used by the political research firm cambridge analytica. shares of monsanto jumped more than 6% following a report the usjustice department more than 6% following a report the us justiceent would more than 6% following a report the usjustice department would approve a $62.5 billion bid to buy german drugs and pesticides company baer. it is the last major hurdle they are facing. baer declined to comment on the report but said in a statement it anticipate the closing to happen in the second quarter. the us deficit is expected to grow more than 20% this year, and reach $i billion by 2020. officials say this is largely due to the tax cuts put in place last december. they also expect that the stimulus from the tax cuts and the subsequent spending increases will boost short—term growth. however, not as much as the white house has projected. thank you for that, monaco with all the latest there. british luxury brand manolo blahnik is expanding its footprint in asia. the designer's niece took over as ceo in 2009 and has been busy opening stores injapan, malaysia, and later this year right here in singapore. 0ne malaysia, and later this year right here in singapore. one key mar

german drugs—maker bayer has reached a deal with the us justice department for approval for its $62.5ech giant monsanto. that's according to the wall streetjournal. it comes after bayer agreed to sell off additional assets to alleviate anti—trust concerns. the companies say the tie—up would boost agriculture research and innovation. lufthansa says it's cancelling 800 flights on tuesday as the spring of discontent among europe's workers spreads to germany. around 90,000 passengers will be affected. workers are staging the walk—out ahead of pay talks, following similar action in france. a big day for the chinese president. he was addressing the boao forum and he warned against a cold war mentality as he vowed to open up parts of the country's economy. his speech at the boao forum for asia — often referred to as asia's davos — appears to be an attempt to calm a trade row with the us. first, robin brant is in shanghai with more. quite interesting, the markets, they surged to a degree afterwards in asia, after his speech. yeah, very positive in trading today and they like what president xi

paid the largest criminal penalty ever as part of a settlement with the us justice department the two point eight billion dollars settlement was with regard to their famous diesel emissions cheat. scandal. the wave of teacher walkouts and strikes that has touched the states of west virginia oklahoma and kentucky reached the western states of arizona and colorado this week teachers in both states walked out on thursday and marched on the capitals in phoenix and denver fifty thousand teachers and supporters wearing red for ed not ed schultz for education read for education church marched on the arizona capitol while ten thousand marched in colorado colorado teachers planned two days of actions ending later today while their colleagues in arizona say they will strike until governor doug doocy meets their demands which include funding to bring average class sizes down to twenty three students per teacher and bring staff salaries up from forty seven thousand dollars arizona currently ranks near dead last in teacher pay only mississippi and south dakota rank lower the arizona strikers what

paid the largest criminal penalty ever as part of a settlement with the us justice department the two point eight billion dollars settlement was with regard to their famous diesel emissions cheating scandal. the wave of teacher walkouts and strikes that has touched the states of west virginia oklahoma and kentucky reached the western states of arizona and colorado this week teachers in both states walked out on thursday and marched on the capitals in phoenix and denver fifty thousand teachers and supporters wearing red for ed not ed schultz for education read for education teacher church marched. on the arizona capitol while ten thousand marched in colorado colorado teachers planned two days of actions ending later today while their colleagues in arizona say they will strike until gov doug doocy meets their demands which include funding to bring average class sizes down to twenty three students per teacher and bring staff salaries up from forty seven thousand dollars arizona currently ranks near dead last in teacher pay only mississippi and south dakota rank lower the arizona strikers

he can't be a criminal target under the memoranda that have been written by the justice department! moreover!usustice department regulations require the special counsel of the united states to follow the rules, regulations, and "policies" of the department of justice! mr. president, don't sit down with this special counsel! the special counsel doesn't have the power to indict you and for good reason! let me read this one paragraph! this is from the clinton administration justice department! in 1973, the department concluded that the indictment or criminal prosecution of a sitting president would impermissibly undermine the capacity of the executive branch to performance constitutionally assigned functions! i'm hoping professor dershowitz is listening. we've been asked to summarize, review the information in support of that conclusion and to consider whether any developments lead us to reconsider or disavow that determination. please, one more sentence. we believe that the conclusion reached by the department in 1972 still represents the best interpretation of the constitution. they are saying,

what evidence is the department of justice using apartment this merger? p, the department of justice is using internal memos from at&t and time-warner to make their case on this. in fact, this morning they tried to get in a consultant report to at&t that said that the merged company would be able to leverage or have leverage about distributors if they bought a programmer. all of this boils down to the at&t-time-warner side saying that they need to compete with tech giants google, facebook and amazon. however, they say that those tech giants have an advantage over them. they have all of the information on their customers and they can target ads. but they also own all of the space that the digital products are now on like netflix, hulu and amazon. consumer advocacy groups say that may be true but -- >> when you look online, there's powerful companies. googles, facebooks. you can't discount that. but it's still the cable companies and at&t. they control the infrastructure and the wireless networks, control the pipes that those online services need to access.

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stay with us. >> maria: welcome back. the justice departmentdismissing calls for a special counsel and the chassis and abuse investigation.they want to see if the fbi abuse surveillance authority that is 2016 right now will talk about this with erin dershowitz and bud cummins former us attorney for district of arkansas and partner of avenue strategies. good to see you both, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> good morning. >> maria: you think this is the right call on jeff sessions. question should have been up all made when robert mueller was appointed commission never seen an apartment as that special counsel is a first step. it should have been done within the justice department, investigator general, inspector general, the responsibility may be an existing career person. then let's see, is evidence of criminal conduct? we had visually never confuse political sins with federal crimes. and i think this is going about it the right way. and calibrated step-by-step. it would have been trained by the answer to having one bad point is not t

. >> natalie's parents told us tonight the justice department got this one right.spoke for the hidden and the abused today. >>> and now we turn to an incredible story of one mother's dedication to freeing her son from prison. staging an audacious, under-cover sting operation. how far would you go for your child? >> good morning. >> hey. >> are you ready? >> here i am. >> here we come. >> rikers here we come. >> doreen quinn giuliano has become far too familiar with rikers island, one of the countries most dangerous and notorious jails. her son john jukea has been behind bars since 2005, convicted of murdering a college sophomore. >> john doesn't belong there. >> where does he belong? >> home. >> reporter: it was known in the new york tab lids as the grid kid murder, short for grid iron. but doreen was convinced her son was innocent. >> does it ever cross your mind that maybe john did have something to do with this? >> no. i'm a hundred percent sure he did not. >> how can you be sure? >> the facts. just follow the facts. >> reporter: these facts, doreen said, led he

joining us is one of the 11 lawmakers who made that referral to the department of justice. ongresswoman, claudia tenney. thanks for being with us. on the matter of comey, you identified a myriad of crimes you suspect he may have committed which include theft of government documents, mishandling classified information, abuse of power, obstruction of justice and perjury. have you heard anything back from doj and, you know, are you optimistic? >> we haven't heard anything directly but we do have good news. one of the top news stories is the inspector general referred an drew maccabe for investigation of potential charges which is a good sign. i cannot believe james comey. he's every psychologist and psychiatrist across the country must be saying what's going on, this guy is unraveling in front of our eyes. it looks like a therapy tour. a lot of pressure has to be put on these people. i would like to see some transparency and accountability. let'let's restore faith in the . we have people running amok. gregg: he was trying to profit from his own wrongdoing. this was an adoration

the base is going to say, we expected this to come, he said it's coming, they're after us, the justice department is corrupt, they're all democrats. so they can deal with that. >> they're not, but that's what he's saying. >> that's what he's saying. the corruption issue, if i'm a political advisor to donald trump, i'd say, this is where the base gets affected, pay attention, deal with it right away. >> approval rating around 40%. he's been teflon so far. >> with the base but that's what i'm saying, that's why this is a danger, danger, mr. president. because this is the one that could pierce the bubble, the corruption issue. >> ann coulter, she has been laying it on lately. she recently told "the new york times," it is the former trumpers that the president needs to be concerned about, that after failing to do anything on immigration, passing a massive spending bill, they could be his ultimate undoing. >> yeah, and i think he got that message immediately. that's a signal he was like, whoa. because obviously she and others like her have been some of the strongest supporters. she called him a shallo

joining us is victoria toensing, a former justice department official, and joe digenova, the former u.s columbia, they are the founding partners of digenova and toensing. great to have you here. i'm going to rehearse from the moment we step off until next week if ever you have the grace to show up here again. let's start with this raid. victoria, a personal attorney of the president. >> mueller and his gang have weaponized the criminal justice system. these no-knock raid done on his personal lawyer's house and offices are the kind of tactics reserved for dope dealers and terrorists. i know, i used to be a narcotics prosecutor. this is not the regular order for subpoenaing and getting records from a lawyer. you should issue a subpoena and say what documents you want, then the attorney hands them over which i understand cohen has been doing all along. lou: and cooperating as you point out. joe, your thoughts on the apparent -- as victoria says -- as with paul manafort, a pre-dawn raid with a cooperating witness. what is this about mueller? >> i think the raids today on mr. cohen's office

we don't allow the president of the united states to use the justice department as his personal goon that's what donald trump tries to do. he inserts himself because he wants to change the players so he gets the right outcome. he wants to tell the justice department they should go and investigate hillary clinton. he wants to tell the justice department that james comey should be locked up. it is totally and absolutely inappropria inappropriate. there's a lot of talk on the right that oh trump hasn't done anything, it's just talk. what the president does is he takes an oath to enforce to the best of his ability the laws and the constitution. when he is doing this, he is violating his oath. his job is to enforce the law. his job is to make sure that the executive branch takes the laws that are on the book and enforces them evenly and fairly. when he does the exact opposite, when he personally is involved, that's not just corruption. it's unconstitutional and it is the sort of behavior frankly that if i were a member of congress i would look at in the totality of all the other things he

last few years, especially towards the end of president obama's time in office, we were using the justice department as a sword for people with political biase biases. i think it's important moving forward to level the playing field. treat everybody equally. and never politicize this awesome power given to the justice department. >> melissa: how do we do that? every time we call for a special counsel that his pursuit of a crime, the others feel that they are trying to do justice. that is what the special counsel is doing. if they happen to come upon another crime in pursuit, what is wrong with that? that's where the evidence took them. >> the reason why the trump-russia probe began was because president trump won the g.o.p. nomination for president. under the cover of some really bad alternative justifications that we see in the memo that started the investigation, to cover the real purpose for why the investigation started, it's also clear why the fbi and doj did not want to have the devin nunes memo released. they misled a fisa judge. they did not provide all their facts to spy on american citizen

does that imply, senator, that the justice department used collusion as a crime? >> it clearly indicate, wolf, that collusion regarded by the department of justice as a crime. and a serious one and should be under gags by the special counsel. there's no question and what we're see iing is obstruction o justice unu folding bf our eyes in real time in many of the president's statements. in his actions such as firing comey. seeking to fire mueller. and other kinds of deceptive activities, such at the statement he did after his son participate nd the trump tower meeting with russian agents. we're seeing has the support of the professional law enforcers. >> this memo was written by rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general. jeff sessions, recused himself. does this now put the deputy attorney general at risk of being fired? >> it certainly kuz. that is a key question. because the pressure is mounting. the special counsel comes closer and closer by the day to the united states. the threat to not only rod rosenstein, but the special counsel. that's the reason i asked th

are right has direct oversight responsibility for the justice department and having to threaten the justice department to get documents that are usedspector general in the upcoming report on how the fbi conducted the hillary clinton e-mail investigation. weep saw after more threats, finally the attorney general jeff sessions publicly leaned on the fbi director to say, you have to give more attention to congress here. but this is a continual story. and you know this, one. things we have been hearing, people say there is a republican administration and justice department and they are republicans on cant captain hill. how come it is not working better? what it shows, some people call it the deep state and others call the institutional prerogatives and how deep the semp protection impulse is in the fbi and justice department. >> lou: it is corruption and the deep state and embedded deep leand entrenched deeply. and the deep state is winning. it is it an interesting question and no one reports more on it than you do. what can the president do? i have to say, if in the same position just the frustration level would compeel me to fire som

justice department. again having to threaten the justice department to get these documents that have been used by the inspector general in the upcoming report on how to fbi conducteds the hillary clinton e-mail investigation. they're just getting describes and drabs of those. and we saw after more threats the attorney general jeff sessions kind of leaned on or publicly leaned on the fbi director to say, you've got to give more attention to congress here. but this has been a continual story. and you know this. one of the things we've been hearing is people say well, there's a republican administration and justice department and these are republicans on capitol hill. how come this is not working better. and i think what it's shown is some people call it the deep state, other people call it institutional prerogatives. but it has shown how deep the self protection impulse is inside the justice department and the fbi. lou: it is political corruption and it is the deep state. it is embedded deeply, entrenched deeply. and right now the deep state is winning. open it's an interesting question and no one thinks more ab

nonetheless, the inspector general has now -- this is the term of art they use at the justice department -- referred this to the justice department to consider prosecution. so this is merely a recommendation. this is sort of a formal "here's what we found" report to the justice department. referrals don't always result in criminal charges. the most famous example, katy, would be the referral from the intelligence group about hillary clinton's use of e-mails, as i think everyone knows now. that did not result in criminal charges. there was a long investigation, but there were no charges. so the mere fact that there's a referral doesn't mean that there will be charges. it is going to be up to the justice department prosecutors to decide that. these lying to the feds cases are quite common in the courts, but you have to prove what was in the person's mind at the time they made the statements that are the source of the charge, did they intend to mislead. so that will be a big question here. so it's certainly a problem for andrew mccabe. i think it is fair to say it is what he feared would co

. >> how about how he's also tough in another tweet on the department of justice and the fbi actually using air quotes around department of justice and referring to them as an embarrassment to our country. these are agencies that have been criticized certainly but to have the sitting president of the united states refer to the fbi and doj as embarrassments to our country, i think it's just sad. >> it shocks the system to some degree. what? these are people that work in these agencies as law enforcement officers, committed civil servants there to serve the country and protect the american people. he said in the past he's criticizing the leadership and no organization is beyond reproa reproach. you can have criticisms, but to hear from the president of the united states' own words to call the fbi and the department of justice an embarrassment to america is anti-american in many ways to say that. >> yep. david chalian, thank you very much for that. we have other breaking news today. a show of force in the name of education. look at these pictures. public school teachers in two states today mar

to do that, sod now the department of justice issues behind us -- we were seeking to do that, so now partment of justice issue is behind us. we can be focused on generating double-digit returns. for the first time in 20 years we can begin to consider to return capital to shareholders to things like stock buybacks. >> stock buybacks are certainly going to tempt investor -- the investor. do you think there could be a stock buyback before the end of the year? >> we're not going to give it a day to that -- a date to that. there are things that we want to do with our balance sheet, like deal with some of the legacy issues that were issued during the height of the financial crisis. there is some balance sheet issues that we want to do, but at the right time we will look returning -- beginning to return excess capital to our shareholders to buy back. we're not going to put any kind of timeframe on that just yet. francine: trade in both barclays and deutsche bank have been mixed, as investors digest the results of deutsche's new plan. how should investors be placed in the sector? joining me i

using law enforcement stop speech. are there ways that the justice department using our tools to either stop foreign adversaries for doing technical attacks on us or deter them from doing them in the future? >> there's a lot of things we can do particularly when there's a foreign intelligence that as opposed to another threat. you have economic sanctions, diplomatic repercussions there's covert action you can do in response. there is cyber warfare that cyber activity we do not designed and there's kinetic activity. if some hostile nation were to take control of these that operate big dams or other industrial stuff and they open these gates that killed the flood i think we might bomb them. i don't know but all those options are all on the table. from my point of view there's a number of law enforcement options available. we see those in operation now through the work of the special counsel. i divide up law-enforcement into two buckets. there are some specialized cyber law-enforcement tools and statutes available. the most famous of be the computer fraud and abuse act. so it's a crime to hijack someone else's computer. tha

us robert. the justice department missed a pretty important deadline on thursday.y were subpoenaed by the house judiciary committee for documents related to alleged abuses and the hillary clinton email probe. >> this would not be the first time that a deadline has ever been missed. he looks at the message has been conveyed now through the political process that the justice department needs to focus its attention and comply. otherwise will happen is the committee will issue subpoenas to get the documents. republicans on the committee are unhappy while the message has been communicated. look at the fbi got the message and fbi director is going to put sufficient people on the task in order to get compliance with the request of the committee. those are legitimate requests. it is the oversight function and it is, it has a political dynamic to it. but i mean i have said previously, issues involving abuse of the fisa court process is a legitimate issue of public concern.there are documents that will shed light on the issue, the justice department has them. and also of cou

department of justice and the fbi. congress created the department of justice and the fbi. they're the ones that open an investigation into a presidential campaign using, the american people know it's crazy, and the longer that they keep very basic information from us like show us the two pages on what led you to believe that you should open this investigation into the campaign. and the longer that they block this from us, i think the more the american people are going to become frustrated, and it's going to look badly on the department of justice -- abby: why do you think it's taking so long? >> look, just like we found out with the other information, every time we had to fight for months and months and months to just get a little bit more information, a little bit more information, it always turns out badly for them. i mean, look what's just coming out this past week on the additional text messages from mr. peter strzok and ms. page, the fbi agent. and remember, our committee was the first to ask for those text messages. we were promised that we had all the information as it related to fisa abuse. and then we find out, oh, wait, they were talking to

what is not a good thing is for trump to continuously use twitter as a means to attack his own department of justicenue to attack our own government. their doing the best they can -- they're doing the best they can, and those documents will be released today. so to be late only three days does not warrant an attack on twitter. jillian: speaking of using twitter, let's pull out this tweet from saturday: =jl joe, who do you agree with, weny or president trump and his tweet? >> well, it's not looking good. look, there's a reason our founders put the congress in article i of the constitution and the executive branch in article ii. the fbi and doj are subject to -- not above finish the laws of the house of representatives and the senate. and when you see an agency potentially with bad actors stonewalling an investigation by the people, we the people have sent to washington for this purpose. the president and, frankly, we all should be right to question this. every time we peel back a layer of the onion that is the fbi and doj, we seem to uncover more bias whether it's the strock e-mails, the new loretta

complaining about some of the problems, showing us some of the things wrong at department of justice. including double standards for how they enforce harassment in the workplace. other things of that sort. and so, congress should give him the benefit of the doubt if he is going to turn over if you will, the us attorney, anything that needs to be prosecuted. and he will get answers or he will get an outside subpoena. >> maria: there's a lot to look at with the bias at the top of the fbi and the department of justice against donald trump and really the handling of the hillary clinton email investigation. do you think he is equipped into looking independently at those two things? >> i do not think any one or even a dozen people to look at all of that was done wrongdoing the obama administration. remember, eric holder withheld documents lying to congress about what his involvement was and was the first attorney general, the first officer held in contempt. he is actually still very actively part of the obama network. he is one of the lead councils representing california advising them on s

put on your big boy pants and use the department of justice and the fbi to investigate and prosecute those who violated our laws. and while you are at it, stop apologizing for our second amendment because this ain't going to end well unless and until republicans get the guts to wield the power to run our government way it's supposed to be run. that's my open. tell me what you think on my facebook, twitter and instagram page, hashtag judge jeanine. with me white house press secretary hogan gidley. i want to talk about the border. i keep hear being a caravan of immigrants traveling through mexico on their way to us. >> obviously mexico is an ally and we are working with them. but this exposes what's going none our country that for whatever reason democrats pretend to not acknowledge. we have seen a 200% increase from march of this year and march of last year, illegal people crossing into our country. 50,000 last month alone were caught at the border coming in illegally. judge jeanine: when the president came in, he -- it declined 70%. why is it up again? >> it declined because of the t

complaining about some of the problems, showing us some of the things wrong at department of justice. including double standards for how they enforce harassment in the workplace. other things of that sort. and so, congress should give him the benefit of the doubt if he is going to turn over if you will, the us attorney, anything that needs to be prosecuted. and he will get answers or he will get an outside subpoena. >> maria: there's a lot to look at with the bias at the top of the fbi and the department of justice against donald trump and really the handling of the hillary clinton email investigation. do you think he is equipped into looking independently at those two things? >> i do not think any one or even a dozen people to look at all of that was done wrongdoing the obama administration. remember, eric holder withheld documents lying to congress about what his involvement was and was the first attorney general, the first officer held in contempt. he is actually still very actively part of the obama network. he is one of the lead councils representing california advising them on s

approval on the innovation later this year and another merger mania news earlier today the us department of justice to prove biotech and chemical maker bear a g.'s acquisition of agro chemical and biotech firm monsanto monsanto is valued at over sixty billion dollars the deal was initially announced in september of two thousand and sixteen and was cleared by european regulators last month after bear agreed to sell soil cotton and chemical assets including the main competitor to month santos roundup b.s.f. berry has agreed to additional sales of assets in seed and agriculture technology to meet a specific concerns of u.s. regulators. and the tariff talk between washington and beijing continues in earnest as u.s. president donald trump tweeted today and other administration officials have been out in public discussing the matter to bring us up to speed alex mchale that joins us from toronto alex first of all tell us about where we've come in just the last month for those of us not paying attention to the individual tech talks of the moment and we are going to get back to january when those first tari

justice department. fox news chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is trying to stay up with us. n, this book tour is getting quite interesting. isn't it? >> it is, brian. fox news confirms that comey is under investigation by the justice department's internal watchdogs. the inspector general for leaking the memos, whether he mishandled classified information as well as his communications outside the fbi including reporters. the memos show the relationship between the president and comey was difficult on the very beginning. after comey briefed mr. trump about dossiers unverified claims, just three weeks before the inauguration. the president says that he wanted the russia claims investigated. comey said that it would be good to find out but he hadn't done anything at hoped he would find a way to get out, we want investigating him. the president's saying that he crossed the line -- comey replied that he would always get honesty for me. trump paused and said, that's what he wants come on his loyalty, i replied and said, he will get that for me. the 15 pages of memos, it contained cl

say it's you the fed that bailed us out it's you the treasury and the department of justice that allowed us to get away with this they can't say that because why would they because they're just going to be targeted the next go round the next crash as we're experiencing i have known of people. very close to closer and closer really quickly i'll also tell you about another headline and this is the similar case in south korea and that south korean millennial is are reeling from the bitcoin bust the country around fifty two million comprises seventeen percent of all the theory and trading it's one of the top crypto currency markets especially from last summer until the end of the year so a lot of koreans piled in to crypto currencies at the top but the thing this stood out about this article in the last minute here is one thing they say about americans and all these unemployed americans is that we don't have the right educated population we need to bring in these immigrants and people just have the right a qualifications maybe the economy would be better but this third out to me about the mi