i would also open up an investigation into tarmac gate loretta lynch and susan rice if we opened up all of these simultaneous investigations it would completely drown out this mueller which on and that's exactly what it is it is a witch on they hate this president so much that even if they can't find anything on him they go way back on these trumped up charges against paul manna for and now you have you know michael flynn and everything else so a sickly they're trying to do anything they can and the trump attorneys i don't think they're very smart because they should be instructing the president to end this and all the us to do is use all these other investigations to do it it would drown out the mueller investigation we'd be back to talking about the good things like the economy the stock market and everything else that's happening in this country ok john you want to jump in there in miami go right ahead. yeah let me just let me jump in first of all let's richard let's stop the false narrative that donald trump jr did anything improper or illegal it's opposition research in fact he did

susan rice both the national security advisor and u.n.assador under the former administration of president barack obama. she tweeted how can president trump help iran's protestors? be quiet and shared a link to a "new york times" piece that argues we can be fairly certain that high-profile public support from the united states government will do more harm than good. what do you think about that comment? >> i think that the iranian regime will blame us for these protest and try to cast the protestors as foreign agents regardless of what we say. the supreme leader of iran has just done that today. there is no real advantage in staying silent. at the same time the words alone aren't really going to accomplish much. it's also important to bear in mind, molly, the president's statements aren't just directed at iran, not just at the protestors and the iranian regime but directed at his own government that we should be doing things to support the protestors as well as at u.s. allies around the world who hopefully will feel like they need to issu

brian: only have 30 seconds left but your response to susan rice telling the president to be quiet via tweet? >> terrible. i wish she had been quiet when she lied about what happened in benghazi and she gleemed blameblamed a tape. that would have been a good time to be quiet. you don't be quiet when people are losing their lives because they are standing up for basic essential needs and for freedom. and look, whether it's robby mook or others in the democratic party people are starting to realize if you are out of touch with americans primary concerns if you are not for the working people and freedom around the globe. look how much safer and prosperous we are as a nation just in this last year. the president stands with the iranian people in their quest to get basic freedom. ainsley: all right. kellyanne conway, president obama told to the warmbier family be quiet and saw what happened to his son. thank you so much for being with us, kellyanne and have

let's take a look at that: susan rice tweeted: >> mara liasson, you covered both administrations. >>ma was more retrained than president trump because his administration believed if he showed too much support are in the protestors it would back fire and the regime would paint them as an american puppet movement. donald trump doesn't feel that way. he is going out much strongener favor of them. you have to have a strategy. does this mean he should reimpose sanctions on iran. he de-certified the deal and congress didn't reimpose archingss. what does he do next?sanctions. what does he do next? >> tom? >> keep the wifi networks in operation. the u.s. has the capability to provide some measure of relief there. at the same time, there is an opportunity in the port polio of the iran nuke deal to make the case to the europeans and embarrass them. say the nature of this regime, why don't we go back to the drawing board as they are trying to do at the moment, getting ballistics missiles and restructure this so there is a moral concern about where the sanctions relief money goes. it doesn't go

he and susan rice are singing off of the same page.erly in their efforts and now they're saying that we have to sup the result of their failure. i think it demonstrates they weren't that concerned about north korea with nuclear weapons or -- lou: or much of anything else. john: or other threats to the united states precisely. lou: didn't seem concerned at all. once again you've taken us over time and we want to thank you for doing so. be sure to vote in our poll tonight. do you have any confidence the justice department can credibly investigate clinton corruption before purging the deep state upper management of the doj and fbi? we'd like to hear from you. cast your vote on twitter. follow me on twitter, like me on facebook and instagram. well, lou dobbs tonight. >>> wall street, another record breaking day for stocks. winning never gets old. the dow surging 221 points, the s&p up 19, nasdaq jane 59. volume on the big board 3.2 billion shares. in this trading week the dough and s&p posted gains of more than 2%. the nasdaq up more than

on his hands as president obama did in a number of obama officials including his three advisors susan riceing the trump administration to be quiet as the people of iran express their desire for freedom and to throw off the suppression, the oppression of the iatolas. >> yeah, i'm sure susan rice, ben rhodes, obama would like us to be very quiet also about the almost $200 billion they gave the theocratic dictators in iran which they use to suppress their own people and now those brave iranians are standing up and the president is not an intervention ist, not invading foreign countries but he's going to stand up for their right to choose their own government and give them moral and spiritual support and hopefully a little bit more in terms of their capacity to communicate with each other. lou there's a big change from 2009. we have more than 40 million smartphones in iran since then. that helps you organize a resistance to dictators so we shall see. lou: and it's getting very little coverage, these demonstrations are incredible and national left wing media. it's stunning. >> it is stunning. t

they somehow limited the number of people who can be involved in it, though susan rice was cleared by both parties when she testified. >> let me be clear at the outset to say i don't think there's been any abuse of this unmasking authority, which is the process by which a national security official can ask to know the identity of an american whose name has been masked in an intercept that's been collected in order to understand the context. that's what unmasking is. i don't think there's been any abuse of this, and we have only sketchy details at this point on what the director of national intelligence has just done. looking at it, it strikes me as something designed more to make the president feel good than to really substantially change the process. it is significant in that it's the first time the whole intelligence community has, on one piece of paper, guidance on how to do this. the significant element that jumps out at you is a requirement for the general counsel, that is, the chief lawyer in each of these agencies to approve any requests to unmask the identity of transition off

take former obama security advisory, susan rice who wrote an arm stomach article that said how can trump help around protesters quiet? rice and company fear that long-standing mistrust between america and iran means that any perceived us involvement in the protest will d legitimize those on the >> is a team trump or team obama? >> plenty liberal that are saying that they support the people. you can't take it too far. you can't just give the irradiance an opportunity to blame the great state for what is happening there. when he is done so far is okay, but please, no more tweets. >> we are going to come in and give military support to the rebels, that is a kind of trap that trump could talk himself into. >> they will rise up against saddam and were slaughtered. we have to go back to 1956 in europe where the hungarians rose up and the push themselves into tanks and we did nothing. refugees are pouring out. i think we ought to stand up which was nothing. speak out and speak to the right values. >> they were quiet and they did it anyway. we were going to send in military support . >> what you

susan rice. she tweeted this out.y do the opposite. here she says how can trump help iran's protesters? be quiet. samantha powers says we stand with the iranian people so much that we don't let them come here because they're on the terror watch list. i guess she's upset by that. steve: well, maybe susan rice is referring to the approach that her former boss had regard to that. also news was broken about a hour ago and the wall street journal has confirmed that the state department apparently the administration is planning more sanctions on the country of iran unless they allow the protest to continue. brian: we need to do the same thing. we don't have much trade with them. their economy is growing at 7%. their people have seen none of it. why? a billion-dollar line of credit for the syria rebels to prop up that regime. they fully fund hezbollah and hamas. islamic jihad. this is where all their money is going. the question is until the security forces flip, these people are going to really sitting ducks for when the su

sketchy uber ride, dropped off in the dark of night and -- >> right, it was some allegation against susan rice that ended up not being true. you know, he also had to recuse himself from the investigation because he was under an ethics investigation. so this is all part of -- you know, they want to undermine mueller. it's of a wide squal campaign to undermine him and this investigation. and i don't think it's really working because every day, there's, like, these new developments that show that, you know what, none of this stuff -- all this stinks. >> right. >> let me be the last word, robert costa. may not be working in terms of slowing down robert mueller's investigation but it seems to be having some effect in the public arena as ken dilanian alluded to. is that the end game in your estimation from your conversations with your sources? >> it's really going to depend on what the special counsel's report is. whether or not he pursues different kinds of legal charges or not against members of the administration. it will be congress and the american people who have to interpret some of the kochb

there is no crime that trump is said to have committed so they've been spying on trump illegally susan rice on mask names illegally and they tried to find information on trump associates even though donald trump has never been accused of a crime and he's not the subject of a crime they haven't found any evidence and it's been since two thousand and fifteen the mulla probe is completely partisan and it was a result of james comey squeezy memos. russia never interfered in the election to the point of giving the election to anyone what took place was it was a one point two billion dollar loss from hillary clinton and to cover up the loss we know that there was an insurance policy so peter struck in the text messages stated well i spoke to andrew mccabe and now mccabe is out. and we can't we can't. question whether or not we have to have an insurance policy if in the event that trump wins then you have speedo struck ok all right. you've got a lot of material right there let me go to james here i mean ha's got it down cold here the facts here but james i mean the fact of the matter is that we're

you know is questioning the obama administration's role in what has already been proven through susan rice's unmasking involvement there was surveillance orders have been made there was partisan forces in the f.b.i. that's proven beyond a reasonable doubt what this is is a kind of democratic deep state joint venture to try to. divert people's attention away kind of engineer this sort of social desirability. phenomenon where you just don't want to be supporting trump or you don't want to be siding with russia otherwise it's socially undesirable in america to counting thing executive editor of twenty first century why dot com thank you for your time when it's coming up after the break to stay with us. when nor make this manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling class is to protect themselves. when the final merry go round lifts and be the one percent. we can all middle of the room see. the real news. in order to overthrow a regime it does take popular discontent and popular mobilization but it also requires actors with in the leadership of the regime who feel that the regime is no

rather than sitting on his hands as a president obama did in a number of obama officials including susan riceration to be quiet as the people of iran express their desire for freedom and to throw off the subpregz. >> yeah, i am sure susan rise and ben rhoeds and obama would like us to be quiet about the $200 billion which they used to suppress their own people and now the brave iranians are standing up. and the president is not invading foreign countries, but he will stand up for their right and five them moral and spiritual support and more in terms of the capacity to communicate with each other. we have 40 million smart phones in iran and that helps to organize the resistance and dictators. >> lou: it is getting very little coverage by the national left wing media. it is stunning. >> this is a regime that exploited terrorism across the globe from yemen to latin america. it is a classified thing and google hesbollah cells and now iran is overextended they have to make a decision. pull back the forces to protect the regime or keep them out there and potentially have an uprising inside of iran

a lot of pushback on twitter, susan rice, the best advice i can give is states why it? has been a response exclusively to fox showing a panicked ayatollah, religious leaders and leadership must come as soon as possible to prevent the situation from deteriorating further, this is a complex situation different from previous occasions. >> this regime is deeply hated by iranian people and come down by violence. consider this, iran gave $800 million last year to its terrorist proxy, the people of iran can't buy chicken and they are selling their kidneys to raise money. that is why we have these protests. >> they thought they would find an economic gain from the nuclear deal as well and they have seen nothing. >> they see it rainy and troops in syria, a missile program, but even if it isn't, it has a large nuclear program pursuing civilian pursuits. >> let's switch to kim jung un saying he has a nuclear button and ready to go, donald trump a little bit less response. he is saying we will see, that was donald trump's response to kim jung un. >> with iranian and north korean le

. >> reporter: susan rice talked about the approach, how could trump help iran to protesters? the obama ministration chose to say nothing. ? obama said i do not want to get involved. -- >> obama said i do not want to get involved. president trump is tweeting sympathetic he to the iranian people you cannot just wait you have to lay out a plan. we do not want to make the same mistake that america made before. >> reporter: iran's president acknowledged the protesters. >> the government will not tolerate those groups that are destroying public properties or sparking riots in society. >> reporter: there is another death of an iranian policeman killed by a protester. at the pentagon jennifer griffin, foxnews. >>> hope for the new year in the northbay. >> coming up how communities are looking at 2018 after the north bay wildfires.>>> wet weather is in the works, our chief meteorologist has our complete forecast. ast. ♪ ♪ there are two types of people in the world. those who fear the future... and those who embrace it. the future is for the unafraid. ♪ all because of you ♪ ♪ >>> on th

. >> jesse: when susan rice says we should remain quiet, she has no credibility.the arab spring, what do they do? they encourage the overthrow of our ally in egypt. a letter it overthrow of muammar qaddafi. then sat back and watch the state failed. president trump came out strong, protests and riots about her rigged election. president obama said he was troubled. he said he didn't want to go in hard because he didn't want to metal in another country's affairs. >> richard: you just condemned obama for meddling in the egyptian affairs. i think you're neglecting the fact that any time -- >> jesse: we don't want to go in there and overthrow. >> dana: nobody can hear either of you. >> richard: any time the federal government intervenes in the domestic situation, it's complicated. egypt, it was complicated. tunisia. >> dana: last word. >> jesse: at the same time whenever you have a corrupt regime that dealing in illicit trade with the north koreans, it's funding hamas and hezbollah and killing americans with technology they have in iraq, you want to make sure that regim

are you telling me the director of the national security council susan rice didn't know a thing and benwell known leaker, he didn't know a thing and valerie jarret controlling every cabinet and secretary and james comey who likes to meet with presidents and takes memos didn't meet with the president and write memos? it's nice to see we have committees in congress concerned and we have radio hosts concerned about this. it's a nice to see we have television hosts concerned about this. where the hell were they in march? mark what are you talking about? where were they in march when i had information, pulled it together the public accounts and began to pull the strings and to see something didn't smell right. something didn't look right. and the media came down on me like a ton of bricks. >> sean: and mark was on the show at that time and sara carter in march. they broke the story about fisa abuse and a warrant at trump tower. here with reaction, harvard constitutional law professorialan der show wits. good to see you again. you fear they're going to try and go after obstruction of justice.

susan rice, barack obama's national security adviser has said yes, she is. i am not. >> martha: let's talk about for a moment the difference between an apostrophe d. let's play these two tapes. the "wall street journal" claims he had said that he had -- i have a great relationship essentially or might have a good relationship with kim jong-un of north korea. he says -- he put that in the future. listen to these. >> i have a great relationship with prime minister abe of japan and i probably have a very good relationship with kim jong-un of north korea. >> as you know, i have a great relationship with prime minister abe of japan. and i probably have a very good relationship with kim jong-un of north korea. >> martha: what did you make of that ambassador bolton? >> you can listen to the tapes a lot. sounded like he did say i'd have a great relationship. president is an optimistic man. i don't think he would. that's his opinion. honestly, it's hard to imagine that they have had conversations and after the positions of the two countries are understood, how they c

i was in the interviews in which we examined that and there's zero evidence that sam powers or susan riceybody else improperly unmasked, and now we are on the war that chairman nunez initiated with the department of justice and the fbi all around the idea that the dossier -- which, by the way, there could be errors in the dossier, and it's a collection of information that would not pass muster with the cia or fbi, but there are still open questions in the dossier, and of course the fbi did not rely exclusively on that dossier in order to open the investigation. this is just a third installment of attempts to distract and delegitimize those working on trying to understand what russia did to us in the election and whether there was any u.s. person participation in that attack. >> is chairman nunez blocking your efforts and others' efforts in trying to get information on the russia probe and interview people? >> i don't want to go that far. i have no personal an phus against chairman nunez, i like the guy, and i hope he drops the third installment of distraction, and i hope we can go back to

. >> i don't find susan rice to be a particularly credible messenger.alking about darkness, i'd be surprised if the state of the union next week reflects that same darkness because there is so much good news you had to take a holistic approach and the economy news is just terrific. overall, jobs, the bonuses from these tax reforms, boosting's of global growth projections just like tax reform, a new poll shows 64% of business owners so the term presidency is helping businesses. there's a lot of stuff and material for trump to tell it on a very major stage and i expect him to do it exactly that. >> martha: click last thoughts. >> i agree with that. he should focus on that and have an uplifting address. he has so much more divisive as a president and president obama was especially along racial lines. i know the economic news and his populated area still hanging as low as it is, we know this president is and loved by all. >> martha: he is up by 45% which is a decent move. we'll see where it goes and what he has to say on tuesday night. thanks you guys. comi

susan rice is the real scandal here. devon nunes says the real scandal is uranium one. he's leading the charge against all the senior leadership of the fbi somehow being corrupt and terrible. over the past week, that congressman, devon nunes has led a conservative media and republican full-scale, freakout over a memo. a memo that conservatives insist will be magic antidote to the robert mueller investigation and a get out of jail free card for anybody implicated by the mueller investigation. this was written by devon nunes himself. his office wrote it and he and republicans and conservative media and lots and lots of russian bots online are all now insisting with increasing ferocity that this memo that devon nunes wrote, it must be released, even though it contains classified information, because if this memo is released, that will bring down the fbi. devon nunes has written the memo that reportedly says the fbi behaved badly somehow when it obtained search warrants from a court to collect evidence in the russia investigation. this, this memo that he wrote has been an a

missing text messages that occurred during a very difficult time, during the transition, during when susan rice unmasked the names from the fisa warrants. weeed to know what happened during that time. why are the five months missing? it warrants an investigation. >> when the president puts out a tweet after years of comey with the phony and dishonest clinton investigation running the fbi, worst in history. fear not, we will bring it back to greatness. do you think that has a demoralizing effect on the rank and file in the fbi? >> i think comey deserved to be fired especially now that we know things he did as head of the fbi. this is up to the president to decide. this is up for the voters to decide. i think there are some concerning things come canning out especially from the text messages. >> this is what's so confusing. this is our top law enforcement agency. they keep us safe. they fight crime, terrorism. do we trust them or don't we trust them? >> we do trust them. these two individuals need to be investigated. >> fine but -- >> they are hurting the fbi in some ways because these are people

when it comes to getting the warrant, there were questions still about susan rice's role, who was theormer national security advisor to president obama. the ambassador to the u.n., samantha power allegedly was involved in this unmasking. so those are the questions still that we don't have the answers to. but when it comes to collusion and robert mueller and whether the president will speak to him, he has been criticized over the last day or so because he said in the summer of last year that he would testify 100 percent and talk to robert mueller. that was before indictments were coming down for things unrelated to what this investigation was supposed to be about. and if i was donald trump's attorney i wouldn't have him talking to him either. >> melissa: seems like very foolish to go in and talk. for people in our audience hard to know what's going on so confusing. for us it's very hard to sort through. it's frustrating that we seem to be conflating and putting together the idea of not spying on american citizens. i mean, you can imagine the abuse that could go on at the same time we'r

are you telling me that the director of the national security council, susan rice, didn't know i thinkyou telling me that the deputy director of the national security council, ben rhodes, well known they could, didn't know a thing, are you telling me valerie jarrett did it not a thing as she sits there controlling every department in every cabinet secretary? are you telling me james comey, who likes to meet with presidents and take memos, that he did not write any memos? is nice to see now that we have committees of congress that are concerned. it's nice to see that we have radio hosts who are concerned. it's nice to see that we have television hosts who are concerned. where were they in march? mark, what are you talking about? where were they in march? i had information, pulled it together from the public accounts! i began to pull the string and to see that something didn't smell right, something didn't look right. and the media came down on me like a ton of bricks. >> sean: and mark was on the show at that time, and to sara carter, and john solomon, in march, they broke the story abo

he lied about whether susan rice had the right to look to -- as we say unmask national security agency communications. he lied when he said he'd tear up the iran nuclear deal. it's not about phycological preparedness, it's about the temperament and judgement of a man who is responsible for the nuclear button. that's the story here. >> and let me just give a word for that, narcissism. there is a level of narcissism that donald trump has acceded to that is in itself very troubling and i think it goes for everything phil and gloria said. how do they run the country? how do they interact with people? how do they deal with foreign leaders? everything we've seen is very sporadic. >> everyone stand by. more news coming up here in "the situation room," including the secretary of state rex tillerson. he sits down for an exclusive television interview. he's opening up about his rpsz with president trump and sending a direct warning to north korea. when i met my team at ctca, they put together a comprehensive plan, that gave me an opportunity to accomplish my goals, and my dreams. learn more at c

on the one hand many critics are saying that kim jong un is a rational actor, susan rice wrote an op-edan live in a world where he has a nuclear arsenal. he will abide by mutually assured destruction. and then on the other hand is an absolute madman that's going to be provoked to world war iii via tweet. which is if there? i think the current administration has been consistent in that he is irrational, we can't trust him to have a nuclear icbm. we're not not going to risk an american city and that if he attains this program it will mean his destruction. this rhetoric, the strong rhetoric, which is untraditional -- >> sandra: let me take this point -- with all due respect, let me jump in on that. let me just push back there and say why not issue a statement? why a tweet? why not a formal statement from the white house as far as a strategy, an approach to taking on north korea and its leader? >> i think we've had statements, we had press conferences from nikki haley. without a number of statements from both general mattis and tillerson come a bit of a good cop bad cop where we will obtain

the obamas administration officials such as phil gordon and susan rice urging everybody in the editorial op-ed writing to be quiet. don't do anything. don't so it say anything to rock the vote in patrick was right and i agree with him about the issue on sanctions. where do you all come out as a policy for the united states were the obama administration in its infinite efforts to get the poa pass to put the regime change off the table? it seems the trump administration would like to put a regime change back on the table. where do you all come out on that issue? >> let me just ask hanin on this is supporter silence better? you are coming from the region itself. the trump administration has been careful to say explicitly that they are not -- of a regime change. i think they have been. explicit on that point. do you have thoughts on that? >> no it's definitely not a good idea. simply knowing how iran functions and iran moves in a vacuum always. vacuums in syria and iraq, everywhere where there bears an unsettling event. so it's very easy. the absence of any american policy in syria led to a

susan rice should be lives as a nomad in the kurdish region of northwestern iran. and she has a lot to do. soon susan and the fellow members of her community will be heading south to warmer climes for the winter. women work just like men do here but they don't enjoy the same rights. as they asked certain customs and rules funnel math like us especially. for example girls shouldn't participate in sports i couldn't bring myself to tell my parents at home that i wanted to do sports. time but when i finally did my father really ranted at me and. the memory of that makes suzanne sad you can tell how our father's reaction of prohibiting her to do sports affected her but she just didn't want to bake she also wanted to do kickboxing. because her first love them used to have the neighbors and family members had complained about me to my father behind my back when he also said bad things to my face but i ignored it and continued to do my squad. even when i started winning tournaments and my name appeared every rare in the media saying that a normal girl had become a winner th

let's talk about the things we know that don't work right i was surprised to hear when you quoted susan ricethe president should remain quiet. that is what president obama did during the revolution and we know what happened there. we have failed utterly because they felt like a -- the people felt like he had been abandoned and frankly by the world community. that doesn't work, we know that won't work. the second thing, this is so important, we have spent -- sent billions of dollars to the iranian leaders, as a result of the agreement we talked about a moment ago, billions of dollars. think about this. about 450 million of it was sent to them in cash. literally a plane load of euros and dollars. why? it was because they wanted to have that cash to funnel it to hezbollah, to funnel it to other terrorist organizations. that money wasn't going to be going to the iranian people. they wanted it in cash so they could funnel it, it wouldn't be traced. again, the reigning people were promised, the sanctions relief would make an economic difference in their lives, they just simply -- the mullahs are n

he ran to the white house to get intelligence allegedly that showed susan rice was unmasking people.own to be completely ridiculous and she did not do those things or if she did, she was perfectly justified in doing them. he had to recuse himself. but he hasn't actually recused himself. he is playing a role in which folks get called as witnesses. he is not a reliable actor in this. >> let's see the memo. >> i'm fine with seeing the memo. >> if everything you say is true, we will know. >> i didn't say it's made up. if they wanted it out it would be out. i'm saying they are playing it both ways here. >> i guarantee you he wants it out. >> he could read it on the floor of congress if he is -- is co-convicted about the process. >> he wants to go through the process. >> it's an odd thing to hear about him. do you think republicans should say what lowery is saying about the efforts to tar the fbi? >> the fbi in general is an important organization and we should support it. i don't think the president of the united states should be calling out and criticizing specific fbi agents by name. th

susan rice has the best thing president trump can do is stay quiet.king it very clear he is not staying quiet here. how important is it that he lay out a specific strategy, which he has often reluctant to do? >> first of all, providing moral clarity much as ronald reagan did to stand up against communism, particularly when the polls were rebelling and protesting against the communist regime in poland, it can be very inspirational to the people on the ground. quite emotional in describing the impact it had on him. but yes, i really think that we have to get the other countries of the world to work with us on this. i understand the communication being put together with the u.k., france, italy and possibly germany as well. that's a step in the right direction. nikki haley today spoke about the security council meeting, condemnation by the world for what they are doing is very important and it's one of the useful things that the u.n. can actually do in a positive way. but then i think you've got to get considerably more specific and that is with the leade