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waiting for two and half weeks when then deputy attorney general sally gates warned that michael flynn was a vulnerable as national security advisor. blackmail from the russian. he was fired days later. then when the investigation into that russians meddling and trumps ties to it continued director comey was summoned to be told that the investigation should be shut down and fired when he refused to do so.n relat very likely, part of that decision related to the request for additional resources that director comey made to rosenstein shortly before he was fired and his refusal to rule out the president as a target of that investigation when he came before the judiciary committee. the facts will eventuall perform a mosaic and that mosaic may show dramatically a picture of criminal conduct. that is the process of investigating and prosecuting from wrongdoing. right now, that activity requires a fidelity to the rule of law and getting all of the evidence including transcripts, tapes, memos and other documents they must cease immediately. they should not be destroyed or concealed. so they ar

former acting attorney general sally gates came to capitol hill today to testify before senate subcommittee on alleged russian interference in last fall's election. remember when cutin showed up and cast a ballot for you. for more what happened, we go back to trace gallagher her. >> when u.s. intelligence ages fire on foreigners who happen to be talking to american citizens, the names of the u.s. citizens are supposed to be hidden or minimized and should not be viewed unless they are specific to national security reasons to do so. uncovering the names is called unmasking, so now was into the back and forth between republican senator chuck grassley, former acting attorney general sally gates and former director of national intelligence james clapper. watch. >> did every review ever review classified documents about his members of congress had been unmasked? >> yes. >> you have. can you give us details here? >> no, i can't. >> ms. yates, have you? 's to go yes, i have a know it can't give you details. stick another could get the details. later in the hearing, he said later she alerted the whi

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when you had james clapper and sally gates and comments from my same waters, those are more political hacks that destroy other areas of this country. we need to start straightening it out. straightening out your industry and telling amazing people the truth is where we have got to start. host: let's go to joanna. good morning. caller: good morning coul i hav. i have a question for you, sir. it seems awful odd to me that you take your power plant upgrading and throw it back into sur pockets, the one that pay for electricity. during the middle of the worst winters we had, 16% is an awful lot to raise a person's electricity in the middle of the winter. up aboutay you are so the coal industry being so bad for you, how come the epa had to get on to you after you have known since the 1930's that this has been a bad business, a dirty business? why did it take them getting onto you to do something? host: your response? guest: i think her comments are so misguided and so wrong. i don't know how to respond to it. is veryl industry environmentally conscious. i have children and grandchildren jus

we heard sally gates and james clapper, said they can't talk about it it's an ongoing investigation. jim calmly over the course of the campaign would not speak specifically about the investigation and to all of tha that. so you can certainly see why this is going to give democrats plenty of fodder. my desk is littered with every single statement that we've got stacked up from democrats talking about how this is the sunday massacre and you heard chuck schumer go through sally gates, read ferrara. >> again, as it is a lot of baloney. he tries to make it as bad. president obama fired over 90 u.s. attorneys that were put in office by george w. bush. was that a crime against humanity? no, this is politics but i agree with you. they're going to make the most out of it. >> martha: are going to say he was in and under any sort of investigation at that time. >> isn't it ironic that the man that democrats despised last year particularly in october, the man they hated is now the man that they're using as an excuse to say we need to have a special prosecutor? i think the fbi is fully capable of

and regarding sally gates. if she knows classified information got into the newspapers. we will have live coverage on regarding- on c-span russian influence into the russian election and we would hear from the former director of national and elegance, james -- national intelligence, james clapper. communicators,he michael beckerman, president and the eeo of the internet association made up of 40 internet companies including google, facebook, and amazon talks about new regulation totals from the fcc and how to preserve a free and open internet. he is interviewed by politico technology reporter margaret mcgill. >> and looks like they are trying to remove the agency's of already over traffic takes change. why might that be a problem? at the end of the day it's about consumers. you're looking at the internet, you pay your internet service provider and you are paying a lot of money and you want access to the entire internet are in it your experience is altered in , as a consumer you don't know where that is happening in the us. all of that should be included there to protect

your thoughts. >> i think sally gates had herself well. she is the first person on the left under the age of 70 who have sent to this day. she did a great job of doing it. it still is amazing to me that people like sally gates or james clapper go, when they get to tough question a second area that's classified. you talk about that. they say they are coded to close hearings, good. do it soon because there are some unanswered questions that need to be raised. maria: she kept going back to a gymkhana said that gymkhana answered the same question this way, so i'm going to go with him. clapper says i'm going to say exactly what he said. she was very guarded for sure. a lot of questions she sang questions she said i know the answer but i'm not going to tell you. >> is what you want to hear answered. >> i want her for somebody to tell someone in authority who has the power to create an indictment who leaked that information. i want to know, was there intentional unmasking and surveillance of an american citizen which is a direct violation. >> the

it starts with sally gates, refused to defend the travel order. to comey who wanted to have his cake and eat it. he has the president and then he turns against him. we then see that -- he wants to preserve his reputation. he does what he wants the president to do, write a memo. now he's turning against him. we see a lot of that going on here today. reputation protecting, playing it both ways, wanting the president to like you but when things turn sour, turning against him. >> tucker: amazing. there are nine actual civil libertarians left in america. you are one of them. >> i'm going to speak out on civil liberties. sometimes it's going to help trump. sometimes it's going to hurt him. i'm there to speak out on behalf of civil liberties. that's more important than politics. >> tucker: god bless you. thank you, professor. i appreciate it. >> thank you. >> tucker: britain voted to leave the e.u. in part to protest higher immigration levels, now the u.n. is pressuring them to accept 10,000 additional refugees into the u.k. katie hawkins of the daily ma

campaign, which is 108, 109 days old has been like one long saturday night massacre if you go back to sally gates who just testified, and several key people, in terms of national security with flynn and others. the press den see, to have these removals, now the head of the fbi where as j edgar hoofer sat in office for 30, 40, 50 years, and came me has been removed within the first 100 dhairks is going to blow up. >> just to put this in perspective for some of the younger viewers, saturday night massacre, j. edgar hoover reviewed the process, and you are saying there's a parallel here? that was historic in american history that that hatched. you are saying this is along those lines, the watergate scandal? >> he also fired william sessions as the head. bill clinton did this as well, but not in the first 100 days of his presidency. if you add sally yates, if you add flynn, all of the people removed who were heads of major departments of bureaucrats, who are usually protected by safeguards -- >> we're almost out of time. real quick, you mentioned the special prosecutor. if donald trump puts his fbi i

former acting attorney general sally gates told graduating harvard law students why she declined to defendump fired her. >> defending the constitutionality' travel ban will right department of justice to argue the executive order had nothing to do with religion despite the numerous prior statements that had been made by the president and his air is guts -- surrogates regarding his attempt to effectuate a muslim ban. i directed the department of justice not to defend the ban. >> richard: hash #i agree with sallyyates and the federal judges that struck it down. >> did you just say hashtag? >> i did say hashtag omments, ste >> greg: this is another example of how fear of discriminating good from evil will allow people to die. look, tramp made a mistake in the sense they shouldn't have called it the travel ban. they should have called it the terror ban or called it operation haystack which is all it is. find the needles and destroy the needles or make sure the needles don't get in the fact is though we are hamstrung by a mentality that says because we are bad, we can't chase the bad out, becau

i think that is what is coming back now as sally gates, the acting attorney general, prepares to testifyefore a , about thel investigation into russia and more specifically about michael flynn. indications, his connections seen usual if not quite inappropriate. julia: i want to ask you about the work you've been doing digging around trying to understand how easily the administration is going to find getting something done on taxes this year. you can see a number of obvious roadblocks. sahil: the biggest roadblock right now is the congressional calendar. rewriting the tax code is difficult in the best of circumstances and these are not the best of circumstances. the calendar ahead for congress is very rough, it is pretty daunting for any hopes of getting big things done, like not only taxes, but also infrastructure. for the next 39 legislative days before the august recess, the the senate is-- going to be wrapped up with the health care bill. likely passill something different and it will likely go back to the house. then there is the august recess. once lawmakers come back, they will hav

he has it cued up to sally gates and jim clapper testifying. you wrote he's making you watch it with him. here's how he characterizes -- watch them start to choke like dogs, trump said. having fun? what happens. clapper on the screen. oh, he's choking. ah, look, the president says. what do you say, zeke? >> yeah. i mean, this was -- it was like watching a -- you know, a sunday afternoon a play-by-play announcer telling you -- dissecting a play gone wrong. that's the way donald trump coombs immediacon assumes media but not only he dvred it, he took a bunch of reporters back to his private dining room with several other aides to have him watch us watch it. see his reaction, hear his color commentary. he feelings vindicated. he feels like everything about russia undercuts his legitimacy. if he can move past that and realize i there's a political expediency to opening the books, things will go easier for him. as long as he adopts this defensive posture where every question about russia's involvement or attempted medaling in 2016 is somehow an attac

when you had james clapper and sally gates and comments from my same waters, those are more political hacks that destroy other areas of this country. we need to start straightening it out. straightening out your industry and telling amazing people the truth is where we have got to start. host: let's go to joanna. good morning. caller: good morning coul i hav. i have a question for you, sir. it seems awful odd to me that you take your power plant upgrading and throw it back into sur pockets, the one that pay for electricity. during the middle of the worst winters we had, 16% is an awful lot to raise a person's electricity in the middle of the winter. up aboutay you are so the coal industry being so bad for you, how come the epa had to get on to you after you have known since the 1930's that this has been a bad business, a dirty business? why did it take them getting onto you to do something? host: your response? guest: i think her comments are so misguided and so wrong. i don't know how to respond to it. is veryl industry environmentally conscious. i have children and grandchildren jus

. >> acting attorney general sally gates told congress this week she warned the white house that former national security adviser michael flynn had lied about his communications with russian officials and put at risk for blackmail. miss gates served as acting attorney general in the opening days of the trump administration before she was fired to refusing the president's immigration band. at a judiciary hearing monday she testified alongside director of national intelligence james clapper. >>. [inaudible conversation] >>. [inaudible conversation] >> just a gal. >>. >> thank you katie. >>. >> testing here. >>. >> here we come to order, thank you all for coming, here's the order of the day, a brief opening statement along with senator white house and then we will have senator grassley and feinstein follow some questioning and the seven minute rounds initially, we will try to put a second round of five minutes, both of those witnesses, thank you for coming. will try to make this as short as possible and if you need a break, please let us know. >> so people,what are we doing and where are w

you feel sorry for some of these water gate guys, if they had gotten away with it, where would they be now. sallystrongly defended why she reviewed the muslim ban and here she is under tough by ted cruz, let's watch. >> suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem appropriate. would you agree that's broad statutory authorization. >> i would and i am familiar with that and i'm also familiar with an additional provision of the ina that says no person shall receive preference or be discriminated against in issuance of a visa because of race, nationality or place of birth that, i believe, was promulgated after the statute that you just quoted. that's been part of the discussion with the courts with respect to the ina is whether this more specific statute trumps the first one that you just described. but my concern was not an ina concern here, it rather was a constitutional concern. >> i have to tell you that trump, i mean, cruz in this case, they seem s smart. he went in there what he felt was his d

from the regulatory agencies to say, to talk about the role that we have to sally greenberg's point about having placards in the gate area needs to be reinforced to follow crew members instructions for safety and security concerns. beneed more staff to be able to handle the issues and de-escalate the situations. the reality is, when aviation workers across the industry saw that video, we were horrified. it is not a representation of who we are, how we take care of our passengers every single day and how we care very deeply about making this a good experience for the people in our care. >> thank you, thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, chairman. senator nelson. >> and i think that is certainly a true statement that you said, and if anyone wants to feel good about an airline, watch the movie "sully". captain sullenberger and the way that crew operated under extremely dangerous circumstances which is not a hollywood madeup movie. that was real life. and you saw those flight attendants working with the captain, who's the last one to get off the plane, and the captain. so indeed, i want to shift gears a bit and i know

make it really clear right out of the gate, we were not accusing vice president pence of knowingly providing false information to the american people. >> susan, when sallyestified that the underlying conduct -- that's in quotes. underlying conduct of michael flynn was problematic, was more than just him lying to the vice president, that's key, right? >> this seems like an old story at this point. but we forget this actually -- president trump wasn't president yet. this is in the transition period. in this period of time, we have a one president at a time rule. it's considered highly inappropriate, if not a te technical valation of the logan act, to have the communications with a foreign government. that's one element of why the underlying contact is problematic. the other piece is, the substantive offer, right? why was the trump administration offering to undercut sanctions that the obama administration had just applied for interference in the election. >> sally yates warned the white house counsel, and the first meeting in the oval office, were warnings. why do you believe that all of the warnings to be ignored? >> we don't know the answer to the supre

general sally yates is on capitol hill today to testify in russia's 10 tonight on the 2016th presidential election. she blew former national security adviser michael flynn was compromised. gates told the white house lynn was not forthcoming to vice president is about contacts with the russian ambassador during the transition. president trump fire sector should refuse to defend his original tribal band. you can see key testimony live here on fox business network. nicole: global market action of the night action of the night. the nikkei's close. they had holiday last week. the five day weekend and is the nearly one point ip or hide closed higher by 2.3%. hong kong hang seng apostle 1%. chris kospi at 2.4%. shanghai composite index down three quarters of 1% despite good numbers on exports from china. cheryl: look of course look of course eight u.s. markets on the heels of the victory and france by emanuel macron. the ftse barely higher right now. the french and extend 30 points. germany done 36. we should point out that markets overseas last week going into the election were actually rising higher. cheryl: look at u.s. market features painted down three weeks in a row assad the

sally yates saying the same thing. melissa? melissa: extremely wealthy and brilliant trio. liz claman just sat down with warren buffett, bill gatesie munger following berkshire hathaway's board of director's meeting, she live with us from omaha, nebraska. liz, what's it like this time? liz: my goodness, i have to tell you, they have not lost a beat, rather amazing, warren buffett is 86 years old. charlie munger 93. he has the fight in him. boy does he think the health care system is a complete and utter mess. he thinks neither party has it right. he thinks we're heading for single payer. warren completely agreed is feels it is just too costly, but we don't know what to do to bend the cost curve, that's for sure. in the meantime, we spoke to all of them about the economy and about the tax plan and then we asked each one of them, if you had ten minutes alone with president trump in the oval office and you had one key thing you wanted to tell him that you feel would really spur growth and help the administration's policies do that, here's what they said. i need to know what you would say to him that would help the policies that woul

really clear right out of the gate that we were not accusing vice president pence of knowingly providing false information to the american people. >> okay. so susan, when sally yates testified today that the underlying conduct, that's in quotes, underlying conduct, of the former national security adviser michael flynn, was problematic in and of itself, that it was more than just him lying to the vice president, that's key, right? >> right, so this is actually -- it seems like such an old story at this point, but we seem to forget this actually -- president trump wasn't president yet. this was in the transition period, so in this period of time we have sort of a one president at a time rule, where it's considered highly inappropriate, if not a technical violation of something called the logan act, for a private citizen, which is what michael flynn was at that point, to be having those kinds of communications with a foreign government. so that's one element of why the underlying contact is problematic. the other piece is the substantive offer, right, why was the trump administration, representatives of the trump administration, offering to lift sanctions or un

general, sally yates and the former national security adviser mike flynn, those two names dominated the white house briefing that just wrapped up moments ago. the first question out of the gate why, it took the trump administration 18 days to fire general flynn after learning he was the potential target for russian blackmail? blake burman as usual with it throughout and made his way out to the north lawn. i know things started later than expected today but have wrapped up. give us the latest, blake. >> reporter: sean spicer peppered with question after question at the white house briefing as it relates to the 18-day window that you were talking about. january 26, sally yates as she said on capitol hill yesterday during testimony, first informed the white house counsellor don mcghan that there was information they needed to see relating to michael flynn. fast-forward 18 days to february 13th, that is the day president trump fired s national security adviser. so the question is, why that 18-day gap, especially since flynn was on the job as the national security adviser, sitting in important meetings, on phone calls with world leaders, including a phone call with vladimir putin

gate. the wild scene in florida after one airline cancels multiple flights, give new meaning to spirit airlines. >> [ bleep ]. >>> we begin with president trump pushing back against former acting attorney general sally yates and former dni james clapper after with the two described giving the white house detailed warnings about russia's influence over mike flynn nearly three weeks before he was fired. here's the question, why is the president saying the testimony actually helped him? we're going to find out and we have the best team in the business to break it down. first to nbc's peter alexander at the white house. peter? how exactly is the adminiration spinning this as a positive wle there wasn't any bombshell pointing at president trump or wrongdoing it was clear sally yates and james clapper threw him under the bus? >> yeah, stephanie, that's right. be clear, this was a dramatic day of testimony. sally yates, the former acting attorney general, saying there was an urgent danger which is why six days into president trump's term in office, she came here to the white house to go directly to the white house counsel to say that michael flynn would potentially be compromised, could be compromised or b

president trump had the following to say about today's hearing with former acting attorney general sally gates and former national intelligence agent, james clapper. in a tweet, the president completed -- he continued by saying -- and another tweet, biggest story of the day between clapper and yates is on surveillance. former national michael flynn was mentioned several times. his name was brought up during today's white house briefing in a question posed to sean spicer. president obama warned president-elect trump against hiring michael flynn, why did he ignore that? mr. spicer: the president doesn't disclose details of meetings he had. it is true that the president made it known that he wasn't exactly a flan -- a fan of general flynn which should not come as a surprise given that general flynn had worked for president obama, was an outspoken critic as it came to his lack of to teach it just like a strategy when it come to -- lack of strategy when it came to isis. -- they had just reapproved months earlier. why did the obama administration let flynn go to russia for a speaking engagement? if