he's not day to day supervised by rosenstein, but he is supposed to go to rosenstein with respect toortant matters like an indictment. they are supposed to discuss it and if rosenstein feels that the charges are unwarranted, i think the words of the statute are inappropriate or unwarranted, then he can essentially overrule mueller. and so i don't think, jack, there is a likelihood that there will be some traffic court like indictment returned for the sake of bullying because of the process that they have to follow under the code of federal regulations. >> anderson, one last point. >> yeah. >> i did look up at the commercial break and mueller does have to file a report with the attorney general. it's a confidential report, but i believe the attorney general has the authority to release it if he wants to. >> and does rod rosenstein have to approve if mueller wants to try to flip somebody? >> no. >> no. mueller decides. >> to my estimation, that would be the day to day supervision that mueller is not subject to by rosenstein. >> david, go ahead. >> i just wanted to ask a point of clarif

would have to instruct rod rosenstein to do so, if rod rosenstein declined to do so, he could fire rodosenstein but have to replace somebody who's also willing to do so. this gets to sound a lot like what happened in the nixon era in the watergate scandal. finding somebody who's willing to be the marionette of the president which would raise a lot of red flags and other categories. the likelihood of it, it may be an aspirational objective of the president of the united states to rid himself of the burden of having to deal with the collusion investigation. the headache he would invite is far greater than the challenges posed perhaps by robert mueller. >> alice, would love to be able to do it. >> of course. the key is as laura knows and all the legal experts and everyone knows, rod rosenstein works for the department of justice. he's not president trump's personal attorney. i think moving forward for the administration, the best course of action would be to stop referring to this as a witch hunt, stop calling attention to the amount of time and money that's being spent on this. i want to

but given broad authority by rod rosenstein. we had a producer at the courthouse today, and we saw veteran prosecutors, drug andrew weissmann there in the courtroom, at the d.c. federal court where the grand jury meets. a flurry of activity at the grand jury room. but officials made no announcements. now we're learning that the grand jury approved the first charges in this high-profile investigation. >> the right word there that i want to talk about is approved. to bring charges like this, who would have to approve them, pamela? >> our understanding is that the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein would have to approve them now that he oversees the probe since attorney general jeff sessions recused himself. robert mueller would bring the information to him, the potential charges, to rosenstein, to keep him apprised of what they want to do. and if rosenstein had a big issue with it, of course, he could probably put a stop to it. it's not a formal approval process or anything like that, we're told. but he would be made aware of

rosenstein amonday them. lou: rosenstein's name has been revealed on reporting on the deal itself. the bribery and racketeering charges this informant made possible. how is it rosenstein and james comey, and the list goes on, are in a position -- and robert mueller, the special counsel, they have been in absolute conflict it seems throughout. gregg: it appears mueller, rosenstein, and comey who were all in on this fbi probe and all the evidence uncovered, covered it up. they had a legal duty to tell congress. if they had told congress, congress would have surely stopped the sale of uranium to the russians. there is one other name i discovered. andrew wiseman. guess where he is now? he's on robert mueller's special counsel team investigating trump russian collusion when in fact it appears he along with the others were covering uphill are you russia collusion. lou: with all of this in front of congress now, there is i would guess 100% awareness of what we are reporting and discussing tonight. how can there be any hesitation? to the nonsense, have the judiciary and intelligence commit

lou: and the names, rosenstein, who named mueller to be special counsel. you go on this -- you watch this explode. these conflicts of interests areo obvious and straight forward, how could anyone at the time ignore evidence of corruption in this country that had been perpetrated by and enabled by russian agents. $1 offe$145 million suddenly drn clinton foundation, largest low nation by far. >> did you ever wonder how the clintons got so rich quickly. lou: part was speaking fees. >> yeah, a nano second in a room for a speech. ing in to appointing a second special counsel to investigate hillary clinton. mueller and rose rosenstein neeo recuse themselves or be fired from the trump-russia investigation. lou: there is no evidence, at some point can't the leadership of republican party controlling senate and house, senate intelligence committee find the integrity and guts to do the right thing. >> there is little integrity and guts in washington, d.c., you know that. there is a dearth of that in nation's capital. lou: i keep hoping as do most people that somewhe

he asked that deputy rosenstein and i make a recommendation in writing. repaired those recommendations and submitted it to the president. senator feinstein, i don't think it has been fully understood, the significance of the error that mr. comey made on the clinton matter. i am aware oftime in all of my experience, and i don't think i have heard of any situations, in which a major case in which the department of justice prosecutors were involved in an investigation, that the investigative agency announces a closure of the investigation. and then, a few weeks before this happened, he was testifying before the congress, james comey was, and he said he thought he did the right thing and would do it again. pedro: give us some context, for that exchange. : jeff sessions and rob rosenstein both recommended that it yet director james comey be fired, citing his many failures, what they believed to be many failures and handling the hillary clinton email investigation. and you just are jeff sessions, saying james comey doubled down on congressional testimony this y

deputy attorney general rod rosenstein must be fired immediately.is appoint of his pal bob mueller who he knew was head of the fbi at the time of the uranium deal, as well as the underlying case itself must go while he rod rosenstein oversaw the prosecution of the underlying extortion case. and rosenstein's recommendation that jeff sessions recuse himself are grounds enough for him to go. the special counsel's office must be shut down. this is more than a cabal of individuals relying on false evidence to impeach donald trump. if there are any charges voted by a grand jury which we hear there are that will be disclosed monday. the department of justice can take over. jeff sessions must appoint someone to investigate the uranium deal. the sale of uranium to russia who was assisting at that time iran in iran's nuclear development has put our national security in jeopardy. a 2010 case, this is long before donald trump ever got into the presidential race. and if he doesn't do it, it's time for sessions to go. i have heard enough of this. i'm not going af

holder, clinton, mueller, rosenstein. they all knew in 2009. they approved the deal, gregg. >> holder actually sat on the committee if you can believe that. >> sean: he was the one that signed off. one of the nine. >> hillary clinton presides over at. >> sean: guys, we will have you back tomorrow too. we will continue this investigation. we are not going to stop. part two of our exclusive interview with the first daughter, ivanka trump. she talks about how she responds to the vicious attacks from the left. .. .. >> sean: as we continue on this breaking news night tonight on "hannity," yesterday i sat down with one of the first daughters. advisor to the president, ivanka trump. for an exclusive interview. i asked ivanka how she felt about the mainstream media and their vicious, unprecedented attack on her, her father, and the entire trump family. take a look. it was interesting, jimmy carter even said he never witnessed any president take as much heat as your dad. but also the family. you've been attacked, melania, your little brother has been a

he asked that deputy rosenstein and i make our recommendations in writing. we prepared those recommendations and submitted it to the president. senator feinstein, i don't think it's been fully understood that the is thasignificance of the e that mr. comey made in the clinton matter. i don't think i've heard of a situation in which a major case in which the department of justice prosecutors were involved in an investigation, that the investigative agent announces the closure of the investigation. and then a few weeks before this happened, he was testifying on -- before the congress, will comey was, and he said he thought he did the right thing and would do it again. so the deputy attorney general rosenstein, who's got, what, 27 years in the department of justice, harvard graduate, served for eight years, as u.s. attorney on the under president obama and four years under president bush, he said that was a usurpation of the position of the department of justice that position. but particularly we confirmed that he reaffirmed he would do it again. i think that's

then rod rosenstein came on, and then dana boente got another role. acting director of national security. and yes, in addition to all of that he stayed on as the u.s. attorney in the eastern district of virginia. so the guy had five jobs. that is, you know, that's a lot. even just the eastern district of virginia is a big, important prosecutor's office even in normal times. at these times, though, in the addition to all of the other jobs he was dealing with at main justice, in the eastern district of virginia it was dana boente's office to see the subpoenas related to paul manafort and looking into criminal charges associated with wikileaks and dana boente's office, the eastern district of virginia, robert mueller started to use a grand jury. so this dude is like right in the middle of everything. and today he quit. now, i don't know what that's about. we're about to talk to somebody i hope who might know but here's one last really important point to what he's been involved in. right? he had the jobs and running this crucial eastern of virginia distri

rosenstein: the question is who is looking. the cause of death is determined by the local make it no -- local medical examiners, so we in the federal government are getting derivatives. i cannot vouch for those numbers we arehan telling you ar getting those numbers. we know there has been an increase in volume of fentanyl coming in through the mail, and we have the same response from colleagues in canada. it is a good indication that this reflects a reality that there has been an increase in fentanyl and that is driving the overdose death rates. diminish heroin. heroin has increased in use as welcome and oxycodone remains a priority for us as well. thank you. >> remarks from president trump on his tax reform policy. see those comments live at 7:30 p.m. eastern on c-span. tomorrow, testimony from jeff sessions on oversight at the justice department. he is in front of the judiciary committee of the senate, live was a at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. also watch online at www.c-span.org or listen on the free c-span radio app. >> c-

then rod rosenstein, and now fbi director, andrew mccabe. watch their names. they were the only ones who oversaw the fbi's investigation into the russian bribery. there's no way they weren't aware of what was happening. tonight, the burning question is why were they silent? why didn't they sound the alarm about russia while uranium was being approved as a give to putin? robert mueller back in 2009, the bribery probe. mueller should not be in charge of any investigation as it relates to russia or russian collusion or election interference because he has yet another massive conflict of interest. it appears that mueller will be sticking around. maybe he should focus on the actual evidence of real russian collusion. everything's here. all the evidence, all that mueller and his team needs to do is cooperate the facts. in an effort to be fair to getting the answers, we reached out to eric holder, robert mueller, andrew mccabe, rod rosenstein, hillary clinton, the clinton foundation, we asked all of them to comment about on these explosive reports. the department of

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sean: you think rosenstein and mueller has to go? >> i do. hiding this information, not disclosing to congress when they had a legal obligation to do so seems to be unconscionable and they have no more integrity associated now with trump collusion. >> sean: now we know there's kickbacks, bribery, extortion, money laundering, i want to know where the money really came from, to the clinton foundation. what is it funneled through latvia or any of these groups? who gave the money? $145 million is a lot of money. who benefited? it was put in and russia. that's the question. >> a wikileaks document shows she was peddling access and today we learned she was peddling influence. at the risk of american security. absolutely. >> sean: we will continue all week on this. huge developments today at the harvey weinstein scandal gets worse. you won't believe which hollywood executive is now being accused of harassment and which actors. straight ahead. .. .. >> sean: welcome back to "hannity." everyday we are learning more and more about how disturbi

the case itself handled by rod rosenstein. you know him. the same man who told jeff sessions to recuse himself, get out of the way of the russia investigation so that rosenstein could appoint bob mueller to try to connect trump to russia. and if that isn't the irony of all ironies. head of the fbi at the time, bob mueller, the man now appointed special counsel to connect donald trump to russia. the fbi agent handling the case? andrew mccabe. he's the man who was handling the seem investigation of hillary. and you may remember his wife got $675,000 from clinton pal terry mcauliffe, also connected to the clinton foundation because she ran with hillary in 2016. she lost, but under virginia law she can keep whatever cash was left from that oh so generous contribution. at the time of the approval of the transnever our uranium to -- the transfer of our uranium to russia. republicans worried that russia helped iran build its nuclear resack tore and that the takeover of united states nuclear resources by a russian government-owned agency would be a

rosenstein was in charge of this investigation. did they get -- how with that conflict, that they knew all this information, and eric holder was the head of the justice department at the time, and now, of course, we may have president obama himself knowing all of this. how could anybody have allowed this all to happen and allow moscow and putin to be successful? >> well, that's the $64,000 question, right? we need to know who knew what and when, right? and why did they make decisions if they had the knowledge and if they made decisions without the knowledge, how could it be that they didn't know these things going on in government. i think the committees are going to dig in as i talked to several of the lawmakers involved in this investigation, and they know exactly the questions they want to ask. they know the documents they want. i think today's break through moment, getting that informant, victoria's client to be able to testify is going to answer a lot of questions that we have been in the dark on for eight years. did you go ba

rosenstein to take a look at it. and my understanding was that the two letters were presented, the letter from you dated may 9th and the letter from rosenstein dated the same date, a response to that request to take a look at the department. >> that's what i can tell you. he did ask for my opinion and we submitted that to him, but it did not represent any change in any one of our opinions as deputy rosenstein indicated, i believe. and we were asked to provide it and we did. >> did the president ever mention to you his concern about lifting the cloud on the russia investigation? >> senator feinstein, that goes with the communication i've had with the president, and i believe it remains confidential. >> but you don't deny that there was a communication? >> no, i do not confirm or deny the existence of any communication between the president that i consider to be confidential. >> when did you first speak with the president about firing director comey? what date? >> senator feinstein, i think that is also covered by my o

in rosenstein was briefed on this, this could ratchet up the president's ire. once we know who and what, that will then give us a lot of information about how the white house is going to react to this and depending on how that comes down, it might not be well. i would advise them to keep cool, particularly if the indictments have nothing to do with anything going on in the trump campaign because it could mean that they've not found any evidence of collusion, which of course would be a great outcome for the president himself. >> is it possible that it has nothing to do with the trump campaign when all of these folks worked for the trump campaign, laura? >> no, it's want possible that it wouldn't derive from the initial directive and the charge that was laid out under the statute that actually allowed robert mueller to become special counsel. but remember, his goal was not unlike what has been said in social media, et cetera dove a witch-hunt and a fishing expedition. instead it was far more nuanced and spec. it was to investigate things that arise from this coll

rosenstein to take a look at it. my understanding was these letters were presented from you dated may 9 and from rosenstein dated the same date, a response to that request to take a look at the department. >> what i can tell you, he did andfor our written opinion we submitted that to him. it did not represent any change in either one of our opinions. asked to provide it, and we did. >> did the president mention his concern about lifting the cloud on the russia investigation? calls for as: that communication i've had with the president and i believe it remains confidential. >> but you don't deny there was a communication? confirmsions: i do not or deny the existence of any communication between the president that i considered to be confidential. >> when did you first big with the president about firing director call me? i think that is also covered by my opening statement. i believe the president had the right. i have a duty to meet with him on proper occasions and provide advice as i am called upon to do. i have done

and then rosenstein's subordinates, if rosenstein resigned would have to decide whether they wanted to follow him. all of this would raise certainly the specter of the saturday night massacre in 1973 where several justice department officials resigned rather than agree to fire arch bald cox, the watergate special prosecutor. so i think you are correct that the pardon power exists. you are correct that the possibility of firing mueller exists. but the political cost, both of those could be enormous for president trump if he tried either route. and i think at the moment at least both of those seem likely. >> and we don't know what the president is planning to do, we haven't heard from the president at all. he's he hasn't tweeted about it. isn't this a sign he's taking this seriously? >> well, he has been talking about mueller less in recent weeks, which seems to me he's taken the advice to lay low on the subject. however, i do think we are all covering this news intensely as we should, but we don't know the key facts. we don't know who was indicted. we don't know for what. so i think it

next we have rod rosenstein.

. >> what really stinks here is mueller, rosenstein, andrew wiesman and james comey appear to have covered it all up, the uranium one deal. >> we have to have mueller fired. >> yes, robert mueller, i hope you're watching. oh robert mueller, are you awake tonight? robert mueller is now investigating anything involved with russia, how is that possible? to be fair and impartial, it's impossible because of his past role in this. he should resign immediately tonight. >> fox news has been relentlessly hiping a claim that hillary clinton sold out our national security by supposedly personally approving a

general eric holder, the fbi director at the time robert mueller and then district attorney rod rosenstein they all knew that russia and vladimir putin were trying to corner the uranium market right here in america. there's also a strong belief that president barack obama knew all about putin and his crimes in this country as he probably saw it in his presidential daily briefing. this is news, information and truth. i promise you can't get anywhere else in the media. and that is tonight's ever important breaking news opening monologue. ♪ ♪ >> sean: let's start in the beginning, it was announced today that paul manafort, well, something that was

why did you talk to deputy attorney general rosenstein about the firing of mr.mey, and what did you discuss with him? when did you come to the conclusion that james comey needed to be terminated? a.g. sessions: in my view, after discussing with director comey, excuse me, my possible new deputy attorney general rosenstein, we discussed it. he was the united states attorney 12 years, i was the united states attorney 12 years. we love the department. we know about it. it was my best judgment, as i expressed it, that a fresh start at the fbi was appropriate. >> why did you think mr. comey needed to be removed? a.g. sessions: i don't think he was essential at that time, but that was my best judgment. and i think his. i believe a few weeks before he was actually terminated, he was testifying before congress, and that that time, asserted he believed he was correct to take over the clinton investigation and to announce its conclusion, that it was being closed, and testified he would do it again. that was a fairly stunning event for both of us. for both of us. it did hig

robert mueller was fbi director and rod rosenstein, then u.s. attorney.this investigation. >> sean: wait a minute, if they knew what real collusion is happening and they did nothing, how can they sit in judgment the way they are in this case? it seems to me they've all got to be cleared. >> they've all got to be fired or resigned. >> sean: immediately. >> it totally compromises their integrity. i don't see any other way out. >> sean: when you wrote about this, peter, i remember we did a lot of this, on "clinton cash," were you not able to put all the pieces together and does this make more sense to you based on your early reports? >> it does. in the book, we focused on hillary's role. we knew in 2009 -- they knew because there was wikileaks cables that proved she was told in those top-secret memos that the russians were trying toov corner the world's uranium market. she knew about that. and apparently didn't care. we also pointed out that a lot of these donations that came to the clinton foundation, their signed agreement with president obama was that the

rosenstein to take a look at it. my understanding was these two letters were presented, the letter from you dated may 9 and the letter from rosenstein, dated the same date, a response to that request to take a look at the department. a.g. sessions: that is what i can tell you. he did ask for our written opinion, and we submitted that to him. it did not represent any change in either one of our opinions, as deputy rosenstein has also indicated, i believe, and we were asked to provide it, and we did. sen. feinstein: did the president ever mentioned to you his concern about lifting the cloud on the russia investigation? a.g. sessions: that calls for a communication that i have had with the president, and i believe it remains confidential. sen. feinstein: but you don't deny there was a communication? a.g. sessions: i do not confirm or deny the existence of any communication between the president that i consider to be confidential. sen. feinstein: when did you first speak with the president about firing director comey? wh

rod rosenstein in particular. >> rod rosenstien. his name was revealed in the reporting on the deal itself. bribery and racketeering charges that the informant made possible. how is it that rosenstein and james comb ep and the list goes on are in a position and robert mueller as a special counsel, they are in conflict throughout? >> it appears muller, rosen stein and combem who were in the fbi probe and evidence that was gathered covered it up and hid it from congress. they had a legal duty to tell congress and if they told congress, they would have stopped the sale to the rub yaps. one name should be add to this, andrew wiseman signed off on it. guess where he is now? on robert mueller's special counsel town investigating trump/russia collusion when it appears that he and others were covering up hillary/russia collusion. >> and with all of this in front much congress now, there is 100 percent awareness with the congress and senate of what we are reporting and discussing now, how can there be hesitation and stop the nonsense and hav

rosenstein to take a look at it.letters were presented, the letter from you dated may 9th and the letter from rosenstein dated the same date, a response to that request to take a look at the department. >> that's what i can tell you. he did ask for our written opinion and we submitted that to him. it did not represent any change in either one of our opinion as deputy rosenstein has also indicated, i believe. and we were asked to provide it and we did. >> did the president ever mention to you his concern about lifting the cloud on the russia investigation? >> senator feinstein, that calls for a communication that i have had with the president and i believe it remains confidential. >> but you don't deny there was a communication. >> i do not confirm or deny the existence of any communication between the president that i consider to be confidential. >> when did you first speak with the president about firing director comey? what date? >> senator feinstein, i think that's also covered by my opening statement. i believe t

wouldn't have been nice if that came from robert mueller or rosenstein before rosenstein appointed mueller because those two people wouldn't have been involved at all had we known the extent of their involvement in the investigation into russia before when they were with the obama administration. but they didn't disclose that. and i think it's a little insidious myself, on the very day that james comey testified on commol hill there were no known ties between president trump and the russian, the clution that was talked about, no evidence of that. it was the same day it was leaked apparently by mueller or his staff that now they were investigating obstruction by the trump administration. now why would that get leaked the very night that james comey testified. there were no known ties or any evidence of collusion between president trump and the rush answer? well, because if there was no evidence to support what mueller had been appointed to investigate, then president trump would have had every right and would have made sense to would mr. mueller, it have been nice if you disclosed the reaso

the real concern that's people have raised about rosenstein's independence. i think mueller might be careful of how much detail he does share. >> matt, on the issue of the political opposition that the mueller investigation, that the congressional russia investigations have run into. one of the things that has been discussed is whether the mueller budget request, the actual funding that needs to in some ways go through congress, to keep it going. whether that might be a point of leverage that republicans in the white house could use against the mueller investigation. and given the timing of when that started. when he was put in charge of this probe about, six months ago, maybe that question was starting to come due. i want to know what your reaction is to that recent reporting of the concerns by people in the investigation. >> i think it's clear that everyone from the president to his allies in congress to the conservative media have been orchestrating a special drum beat. i think it is always showing a bit of nervousness about where it might go, what he migh