and then good old sally yates that signed off on one of the fisa warrants like rosenstein and was e-mailing with andrew weissman after she refused to enforce the travel ban. yates is trashing the president. why? to save and protect herself. watch this. >> donald trump himself accusing the obama administration of improperly targeting his campaign for an investigation. what is your response to everything you heard over the weekend? >> obviously i'm not going to comment on the specific fact there's. it's up to the department of justice to decide what information should be made public with respect to that. you know, i think what we're seeing here is the president has just taken his all-out assault on the rule of law to a new level. this time he is ordering up an investigation of the investigators who are examining his own campaign. you know, that's really shocking. >> sean: a hard-hitting interview by liberal joy. these guys are scared out of their mind. they're directly implicated in this. it's time to ask. what did they know and when did they know it. like's been saying about james comey, who

> donald trump fired sally yates days after she was named acting atty. gen. because she refused implement the now active travel ban. donald trump hoping the south korean president today nailing details for the upcoming summit with north korea as all eyes are on the rogue regime following a promise to destroy its nuclear test site. more on this story. >> the pledge to dismantle the nuclear site as south korea's pres. arrives in washington to meet with the president three weeks from the planned summit with questions whether it will take place. mike pence had encouragement and a warning for the north korean leader. >> we hope kim jong un will seize the opportunity to dismantle his nuclear weapons program. and by peaceable means. this will end like the libyan model ended if kim jong un doesn't make a deal. >> reporter: they were surprised by the announcement they were reconsidering the summit the force to unilateral nuclear abandonment. secretary pompeo says the maximum pressure campaign will continue. >> our willingness to meet with kim jong un, the commitm

also it's a we have all of theseta deep state actors, john brennan, sally yates, all melting down over these spy revelations. so it has predation, they are predictably looking lashing out president trump. sara carter is reporting that the fisa memos could very well hold the key to the obama fbi trump surveillance. we have a lot to go. stay with us for the hour. this is an important breaking news opening monologue. brand-new tonight, after a meeting with trump, the fbi director christopher wray, rod rosenstein, otherro top intel officials, the white house is saying president trump and the department of justicet are now inspector general to investigate the obama administration and this playing dated on the trump campaign. the white house is also revealing tonight that chief of staff john kelly, general kelly, is setting up a meeting for congress so they will see the documents that constitutionally they have been asking for and the doj has been obstructing and stonewalling. really?t i'll believe it when i see those documents. this is the same material that rod rosenstein has refused to tu

remember the former acting attorney general sally yates told congress general michaelflip was being investigated -- michael flynn was being investigated in part over logan act violations after he spoke to the soon to be counterpart russian investigator during the trump transition. i repeat, the trump

>> where is sally yates on john kerry and the logan act?ates is an embarrassment to the department of justice. she is a hotdog lawyer who never should have been acting attorney general. >> laura: do you want tee off on sally yates? one of our favorite people. go ahead. >> one of our favorite people, yes, that helped frame general flynn, barred the inspector general from any access to the national security division of the department of justice when the machinations were happening and bruce was running a back channel between the fbi and christopher steele after christopher steele was fired from the fbi for lying to them. of course none of that was revealed to the fisa court in any of the approvals and she signed at least one of them. >> laura: one i'm listening to cindy, don't you just want her to say, all bless her heart. [laughs] all bless your heart, sally. i love you, but boy did you screw this up. she's a partisan -- >> animus towards this president. >> sally yates is a partisan hack who had animus towards donald trump and she let it inf

third question, what did you know about sally yates's meetings about mr. flynn? you'll remember sally yates was the acting attorney general for the first few weeks of the trump administration. she came to the white house physically to warn the white house that flynn had been lying about his secret communications with the russian government. so the question again to the president, what did you know about sally yates's meetings about mr. flynn? how was the decision made to fire mr. flynn? on february 13th, 2017. after the resignations -- what is this? after the resignations what efforts were made to reach out to mr. flynn about seeking immunity or possible pardon? after the resignation. i'm not sure what that means. that's one of the questions listed here. after the resignations what efforts were made to reach out to mr. flynn about seeking immunity or possible pardon? i don't know what the after the resignations part of that is. but talking to flynn about a potential pardon or immunity is obviously an obstruction of justice question. questions related to james com

. >>> still to come, you'll hear how former acting attorney general sally yates is responding to theesident's baseless accusations that there was a spy in his campaign and two white house lawyers present at a classified briefing. >>> but first, in this week's "fit nation," we head into the backwoods of tennessee where people compete in what many consider to be the toughest race in the world. cnn's dr. sanjay gupta reports. >>> every year in the backwoods of tennessee, there's a race so tough only 15 people have ever finished it. >> we've got a bit of a problem. i really don't know where we're supposed to be going next. >> welcome to the barclay marathons. >> the greatest challenges in sports really are pressure and uncertainty. the barkley weekend is filled with pressure and uncertainty. >> just 40 select athletes are chosen to try to complete five 20-mile loops of steep, unmarked terrain using nothing but a map and a compass. >> the race where you're kind of running around in the forest and not knowing if you're on the right trail or not, it adds a whole other mental element. >> run

sally yates complain about that? i don't think so.linton's investigation email investigation thoroughly politicized because of what barack obama did but she had no problem with that of course, barack obama was briefed on the anti-trump investigation repeatedly. she had no problem with tha that. griff: quickly because we are almost out of time. investigation into the clinton email scandal. do you believe sally yates should be subpoenaed, should appear and answer questions? >> sally yates would be a top witness in abuses at the justice department targeting president trump and helping hillary clinton for sure. griff: all right. tom fitton joining us on memorial day. thank you very much, sir. >> you are welcome. thank you, griff. griff: chelsea clinton bashing president trump overseas saying president trump degrades what it means to be an american is that fair? we debate it next. dan bongino is here. it wouldn't be memorial day monday without dan. ♪ ♪ >> >> indianapolis 500 winner for 2018 checkered flag, power and penske win it. abby: we

. >>> coming up, it may seem like an eternity ago, but one year ago today, a woman named sally yates walked into a hearing room in washington. we're back with that after this. >>> let's go back, shall we, an entire year, a year ago today, former acting attorney general sally yates who was fired just weeks into the trump presidency, she was a headliner at a senate judiciary subcommittee hearing and in the course of one day in america, went from being a little known career prosecutor to near household name status. it was testimony about russia interference in the 2016 election. yates methodically described a series of meetings days after trump was sworn in where she warned the white house counsel don mcgahn that michael flynn had engaged in what she called problematic conduct, and then some. "the washington post" had rep t reported that flynn had spoken with the russian ambassador several times, but publicly denied it. >> we began our meeting telling him that there had been press accounts of statements from the vice president and others, that related conduct that mr. flynn had been inv

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talk about the flynn communication from sally yates to don mcgahn.n firing as the flash point that bob mueller wants to talk to the president about. and talk about what could be at risk for the president in the firing of mike flynn. >> that was sort of the interesting thing about the document, is sort of how many big unanswered questions there still are in the public record's mind. why was there such a delay on firing flynn? they were warned this at the end of january. it wasn't until after the "washington post" reported that he had indeed discussed sanctions on the phone with the ambassador, that the president went forward and had flynn removed. we still don't know what the reason is for such a delay. why was it that they did not take it more seriously? also on comey, the president's side of the story, did the february 14th meeting happen? that's when comey says the president asked him to end the flynn investigation in the oval office in a one on one meeting. remember, that comes just a day after flynn was fired. here we are looking back at these ev

. >> you spoke with sally yates, the fired acting attorney general and she weighed in on the president's attacks on the justice department. let's watch this clip. >> this is really taken the assault on the rule of law to a new level. from the beginning of this presidency, trump has not observed nor the time honored norm in place. at least since watergate, that there should be a real division between the department of justice and the white house. it certainly -- doj is part of the executive branch and we recognize that. but for the public to have confident that the law is not being used in a political way, presidents in both parties have recognized that those decisions really need to be left to the people at the department of justice. >> so what else can our viewers look forward to, hearing more from sally yates on the ax files. >> well first of all, she's a 27-year veteran of the justice department and knows the major players and knows mueller and rosenstein and offers some real insight into them and how they operate. she also gives new details about her interaction with the administrati

former acting attorney general sally yates, the first political casualty of the trump administration, famously fired just ten days after president trump took office. forced out for refusing to defend trump's travel ban, which she was convinced was unlawful. >> i looked at this, i made a determination that i believed that it was unlawful. >> yates suddenly thrust into the national spotlight after 27 years working behind the scenes in the justice department. before being fired, yates warranted the white house that then national security adviser michael flynn had lied to vice president mike pence about his russian contacts and could potentially be blackmailed by moscow. >> that created a compromise situation, a situation where the national security adviser essentially could be blackmailed by the russians. >> tonight, yates takes on president trump's stepped up attacks on his own intelligence agencies and department of justice. >> this has really taken the assault on the rule of law to a new level. this has moved at a lightning pace for an investigation complex as this. >> what comes next

but sally yates, that little hissy fit of a resignation letter.er that whole thing smells like a big fat setup to me. yates marching -- don't have any business going to that interview. of course, they didn't give him notice. mike flynn shouldn't have did anything. i want to do an hour. i need a five hour show. i love my guests. another claim by stormy daniels' attorney.e we'll address the question of who is bank rolling avonati. polident's 4 in 1 cleaning system consists of 4 powerful ingredients that work together to deep clean your denture in hard to reach places. it kills 99.99% of odor causing bacteria and it helps to remove stains. polident should be the first choice of every person that wears a denture, to clean their denture. >> laura: avenatti is on other networks, and he's often treated more like an investigative journalist or impartial analyst than the lawyer representing a porn star who is accusing the president, et cetera, et cetera. but an op ed raises a serious question. who is paying michael avenatti? mike penn noted it took a long time to find out that the clinton camp

waiting for sally yates to tweet her dismay and grave concern.ohn kerry's former running mate and his thought about this story. >> this is a story. i'd say that, logan act hasn't been enforced far long time. john kerry is not negotiating on behalf of the u.s. government. in my opinion what he's doing is inappropriate. he shouldn't be doing it. >> senator lieberman ran not with john kerry but al gore. he was a running mate. just pointing that out. pouffing on. mara, joe lieberman says -- >> i think he explain it pretty well. john kerry was not negotiating on behalf of the u.s. government. what's interesting, if john kerry wanted to lobby, he should be lobbying donald trump. he's talking to people who agreed with him and failed. >> 8 the whit -- at the white h, there's not a feeling like anything but pulling out the deal. from the big question remain. what happens after we full out? the sanctions snap back on our end. the europeans other signatories they will not put back sanctions. what does that mean? does donald trump sanction those european cou

had the meeting at the white house, sally yates claims the president is waging an all out assault on democracy by pressuring the justice department, in a visit to cia headquarters to swear in gina haspel the president praised the courage of house intel chair devon nunez for shedding light on these stories, nunez says obama officials like sally 8 and john brennan are trying to diver attention from the real story, a bright red line was crossed when it appears the fbi infiltrated the trump campaign to spy, the president raising more doubts about robert mueller's programs he met with rod rosenstein and director ray demanding an investigation into how this started, the president got concrete action after the meeting, sarah sanders saying based on the meeting with the president the department of justice asked the inspector general to expand its investigation to include any regularity with the federal bureau of investigation or department of justice's tactics concerning the trump camp. at the white house chief of staff kelly will set up a meeting with the fbi, doj and director of national i

. >> jesse: meanwhile former doj official sally yates is losing it over president trump's request. >> what we are seeing is the president has taken his all-out assault on the rule of law to a new level. this time he is ordering up an investigation of the investigators. who are examining his own campaign. that's really shocking. >> jesse: all right, you would expect people from the obama administration to say things like that, former cia director john brennan also lashed out on twitter. but if this information is correct, kimberly, how devastating would it be for our intelligence agencies? >> kimberly: it is quite disconcerting when you think about that. if there's actually an active spy operation within a campaign, you would hope that if they thought there was a vein that was at risk with respect to russian intelligence, that they would in fact go to candidate trump at the time or some official in the campaign and say listen we have some information we believe perhaps your campaign could have an issue and someone could try to get involved or tried to get intelligence from you. but tha

sally yates. having any business going to interview mike flynn. he didn't even have a lawyer. of course i'll talk to you. mike flynn should've never talked to them. he didn't think anything of it. i want to do an hour with you. i need a five hour show. i love my guest. thank you guys you're so great. another day, another claim by stormy daniels' attorney that doesn't hold water. will address the huge question about who's bankrolling avenatt avenatti. >> laura: michael avenatti is on the other networks. he's practically contributor the other to treated more like an investigative journalist or an impartial analyst. then the lawyer representing a porn star accusing the president, et cetera, et cetera. an op-ed in the hill by a former advisor to president clinton raises a serious question. who who is paying michael avena? mark penn noted it took a long time, and even a court battle to find out that the clinton campaign and the democratic national committee paid for the fusion gps dossier, fact it was only disclosed only after the damage was done. avenatti shot back in a tweet toda

so sally yates is dismissed for enforcing what she thought was the rule of law.'s dismissed explicitly. people talk about oh, will trump answer the subpoena. he's already told lester holt the whole thing and he wasn't under subpoena. remember he says i wanted him to stop the russia investigation and he wouldn't so i fired him. >> but from a historical perspective, in the beginning you were skeptical of the russia investigation, not so much now. >> right. >> it almost seems like the opposite for the american people. so for voters out there who are saying why i do care about this, it doesn't impact my life. >> well, there's an arc to these things. when people say oh, the republicans in congress, they need to be more like barry gold water. do you know when that was? august 7th, 1964, 26 months after the break-in and 36 hours before he resigned. it was the very last moment. so we tend to cut out acts 2 through 4 in our memory, right? we have act 1 and then we have act 5. and i think we're probably really at the end of only act 2 or so here. and there are -- it's unqu

i think sally yates is right. it's shocking. he's claiming he wants an investigation of whether this informant was, you know, put there for political motives but really what he's done is using the power of the presidency to try and order an investigation and derail a legitimate investigation for his own political purposes. and it really is frightening. i think the people who believe in the independence of the department of justice, you know, it may sound like we're overstating this, but we're really frightened by this. and, you know, contribution i think that, you know -- we need to go back to what -- what happened? and put ourselves in the shoes of law enforcement at the time that this informant apparently was activated. you know, they had information that a foreign power was trying to infiltrate our democracy, our election process. and they, in fact, warned the president and his campaign about that, and those warnings were nod heeded. so law enforcement did what we all should want it to do. they tried to ferret that out and fi

what did you know about sally yates' meetings about mr. for instance? how was the decision made to fire mr. flynn on february 13th, 2017? i'm just wondering what you make of what we're just now learning, michael. >> well, it seems that what we are learning is that contrary to earlier reporting mueller's interest in the president and the president's deposition, however that takes place, falls fully within the full scope of his mandate. it does not going to be a limited interview. it is going to be relating to the question of the interference, the counterintelligence investigation and matters that arise out of it including obstruction of justice, and so these questions point to the broad areas of interest that mueller has as they relate to each of the four points within his mandate, counterintelligence, matters that arised out of it, obstruction of justice and coordination and conspiracy, the so-called collusion aspect of it. and this is what you would have expected from mueller all along, so we talked about this earlier, anderson, that i was skeptical th

said i am kind of recusing myself as you did knew what she had to do, sign the papers and direct sally yatesthen the deputy ag to do it. but if, was all upset about all that only had to do was say i'm making a recommendation to the deputy attorney general sally yates because loretta lynch is wishy-washy. he didn't do it. he didn't follow procedures because he thought only he could save the world. that set up the october because if he hadn't done the first one he would not of had to do the seguin. >> he didn't have to do the second one because of most you could've said go ahead and do the investigation of the extra e-mails that were found, and if there were some reason to believe that the whole investigation needs to be reopened and with some problem, then he could go to congress and say i misspoke before, there may be a reason to go ahead and open a criminal investigation or two and died ms. clinton. but, in fact, they came back and anthony weiner e-mail showed nothing a dentist big press conference and all of the polling showed that it really derailed the clinton campaign for nine or ten da

. >> last time i was here, you and i were with sally yates. let's watch that and talk about her warnings. >> i think what we're seeing here is the president has just taken his all-out assault on the rule of law to a new level. and this time he is ordering up an investigation of the investigators who are examining his own campaign. you know, that's really shocking. >> it is -- maybe you can explain to our viewers how high the alarm has to be for sally yates to speak out. pretty high. it's pretty hard to get her to sound that alarmed about something she's seeing. she sort of is an institutionalist who believes we'll survive this, but i'm guessing what she saw over the weekend gave her sufficient alarm for her to go out this morning on morning joe. >> that is absolutely right. what the president did is a fundamental red line presidents aren't supposed to cross. they aren't supposed to get involved in any investigations in the department of justice. multiply that by 100 or 10 if they involve investigations into themselves which this one does. >> a

. >> sophia, take a listen to sally yates, who of course, was briefly acting attorney general as an obama holdover, left after a conflict over the travel ban. speaking about all this recently. >> the president has just taken his all out of salt on the rule of law to a new level. this time, he's ordering up an investigation of the investigators. who are examining his own campaign. you know, that's really shocking. >> what she's getting at there, sophia, and i think what washington is struggling to understand is that donald trump is very ingenious when it comes to this stuff. he may ask for a criminal investigation and not immediately get that, but he's aurls breaking down the norms and getting the people who are usually the guardians, this new name to a lot of people, this horowitz perp, to deal with the things that rod rosenstein doesn't want to deal with. that deals with individuals under oath, criminal liability, and other things to essentially pursue a conspiracy theory that somehow the reason that fbi officials and potentially informants were involved in surveilling or dealing with tr

. >> david, you asked former deputy attorney general sally yates about some of this and about some of these claims from the president. this is in "the axe files," the latest edition. >> how do you react to that, the implication that spies were sent in at the direction of the obama administration? >> yeah, well, you're right. it's under investigation now and i think i have to leave it to this department of justice and fbi to make decisions a wt information they're going to publicly release so i can't really comment on that specific situation. >> not the specifics, but what about the general sense that this was a politically inspired investigation? >> again, i'm not going to speak to this specific one, but i will say this. look, i was with doj for 27 years. i can tell you that the men and women of the department of justice take the responsibility very seriously. investigations there are done based on the facts and the law and not based on politics. and i'm confident that that will be the result of this investigation as well. >> david, really interesting, but she's so circumspect. why do

general and deputy attorney general sally yates.kick off its 2018 national conference. this year's theme, your voice, a world of change which will focus on the need to fight against the systems that marginalize women. michelle, you're organizing the whole thing so set up the con presence for us. >> yeah, we have over 1,000 people that will join us this week over the next few days and they are coming from over 40 states and they're standing for america's humanitarian leadership in the world and for fighting against cuts to our international assistance budget and also to lifting up women and girls in and in particular to taking this moment that we've experienced in the u.s., this me too movement and moment and turning that into something international. so we're delivering 100,000 signatures to the ilo, the international labor organization and we are saying that we need to ensure that we're not only -- that we're not only taking down a few select men but we're really lifting up million of women around the world. >> so the timing of thi

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attorney general, who the president was furious with when he recused himself, they want to know about sally yates who was a whistle-blower about mike flynn within the justice department. 49 questions that, again, we have not verified and the president's attorney, at this point, frances, has no comment on them. >> lot of questions on those questions. thank you. >>> porn star stormy daniels has now filed her second lawsuit against president trump. a new escalation in their legal battle. daniels has claimed she had an affair with mr. trump over a decade ago, a claim he denies, and then was threatened by an unknown man in a parking lot in 2011 warning her to keep quiet. daniels released a sketch of the man who she says threatened her. her new lawsuit hits back at a tweet from the president which called the sketch and the man nonexistent and a total con job. daniels says the tweet is false and defamatory. here was the attorney for stormy daniels on the new lawsuit and trump's tweet that set the legal action in motion. >> what's really interesting about this is, if he didn't know anything about ms. dan

sallie yates, former acting attorney general talked a bit about what we're seeing. take a listen. >> this is really taken the assault on the rule of law to a new level. president trump has not observed the time-honored norm that's been in place, at least since watergate, that there could. >> say the president has taken this to a newer level. >> the attack is horrific, completely fitting with that trump agenda. you're going to want to attack law enforcement themselves. he would tack about the fact there's these ren gait law enforcement things going around. but they have exited separately for decades. so spygate will become a lie-gate if people like donald trump jr. who is getting busted already that he wasn't telling the truth. so i would be careful because it could turn around and bite them. i'm going to read the tweet in full, and i want your reaction and also -- again, who is going to give back the young and because of lives that have been devastated and destroyed bit the phony russia collusion witch-hu witch-hunt. lee act to that, if you would, and help me unders

three prominent obama your individuals, james clapper, cia director john brennan and deputy ag sally yateshe media, clapper and yates to accuse the president of assaulting the justice department and rule of law, brandon accusing the president of self-serving actions and so it goes. jillian: as obama era officials discredit allegations others are seeing its merit. newt gingrich says corruption at the top of the fbi was substantial, nothing can be ruled out. >> the corruption was so deep at the top, we are not talking every by every -- everyday vig agent doing the job, people at the very top, these people were so corrupt and so arrogant they thought they could get away with anything and they proceeded down the road protecting hillary, covering up hillary, giving immunity to people breaking the law and going after trump and going after trump supporters, and in a way that was easy to understand. and another piece unravels. >> have yet to hear from barack obama on this matter. jillian: a massive manhunt intensifying after a police officer is killed in the line of duty. baltimore police looking

the number two andrew weissmann we found was sending supportive email to sally yates as she sought to thwart the president's travel ban. and one attending hillary clinton's election night party. that's three. you have these people on mueller's team. not one registered republican as far as we can tell. on top of that you have got the fundamental you be you of the lack of authority of mr. mueller. he's a rogue prosecutor. no matter how many cya memos rosenstein writes months after the fact, it's not going to change it. lou: the district court judge in virginia, in reading the transcript of the hearing with the attorneys for the defendant manafort and for the special counsel, his being to toes special counsel attorneys, even from the transcript, the condescending tone they took with the judge who then finally had to point out as they tried to hide behind secret decoder rings, he did point out he's currently handling three espionage trials involving highly sensitive top secret material. when he says produce the scope memorandum and he'll judge whether or not it pertains to the case before

ted lieu, sally yates, which are hands together for them. [applause] >> thank you. >> please welcome to the stage, john podesta. he was the youngest mayor of the city in the united states. san antonio under his leadership was a sustainable, inclusive development. from lgbt writes to community santonio,, as major he racked up the kind of record that caused president obama in 2014 to ask him to come to washington and serve as secretary of housing and urban development. just think about that, folks. it was only four years ago that the secretary of hud cared about fair and affordable housing and other developments in our country. boy, things change. these days, secretary castro is back at it. he's working with progressive candidates up and down the ballot through initiative known as opportunity first. we are so glad he could join us here at the ideas conference and share his vision for the future. help me in welcoming my friends, my brother, secretary lillian julian castro. good morning. first of all, thank you very much for that introduction. b

or previous contacts of his staff, we have documented number two, weissmann communicating with sally yatesthis overwrought congratulations on his part. he's disqualified at face value from holding office. lou: isn't there someone independently who can assert to the special counsel, around sorry son of a gun and you need to either improve your conduct and do the right thing here, the right thing of course would be to disband his merry band of left-wing -- acros. why can't we find some voice with the power to do that. with the standing. i mentioned the aba. why can't there be someone with the standing whether professional or national regard who has the voice and the command of the media to say, enough already. >> the canons of judicious ethics say even the appearance of impropriety is enough for an officer of the court to be disqualified. mueller walking in the door with the staff he assembled, the appearance of impropriety and conflict of interest and disqualification has been screaming. you could have the so-called leadership of the house and senate apply pressure. obviously the president

kennedy: former deputy attorney general sally yates lashed out at the president for ordering the investigation. >> the president has taken his all-out assault on the rule of law to a new level. this time he is ordering up an investigation of the investigators who were examining his own campaign. that's really shocking. kennedy: oh, sally it's so shock. if the charges are true it would be a huge scandal. we have criminal defense attorney david brown oh. david -- bruno. but first up, congressman matt gaetz. let's talk about this. what do we know so far about someone interfacing with the trump campaign for political purposes and working with the fbi without naming names? >> we have seen reports the trump campaign was the subject of some intelligence collection. that doesn't mean it's a red line we shouldn't cross as a country. you should not be desirous of systems that allow people to use the apparatus of government to spy on their enemies. we are now going to have the department of justice investigate itself again. the president need to demand the department of justice turn over top devin nunes

sally yates is going to be his guest and here is a preview. >> what do you make of the president's demand that they investigate the investigation of that involves his campaign and perhaps him? >> this has taken the assault on the rule of law to a new level. president trump has not observed the time honored norm to be in place at least since watergate that there should be a division between the department of justice and the white house. and it is not just directing a criminal investigation or to stop one of anyone. it directly relates to his campaign. that is truly unprecedented. >> you can see the entire conversation on the ax files saturday 7:00 p.m. eastern time. coming up about a russian oligarch who met with president's personal attorney. when we continue details of that meeting as well as implications. how do you win at business? stay at laquinta. where we're changing with contemporary make-overs. then, use the ultimate power handshake, the upper hander with a double palm grab. who has the upper hand now? start winning today. book now at lq.com. rough if you're on vacation. but the b

briefings and you talked to sally yates about the president demanding this inquiry. let's watch that. >> what do you make of the president's december manned of the justice department that they investigate -- essentially investigate the investigation of that involves his campaign and perhaps him? >> this has taken the taught since the beginning of his presidency, president trump has not ignored the time honored but for the public to have confidence that the law is not being used in a political way, presidents in both parties have recognized that those decisions really need to be left to the people at the department of justice. and there have been, you know, incidents in the past from calling attorney general sessions and trying to get him to drop the criminal case on sheriff arpaio, to repeatedly calling for the investigation or prosecution of his former political rival. but this took it a step further and that does take things to a different and more dangerous level, i think, in trying to inject himself. here it's even a step beyond a dangerous point because it not j

remember sally yates who told congress that general michael flynn was investigated in the log an act after he spoke to russian ambassador in president trump's transition. flynn was preparing to take over as national security advisor. and there is it no logan act violation for john kerry? where are the agents and the fbi and doj breaking down john kerry's door? it is a two tiered justice system. we'll have full analysis and john kerry's unauthorized actions. did john kerry violate the law. and first, obstruction and stone walling in the justice department. thousands of documents subpened by the house judiciary and oversight and house intel committee are slow walked and with held or massively redakted in what is a clear effort to impair the constitutional right of duty to check the doy and executive branch. devin nunez will join us and he's encouraging fellow law makers to hold jeff sessions in contempt much congress. and earlier today sessions responding. >> the department of justice wrote him a letter and responded as appropriate to him. the request he has made is one that the intell

that you better have dynamite and it looks like they didn't have dynamite and it's the pattern of sally yatesynn for the logan act. >> laura: she was out defending this yesterday. >> congress is currently trying to find out information about these types of things and the fbi is telling them that they can't turn over that information. at the same time you are seeing leaks with personal identifying, buy graph call and career information about the source that was used and there is at least one source. they are telling "the new york times" but they won't turn the information over to congress. >> laura: why? because they want to make themselves look as good as possible before the ig thing comes out. this narrative is being tainted, burying the lead in "the new york times." and rudy just said on sean hannity's show. they are discussing far rogue the scope of the questions. i don't like him talking to bob mueller at all. i think this whole thing stinks to high heaven but it looks like they made progress on narrowing the questions. >> there's no circumstance under which the president should go in for

the pattern of sally yates investigating mike flynn and part of a disturbing thing. >> there is an additional problem. congress is trying to find out information about these things. the fbi is telling them they can't turn over that information. at the same time you are seeing leaks with personal information about the source that was used. they are telling the "new york times" and the "washington post," but they won't turn over the information to congress. >> laura: because they want to make themselves look as good as possible before other documents come out. this narrative is tainted. burying the lead in the "new york times." roger, rudy said they are did you saying with mueller narrowing the scope of the questions. i don't like him talking to bob mueller at all. i think this whole thing stinks to high even. -- heaven. it looks like they made progress. >> there is no circumstance under which the president should go in for an interview. it's a perjury trap. the idea that rob rosenstein and jeff sessions won't turn over to congress a co-equal branch of government information regarding the surve

maybe, sally, you are forgetting you were emailing with mueller's pit bull, andrew weissmann, and yates is also one of the corrupt officials that signed off on at least one of the fisa warrants that was unverified, uncorroborated. so congratulations, sally. you've done enough damage to the doj, more than any president ever could. one more thing tonight. trump hating former cia director john brennan is being called out by two of his former colleagues over his public statements about the clinton bought and paid for dossier. paul sperry reporting that two former top officials are actually contradicting his claim that the dossier did not play a role in the intelligence community's assessment of russian election meddling. sperry is pointing out that former nsa director mike rogers told congress for dossier did in fact play a role in the intel assessments. former director of national intelligence james clapper admitted something similar to cnn. we know clapper and john brennan are both lying. so it looks like brandon once again is caught flying. this isn't surprising from a guy who once voted

prominent individuals director of national intelligence james clapper, cia director john brennan and ag sally yatesed to the media yesterday. they accused the president of assaulting the justice department accusing the president of self-serving actions. on and on we go. >> no kidding, todd. a lot more to talk about. bring in former democratic congressman jason allgeier and republican strategist john jordan. a lot to go through here. good morning, guys. this seems to be setting up if you will about all between the white house, congressional members on the republican side in doj. there's a red line that seems broad bob rosenstein will not cross at this point. would you think of mine is going to get drawn in wind? >> they have to release the documents. they are to said they would but certain members in congress review them albeit redacted once. a serious search and seizure issue here and the fbi has detailed guidelines on how to handle informant in dealing with ones that are lawyers or in the media and if they were violated, that's a very serious matter. >> 's "new york times" reported them to read ab

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sally yates signed one. >> so what? so what? >> sean: the bulk of it was hillary clinton bought and paid for, foreign intelligence bit russian lies and they never corroborated it. >> i'll follow up on what rush said. of course if it wasn't spying, they should have come to the trump campaign. they could have come to me. i was the fbi man of the year that year. they could have come to me and they could have told me and i could have briefed the president or they could have briefed the president. >> sean: that would have been in the spring of 2016. the president never met carter page, ever to this day. >> he hasn't met most of these people that they alleged -- and they haven't alleged collusion on the part of anybody. the even russians, the phony indictment with the russians that will never come for trial. they colluded with each other. russians colluding. big news. they have been colluding since the soviet union. thank you, sean. thanks for being a patriot. the president appreciates it. >> sean: it's about the truth and it's the bi