and us justice department issues a warning against trusting anonymous sources just hours after the washington post cites anonymous sources saying donald trump is under investigation for obstruction of justice. eight am here in moscow six in the morning in london one and.

the us justice department, the usjustice department, hoping to seize assets, all about the corruptionto pull together to reach that? if you go through this list, they may not find it that difficult. some of their assets seized, include a yacht, two and a half million shares, rights to dumber and dumber two, thejim shares, rights to dumber and dumber two, the jim carey shares, rights to dumber and dumber two, thejim carey film, jewellery, and famous artwork. paintings by picasso, to be seized. also, photos. some significant assets, and all of this apparently proceeds, dialogue with ill gotten gains from malaysia. established, at least in the united states, that this fund behaved inappropriately? to give you some background, the fund was set up in malaysia, trying to benefit the malaysian people. this suit alleges that some individuals were able to get money out of that fund, using it not for investment purposes but to benefit themselves with none other than the proceeds going back to the fund. the acting assistant attorney general said that basically this money financed lavish lifestyl

more news where across this hour the us justice department is advising the public to be wary of news stories not burlai anonymous sources the deputy attorney general highlighted the need for extra caution when unnamed officials are cited without even specifying their branch of government we go frances santiago takes a closer look at the. deputy attorney general rosenstein statement has raised quite a few eyebrows especially considering that as of late majority of the american press relies on nothing but anonymous sources on the den of sources on the sources according to anonymous washington post source while the mainstream media seems to love them the justice department is busy refuting all the fakes no wonder they're getting quite fed up with them at the d.o.j. take a look this washington post headline claims that rosenstein threatened to resign after the white house cast him as the prime suspect for suggesting to fire the ex of the i directed james komi when asked about this by journalists mr rosenstein claimed he never said such a thing now c.n.n. a regular in anonymous sources ca

us justice department issues a warning against trusting anonymous sources asking the public to exercise caution against fake leaves. in the twenty seventeen feet for confederations cup kicks off today in st petersburg russia where hosts russia play with new zealand the opening game will bring the latest in the build up. one of the afternoon here in moscow eleven am in the u.k. this saturday the seventeenth of june revel watching around the world warm welcome for me kevin owen here to art international this hour and again our top stories coming from london today thousands of protesters of march there demanding justice and help be given to the victims of the grenfell fire angry crowds blame the conservative government and its austerity policies for the tragedy that happened in that apartment block the official death toll has reached thirty but it's expected to rise further with up to seventy people still unaccounted for. mark i thank i think i have. a he was over the course of this demonstration this mosque this march we managed to speak to some very very angry people however people get t

us justice department has been giving advice to the american public on handling potential fake news especially concerning anonymous sources in a statement by the deputy attorney general. he said caution should be exercised when watching or reading news attributed to named officials we go from says and they are good next explains why the justice department has spoken out. deputy attorney general rosenstein statement has raised quite a few eyebrows especially considering that as of late majority of the american press relies on nothing but anonymous sources on the den of sources two sources with links to the counter intelligence community anonymous sources according to anonymous washington post source while the mainstream media seems to love them the justice department is busy reviewing all the fakes no wonder they're getting quite fed up with them at the d.o.j. take a look at this washington post headline claims that rosenstein threatened to resign after the white house cast him as the prime suspect for suggesting to fire the x. of the i directed james komi when asked about this by journalists m

and us justice department issues a warning against trusting anonymous sources just hours after the washington post cites sources saying donald trump is under investigation for obstruction of justice . eight am here in moscow six in the morning in london one am in new york for saturday the seventeenth of june rev you watch a warm welcome this morning this is out international with me kevin now in first today thousands of protesters have marched in london demanding justice and help be given to the victims of the grenfell fire angry crowds blame the conservative government and its austerity policies for the tragedy that happened at that apartment block the official death tolls reach thirty now but it to rise further with up to seventy still unaccounted for. i i i i. i. i. was i i. i over the course of this demonstration this this march speak to some very very angry people was. people get to the bedroom at night with their people weapons people on the floor and. now i know everything and everything we need people. in life to. for centuries decades it's not about now it's about every minute that w

the idea is to use justice department funding to encourage law enforcement agencies to hire veterans.he other bill, the public safety officer's benefits improvement act. officials say the goal of that one is to help the justice department speed up processing of officers death and disability claims. are they getting some questions, too? let's listen. congress created the program in the 70s. critics say there's too many delays in getting money to officers and families. the event was just streaming at foxnews.com. more on fbi director comey who is set to testify. that is if the president attempts to block him by using executive privilege. here's matt from "the washington post" who covers the justice department. he wrote an article on five things to watch for when comey testifies in the paper in the online edition this morning. what is your sense of this executive privilege? has he said so much that he can't do that anymore? is that a gray area? >> it's a gray area. sean spicer in the last hour said it was still something that they had to review. if i had to guess, i would say that he doe

he doesn't use justice department. doesn't surround himself with anybody trusts. i guess i'm asking the intangible, why does he act like a president. >> he -- i don't know. he has violated several norms, shall we say, for president and, actually, also for human being. >> let's talk about that. if you go to rough high school, mine was sort of semi rough, semi. people were rough with each other. they tested each other. it was a pecking order. there was a lot of bullying, not a lot, but enough of it and name calling and nicknaming. he's still doing that. he's going after comey the same way he went after marco, after low energy jeb. he hasn't changed. >> well, you know, he's not going to change. he's 70 years old or whatever he is and he's not doing to change. we thought that maybe he would, but i think it's pretty clear by now that he's the donald trump he was during the campaign and he's -- you know, he's not my favorite president. >> let's talk about him and this talk about impeachment and obstruction of justice. my sense is when you set the bar that high, he wins.

direct investigation of her, to see whether she committed obstruction of justice or misconduct in office. the use of justice departmentmproper purpose. david: mention that comey, re-emphasize he is under oath when he said he had conversation with lynch. we have to take him at his word. otherwise he committed perjury. i don't think he did. there are new suggestions there may be evidence, an email between loretta lynch and somebody in the hillary clinton or the obama administration about how to change the verbiage of this. in fact, chuck grassley sent a letter to loretta lynch, during your time in the justice department, did you ever have communications with representative wasserman schultz her staff, associates or any former dnc officials about clinton email. >> how has she answered the question? she hasn't answered. there is institutional reluctance to prosecute the former attorney general because the present attorney general doesn't want to be prosecuted by his successor. jim comey raised enough eyebrows and presented enough evidence to justify an investigation here. if such an email exists, and if it shows, i will u

that from the very beginning, we are learning that the justice department under the obama administration was using language that was not typical for justice departments to use. the f.b.i. are the federal bureau of investigation. it's not matter, it's not a review. it sounded lining the clinton talking points. arthel: the reports i read miss lynch said these are terminology so as not to inflame the situation. >> right. she was saying we don't confirm or deny investigations. but at the same time they are so eerily similar to the clinton campaign talking points, and you had james comey, his friend tell the "new york times" tel new yo" what are we the federal bureau of matters? arthel: the justice department leaning toward political matters. how do lawmakers correct that. >> they need to get to the bottom of what happened and know what the facts are and put a stop to it. if this was political then and political now. the facts need to come to light so people can be held accountable. rick: the case of the american tude now in a copa after spending months in one of north korea's torture camps spark conce

joining us is eric tucker, the justice department for the a.p. who broke this story. thanks for joining. >> thank you for having me, ari. >> you broke this story. can you tell us more about how it came together and how it was that rod rosenstein gave you this first on the record interview by this topic? >> actually rod spoke with a colleague of mineandy gorman and it was a conversation about some ofis priorities as deputy general. he was asked about t the scope and the purview of special counsel mueller's mandate and he acknowledged very honestly that bob mueller has a broad mandate that could include anything he potentially did. it could include anything the attorney general did and as you indicated a few moments ago he indicated if there is anything that rod rosenstein himself did that is considered to be relevant to the investigation he said he'll go ahead and recuse himself. >> that is different than the view of some people inside the trump white house who opposed any public counsel and have taken the position that whatever the russia probe gives, it should not be

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. >> pierre with us tonight.ch longstanding justice department policy he was talking about when he repeatedly said he couldn't thare convtisaerwis on and whether that policy was in writing. pierre, republican senator marco rubio asking very bluntly is the president recording conversations? take a listen. >> do you know if the president records conversations in the oval office or anywhere in the white house? >> i do not.ete asyou this, if fact any president was to record conversations in their official preserve those records?se, would >> i don't know, senator rubio. probably so. >> so, pierre, when will we learn if those tapes exist, will the ag provide that longstanding policy he cited that protects conversations with the president? even if the president hasn't invoked executive privilege. >> david, the white house said they'll soon give answer whetr the tas ext anons the attorney general said he'll give additional answers about that longstanding policy. david. whd anrre, our thanks to you. jeff sessions was testifying on capitol hill, president trump was on a road trip to talk about jobs in

us. scott, the justice department says the clause shouldn't apply to mr.mp's organization because it's an existing business and customers are paying market rate. >> pelley: julianna goldman, thanks. today a second u.s. appeals court blocked the president's travel ban from six mostly muslim nations. a three-judge panel from the ninth circuit wrote, "immigration, even for the president, is not a one-person show." the supreme court is expected to make a final ruling. later this year. in russia today, police hauled away one of vladimir putin's political rivals just as he was about to lead a protest against government corruption. but it didn't matter. tens of thousands still took to the streets and more than 1,500 were arrested. elizabeth palmer is in moscow. >> this is exactly what the government was trying to headoff when it banned the protest from moscow city center. but huge crowds of demonstrators ignored the ban and crashed the country's national holiday celebration chanting, "putin is a thief." dozens were arrested, thousands stood their ground. this is

us safe. justice department is arguing look at language of the text, don't try to second-guess what you thinkhe president thinks based on what he said on campaign trail. can they even do that legally? >> that is where the supreme court i think is going to take a different route ultimately than the lower courts because the supreme court has a lot of precedent, historically, even up until 2015 with the obama administration that says we don't look past the action itself. the text itself. we don't go to campaign statements. if we start doing that we're going to undermine all kind of presidential powers in the future. this is not just about president trump ultimately. this supreme court decision would set presidential power and standards of review of that power for future presidents whether they're democrat or republican. and it is inappropriate for judges to look at campaign rhetoric as the reason why something that they all know is constitutional, admit it is constitutional is suddenly unconstitutional violation of our freedoms and, go through a host of horribles. at end of the day, the trump ad

controlled legislature control the secretary of state's office control of the justice department now remember the justice department used to be the you know the voting cops when georgia would pull stunts like this under the voting rights act they couldn't get away with it they could never have implemented the whole cross-checked vote purging campaign under the old voting rights act because they would have needed what's called pre-clearance they would have had to run it past the feds first and i want to know never a flat pass the smell test so the supreme court took away federal power to act or reduce federal power the current feds you know they're under jeff's beauregard sessions good luck there the state both the state officials at the secretary of state's office and remember it was the georgia bureau of investigation which literally raided the offices of these vote of the voter registration groups if you can imagine they raided the offices in the asian american community that was terrifying these are new voters and we i was told. i was told by the lawyers for the asian american organizations in this community that typ

blumenauer, now, and used to be congressman farr and we were able to put in the spropingses bill for the department of justice, an amendment to the bill that said no money in this bill can be used by the department of justice to supersede the state laws on marijuana -- on mel marijuana in those states that have legalized the use of medical marijuana. and so for the last five, six years, that has been a totally bipartisan effort. i'm a republican obviously and i have been joined with mr. farr and mr. blumenauer and we have created a situation where we now have people who are getting involved in researching medical marijuana. did you know that israel now, finally, they stepped forward and done research in the last 10 years and we haven't. in fact for 100 years when we were trying to find medical uses of marijuana has been outlawed and israel has found wonderful pplications for mel -- medical marijuana. they have legalized of et they are for personal use or adult use of marijuana as well as medical marijuana. what does that tell you? that tells you that some of the people who have been telling us, we can't do th

justice department policy. listen. >> can you share those policies with us. are they written down at the department of justice? >> i believe they are. >> i'm asking you about the policy you referred to? >> it goes beyond the attorney general. >> is that policy in writing somewhere? >> i think so. >> democrats clearly frustrated saying he was not forthcoming and he was stonewalling. what sessions did say is that any allegations of collusion between russia and the trump campaign and the trump transition were and this is the way he put it an apalling and detestable lie and he did not say anything improper happened when he met twice with the russian ambassador which we know he didn't initially disclose. >> thank you. >>> now to the desperate search underway in georgia for two escaped inmates who killed two prison guards. they raised the reward for $70,000 for the capture. howard phil says the two were on a prison bus with 31 other inmates when they entered the driver's compartment and fatally shot both guards on board. >> i saw two brutally murdered corrections officers. that's what i saw. i have their blood on my

propaganda arm over government that is definitely not on our side the bill will provide the us department of justice with increased investigative authorities to identify and prosecute entities that seek to unlawfully influence the political process the difference is this time there will not be a need for any criminal or administrative offenses to have taken place he would need to report their activities to the department of justice regardless now a group of russian senators have come up with a proposal to mirror this potential new law take a listen. even though we have established that some pretty commission deals with questions of russian sovereignty and foreign meddling and hearing we discussed the build us proposed in the us and decided that we need to adopt the council measures now entities similar to what may happen in the united states will be forced to disclose their sources of funding and provide accountability of their activities in line with the russian foreign agents law. with r.t. international more news in the second. in case you're new to the game this is how it works the economy is bu

joining us now, eric tucker, the justice department reporter for the a.p. who broke this story. thank you for joining tonight. >> thank you for having me. i appreciate it. >> you broke this story. it is significant for many reasons. can you tell us more about how it came together and how it was that rod rosenstein gave you this first on the record interview about this hot topic? >> so actually, rod spoke with a colleague of mine, sadie, and it was a wide reaching conversation about some of his priorities as the deputy attorney general. and during the course of that conversation he was asked about the scope and the purview of had special counsel mueller's mandate and it was very broad to include anything that he potentially did, anything that the attorney general did, and he said as you indicated a few minutes ago, that if there is anything that rod rosenstein himself did, that it is considered to be relevant to the investigation, he said he'll go ahead and recuse himself. >> eric, that is different than the view of some people inside the trump white house who publicly opposed an

us. department of justice, department of state department. f.b.i., dhs. like home alone there. e people who are supposed to be protecting us aren't and this ban doesn't do that and it won't pass constitutional muster in the courts which he has also denigrated judges, the judiciary and the foundation of our democracy by doing just that. >> shannon: a lot to unpack which i'll let katie do. there are a lot of appointments that need to be made. many have been but still a lot of empty slots. those have to be filled. there is nothing in the text of this travel ban one or two that says anything about religious animus. people are asking about justice ruth bader ginsberg has negative things to say about this president saying if you look at his statements should you also look at hers and ask whether she is the right person to be weighing in on this ban, katie. >> she decided the get political in a position she should not be getting political in considering she is now judging some of these cases that the president is bringing to the supreme court. i do want to say one more time. we've been

use of tasers. the justice department recommended the use of tasers following the shooting death of mario woods by officers in 2015. san francisco police is the only major force in the country without that less lethal. >>> so that is a motorcyclist roaring right through a crowd of people who were lying in the street in san francisco. happened yesterday as though strangers were protesting the senate's new health care bill with a die-in. that motorcyclist was arrested, but protesters were definitely shaken up. we have more. >> reporter: a protest at the senate's health care bill was interrupted by a man on a red motorcycle. >> a guy on a motorcycle came through and looked like he was about to run people down. and so people had to run and get out of the way. and it added, you know, terrifying. >> reporter: the die-in was to show that the health care bill coming out of the senate, which they believe will cut $800 billion from medicaid could prove deadly. >> it was just horrible, right, that people are there saying we have to put a stop to something that's going to kill people. and, you know, in that moment, pe

so that travel ban issue in talking about how the justice department should have used the original language when dealing with this. that was humiliating to the justice department. >> you think it is directed directly at jeff sessions most definitely he's the leader of that department, yes. >> what do you think of that bob kusak. >> i think this is really trubling for the trump administration. jeff sessions was loyal to trump he was the first senator to endorse donald trump who will replace sessions should he step down. i know it was mentioned earlier on this show but when kelly an conway was asked about confidence in flynn she said yes the president has full confidence, sean spicer would not go that far and flynn just hours later was basically pushed out. so this is a real problem. had is a historic week in the trump president trump with james comey testimony and dan coates testimony. >> do you think spicer is being too cute just doesn't want to say. >> i think there's some things press serkts of secretaries always don't want to know so they're not lying i don't think he's talking to donald

. >> reporter: the legal standard that the justice department used to make the request in the supreme court to look at the travel ban is this. the president is not required to admit people that come from countries that pose terrorism until they are properly vetted. we don't know if the court will hear the white house appeal. opponents are saying they are ready. aclu helped to defeat the travel ban the first time and they think they can do it again. leland? >> leland: a lot of blow back from the president's decision to pull back from the white house accord. how is the white house fighting back? >> they may not be out and the white house may soon try to renegotiate a different deal, but it would have to be on better terms for the united states. >> i said the president draw the withdrawal. but we will renegotiating and consider reentering. >> reporter: one of the voices who saw benefits to staying in was secretary of state rex tillerson and he was not at the rose garden announcement yesterday. but this morning secretary tillerson said america is not abandoning anti- globaling efforts jus

in court filings for the supreme court-- the justice department says that lower courts made several mistakes, including using statements president donald trump made during the 2016 campaign, to highlight bias. it would take 5 of the 9 justices to grant the governments request. in the day ahead-- a pennsylvania man accused of checking into the trump hotel with an arsenal in his car-- will be back in court to face federal weapons charges. police say doctor bryan moles was heavily armed when he arrived at the hotel this week. in a voicemail to an acquantence, moles reportedly said he was heading to the white house and would stay there until he met president trump. he also made references to timothy mcveigh and the oklahoma city bombing that killed 168 people. when police car-- they say they found an ar-15, a glock handgun, and 90 rounds of ammo. it was a late night for nba fans who stayed up to watch game one of the nba finals. but if fans were expecting a nail-biter between the golden state warriors and the cleveland cavaliers-- they went to sleep disappointed. the cavs kept it close in the first half. but in

us. i do also want to thank you you and the department of justice. senator warren and i do not agree on everything but last year we started working on a process for the department of justice to stop these slush funds in the background where the department of justice was forcing businesses to be able to spend money in third party groups or not revealing the nature of those settlements. the department of justice just last week announced that you are stopping that process and i just want to say thank you. we have worked on that for a couple of years, try to get it accomplished legislatively. the previous administration would not work with us on. you just implemented that. i appreciate that. let me also say that i have a question about the crime victims fund and the rescission. help me understand the rescission back to the treasury of a part of the crime victims fund. >> yes, senator. thank you. the department's budget requests $3 billion from the crime victims fund for fiscal year 2018. this will build on almost $8 billion provided for crime victims ove

so that travel ban issue, and talking about how the justice department should have used the original language when dealing with this, that was humiliating for the justice department. >> you think that's directed directly at attorney general jeff sessions? >> oh, yes, most definitely. most definitely. he's the leader of that department, yes. >> what do you think of that, bob cusack? >> well, i think this is really troubling for the trump administration. jeff sessions is loyal to trump. jeff sessions was the first senator to endorse trump. but they have had difficulties. who is going to replace sessions should he step down? remember, and i know this was mentioned earlier on the show, about you when kellyanne conway was asked about confidence in flynn, she said yes, that the president had full confidence. spicer wouldn't go that far. and then flynn hours later was pushed out. so this is a real problem. it's an historic week in the trump presidency, with the comey testimony tomorrow and dan coats' testimony tomorrow. you have to think it would be better politically for trump to keep sessi

us, michael zeldin. michael zeldin worked with special counsel robert mueller at the justice department.n a moment. nan, president trump, a big week ahead. does it make sense for him to be attacking former president obama right now? >> i think president trump is focused on his mission for the american people. he is right to point out that there was apparently an opportunity for his predecessor to do far more about an issue that has obsessed members of his predecessor's party. but the president is absolutely right that there's no evidence whatsoever that he said anything to do with russia, and the fact that we were so vulnerable in certain respects on the u.s. government side has to be laid at the feet of the practices of the previous administration, and that should be the end of it, quite honestly. now onward with his mission to protect the american people including america's veterans, because he's signing a great, big v.a. accountability bill stuff. >> mayor nutter, a democrat, representative adam schiff, came out this morning also saying that president obama failed to properly respond

totally apart from that therehe are communications within the department of justice that wedo. share, all of us do. we have a right to have full and robust debates within thert department of justice and we encourage people to speak up and argue cases on different sides and those arguments historically we have seen that they shouldn't be revealed. >> i would hope that you would agree to recuse yourself from this investigation and the president or others would pardon someone during the midst of the investigation or our investigation or director mueller's investigation. that would be problematic. in your testimony you reached this conclusion about the performance of van director comey's ability to lead the fbi and you agreed with deputy attorney rosenstein's memo. you worked with director comey for some time. failyou ever have a conversation with director comey about his failure to perform, some of these accusations would if he wasn't running the fbi and a good way and somehow the fbi was in turmoil? do you have any conversations with mr. comey about the subject? >> i did not. >> you were his supe

us. it does sound like something at the white house initiated even though they deny that. >> it's interesting that a justice departmentment official told us evan perez was not the white house who ordered them to put out this statement but they did so on background declining to say it on the record right after the justice department's deputy attorney general slams the use of anonymous sources, so, you know, clearly what this is, you know, this always comes against the backdrop of rosenstein and how the.is feeling about him. we saw the tweets this morning suggesting that the deputy attorney general was part of this witch-hunt that he has slammed for months now and perhaps there's a thought process going on in rosenstein's mind of maybe i need to do something to get a little bit of job security and certainly putting out this the statement might help allay some fears that the white house on the part of the president that rosenstein is a political figure championing this witch-hunt against him. >> very interesting. you know, rebecca, the former speaker of the house, newt gingrich, he's been outspoken in his defense of the

us. well, after comey was fired, the justice department named former f.b.i. as special counsel to independently investigate the russia case. well, today, margaret brennan tells us a number of top officials had to come to mueller's defense. >> i have a lot of confidence in bob mueller. i think it was a good choice. >> i think best advice would be to let robert mueller do his job. >> reporter: republican leaders mitch mcconnell and paul ryan expressed support today for robert mueller, the special counsel investigating russian election meddling and allegations of trump campaign collusion. it was prompted by this comment from trump confidant and newsmax c.e.o. chris ruddy yesterday on pbs. >> well, i think he's considering perhaps terminating the special counsel. i think he's-- he's weighing weg that option. >> reporter: on "cbs this morning" former house speaker newt gingrich, who had initially said he was a fan of mueller, accused him of picking politically biased investigators. >> his first four attorneys are all democrats. one of them worked for the heinton fo

pardons, totally apart from that, there are privileges of communication within the department of justice that we share, all of us do. we have a right to have full and robust debate within the department of justice. we encourage people to speak up and argue cases on different sides and those arguments are not to be revealed, historically we've seen they shouldn't be revealed. senator warner: i hope you agree that since you've recused yourself from the investigation that if the president or others would pardon someone in the midst of the investigation while our investigate or director mueller's investigation, that would be problematic. one of the comments you made in your testimony was that you reached this conclusion about the performance of then-director comey's ability to lead the f.b.i., that you agreed with deputy attorney general rosensteen's memo, the fact that you worked with director comey for some time, did you ever have a conversation as a superior of director comey about his failure to perform or some of the accusations that he wasn't running the nib a good way or somehow the f.b.i. was -- is in turmoi

department of justice. >> are those policies written? >> to make sure the president has a full opportunity to decide these issues. >> can you share those policies with us? are they written down at the department of justice? >> my judgment that it would be inappropriate for me to answer and reveal private conversations with the president when he's not had a full opportunity to review the questions and make a decision on whether or not to approve such answer, one, there are other privileges that could be invoked. one of the things involves the investigation of the special counsel. >> we're not asking questions about that investigation. if i wanted to ask questions about that investigation i'd ask those of rod rosenstein. i'm asking about your personal knowledge from this committee which has a constitutional obligation to get to the bottom of this, there are two investigations here, special counsel investigation, also a congressional investigation. and you're obstructing that congressional investigation by not answering these questions. and i think you're silenced, like the silence of director coats, like rogers, speaks volume. >> i have consulted with ca

uber is still being investigated by the department of justice said that it used technology to avoid lawe self driving car programme? it is facing a lawsuit from google's pa rent facing a lawsuit from google's parent company. and i take a while before the overall culture of the company changes for good. to spain now where prime minister mariano rajoy is facing a vote of no—confidence. the vote, which was called by the far left podemos party, is not expected to succeed. but it could raise the political pressure on the prime minister after a fresh burst of corruption revelations linked to his popular party. mr rajoy‘s party has been at the centre of multiple probes into alleged kickback schemes and illegal party slush funds for years. we go light of madrid, now. —— live. we go light of madrid, now. —— live. we don't hear much about this, but tell us how damaging this is, and to what extent the prime minister, mariano rajoy, is personally affected. clearly, mariano rajoy is going to have two go to parliament and give an expedition of all as matters you have spoken about, slush funds, it gen

conversations concerning pardons, there are privileges f communications within the department of justice that wee share, all of us do.eo we have a right to have full and robust debates within the department of justice. we encourage people to speak up and argue cases on different sides. and those arguments are't b not be revealed. historically, we have seen they should not be revealed. >> i was hoping that you would agree that if t the president o others would pardon someone during the midst of this investigation while our investigation or director mueller's investigation, that would be problematic. one of the comments you made in your testimony was that you reachedn this conclusion about the performance of then t direcr comey's ability a to lead the f. that you agreed with deputy attorney general rosenstein's mem oho -- did you ever have a conversation about hisis failur to perform. did you have any conversations with director comey about those subjects? >> i did not. >>y so you were his superior, ad there were some fairly harsh things said about director comey. you never thought it was appropriate to raise those

trump using the terror attack in london to slam his own justice department. tweeting, the justice should have stayed with the original travel ban, not watered town politically correct version they submitted to supreme court. this as trump administration after lower courts rebuffed it for national security reasons. and less there be any confusion, the president is making clear, the ban ban. tweeting, the courts can call it whatever they want but i'm calling it what we need and what it is, travel ban. a comment white house communication staff is standing by today. >> i don't think the president cares what you call it. whether you call it a ban. call it a restriction. he cares that we call it national security and that we take steps to protect the people of this country. >> this after other administration officials insisted it wasn't a ban at all. >> this is not a muslim ban. it is an travel ban. it is a vetting system to keep america safe. >> the travel ban isn't the only tweet storm taking the president and the white house off message. the president took to tw

a long standing poll sieve the department of justice -- and to make sure the president has full opportunity to decide these issues. >> can you share those policies with us? are they written down at the department of justice? >> i believe they are. certainly -- >> the appropriate legal standard for not answering the inquiries? >> it's my judgement that it is inappropriate for me to answer and reveal private conversations with the president when he has not had a full opportunity to review the questions and to make a decision on whether or not to approve such an answer, one. there are also other privilege that's could be invoked. one of the things deals with the investigation of the special counsel as -- >> we're not asking questions about that investigation. if i wanted to ask questions about that investigation, i'd ask those of rod rosenstein. i'm asking about your personal knowledge from this committee which has a constitutional obligation to get to the bottom of this. there are two investigations here. there is a special counsel investigation. there is also a congressional investigation. and you are obstructing that congressional delegation -- investig

use of tasers. the department of justice recommended the use of tasers following the shoout shooting death of mariods by officers in 2015. san francisco police, the only major force in the country without tasers. >>> the iconic rainbow flag flying high on the cornerer of castro long has been a symbol of the gay community for four decades. some people are looking to change that symbol. the issue here is that it's missing the colors black and brown. philadelphia add those colors to its flag this year and now some in san francisco want do the same thing including a friend of the man who created that flag. gilbert baker who passed away a few months ago originally wanted more colors. people on the street were mixed about changing the flag. >> the gueye flag is supposed to be a rainbow of inclusiveness. there's not a white ban on it so why do we need a black and brown on it. >> when it comes to our own community we're in bubble and boxes and we don't want toy think confront that issue. >> no official word if the castro sflag going to change. the flag was first commissioned by san francisco supervisor har