and i what rod rosenstein does not to blink direct and there are people who have been. making threats privately and publicly against me for quite some time and i think they should understand by now the department of justice is not going to be extorted we're going to do what's required by the rule of law and any kind of threats that anybody makes are not gonna affect the way we do our job we have a responsibility and we take an oath that's the whole everybody in the department takes that over 115000 employees and if they violated they know they're going to be held accountable and i know those folks know that i'm not going to violate my oath . and mid july 2018 months capitol hosts the 1st summit between donald trump and vladimir putin. just 3 days before and washington rod rosenstein made a momentous announcement a new wave of indictments by bob muller. an afternoon indictment charges 12 russian military officers by name for conspiring to interfere with the 2016 presidential election according to the allegations in the indictment. the defendant's work for 2 units of the

rod rosenstein being like i care about the rule of law look like a smoke and the president presidentery much not caring about that. how much trump's mood swings seem to really encompass not just the way the white house operates but the way our government has been operating under him. and this undermining of the intelligence national security apparatus. i want to get into the first part which is, he's incredibly abusive to his staff even people long term allies who are very close with him seems like the kids it banca and jared seem to be some of the only people who escape that are they the only ones? because Ã>> pretty much. we found, this is not a new discovery about donald trump. we've known for some time that he's abusive to people and the loyalty goes one way. he expects loyalty from the people who work for him but does not give in return. what carol and i found a misreporting is not the abusive management style was so much more worse then we knew in real time. he would call kirstjen nielsen, his secretary of homeland security, at 5:00 a.m. to bark orders at her.he would call her

i think the memo he snenlt to rod rosenstein in not ju , in j of 18.said i have this thing called article two of the constitution. and it says i can do whatever i want. that i believe came straight from bill barr. bill barr used to be a good strong guy, by the way. this is a now person to me. and you know, he has said that the president basically has absolute power when he is exercising, an enumerated power under the constitution. he can't be questioned. it doesn't matter if he took a $100 million bribe to do it. er he can't be questioned. that's so obviously not the law. it is ludicrous. >> except what the president's lawyers argued in the impeachment case, if there is something, neighbor president's personal interest but always national interest involved, he's covered. not a lot of people believe that argument. >> that is -- that is also ludicrous. as is the president's claim that because he is article two, that article one, the congress has no oversight authority over him. that flies in the fafts plain language of the constitution. so you just, it i

i think the memo he sent in to rod rosenstein was an audition for the job of a.g. he has persuaded the president that, in the president's words, i have this thing called article ii of the constitution. it says i can do whatever i want. i believe that came straight from bill barr. bill barr used to be a good, strong guy, by the way. this is a new person to me. and, you know, he has said that the president, basically, has absolute power when he is exercising an enumerated power under the constitution, he can't be questioned. it doesn't matter if he took $100 million bribe to do it. if it's something he has the right to do, he can't be questioned. well, that's so, obviously, not the law. it's li it's ludicrous. >> except what the president's lawyers argued in the impeachment case, there's also a national interest involved he is covered. not a lot of people believe that argument but that seems to be -- >> that is -- that is also ludicrous, as is the president's claim that because he heeds article ii, that article i, the congress, has no ore sight authority over him. th

andrew mccabe, lisa page, peter rock, rod rosenstein and sally yates. list of about 26 people fired at the fbi and justice department. and what about the 40 agents and staff outlined in the mueller report that worked apparently tirelessly on spending $32 million in an almost two-year longest to overthrow the president. the president says it's unfair for those people to be walking free. president trump: we have killers and murderers, nothing happens. they put a man in jail and destroy his lived, his family, his wife, his children. 9 years in jail? it's a disgrace. in the meantime comey walks around making book dpeems the people that launches the scam investigation, it's a disgrace. hopefully it will be treated fairly. lou: the president's request for the fair and equal justice is being led by u.s. attorney john durham appointed by attorney general bill barr. durham's probe according to the attorney general is putting pressure on the deep state's actions before and after president trump's election. tom fitton telling us durham and barr have a lot of work

then rod rosenstein signed the final renewal to spy on considey on carter page.hen boente oversaw the agents who worked on the mueller report that exonerated and vindicated donald trump. joining us to make sense of all of this and remember the justice department i just described to you is the same justice department the leader of which attorney general bill barr doesn't like people talking about his department. it makes the job tougher he said. joining us is tom fitton who more than a few times has been accused of making the work of public servants in the justice department difficult. tom, good to have you with us. first your reaction for bill barr for whom i have immense respect and great hopes. but when he says the president of the united states is making his job tougher and the justice department has to hold accountable someone who so obviously and blatantly broke the law. your thoughts? >> i think the attorney general's job is being made more difficult by the obama holdovers on the roger stone sentencing recommendation. according to the attorney general is co

rod. rosenstein who at the c.d.c.sent out a message panic panic panic in the market went down and i got 1000 points immediately from her reaction and and she's and she's. no nonpartisan and this was this was the day it did damage to the markets and a bit republicans and the democrats in tromso overseas and republicans and democrats are both i wanted billions of dollars we're going to get we need billions of dollars to handle this and what's the fed going to do and right away we're involved in politics that's what happened in 1976 because i was very much aware i was the 1st week i was in congress because they appropriated money and they rushed to look around and it ended up more people died from the shots than they did from from the flu so i think there's doing way too much over speculation but i think what you're talking about then is how do you sort this out how much of this would have come anyway i think these corrections were overdue the excuse for doing it recently was the virus and now the big game is who gets bl

in june, deputy attorney general rod rosenstein signed the third and final renewal to spy on carter page, these renewals were determined by the justice department inspector general to be fraudulently obtained. january of 2018 fuente moved on to the fbi to serve as general counsel, 40 fbi agents worked on the mueller report that exonerated and vindicated donald trump but joining us tonight to make sense of all of this and remember the justice department i just described to you is the very same justice department the leader of which, attorney general william barr doesn't like people talking about his department, it makes the job tougher, he said. joining us is tom fenton, president of judicial watch who has been accused of making the work of public servants of the justice department and various quarters of the political system difficult, good to have you with us. your reaction to william barr for who i haven't respect and great hopes that when he says the president of the united states was making his job tougher at a justice department there's yet to hold accountable anyone who so obviousl

so did rod rosenstein. remember, they signed off on an application that the top of a fisa verification verified. at the very same time, they had been warned, all of them. it was nothing more than salacious, unverified, bought and paid by clinton, put together by a trump hater by the name of -- that's not all. we know speed 23 was actually referred per leaking highly sensitive government material. "he set a dangerous example." the many thousands more former fbi employees. despite these unprecedented findings, buttigieg hasn't been charged with anything. no predon raid at buttigieg's house. no fake news cnn cameras either. he is running in jail for lying on bank loan applications. he's facing nine years 4.2 years. wow. nine years for lying. rape, 4.2 years. he couldn't afford to pay his lawyers anymore. he actually pleaded guilty to lying after the people who interviewed him said, we don't think you are lying, and why did they do that? they threatened to go after his son unless they made him lie when he said

even with this case where he think about how the president pressed jeff sessions and he pressed rod rosenstein, he has no respect for the legal structure in this country, the department of justice. he thinks that if he tells them than they should do it. what does he say? is a stable genius and he's got great gut instinct but the idea that these are professionals who are loyal to our country and to the fact that this is a country of laws has no appeal to this president and i think that's why he said what he said. i agree with dana, i think he is still loyal to trump and he doesn't want to set trump off but the idea that he says about roger stone's sentencing, it is inappropriate and the justice department not the best example i can give you. >> dana: if you go back to the doj during the bush administration, the media loves james comey when he went to the bedside of attorney general ashcroft to try to get of the terror surveillance program, so amazing because he is pushing back against the president. >> jesse: he didn't like the recommendation to begin with, they came in and lied and said they w

looking into fbi fisa abuse, senator graham is talking about bringing in rod rosenstein, sally yates, your reaction to that? two of the carter page fisa warrants did not have probable cause. >> we talked about fisa abuse so many times on your program. it is great you highlight it. it is reap for abuse. change needs to take place. there is something that needs to be instituted i guess through regulations to tell people that they need to do what they're lawfully required to do i think this is going to be a hallmark time for fisa to really correct the path that it was going down. liz: andrew, you're great. come back soon. >> thanks, liz. liz: good to see you. next up, leader of al qaeda in yemen taking credit for the attack on the naval airbase in pensacola, florida, that murdered three u.s. sailors, severely injuring eight. this news breaking, a border state finds an al qaeda terrorist was living comfortably in that state. the story next. ♪ and get your interest rate right so you can save big. get a no-fee personal loan up to $100k. and my side super soft? get a no-fee personal loan ..

as seen from the memo that he sent to rod rosenstein in the investigation.so said in that interview he doesn't know about the twitter all that much and didn't know that trump had been tweeting of roger stone's sentence. >> yeah. i think that's pretty unbelievable but the fact is that the president doesn't need to explicit tell the attorney general what he wants him to do because as you said barr knows pretty much at this point where the president stands on the issues. he does not view the department of justice as an independent body. he views it as his own personal police force in a way and he tweeted just this morning that he does have the legal right to interfere in criminal cases. pretty much undercutting everything the attorney general said yesterday. so "the new york times" has since reported that barr did run certain aspects of what he was going to say in the abc interview by the white house before he said it, further indicating that this might be theater, right? the department of justice has been under fire. bill barr under fire over the moves perceiv

a memo he wrote to rod rosenstein, saying in esthns mueller investigation was misplaced and inappropriate. and in that memo, mr. barr articulated the remarkable opinion that the powers of the executive branch cannot be divided under any circumstances. and then he went on very specifically to say that the president's power to supervise criminal investigations, including criminal investigations of himself was beyond reproach and something congress could in no way limit. in other words bill barr said in that memo exactly what donald trump said a week or so ago and i think many other times before, that he has the power. he, the president, has the power to interfere in criminal investigations in the department of justice and went on to say he hasn't done it. he believes that because william barr has told him he has that power. the problem with bill barr and he has acted completely consistently with what those views are and those views are unamerican. >> frank figliuzzo, i want to read something from the letter you signed today almost in spirit and a mirror of what donald has written in "the at

the 40 subpoenas the house under devin nunes, forwarded to rod rosenstein.t to get those subpoenas and all those people need to be called witness. we need apparatus that is official to go about this to protect the office of the president going forward. maria: i've been so adamant about this for three years. it was not about president trump. it was about fairness. it was about being a patriot. having the top leadership of the fbi and cia put finger on scale to take down candidate trump and president trump. that is why my viewers want accountability. >> this happened in the '50s and '60s. this is why we had the whole new structure come up. this needs to be put on trial for the american people. president trump is right. it is the crime of century. we can't cover it up. we don't need to go -- not a foreign affairs issue. should be senate judiciary. here is the reason. nancy pelosi and these people will not stop. the formal acquittal vote on wednesday is curtain coming down on one act. they will continue on. they will subpoena john bolton in the house. they want

has placed under the authority of the department of justice and it's deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. his new orders give him far reaching powers. moller can investigate moscow's relations with the trump campaign and any other matters. most are waste no time immediately orders the preservation of millions of official documents forbidding the destruction of records that could be useful in the russia probe e-mails phone records audio recordings metadata and storage devices recordings adventure or accident the building's video surveillance. once a person or a company or or a bureaucracy knows that there's a criminal investigation to destroy evidence after that becomes a federal crime and so i think mahler's 1st move was a smart one but the order also shows that there is a concern that these documents might be destroyed by a white house that is trying to hide the truth from investigators. this was only the beginning of a bitter struggle between muller and the president of the united states. so we have mr miller who's known as a tough cop he's a big impose in 6 foot something experienced

i think we need to know, does rod rosenstein, former number two at justice, have confidence that the president of the united states will see the rule of law is enforced? does jim mattis have confidence that the president will not intervene inappropriately in military justice and make rash foolish military decisions? that's important for the american public to know and there is no legal or political or other reason why these people shouldn't give us their judgment. >> well, we'll see if they heed your advice. bill kristol and shan wu, thank you very much. happy valentine's day to you both. >>> coming up, president trump claims his call with the ukrainian president was, quote, perfect, so why is he saying he may block aides from listening to future calls with foreign leaders. >>> plus, the fight for nevada is heating up, the candidates fight to lock up key endorse s ahead of next week's caucuses. why is one influential labor union saying they're in the going to back anyone. let's get down to business. the business of hard work... ...hustle... ...and high fives. modernized comfort inn's

firing of fbi director james comey and the other would be on a couple days when it looked like rod rosenstein, who appointed special counsel robert mueller, was about to be fired by the president and one day when he was in a car and we were told he was expecting to be asked for his resignation when he arrived at the white house. this is more pervasive and a bigger problem. it really has infected the line prosecutors, the front line people, the investigators who do the day to day work of the justice department. as disturbing as some of the other events were, you are talking about reshuffling the leadership of the justice department. here after you had those four prosecutors withdraw from the roger stone case and one of them quit the government all together, it became clear that this has infected things all the way down to the ground level, to the nitty-gritty place where the rubber meets the road. i think that's why you saw the attorney general come out yesterday and make the statements that he did. it became a crisis of confidence in him and the department as a whole. >> phil is know dummy. w

june 8th, 2018, bill barr and president trump sent an unsolicited memo to rod rosenstein writing thatd trump as part of his investigation. a position trump had already publicly voiced. think of this less as a memo and more of job application. dear mr. trump, if you make me your attorney general i'd make it clear that you don't answer toin, let alone -- answer toin, let alone robert mueller. i might stop you. that's me paraphrasing. it started with "the i am writing as a former official deeply concerned with the institutions of the presidency and the department of justice. i realize that i am in the dark about many facts, but i hope my views will be useful." ump useful, indeed. eight months later he was attorney general. shortly after that the mueller investigation concluded. barr sent a letter to congress citing his conclusions and went on camera to tell the world that what he said was in the report except that he wasn't telling the truth. we wouldn't hear the truth until barr released this, the actual report, a month later on april 18th. that brings us to this week's -- this week, ho

. >> tony rahm, i notice there has been this conspiracy theory having to do with rod rosenstein's sisterhat has really gone haywire. it's -- i guess whether it was started by rush limbaugh, or certainly advanced by him. and you have very prominent folks on facebook and social media circulate this, this is something they are not deleting. >> none of the companies are deleting it although i think you are going to start seeing facebook put it through the fact checking process. if it deems it problemth aic it might label it and demote it in the news feed. but it speaks to exactly what you said, which is this distinction between harmful misinformation and straight up misinformation that may or may not be harmful which sounds like a weers distinction to make but there are bad things and inaccurate things that you can say about coronavirus that can still go viral on facebook and google and twitter no matter the fact that these companies are doing much more now to police this stuff. >> time word for you mr. murphy. when i informed my son there was only a 2% death rate so far from coronavirus, he

nancy messonnier, a top cdc official handling the coronavirus response, because she is rod rosenstein's sister. they're spreading the lie that she's part of the deep state and trying to tank the markets to weaken trump." this is a clip of dr. messonnier discussing the coronavirus crisis. >> some community level interventions that may be most effective in reducing the spread of a new virus like school closures are also the most likely to be associated with unwanted consequences and further disruptions. secondary consequences of some of these measures might include missed work and loss of income. i understand this whole situation may seem overwhelming and that disruption to everyday life may be severe, but these are things that people need to start thinking about now. amy: laurie garrett? >> she is right. and we all need to be getting ready. we don't need to be distracted by this insane political situation. we need to be focused on what we're going to do when this virus sweeps across america. , crazyo longer a distant idea of the kind of things i received death threats -- every time i am

. >> it does like the conspiracy theory of rod rosenstein's sister -- >> yeah. and look at what i'm sure sean hannity and laura ingram saying around ebola. >> the chief panic officer was donald trump. >> donald trump on twitter. everything. overblown. going after obama. you know? >> one person die from ebola? how many? less than a handful goff it in this country. >> i think in terms of consistency, you know, there is something to say for the hypocrisy there and goes back to this is a message that for whatever reason they're trying to direct just to their base and they don't care about the rest of the country. >> so all right. we do have some news out of the white house and want to bring in hallie jackson because the president announced an appointment and putting an asterisk on it. congressman john radcliffe. we saw him a lot in the impeachment process. this is now the second time he's going to be a nominee of national intelligence. and we got hallie jackson here. my question is, is this a real nomination? or, is this a nomination in order to extend ric grenell a

he was appointed by rod rosenstein specifically to make him independent at the department of justicely concerned. people should be legitimately concerned. let‘s learn about a pioneering approach that brought together refugees at za‘atari camp injordan and a team of english scientists — to grow food using not soil, but the foam from old mattresses. our science reporter victoria gill has been to the camp injordan to see how it‘s working. gardening in the confines of the refugee camp, this family lost their homes and their farm when they fled the war in syria. now here in the desert, he is able to teach his children how to grow vegetables and a very unconventional way. he thinks all the matches farm. this garden has made this place every home. yes absolutely, and makes me feel like i am at home. about 80,000 people live here. this is essentially a city that sprang up in a very short period of time. most people they feared is defined in syria. now there is very limited space, the soil is extremely poor. enabling people to grow their own food, is a vital step towards making this a sustain

this became an issue early in the president's term, when then deputy attorney general rod rosenstein talked about getting cabinet members together to remove the president. and then there were 27 psychiatrists and psychologists who wrote this book talking about the president's malignant narcissism that they thought, these medical professionals, made him unfit to serve. senator markey, do you think the president is mentally unfit to serve? sen. markey: first of all, there's not a chance in the world that the president's cabinet will remove him. it is sad to say, there are tens of millions of americans who agree with the president on , everything he does. i just saw that on the senate floor. i sat there for two weeks. i heard overwhelming evidence that he had committed a high crime against the country. i looked over at the republican side. it was irrefutable evidence that he had done so, and then we cast the vote. i stood twice and voted guilty to each one of the counts and the republicans, they acquitted him. so to the extent to which we think that donald trump is wrong for the country

he was appointed by rod rosenstein specifically to make him independent of the department ofjustice and we have the department ofjustice without robert muellerjumping in and destroying that independence. i think it is a dark day for democracy right now and people should be legitimately concerned. kim, is the problem here that it looks like the president could be getting special favours from the department of justice, even if he is not or not this week or even if the default the 00] this week or even if the default the doj genuinely felt that the sentencing guidelines had handed down to roger stone were too harsh for the crimes he committed, is that a perception issue? there are two issues. one is an actual conflict of interest. which we can potentially connect the dots and assume that step number two is as you suggest, the perception of a conflict of interest and perception of conflict of interest are generally avoided by federal government officials as well as actual conflict of interest in pa rt as actual conflict of interest in part because the american public, to believe in the fair

i went to law school with guys like rod rosenstein, i know a lot of guys in the department of justice the president's antics and looking at him saying i'm trying to help you and you're acting like a full-blown maniac on the international stage. i think bill barr is signaling to people that his reputation has gone through the paper shredder and he's not sure if he can put it back together. it's headed for tatters as a result of the indiscriminate action of donald trump. >> all that that you suggest people on this network and others say it might be a dance, peter baker said, no. >> yeah. he said no. my source inside the department of justice said no. bill barr had an exemplary reputation until he started working in this administration. and like mayor giuliani and senator graham, his reputation is now heading for tatters. and so he would be well served to say, hey, look, i'm not going to allow this guy or anybody to get involved in the department of justice. we're going to need a constitutional amendment after the president's term is over. >> let's wrap up by saying be careful hope. >> w

joining the mueller team, slakinsky -- sla listenky worked for -- did he listenky worked for rod rosenstein. anyway. these people certainly had a lot of political baggage. they were clearly on a vendetta. they weren't pursuing justice. they were pursuing political vendettas. trying to get at president trump. there are tens of millions of dollars that were spent investigating what we now know is a russia hoax. there was no collusion or conspiracy between the trump campaign and russia. despite what people are trying to allude to now. there wasn't. the evidence wasn't there. mueller was disappointed, weissmann was disappointed. all of these left-wingers were disappointed that despite all the intimidation, all of the threats, they couldn't find somebody that could actually implicate any kind of collusion or conspiracy between the trump campaign and russia. but on roger stone's sentencing, you know, he was convicted, one of the charges was witness tampering. it sure sounds like he was kidding around by saying, hey, i may have to come over and kill your dog. i mean, who says that if they're not k