>> let me go back to 2017 when i told wray and rosenstein that look, your departments -- rosenstein was the acting head of the department of justice dealing with the russia hoax. i was clear to them saying we think there's wrong doing here. you guys will be under investigation us until you can prove you didn't do anything wrong. with us at that point, trace, and this is lost on the american people, even some people still in congress there, they put my lawyers, the republican staff on the hill under grand jury subpoena. went through their bank records, their communications. they put them under investigation and we still don't know what for. so we tell them, you're under investigation. they don't provide documents. they put the republican staff under investigation. this was 2017 and since then, it's only gotten worse. i mean what do we need to go into? how they targeted general flynn, an innocent man? how they raided mar-a-largo? you have the overwhelming evidence that the hunter biden laptop from hill and all the people involved in that mess and nobody has paid a price. chuck grassley kn

director rosenstein. >> good evening, vice president carter-oberstone, commissioners, members of the public. i'm director and i'm here on behalf of the director paul henderson. in terms of what dp a has been up to this week and in the last year, up to now, i can report that virtually all of our numbers are up in 2023 is compared to this time in 2022 except one number that is important and should be down and that's the number of cases past the 270 date. as you may recall, our chief of staff was here last week and reported on that number. we have 26 cases past the 270 days, that is usually the marker we use in order to provide our recommend ations to the chief if we find improper conduct. of the 26 cases 21 are told. i know commissioner benedicto you had questions last week. i had some answers, at this point last year, we had 32 cases past to 70 and at the time only 22 were told. it's a modest reduction and i think it's something that is worth loting. in terms of this week, we have 7 cases pending with the commission and 84 cases pending with the chief. the trends for the type of case

i didn't hire rod rosenstein. jeff sessions, bill barr. he didn't say any of that last night. indirect might even be charitable. no direct affront. at some point i suspect ron will say if he is criticized, you hired all those people, i didn't. >> bill: i don't know how much thought you gave to this. probably a lot. hypothetically if it is a two-man race how do his policies differ from donald trump's policies? >> i tried to start last night with that. are there policy differences or is it just a difference in the manner you communicate or how you would implement your policies? i think at some point ron probably is going to say we have similar policy positions but president trump did not get over the finish line with some of his policies and i will. i'm not aware of any sharp differences. maybe -- maybe on deficit. president trump has said he can balance the budget without taking on entitlements. many people would not give that answer. it is hard to do it without tackling mandatory spending. i gave him two chances last night to say he would take on entitlements. he wisely didn't

. >> what's so interesting and i would like you to contrast this for me with rod rosenstein and bill barr's hijacking and conclusions? >> i think i've said this before, which is, i've never had more oversight than when i was working for special counsel mueller. when i was in the field that was sort of like you never want to hear from justice and you -- there's certain things you had to report and you got oversight but it was minimal. here there were weekly meetings, constant communication about what we were doing, how we were doing it. the thing i don't know, the communications between rod rosenstein and his staff and the white house. i'm confident there were some. and some might be an understatement. so there was sort of an enormous amount of oversight, weighing in. we had a situation we were operating with this sort of white house that was against our very existence, a leadership at the department that was sort of i would say bipolar in the sense that they appointed us, as rod did, and that was almost the last good thing he did, and then was sort of regretting it and then, obviousl

books have been written by bill barr and sort of the sessions, rosenstein's tenure. the truth is the only variable is who trump is steam rolling over. and at some point it looks like this story is shaping up to be jack smith and donald trump. >> yeah, i think there is no question that ultimately that is going to be the constant once we get to the point where this investigation is resolved. something that has to be noted is the extent to which jack smith has questioned almost if not every person around trump. and he basically turned mar-a-lago upside down, shook it really hard and interviewed every single person who rolled out the number of staff throughout that company who he's talked to, the incredible breadth of witnesses that have been brought in to the grand jury is quite extraordinary. and, of course, the fact that multiple trump lawyers working on this particular matter have spoken to jack smith's grand jury is itself the type of dynamic that really can't be overemphasized just how extraordinary of a departure this is from the way criminal defense -- criminal d

[major] mueller left it to barr and deputy attorney general rod rosenstein to decide the obstructionient to establish that the president obstructed justice. [maggie] mueller laid out these cases as possible obstruction, and he had made clear that he was going to abide by a justice department legal understanding that a sitting president can't be quiet. this, i imagine, is a good day for the resident. he must be feeling relatively good right now. he is, and he's probably feeling relatively good about his selection of bill barr as his attorney general. [chris] to say that bill barr put the best face on what robert mueller had found would be an understatement. after three years of lies, and smears, and slander, the russia hoax is finally dead. oh booking.com, ♪ i'm going to somewhere, anywhere. ♪ ♪ a beach house, a treehouse, ♪ ♪ honestly i don't care ♪ find the perfect vacation rental for you booking.com, booking. yeah. starting a new chapter can be the most thrilling thing in the world. there's an abundance of reasons to get started. how far we take an idea is a question of willpower.

see in nature, the best part is if you want chickens you can get something like this delivered rosensteinround the world. >> for a family of four six chickens to start off and they lay an egg everyday. >> yes, six chickens is a great place to start but watch out for chicken math because once you get to six, you have eight, 10, like we have 30 now. >> feed the whole neighborhood. >> remember you're getting an egg a day. getting a lot of eggs so by the end of the week you're looking at a bowl full of maybe 15-20 eggs and next week you have more so this is a great place to start. the american coup is like my favorite. so come back outside i'll show you some other interesting things about this. one of the things i love also, carolina coup make a dutch door. this is great for the tids when they come out after dinner scrap s you want to throw them into the chickens it makes it fun for the kids to experience and that's another thing now that you get like natural daylight, sunlight for the chickens. kids are having family fun. >> i bet, i can see my daughter spending time out here. stuart, i thin

hand that's not enough to cover a weekend bank run like the one we saw at silicon valley bank, rosensteinyesterday, he's blaming the short sellers as regulators need to step in and others say the fdic needs to officially raise that deposit insurance limit to $250,000. make it official. even though it's implicit given the rescue, right? stuart: i've got to get back to ai and i want to know about meta 's new ai feature. >> right, so we had a meta event here in new york city, and it's an ai testing playground and this is to help advertisers build campaigns, really an update to their meta advantage, which is a portfolio of automated tools and products that advertisers can use to enhance their campaigns. now this week, i think google is probably the ai trade of the week, right? so you're backup to the highest levels for google and alphabet since august last year. i think you've added at least 10 % on that developers conference alone with new ai roll-outs, generative search, et cetera. stuart: you probably didn't hear me tell lou basenese a few minutes ago i bought google yesterday. >> you did?

and he owes bill barr and jeff rosenstein, but what you see is a very normal process.actor is trump who acts outside the norms. and i guess the parallel for alvin bragg is to spend as much time as alvin bragg did and taking on the water from not bringing the case that others thought was ready, he crossed his ts. and these are not republicans in the trial area that will say never mind. is he in a process that he has never been in before. >> you're start to being see donald trump just like an ordinary man. the necessary difference ity of shielding position with the flag. and the judge felt it necessary to go throughout litany of questions pnd and knowing that this is a person problemable probable cape of complying with the order. he wants to make sure he understands the order fully,it,o outstanding questions and that he understands what faces him on the other side if he indeed violates it. and todd blanch was careful to say my client believes this is an infringement of his first amendment rights and i have assured him your honor that was not your intent. and the judge re

jared takes it over, and i always think when i hear that don mcgahn or general kelly or rod rosensteind was it. the people who sat through people on both sides, grab them in the bleep, it's so bad even those people are distraught. how do we know jared didn't run afoul of any laws. money was being peddled by rudy, jared was in charge of it, and it was a process everybody even by trump's standards offended the chief of staff, the white house counsel, and the deputy attorney general. >> it goes exactly to claire's point. this is not difficult to investigate. there is a finite universe of people that the fbi would need to talk to. and my calculation, if there's a five-year statute of limitations for potential criminal charges, then we're not yet past that deadline, and certainly it would be worth the undertaking. one of the things that strikes me as interesting about this complaint here, andrew is right when he says it's a civil complaint. we don't know much about the allegations, one thing we know is this is a verified complaint. when the plaintiff signs it, she verifies it, notarizes it,