rosen stein, mr. mccabe's roles all the way back to the fusion one investigations and continuing on for that period of ten years? i suppose if i understand you correctly there was nothing down there to formally to vet them? >> i think i understand you correctly. and i think that's correct. >> and i know that oftyou've an this so i'm going to go very quickly with you. with regard to the fusion gps dossier it's been reported widely in the meads yeah that fbi paid for some of that. do you know whether that's accurate or not, accurate reporting of the media? >> i do not. >> and i guess it's also been widely reported in the media that the fbi at some point reviewed that dossier, particularly under mr. comey. so do you know if that ever occurred? >> i'm not able to comment on that. >> okay. whether you say you are not able to comment, that means you may not know or there is an investigation? >> i have not been involved in that investigation. >> okay. >> and i don't even read the newspapers that closely. >>

rosen stein gave mueller a mandate.perate within that mandate or go back to rosen stein to get that mandate expanded. the system is working just fine. nobody is -- i'm saying, so nobody is rogue. the independent council stat toot doesn't provide any more protection than the current regulations do. i have no doubt but that this regulatory structure works just as well as ours did. >> you have to be clear to the viewers. the independent council was a law passed by and signed by the president 37 so the president couldn't disregard that under the constitution, he can, as you pointed out. all the authority of all the special councils and rosen stein comes from the president. >> i have to get another quick break in. brian, you didn't have a chance to -- >> yeah, i would say everybody says, should the president be aggressive against mueller? it's important to remember at the end of the day, this is going to be a political trial, the information is going to be sent back to congress. any time you're dealing with a political trial

rosen stein's office in maryland, it help approved by two years or more. >> there was an fbi informant in 2009. >> i have not talked with him, but the department of justice i understand approved him providing information to the congress. i understand he will be set up in a few days and you will be able to hear from him direct. >> should you too because he has evidence of illegal conduct in 2009 and 2010 before the deal was agreed to involving uranium one. that's something we need to do. let me move on. the leaking you mentioned, you can't confirm or deny the existence of the leaks. michael flynn and others used politically against the administration. since the president was elected, has anybody been headlight accountable for leaking information against the administration with the political mode? >> i think the individual in georgia had a motive that has been charged. we have 27 ongoing investigations. some of those were leaks before president trump took office and some after. >> final question. >> before that it was -- it's three times this year than the entire three years before. >> w

lou: you are one of the smartest attorneys i know, the fact of matter is that rod rosen stein, is compromises in every way from sunday. he was involved in the investigation of uranium one, he and robert mueller special counsel, it was a contrivance and you know it. on form of comey to create's special counsel and hu put his d buddy, mueller there. men with integrity would never allow themselves to be named to begin with. >> we have to part ways on rod. lou: part ways, i have not called him an sob or anything, i said he has been compromised. >> my point is he cannot be impartial. i am confident he will recuse himself, these people are not looking. lou: they recuse themselves based on personal and professional relationships between -- rod rosenstein and robert mueller, tom. >> i think that at the end of the day if rod rosenstein finds himself in a position, he makes decision in a matter he had personal involvement, i think he would recuse himself. i don't think they are looking for conflicts of interest. i think it easier to be out of political line of fire, that happened with jeff sessions whe

we know thatro burt mueller and rod rosen stein and andrew weisman were involved in the uranium one deal and knowing about the illegality of it and those three men are presiding over the trump/russia case. >> sean: you believe that hillary clinton's scheme to steal this primary could be illegal and crimes could have been admitted and the uranium one crimes and e-mail crime and on the dossier we could have crimes. >> all of those things that merit an intensive special investigation and special counsel. and just the latest on the rigging of the election smacks to me as a lawyer of money laundering. in transaction that deceives. and that would be violating federal law and contributions and secondly, filing a false and misleading report about it, both of those, are crimes. >> sean: doug, last night you were on the program and i got tremendous feedback. you worninged with the clintons and you look at four separate. dossier and stealing the election and erannium and e-mail server. you look at all of them. stealing the election in the united states of america and rigging the election? >> i have

we know thatro burt mueller and rod rosen stein and andrew weisman were involved in the uranium one deal and knowing about the illegality of it and those three men are presiding over the trump/russia case. >> sean: you believe that hillary clinton's scheme to steal this primary could be illegal and crimes could have been admitted and the uranium one crimes and e-mail crime and on the dossier we could have crimes. >> all of those things that merit an intensive special investigation and special counsel. and just the latest on the rigging of the election smacks to me as a lawyer of money laundering. in transaction that deceives. and that would be violating federal law and contributions and secondly, filing a false and misleading report about it, both of those, are crimes. >> sean: doug, last night you were on the program and i got tremendous feedback. you worninged with the clintons and you look at four separate. dossier and stealing the election and erannium and e-mail server. you look at all of them. stealing the election in the united states of america and rigging the election? >> i have

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because remember, jeff session is recused from this matter and that means rod rosen stein will oversee mueller and were sessions to be ousted and a new attorney general apointed by trump and confirmed by the senate. rosen steen is a fire wall between trump and mueller would disappear and someone else would take over the ability to curb or fire mueller. people is like sessions is going down on this ought to be thinking about it through that lens. >> and amidst this and here l.a., the president of the united states is going after jeff sessions and pushing the justice department to investigate hillary clinton and i want to play a clip of that. >> it looks like we don't have it. but the president said i'm not involved with the justice department. i would like to let it run itself but they should be looking at the democrats, at podesta and that dishonesty and lookedi lookeding at a lot of things and people are disappointed in the justice department, including me and there are estimates that jeff sessions is the fall guy and using this as an excuse and then appoint a new a.g. that will fire

if sessions leave, rosen stein could be promoted to the stop job.to recuse himself. he said he doesn't want the russian probe to be a fishing expedition into everything that the president does. that could -- which would be a big win for the white house. >> interesting. a win fors white house. they don't have to have it. so jeff sessions as attorney general anymore. maybe a win for sessions because he gets a -- a nicer boss. the people of alabama as opposed to president trump. republicans also have some other pretty good reasons, republicans in the senate, they might want sessions back in the chamber. explain those. >> sure. republicans hold 52 seats out of 100 in the senate and their slim majority will get even slimmer if they lose one of those to the democratic side over here and the independents who caucus with them. so majority leader mitch mcconnell was the first to start floating sessions' name as saying maybe he's a possible solution to the roy moore problem, someone who with two decades of experience in that very job, someone who could be rel

mueller has interviewed rod rosen stein about the obstruction of justice question. everyone thought jeff sessions would be an early witness for that same issue. it's now looking more and more like jeff sessions probably knows a lot about what happened, not just about -- not just in the white house with relation to the firing of jim comey but also what happened in the campaign and any potential collusion with russia. jeff sessions looks more and more like a witness at the heart of this investigation, and i think that explains why he's not been interviewed early. you always get to the top people, the people high up. the people with most exposure late in the investigation. >> phil rucker, if jeff sessions is, indeed, a witness at the heart of the investigation into russian collusion, does that complicate what we all have heard to be donald trump's desire to make a change at the highest levels of the justice department? >> yeah, it certainly would. it would complicate things for sessions legally in terms of that investigation. but certainly with his relationship with pr

attorney rod rosen stein -- rosenstein were involved in the deep cover investigation into russia's effort to corner the market sing american uranium and that hillary clinton and eric holder, others in the administration, pproved the sale to a group, stockholders of which donated, as i understand it, $145 million or so to the clinton foundation, in effect the clintons hit the russian mega lottery. the mega millions lottery. from russia. and just a tease was the half a million fee was giving a little short speech by bill clinton. but if we look back at what has gone on, just look at some of he facts, it was shocking that .b.i. director comey did not have cheryl mills interviewed. she was former bill clinton's at the state department. and comey was going to draftal statement saying there was not sufficient evidence to prosecute haint or followedp on the most credible evidence, then clearly, it makes sense yes director comey would not want to make cheryl mills' interview recorded, would make an agreement with cheryl mills and the other potential defendants in the case, that gee, if they got a

rod rosen stein was involved in 20 146789 >> sandra: the third time the attorney general will be answering questions under oath. we expect a lot from this this morning coming up in less than an hour. congressman, thank you for your time ahead of that. >> sandra: thank you. >> we'll have more on the attorney general's testimony at the bottom of the hour. we'll be talking to the man running today's hearing, house judiciary committee chairman bob goodlatte. his calls for a special counsel to look into that uranium one deal. that's all coming up at 9:30 eastern. >> looking forward to that preview. we have a fox news alert. as you know a fifth accuser coming forward and accusing alabama senate candidate roy moore of sexual misconduct saying moore attacked her when she was 16 years old. these allegations have prompted a core use of republicans calling for mr. moore to step aside. that's getting louder. >> we have to find out whether the people of alabama choose him or not. then you explore the various options. he should not be a united states senator. >> before anybody would expel him they would

he's in up to his eyeballs and so is rosen stein. they ought to do the decent thing and resign and let omebody that is not completely submerged in the original cover-up investigate this whole matter and with that i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the chair would entertain a motion to adjourn. mr. gohmert: i do move we hereby adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion to adjourn. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the motion is adopted. accordingly the house stands adjourned until noon on monday next for morning hour debate. >> good morning, everybody. it's great to be here today at the international franchise association with so many small business leaders, and i can't think of a better place to have this than here in downtown los angeles. i look forward to visiting the various different business owners after the speech today. this morning the house ways and means committee released a bill that will dramatically cut taxes and reform our tax