i think this brings credibility to rosenstein. because rosenstein had towed the line on both sides.started by writing a memo recommending firing comey, then appointed mueller, oversaw the mueller investigation and i think the last and final part which is most important to this conversation is he and ag bar shut the door and obstruction of justice. the mueller report closed down conspiracy but left open obstruction of justice and that the time we didn't know why but now we know it is because the memorandum in the department of justice said no sitting president can be indicted but when ag bar got the memo he was with rosenstein and he and rosenstein came to the conclusion the evidence was insufficient to charge donald trump change what about looking back at this quote from mccabe on the rosenstein wire, the deputy attorney general propose he could wear a device to collect additional evidence on the president's true intentions. he thought it might be possible because he was not searched in the white house and ron rosenstein denying it saying i never approved this and any suggestion i a

he reveals rosenstein's lie. as for catherine herridge's report, this is more evidence that james comey and mccabe knew and were warned that bruce ohr and christopher steele had been pedalling a phoney dossier. they should have run immediately to the fisa court and notified them. they didn't do it. they broke the law and need to be held accountable. >> sean: i agree. what was your reaction? what do you see coming next? you know this as well as everybody else in the country. >> i want to go back to catherine herridge's report. we have been looking for that same document. we know that document exists. the document that came from the british government. nobody can seem to find it. i know there are witnesses out there that know this. i hope that the judge in this case will get those witnesses that know this document exist and let them come in and talk to the court. >> sean: congress, anything on this question. do you have any doubt he will conclude based on what we already know, warned ahead of time, premeditated? th

in which mccabe records rosenstein making that offer.according to the memo, rosenstein thought he could sneak a y or n because he was not searched when visiting the white house. what do you make this report? >> law, the memo and in and of itself is extraordinary because it captures a moment in time between the firing of jim comey and the appointment of the special counsel and it really to some extent lays out the entire conversation that andy mccabe as acting deputy fbi director had with deputy attorney general rosenstein and others and i just think it's extraordinary that they were having a discussion, whether or not it was a joke, as i've heard rosenstein allege, of wearing a wire into the white house in the oval office and recording the president. it i can imagine under what circumstance does conversation would've come out and would have been have between those two people. >> tucker: so i mean you were to at this level of government for a long time. assess the likelihood that it was a joke. >> at the time, i was the chief of staff whe

the memorialized may 2017 conversation with then deputy attorney general rod rosenstein.ur matters because special counsel robert mueller was appointed the following day. written on may 16, 2017, mccabe describes his decision to open an obstruction of justice and conspiracy investigation to president trump for firing fbi director james comey and related matters. according to the memo, mccabe took rosenstein's offer that he ran the idea by his fbi investigative check team. the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein proposed he could potentially wear a recording device into the oval office to collect additional evidence. he said he thought this might be possible because he was not searched when he entered the white house. i told him i would discuss the opportunity with my investigative team and get back to him. earlier this year after the special counsel report was released, fox news asked president trump how rosenstein explained these allegations against him. >> i obviously would much rather have you asking that question. it sounds a little bit far-fetched frankly, but i g

i interviewed the president about that, and he reveals rod rosenstein's life. as for catherine herridge's report, this is more evidence that james comey and andrew mccabe knew and were warned that bruce or, and especially christopher steele, had been pedaling a phony dossier. they should have run immediately to the fisa court and notified them, that's the law. if they didn't do it. they broke the law. if they need to be held accountable. >> sean: i agree. and what was your reaction, devin nunes? what you see coming next? you know this as well as anybody else in the country. >> well, i want to go back to catherine herridge's report. what general fins lawyers are saying come i want the american people to know, and your audience, we have been looking for that same document. we know that document exists, this document that came from the british government. but yet, nobody can seem to find it. i know there are witnesses out there that know this, and i hope the judge in this case will actually get those witnesses that know this document exists, and let them come in a

rod rosenstein confesses. and said i'll wear a we're on the president, then mccabe said, we'll get back to you. we'll ask our team. now why would he pursue that if it was a sarcastic remark? here you have mccabe and rod rosenstein abusing their powers to target president trump. and seriously discussing it looks like wearing a we're on the president, you have -- wire, on the president, you have mccake initiating a stay operation on mant president, ons own, this is documented in two pages. we had to wait over a year for the fbi to finally cough it up. this is the sort of thing that the media does not want you looking at, as it plays its ukraine gambit in latest of coop argument against president trump, this is the coop. the heart is here in this document. and now we're talking about phone calls over ukraine, unbelievable. lou: it is unbelievable. particularly when you consider that now in a phased revelation if you will, following the on set of this manufactured nonsense, but again directed at president of unite

rosenstein at times. we got to learn the full rest of the story. >> i have a few seconds, if they invite the inspector general to arrange to have the source come talk to them, it would seem to me it would be a remedy for violating the statute. it says for if any reason the complaint does not go to the committee then the complaintant may arrange through the inspector general an appearance. that might be most efficient legal way to navigate this buried in 50 usc down in the guts. >> that's great point about the details that could remedy a trumpian attack on its clear requirements. i love learning from you. thanks for being here. >> thank you. >>> up ahead, rudy giuliani lets the cat out of the bag again. >> did you ask the ukraine to investigate joe biden? >> no. actually, i didn't. >> you did ask ukraine to look into joe biden? >> of course i did. >> no, of course. it's rudy time. we're going into a strategy or scandal. >>> these pictures are stunning. this is what it looks like when the whole world protes

we have always been sceptical of rod rosenstein. judicial watch filing a freedom of information request for doj information on how the witch hunt against president trump began. claiming the original document behind the russia hoax is the key to ex pleasing how deep the trucks goes. joining me is tom fi tom fitton. >> it's being called the electronic investigation targeting then candidate trump. devin nunes as gotten a look at a redacted version of the document and he concluded there was no intelligence. was this another fraudulent document being raised up there to distract from the fact there was no basis to investigate trump? we want the information. we had to sue the justice department and the fbi to get it. >> they want to cover up and obstruct. now, judicial watch has also been involved in trying to obtain emails and other communications between the ex-british spy christopher steele who was peddling his phoney dossier to substantiate the warrant for lying and spying. >> we have gotten new documents from the state department prev

seriously when rosenstein offered to wear a wire to record donald trump in the white house. according to the memo obtained by conservative watchdog group judicial watch rosenstein told mccabe he wasn't searched when he entered the oval office so he could wear a wire. mccabe told him he would check with his investigative team and get back to him, rosenstein has maintained he was being sarcastic. also new tonight democratic officials are shocked a rising star within their own party facing six felony charges related to alleged voter fraud in connection with the november 2018 midterm elections, state police investigated the alterations of records of absentee ballots leading to the arrest of southfield city clerk hawkins. the center of state pointing out elections are the foundation of our democracy. >> oliver stand before you today to indicate that there will be no tolerance for any action that undermines that foundation anywhere, anytime by any person or official. >> prosecutors say the alleged fraud did not affect the outcome of the vote. hawkins was given a prestigious award

rosenstein has maintained he was being sarcastic. also new tonight, democratic officials are shocked a rising star within their party is facing six felony charges related to alleged voter fraud in connection with the november 2018 midterm elections. michigan state police investigated the alterations of records of absentee ballots leading to the arrest of southfield city clerk hawkins. the secretary of state pointing out elections by the foundation of our democracy. >> all of us stand here before you today to indicate that there will be no tolerance for any actions that undermine that foundation. anywhere, anytime, by any person or official. >> mike: prosecutors say the alleged fraud did not affect the outcome of the vote. hawkins was given a prestigious award four months ago by the michigan democratic party. new tonight, prosecutors a u.s. army soldier specialist gerrit william smith shared bomb making instructions online and discuss killing antifa activists targeting democratic presidential hopeful beto o'rourke and bombing a major

rob: rosenstein has said he was joking when making that suggestion.oday house lawmakers holding a hearing on e-cigarettes as a night person dies from a mysterious vapeing related illness. they plan on subpoenaing juul if it does not turnover document on marketing. they are opening a criminal probe into juul. 135 people have gotten sick with this vapeing related illness and the president is working on banning flavored e-cigarette to curb teen vapeing. jillian: the requirement for the november debate, presidential candidates must reach 3% support in four proved polls but candidates can qualify if they receive 5% in iowa, new hampshire and south carolina and received donations from 165,000 individual donors up from 130,000 in september and october. former white house press secretary sean spicer tangos is way to dancing with the stars. surviving illumination getting 16 of 30 points, the second into the competition and spicer's birthday, happy belated. mary wilson is the first celebrity to be eliminated from season 28. would you do that? rob: do you watch

spicer told reporters it was all rosenstein. no one from the white house. it was a doj decision. >> that evening and the next morning, white house officials and spokes people continue to maintain that the president's decision to terminate comey was driven by the recommendations the president received from rosenstein and sessions. that decision we know now to have come directly from the president, himself. here with me now is cnn's chief political correspondent dana bash. dana, from the beginning this administration has acknowledged that they are trying to work with what they call alternative facts. but now, with lewandowski sitting before congress and the way he very candidly said he doesn't feel -- that he lied to the media and that was okay because he wasn't under oath. but it kind of crystallizes this whole thing have you three close advisers to the president forced to acknowledge they don't feel an obligation to tell the truth unless they are under oath. i know they will say, high horse here, the president lies all the time. this really shouldn't be ove

somehow comey, mccabe, bob rosenstein, sally yates and others signed off on using the garbage to obtain a warrant to spy on carter page. this is at the height of the presidential election. that back doored them to everything trump world. they told the judge that the so-called evidence in the warrant were verified. they said it was verified. it was true, it was accurate. even though they knew the exact opposite was true, warrant done multiple times. they did it not once, not twice, but four separate occasions. that is why it would be premeditated fraud committed on the fisa court. tonight we look forward to inspector general's findings. every american, we must demand accountability here. we think it's pretty difficult. are they going to hold their own accountable in these thing, in other words, or is there some reticence, some difficulty applying the laws equally. if we don't do that, well, shred the constitution, we don't -- we have a dual justice system, we don't have equal justice or equal application of our laws. by the way, now one bad actor, andrew mccabe, he's already in hot water

spreadsheet eventually after the fact detailing, yeah, it's all false yet somehow comey, mccabe, rosenstein, sally yates and others used this to get a warrant to spy on carter page at the height of the presidential election that backdoored them into everything trump world. they told the judge in the fisa warrant at the top it said verified, that it was true. it was accurate. even though they knew the exact opposite was true. warn again multiple times. they did this not once, not twice. on four separate occasions. that's why this would be pre-meditated fraud committed on the fisa court. tonight we look forward to the inspector general's findings. every american. we must demand accountability. we think it's pretty difficult. are they going to hold their own accountable in these things? or is there some reticence, is there difficulty applying our laws equally? if we don't do that, shred the constitution. we have a dual justice system. we don't have equal justice or equal application of our laws. one bad actor, andrew mccabe is already in hot water as we discussed last night facing a potential

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what to make of the president's explanation there besides the fact that it does resonate with what rosenstein had said. but we know from the mueller report and from our own reporting that pardons are something that the president's folks and, you know, himself had discussed and pushed as the session got closer and closer to the white house. and there's nothing really new here to it. it's hard to see and hard to parse out, what is congress trying to do here. they have the mueller report. in that document they have even more stark examples of what happened with the acting department of homeland security secretary. and what are they moving in? what direction are they moving? what are they trying to get? they still have not been able to get many witnesses up there to testify. and as chuck was pointing out, are they running out of time here as we get closer to the election? >> we're in your debt, gentlemen, to have you both on the broadcast and be able to ask you about these topics tonight. to chuck rosenberg, to michael schmidt, our thanks. we're back with more right after this. >>> our next segme

there's some principle still involved in all this, meaning robert mueller, rosenstein, shawn henry, the legal groups perkins court. this is all heading back to here name one. all heading back that way. you cannot sell enriched uranium, and it really don't to about the board or timothy geithner and any of that garbage. you cannot sell enriched uranium can turn around a few years later and act like rush is the worst people in the world. you can'tac do it. >> host: you want to talk about uranium one? >> guest: so your pennies, , no idea what you'ree talking about. >> host: came in for his republican. good morning. >> caller: well, i have a couple of questions. i'm going to try to stay on topic. you claim your are prosecutor, okay? as a a prosecutor you should knw that information that the whistleblower put in his complaint is all hearsay which is inadmissible. so how can you base that trump did something wrong in the conversation when you got somebody that's making a claim that he neverth even heard the conversation? >> host: thank you for yourho question. again you are entitled to an opin

rod rosenstein had a sharply omitted's go up -- limited scope. the president said he would blow the investigation up if he looked at the finances. that shows us where the trail of corruption is, that is with the president's finances. the president got wrapped up with the russians because he had gone bankrupt six different times and turned to oligarchs for money. they conducted a money laundering scheme through the trump office tower and the hotels. that is how the russians got their claws into donald trump. it was their scheme to interfere in our election, and they considered donald trump a useful immediate, -- a useful idiot and stooge. they have been laughing all the way to the bank. onneed to focus attention finances, because that is where the heart of criminality is. that is a legislative investigation. you are talking about the executive branch. if you do not like that you have to complain to the republicans who created that investigation. host: you are going to participate in a spelling bee contest. guest: so i understand. i think i am a si

our former deputy attorney general rob rosenstein was holding a position in the doj for 8 years under obama. you see there is a culture of resistance to change. president trump is an outlier. lou: do you think he's still the disrupter and engaged? >> he is. lou: what i can't figure out for the life of me. bill barr who seems to be everything we hope for and came to expect, has taken so long to bring this matter to a head. that is comey, basically given a pass. mccabe talking boldly of not making deals. jim comey, the dirty cop talking about he's very confident he won't be charged and indicted. this is by the way we have no reasonable expectation that good sense, logic, reasonable expectation, facts and clear culpability will matter one whit in whether there is consequence. >> i think you are right in the sense that comey is likely to never be indicted. in terms of mccabe, with any person in the dock will say he's not guilty and he intend to fight it. i think his situation is a little bit different. but the rule of law requires that all citizens think it's going to be applied equally.

grieves me the most about is that we have fisa judge that had sufficient righteous indignation rosenstein, , mccabe, to come and show cause should not go to jail if they committed fraud, did. they e russia hoax, the so-called dossier, that a former mi-6 agent in england put together based on representations by russian admits they e now could have worked for puttin, i don't know -- could have worked putin, i don't know, and that being purchased, paid for the clinton and g.p.s., through fusion orr who wased nelly married to bruce orr who kept getting material from them that had been purchased to orr who w f.b.i., to the d.o.j. fisa court -- i mean, this more than anything else causes we need to doaybe away with the fisa court, go back to the way things were, we didn't have a fisa udge involved in this with enough morality, enough honesty toss, enough a fraud against toir court was committed and be offended by it. if somebody came in and got a not nt from me, they did provide me the true facts and not knew their source could be verified and they swore that verified, somebody would be going t

the entire front half of the -- now he knew how to go to rosenstein to get his mandate expanded intotaxes or whatever it was. but in this case they didn't. when we come back i want to ask you why. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ >>> live from america's news headquarters. a massive relief effort under way in the bahamas after a week after the island was devastated by hurricane dorian. the number of dead has risen to 43. the government says thousands are still missing and that 76,000 people are believed to be homes and in need of assistance. that's about 20% of the island nation's entire population. >>> prodemocracy demonstrations in hong kong continue for a 14th straight weekend. clashes breaking out between protesters and security forces earlier today. even after hong kong's government pulled the controversial extradition bill that sparked the initial demonstration. protesters are calling for fundamental political reforms. >>> i'm jon scott. now back to "life, liberty & levin." mark: welcome back, america. this is just a reminder. this program originally aired on july 28th but was preempted

is when you start as poorly as the president was forced to start, with a jeff sessions and rod rosensteinnd don't get your bill barr until two and a half years into your presidency, it makes life pretty rough. but i'm hoping that horowitz and durr what republican going to fix that for the president. >> this president wants transparency he's declared that. does he not have an auction just to say -- lets every damn document out i don't to see anymore of this nonsense and let it rip. >> he does have that option but he gave it to bill barr that's up to bill barr to do any declassification and probably waiting -- until durham has proved -- >> yeah. [laughter] but you know he gave it, he gave it to bill barr, and he's probably bill barr is probably wait for durham to finish whatever he's doing i know it is see this should have all happen whatted this never should have happened in the first place. the only people who have been of all of this and not impugn but unethical dirty, and lacking utterly in principle are the investigators and the want of justice. >> so let me tell you one of the documen

our former deputy attorney general rod rosenstein actually was holding a position in the doj for eight years under obama. so you see there's a culture of resistance to any type of change. president trump is an outsider. he's threatened to come and blow up the system and people in both parties -- lou: do you think he's doing that right now? >> he is. he absolutely is. lou: he's still a disruptor? >> he is. lou: i think he is as well. >> he is. lou: what i can't figure out and for the life of me is why bill barr who seems to be everything that we hoped for and indeed came to expect has taken so long to bring this matter to a head. that is comey, basically given a pass. mccabe talking boldly of not making deals. jim comey, the dirty cop, talking about he's very confident he won't be charged and indicted. this is, by the way, we have no reasonable expectation that good sense, logic, reasonable expectation, facts, and clear culpability will matter at all in whether there is consequence. >> well, i think you are right, lou, in the sense that comey is likely to never be indicted. in terms of

the obama appointees.it helps e, after he was fired, why rosenstein and mccain were talking about going after the president.about wearing a wire. he was no longer there to gather intel on the president. as jason pointed out, there's plenty of information now toalrn prosecutions. we don't need an ig report. we already have the outlines of the crimeout there. >> jason: really quick, they already engaged in a systemic effort to oppose the president, they use the media for their own personal political views and beliefs and they put that out there to justify what they did. that is so fundamentally wrong. >> sean: there is no counterintelligence without the president knowing. what did rice know? what did brenda know? what did rice, james comey know? >> jason: of course obama knew. >> sean: we have to get to the bottom of it otherwise you might as well take the constitution the of this country and shred it because it will be meaningless. up next, she took her hate trump so far, whoopi goldberg is calling her out. wait till you hear what a producer had to say about mar-a-lago and the hurricane.

and that's the kind of context where rosenstein says, look, i'll wear a wire if you want. he wanted to show that he was an obama team player. a sali yates -- sally yates team player. a loretta lynch team player. he was not a trump team player. i'll even wear a wire, go in. that wasn't the only place he brought it up. he brought it up at another meeting such that mccabe went back and told people, you know, rosenstein brought it up again. he still said he's willing to wear a wire. that's because rosenstein was trying to convince him he was a gd team player. -- he was a good team player. and he would go set up and try to frame the president. to help remove him from office. but that's not all that's gone on this week. we had the vote today. the house has moved to or voted to eliminate the tiny, tiny little part of anwr where jimmy carter said that drilling would be allowed. this is jimmy carter that says everybody's supposed to wear a cardigan and turn your temperature in winter way down, wear a sweater. you know, shiver a little bit, it's ok. we're going to save energy. but e

distasteful tweets and erratic nature and attacks on perceived enemies like comey and mueller and rosenstein and figures like that, that does not take away from his political standing, doesn't hurt him with his base. then, i'm told to look out for this conduct phil reported, erratic conduct that seems to destabilize the academy, that that's the flashing light for this president. >> yes, it is. first of all, it's terrific story i'm jealous of. they hit the nail on the head. this is a waste opportunity. summers before election campaign, you set the narrative and say, hey, i deserve four more years because of these arguments and start laying it out, while the other side is in the middle of their primary battles, and you have the stage to yourself. >> there are some around that think the attack on the four congresswoman of color were effective. he met king jung up at the dm kim jong-un at the dmz, something i was part of. it's the economy, you're right. that's the biggest thing here. that is the number one reason for the election, handling a strong economy one he inherited from president obama,

i want you guys to not forget he was in the room when it happened when rosenstein supposedly talked about wiretapping a sitting president of the united states. he didn't seem all that shocked. watch. >> we talked about why the president had insisted on firing the director and whether or not he was thinking about the russian investigation. the deputy attorney general offered to wear a wire into the white house. he said, i never get searched when i go into the whitete hous. i can easily wear a recording device, and they wouldn't know it was there. wanow, he was not joking. >> laura: all right, jason, he was not at all in a state of shock when he was revealing this. he was like, oh, yes. he was basically saying it was justified although the career the counsel, the general counsel at the fbi,ie bridge too far. he sounds like he would have been fine with it. >> the scariest thing to me, laura, if hillary clinton had won this election, that guy, he was the acting director of the fbi. he was going to be the senior leadership and between comey strzok, page, mccabe, thesee are the people who are g

remember the fourth fisa application renewal was signed by rod rosenstein.hat will be interesting. what was in the renewal applications. i stilly believe that horowitz is going to find a mountain of evidence in that. it's going to be a scathing report. it will point directly at all of the malfeasance. the only reason why they ignore that evidence is because -- >> sean: last question, andy, in the great new book you talk about, there is no counter intelligence investigation for the president. do you believe that barack obama has the important questions to ask, what did you know, when did you know it, do you believe that he knew all of this? >> i don't know that he knew all of it, i think he knew enough about'tnell it to be considered complicit. we know that the day before president-elect trump was briefed there was a meeting in the oval office with obama where they talked about what information not to share with the incoming team. that's a pretty significant pact. >> sean: thank you all. when we come back another day another massive joe biden blunder. he can'

even set on "60 minutes" that rod rosenstein was serious about the lawyer and about invoking the 25thmendment. my sources telling me mccabe could face criminal charges but i assume this means a grand jury will be convened, 10 days, 7, 10, 14 days. we will wait and see. but i want to be very clear. i want andrew mccabe to know this. oh, yeah, the lawyer for stormy daniels, i gave him the benefit of the doubt. we live in a country where accusations against anybody, even from the doj inspector general and former colleagues of the fbi, yeah, they are incredibly damning, aren't they? but everybody deserves the presumption of innocence. innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, and by the way, i will not deviate from that. it looks bad. it looks like mccabe will face just as very soon. no one has to wonder if he's feeling differently tonight about his treatment and jim comey's treatment of a 33-year veteran. here with me tonight, fox news contributor sara carter. you know, i look at this, i read the original report, and i thought, why did it take this long? if you don't tell the truth

because of that, we've asked chuck rosenstein, former district attorney from virginia to be here tonightrful to see you. >> first of all, tell me if i got any of that wrong. >> no, you're right. you got it right. >> zacarias moussaoui was picked up before 9/11. 9/11 happened while he was in custody. he was charged in part for his connection to those attacks. >> that's right. >> and it took years to convict him? >> it did. the eastern district of virginia, known as the rocket docket, things tend to move quickly. his moved relatively slowly. he was indicted in december of 2001 and ultimately sentenced to life in prison in may of 2006. still 13 years ago. >> yes. and that's the thing. that's described for the eastern district of virginia as an incredibly slow, complex trial. boy, did that take a long time to wind through. i mean, you compare that to what happened to the other 9/11 defendants and he is the only -- i mean, if you consider that to be a success, he is the only person whose case came to any sort of completion. >> it was a success. we proved a couple of things. not just his guilt