group the diesel affair continues to smolder the us justice department has accused former v.w. boss of into a corner. of fraud and complicity in the emission scandal the seventy year old is facing twenty five years in prison extradition to the usa is considered unlikely however. labor day on may first there were demonstrations worldwide for fairer pay and better working conditions as here in the indonesian capital jakarta but thousands also took to the streets in germany italy and france. the protest against further labor market reforms by the government escalated in paris masked protesters threw stones and destroyed cars and shops in the downtown area. good numbers apple exceeded investor expectations in the second quarter the us group was able to increase its profit by a quarter to almost fourteen billion dollars. and this despite lagging sales of the i phone ten on the important chinese market consumers prefer the cheaper competitor product apple now wants to release a slim down version of the i phone ten. greek prime minister alexis the press has good reason to smile he's r

if that deal is blocked comcast may decide that taking on fox and the us justice department is hardlyis joe the time. that isjoe mellor based in new york. amy—jo crowley covers the technology and media business for the dealreporter. good morning. time warner and at&t, whether they can come together, it is quite critical as to where we had nextin is quite critical as to where we had next in the story. i think it is quite key. the ceo of comcast said he is waiting to see if the us federal, if that decision on it will be overturned by the district court next month, and, yes, if they do it set a precedent for comcast to follow through on its bed for fox's assets. as well, the white house is watching this really closely. president trump has been quite vocal on time warner and at&t, and some of the others. it is a fan of fox, but not so with some of the others. give us not so with some of the others. give us the background on all of this. as i mentioned earlier, a lot of this is to do with the disruption netflix has caused. it is not as netflix any more, there are many players in the market

also this hour — the us justice department has announced it will expand its investigation into the 2016ump demanded an investigation. as well as looking at allegations of russian interference, it's also going to investigate any irregularities involving fbi tactics. mexico's aviation authority says it will temporarily suspend operations by the airline involved in last week's crash in cuba. the authority is conducting a review after the aerolineas damojh crash that killed 110 people. the plane crashed shortly after taking off from havana's jose marti airport on friday. the cuban government is also investigating. new zealand's prime minister, jacinda ardern, has taken the unusual step of appearing at an official engagement as a hologram. she gave the opening address at a tech conference in auckland — an event she was unable to attend in person. it's thought she's the first politician to deliver a speech in such a way. donald trump and the south korean president, moonjae—in, are to meet at the white house on tuesday. top of the agenda — the planned summit between mr trump and the north kore

the us justice department opens an investigation into alleged f.b.i. . traces of the presidential campaign after reports of the bureau had an informant inside the camp. great to have your company this evening my name is neil harvey this is r.t. international u.s. secretary of state. threatened the worst sanctions ever for iran to see him fail twelve demands against iran. iran must declare to the i.a.e.a. a full account of the prior military dimensions of its nuclear program but stop enrichment provide the i.a.e.a. with unqualified access to all sites throughout the entire country and its proliferation of ballistic missiles release all u.s. citizens and support to middle east terrorist groups respect the sovereignty of the iraqi government and permit the disarming demobilization and reintegration of shia militias also and its military support for the who the militia withdraw all forces under a new command throughout the entirety of syria most in support for the taliban and other terrorists in afghanistan in the region and cease harboring senior al qaeda l

president of the united states and he has no authority to inject in the department of justice the opportunity of a witch hunt and use attack them. any member of congress worth their salt of written the constitution, whether they're a republican or democrat, the speaker of the house, and i know the leader of the house, should join in to raise a question of the president's appropriate behavior. and that behavior may constitute an abuse of power. so i would hope that we would look at this thoughtfully. i hope the president will reflect on his words and i hope his council, meaning his chief of staff and others, will ask the president to allow any investigation to proceed under te department of justice solely, not by his involvement, direction or attack on civilians who cannot stand up to the power of the president of the united states. that would be shameful and underlying the very democracy that we love and that those wearing the counsel for all of those who have a invite. >> our hearts go out to the students in this school where the shooting took place. they are wanting to limit the amount of exits and entrances, hard

pete williams for us in front of the justice department. >>> the special counsel's investigation is as you probably know one of the many cases on the president's plate. there may be a lawyer who is closer to a presidential interview than robert mueller. that's michael avenatti. he is the lawyer for stormy daniels. he joins me now. thank you for being with us. let me start with the bigger issue here of the change in the guard again of the president's lawyers. there seems to be a seismic shift here. we seem to be abandoning the idea that the president is going to have a friendly conversation with robert mueller. and they are headed towards something else. he has just hired a guy who was an impeachment lawyer for bill clinton. what do you read into this? >> i think the likelihood of the president voluntarily sitting down for an interview for a statement under oath with bob mueller or anyone from his team is basically zero at this point. based on my professional fin and years of experience in reading those questions and my understanding as to where things stand i don't think it's going to

director of intelligence james clapper is defending the fbi's use of confidential informants and slamming the president's department of justice today. >> i would think that's actually very disturbing assault on the independence of the department of justice, and i think when the president -- this president or any president tries to use the department of justice as a private investigatory body, that's not good for the country. a legitimate activity, and an important one, on the part of the fbi. they use informants and have strict rules and protocols under this. >> so how far do president trump's powers extend for his department of justice demand? ken whaley is joining us right now to break it down. she's a former u.s. attorney, was a former correspondent with the whitewater investigation. kim, talk to us about the president's power over the department of justice to make a demand like this. >> sure. the president under article 2 of the constitution has the power to take care that the laws are executed. he has the power to direct the processes of the justice department. but internally, for many, many years, there's been a separat

mary, his distinguished career which has alternated between increasingly senior jobs in the us justice department and physicians in private practice with lockheed martin and bridgewater associates. james comey said he never expected to write a book and chose to do so to drive a conversation about ethical leadership and our nation's core values. he called donald trump out of step with those values, comparing him to a mob boss, stressing personal loyalty over the law and has little regard for morality or truth. not surprisingly the pres. has had some choice words for mr. comey calling him a leaker and a liar among other derogatory epithets. meanwhile, sales of "a higher loyalty: truth, lies, and leadership" keep going up. [applause] and tickets for events like this one sellout in minutes. you will get a chance to see and hear him in person and form your own impressions without a filter. he will be in conversation with mike allen, one of the most prominent and tireless journalists who wrote for the washington post and a couple other news organizations before launching a daily newsletter just over a

responses to the census so we would not see that information could not be used in immigration enforcement proceeding by the department of justice or nye department. the only data made available to us ising a degree gait statistical data covering census blocks. individual responses are not provide to us. they're kept confidential by the census bureau and every employee who sees them agree's to a nondisclosure agreement and can't disclose the responses for the rest or their lives. >> that's an important point. so i'll ask that question again so you can repeat that so everybody can hear that. any questions in regards to citizenship that is answered in regards to the census could it be used by any law enforcement eight or judicial proceedingie the government. >> could not be used mitchell understanding of the law it could not be used in immigration and don'ters. proceed ago, could not be used dish believe those -- it's my understanding understanding the individual responses stay at the census bureau. i know what we receive in the several rights division is onlye individual response at the census bureau is only statistical data and

it would be simply frosty use and a hard count and align in time with the data that maps and courts in the department of justicealready use and the census bureau and congress had made a determination that it would be more accurate. beyond that that was the statement that we made in our letter and the department of commerce my understanding took a hard look at that and made that determination. >> in conclusion seems like the only circumstances that has changed since 2017 is who is sitting in the oval office and unfortunately that is not sufficient under the law to allow an untested question. i'll back. >> the gentle lady from new york is granted a unanimous request. >> i request a unanimous consent to place and record a statement from the asian-americans justice association. >> without objection. >> thank you. >> i believe all members have been able to have the questions answered to the extent you are able. the hearing will remain open for two weeks. if there is no for the business without objection the committee stands adjourned. [silence] >> c-span's washington journal live everyday with news and policy issues

mary and his distinguished career which has alternated between increasingly senior job in the us justice department and positions in private practice with such firms as lockheed martin and bridgewater associates. james comey said he never expected to write about, but eventually chose to do so to drive a conversation about ethical leadership and our nation's core values. he's called president trump out of step with those values, comparing him to a mambo boss who stresses personal loyalty over the lot and has little regard for morality or truth. not surprisingly, the president has had some choice words for james comey, calling him a leaker and a liar among other derogatory epithets. meanwhile, sales of "a higher loyalty" keep going up. [applause]. and tickets for events like this one so out in minutes. this evening you will get a chance to see and hear james comey in person and form your own impression without a filter. you will be in conversation with mike allen, one of washington's most prominent and tireless journalists took mike wrote for the "washington post" and some other news organizations be

he wants to be able to use the justice department to go after his political opponents and wants to uset to muzzle those that would investigate the white house. this is an extreme violation of the rule of law. it takes a historical context to fully comprehend what's happening here. right? the king was restricted requested he wasn't above the law but the magna carta. our founding fathers would not have imagined giving the president of the united states in the constitution rights and ability to be above the law when there are concerns with the power of the king. wanted to be independent of that king. the president of the united states has terned the american history and law on its head. we are facing a real constitutional crises. and my friend on both sides of the aisle need to stand up and show some courage. >> mike quickingly joining us, thank you sewer. >>> breaking some news admitting that the president paid michael k cohen back for the hush money to stormy daniels. more on that breaking news after the break. kyle: mom! mom! kyle, we talked about this. there's no monsters. but you sai

you have an administration using the justice department to spy on an opposing political party during esidential election using bought and paid for, the other campaign in this case, hilary clinton, using her bought and paid for money to hire a foreign national to get russian lies that he says in an interrog.tory in great britain intelligence to get a fiza judge and not telling any that hillary paid for it. look how the biased press is trying to brush aside this huge national corruption scandal. >> let's for the sake of discussion use the term spy, the use of trade craft, using a formally trained case officer who would mask identity, attempt to recruit. none of the attributes of spy craft were present here. this is the most benign form of information gathering. to characterize it as a spy or spy gate is part of the narrative. it's directly an at thi an at t. >> the point now is that he's using them to a particular kind of effect. >> he's a liberal hack and clapper is a known liar. we have more on the complicit media's cover up through the show. now to a story that left many on the left

justice department tonight to find out if, in fact, the justice department is handing over the documents that nunes has subpoenaed on this fbi confidential source. justice department spokeswoman sarah isgur flores clarified to us tonight that the exact word choice, the specificity of the white house statement on this is important. let me put that statement back up there. yeah, so, the white house statement said specifically that this meeting will be set up with congressional leaders to review highly classified and other information that they have requested. information that they have requested is not the same as documents that they have requested. from the justice department spokesperson, information is different than documents. okay. so it sounds like justice department and the fbi and the director of national intelligence have agreed to maybe brief congressional leaders, maybe describe information to them about this confidential source, but not hand them pieces of paper, not hand them documents related to this source. which is what republicans have been trying to get. so that's where we think we are. at least that's the insight we have into the ambiguity tonight. bottom line, how's the old rule of law holdin

and this decision both inside the department of justice and outside the department of justice. >> thank you for your question, congress woman malone. >> will you give us the names today. >> what me reiterate what i said in my opening statement, it was only after the committee added some nongovernment witnesses to the panel and deny the department of justice that i ask, and i am happy to be here today and answer your question. >> was the issue about mr. per nel for the moment, i can't speak for mr. per nel but he's not a member of the department of justice, he's not a gooft ment official, he doesn't speak for the department of justice, he doesn't speak for the civil rights division and he doesn't speak for me. i don't know where mr. bore he's getting that from. >> did you communicate with him? >> no. >> you did not. did you or anyone else at the department communicate with anyone, a political organization such as the rnc, redistricting commission, trump campaign, who else did you consult with on this position. >> i can't speak for other people, they'll have to speak for themselves, but in terms of people that i may or may not have consulted with in the

it's only allowed to be used because the justice department has conflict of interest. not allowed to be used for things that could be already prosecuted by the normal prosecutors in the department of justice. so it's way far afield. ed shock thing is the prosecutors pushed the back on this and questioned the judge's authority to question them. the last time i checked, the department of justice was created to protect the executive branch. charles: rudy giuliani making so many different comments. a lot of the confusion over his. the repayment for stormy daniels. >> this was for personal reasons. the president had been hurt personally, not politically. personally so much. and the first lady, by some of the false allegations. one more false allegations six years old. i think he was trying to help his family, for that the man is being treated as some kind ofville an --some kind of villa. charles: that somehow he would miss appropriate $130,000 of the $100 million he put into the election for something like this. >> we have seen media personalities having to deal with these a

so we would not see that information, it could not be used in any kind much immigration enforcement proceeding by the department of justice or any other department. the only data that's made available to us is aggregate statistical data covering census blocks and larger geographic areas. individual responses are not provided to us. those are kept confidential by the census bureau and every employee who sees them agrees to a nondisclosure greet. >> and that's an important point, i'm going to ask you to repeat that so everybody can hear that. any questions in regards to citizenship answered in regards to the census, could it be used by law enforcement agency or judicial proceeding by the government. >> it could not be used-- my understanding of the law, congressman, it could not be used in immigration enforcement proceeding. could not be used-- i believe it's my understanding the individual responses stay at the census bureau. i know what we receive in the civil rights division is only aggregate statistical data and all of those individual responses are protected by law and the confidentiality and privacy of individual resp

department of justice. when this president or any president tries to use the department of justice as kind of a private investigater body, that's not good for the country. >> so their argument is pretty clear, which is it's not about me. it's about me. they are spying on he me. they can spy on anybody. this is dirty tricks, deep state. this is the survey answer that he feels happened in trump tower, even though we don't have any proof of it. dirty deeds of. members of his party back this. >> it is a legitimate activity on the part of the fbi. they use informants and have strict rules and protocols on this. but the big thing here is this is not about spying on his campaign. it's about what the russians are doing. were they attempted to infiltrate the campaign. that was the concern. >> if the concern was they were trying to get to the trump probe. >> this is one you can use or bring to bear, the fbi can, in the interest of determining whether there was active efforts on the part by the russians to infiltrate the campaign. if it was his campaign or any other campaign. the important thing is that a foreign nation, par

it would be simply frosty use and a hard count and align in time with the data that maps and courts in the department of justice already use and the census bureau and congress had made a determination that it would be more accurate. beyond that that was the statement that we made in our letter and the department of commerce my understanding took a hard look at that and made that determination. >> in conclusion seems like the only circumstances that has changed since 2017 is who is sitting in the oval office and unfortunately that is not sufficient under the law to allow an untested question. i'll back. >> the gentle lady from new york is granted a unanimous request. >> i request a unanimous consent to place and record a statement from the asian-americans justice association. >> without objection. >> thank you. >> i believe all members have been able to have the questions answered to the extent you are able. the hearing will remain open for two weeks. if there is no for the business without objection the committee stands adjourned. turkeys in a place where they don't actually acquire the s 400. we don't believe

he wants to be able to use the justice department to go after his political opponents and he wants to it to muzzle those that would investigate the white house. this is an extreme violation of the rule of law. it takes a historical context to fully comprehend what's happening here. right? the king was restricted that he wasn't above the law by the magna carta. our founding fathers would not have imagined giving a president of the united states in the constitution rights and ability to be above the law when there already extraordinary concerns with the powers of the king can and wanting to be independent of that king. so the president of the united states has turned american history and law on its head. we are facing a real constitutional crisis. and my friends on both sides of the aisle need to stand up, show some profiles in courage. >> congressman mike quigley joining us from chicago. thank you, sir. i appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> the president's new lawyer, the former mayor of new york, also the state's attorney under the southern district where the michael cohen case is now. b

department of justice. when the president -- this president or any president tries to use the department of justice as a private investigatory is not good for the government. it's about what the russians were doing. were they attempting to infiltrate the concern? that was the concern. in my belief that's what the focus of this activity about. >> sean: the same clapper that bragged about the fbi spying on the trump campaign and said it was a good thing? this is problematic. and then good old sally yates that signed off on one of the fisa warrants like rosenstein and was e-mailing with andrew weissman after she refused to enforce the travel ban. yates is trashing the president. why? to save and protect herself. watch this. >> donald trump himself accusing the obama administration of improperly targeting his campaign for an investigation. what is your response to everything you heard over the weekend? >> obviously i'm not going to comment on the specific fact there's. it's up to the department of justice to decide what information should be made public with respect to that. you know, i think what we're seeing here

we can identify that better, using existing technology that our department of justice has figured out how to use. and we are going to keep using it and we can never let that happen again. what happened in southern west virginia is just -- cannot happen again. >> it's criminal. >> it is. >> thank you, mr. attorney general. >> thank you, mr. jenkins. mr. attorney general, i want to direct your attention again to human trafficking which is such a terrible problem in the country. and unfortunately, i hometown of houston, texas, is such a worsening community in the country, in terms of the number of scale, and it's really heartbreaking. it's a problem in public events, at any large urban area, along major travel routes, and the internet compounds the problem here and abroad. and notwithstanding the takedown of trafficking organizations through efforts like the fbi's operation cross country, or seizures of the notorious backpage.com website, which we deeply appreciate. the traffickers just seem to be proliferating. i know that the bureau of justice today has funded 42 human trafficking task

peacekeeping arm of the justice department and we hope in weeks ahead he will see congress working with doj to reverse the decision to wipe away one of the most critical parts of the us department of justice. >> thank you, mdm. chair. i have a question only because we talked a lot about data the last couple years and reporting going up the last couple years. what do those numbers and reports look like for the last 10 years or 20 years. have they been on the increase or on the decline? are you talking about the last two years because there was a tremendous percentage increase, if i could have demanded i would appreciate that if you know what the numbers are or if you can lay your hands on these numbers. >> from our review according to statistics from 2004 to 2015 the average number of hate crimes recorded was a quarter of 1 million and -- wait, that can't -- i will review that. we saw that it looked as though 2004-2015 there were changes, fluctuations, hate crime reporting dipped and there were no significant decreases but there were changes for latinos and periods of increased reporting but never a dramatic drop. we were always looking at a rate of a steady level of

next, and the our justice correspondent terry johnson joins us to discuss -- carrie johnson joins us to discuss deputy rod rosenstein and the criticism he faces at the justice department. later, ohio democratic party ther david pepper discusses buckeye state's upcoming primaries and his penchant for little thriller novels. stay tuned. ♪ >> sunday on q&a, robert courson on his book "rocket men." >> it was impossible to disregard it after a few minutes talking to them. that is mostly what they wanted to talk about it.

by the way, you have an administration using the justice department to spy on an opposing political partyg the presidential election using bought and paid for, the other campaign, in this case, hillary clinton, using her bought and paid for one ultimate money through a law firm, fusion gps, to hire a foreign national, to get russian light that even he says in an interrogatory in great britain, may be 50/50 at best, raw intelligence, to then get a warrant by lying to a spy, -- a fisa g judge, and an original application, and three subsequent applications, and not telling any of the judges that hillary paid for it. take a look at how the biased process trying to brush aside this huge, massive national abuse of power corruption scandal. >> i have an aversion to the use of the word spy. for the sake of discussion, let's use that term, which conventionally means, the use of tradecraft, using a formally trained case officer, who would mask identity, attempt to recruit, so none of the attributes of spy craft, if i can use that term, were present here. this is the most benign form of information

the department of justice notifying the department that it may provide the august scope memo written by rod rosenstein. chris farrell is joining usctor of investigation and research for judicial watch. chris, first, congratulations. this looks like possibly this would be a big deal? >> we have a pressed and pressed to get the memo released to the public. it will unlock, a lot of this muller special counsel operation. the public is owed an answer to what his mission statement was. when we first asked for it, the justice department denied it existed and we had to sue in october and they begrudging it admitted. we have judicial watch in the courts and members of the congress. people like mr. nunez and mr. santos and members of the freedom caucus and now judge ellis and three different prongs to the attack and hope that our efforts will finally get the scope document released and so the people can see what mr. muller is up to. >> and the judge who dismissed special counsel's efforts to delay arraignment in the case of the russians -- i mean, >> right. >> lou: it is a mess created by the special counsel that is deeply conflicted and t

department of justice. and i think when this president or any president tries to use the department of justice as kind of a private investigatory body that's not good for the party. >> before his meeting, rod rosenstein relented and said the inspector general's office will investigate. saying if anyone did surveil the campaign for inappropriate actions we need to look at it and take actions. >> i am disappointed with the deputy attorney general suggesting we'll look into finding if there's any legitimate concern about an imbedded spy. they know it's nonsense. >> reporter: the president's allies have been hammering the justice department's oversight of the special counsel for months. >> the single most dangerous person to the agenda of president trump, the republican party, and ultimately to all americans, is the attorney general of the united states himself, jeff sessions. >> reporter: and the president is continuing his attacks on the obama administration, taking jabs at former cia director john brennan. john brennan is panicking, lehas disgraced himself, the country, the entire intelligence community. th

everyone working in the justice department, including the fbi, which is a part of the justice department. since the j. edgar hoover era of the fbi, when presidents routinely tried to use the fbi for their own political purposes, the fbi and the justice department have worked very hard to establish operational independence from the president. after president richard nixon was caught trying to use the fbi for political purposes and forced to resign the presidency, all subsequent presidents were careful to never appear to be trying to influence the work of the fbi or the justice department. when special prosecutors were appointed to investigate presidents or their administrations, which was traditional for the presidents attorney general to choose a special prosecutor from the opposing party of the president so that the investigation would be considered uncompromisable by the special prosecutor's political affinity, if not loyalty to the president. then donald trump changed all that. donald trump got a special prosecutor, who is a rubble. a special prosecutor who is a member of donald trump's own party. but that didn't stop donald trump from attacking the special prosecu

society general greed to quit and exchange for a softening of a penalty of demands from the us department of justice soc gen is accused of attempting to rig the key london interbank offered rate otherwise known as libel or the rate at which banks lend to other banks overnight because the rate is so central to banking operations even a modest pressure on that rate could result in wide gains for an investor who have knows what such fluctuations in advance so former deputy dick direct. executive i'm sorry former deputy chief executive didier ballet of soc gen in march left after the justice department prosecutors said that if bell lay and other executives that d.o.j. suspected of involvement in the alleged manipulation did not resign they would demand that the soc gen plead guilty agree to outside oversight and pay a higher fine if you might wonder if my old agency the c f t c is also involved in the investigation the answer is a big yes i was involved we were there we actually started those live born vest again which impacted so many investors. and southwest airlines is being sued by a passenger on th

very disturbing assault on the independence of the department of justice, and i think when the president, this president or any president, tries to use the department of justice as the private investigatory body, that is not good for the country. the big thing here, this is not about spying on his campaign. it's about what the russians are doing. were they attempting to infiltrate the campaign? that was a concern, and that, in my belief, is what focus of this whole activity was about. >> sean: the same clapper who braggedea about the fbi spying n the trump campaign and said it was a good thing? this is problematic. then there's good old sally yates, who signed off on, yes, one of the fisa warrants like rosenstein and was emailing with andrew weissmann, the most corrupt member of mueller's team, after she refused to enforce the travel ban. yates is also trashing the president. why? to save and protect yourself. watchh this. >> donald trump himself accusing the obama administration of improperly targeting his campaign for an investigation. what is your response to y everything you've heard over the weekend? >> well,l, obviously, i'm no

. >> the justice department's request of block level information. >> if you try to use that ,nformation to help do your job you would be unable to because assert that there was sufficient accuracy because of the small size of the sampling by block. >> right. the census bureau's technical review, we cannot produce reliable block levels. >> so the only way by paraphrasing, the only way to achieve what apparently is asked for by the obama administration for eight years with accuracy down the block level is to do what you're doing, isn't that true? >> i don't think a that was asked, i don't think that was asked at that level. >> and many of them during president obama's, much of them during his term was not sufficiently accurate. it did not have enough statistical accuracy for it to be used at block levels, which is what the department of justice asked for it? >> the gentleman's time has expired. >> i thank the gentleman. >> well, i will now recognize the gentleman from new york and the gentleman from north carolina after that. >> thank you, mr. chairman for yielding just as the point of in

it would be simply frosty use and a hard count and align in time with the data that maps and courts in the department of justicealready use and the census bureau and congress had made a determination that it would be more accurate. beyond that that was the statement that we made in our letter and the department of commerce my understanding took a hard look at that and made that determination. >> in conclusion seems like the only circumstances that has changed since 2017 is who is sitting in the oval office and unfortunately that is not sufficient under the law to allow an untested question. i'll back. >> the gentle lady from new york is granted a unanimous request. >> i request a unanimous consent to place and record a statement from the asian-americans justice association. >> without objection. >> thank you. >> i believe all members have been able to have the questions answered to the extent you are able. the hearing will remain open for two weeks. if there is no for the business without objection the committee stands adjourned.

justice department standards for antitrust cases. the chamber also approved a measure that would require state and local governments receiving justice department grants to usehose funds for pretrial services programs. tomorrow theou

change an investigation into himself and into his friends, what's to stop him from using that power of the justice department to come after the rest of us? so, again, there are really important walls being torn down today between the president of the united states and the justice department. and once they get torn down, i worry that you can't put them back up again. >> one of your colleagues, republican colleagues southern cornyn, he is the number two senate republican, had this to say. i think the special counsel needs to wrap things up as soon as he can consistent with accomplishing the job he has been given. i would think so that he would finish before the midterm, saying miller's team should avoid what happened with the clinton probe. this seems to be an emerging consens consensus, more and more republicans calling for this to wrap up. >> mueller has to go until he has found the truth. and the fact of the matter is, as he continues to get more guilty pleas, as he continues to get more individuals close to the president who are willing to cooperate with him, he is likely finding new avenues of investigati

i indicated the citizen right to know act would require a state or local government that uses justice department grant funding to pay for pretrial services which are an important program to report annually information about defendants who participate in the program. the very fact you are in the program is an indication in most jurisdictions you are not a violent felon. you would hope you are not a person accused of sex crimes, sex trafficking, human trafficking. and those are matters that can be fixed. information that will be required to be reported includes the name of each defendant participating in the program. each occasion if the person failed to make an appearance, the record of prior convictions of each participant, and a money allocated for the program. if the government fails to comply with the reporting requirement, it would lose its entire funding under the relevant program for the following fiscal year. penalizing smaller communities, innocent communities that didn't have the wherewithal to provide all that great. and certainly it would be better spent on making sure that they use a

justice department. matthew miller is back with us, former chief spokesman for the justice department. cynthia, i've wanted to hear you out on this. your response to trump's demands and your response of what we know to be the rosenstein response so far. >> well, i feel like i'm watching my second hockey game of the night. in this hockey game, it's the old philadelphia flyers of the '70s, the broad street bullies at the white house beating up on a doj farm team. and apparently no ref showed up, and the doj team is standing around whining, and meanwhile the broad street bullies are beating them up in scoring. this is a terrible thing that rosenstein has caved. i do feel sorry for him, especially this morning when clint watts was talking. we didn't realize that not only was he going to cave and do this investigation, but now they're handing over documents that they shouldn't be handing over. the problem with a bully is if you give in to them a little bit and a little bit, pretty soon you have nothing. and that's what's happened here. >> and, matt, i heard you express this viewpoint earlie

out and condemn one candidate over another and they have a clean record and pursue justice and not just us in the department of justice. melissa: we'll see. congressman, thank you for joining us. we appreciate it. >> we need this we need it. david: i kind of like the fact as journalist we can't give money to political campaigns. gives us an excuse for people who are running. >>> something really serious going on in hawaii. melissa: wow. david: it's bad but potential catastrophe is on the hunt here. officials in hawaii hoping to prevent an even bigger disaster as lava approaches a power plant. imagine what happens if the lava hit that? we have a live update from the big island coming up. >>> also facebook's mark zuckerberg taking his apology tour to europe. the ceo getting grilled by all the european regulators this afternoon. melissa: that should be fun. david: right. over the company's data scandal. more on details from that and fallout coming next. >> but it also become clear over the last couple years we haven't done enough to prevent these tools are being used for harm as well. ♪ digging into the paint.

use as directed. >>> justice department has just announced a special counsel to lead a new investigationluence in the election and whether there was coordination with members of the trump campaign. >> it has been one year now since special counsel robert mueller began his investigation. the latest polling shows an overwhelming majority of americans support that investigation. 69% versus 25% who are opposed. while americans care a lot about the russia investigation, polls also show the top issues for voters in the 2018 midterms are instead health care, the economy, gun policy, and immigration. at the same time, president trump says americans care most about pocketbook issues than fake conspiracies. well, fake conspiracies aside, because the russia investigation is neither fake more a conspiracy, he also says that the media is ignoring real economic gains. let's look at your money, money, money. especially in the last year. truth be told, americans have gains with this president. there are a record 6.3 million job openings at this moment. the unemployment rate has fallen from 4.8% in janua

intelligence agency placed a spy in the trump campaign. >> and pierre thomas joins us now from the justice department. and pierre, some democrats were very surprised to see white house chief of staff john kelly at the meetings, along with the new white house lawyer handling the russia investigation? >> reporter: that's right, tom. democrats say it was a sign that the white house was attempting to snoop on the mueller probe. tom? >> pierre thomas for us. pierre, thank you. >>> and there's still much more ahead on "world news tonight" this thursday. the school bus driver charged. the 77-year-old who prosecutors say pulled an illegal u-turn before a crash that killed a student and a teacher. >>> plus, don't ask alexa? the amazon echo that went rogue, sharing a private conversation. what amazon has just told us. >>> and the memorial day escape is nearly here. millions hitting the roads. the surging gas prices you'll find at the pump, and how you can save. stay with us. can save. stay with us. alicewhich is breast canceratic that has spread to other parts of her body. she's also taking prescription ibranc

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good night from all of us at nbc news headquarters here in new york. >>> the former head of the national security division at the justice department tonight. i'm very much looking forward to that. we've also got andrea mitchell here tonight to talk about the collapse of the north korean summit, which honestly was never going to happen, but now, it's officially never going to happen. there's been a whole bunch of news today. i think it is going to be a very interesting show over the course of this hour. but i want to start tonight with congressman steve stockman. congressman steve stockman is a republican. he's from texas. and right now, this second, he is in prison. he was arrested last spring. he was convicted last month. and immediately after he was convicted, he was taken into federal custody, to