i think trey gowdy as usual is absolutely right. if the inspector general's also coming up with a report about potential pfizer abuse. nobody has talked about that. he will come out with the report and i do hope that the president appoints john radcliffe, the congressman out of texas as the next attorney general. that would be the right move. >> shannon: harry, your thoughts on the potential mueller report? >> first on congressman trey gowdy, nobody knows what bob mueller is going to do except bob mueller and matt whitaker. only point of what happens to the report, it is really important. he will have the latitude to not issue it. it will be up to him. as you know, team trump has said that they prefer that it not come out. it is hard to imagine it will never see the light of day but he will have the authority to keep it bottled up if he wants. >> shannon: tonight we have an acting attorney general, matt whitaker and the deputy rod rosenstein who many folks have thought would be on his way out. he remands there as well. gentlemen, th

we heard from your colleague trey gowdy. where do you stand on what should happen next based on what we're learning about ivanka trump and her use of private email for government business? >> i support chairman gowdy's position on this. our job is to gather data and records. you are subject to oversight any time you are using your personal email to conduct any form of government business. now, i know my friends on the left are running around with their hair on fire right now but so far as we know there is no secret server in the bathroom. no acid watch or bleaching going on. not to rehash it. this was about hillary clinton's human struggle in life to tell the truth. >> sandra: you are clearly marking the distinction between what has been reported about her use of an email and hillary clinton's use of a private

trey gowdy is retiring at the end of it term. no lift wants to equate ivanka to hillary clinton and her fry at server, president said there is no comparison. >> ivanka can handle herd, these are historical records, there of no deleting unlike hillary clinton. who delighted 30 thought e-mails. this is early on. she came in, these calls not closclassified. unlike hillary clinton's calls, it is fake news. >> wellest vision go anywhere, can we agree one of these thing ofs is not quite like the other. let's welcome our panel. >> thank you. former congresswoman, board member. nan, happy thanksgiving. >> we're having a dits cusion about stuffing versus stressing, regional differences. nan with you, about comparison that i think is kind of -- >> i agree. >> strikes he apples and oranges. >> i would agree, they are fruit, and e-mail. issues. in fact, wording that senate hockey hockey chairman ron jon john used, we want to determine whether or not there was anything substantive in the e-mails. or classified. which are all archive is, retai

trey gowdy saying we need answers in two weeks on this. >> he's leaving congress.e's free a bit more than the typical republican who will be serving under trump's administration right now. i do think it is critical that they are giving democrats some cover. they will investigate into this. this is something where donald trump, the president, on the campaign trail, hit hillary clinton over and over and over. >> lock her up. crooked hillary. they were all launched by this assault on hillary clinton. >> i think you'll see democrats think we have some red meat here. we're going to pounce on this. absolutely. i think the question really is what we don't know. what was the substance of those e-mails. >> we appreciate it. we hope you two will stick around with us. >>> southern hospitality is coming up after the break. right out the door in the mississippi race. the candidates getting into it last night over race and the controversial comments by the republican incumbent. cin cindy hyde-smith blaming her opponent about what she said about public hangings. nent aboud about

seriously, trey gowdy.secret service set up in her house in chappaqua, deleting e-mails with bleach bits and a hammer to smash her phone, not a glove laid on her, and now trey gowdy calling for this on ivanka during the transition period. >> i think that this is a grand standing, he should knock himself out over the whole thing. there snow comparison to hillary's secret server she had classified and special access program material. none of which should have left the state department, this is apples and oranges, ivanka's e-mails were personal. that not the issue, and miss clinton had classified top-secret and special access program on her secret server, it was unsecured and she districted justice -- destruction of the justice when she destroyed it. >> moving on, before i get too angry. justice roberts, moving in on the political arena. >> justice robber robert, woulde correct but president is expressing reality, and opinions of the american public. who see what they see. yes. unfortunately, judges have becom

point number two is trey gowdy is absolutely correct.t we have seen over the last two years since the 2016 election and the coming forward of the information about hillary's e-mails is hillary has done it, comey has done it and now ivanka has done it. what i suspect is a whole lot of other people are using the integration of personal e-mails and work e-mails, which gets tricky. the only people who could tell us if there's a security violation are the people that trey gowdy says we need more information. we're going to have to look at this in the context of was there a violation of national security. and i don't trust ivanka's lawyers or ivanka or president trump to tell me how there hasn't been such a violation. it need to be looked at. it seems to be reviewed in the same way they called jim comey up to testify. you say him on thanksgiving day. he got a request from the house to testify, and i suspect they'll do the same from ivanka, which is correct, and let's let the chips fall after they're looked at in the proirp light. >> peter, is

. >> we hear trey gowdy has told bret baer that sessions had been a dead man walking for months. what do you know about the timing? >> based on my reporting leading up to the midterms one of my contacts says if the republicans could expand the majority in the senate they expected the white house to take swift action shaking up justice department leadership, specifically jeff sessions because they had that comfort zone the with the next nominee they would be able to get it through fairly seamlessly. >> and the house may have changed the calculations. what does it mean for the deputy attorney general. >> we have been in a blackout period with the special counsel because as an attorney you don't just announce investigations or prosecutions 60 days from an election. that also applied to the inspector general. was waiting in the wings is their report on the surveillance abuse and deputy attorney general, in the center of that and also if you think back a few weeks house republicans wanted rosenstein on the hill to testify under oath but allegations that he advocated recording the pres

talk more about the sessions retirement, really firing with south carolina republican congressman trey gowdy who sits on the judiciary and intelligence committees and chairs the oversight and government reform committee. thanks for being here. your thoughts of this news. >> it was going to happen, i knew it was going to happen after the election. i didn't think it would happen before all the votes had been counted but he's been a proverbial dead men walking for several months now. >> bret: chuck schumer had a real problem with the acting attorney general, take a listen. >> our paramount view is that any attorney general whether this one or another one should not be able to interfere with the mueller investigation in any way. if they shouldn't be able to end markets, limited or interfere with mueller going forward and doing what he thinks is the right thing. that will help guide us as we go through this process. >> bret: their concern is that matt whitaker is going to do that. >> every prosecutor has jurisdictional boundaries. i don't know a single prosecutor that does not. mueller's jurisdic

house oversight chairman trey gowdy of south carolina will break it all down with us.ar-a-, president trump drew an unusual rebuke from chief justice john roberts after lashing out on a judge who voted against his asylum party. >> ninth circuit, everyone knows it's totally out of control. >> brennan: and the president stands behind crown prince al mohammad despite u.s. intelligence. we'll ask maine senator angus king what he can tell us after being briefed by the sigh yeah. and vermont senator bernie sanders joins us to talk about his new book and the government's balk shell black friday climate change report. and we'll take a look at the past, present, and future of the u.s. sprais program. prepare for liftoff. that's all coming up on "face the nation." good morning and welcome to "face the nation." we begin today with republican congressman trey gowdy, who leads the main investigative committee of the house of representatives. he joins us this morning from greenville, south carolina. welcome back the "face the nation." you've been busy over the holiday. we know that, congressman. a

but today representative trey gowdy said that's not like what happened.listen. >> leaks are counterproductive whether jim comey or the fbi or congress is doing it. the remedy for leaks is not to have a public hearing where you are supposed to ask about 17 months's worth of work in five minutes. the remedy is to videotape the deposition. videotape the transcribe interview so the president can see if the question was fair and judge the entirety of the answer. there was no founter on the planet who tries to discover the truth in five-minute increments and i can't think of one that does it on national television. >> what's your interpretation and is he saying this is not trustworthy whether it's 18 hours of hillary clinton or james comey being publicly questioned? we shouldn't believe any of that? >> i think what trey gowdy is trying to say and i agree, that the questioning by members broadcast on television just typically does not lead to truth and lets to show boating. it's not productive in terms of getting to the truth. if the copies are intended to have

current house oversight chair trey gowdy is here to react to that, coming up next.o those rumors, coming up. (chime) - [narrator] meet shark's newest robot vacuum. it powerfully cleans from floors to carpets, even pet hair, with ease, and now for cleaning surfaces above the floor, it comes with a built in shark handheld. one dock, two sharks. the shark ion robot cleaning system. steve: the new congress is coming in in january. will they be able to work out america's problems? let's bring in republican congressman currently, trey gowdy, chairman of the house oversight committee, member of the judiciary committee on the house as well. ainsley: from the great state of south carolina. steve: congressman, good morning to you. what do you make of the news congressman elijah cummings of the great state of maryland, who is expected to chair what you're doing right now, the house oversight and government reform committee, he has suggested that when mueller's findings come out, they don't necessarily have to become public, however, he would do everything he could to make sure

trey gowdy said forget the public congressional testimony.otape comey's testimony, then make it public. >> when he was head of the fbi, a lot of my fbi buddies and i had a lot of admiration for him. he always supported the troops, the fbi agents in the field who risk their lives every day. i don't think he wants the public hearing for self-an gra self-aggrandisement. i think he wants to run out the clock. liz: is it valid when the democrats take volume? >> no. on the substance much it i agree with him. i think the secret hearings are terrible. the public has the right to watch the questioner and the witness and draw their own conclusions. if this hearing is held in secret, republicans will leak their version, democrats will leak their version. and the public are treated like children. liz: trey gowdy says a public hearing is worse because you only have 5 minutes with the guy. >> when only certain people know the questions and answers. liz: are they going to get this done? >> i don't know the answer to that. liz: why did it take so long? >> th

certainly if trey gowdy doesn't get to the bottom of it in the next 20 days, certainly you'll see the democrats pick that up down the road. is it something personal in nature? is it something sensitive? nature thee trying to hide? or just an honest mistake? >> ashton, any chance that congressman goodlatt, does it have a chance of actually happening? >> to have the clinton e-mail issue rise to do level of a special counsel, that's something that jeff sessions resisted. we know he's been ousted in favor of someone more politically aligned with the president. we don't have any indications that that is coming or on its way. there's a lesson they have taken from these mid terms, hug the president's message as closely as possible. they ingested the president's line of thinking on the november results saying those people who tried to play both sides of the coin with me have lost. so you have seen congressional republicans lean more into a trumpy messaging than previously. it's not surprising you have people bringing up the greatest hits of a trump rally, like the clinton e-mail scandal, at t

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trey gowdy asked for more information about december 5th and the chairman wants a briefing.y successor, democrat elijah cummings says he's also likely to investigate. ron johnson says he's also concerned. the president says there's no controversy here. >> she wasn't do anything to hide her e-mails. i looked at it very briefly today. the presidential records, they're all in presidential records. there's no hiding. there was no deleting like hillary clinton did. there was no service in the basement like hillary clinton had. >> there are differences, but there also are similarities and the hypocrisy and arrogance question is interesting. trey gowdy, chairman only for a few more weeks, says he wants answers. >> this is bipartisan interest already, not to mention that elijah cummings is excellent at his job and this is going to be a big, big point of contention. >> i caught up with ron johnson yesterday leaving the senate, chairing the homeland security committee, a republican, he's investigated the hillary clinton e-mail issue for the last two years. he says it's not like the cl

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-- he is in a different posture now because he is being challenging, whether it is fox news or trey gowdy suggesting there may be a question of law. i see what you're saying, but he is acting even worse. i think his behavior is worse than it was then. maybe not worse but he is the president of the united states. and he does have checks. this is the first time, he can't leave the situation. he's always been able to walk away from a business deal. he could have walked away from an election. he is so boxed in, so cornered now, he has nowhere to go. and that leaves him in a different position than before. >> i think very much depends on what is revealed in the mueller investigation. by no means it is certain what will be revealed in the mueller investigation. also by no means certain that whatever is revealed will change his political calculus. >> there's a line in a movie, taking a lie detector test, saying when will you have the results. right away. you know when you're lying, don't you? donald trump knows if he is lying. he knows what's been done. he is probably coming to the fact that he

all of that in addition to trey gowdy today. republican overnight committee chair from south carolina said the appointment is an open legal question. any validity to the legal claims so far against whittaker's appointment? >> absolutely. and actually, i rarely agree with trey gowdy, but i'm going to today. it's an open question. a lot of people who are immersed in the constitutional and statutory interation law on both sides -- meaning from both political views j conservative legal analysts have said this is not legal. there are strong arguments to support that. i don't know that this will have time to play out in the courts. the office of legal counsel's opinion was flawed in some serious ways. it did a statutory interpretation analysis but overlooked a couple things. it blurred the lines. they were looking to support a decision that had already been made. the really important fact i think here is regardless, again, of the legality because while that's important, i don't know that we're going to have time to see this play out i

jillian: prediction from a top republican, what trey gowdy says needs to happen to plug the leaks before they even happen and democrats just days away from deciding the next speaker of the house. rob: why all signs point to nancy pelosi despite rumor of rebellion, "fox & friends first" continues right now. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ rob: kind of funny playing the song while looking at a shot. jillian: calming before easing to the workweek. i kind of like it. rob: soothing song. you're watching "fox & friends first" on monday morning i'm rob schmitt. jillian: and i'm jillian mele, we begin with fox news alert, our nation's busiest port of entry reopens after hundreds of migrants storm the u.s.-mÉxico border. rob: border patrol agents forced to fire tear gas in uncontrollable crowds. griff jenkins live in washington with the trump administration's response to what happened on sunday, hey, griff? >> good morning, rob and jillian, hundreds of more than 500,000 migrants rushed given the trump administration with real test toward caravan, began and evolved into chaos when they became violent, mexican officials a

i think the investigation will show that. >> i think trey gowdy is doing the right thing, if you learne to look at it. you have to discover what happened. i think the most important distinction of all the ones you listed are the ones that she has already turned them into the historical record and there was no classified information. a rookie coming in, we were talking during the break, when your new out of position you sometimes don't know everything you're supposed to know. when she found out this less than 100 batch of emails got turned over and she's using the account. >> julie: she is also not the former secretary of state. she was a regular person headed into the white house, i don't know that you can call any of the trumps regular people. >> a civilian. >> julie: you can't necessarily blame her for not understanding how -- because the president made hillary clinton's emails on a private server such a big deal on the campaign, she should've known better. >> it's a rookie mistake, where we are at year. i think there is a distinction between an actual email server and a gmail or hot

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the senate homeland security committee chairman ron johnson and house oversight committee chair trey gowdywhether trump violated federal law. here is president trump on the e-mail. >> very innocent. very short period of time. very early on. there was no delesion of e-mails like the 33,000 plus probably another 100,000 hillary clinton did after she got the subpoena. there was no anything. >> we are here with our power panel. democratic strategist and floyd matheson. good to have both of you. so president trump is saying, listen, there's nothing to see here. this is very innocent. he's saying it was early on, ivanka was not dealing in any highly sensitive. does ivanka trump get a pass on this? >> the important thing is she is cooperating. it is appropriate for folks in the senate and house for those who have oversight to question that and call for that. it is very common in terms of that transition process, especially as it relates to scheduling and personal matters and so on. it seems to be pretty innocent and innocuous. she needs to go through that process. we also have to be very careful

republican trey gowdy sending a letter to white house chief of staff john kelly for more informationanka's personal e-mail use. democratic congressman elijah cummings could be asking for a lot of this information. he says he is going to look into it. jeff zeleny is "outfront" now in west palm beach near the president's mar-a-lago resort. ivanka trump defending herself as well. her excuse, essentially, she didn't know. she didn't know this wasn't okay. >> reporter: erin, that is her excuse. good evening, and that's a statement from her lawyer, saying that, look, when she was making her transition into the white house, her transition into government, she started several months into 2017 and she wasn't as up to speed on all the rules and regulations, so she, you know, simply did not know the rules and she was, you know, mainly using her private e-mail address. her lawyer says, for logistical things. but the reality is the watchdog group that found all this found a variety of e-mails, perhaps hundreds of e-mails sent to members of congress, members of the cabinet, so much more than logis

>> what trey gowdy said is critical. we need a deposition, not a hearing. asked that don't occur in a five-minute evade situation. comey can basically not answer a question for five minutes and you are on to the next question. so the first and most important thing public or private we need a deposition. we need real testimony about the real wrongdoing that occurred that is still living with us two years later. i think that's the most important message for everyone to take is that these two individuals have never answered in a normal deposition mode where there is an hour of question and answer and you are given time to answer fully but you are expected to answer. >> sandra: of course, james comey has made very clear his concern about closed door testimony that there will be very purposeful leaks that would be used by republicans to make him look bad. so would you be in favor of an open hearing to take place? mike johnson, the republican from louisiana, was on earlier saying i like the closed door session because witnesses are more candid. what needs to happ

. >> i'm going to join the jamelle bouie, trey gowdy, donald trump view. i think roberts' comment about there not being obama judges or trump judges were more aspirational than descriptive, but i think part of what's going on here is that the trump administration has a very bad record in court. it has been handed a lot of defeats in court, and one thing we should keep in mind is it's so, for example, the question of jim acosta's press pass, the administration lost that in court, and that was a judge that trump himself hadmothy kelly, bt court judge. so what he's saying is true, but i don't think it quite gets to the underlying problem is the judiciary as a branch has not been especially tolerant of the kind of on-the-fly, improv sayingsal, whim-driven policy-making we're seeing from this administration. >> brennan: matt, you have been some of the races still going on post-midterms. you already down in mississippi, right? >> yes, mississippi has been fascinating race here. it's the final one we think of the midterms that hasn't been decided. it's definitely

i think his fellow south carolinian, trey gowdy, federal and state prosecutor, will get a serious looke will be looked at seriously as well. heather: lindsey graham released donald trump's telephone number on twitter but now they are buddies. what about the acting attorney general, matt whitaker, taking over? >> he has a lot of experience as well. the senate confirmed united states attorney from iowa and served with distinction in that position for the last year. he has been the chief of staff to jeff sessions, certainly familiar with jeff sessions's thinking and all the political appointees at the department and have a relationship of sorts with the president. he accompanied jeff sessions to the white house on a number of occasions. shannon: a lot of people have a problem already saying he should not take over the russia investigation. what does it mean moving forward? should whitaker stay in place a one of these other folks take over for the russia investigation? >> any talk of interference by matt whitaker is premature and far-fetched. he was a commentator before coming sessions's c

i'm here. >> my guess is as good as yours. >> trey goudy, maybe? >> if gowdy wants the job. kennedy: they have a great hair budget at the d.o.j. >> the white house. he's negotiating a hair budget. [ laughter ] >> he's fully killerly adventurous. thank you for being here on post-midterm eve as the craziness is ratcheted up to 11 1/2. we didn't think the meter went that high. we're halfway through. >>> coming up, could gridlock in washington be a good thing for the economy or running ourselves straight into the ground. addiction is a dark place. the stigma, leaving people isolated, alone, and ashamed. but just as each new day breaks, there is light. a light that illuminates the people by your side. someone if front of you who's been where you are. someone behind you moving forward. you are not alone. out of the darkness you are walking with 22 million others struggling with addiction. and millions more who love and support them. the cure to darkness is light. the cure to stigma is love. and the cure to disease is treatment. join us as we walk into the dawn of a new day. togeth

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. >>> trey gowdy looking for middle ground with the fight with james comey and the judiciary committee. chairman bob goodlett has requested for information in the 2016 campaign. comey wants to testify publicly. gowdy is the compromise. >> the remedy for leaks is not to have a public hearing where you are supposed to ask about 17 months of work in five minutes. i think the remedy is the videotaped deposition. i hate leaks. i think they undercut the investigation. the remedy is not to have a professional carnival atmosphere. >> he would know. gowdy would know about the carnival atmosphere. he oversaw the benghazi investigation. he subpoenaed former secretary loretta lynch. >>> ukraine says russian boats opened fire on three ships near the kerch strait. the standoff is another complication with russia days before presidents trump and putin are expected to come face-to-face with the summit in argentina. we have matthew chance with the latest from moscow. matthew. >> reporter: polo, thank you very much. that fact that presidents trump and putin will meet at the g20 summit is one of the reas

>> i love trey gowdy. >> oh, trey. yeah, but we expect it of trey. lindsey comes out of left field. as for leveraging the troops, look, i leverage me. when i talk about i'm a veteran, and that doesn't give me any special right. i don't believe the whole chicken hawk -- if you weren't in the army, you don't get to talk about it. you get to talk about anything you want to talk about. you're an american citizen. you might not have the technical expertise. i went to the war college, i know some stuff. and you can evaluate that. i believe he knows some stuff, i will rely on it. or that sounds stupid. nobody can tell you what you can and can't. i try not to talk about troops because i think that's disrespectful to them. i think i know where they stand, and i can give you my idea of where they may stand, but i don't want to try and enlist them, so to speak, behind me. you know? i think that's -- when i was a leader, you know, i tried to help my guys, i tried to be last guy to eat. i tried to be the first guy to do his physical fitness guy, which is really hard when you're old. it's almost

i'm here. >> my guess is as good as yours. >> trey goudy, maybe? >> if gowdy wants the job.nedy: they have a great hair budget at the d.o.j. >> the white house. he's negotiating a hair budget. [ laughter ] >> he's fully killerly adventurous. thank you for being here on post-midterm eve as the craziness is ratcheted up to 11 1/2. we didn't think the meter went that high. we're halfway through. >>> coming up, could gridlock in washington be a good thing for the economy or running ourselves straight into the ground. a live report and brianomics, don't go anywhere. (vo) 'twas the night before christmas and all through the house not a creature was stirring, but everywhere else... there are stores open late for shopping and fun as people seek gifts or even give some. not necessarily wrapped with paper and bows, but gifts of kind deeds, hard work and cold toes. there's magic in the air, on this day, at this time. the world's very much alive at 11:59. ♪ ♪ i can do more to lower my a1c. because my body can still make its own insulin. and i take trulicity once a week to activate my bo

congress should be public, democrats argue open session and transparent but republican congressman trey gowdy comey interviewed video taped and released because public congressional hearings have become carnivals, last week the president warned of government shutdown if he doesn't get funding for a border wall. hold on, heather, another round of potential shutdown. >> there's always a deadline coming up. this one is very fast approaching, thank you so much, great to have you with us, matt. >> thanks for having me, heather. heather: with written answers submitted to robert mueller the white house awaits the final report on russian interference, alan dershowitz law professor says although mueller's findings could be politically devastating for the president they still won't prove criminal wrongdoing. >> it would be foolish mistake for mueller and say this is a crime because the other side will be able to rebut it, if he simply lays it out and leaves to american public he would be much wiser and i think the report will be devastating to the president and i know that the president's team is alrea

i would say a pr move for the republican base and the chairman is retiring from congress as is trey gowdy seen other republicans, jim jordan comes to mind and rallied the bases and themselves around the tarmac meeting. those with the fbi and the russia investigation. this is a big political move before the tables turn in the house. >> i want to change gears and talk about president trump. let's listen to that. >> matt whitaker is a highly respected person. once i choose somebody, they go through hell. matt whitaker is a highly respected man. the justice department respects him and i spoke to a lot of people. they have been nasty to matt whitaker. i can tell you he is a he highl respected person and he's doing a really great job. everyone says it. >> i'm not sure who he is speaking to. most people said this was an inappropriate appointment. whitaker has a predetermined position on the mueller investigation. he is involved in a fraud investigation with respect to a federal trade commission inquiry and he is now under inquiry about campaign finance problems in his run for the senate. this is

trey gowdy and i are concerned about that.ince jim comey claims he wants transparency we've already indicated that we will release the transcript of this under oath private interview the next day after it takes place. we're almost done with this investigation. he is one of the last witnesses. 16 other people have testified under oath in the same setting that we're asking him to do it. and his claim that he needs to do it in public is in my opinion a farce. quite frankly, five minutes is not enough time for an experienced former prosecutor like trey gowdy or john ratcliffe to follow all the threads that need to be followed, the hundreds of questions that need to be asked. and that needs to be done in a private setting. but we're happy for the transparency. >> bill: if there are hundreds of questions, give me one that's on your mind. what do you need to know, sir? >> well, we need to know just as one example, what jim comey was doing during the time between when he wrote a statement that exonerated hillary clinton and when he ac

congressman trey gowdy explains why g.o.p.want that. >> the last time i saw that jim comey in a public congressional hearing, almost 100 times he said "i can't answer in this setting." why in the world would he want to go back to a setting where he knows he can't answer all the questions? i am sure he only wants me to have five minutes. i'm sure of that. but i need more than five minutes. i have 37 pages of questions for rod rosenstein. imagine how many questions i have for jim comey. >> greg, i'm a democrat. >> yes. >> i worked for bill clinton. >> i'm sorry to hear that. >> increasingly watching the ane documentary about the lewinsky scandal, i tend to share your views. >> did you learn something new? >> i saw the whole thing played out and it disturbed me. but what also disturbs me, greg, the fact that the hillary clinton email scandals has never fully been investigated. we don't know where those 31,000 emails went. we don't know about the classified emails that may have gone to the wrong people. we don't know why loretta l

. >>> trey gowdy looking for middle ground with the fight with james comey and the judiciary committee. house chairman goodlatt subpoenaed comey privately over the actions of the 2016 campaign. comey wants to testify publicly. gowdy suggests a compromise. >> the remedy for leaks is not to have a public hearing where you are supposed to ask about 17 months of work in five minutes. i think the remedy is the videotaped deposition. i am sensitive to leaks. i think they undercut the authenticity of the investigation. the remedy is not to have a professional wrestling type carnival atmosphere. >> gowdy would know about a carnival atmosphere. he oversaw the benghazi investigation. go goodlatt subpoenaed loretta lynch. she has yet to kbhecomment. >>> looking ahead, united nations security council is calling for an emergency meeting over the tensions with russia and crimea. bumping a boat. that could have serious consequences here. this standoff with a russian ship ramming a ukrainian tugb t tugboat. this is days before presidents trump and putin come face-to-face at the g20 summit. we have cnn

think we're at a moment right now where we need congress to step in and i would point out that trey gowdy is still the chairman of the oversight committee. there is a standard of investigation already established. ivanka can go and ask questions privately, publicly. clinton did it for is 11 hours. the groups like american oversight are going to doggedly push it from the outside and hope hopelyfully the white house will answer questions. >> let's goes to my panel. evan siegfried, a pretty sunny republican strategist. clinton said the use of her private e-mail server was a mistake, asking the american people for the benefit of the doubt. >> first of all, it may have cost her the election. >> right. >> but it's -- how do you do the same thing after you saw that act be one of the key things that took hillary clinton down? it's just mystifying. we haven't heard from ivanka. all we've heard from is her lawyer. that was an excellent point, her lawyer, not the people's lawyer. >> not the white house lawyer. >> another thing that was really interesting is i'm assuming that they're putting her e-ma

even trey gowdy, sent a letter to the white house chief of staff john kelly asking for details.d to see you all. >> hey, chris. >> all right. let me play proxy here for a minute. april ryan, it is something that must be looked at, because after she was given notice not to use it anymore, she did. is it hillary clinton. i could argue easily no. you? >> well, you know, chris, one thing, any time when you are at that level and you defy what you have been told, something is wrong. and she heard her father who she supports as a senior administration official. she heard her father talk about this on the campaign trail, lock her up. because of the e-mail and the servers. and she did the same thing, using her private e-mails to send business from the white house. i asked the president. i tried to ask the president today as he was leaving to go to florida, mr. president what do you think about elijah cummings and this possible investigation about the e-mails. he smiled and pointed at me, and said whatever. he is very flip about this. this is very serious. >> be careful if you ask a follo

also trey gowdy, member of congress has got -- he is cosponsor of a bill that would actually honor men medals of honor and allen west will be joining to talk about the latest of the caravan. busy 3 hours that kicks off rob 13 minutes right here where everybody trusts on morning news. rob: thank you so much. congressman elect and former navy seal crenshaw silences political panel, listen to what he said about the president's attacks on the press. >> that was not an attack on the president. >> it's literally -- >> i've literally been attacked so i would choose words carefully. if you want to criticize style, i'm with you, but to say attack on press, that's a bold statement. rob: blue lives matter is calling out democratic mayor bill de blasio and cuomo of new york, a decision not to honor first nypd officer killed in iraq, community board rejected street naming for staff sergeant who was shot and killed by sniper in baghdad in 2005, online petition supporting the renaming has over 5400 signatures. jillian. jillian: nancy pelosi is facing challenge from help members of her own party but g

chris christie, trey gowdy. >> i wonder if mueller would delay his investigation until matt whittakerting attorney general. let me ask you this quickly about how the democrats in all of this are beginning to prepare for possible investigations into the trump administration. you heard elijah cummings saying he's not going to be handing out subpoenas like candy on halloween night. but how is the rest of the leadership preparing? >> they're already leaking what they're going to pursue. they're going to look at that at&t merger, see if there was any political interference. they're going to look at the trump properties. i think the broader point is that democrats are worried that they could over-investigate. where's the positive agenda they're talking about, jobs, health care, you don't want that to get lost amongst all the subpoenas. >> thank you. >>> as we discussed this hour, this past weekend was the 100th anniversary of the end of world war i. world leaders including president trump marked the occasion with a visit to paris. kelly o'donnell has the details. >> reporter: a century afte

are going to be further implications here, if not investigations have been called for we know by trey gowdyhis is on the level of hypocrisy. yes, hillary clinton had her own basement server, which ivanka trump did not but you should have known better if you were ivanka trump. right now the defense is ivanka is guilty but not responsible because she wasn't aware. she absolutely was aware. we don't know what's in the e-mails, we don't know if there was classified information from there. the only investigation was a self-done investigation by her legal team and it was her criminal defense lawyer saying everything is fine, nothing is here. we need an independent investigation. and there's the security risk factor. when she has these private e-mails, it's much more vulnerable to hack than a government-supplied server. she could be talking about government officials or plans and any intelligence agency would be thrilled she's using g-mail and not a .gov server. >> joel, with the democrats poised to investigate her use of a private account and also one that she shared with her husband, jared kushn

and that doesn't permit the kind of in depth interview by former prosecutors like trey gowdy and johnfe and other investigative staff on the committee to ask the hundreds of questions we have for mr. comey. so he has been dodging us for months now, refusing to come in and cooperate like everyone else we have asked to come in has cooperated. and now he has this dodge of let's do a public hearing. we're not looking for a circus. we're looking for answers and that is what we intend to get. why it was necessary for us to issue a subpoena, by the way was served on his lawyer who accepted it by email. there was no disruption of anybody's thanksgiving. melissa: what is your first question for him? what is it that you want to know specifically? >> well, he was the lead at the fbi and the lead in an investigationtive process regarding both the hillary clinton email matter, and the so-called, trump russia collusion matter. and we have hundreds of questions to ask for him about why he conducted himself the way he did. there is an inspector general report out more than 400 pages long, that critic

a couple of congressman, john ratcliffe from texas, outgoing congressman trey gowdy. a few interesting names floating to the surface. janice rogers brown, recently retired judge from fifth circuit court of appeals. michael ludig, former fourth circuit judge. these are able, distinguished men and women who could serve with distinction. connell: a lot comes down to confirmation or the prospect of being confirmed? >> yeah. look, i think that's right but the senate is controlled at the moment by republicans. they increased their majority, by how much we don't know. there has to be an attorney general. somebody will ultimately get confirmed. these are certainly well-qualified people. connell: you don't think, the president will be picking from that type after list rather than boeing -- going down the road of chris christie whose name was floated out there? >> chris christie's name, you heard rudy giuliani. i'm sure the president has somebody or some small group of people in mind. after all he called for jeff sessions to resign. he called for it now. connell: that was teleg

this is what trey gowdy said this morning about it. >> i've already talked to ms. trump's attorney. i've already talked to mr. cummings. we've already written a letter to the white house. congress has a responsibility to make sure that the records and the presidential records act is complied with, and that is true no matter who the person is. we've taken steps. we've done more in the last week than some of my house democratic colleagues did the entire time we were looking into benghazi. so i'm at peace with what we've done but we need the information and we need it quickly and then the public can judge whether or not those two fact patterns are similar. >> liz, why do you think it's so important for gowdy jump on this quickly and wrap it up just as quickly? >> republicans are very sensitive to accusations of hypocrisy on this. they spent so much time on hillary clinton's e-mails it would look just like very hypocritical to not even look into ivanka trump's private e-mail use since there are obvious parallels there. and i think he wants to wrap that up with a bow on it before democra

trey gowdy had it right. if your client is innocent, let him act innocent.m out of the conversation here. >> dana: take a listen to alan dershowitz. he said something i wanted to get your take on about the white house being prepared to issue a counter narrative after mueller wraps up. watch. >> it's a prosecutorial report. anybody who expects balance, fairness, nuance, is looking at the wrong kind of document. you can't have balance when you haven't heard the other side of the story. when you've only tried to get together prosecution debt. >> dana: what do you think about that idea, karl? >> i think it's absolutely right. the president ought to be able to make his case at the same time and to do so in a thoughtful constructive fullsome way, if you will. what i worry about is right now the white house counsel don mcgann has left. his temporary replacement is emmitt flood, who you and i both know from our time at the white house. very smart. very top flight lawyer. the problem is that the white house counsel's office is about half the size it ought to be, abou

to do is that congress needs to get james comey back up in thatt transcribed interview and let trey gowdynd john ratcliffe, jim jordan and mark meadows, let them go after them. at the do that before the clock runs out in january. >> sean: remember, we also have lindsey graham in the senate. donald trump helped theso campan of marsha blackburn, rick scott, helped josh hawley. joe donnelly was beaten. i think he did a pretty good job. that was probably helpful. thank you both. when we come back, we will expose mueller's most outrageous tactic yet. alan dershowitz and craig jarrett will break it alll down. the latest on the caravan and much more.nd m straight ahead. ♪ -we're in a small room. what?! -welcome. -[ gasps ] a bigger room?! -how many of you use car insurance? -oh. -well, what if i showed you this? -[ laughing ] ho-ho-ho! -wow. -it's a computer. -we compare rates to help you get the price and coverage that's right for you. -that's amazing! the only thing that would make this better is if my mom were here. what?! an unexpected ending! i am a techie dad.n. e. i believe the best techn

congress, both the house and the senate, senator graham has indicated an interest in carrying on what trey gowdybeen working on, by the inspector general of the department of justice who is looked at what happened with the clinton investigation, now looking at the fisa warrants. >> harris: that generated that look at the anti-trump dossier, maybe that was a part of that process. >> it's very difficult for an attorney general to be presiding over a department when that investigation is taking place and he's recused himself from i it. >> harris: meanwhile, senators jeff flake and chris, they've gotten together on a few things before, working across the aisle for legislation. they want to shield bob mueller and mitch mcconnell says he doesn't see a need to do that, watch this. >> there's been no indication, no indication that the mueller investigation will not be allowed to finish, and it should be allowed to finish. we know why the president feels about the mueller investigation but he's never said he wants to shut it down, i've never heard anybody down there say they want to shut it down, i think