the way they've been treated. >> i mean, this is deeply unfair. we are all public servants. this is simply not the way, even with wrongdoing, even if you think my text messages were a mistake, this is not how public servants should be treated. and moreover, those institutions should be coming to their defense. you know, we can't control what the president says but sure as the day is long attorney gener

rod rosenstein came to the job and i was there when he took the job. and there was a lot of discussion and conversations he had with members of congress about how he was gonna call it like he saw it. he had his reputation to defend. he was not gonna allow the president to bully him. well, once barr came on the scene, he totally got co-opted byco barr. and now, you're seeing the same thing with durham. there is no way. these guys are so low key. you guys are clearly fbi guys because fbi guys don't talk unless they have to. ever. and when it's the right time to talk, they let the evidence do the talking. this is so out of character for the fbi and for doj. >> you mean the durham statement? to say -- and to be specific, let's read that again. this is the statement from the u.s. attorney who was tapped by william barr.pp william barr has traveled around to at least a couple of foreign capitals with him gathering evidence on the origins of the russia investigation. he said, our investigation has included developing information from other persons and entitie

by the department of justice after mueller,nd that included not just the attorney general, but rod rosenstein. they both said this wasn't obstruction. but it might expand slightly. it will still beairly narrow. but the main problem in my v is not even the narrowness, it is the lack of foundation andce evid this reminds me a lot of the impeachment in 1868 of johnson. laura:we not that yo around for that, jonathan, but you made such an sting point yesterday, you said everyone is mad, even your doodle, your dog is mad. what has this experience been like testifying in a highly partisan environment? jonathan: that was probably the least successful thing i suggested in the heari, because by the time i got home we had threats and all types of things on the phone, on email. in some wa i think i might have been a bit naÏve. i still believe -- the fouof us like each other, the fourse witn we all like each other, and we wanted to talk about these issues. we had more things we agreed on than we disagreed on. but it seems like in this age of reason.here iso room for laura: the rage will continue. jonathan

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. >> crossfire hurricane and is asked by the president and by rod rosenstein to give defensive rethinkomething they never did to president trump. there's a lot more to uncover their for the president was breached as early as august. >> barack obama, right? we are past that. the defensive rethink january 5, i was in the room with the president when those intelligence chiefs briefed trump. call me asked trump to stand behind and let them know there was this addendum and there was no big deal. so if they were very clear that we wanted you to know it existed but don't worry about it. it's amazing how it has evolved to this central document. the other thing that is important, wake me up until the election. we were brought in to be brief briefed. trump said questioning may be the outcome of the election and we want you to have faith in the system when we vote. we want the parties to say this is a fair vote. we have is under control, there is no threat. suddenly we are talking about russian influence. it's amazing how the government handled it when they thought clinton was going to win. >> i'

individual who signed off on those fisa warrants which would include james comey, andrew mccabe and rod rosensteinwhat's your reaction to that? >> that's the least he should be doing. if justice is working smoothly he wouldn't be able to do that because they all have to take the fifth. there needs to be criminal investigation by the justice department and the court can institute its own contempt proceedings. but it's way past due for congress to investigate the fisa-gate scandal. a lot of what we are hear being from the i.g., the i.g. is late to the game. it was a stalled report, and now finally the senate has zero excuses, the court has zero excuses. we'll see what the justice department says. >> we know what james comey will say in his awful interview in which he got shredded by my colleague chris wallace. i am up here. i am the director of the fbi. the people putting this together, seven levels below. the attorney general william barr said it's nonsense. he scoffed at that notion. people like comey and mccabe and probably rosenstein will say, i didn't know, i was trusting on the i shall people.

of justice, only that there were cases that might have added up to that and it was rejected by rod rosenstein and william barr. i think what democrats are doing here is an extreme longshot and maybe too long shots. >> as we get to the end of the year the president seems like he has some political wind at his back despite this impeachment, a couple -- 50%, some about 45, 46 but the economy churning on all cylinders. >> that normally the most critical issue, it has given them billions so far. in the past year there were times there was a lot of talk about the possibility of looking at the onset of the recession sometime soon, even before the 2020 election, nobody seems to be saying that which if you're an investor you might think that's a bad sign when nobody is worried but from a political standpoint the president would appear to be in better shape than he was at the beginning of the year which is hardly what his adversaries the democratic party hoped for in the process of trying to impeach him. that's the way the matter stands the way i see it. >> do you expect to move these articles soon aft

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rod rosenstein was one of the people interviewed early in 2017 at the beginning of this investigationg james comey had been fired essentially by e-mail and not given the courtesy of a phone call from the president or his bosses saying i was angry, horrified, ashamed and embarrassed. in this 302 interview with the fbi we learned rosenstein and jeff sessions actually contemplated getting a new fbi director the beginning of the trump administration and rosenstein reached out to a few candidates but sheffield it once they learned the president was speaking very positively about keeping james comey. that all went south by may of 2017 and comey was fired may 9th. >> went very very south. >> thanks for reporting, evan. >>> other information, jimmy carter has now returned to the hospital. we have details. you get a strong repair that you can trust. plus, with most insurance a safelite repair is no cost to you. >> customer: really?! >> singers: safelite repair, safelite replace. my hands are everything to me. but i was diagnosed with dupuytren's contracture. and it got to the point where thing

according to a former deputy ag, rod rosenstein, remember, he said this? he must swear that it's true and correct. none of what rosenstein says happened here. he saw it the third renewal warrant. take a look. >> there is a lot about fisa applications and lot of people talking about seem not to recognize what a --dash a fisa application is like a search warrant, you need an affidavit signed by a career federal law enforcement officer who swears that the information is true and correct to the best of his knowledge and belief. that's the way we operate. if it's wrong, sometimes it is, if there is anything incorrect, that person's going to face consequences. >> face consequences? you signed the warrant, the fourth renewal. you signed a three of them. super patriot. signed off on the initial warrant on carter page -- going to fix my time here. and, by the way, signed off on something that was unverifiable. he knew it wasn't cooperated. he knew the primary sub source refused to deal with intelligence. he knew christopher steele had serious crude ability issues a

that was rejected by rod rosenstein and of course attorney general barr. what the democrats are doing is an extreme long shot and maybe two long shots. >> bret: as we get to the end of the year, the president seemed like he has some political wind to his back despite the impeachment. he's pulling the economy is churning on all cylinders. >> is normally the most critical issue. what's giving him brilliancy thepossibility we might be lookg at the onset of a recession before the 2020 election but nobody seems to be saying that. if you are in the investor, you think that's a pain, when the body is worried. a political standpoint, the president appears to be in better shape than he was at the beginning of the year which is hardly what the adversaries in the democratic party would hope for when they were in the process of trying to impeach him. that's the way the matters stands for now at least how i see it. >> bret: last thing, do you expect nancy pelosi to move these articles soon after we get back from this break, january 6th, 7th? that standoff is going to s

>> a year and a half ago, jim jordan tried to impeach the republican deputy attorney general rod rosensteinithholding documents and refusing to answer a subpoena. now the president can do it and it's fine. there were 241 republicans in the house when the president took office. there are 197 now. and yet what happens is a lot of the people that got blown out were less trump-y, from more swing districts. so this is patrick mchenry from north carolina, he has a complete connection with the average republican voter and that's given him political power here. trump has touched the nerve of my conservative base like no person in my lifetime. there is a loyalty to the president. former senator jeff flag is now trying to poke his colleagues on the other side. the danger of an untruthful president is compounded when an equal branch follows the president off of the cliff. if there was ever a time to put country over party, it is now and you might just save the grand old party before it's too late. we talked earlier about the debate among democrats, who are we. it's much more muted because the people w

he attacked rod rosenstein and jim comey, how does it feel for the leaders of the fbi to be exonerated from the central attackro from this president th the fbi set him up and spied on h him? >> they know what they did and they know what they did not do and howdi they were motivated. these are good and decent people. it does not tell them anything new. on the other hand, it feels pretty good. because now you have an independent inspector general who has come to the conclusion that we all suspected all along, right? >> if you spend any time watching fox news, claire, michael harwitz was the right answer. the report i am waiting for is harwitz. there is a lot of eggs in the basket.is among what he describes as a low level lawyer but the attack from the man in the office with no corner has been about treasons and traitors. harwitz has one of his witnesses, mr. durham. >> the republican senators who have been all in, the only hoax here is the fbi had corruption. in january of 2018, the chairman of the homeland security committee in the senate said "this is all about further evidence of corr

months ago, and at one point,t i had to walk intoa meeting where they tried to kick me out, and rod rosensteint the time, the acting t attorney general, the deputy attorney general, comes up to me and says, hey, you are not going to be allowed in this room. i said, sorry, i'm the chair off intelligence committee. i thought, at the time, it was the democrats and nancy pelosi that were trying to kick me out of the room. it was actually mccabe. look, that's obstruction of a congressional investigation. i think mccabe has a lot of other problems that he needs to worry about it, and he probably ought to start with actually t reading the ig report, because when you start from page 1 through 318, every single page has bombshells on it. >> laura: the more i read, the more infuriated i became yesterday. gentlemen, it was great to have> both of your voices tonight. so important. thank you so much, both of you, for what you've done for our country. coming up, new details about the saudi national who obtained the gun used to kill three people at a florida military base. as servicemen speak out about this

in the meantime, you brought up rod rosenstein and the mueller report and mueller investigation. should i take that to mean that you think that elements of the mueller investigation will be part of articles of impeachment? >> what you should take it to mean is that for 2 1/2 years, this has been very carefully considered, looked at. all of that information is available to the judiciary committee. they will be considering all of the information. my point is this is not a rush to judgment. in fact, as you probably know, over the last 2 1/2 years we've had three votes on whether or not to pass an impeachment resolution and it has been rejected by the house of representatives with the majority of democrats voting against it because they wanted a very considered, thoughtful, careful review of what is a very serious responsibility that we take very much to heart. but we've made an oath when we were sworn in to protect the constitution and laws of this country. that's what we're doing. >> you say it is not a rush to judgment. you are making that case loudly this morning. yesterday profe

it was also the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. >> gentlemen, time is well expired. mr. correa? >> i'd like to think our witnesses for being here today. i assure you your testimony is important not only to this body but to an america that's listening very intently to the issues in force are, and why it's important that all of us understand the issues before us. professor feldman, president trump has ordered the executive branch to completely blocking the efforts of this house to investigate whether he committed high crimes and misdemeanors in dealings with ukraine. is that correct? >> yes, it is. >> president trump has asserted many officials are somehow absolutely immune from testifying in this impeachment inquiry. on the screen behind you, is the opinion by judge jackson, a federal judge here in d.c., that rejects president trump's assertion. do you agree with judge jackson's ruling that president trump has invoked a nonexistent legal basis to block witnesses from testifying, in this impeachment interview? >> i agree with the judge's opinion. she correctly held there i

that was rejected by rod rosenstein and of course attorney general barr. i think what the democrats are doing is an extreme long shot and may be too long shots. i don't think the odds are in their favor. >> bret: as we get to the end of the year, the president seems like has some political wind at his back despite this i impeachment.t. some polls at 50%, some at 40, 46. the economy is turning on all cylinders. >> yeah, that's normally the most critical issue. certainly what's given him buoyancy so far. during this past year there were times when there was a lot of talk about the possibility we might be looking at the onset of a recession sometime soon, sometime perhaps even before the 2020 election and now nobody seems to be saying that. if you are an investor, you might be thinking that's a bad sign when nobody is worried. but from a political standpoint, the president would appear to be in better shape than he was at the beginning of the year which is hardly what his adversaries in the democratic party had hoped for when they were in the process of tryin

according to rod rosenstein, senior law enforcement official, he said he must swear that the fisa application is true and correct based on admissible evidence and credible witnesses. none of what rosenstein said here happened. none of it! and he signed the fourth warrant, the third renewal warrant. there is a lot of explaining to do himself. take a look. >> a lot of talk about fisa applications, and many people that i see talking about it seemed not to recognize what a fisa application is pretty sweet and application is actually a warrant, just like a search warrant. in order f to get a fisa search warrant, you need an affidavit signed by a career federal law enforcement officer who swears that the information in the affidavit is true and correct to the best of their knowledge and belief. that is the way we operate. if it's wrong, sometimes it is, if you find out there's anything incorrect in there, that person is going to face consequences. >> sean: face consequences. rod, you signed the fourth warrant, the third renewal. okay. jim, you signed three of them. super patriot. october 2016, yup,

obstruction of justice claim and it was not just the attorney general, it was also the deputy attorney rod rosenstein. >> the gentleman's time is well expired. mr. correia. >> thank you. and i thank our witnesses for being here today. i can assure your testimony is important not only to this body but to america that is listening very intently on what the issues before us are and why is it so important that all of us understand the issues before us. professor feldman, as was just discussed, president trump has ordered the executive branch to completely blockade the efforts of this house to investigate whether he committed high crimes and misdemeanors in his dealings with the ukraine. is that correct. >> yes, it is. >> president trump has also asserted that many officials are somehow absolutely immune from testifying in this impeachment inquiry. on the screen behind you is the opinion by judge jackson, a federal judge here in d.c., that rejects president trump's assertion. professor feldman, do agree with judge jackson's ruling that president trump has invoked a nonexistent legal basis to block witness

. >> you wrote in an oppet i think it was a reference to rod rosenstein that donald trump has this tendency of eating people's souls. whose souls are you worried about? >> i was worried very much at the time about rosenstein who praised president trump's commitment to the rule of law. people were asking me how is that possible. and then to see bill barr, a guy who knows that institution act the wayth he is acted, i don't know for sure, but i've seen donald trump warp people around him.p that's what i meant by eating hisme soul. he wraps you, people close to him, in, a cocoon of falsehood and you tell yourself a story i think that i can survive this and i will makevi compromises somehow to get through this. and it's too late. he's got you fully wrapped up. >> do you worry about that happening with durham? >> ain little bit, yeah. i mean, john durham, i don't know him really well, but he has a strongt professional relationship. that's the only thing he has to losein here. so that should give us some comfort that he will be guided only by theor facts. but this statement commenting on his work

it was also the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein. >> the gentleman's time is well-expired. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and i'd like to thank our witnesses for being here today. i can assure your testimony is important, not only to this body, but to america that's listening very intently on what the issues before us are. and why is it so important that all of us understand? the issues before us. professor feldman, as was just discussed, president trump has ordered the executive branch to completely blockade the efforts of this house to investigate whether he committed high crimes and misdemeanors in his dealings with the ukraine. is that correct? >> yes, it is. >> president trump has also asserted that many officials are somehow absolutely immune from testifying in this impeachment inquiry. on the screen behind you is the opinion by judge jackson, a federal judge here in d.c., that rejects president trump's assertion. . professor feldman, do you agree with judge jackson's ruling that president trump has invoked a nonexistent legal basis to block witnesses from testifying in thi

rod rosenstein signed it once. all of those people will be in that report today. we'll be zeroing in on that. then there's big tech and the pentagon. amazon's ceo jeff bezos speaking out about big tech companies choosing to abandon working with the pentagon, talking to you, google. >> if big tech is going to turn their backs on the department of defense, this country's in trouble. that just can't happen. maria: amazon filed a lawsuit friday, challenging the pentagon's decision to award its cloud computing contract to microsoft. we have spok spoken about this e past. i think it was palmer lucky who made such an important reaction in my view and he said imagine if during world war ii american companies said to the u.s. government, you know what, we really need to get our foothold in imperial japan so we're not going to work with you, america. that's what happened last year when google told the pentagon we're not working with you, our employees are uncomfortable with it, we don't want to be near facial recognition around the border. but then we're going to set up an

it is talking about the impeachment against rod rosenstein in which -- allntative jordan banded together and tried to say obstruction of congress is a real thing. and that the deputy attorney general obstructed congress by not responding to subpoenas, not evidence, and yet that was one of the key arguments. life to the house for a pro forma session. east coast -- your calls and reactions to today's developments by the house judiciary committee. a white house reporter telling reporters this has been a wild week. randy in midland, north carolina. thank you for waiting. caller: appreciate you having me on the air. i am a republican. i work full-time and have a part-time business with me in my sons. host: what is your business? isler: the side business stump grinding, grading, light hauling. we do that on her days off. have you been watching of the house judiciary committee? caller: as much as possible. i have been watching. my full-time job allows me some time to watch tv. in the evenings me and my wife watching the recaps we can. it is likee to say an alternate universe. mainstream and see

i think i agree with senator lindsey graham that they need to hear from rod rosenstein. an op-ed saying oh this cleared him before he had even read this thing. that is a bunch of hogwash. and i do think there is more that needs to be sorted out about bruce ohr, his wife is working for what was payments from the democrats. and then taking that information 13 times and funneling it back to the fbi after the fbi under their own rules said we shouldn't be talking to steele. steve: jason at one pointed cruz said look, you look at the fbi, we are not talking about jason born the famous spy played by matt damon we are talking about beevis and butt head. not only do things look weird. there was at least one lawyer who made stuff up. here is ted cruz in th and the . >> panel of the department of justice admitting evidence and altering evidence that ultimately gets submit b to the court. >> i have not seen alteration of email impacting a court document like this. >> if private citizen, if they fabricated evidence and reversed what it said, in your experience, would that private ci

absence of that here, which would have been bill barr that would have appointed someone like rod rosenstein did with mueller. the lack of a prosecutor to gather facts makes the obstruction case more serious. >> lawyers, do you think we're just skimming the surface in terms of evidence? >> i agree with jonathan. i wrote a piece, there should be a lot more people we should have heard from. mick mulvaney publicly stated it was quid pro quo. why do you think that? when did he talk to the president? what did he say? i think the american people deserve to hear that. >> this is a very thin record. my favorite part is when congressman jackson lee held up two binders and waved them at us and said, do you call this a thin record? i almost chuckled. if she held the record up in the clinton case, she would have required two vans. they delivered the records in two vans. that's the difference of the material records in the two cases. this is very, very thin. you're leaving really the game mcconnell wants to play in the senate because he can say, you didn't think it was so essential to call these witnesse

it was also the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. >> the gavm's time hentleman's l expired. mr. correa. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i would like to thank our witnesses for being here today. i can assure you your testimony is not only to this body, but to america who is listening intentsly on what tintent intently on what the issues before us are and why it is so important that we understand the issues before us. professor feldman, as was just discussed, president trump has ordered the executive branch to completely blockade the efforts of this house to investigate whether he committed high crimes and misdemeanors in his dealings with the ukraine. is that correct? >> yes, it is. >> president trump has also asserted that many officials are somehow absolutely immune from testifying in this impeachment inquiry. on the screen behind you, is the opinion by judge jackson, a federal judge here in d.c., that rejects president trump's assertion. professor, do you agree with the judge's ruling that president trump has invoked a non-existent legal basis to block witnesses from testifyin

it was also the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. >> the gavm's time hentleman's l expired. mr. correa. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i would like to thank our witnesses for being here today. i can assure you your testimony is not only to this body, but to america who is listening intentsly on what tintent intently on what the issues before us are and why it is so important that we understand the issues before us. professor feldman, as was just discussed, president trump has ordered the executive branch to completely blockade the efforts of this house to investigate whether he committed high crimes and misdemeanors in his dealings with the ukraine. is that correct? >> yes, it is. >> president trump has also asserted that many officials are somehow absolutely immune from testifying in this impeachment inquiry. on the screen behind you, is the opinion by judge jackson, a federal judge here in d.c., that rejects president trump's assertion. professor, do you agree with the judge's ruling that president trump has invoked a non-existent legal basis to block witnesses from testifyin

i think that's one reason, when i asked that very direct question to rod rosenstein about the start ofply wouldn't answer it under oath because he didn't want to perjury himself and he didn't want to share thed a mission that this was an effort to destabilize donald trump well before july and i think it was the insurance policy. we know what this is. they wanted an insurance policy and once he was elected they were willing to put their thumb on the scale and cheat to try to make it look like he did something that he never did. here we are with the country next door and a vote tomorrow in ukraine when the president had no conditionality and when he delivered aid that president obama did not. it is crazy that we're going to to vote on impeachment with these facts. maria: it's quite extraordinary. i wonder when this stops. this just has not stopped since the president -- >> they said it won't. maria: john ratcliffe from texas said to me on sunday, on sunday morning futures, crimes have been committed, crimes against carter page and against the sitting president. can you believe that the f

it was also the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. >> the gavm's time hentleman's l expired. mr. correa. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i would like to thank our witnesses for being here today. i can assure you your testimony is not only to this body, but to america who is listening intentsly on what tintent intently on what the issues before us are and why it is so important that we understand the issues before us. professor feldman, as was just discussed, president trump has ordered the executive branch to completely blockade the efforts of this house to investigate whether he committed high crimes and misdemeanors in his dealings with the ukraine. is that correct? >> yes, it is. >> president trump has also asserted that many officials are somehow absolutely immune from testifying in this impeachment inquiry. on the screen behind you, is the opinion by judge jackson, a federal judge here in d.c., that rejects president trump's assertion. professor, do you agree with the judge's ruling that president trump has invoked a non-existent legal basis to block witnesses from testifyin

sally yates signed an application and rod rosenstein signed the application to re-up the surveillance't agree with the new york but even on the front time they called it a disturbing peek at u.s. surveillance and i think we heard that from both sides of the aisle yesterday. i think a realization of what a serious problem this is for our country, for our u.s. intelligence community, and for really a problematic in a judiciary committee context, our u.s. court systems, a major problem. maria: joining me right now is fox news senior judicial analyst, judge andrew napolitano. good morning to you. >> good morning. you know, because we talked about this so much, maria, i've been railing against fisa since it first came out in 1978. because it is profoundly unconstitutional. the interview that you had with carter page is one fisa surveillance. that is a series of surveillance of one person. fisa's done this over 40,000 times. the court meets in secret. there's no one there to challenge it. unless you are part of some entity that's going to cause an investigation like this, you don't even kno

rod rosenstein signed an application to re-up the surveillance on you. >> there's so much, maria.y call it in the news analysis a disturbing peek at u.s. surveillance. we heard that from both sides of the aisle yesterday. i think a realization of what a serious problem this is for our country, for our u.s. intelligence community, and for really problematic in a judiciary committee context, our u.s. court system. major problem. maria: let me ask you what you're going to do about it. you're going to sue is it the media? who are you suing specifically? >> i have a pending -- i was talking about the second circuit case. things didn't go so well thus far but i think the news which has come out and really the false pleadings of the u.s. department of justice, i think what we heard from attorney general barr over the last couple days is a deep realization, similar to democrat and republican senators and congressmen from both sides of the aisle, that there was a terrible thing that happened and, you know, i think there's a lot more that needs to be done. we're going to take this right up

it seems as though his deputy, rod rosenstein approved those renewals and there was intelligence beings how would the united states defend itself in election 2020 against interference from any foreign power snand ha power? and i have no idea what attorney general barr would approve at that point. there seems to be no predicate that could be established. i i'm sure if you're working counterintelligence i would go into the office and look at the sports page because there's not real clear guidance but about what you can do and if you do get involved, you're most likely to be punished from the white house or capital. >> i know you're not an fbi agent but you understand the cultural age and the people there. christopher wray sa christopher wray said something that was unimaginable and donald trump said something that he might be letting the blade go here and we may not have christopher wray long for this world in this administration. i ask you this. if donald trump were to get rid of this director of the fbi, what would be the reaction inside the bureau rto that? what would that do to moral

three of them, andrew mccabe signed another application, and then it was cosigned by sally yates, rod rosensteinfort to take him down. and at the crux of it was his opponent, hillary clinton. lisa: maria, do you think there's any legitimate basis for the origin toes of the investigation? >> i do not. i think that the origins of the investigation included then inserting donald trump's name, i think that this was all about an easy to do situation, we knew that russia was meddling in the west, has been for decades. it was an easy attempt at inserting donald trump's name in there, and he had absolutely nothing to do with it. he was, in fact, framed in 2016. ed: a lot of people in the media have chosen to ignore this story. you sunk your teeth into it early on, so it sounds like you've got a big show. maria: we're going to break some news, because i've got not only senator lindsey graham who's, obviously, going to be having the witness of michael horowitz on wednesday, ken mccarthy -- kevin mccarthy, house minority leader, telling us what the meeting will look like, devin nuÑes is going to weigh in o