still with us, rob weissman, president of public citizen.ob, talk about this latest news about the chemicals in the air we breathe, and the soil, in the water we drink. >> this is the real outrage. the stuff we were talking about, that is funny for the soap operas and it is crazy come outrageous in its way, but it is not really hurting people in the same way this is. this breaking news is that the epa is going to change the way it assesses chemical safety. it is now looking at beginning a new process after recently passed law of evaluating the safety of chemicals that of long been on the market. the short version is it is changing the way it will do it so chemicals will be deemed safer than they otherwise would have been. it will be -- higher levels of exposure will be possible, more use of dangerous chemicals will be possible. how did they get there? this is the real scandal. the person in charge of the review is an industry chemist who came from the chemical industry trade association. she is in charge of setting up the process. she is del

weissman is no stranger to be tough on white collar criminals.he enron task force in 2004 that sent a merrill lynch executive to a maximum security prison 700 miles away from his team. he spent a year behind bars before his conviction was vacated. the judge presiding over the manafort case dismissed a lawsuit against hillary clinton last year. it alleged that clinton's lack of email security led to the designate of americans in benghazi. >> tucker: thanks. trace gallagher, appreciate that. it's been only a little over 24 hours since the major doj inspector general was release. what is the press missing. kim is on the wall street journal board. what jumped out when you read this? >> most of the headlines today have been focussed on jim comey. no question that this was a very damning indictment of his leadership while he was there. then, again, democrats and a lot in the media would like to pin it all on him. what struck him this was a searing indictment of the entire fbi and its culture. the argument they live by a rule they themselves craft and i

they are demanding that witnesses turn in their phones so team mueller and his pit bull weissman and ray who worked for clinton get to review all of their electronic devices communications. even text on encrypted aps. if they follow hillary clinton's lead delete all of your emails and acid watch your hard drive and then bash them to pieces and hand the pieces over to robert mueller and say hillary clinton, this is equal justice under the law. how would that work for everybody mueller is demanding their phones? the person in challenge of the mueller witch hunt, the department ag, rob rosenstein responded to growing calls for his recusal. writing a letter to senator lindsey graham. he recommended comey's firing. he signed off on the final fisa warrant based on hillary clinton's bought and paid for dossier that christopher steele said maybe 50-50. given that rosenstein is overseeing an investigation where he is a key witness and signed off on the fisa, i think it's deem inappropriate a long time ago. earlier today. former new york mayor and current trump attorney rudy giuliani had stron

weissman and robert mueller's evidence of this is scant. and cryptic.gh to revoke bail because that's a low threshold. but they also were charging him with obstruction of justice in an indictment. that's preposterous given the evidence. >> you and i both know that for them to do this, they indict him again. they threaten him and now throw him in jail. they must be desperate. this is a guy who is charged with a crime that occurred 12 years ago that half of the people who are lobbying should be in the same lock up with him. what do they think he has on trump? he was only with him for a few months. >> they know he has nothing on trump. that never stopped prosecutors from putting a document in front of somebody that they are squeezing and say sign this. they don't care those prosecutors about the rule of law and perjury. they subborn perjury by squeezing witnesses and that's a time. >> tom, the prosecutor in me would not allow that kind of thing. the feds are a different freed of cats. your take with manafort being in jail? what do they think he will say ot

weissman and robert mueller's evidence of this is scant. and cryptic. to revoke bail because that's a low threshold. but they also were charging him with obstruction of justice in an indictment. that's preposterous given the evidence. >> you and i both know that for them to do this, they indict him again. they threaten him and now throw him in jail. they must be desperate. this is a guy who is charged with a crime that occurred 12 years ago that half of the people who are lobbying should be in the same lock up with him. what do they think he has on trump? he was only with him for a few months. >> they know he has nothing on trump. that never stopped prosecutors from putting a document in front of somebody that they are squeezing and say sign this. they don't care those prosecutors about the rule of law and perjury. they subborn perjury by squeezing witnesses and that's a time. >> tom, the prosecutor in me would not allow that kind of thing. the feds are a different freed of cats. your take with manafort being in jail? what do they think he will say othe

mueller and weissman. are you watching what you are doing to the country? rob rosenstein, when does this witch hunt end? rod rosenstein it's your constitutional duty to provide congress with the information they need to do their job and check your department. in 7 days from today, if the doj continues this obstruction, i urge every member of the house to take action to move to contempt and yes impeachment. enough is enough. gowdy was right. many democrats are fine with the doj obstruction. their friends in the deep state have a lot to hide. robert mueller's witch hunt has produced zero evidence that the president did anything wrong. the people on the left are beginning to unravel. their favorite new target: the u.s. immigration and custom enforcement agency doing the job that congress passed. throughout the week hundreds of left wing protestors occupied ice offices forcing some to temporarily close their doors. the demonstrators blocked entrances and attempted to campout in front of the building. the hill reported many protestors celebrated the news that th

they left room for future negotiations an editorial said a weissman buildsri, the fool builds walls. no idea who that would be referencing. this seemed to affirm ofal commentst beijing would defend its economic interests. eunice yoon reports from beijing. >> reporter: like many companies they are hoping they will build more bridges as they rely on international trade more and more. facilities like this one, j.d..com is delivering more imported goods including from the united states to chinese consumers and that's very important for a day like today today is june 18th this is the end of an important shopping festival for j.d..com an 18-day period full ever discounts. it's special to jd because it marks the founding of a company. it helped generate $17.6 billion worth of sales last year i spoke with jd's founder earlier and he said he believed the sales this year are going to break records. he isn't as concerned, he said, about the u.s. tariffs and the impact on jd itself though he is concerned about the potential for a protracted trade war this is what he had to say >> it will hurt th

they have a history and especially more and weissman, they worked together on the russia investigation where russia is trying to get our uranium illegally which they have done and so, that was also under the jurisdiction of a guy named rosenstein. rosenstein, moeller, comey, wiseman they are joined togethe in so much of this stuff and ye it is incredible. judge, you've seen people lie during the hours i was watching he you would see him say things that he knew he was lying. he knew you knew he was lying, yet he was so cool about the wa it was said. i was thinking golly, he is so good about lying. then i realized you know what, he's been doing that forever to his wife. he's got this line with the proper motion down pat all thos times he probably buy to his wife about lisa page. this guy is good at what he does . and then rosenstein, just sits there and says he didn't know what the guy in the office two doors down to work directly for him, he says he was not working on the russia investigation. oh, i didn't know he was the on pickup the information for christopher steel from the fbi. i m

weissman, i have laid out his corrupt record. numerous times. what does that do? aren't we in the same situation except it's a little bit earlier in the process? >> we know the inspector general for months has been looking at potential fisa abuse, russia investigation, and he will dive further into it. what congress needs to do tomorrow which they didn't do with the senators, they need to unmask the fbi agents and attorneys that were engaged. they are highlighted in the report but they are not named. that will allow congress to be able to yank those people in and start doing the interviews. when devin nunes and trey gowdy and john ratcliffe are doing in terms of getting the documents out of the fbi, that's absolutely pivotal. >> sean: do see crimes here, david schoen, by a number of these high-ranking people? >> absolutely. but you know what i would like to see now? i would like to see the american public realize how important it is that you focus on each of these players in the mueller investigation. you know i would like to see now? i would like to see their ema

. >> one of the prosecutors, weissman, i think his name is on the filing. he signed it.rosecutions of mob families. does anyone in the trump orbit feel haunted by steve bannon's prediction that the way to get to trump was to go through paul manafo manafort? >> he referred to this guy as the lebron james of prosecutors, to bring back the finals reference. >> sorry, lebron. >> lebron clapback to trump calling him u bum has remained the best one we've ever seen trump has never touched it. there's concern in trump world about this sort of exposure. don junior, yes, jared, yes. we know of certain meetings that jared kushner had with foreign officials during the transition. the platform toward ukraine changed at the convention last year. there are a lot of red flags here that i'm certain mueller's team is going to examine and connect if they're not doing so already. the president said last h-- >> we're talking about messages being sent. this is a message from the special prosecutor that these attendant crimes, witness tampering, obstruction of justice, perjury are real, they'r

they had hoped maybe they'd see someone like mueller's top deputy, andrew weissman, on the stand. that didn't happen, and the judge made clear it ain't going to happen before this first trial for manafort, which is now, believe it or not, less than four weeks away. >> let's assume the a.p. is going to have an internal investigation into this. and, jill, how much hyperventilating should we do over this? it has the whiff that it could have been perhaps a mistake or done in error, that it could have been rather benign. do you think this is a distraction or the real deal? >> i think it's a distraction because what seems to have happened is that they called for confirmation, not having any idea that the fbi didn't already know this. and that's something that happens in investigative reporting. so i don't think it's a big deal, and i think, by the way, going back to manafort not showing up today, it may have been in part his way of saying, it's so inconvenient for me to participate in my defense when i'm so far away, that i can't even come to the court to help my attorneys. but that's a

we saw andrew weissman, the lead prosecutor on the manafort case and one of mueller's top deputies, coming into the courthouse. there was comings and goings by another mueller prosecutor by the name of kyle freeney, as well as several fbi agents. and there were signals with them going back and forth into the clerk's office that perhaps the grand jury was preparing to return an indictment. and indeed by the early afternoon, there was a notice posted outside one of the courtrooms that just that had happened, that there had been a session where an indictment had been handed up although it was not immediately clear who was being indicted or why. it certainly seemed like manafort was a live possibility for what would be the second superseding indictment, the third indictment total in washington, d.c. given the very serious tampering allegations that mueller leveled earlier in the week. >> and for some civics 101, an indictment means 23 members of a grand jury have found reasonable cause that a crime might have been committed. and, jeremy bash, the presence of this russian in today's document, t

weissman was at hillary clintonclinto clinton clinton's. i think the mueller investigation has been totally discredited? >> to the president's point there, i think the mueller investigation has been totally discredited. the president has shaped public opinion, especially among republicans, about bob mueller. but every time bob mueller's investigation has faced the test in court where people have questioned his decisions, today when paul manafort goes to jail, today bob mueller is winning. >> bob mueller has not earned any of the bad press that has fall on a lot of different people that are either involved in the fbi or other areas of the probe that he's looking at. what a lot of people in the gop have been trying to do since yesterday is draw this line. the ig report condemned a lot of individuals. it didn't condemn anything about the investigation as being politically biased. they say if you have bad seeds, the whole garden is ruined, basically. that's what the president is picking up on. now democrats are pushing back saying mueller knew

they have a history and especially mueller and weissman. they work together on the russia investigation where they are trying to get uranium illegally which they have done. so, that was also under the jurisdiction of a guy named "rosenstein." rosenstein, mueller, comey, weisman are joined together in so much of this stuff. it's incredible. judge, you have seen people lie. i can't say what all strozk said. but during the hours i was watching, you know, you would see them say things that he knew he was lying. he knew you knew he was lying. >> interesting. >> yet he was so cool about the way he would say it. i was sitting there going golly, he is so good about lying. then i realize, you know what? he's been doing that forever to his wife. he has got this lying with the proper emotion down pat. all those times he probably lied to his wife about lisa page. this guy is really good about what he does. and then rosenstein to sit there and say he didn't know what the guy in the office two doors down who worked directly for him. he says he was not wo

problem there are massive problems with the whole russia investigation with mueller and rosenstein and weissmannd comey. that is why we need a second special counsel that will dig and show mueller for what -- i mean this is criminal cartel. >> harris: you called mueller's group, investigation a quat -- a cartel. why? is that fair? >> look. you bet it is. every time we have had a special counsel they went, whether it was democrat controlled or inspired or republican, they come in and they want to go out of the way to make sure that people working on the team do not even have the appearance of having a bias. what did mueller do? he intentionally went for people that hated republicans, hated trump and wanted to bring trump down. >> harris: the pushback has been he went for people he thought could do the job. >> it's worse than that. he went for people like weisman and others who worked with him on the russia investigation when they were trying to illegally get uranium. so it sounds like to me they have got a little bit of a c.y.a. situation here. not only going after republicans like trump but als