kellyanne conway, congressman ron desantis and tomi lahren are among my guests.ut first a very important opening statement. i'm a believer. i believe in the system and i believe in justice. i dedicated more than 30 years to the criminal justice system and the assignment of blame. tonight i'm not angry. i'm just dumb found and disheartened and disappointed. over the long awaited, often delayed inspector general's report on the actions of the department of justice and the fbi in the handling of the hillary clinton email investigation. the report's conclusion, 568 pages later, fbi director james comey was insubordinate. there were a few mistakes anderrors in judgment. though there was some bias, there was no evidence of bias in the email investigation. this report mimics comey's conclusions in the email case. the inspector general and comey make out a provable case, then conclude there is no case. nothing changes. the deep state hard at work. i don't know about you, but i'm so tired of lessons learned. they say comey chief grade the rule. deviated from the rules? co

president trump has endorsed your opponent, ron desantis. as i said, you're still up in the polls. when it comes to immigration, are people that you're talking to in florida really aligned with where the president is or do you think they have a different perspective? you have about three of the detention center there's in your state and you're trying to deal with the reunification issue after the family separation policy was ended. >> certainly people would like to see washington finally act on our immigration policy. president trump has put out his pillars plan, security or borders, end the visa migration and bring a solution to daca. we have to inform our immigration laws. a nation without borders is not a nation. the president has been clear about being humane and keeping families together. but we have to have secure borders. we have to make sure the immigration laws are followed. undoubtedly, we'll talk about that some more tonight but it's an issue important to republicans here in the sunshine state. >> dana: the other issue, supreme court vacancies. we have one now after just

congressman ron desantis. also republican candidate for governor of florida, i'm going to start with the role of the candidate here. you have got a lot -- you have got many duties now. last night in a debate with your opponent in florida. you have been running behind in the most of recent polls. do you believe last night you brought yourself even or perhaps ahead of your opponent? >> well, lou, we defined the race. i'm a conservative iraq veteran endorsed by president trump. he's a career politician who has been in office since he was 22 years old. he supported bailouts for wall street, he supported the gang of 8 schumer amnesty and he opposed' e-verify because he wants cheap labor for his donors. lou: that election very important and a choice that's clearly defined as you said it. it will be interesting to see how the people of florida respond. what do you see as the most of important issue in the decision of those voters as they go to the polls? >> for the primary, they want somebody who is going to lead wit

congressman ron desantis. >> this conduct, to me, is disqualifying.orney general. he's threatening people who work in congress simply because we are doing our job to try to get answers for the american people. the arrogance of rosenstein, for months and months, to stonewall and stonewall, nonstop. even basic answers, to redact information, it's gotten to the boiling point, we in congress need to act. i think his position there is untenable. >> sean: when i am hearing, congressman gaetz, one of the reasons rod rosenstein is doing a lot of this is because there are specific documents with specific days andar dates that may implicate him. have you heard the same thing? >> we have, sean. rod rosenstein is interactively conflicted in this investigation. as brave patriots like kash patel work hard for the congress to expose the corruption and the bias, then they are threatened by rod rosenstein? this is outrageous. kash patel was in my office, concernee facthat he, staff membe w doing his job and then some how had a different branch of government bringing t

we have congressman ron desantis, how are you, sir? >> how are you? >> congressman lee zeldin, how are you? >> great. mark: you served on the house committee on foreign affairs and i wanted you here to discuss north korea and some of the other major events that are taking place in the world today but i want america to know about you. ron desantis running for governor in florida in the republican primary. you have been serving wonderfully in the u.s. house of representatives for some period of time. you went to yale university where you graduated with honors. then you went to harvard law school, covered both your bases there, graduated with honors from yale. also you served in the navy and you have active duty service. you supported operations, terroristetention center at guantanamo bay in cuba. deployed to iraq as adviser to u.s. navy s.e.a.l. commander and support of the s.e.a.l. commission in saudi arabia in riyadh. lee zeldin represented first congressional district, you were member of the state senate in new york before you became a congressman, y

he tweeted today congressman ron desantis a top student at yale and harvard law school is running forovernor of the great state of florida. ron is strong on borders. tough on crime and big on cutting taxes. loves our military and our vets. he will be a great governor and has my full endorsement. >> as governor of florida, you are going to have to have a relationship with the white house. we have a hurricane hopefully not, we need aid, i call the president drocketly. he is going to take my call. >> putnam supports 2ru6r7, too. but doubts desantis can use d.c. connections to win. >> this is a florida based race. and washington is not going to get it done. and dialing in a gubernatorial campaign from out of state long distance isn't going to get it done. >> ultimately this race's result may cause a ripple effect felt far from tallahassee. >> as florida goes so does the nation goes. we are a swing state and important state. i would like to think we set the policy here if for the rest of the state. >> florida winds up being the back drop for major political news than anywhere else because

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joining me congressman ron desantis. good evening. you heard my open. i'm stunned at way they are treating people who work for the president of the united states. literally heckling them out of restaurants. screaming at them, trashing them. if people think things like your child should be in a case with pedophiles. have you ever seen it this bad? >> no, i haven't. ily the left is -- i think the left is totally unhinged and taking it to a level that isn't healthy for our society. politically it could be better if the left could air their differences civilly. but they hate trump and those associated with him and they let that show time and time again. it's troubling. judge jeanine: in congress there was a bill that was submitted. next week there is hope there might be a bill. what is going on in the house? >> we voted on a bill which is what president trump promised and most of of us who ran promised. it got 193 votes. we had 40 republicans vote against it. it was the on bill i have seen since i have been in congress that would solve the problem of illega

let's discuss with congressman ron desantis. 25 billion for the wall. no e-verify. chamber doesn't like it. you don't get to work unless you are verified to be legally in the country, right? chamber doesn't want you don't get to work unless you are verified to be in the country. >> if you're doing amnesty that is 1.8 or more million people. this what is going to happen? creates an incentive for more people to come illegally. that wall, that won't be built in a day. the jurisdiction over lawsuits, this will get tied up forever. and the border surge in 2014 will have a lot of people moving to the drug cartels. >> i'm told asylum, fried is addressed but it was released, 293 pages. >> the goodlatte bill. >> they won't get it through. paul ryan, and -- >> need to defend sanctuary cities and end chain migration and get rid of the diversity visa lottery. make people go on record for that, it is not a popular vote in the republican party but in democrat districts people want e-verify. it is a partisan thing. >> doesn't want e-verify. to check the identity -- >> undermines r

we have congressman ron desantis, how are you, sir? >> how are you?ngressman lee zeldin, how are you? >> great. mark: you served on the house committee on foreign affairs and i wanted you here to discuss north korea and some of the other major events that are taking place in the world today but i want america to know about you. ron desantis running for governor in florida in the republican primary. you have been serving

ron desantis is in the hearing room ahead of the debate tonight.he energy in that state as we await this exchange by these two? >> the energy is absolutely phenomenal here at the gaylord palms. people are arriving 10 hours early. people are lining up already. ist -it will be a great night and awesome that fox news can broadcast this. >> sandra: recent polling is showing putnam is up by double digits ahead of the debate. what issues is he leading in the polls on? >> i think both of them are running on the platform of how great our economy here is in the state of florida. we have low unemployment. we're creating jobs and leading the nation in policy. so i think that's resonating with a lot of people here in the state. and will continue to do so. that will be the number one issue from november. republicans have a great record and story here in the state of florida. >> sandra: what role is president donald trump playing in this race? >> well, as of right now the president has endorsed congressman ron desantis. that's been pretty obvious from the tweets

. >> and congressman ron desantis. >> we will win this race. >> [cheers and applause]. >> an iraq wargressman who has the endorsement of president trump. >> as governor of florida you will have to have a relationship with the white house. if we have a hurricane, we need aid. i call the president directly. >> putnam attacks his opponent as missing in action. >> this is a florida based race. washington is not going to get it done. dialing in a gubernatorial campaign from out of state, long-distance, doesn't going to get it done. >> desantis calls putnam a career politician who spends more time campaigning and not working for the people of florida. >> you could campaign your whole life fine, that's not the way the world works. i can campaign and also do my job and show people i am a leader. >> tonight the 2 candidates face off right now on america's election headquarters. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> [cheers and applause]. >> welcome to the gaylord palms resort and convention center in orlando. tonight the top two republicans in the race for florida governor face off. i am bret baier. >> i. martha macca

lou: congressman ron desantis today grilled deputy attorney general rod rosenstein suggesting rosensteinould recuse himself from oversight of the investigation of special counsel robert mueller. >> you wrote the memo saying that comey should be fired and you signed the fisa extension for carter page. my question to you is seems like you should be recused from this more so than jeff sessions because you were involved in making decisions affecting both prongs of the investigation. why vice president you done that? >> congressman if it were appropriate for me to recuse, i would be more than happy to do so and let somebody else handle this. but it's my responsibility to do it. lou: i've never seen a guy just absolutely jumping up as down in his chair as he's being asked a very, very important question that, as you may have noted, he didn't answer. we'd like to recognize great writing on this show and we do so occasionally. someone has written so eloquently on the bias at the fbi and justice department. andrew mccarthy writing in his june 23rd essay that we must look to trump and not trey gow

let's discuss with congressman ron desantis.for the wall, barely. 25 billion for the wall. ron, no e-verify which i'm told doesn't matter i think it matters. the chamber doesn't like e-verify. e-verify means you don't get to work unless you are verified to be legally in the country, correct? chamber doesn't wanted. >> if you are doing an amnesty that's 1.8, moving more million people. >> laura: we didn't have that in the bullets. >> it's going to create an incentive for more people to come illegally. if you don't have e-verify to kind of remove a disincentive, that wall, even if it's a good faith effort at the wall, and i'm not sure it is, it ain't going to be built in a day. you need to strip the courts of jurisdiction. this will get tied up forever with the wall. without e-verify coming or going to have a border surge like we had in 2014. that obviously is going to have a lot of people moving. they are going to be able to move product across the border. drug cartels. >> laura: 293 pages. we haven't had time to go through the w

i'll start with you, representative ron desantis. was our favorite guy rod rosenstein -- i got to tell you. i watched that, congressman. i was so frustrated with the smirking and the don't attack me personally and the taking the time to run the clock. is he keeping information from congress? >> judge, this is really concerning. yes, they are keeping information from congress. but it's not just a normal stonewall. what they are saying is peter strozk open asthmasive counterintelligence information about trump's campaign. we know it was colored with bias and we know the problems. trying to get the details about it, rosenstein says i can't talk about it. it's classified and sensitive. peter strozk wednesday for the deposition he wouldn't answer most of the questions because it's classified. so they unleash the counterintelligence powers of the government. now they are using that, the sensitivity of that as a shield to protect them from congressional oversight. that is wrong. >> it's clearly wrong. congressman gohmert, you think that kno

congressman ron desantis who has an endorsement of president trump hitting his opponent putnam as a week on border issues while putnam who serves as the sunshine states agriculture commissioner defended his own law and order credentials. watch. >> i will sign e-verify into law here in a state of florida. he won't do that because his big donors i find his companion one that chief foreign labor that lowers wages for floridians and bad for the rule of law, not good for taxpayers. your share has endorsed me and i'm excited about 45 cherubs who have endorsed me because they know both of our records and they know who is best for securing our borders and keeping floridians safe. picked >> melissa: president trump has endorsed it to santos. adam putnam has raised more money in the contest so far and is leading in the recent polls. florida will hold its primaries august 28th. i'll ask you, what he think is going to happen here? >> lisa: putnam is up right now but he was the ag commissioner so he has run. he has ran statewide before. name ideas, name recognition, people know his name more than ron

ainsley: plus, donald trump jr., dana loesch and congressman ron desantis.an: you got it ♪ me and my gang ♪ ♪ ♪ todd: an initiative to divide california into three states will officially be on the november ballot. the golden state would be split into northern california, southern california, and, wait for it, california. so why divide? well, the main argument is that los angeles and the bay area essentially forgot about the rest of california. joining me now is los angeles based attorney and columnist for town hall.com. kurt schlichtinger. kurt, thanks for being here. let's basically break this down again if we could put that map back up. northern california and california would basically be liberal enclaves and southern california, which incap suinincap sue lates. why does this matter and will it happen. >> i don't know if it's going to happen. that map needs to be adjust you had, todd. we need to stick los angeles and california into the same state. that way we can bailed giant wall around it on the border and seal it off from the rest of the united states

congressman ron desantis and adam putnam will go face-to-face this thursday at 6:30 p.m.n time. tomorrow we'll be speaking to adam putnam. >> eric: fair and balanced and even on the fox news channel. trump versus fallin. the president and tonight show host man-to-man trading jabs over twitter and over the air. what is behind this growing feud between those two? it's the topic for the 24/7 crew. >> sandra: plus presidt trump fighting fire with fire after democratic lawmaker maxine waters called for the public harassment of administration officials. the a-team is here to tackle this one next. first, cnn reporter jim acosta taking serious incoming at last 's trump rally. >> we have about couple thousand people in the room so far. they are letting the press corps know how they feel about what we're doing here. it is no secret he will hammer the issue of immigration until the mid-term elections coming up this fall. and even with families, the president believes it's a winner for the republican party. you might take something for your heart... or joints. but do you take somethi

kellyanne conway, congressman ron desantis and tomi lahren are among my guests.irst a very important opening statement. i'm a believer. i believe in the system and i believe in justice. i dedicated more than 30 years to the criminal justice system and the assignment of blame. tonight i'm not angry. i'm just dumb found and disheartened and disappointed.

joining me now congressman jim jordan, chairman mark meadows and congressman ron desantis, all members of the freedom caucus and you be relenting voices in the fight for truth in this russia probe. now, i'm going to start with you, mark meadows. under no circumstances would anyone think of placing a spy or as they want to call it, a confidential human source, someone who clearly has foreign intelligence capabilities in the campaign of a man running for president of the united states. it has never happened in the history of this country. but these guys did it. so why shouldn't i be furious and who do they think they are kidding? >> well, judge, you should be furious. i can tell you as we look at the evidence, and jim and i and ron have read thousands of pages as we look at this. you should be furious. whether it's spying on the trump campaign or the bernie sanders campaign or any presidential campaign, it's wrong. we have a growing body of evidence that would suggest the opposite of what my good friend trey gowdy said, that the fbi and doj did do things improperly. we know there were in

president, joined by republican from florida, and chairman of national security subcommittee, ron desantis. ron, good to see you. >> good to see you. trish: there is so much at stake. this could be a historic moment. let's get to the nitty-gritty on trade with japan. what is the potential in terms of renegotiating what we currently have with japan and how does that help us with china? >> i think that is something the president has been focused on not just since he ran for office but really for decades. go back to the '80s, he was talking about the need to negotiate better agreements with japan. he has a very good relationship with shinzo abe. they get along personally very well. abe appreciates the united states now exercising more leadership in the pacific region. because you see china on the march. you see that they are expanding their military capacity. obviously north korea is a big problem. i think japan appreciates at that america is back in the game. we're leading again. trish: tpp, the trans-pacific trade partnership, got a really bad rap during the 2016 campaign in part because hi

. >> sandra: congressman ron desantis making his case to become florida's next governor. >> florida willighting the good fight. iraq veteran and the president's endorsement, good enough for me. >> sandra: that was desantis during this show yesterday. he has the full endorsement of president trump. next up we'll speak to the candidate running against him adam putnam. he is here to respond. if you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis, or psoriatic arthritis, little things can be a big deal. that's why there's otezla. otezla is not an injection or a cream. it's a pill that treats differently. for psoriasis, 75% clearer skin is achievable with reduced redness, thickness, and scaliness of plaques. and for psoriatic arthritis, otezla is proven to reduce joint swelling, tenderness, and pain. and the otezla prescribing information has no requirement for routine lab monitoring. don't use if you're allergic to otezla. otezla may cause severe diarrhea, nausea, or vomiting. tell your doctor if these occur. otezla is sociated with an increaseri of depression. tellyou ha a history of depression or

>> look, i think if you're scoring it on points, you would say congressman ron desantis who had a rough start finished strong and adam putnam who had a very strong start, he came out of the box well. he faltered at the midpoint. might be a draw but i'd say putnam did something crucially important for himself. the rap on him is he's too establishment, he's been in tallahassee too long, all of that stuf i would say this would work in both lieving strength of aleve. i'm back. aleve pm for a better am. what do you think about the democrats being brought to the table? you had folks saying no way, we're not going to let this happen. we're not going to see a nominee confirmed before the election. the president is bringing in moderates like a joe manchin state like west virginia where the president carried by double digits. they're going to be under pressure to support this nominee. >> sure. but you don't need democrats anymore to get a supreme court nominee confirmed. this is -- the process now, the senate is now a broken institution. it used to be you needed a consensus choice, you needed 60

. >> ron desantis, mark meadows and i sent a letter to the president weeks ago asking the president to do that. give congress the investigation we're excited to get to get answers for you, everyone else in the press and most importantly the american people. i hope the president does that. declassify stuff, get us the information so we can get all of the answers. we don't have 0 to wait for the fbi when they decide to show us the we'll stop it text message. give us the information we're entitled to get. i'm all for that and that's why we sent the letter a few weeks ago. lou: not to break the flow with the deep state coverup and the assault on the sitting president but i want to ask you about thosanother assault on the prest emanating from the house of representatives. how long are you all going to put up to with this rhino who is leading your party and this country into the abyss? how dare this, this phony sit there and treat this american people this way and destroy the party but without comment from the conference. >> yeah. i mean, lou. >> other than matt gates who has stood up. >> i'

and that's why you see the anxiety and the unease among folks like jim jordan and matt gates and ron desantis. they don't know what rosenstein and when the mueller investigation frankly is going to hit because mueller and rosenstein are not playing politics. they're following the law. brian, the contrast today was one between two men in rosenstein and wray committed to the truth, and committee members committed to a political narrative. and the most damning moment of all was actually that last sound bite you just played where a member of congress was questioning the number-two official at the department of justice, who was sworn under oath, saying should i believe you, or should i believe political staffers who are telling me that there's this other narrative that undermines the mueller investigation? there is pressure right now when it comes to republicans looking at november. the great unknown is what is the status of this investigation, and that's a matter of great respect for both rosenstein, for wray, as well as for bob mueller. >> mara, getting our attention today, as he often does, was

house oversight committee member congressman ron desantis.w, it was jaw-dropping for the inspector general to admit, yep, there was bias. in fact, there was a lot of bias with these fbi agents. >> and the bias infected what strzok was doing. i mean, did you go back to the spring of 2016, donald trump beats ted cruz, indiana primary. nomination. what did strzok say to lisa page, pressure now begins to bring the clinton investigation to a conclusion. he was looking and saying we have got to stop trump. he was the one who did things like edit comey's statement onto remove gross negligence. he opens up the counter intelligence investigation against trump's campaign. based off almost nothing. and then a week after he does that is the infamous message that we got for the first time with the ig saying no, no, no. trump won't win. we'll stop him. how will we stop him? he answered that question the next week when he texted lisa page and said we can't take the risk of a trump presidency. we need an insurance policy. so, this russia collusion thing was

ed: one of many fiery exchanges that one between congressman ron desantis and rod rosenstein, rosenstein fbi director christopher wray appeared before the house committee and those were not the only heated words. tray gowdy, rosenstein should get mueller to wrap up as possible. >> whatever you've got, finish the hell up because the country is being torn apart. >> pretty strong words. >> good to see you. what's your sense about what whether rosenstein should are already basically admitted he had some sort of conflict here and basically stepped aside? >> well, it's all wicked witchcraft, we will have to wait and see what's in the end of the broom as far as how this investigation goes down, eventually solves itself. it solves itself when it's done to be so. ed: when you look at the fact that rosenstein helped write the memo with attorney general jeff sessions that was given to the president that led ultimately to the firing of james comey, he is conflicted here and that we see this leak in the last 24 hours of "the new york times" four anonymous sources saying that rosenstein felt used, tha

let's discuss all of this now with congressman ron desantis, democratic strategist richard goodstein and a former deputy assistant attorney general robert driscoll. gentlemen, it's great to see all of you. where do we begin, let's start with this immunity plea for mccabe. every time you hear someone connected with trump who might want immunity,ike, oh, my gosh, you want immunity, you must be guilty. ?hat's going on here ja comey stood tall and was a model leader and now he wants immunity because he knows he's jeopardy with his conduct over this investigation, both the clinton and the trump investigation. i would not give him immunity, i would make him go, if he's going to plead the fifth amendment then he should plead the fifth amendment but the idea that he should get some type of get out of jail free card for this is not something the american people will want to see. >> laura: richard? >> the president said in about mccabe, lied, lied, lied. he called his wife a loser, classic move. big -- >> we have very limited time, i want to keep us focused on the former deputy attorney genera

in southern border we will talk about the news of the day with jason chaffetz and congressman ron desantis up cape and becoming a cop. we will talk about that and so much more rob and jillian in about 14 minutes from now. jillian: looking for to it. >> you bet. ♪ ♪ ♪ jillian: good wednesday good morning, welcome back to "fox & friends first". doj inspector general confirming he's investigating antitrump fbi agent peter strzok and whether bias had impact on beginning stages of the russia investigation. rob: we are now learning the embattled agent was escorted out of fbi headquarters so has the credibility of bob mueller's probe now been compromised? jillian: here to weigh in fox news senior judicial analyst judge andrew napolitano. thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you for having me in brand-new studio. jillian: look, when horowitz -- believes they showed bias, i think it clearly shows bias state of mind, how do you have bias state of mind but not let it affect work? >> i don't know how you can split that hair but remember, the inspector general didn't say he found no bias, he

the first reports came out about this ig report, and already it's matt gates and ron desantis from florida. >> house conservatives who are trump allies in what other republicans have called the conspiracy theory crowd, but they allege deep-seated corruption. >> without having even seen the report, they are accusing the justice department of watering this down and are seeking drafts of the report. we haven't seen an actual -- you know, the copy of this report yet. i would be shocked if there is not something in there for trump and his allies to grab onto. but so far, this is not exactly what trump was hoping for. >> anything that can undermine comey's credibility will help him say, look, if he's any part of a plot that you have, he's not credible. let's go through some of the questions. there's going to be a big political debate about this. it's going to start today and go on for lord knows how long. is there any evidence the fbi was motivated by political bias in clinton's favor? does the ig question comey's conclusion clinton did nothing criminal? what does it say about the lynch-clinton