turns out looks like rod rosenstein is saying and admitting no.wo years ago rod rosenstein had lectured and pushed back when asked whether republicans might have legitimate reason to suspect the factual underpinnings of these probes but it was a different rod rosenstein today. >> nobody as ever been prosecuted for working with the russians. the point is, the whole concept that the campaign was colluding with the russians, there was no there there, in august 2017, do you agree with that general statement or not? >> i agree with that general statement. >> you signed a warrant application in june of, i think 2017 to get the carter page warrant renewed, is that correct? >> yes. >> okay. have you looked at the horowitz report? >> yes, i have, i have it with me, senator,. >> if you knew then what you know now would you have signed the warrant application? >> no i would not. >> the reason you wouldn't have is because mr. horowitz found exculpatory information was withheld from the court, that correct. >> among other reasons yes, sir. >> do you think he w

fired and may 17th when bob mueller's named potential counsel, in that eight-daytime frame that rod rosenstein, in fact, talk about the 25th amendment. so mccabe, baker or rosenstein, someone's not being honest. and that's why senator graham and the republicans want to bring in more of these people and get the whole truth. elizabeth: so it your sense that rosenstein essentially said today the trump-mueller probe should never have happened to begin with, that it was politicized and corrupt? >> yeah. he said that. by august of 2017 he said we didn't have anything there. in fact, that reinforces what jim comey told us when we deposed him last congress, he said up until the time he was fired, we still didn't know if we had anything. so understand, that means after ten months of investigating d -- because they started on july 31, 2016, after ten months they didn't have anything. and yet eight days later rod rosenstein named bob mueller as special come. and we get two years, $30 million, 19 lawyers, 40 fbi agents, 500 subpoenas, all this and when it's all said and done they come back and tell us, oh

according to rod rosenstein. no wonder everybody's gushing over him.oughts. >> well, the i.g. wasn't confident, lou. i mean, he suggested that strzok's decision making that stifled the investigation into the wiener laptop and the e-mails while targeting trump was political. he couldn't rule it out. and, of course, they caught strzok and page with these political texts, and they were secretly removed from the mueller operation. and that was held back from congress for four months. rosenstein says that, you know, they were monitoring mueller, they knew everything he was up to. then who's responsible for it, if not him? you can't have your cake and eat it too. and i appreciate the senate's finally getting at least someone to testify, but why hasn't mr. rosenstein testified before a grand jury? certainly as a witness. my gosh. and then he signed on to this fisa warrant that was withdrawn by the justice department as being invalid. he was utterly responsible for everything that went on, and he had no excuse. when you look at that fisa warrant, you could see

but jim baker said rod rosenstein did talk about wearing a wire and invoking the 25th amendment. m baker, andy mccabe and rosenstein are telling different stories. somebody is not telling the truth. judge jeanine: tell me about what you think is going on in mayor ask today between the left and the right. >> obviously, judge, what happened to jobe floyd is terrible. his family deserves justice. that's as wrong as wrong can be. but the idea from the left that they want to defund the police. the democrats said we want to defund i.c.e., then defund homeland security, now they want to defund the police? this is how radical they have become. judge jeanine: congressman jordan thank you for being with us. back in a moment with i got this mountain bike for only $11. dealdash.com, the fair and honest bidding site. an ipad worth $505, was sold for less than $24; a playstation 4 for less than $16; and a schultz 4k television for less than $2. i won these bluetooth headphones for $20. i got these three suitcases for less than $40. and shipping is always free. go to dealdash.com right now and s

but jim baker said rod rosenstein did talk about wearing a wire and invoking the 25th amendment. m baker, andy mccabe and rosenstein are telling different stories. somebody is not telling the truth. judge jeanine: tell me about what you think is going on in mayor ask today between the left and the right. >> obviously, judge, what happened to jobe floyd is terrible. his family deserves justice. that's as wrong as wrong can be. but the idea from the left that they want to defund the police. the democrats said we want to defund i.c.e., then defund homeland security, now they want to defund the police? this is how radical they have become. judge jeanine: congressman jordan thank you for being with us. back in a moment with lara trump. that go out today get delivered. there are people who can only get food from amazon. when you come into work, that's what drives you. my little one, i would say he's definitely proud of me. every time he sees the blue prime trucks, he says, "daddy, there's your people!" i know every single one of us is here busting as hard as we can go every day to make

but jim baker said rod rosenstein did talk about wearing a wire and invoking the 25th amendment. ndy mccabe and rosenstein are telling different stories. somebody is not telling the truth. judge jeanine: tell me about what you think is going on in mayor ask today between the left and the right. >> obviously, judge, what happened to jobe floyd is terrible. his family deserves justice. that's as wrong as wrong can be. but the idea from the left that they want to defund the police. the democrats said we want to defund i.c.e., then defund homeland security, now they want to defund the police? this is how radical they have become. judge jeanine: congressman jordan thank you for being with us. back in a moment with judge jeanine: with the presidential elect just months away, how is why *'s campaign -- how is joe biden's campaign doing. with us is lara trump. thanks for being with us tonight. i want to talk about a couple things. i want to start with joe biden coming out of his basement attending the funeral of george floyd. apparently he's not worried about the coronavirus anymore. and

there were assertions that maybe rod rosenstein wanted to intervene here and assert the 25th amendment to remove the president of thes united states and rosenstein denied that today. >> harris: chad, a little bit of breaking news there at the end. i appreciate it. now i will bring back in andy mccarthy and joining us jason former house oversight committee. jason, i will start with you. you heard the criticism from some this is a political stunt to get to the bottom of the origins of the russia probe with rod rosenstein. is it? >> it would be mal practice for the senate not to dive deep into what is happening. this is one of the biggest abuses of pour in the history of this countr they were going after somebody and there was no evidence. it's easy for rod rosenstein to say i would not have signed it. but he was in a position of power to oversee it at that time. as andy pointed out real time, rosenstein was all over the map as to whether or not he actually read the document tis. -- itself. it's evident he took people's word for it, but that's not an excuse. you can't say it was a mistake

rod rosenstein said he wouldn't go ahead with what he knows now.'t even know at the time, liz, that the dossier was funded by the democratic national committee. how do you not know that? they literally hired christopher steele to get information from russia of all places to take down a presidential candidate. so this was a huge story. ted cruz said it was probably bigger than watergate. you could make the argument that was the case. i get the protests are a big story, no question and coronavirus obviously. that has taken a big back seat but as you said, none of the broadcast networks covered it. when it was covered by places like npr, it sounded like this, anchor, may i start with an observation. doesn't it seem out of left field with everything going on in the country right now, senators are focused today on the russian investigation? in other words let's not look into something that took up 2 1/2 years of the country's time, blotted out the trump presidency like an eclipse blots out the sun and we shouldn't try to figure out what happened? report

is rod rosenstein breaking from jim comey and -- and andrew mccabe?harles: well, certainly his testimony is at odds with the testimony that we've gotten from jim comey and bob mueller, but the problem is that he was still in charge at the time. he was -- this was one of the good guys and so, you know, it raises real questions about how well he did his job, you know, either what we are talking about here is we are talking about approving secret warrants to spy on a political campaign at the height of an election, that's -- that's a really -- that's really serious stuff here and either rod rosenstein didn't read the warrants which would get most people in america fired from their job if their job was to make sure that those warrants were kosher or he was part of the problem and we don't really know which it is, but my goodness, it does raise the question, you know, does anybody in washington ever get fired for anything. maria: yeah, do you think we will see accountable here? if they can prove that they knew that the dossier was a bunch of garbage in may

chairman lindsey graham press rod rosenstein about whether or not he would still sign off on that warrantd that was a very clear rosenstein under oa oath. that's a first time we've heard that from rosenstein other under oath. arantee. brand power. helping you buy better. the xfinity voice remote will find exactly that.for, happy stuff. the group's happy, i'm happy. you can even say a famous movie quote and it will know the right movie. circle of trust, greg. relax, the needles are jumping. you can learn something new any time. education. and if you're not sure what you're looking for, say... surprise me. just ask "what can i say" to find more of what you love with the xinity voice remote. >> sandra: senator mike lee now asking questions of rod rosenstein as the senate judiciary committee hearing continues on capitol hill. let's listen. >> the process isn't fair, simply to provide cover to do something awful come process is there ideally one would hope to make sure the rule of law is collected. >> before he became the acting attorney general in this context, didn't you at some point get ce

all the ways we're helping members today. >> ♪ >> that's a live look on capitol hill and that's rod rosensteinre going after the former acting attorney general. how did the russia probe begin? rosenstein appointed robert mueller to probe ties between the kremlin and the trump campaign. it was rosenstein who signed off on that third renewal of fisa surveillance warrants on trump campaign advisor carter page. warrants which the doj inspector general concluded lacked probably cause. when you took out the fbi misinformation in the steele dossier. take that away and no probable cause for warrants. rosenstein said he would have acted differently. >> if you knew then what you know how would you have signed the warrant application? >> no. >> and the reason was because mr. harts found it was with hel when rod rosenstein said would not h that translates to we would have not had a special investigation. we would not have dragged the country through this process for years on end. carter page and michael flynn would have been able to mover on with their lives and not pay millions of dollars in legal bills

your reaction. >> that's also predictable i think rod rosenstein's role in the whole thing is going too down as a very bad one. don't forget he's the one that picked mueller to lead the sham investigation which turned up no evidence of collusion and it was his job in this particular unusual fisa's infatuation to examine a warrant that was being reauthorized on for several months after the original authorization. he totally failed and there's a lot of questions to be asked. and as senator graham is focusing on obama administration and state officials who really orchestrated this back in 2016, i think until we get to the end of this and tell we let somebody subpoena people, don't forget the inspector general, michael horowitz did not have subpoena power, he only had what the fbi wanted to give him. this'll be the first time people are subpoenaed and every question should be asked and we should all make sure we know who the people are who are violating the thousand because i don't want this to happen to elect a democrat president either. it's not fair, it's not right it's not american. li

rod rosenstein did the easy thing.thing he said i will put it to bob mueller and bob mueller then became the special counsel investigation then became the insurance policy because then they knew they had two years of this investigation. two years farther out where they could cover up all the things that took place at the highest levels of the fbi with mccabe and baker, strzok and page and comey. brian: then you forgot the next one. let's do impeachment for the next three months and oh we have a pandemic and national unrest. it has not been an easy two and a half three years. jim jordan you have been there every step of the way. thank you so much. >> thank you, brian. brian: violent protests have spread across the country. one state was quick to respond and it worked. south dakota governor kristi noem on the future of policing in her state, next. effortless is the lincoln way. so as you head back out on the road, we'll be doing what we do best. providing some calm amidst the chaos. with virtual, real-time tours of our v

andrew mccabe apparently muslim according to rod rosenstein. a question for him as well. and we know james comey with obama administration absolutely tried to take down donald trumpa candidate. they have their insurance policy after he won collection. they spied on his candidacy, transition team, and of course the presidency, and they did it by illegally obtaining four separate fisa warrants taking away the constitutional rights, civil liberties of one carter page and thinking they can do better than you, we, the american people who should be elected appeared in the hundreds and hundreds of people that had to pay lawyers tens and hundreds and thousands of dollars, never. the biggest abuse of power scandal in american history and as for rod, he signed the last fisa warrant renewal. he is the one that sent the scope memo and pointed at robert mueller. he approved the scope and ted cruz pointed out, rosenstein may have been the deep states perfect useful idiot. well, i think it is worse. take a look. >> on may 17th, you appointed bob mueller as special counsel. june 29th you

if they lied to rod rosenstein, they should be in jail. they should is have handcuffs on 'em, lou.yeah, i think there's quite a few candidates for that honor being -- >> yeah. lou: and like you, i wouldn't mind watching those person -- perp walks for the politically corrupt in the doj and the intelligence agency upper levels. it would be quite, quite something. jason, thanks for being with us. great to see you. jason chaffetz. >>> we'd like to hear your thoughts on all of this. follow me on twitter @loudobbs. we have quite a few comments this evening. like me on facebook and follow me on instagram @loudobbstonight. and a programming note, national security expert jim hanson, investigative journalist john solomon and pastor robert jeffress among our guests here tomorrow evening. we hope you will be with us for that. and coming right up, establishment rino senator kelly loeffler comparing herself to the president as she struggles to retain her seat. her top challenger? congressman doug collins. he'll be here. stay with us. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ motorcycle riders love the open road

they had the former deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein, on yesterday. i don't know if you got a chanch to see some of that or read estd about it. what are your thoughts on what happened yesterday?ol >> yeah,ved i think this is on of -- i mean, this is really, and i have been involved in the fights are often inin judiciary and the general flynn case, and i think two things yesterday that i pick up from mine that e arens really concerning is, one that mr. rosenstein said he didn't read the entire thing ann signed it anyway.rant. two, that if he knew not what he knew then, he would never have signed the fisa warrant, and three, as early as august of 2017, they were aware that ther. was no real collusion case. those are really concerning facts. and i know media is topical ande i know we're in, you know, we is move from one story to other asl immediately as possible, but this captivated everything for almost three years. -- gets and because of how information d comes out of classified -- getsn declassified and gets presentedt we are missing the ball when we'

so rod rosenstein knows why those fisa warrants were signed.oing to have to answer for why he signed the third one. we'll be able to find out from him whether there was any exculpatory evidence they knew about? we'll find out why, if he read, if he read the kislyak phone call with michael flynn because we all now have seen this we know there was nothing to it. this is, to classify that document and wait 3 1/2 years to declassify it is in of itself a criminal act this is a coverup at the highest end. that's why president trump two years ago said, he told us, that two years ago, that behind all of this was barack obama. behind all of this, this started and ends as the oval office with barack obama and joe biden ordering political, political investigations, using the power of the justice department, using the power of our intelligence services to frame up michael flynn. it is now, just as judge starr was just saying, a tragedy of what they did to mike flynn. you know, i know the general. incredibly well. he is a proud man who served his country in

it's not just that rod rosenstein is admitting after all this time that knowing what he knows now heould not sign his name which he had to do, saying yes, let's surveillance he didn't read every page in the warrant, and that's a pretty remarkable admission >> that was key, andy mccarthy was tweeting just that. he was pointing out in every one rather than what he knew or read and he asked the question, did he read it and this entirety? lots of feisty exchanges, obviously ted cruz with one of those moments. and, when he was asked if we knew what you knew now, the answer was no. >> ed: let's go to senator leahy, i understand he's now on the phone. the significance of what we just discussed, read the whole warrant? >> yes, that was stunning. the fact he didn't read the whole application. ultimately the fact that what was in there was incomplete. it really indicates and they walked away yesterday with more profound on commitment to make sure that we reformed the law. we have to fix this thing. >> ed: at the president has been tweeting recently that he wants bill reformed before it's renew

. >> on wednesday former deputy attorney general rod rosenstein testifies before the senate judiciary committee on fisa application process used during the fbi investigation into possible ties between the trump campaign and russian officials. the fbi's investigation was eventually taken over by special counsel robert mueller who rosenstein appointed in 2017. watch live coverage of the hearing beginning at 10 a.m. eastern on c-span, on-demand at c-span.org, or listen live wherever you are on the free c-span radio app. >> with the federal government at work in d.c. and throughout the country, use congressional directory for contact information from members of congas, governors, and federal agencies. order your copy online today at c-span's door.org. -- c-span story.org. >> next, 2020 democratic presidential candidate joe biden pick earlier today he spoke at philadelphia city hall on the civil unrest that followed the death of george floyd in minneapolis. this is just over 20 minutes. [applause] >> mr. mayor, thanks for your hospitality, and to all the elected officials that are here,

what do you want to hear from rod rosenstein this week?>> there's so much. to learn from him and i think it is important that american people get to finally hear what was underneath all of the bad actors that were attacking then candidate trump and elect president trump and he knows it is why fisa warrant were signed and he's going to have to answer for why he signed the third one. we're going to be able to find out from him with exculpatory evidence and find out if he read if he read the kislyak phone call and we know this and we know there was nothing to if. this is to classify that document and three and a half years to declassify it is in and of itself criminal act. this is the coverup at highest end that's why president trump two years ago said he told fuss that two years ago that behind all of this was behind this this started and end at the oval office with barack obama and joe biden ordering political, political investigations. using the power of the justice department, using the power of our intelligence services to frame up micha

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on wednesday, former deputy attorney general rod rosenstein testifies before the senate judiciary committee on the fisa application process used during the fbi investigation into possible ties between the trump campaign and russian officials. the fbi's investigation was eventually taken over by robert mueller, who rosenstein appointed in 2017. watch coverage beginning at 7:00 eastern on c-span, on demand at c-span.org, or listen live wherever you are on the free c-span radio app. c-span'san's -- watch daily coverage of the coronavirus pandemic with briefings from the white house, congress and governors from across the country. join the conversation on our live call-in program, washington general. -- journal. watch on c-span.org/coronavirus. >> next on c-span, a live discussion with three democratic candidates in kentucky's race for senate. this comes ahead of the primary election to determine who challenges sending -- senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. >> running in the june 23 primary. we are joined by three candidate who met the criteria and accepted our invitation to appear. charles

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former acting attorney general rod rosenstein is going to face tough questioning tomorrow. know you're looking into the origins of the russia probe, rosenstein appointed robert mueller as a special counsel and he wrote the memo outlining the scope of robert mueller's inv t investigation where he expanded. what are you looking for when you talk to rosenstein? >> we're looking for the truth. the documents that broke about the degree to which the obama administration directly targeted the fbi and the intelligence agencies to go after president trump and his campaign team. the degree to which it came from the very, very top. we now know on january 5 both president barack obama and vice president joe biden were directly involved in targeting general michael flynn in a political persecution that i think was an abuse of law enforcement and a politicalization and that was memorialized in an e-mail from the national security adviser to the entire intelligence senior ranks on the last day of the obama administration and instructing them do not cooperate with the incoming president, do

today, former deputy attorney general rod rosenstein testifies senate judiciary committee into the pfizer process and how it was used during the fbi russia probe. it was eventually taken over by robert mueller who rosen taught .- rosenstein appointed watch live at 10:00 a.m. eastern, on demand on c-span.org or listen live on the free c-span radio app. c-span has unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, supreme court, and public-policy events from the presidential primaries to the impeachment process, and now the federal response to the coronavirus. you can watch all of their public affairs programming on television, online, or on our free radio app and be part of the free conversation on " washington journal" or our social media feeds. c-span, created by america's cable television company and brought to you today by your television provider. >> in philadelphia, joe biden spoke about the civil unrest in response to the death of george floyd. he called for an end to the destruction of property. the former vice president also expressed opposition to president trump's recent handling

they heard yesterday from rod rosenstein.hey will hear today on supporting possible subpoenas looking into the fbi investigation between ties between the trump campaign and russia officials. has a pro forma session that should be brief at 10:00 this morning and then we will go over to the senate judiciary committee. mark's next up in oklahoma city. mark, good morning. we had, if this country is so racist, how did we get a black man elected resident twice? see the country as far as racism goes, i don't see that it improved during those eight years. in fact i think that race relations went downhill while he was president. i didn't vote for him, but i likeinly didn't trash him democrats trash the president now. before the virus hit, the black unemployment rate was the lowest i think it had ever been. this,s, my last point is no matter how long these protesters do what they are doing, there is going to be another incident in the future involving a police officer and a black man who is killed. either justifiably or unjustifiably.

eastern, or deputy attorney general rod rosenstein testifies before the senate judiciary committee as part of its investigation into the fisa process and how it was used during the 2016 russia probe. that is followed by a confirmation hearing at 2:30 eastern. to theburn speaks washington post about the nationwide protests over the death of george floyd. the senate is back at 10:00 a.m. to consider senate and judicial nominations. on c-span three at 9:00 a.m. eastern, a confirmation hearing thethe hit to serve as postal service board of governors. president trump from yesterday. here on "washington journal," we are joined by congressman jamie raskin, who represents the maryland suburbs. thanks for being with us this morning. guest: thank you for having me. host: let's start first with your thoughts on what the president said in his statement from the rose garden last night. momentwell, we are in a of profound national danger and trauma, because of the president's aggressive actions and bellicose statements, filled with violent imagery. he is obviously

at the heart of the probe the flood fisa warrant that led attorney general rod rosenstein to make this stark admission and that hearing today, watch this. >> if you knew then what you knew now, would you sign the warrant application? >> no, i would not. >> martha: that led to this exchange between rosenstein and senator hawley. it had 17 material misstatement, omissions, you signed off on it personally, how could this happen? >> i approve to the submission and four federal judges signed off because like me they believe that the information had been verified and was accurate. >> did they have a duty to verify the information? >> no, the agents had a duty to verify it. >> martha: former attorney general josh hawley joins me now, senator, thank you for being here. what surprised you the most today during that testimony? >> i think that to rod rosenstein admitted that he signed the warrant to a secret court, the fisa court for a wiretap and admitted that he did not even read the warrant application. this was a warrant involving the president of president of the united states and ongoing in

today in the judiciary committee the republican committee chairman has called in rod rosenstein to dredge up the president's favorite conspiracy theory related to the 2016 election. it's egregious misuse of the institution, the senate. nearly a quarter of our workforceye is unemployed. over 100,000 americans are dead from a strange and contagious disease. americans are in theac streets demanding racial justice, and discredited conspiracy theories is what the republican majority is focused on wax what alternative universe do they live in? what alternative reality are they in the midst of? one detached from the real reality that the american people face. conspiracy theories to out president trump's reelection. right-wing judges, many of whom have antipathy to the civil rights were talking about right now. the republican party in the senate has made so far into a corner, the court that donald trump is in, that they can't address two of the most important and major issues that's affected this country in decades. the american people should be curious at the republican senate majority. and the

on wednesday, former deputy attorney general rod rosenstein testified before the senate judiciary committee on the application process used during the fbi investigation into possible ties between the trump campaign and russian officials. the fbi's investigation was eventually taken over by special counsel robert mueller, who rosenstein appointed in 2017. watch live coverage of the hearings beginning at 10:00 and eastern on c-span, on demand at www.c-span.org, or listen live wherever you are on the free c-span radio app. up next little here from the three democrats of kentucky trying to unseat senate majority leader mitch mcconnell in the 2020 election. this program is courtesy of kentucky educational televisions "kentucky tonight." to be joinedighted by three democratic candidates for the u.s. senate who met the criteria and accepted our invitation to appear. charles booker has been a state representative for the 43rd kentucky house district of jefferson county since 2019. retired marine lieutenant colonel who ran for congress in the sixth congressional district in 2018. mike is a retired m

help and i brought him in to help. >> host: what is your impression of and interactions with rod rosenstein. >> guest: i've known the former deputy attorney general since 2004-2005 time frame when he came in as u.s. attorneys. so i've known him for over a decade. and he has spent -- he had spent 30 years the department of justice, he has an impressive resume and an impressive educational background and a lot of experience inside of the department of justice and i describe in this book my impressions on him. i think the american people saw him again on national stage in the hearings last week, and i think he is -- i don't think there's any doubt that he would say he was doing the belles he could in -- the best he could i in a difficult circumstance. i have a lot of questions for him especially the decisions he made along the way before i was ever at the department of justice. >> host: what is the period on this whole thing? now, judge sullivan has john gleeson investigating the department of justice's view on this. when does it end? >> guest: that's a great question. i think when it ends is

senator, you have blockbuster testimony from rod rosenstein. knowing what we know now, we wouldn't have signed that fisa application, we now know that the fbi knew from his earliest dealings, this was a brush research project, and director wray, where are you? he has yet to turn over those to the senate and slow walking that. the house g.o.p., we will get 110 referrals in the next few days about liking and miscondu misconduct, and the dni declassification. i would say senator, the american people were not only lied to, they were lied to repeatedly and these people we've identified did everything we reported and more. >> nobody seems to give a damn in the mainstream media. so just think about how much coverage was given to the mueller investigation. two and half years and $25 million. in january 17, comey provides president trump a copy of the steele dossier ancestor the president, i don't know if this is true. we can't verify it, but that's the same document that was used multiple times to get a warrant against carter page for comey, mccabe and

host: and when you became acting, were you briefed into the full investigation at that point by rod rosenstein. >> guest: i was and others but not immediate. this is one thing i think we all need to appreciate about the moment in time. i was smart enough to know that it could -- if i wanted it to, it could dominate my every waking moment and i knew there was so much more work we were doing. obviously the highest profile work we were doing and so much other work so i brought in a u.s. attorney from eastern district of california named greg scott. he just is kind of a great individual with a ton of experience, not only as elected county da and two-time u.s. attorney in the bush administration with me and now returned in this administration to do it again because he enjoys so it much. the perfect person to come in and i put him in as my eyes and ears and made him responsible on my behalf to manage it to interact with the mueller team because i knew i could not -- i just didn't want to put that amount of time and attention with everything else that we had to do and the priorities we had, i needed

rod rosenstein finally going before the senate judiciary week and thes performance was somewhatt predictablethink the idea that he would blame the fbi for keeping him in the dark in so many areas was perhaps a surprise, a novel defense, your thoughts? >> he is no harry truman, it did not stop with him on this investigation even though he was the top line supervisor. but in his testimony you arenini beginning to see a body of evidence, the body of the id said the same thing, horowitz saidhe there was significant evidence that the fbi withheld from the national security division of the justice department and i beginning to talk to a lot of senators who two years ago would never of said this, we see a conspiracy,k the fbi was intentionally keeping people -- that's for the senators waiting for the evidence, i think rod rosenstein move that forward by convincing people that if he had been giving the real evidence he would not have done the things that he did like sign the fisa word and now we need to figure out who are the culprits that allowed insisting the false narrative and bring them to just

you think this is a pretext to authorize a political opponent when there was no there there as rod rosensteinting farrah laws or the ralogan act, these have not been applied, let's assume that these are laws and they need to be investigated. the russia trump campaign link? there isn't. what happened is once the agency has concluded at the end of 2016, as far as we understand now, that there was no connection between russia and the campaign in terms of policy, then probably somewhere, at what level we don't know, there was a shift to look at those liberal cases of pharaoh or logan act. liz: stay on that. >> yes. >> stay on that for a second. i am sorry to interrupt. why was robert mueller appointed to special counsel? if you have no evidence, why was he even appointed to special counsel to probe trump russia collusion. the probe was launched as a violation because george poppel doll of -- over drinks out of london pub. the russians hacked the democrats e-mails and those leaks could come to the trump campaign's way. do you see what i mean? they did not have trump russia conspiracy case there. w

>> this is a really important matter, rod rosenstein's testimony was incredibly frustrating. one thing he did not talk about and never said and no one ever explained is how he could have looked at what was surely the most significant case before the department of justice, an investigation of a sitting president at a presidential campaign, in a completely unprecedented away, using clandestine intelligence tools and after 9 months which is when rosenstein signed this warrant renewal, after 9 months did it occur to him to ask what evidence there was a carter page, the subject of the warrant was a russian asset and whether there was proof that he had committed a crime. both those things were alleged in the initial warrant. after nine months of digging through his life maybe they were up on his telephone listening to his calls rifling through his email and text messages for the past several years, where was the evidence? how could you sign a renewal for something without any evidence in nine long months? it makes no sense and is appalling. >> what is alleged here, a lot of allegat

rod rosenstein thought he is not really forthcoming, something is not right.hannon: we are told there will be more clear declassified documents, that could be very soon. attorney general william barr in the course of that, details as durham is heading that up but the doj recommended the case against him be dismissed. let me get some outside help with this, acting retired judge to weigh in and he filed his brief today. the facts surrounding the filing of the government motion constitutes clear evidence of gross prosecutorial abuse, disguised as legitimate, a decision to dismiss that was based solely on the fact that flynn is a political ally of donald trump. not surprising given what we know about judge gleason and his previous writing, he says doj, this case should not be dismissed against general flynn, this is a political situation meant to help the trump ally. he recommends against it. what do you think happens next? >> we know that judge gleason has this opinion, an op-ed that he has written as you said so basically what he has now done is provide this rul

. >> yesterday at 10 am rod rosenstein took his seat in front of the senate judiciary committee at which time the deputy attorney general who is in control of the russia probe the told robert mueller i got a job for you and for 2 and a half years and cost of $30 million they probe the president's campaign and how it colluded with didn't collude with russia, turns out they didn't and it turns out rod rosenstein wouldn't have done it in retrospect. listen. >> if you knew then what you know now what you have signed the warrant application? >> now. >> the reason you wouldn't have is because exculpatory information was withheld from the court, is that correct? >> among other reasons. >> do you consider it to be an early basis corrupt investigation? >> i do not consider the investigation to be corrupt. i understand the president's frustration given the outcome. >> what did we learn yesterday? >> first we learned is he acknowledges a couple things that are significant. he acknowledges he would not have signed the carter page fisa warrant if he knew then what he knows today. the other bombshell

rod rosenstein talking about the fisa warrant application. cart carter page. in republican senator, mike crapo from idaho. what did you learn today that you didn't know already, senator? >> bill, we've been learning this all along. but three big take aways today. first, deputy attorney general rosenstein said that the russians did try to intercept and interfere with our election but no american conspired with them.secondly, the bias was clearly established and third as we've already indicated, rosenstein said had he known about the bias and the violations, the extensive violations of law and policy, he would not have signed the fisa warrant application. >> bill: wow. is that a general lack of curiosity do you find or was this a rubber stamp in washington d.c.? >> i'll tell you what it is. there were 17 serious violations that the i.g. found. the i.g. answered questions for me in a hearing last year that it was inexplicable. it is explicable. and crossfire hurricane was an investigation of the president of the united states and false and criminally altered ed s