rod rosenstein the has really been neglected here.ntire sorry scandal. >> well, you're right, lou. and i like the way john, my former colleague, john solomon, headlined his story when he called it boomerang because that's exactly what it was. back then, i mean, even in 2017, you know, john solomon and i wrote a number of stories regarding rod rosenstein, the actions taken by the justice department, actual discussions that actually became public from committee hearings where even james baker, the general counsel, had says, you know, look, rod rosenstein had offered to wear a wire to record president trump. he was in discussions regarding the 25th and, remember, during that time when that information came out, rod rosenstein said, oh, i was just angry, i was just joking around. now we know from these cables as well of mccabe, all of his memos, the documents declassified that basically, no, rod rosenstein was serious. he was part of that cabal. and they wasted american taxpayer dollars, destroyed people's lives when they knew all along t

the operation continued for a long time it's funny to see rod rosenstein and robert mueller, both sayings a little bit too much on the nose to have you still running this investigation here at the fbi given amount of money that clinton allies paid for your wife's campaign. we need to make this look legit now. it's no longer about hillary, it's about tying up the president of the united states. maria: unbelievable. we have those text between lisa page and andrew mccabe as well as peter strzok. tell us how you see it. do you agree with that, john, what you just heard from lee? >> oh, i do. i mean, listen, lee's book lays it out better than anyone has done it in the last five years. maria: it does. >> he has it just right. it's such a great book. andy mccabe is a political animal. anyone who doesn't think so needs to read his text message. there's one that caught my fancy last night. i put it into this morning's store ribs it's after the brexit vote passes in great britain. a colleagues sends mccabe, hey, this is a sad a day for the u.k. and he writes back, yeah, didn't see it coming, i'm s

the operation continued for a long time it's funny to see rod rosenstein and robert mueller, both sayinglittle bit too much on the nose to have you still running this investigation here at the fbi given amount of money that clinton allies paid for your wife's campaign. we need to make this look legit now. it's no longer about hillary, it's about tying up the president of the united states. maria: unbelievable. we have those text between lisa page and andrew mccabe as well as peter strzok. tell us how you see it. do you agree with that, john, what you just heard from lee? >> oh, i do. i mean, listen, lee's book lays it out better than anyone has done it in the last five years. maria: it does. >> he has it just right. it's such a great book. andy mccabe is a political animal. anyone who doesn't think so needs to read his text message. there's one that caught my fancy last night. i put it into this morning's store ribs it's after the brexit vote passes in great britain. a colleagues sends mccabe, hey, this is a sad a day for the u.k. and he writes back, yeah, didn't see it coming, i'm shock

that's coming from former deputy attorney general rod rosenstein.lly, his response is quite striking. after you read this report and see what a role he had, there were u.s. attorneys at the border, andrea, calling the justice department, getting on phone calls with rosenstein, saying how young is too young? we're seeing mothers breast-feeding their children come into our courtrooms and they were told by the deputy attorney general no age is too young to separate and prosecute. >> wow. let's you say, jacob, what about these families that are still separated? >> it's a critical question. i'm glad you asked. just yesterday we found out -- just yesterday we found out the latest number, the most recent number. there are still -- this is why this is so important. there are still 611 families separated at the height of this policy. some were separated more than three years ago. who the government still has not been able to locate. 611. ultimately, that's because the lawyers say the trump administration handled over bad data, faulty data. and so when we tal

it wasn't just schiff who knew it was a lie, it was rod rosenstein who knew it was a lie, it was barrw it was a lie, it's durham who knew it was a lie. and they all sat on this. they sat on biden material. his appointees -- and we all know he wanted it released, but with the trump administration it's been day and day of casual sedition trying to divert or his efforts for transparency on this corruption, sub vexer efforts -- subversion efforts for accountability. they completely ignored him. and now it's the last minute, and we're getting documents a day late and a dollar short reconfirming the criminality behind the political class that sought to undo the 2016 election. lou: do you think of all of this as we are left with a government run by criminals, the corrupt and those beyond consequence for their actions, that's where we are today, it's very likely to be the same place that we visit in the weeks and months ahead. tom fitton, good to have you with us. thank you. >>> up next here, kevin mccarthy siding with a house rino who voted to impeach the president of the united states. we t

outraged because he presides over the fisa court, and he has held to no one, not james comey, rod rosensteinurt for perjury. and fraud and can conspiracy when they lied to the judges. it's no wonder that americans have little faith or confidence in our system of justice today proved it. you and i can say sadly equal justice, equal application of our laws, it doesn't exist any longer in the country. if that goes away, mark levin's proclamation, this is a post-constitutional america, holds true, and it's getting worse. sad today. thank you. if we are also learning tonight that even joe biden himself is worried about his family while foreign syndicate trying to cash in on his name and status reportedly telling his brother during the campaign, for sake, his words, watch yourself. referencing the family'sry business dealings. it doesn't look like frank out the message. he appeared in inauguration day ad for florida law firm that he joined as a nonattorney senior advisor.n his expertise is really needed. meanwhile, we are also learning tonight zero experience hunter biden continues to hold ail sta

. >> rod rosenstein said family separating were a failed posse that never should have been imposed or and others raising objections to it. did he say it according to the report when he was hangs out attorney general sessions. perhaps the greatest cheerleader of the policy or speaking with secretary of homeland security nielsen. people i talked to say it is far too little, far too late. why don't you talk to the children who have been traumatized for life. >> as you know, alex azar resigned this week. what was his role in separating families? >> i'm glad you brought that up. one thing i noticed in his resignation is there was nary a mention of the policy. he is not necessarily responsible for the policy. he didn't mention it in the regular resignation. so he tried to figure out time how to reunite parents and children at the height of the policy, in the exit better to the trump administration. >> biden has performanced to hold trump officials account the for the zero tolerance immigration policy. take a listen. >> our justice department and investigative arms will make judgments about

rod rosenstein told them, listen, guys, we didn't just do this firing.n for it in january. he and attorney general jeff sessions at the time were really the ones driving it and that the russia case had nothing to really do with it. in fact, the president went on to mention the russian case that comey come i don't want to put in there because that is not why we are firing them. the fact that the fbi did that and opened up obstruction case anyway suggesting that the president fired comey to protect himself from the russian case outrageous with the knowledge andrew mccabe, lisa page and other fbi officials had in real time. >> maria: we also know that they knew in january 2017 that the dossier was garbage. that there was actually no truth to anything in the dossier and they used it anyway to wiretap and spy on innocent americans like carter page who was never charged with anything after being wiretapped for a year. >> right. listen and august 2016 warned by the fbi, and in october, i just reported this early this week that informant meets with carter page,

according to notes taken by mccabe, then-deputy attorney general rod rosenstein wanted rosenstein toe for his connections with democratic politicians and, of course, mccabe never did. also breaking tonight, the fbi knew carter page had had no connection to the russia collusion false narrative days before securing a nice a warrant to spy on the 2016 trump campaign. "just the news" obtaining that newly-declassified document in which page denies connections to sanctioned russian officials while talking with fbi informant -- perhaps more than informant -- stefan halper. page also denied knowledge of the now-debujt theory that they leaked to wikileaks are. secured a warrant to spy on page and the trump campaign. joining us tonight is the editor-in-chief of "just the news," john solomon, best selling author. and, john, good to have you with us. this is quite something. you know, we've got proof now of so much vile and outright vicious crime on the part of u.s. government officials and their allies including little this -- informants and helpers like stefan halper. what in the world were th

. >> rod rosenstein, the deputy a there. the president issued a statement .wed the video we had, he also issued a statement that cited in light ever aborts of more demonstrations, i urge tha they're must be no violence, no lawbreaking, no vandalism of an kind. that's not what i stand for and that's not what america stands for. the ease tensions and calm tempers. this as the elevated security posture continues here and around the nation's capital, 12,000 feet 12,000 linear feet of razor wire just on this particular ring of the security perimeter as we hope for a peaceful transfer of power. martha. >> thank you very much,. former u.s. ambassador writes i a new op-ed, freedom and equal opportunity are out, censorship and intolerance are in. her warning about the incoming ministration in ministration effort to seize control in all different ways over what we do. she is next. stick around. they were able to give me a personal loan so i could pay off all of my credit cards. i got my mortgage through sofi and the whole process was so easy. ♪ express yourself ♪ ♪ ♪ e

impeachment draughted against former— of impeachment draughted against former deputy attorney general rod rosensteincedent, under the _ historically there is precedent, under the concept of impeachment, for impeaching people after they have left office, so i do not think it is a _ have left office, so i do not think it is a strong argument that it is unconstitutional, i think it is a distraction _ unconstitutional, i think it is a distraction from the facts, which are surely— distraction from the facts, which are surely compelling and very serious — are surely compelling and very serious against mr trump and, frankly, — serious against mr trump and, frankly, in— serious against mr trump and, frankly, in terms of the threat to the american democracy, it is very important — the american democracy, it is very important for the constitution that this process unfold, in my view. i�*m this process unfold, in my view. i'm auoin to this process unfold, in my view. going to come this process unfold, in my view. i“n going to come onto that in a moment. please stay with us. barbara, will there be witnesses cal

. >>> former deputy attorney general rod rosenstein is expressing regret for the trump administration'spresident trump for the policy. this after a doj watchdog report on the controversial policy released yesterday found "that the department's single minded focus on increasing immigration prosecutions came at the expense of careful and appropriate consideration of the impact of family unit prosecutions and child separations. for more on this, let's bring in julia ainsley who has been reporting on this for years. we saw a draft. you and jacob reported in october about a draft of this report out of the justice department. now we've seen all of this. what do you make of the findings? >> well, that's right. we did have a draft in october. i have to say there really wasn't a lot of manger substantial changes. so i think that's also something we want to be asking questions about, why the inspector general was delayed. they said the justice department officials told them go back and ask more people, and what they found was not a substantial change. that's one piece of why it's been more than 2

rod rosenstein told to shut down the russia probe. john kelly being told to give jerry kushner a clearing despite his ability to keep the nation's secrets. we know these things have happened but hearing them on tape 24 hours, less than 24 hours after they happened, it's chilling. >> it really is chilling and andrew and i always follow everything you tweet but i pull you up by name to follow the legal story pinpoint seems to have put in motion really big questions about whether there's even more pressure now in an incoming justice department to investigate crimes and there might be some pressure on the state of georgia. can you take us through what those crimes are and where the exposure lies for the president. does anyone else on that call have the same exposure? >> sure. so in term of the litany that carol laid out and i would add to that the ukraine call which led to impeachment which is remarkably similar the difference now is one of timing. his presidency is about to be over and you're exactly right that there's now a really diffe

>> no, i think it's a failure of the leader, at that point, a guy named rod rosenstein, at the department i understand he took it from the mueller team, they just investigated criminally, and he decided what to do with the counterintelligence investigation, which i gather, again, from public sources, was nothing. >> former fbi director jim comey is never boring and always answers our question. thank you for spending some time with us. the new book, "saving justice, truth, transparency, and trust" is out now. >>> when we come back with the coronavirus pandemic reaching its most lethal levels yet, states are speeding up the painfully slow process of getting vaccines into citizens' arms. that story is next. o citizens' arms that story is next ur diabetes... ...using fingersticks? with the new freestyle libre 2 system, a continuous glucose monitor, you can check your glucose with a painless, one-second scan. and now with optional alarms, you can choose to be notified if you go too high or too low. and for those who qualify, the freestyle libre 2 system is now covered by medicare. ask your doc

donald trump never and still could grasp that jeff sessions and i forget the guy in the middle, rod rosenstein was one of them and then barr, were not his personal roy cohen. he said in interview, that is what he sought. he wanted jeff sessions to unrecuse himself and fire robert mueller and bill barr did what he wants and not everything and they parted on unhappy terms. and what is the task, i hate the word norms, but to restore that building to regular order? >> well, my hunch is that that building is still filled with tens of thousands of people that got into working at the justice department to oversee that department of justice and to oversee the rigorous and enforcement of justice that is a bedrock principle of our democracy. i think that building is desperately in need of the type of leadership, a cleaning if you will, in order to restore that moral standing in that int integrity. i think there is no doubt that the bureaucracy is going to have to be built up again. but i think they're craving something from the top that reinstills as the president-elect said today, that the mission was

rod rosenstein, of course, early in the mueller investigation, there's been a lot of reporting on that. now you have the republican governor phil scott of vermont suggesting this step. you had others suggesting this step, talking about it at the staff level. but it is exceedingly unlikely that such a thing could be organized in short order, especially since the president himself could object to it and he would find somebody to facilitate his objection, certainly. the same is true for the second impeachment talk. if congress wanted to do it they could do it this morning. but i don't think they want to do it nearly enough to try to take that step and as a result the impeachment talk and the 25th amendment talk is making clear how grave the situation is in the minds of a lot of people in both parties, both within the white house and within the congress. >> john harwood, appreciate it. it's stunning that video we were just playing for you. the visuals of that mob of people in red hats, law enforcement overwhelmed, falling back. i mean, it is just a stunning iconic image of what happened ye