tom dupree, gregg jarrett, thank you both.g media will find anything to criticize the president of you -- as you have noticed. and respectfully honoring the life of george h. w. bush while others read the apostles creed. nothing in the scriptures say you must state the grievous of reporters took to twitter calling it carious. interesting as little starks said even striking that the president and his wife chose not to recite the creed. here to take this up with us, a pastor of the first baptist church of dallas, fox business contributor, author of the book choosing the extraordinary life and another book that we recommend to you, highlight. pastor, great to see you. i'd never heard of the apostles creed, frankly. what is the big deal? >> look, this is nothing that has been cooked up by trump haters are trying to separate the president from the evangelical base. i have sat next to him heard him reset -- recite the lords prayer. and i've heard him sing the hymns. and people said why didn't he do that here? i am a pastor in their

join me now former deputy assistant attorney general, tom dupree, a partner now the washington d.c. and crutcher. a leading attorney in the country. good to see you, tom. fox legal analyst, author of the new york times bestseller the russia hoax and he always makes me go to the subtitle, the illicit -- >> i should have made it shorter! lou: you should have. i am one that put out a few books with tireless subtitles. i understand. great to have you with this, gentlemen. tom, let's start with you. william barr, is he right for this president at this time? >> i think is a potentially good choice. the fact is that william barr is going to have the job before. i think he is widely regarded, credible guy, one that knows how the justice department operates on a daily basis. i will say this though. i was a bit surprising that trump rbc holton as someone who is a disruptor and makes the unconventional, non-establishment choice. and william barr isn't quite that! don't get me wrong, i think is a good choice but i don't think is the direction that the president would be going in. lou: what dire

joining us on the couch, tom dupree. former assistant attorney general under president george w. bush. boy, we have a lot of legal issues to get to today. we need your expert opinion and your smile and laugh. >> tom: absolutely. ready to get to it. >> melissa: michael cohen could learn his fate today. reports from inside the courtroom are that cohen says he takes "full responsibility for crimes" including campaign finance violations and lying to congress. prosecutors claim that the president directed cohen to pay off two women who alleged that they had affairs with the president. earlier, president trump distancing himself from any alleged involvement in the campaign finance violations, telling reuters "michael cohen is a lawyer. i assume you would know what he was doing. number one, it wasn't a campaign contribution, as it were. it's only civil. even as it is only civil, there is no violation based on what we did." but democrats like eric swalwell blasted the president's defense. >> let's go back to april 5th when the president was aboard air force one and said he had no knowledg

kramer, fox news contributor and former us attorney and former deputy assistant attorney general tom dupree, welcome to all of you tonight. let me start with you. any reactions what he had to say tonight and anything new from fbi director comey? >> some of his points were fair in the sense that jim comey was not able to answer some questions in a public setting before because of the sensitive nature but mister comey went to a judge, that there be a very public document, he was concerned about leaks out of context and the like so at least at the end of this people will be able to see a full transcript 24 hours later, of the questions and answers and they can make up their own mind. a lot of what we have seen to date, not including the mueller investigation which will be kept secret except for court filings, you can make up your own mind without anything. shannon: we will look at more document sentencing memos dealing with michael cohen and paul manafort, the court filings that are due tomorrow. so much interesting new information in the michael flynn case, such a reduction, what will we see

dave brown, former deputy assistant attorney general tom dupree and cia analyst mark sexton, welcomel. let's start with the statement from the trump organization saying he wanted to dissolve this thing anyway in 2016 to avoid this conflict of interest but wasn't allowed to until now. >> it is useful for people trying to make a political name for themselves to go after trump. everyone should be aware what is going to happen, there will be ongoing investigations in every angle possible from his political enemies whether we're talking extensions of special counsel investigation or people that decide in the state of new york that realize the incoming attorney general has said anybody around trump, anybody related to trump are going to get it and that is a perversion of the law and that is what we are seeing happening here. will charity run well? probably not. it is a major issue? a lot of people say there's another charity that could use a deeper scrub than the million dollars or so left in this one and that would be the hillary clinton charity that was run for so many years. it is an op

i'm joined now by former deputy assistant tom dupree, nice scarf shannon, let me start with you thoughom. the latest filings, what do they show about the scope of the mueller investigation. >> well, i think they underscore its bretd. he's investigating different corporations. his mandate is fairly broad. i think this filing though in my opinion in all likelihood is much ado about nothing. the fact is when prosecutors go out and collect evidence often it is overinclusive. they might seize an entire cell phone which we know is going to contain a lot of images, e-mails, communications that may not be directly relevant to the investigation -- >> but nude selfies, tom? >> well, people have all sorts of crazy things on their phone, craig. i think that's the way of the world. >> okay. let's take a look at the legal issues facing the president beyond bob mueller. some new reporting the legal experts say the new york attorney general's probe of the president's charity could quote, crash like a mack truck into his real estate empire. do you get the sense there at 1600 pennsylvania that the white

attorney andrew mccarthy, and former deputy assistant attorney general tom dupree.elcome to all of you tonight. >> good evening. >> shannon: okay, jeffrey, let me start with you. and a reaction to what chairman gowdy had to say, and the also they get anything new from former fbi director comey? >> some of his points were fair in the sense that jim comey wasn't able to answer some questions in the public setting before. obviously because of their sensitive nature. but it was important to mr. comey, which is why he went to a judge, that there be a transcript, a public document of it. he was concerned about leaks out of context. at least at the end of this, people will be able to see a full transcript, albeit 24 hours later, but a full transcript of the questions and the answers and they can make up their own minds. a lot of what we have seen today, not including the mueller investigation, which is obviously going to be kept secret, except for court filings, at least people can make up their own minds without any sort of political purview. >> shannon: okay, so we will

democratic strategist and attorney general, tom dupree.k sexton, welcome to you all. >> thank you, shannon. >> shannon: let's start with a statement that comes from the trump organization saying, listen, he wanted to dissolve this thing, anyway, back in 2016 to avoid this conflict of interest. but he wasn't allowed to until now. >> that is because it is usual for people who are trying to make a political name for themselves to go after trump. everyone should just be aware of what is going to happen in the year ahead, which is there will be ongoing investigations that come from every angle possible from his political enemies, whether we are talking about extensions of the special counsel investigation, or just people who decide come in the state of new york, for example, who realized this is good politics. the incoming attorney general has said that anyone around trump, related to trump, they are going to get it. that is really a perversion of the law, and that is what we are seeing happening here. was the chair already run particularly wel

. >> tom dupree, somebody who our viewers here at msnbc as well as fox news know pretty well, had somethingresting to say this morning on this network, and i want to play it. >> i think 2019 is going to bring a whole host of new legal battles for this administration. we obviously know the mueller investigation is moving ahead. we know that there are different pieces of this, the cohen piece and other pieces. of course we know that the white house is going to be fending off numerous subpoenas from the new democratic-controlled house of representatives. so i think the white house has probably had enough of these legal battles but unfortunately from their perspective, it ain't going away in 2019. >> and that's just true, yamiche. >> that's just true. i think that president trump maybe it's starting to sink in how different is life is going to be in 2019. nancy pelosi, not only is she going to be speaker of the house, but you have all these new young democrats who were elected because essentially people are angry at donald trump and wanted a check on his presidency. and democrats, and i think e

former deputy assistant attorney general tom dupree is with us now. we'll start with james comey. reportedly told by a doj attorney not to answer many questions to what darrell issa said was his gleeful acceptance. how will it play out? are we going to learn anything? the american public wants this resolved and we want to know what's going on. >> this is a bit of a surprise to me frankly. i anticipated that the doj lawyer might lodge objections to some questions but it's a fair greater extend than anyone anticipated. what catherine was reported is that there seems to be a real consensus that today's exercise might have been a total waste of time. they don't seem to be getting new information about comey that comey himself seemed to have no objection to being shut down and prevented from answering the questions. so it does raise the larger issue as to whether the republicans are determined to bring comey back before the new congress comes in and try to get answers to his questions that they have been demanding nor so long. >> would it be an exercise in futility if we keep going thr

tom dupree is also still with me. tom of course former deputy assistant attorney general. going back to that fbi interview, that report that was released last night, we see a lot of contact between general flynn and sergey kislyak, the russian ambassador. anything in that report jump out at you, anything glaring. well, what really jumped out at me craig is the fact that when you look at the transcript, it was clear that flynn understood that the federal officials had a lot of information about the nature, the extent, the substance of his communications with kislyak, and when you're in that situation, you're being interviewed by the fbi, they are asking questions to you that indicate that they know pretty much what you did at various points in the transcript, flynn is saying things like, well, that's a good point. thank you for that helpful reminder. you would think at some point during this interview, a warning bell would have gone off in his mind saying, i got to be a little careful here. these guys have a lot of information. they may have a better recollection of what i

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let's bring in former assistant attorney general tom dupree. thank you for coming on, to*fm.r reaction and we'll get to the bill barr story. your reaction to the acting attorney general matt whitaker not recusing himself from the russia investigation just breaking in our last hour after he met with d.o.j. ethics officials and told him he is fine to oversee the mueller/russia investigation. what say you? >> i say it's good to see he followed the appropriate process. when you're in a situation like this you seek out the counsel from the nonpartisan professional ethics advisors within the justice department and put your fate in their hands. i never saw a reason for him to recuse for his comments on the mueller probe. you have people placed in high government position who have talked about issues of the day and sharing their views. just because you express an opinion on something before you are in the government doesn't mean you have to recuse yourself from touching that issue once you're in the government. >> julie: bill barr and his comments. he was a private citizen at the tim

good morning to you, tom dupree. is that against the law to share information?understand why mueller's team would be angry if he was sharing information with the president's legal team. he would know a lot of the evidence mueller has gathered. if it turns out that mueller's team was sharing all of that stuff with the president's legal team i get why the prosecutors would be upset with manafort. lawyers do talk all the time. once you enter cooperation proceedings with a prosecutor it is generally understood you aren't going to share information you get out of those interactions with someone else involved in the investigation and that's why they're upset. >> bill: we have all this dumped on friday evening. a lot to go through. you have over the weekend. i want to call your attention to one tweet from the president from yesterday. look at the last line of the tweet. now the dems go to a simple private transaction wrongly called a campaign contribution. this is how the president could defend himself, does it not? >> you can see the president taking a number of diffe

tom dupree assistant attorney general under george w. bush. good morning to you. a trump destruction project. your retort. >> well, i'm not quite sure i would agree with the speaker on that one. i think it is fair to judge bob mueller once the dust settles and we see what evidence he has gathered and the total collection of charges he brings. i think at this point it's too early for history to judge bob mueller and the legitimacy of this investigation. he has a number of irons in the fire and pursuing investigations and hasn't shown his hand. as far as we know he hasn't found evidence that directly links the president with collusion with russia. >> bill: what's the flynn filing with all these redactions tell you? >> it's a heavy redacted document. we knew that flynn was cooperating with mueller. we knew that it was very likely mueller was going to recommend a reduced sentence for flynn based on his substantial cooperation with ongoing investigations. flynn wasn't facing a huge amount of jail time. maybe six months at the outset. it's not a shock. we don't know pre

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