there's a camera set up in the bedroom. >> whitaker: so in the play-- >> pimentel: yes. >> whitaker:r room? >> pimentel: yep. >> whitaker: so is this a theater, or a movie set? >> isaac powell: why does it have to be either? >> pimentel: exactly. >> powell: it's both. >> pimentel: it's-- it's happening in real time. >> whitaker: seamlessly? >> powell: sometimes. of course there are bound to be bumps, and-- and kinks that need to be ironed out. >> van hove: i saw him now into his frame. >> whitaker: we saw some of those kinks- the first time in the theater van hove rehearsed the bedroom scene when maria learns tony has killed her brother. it was like directing a movie. he blocked it with the actors and cameras, then went down to the theatre to watch it unfold on the video wall. >> van hove: i see him again. but this goes wrong. no, uh, no. she should not stand there. it's out of focus, out of focus, guys. this is so many mistakes. yeah, i give you a moment, but i was there already explaining five times. you know, it's not that difficult. >> whitaker: we were here one day when you were

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>> matthew whitaker: yup! feet keeping time, while doctor limb and his team recorded his brain's activity levels with the m.r.i. scanner. >> limb: what you're seeing on this computer screen is some brain data that we obtained from matthew. >> alfonsi: then doctor limb put matthew through a different series of auditory tests. he showed us the results. >> limb: so we started out not by looking at music, but by looking at somebody like this who-- would give a lecture that most people would consider to be a little bit boring. >> in an effort to alleviate the effect of the-- anyone? anyone? >> limb: this is what happened when he was listening to that. and then, interestingly, because he is blind we looked at his visual cortex. and we didn't see any significant activity there at all-- >> alfonsi: so nothing's happening. >> limb: exactly. and then we switched the soundtrack for him. and we put on a band that he knows quite well, snarky puppy. ♪ ♪ this is what changes in his brain. >> alfonsi: jeez. lights up. look cl

matthew whitaker: quite prickly, that would be better.ey're not willing to protect the data problem privacy and not surveilled out the agreement that they produce in the country, and all the kinds of things that we would agree and a no-brainer, we need to not allow them to participate in the system. james: artificial intelligence and five g, the standards will be critical because with a high, ai, one of the homes that i hive, and this goes to congresswoman's rogers point, is that probably china will not be able to honor agreements on the properties of a eye o ai. on genetic research in humans, they have violated all of the standards and we've got to be very worried what comes out of china. it seems to me that in terms of the world, they will look to the united states because we advocate those things which the world wants. matthew whitaker: they are concerned about china. rep. cathy mcmorris rodgers: it will be the combination of the trump administration, president donald trump along with working with american industry to put that pressure

sessions and whitaker weren't strong enough to do something like this and bold enough to do something like this and i think sessions at least for all of hi mistakes had integrity and respect for the department traditions. he was a long time prosecutor before he became senator and before he became a.g. and i don't think he would have tried anything like this. but bill barr is so brazen. we've seen this before. we saw it with the way he spun the mueller report and the way they backed off the flynn sentencing recommendation and first recommendation of jail time and then after consultation with senior officials at the department who we assume were the attorney general and they backed off and said probation

that whitaker, good to have you with us. a play of what the senate judiciary chairman had to say. >> i want to find out what did mccabe and comey now, when did they know the dossier was unreliable? the department of justice has withdrawn the warrant requests saying they really went in january of 2017 the primary russian sub source told four members of the department of justice and fbi the dossier was a bunch of hearsay and not reliable. shannon: a lot of people digging into this awaiting the durham problems with the chairman get any farther? >> jerome has more power in the committal investigation but everything the fbi does whether it is fisa or law enforcement done pursuant to laws passed by congress. it is important that congress understand how the power they authorize have been used and if they are extended or adjusted based on what happened we make sure they pass laws that address 21st-century challenges but fundamentally we do need some accountability and i think the american people continue to wait to understand who ma

whitaker was the first to step from the president's plane.rom there, the president left by car for great bitter lake on the suez canal to board the warship which awaited him. on the following day, king farouk of egypt arrived to pay mr. roosevelt a visit. his majesty came aboard, and the president entertained him at lunch. at this meeting with royalty, and others which followed, president roosevelt was a symbol of the spirit of neighborliness of the united states. that afternoon more royalty arrived, emperor halle selassie, ruler of ethiopia. the next day, another warship came along side bearing the king of saudi arabia, his sons, and their entourage. the king was escorted aboard to meet the president and the other guests. some of the arab chieftains who accompanied him. four of the king's sons. colonel william a. eddie, a retired marine officer, acted as interpreter. after his visit, the king returned to his cruiser which had brought him, and later the president's ship sailed for alexandria. the following day at alexandria, mr. churchill, ac

whitaker, thank you very much. >> thank you, tucker.ericans are convinced in sixth grade took biology two sexes. up next interview a newspaper columnist fired for saying that canned, lost his job. 2020 at work. the trump administration set down strict new rules to contain the spread of the coronavirus out of china. we will tell you the state of that epidemic. stay tuned. ♪ ithat car is one of mine. and soon, it's going to be one of theirs. but they would have never even known it existed. if it weren't for the power of targeted tv advertising. it's smart. it grabs people's attention. it works. it's why comcast spotlight is changing its name to effectv. because being effective means getting results. ♪ ♪ >> an astonishing scene in new york city and hopefully not a harbinger of the future. hundreds of the antifa group colonized swarmed several subway stations vandalized the walls and put glue on turn styles flood grand central station in rush hour to confront police. five of them were arrested. the quote purpose of the protest was to demand

whitaker, the president has defeated hillary, mueller and now impeachment and has the wind at his back, what do you think the white house, the trump administration has learned after three years of the very intense complex. >> having served for this president and seen him on thursday and i will, what i know about this president he is working as hard as he can to accomplish the agenda and ignoring the distractions. everyone has said he is obsessed with the mueller investigation, obsessed with the impeachment but at the same time the economy is going well he passed agreement that will bring billions of dollars to my home state of iowa and really billions of dollars of money to our economy. he will continue to soldier forward and accomplishes agenda but he ran on and once an opponent is identified he will be contrasting himself to an opponent whether it's sleepy joe biden or any of the other ones. jesse: governor huckabee, the state of the union address next week, what items do you want to see the president define for a second term? >> i think he just goes there and kicks off all the thing

joining us now former acting attorney general matt whitaker. will ask you the same question i asked trey gowdy. premeditated fraud on a fisa court. do you see what i see? >> i see what you see and i saw what you see. i was there when some of this was happening. and i think i take a little more of a belief that bill barr is going to bring people to justice. and. >> sean: i believe that, too. >> those that did this, those that intentionally lied to the fisa court with, you know, using the dossier as a sole basis for obtaining what the court says were warrants that would not have been issued but for the fact of these made-up facts, i think why will see people brought to justice and i think bill barr and john durham are working on that as we speak. we should have a lot of faith in them. steve: if little old sean hannity. little old me, if i happen toed to have subpoenaed emails andthem 2k3we69 rid of any potential forensically recovering them with bleach bit and knot bust up the devise with hammers. do you think under those circumstances i would pr

whitaker, the president has defeated hillary, mueller and now impeachment and has the wind at his back, what do you think the white house, the trump administration has learned after three years of the very intense complex. >> having served for this president and seen him on thursday and i will, what i know about this president he is working as hard as he can to accomplish the agenda and ignoring the distractions. everyone has said he is obsessed with the mueller investigation, obsessed with the impeachment but at the same time the economy is going well he passed agreement that will bring billions of dollars to my home state of iowa and really billions of dollars of money to our economy. he will continue to soldier forward and accomplishes agenda but he ran on and once an opponent is identified he will be contrasting himself to an opponent whether it's sleepy joe biden or any of the other ones. jesse: governor huckabee, the state of the union address next week, what items do you want to see the president define for a second term? >> i think he just goes there and kicks off all the thing

general matthew whitaker with us right now. can you help me with the legality of this?to the california city mayors who say, not in my house. not in my neighborhood. but i guess if the federal government pushes the point, the federal government wins the point? >> yeah, because under the national health emergency comic drama, he gives really extraordinary power to the federal government. there is really only one case on point it essentially says that the government can quarantine citizens for health purposes. i think the knot in my backyard, this is a moment where communities need to come together. citizens need to be informed and practice good hygiene, but nobody showed panic or be worried. unlike china, where you can't trust the information coming out of the government, the united states, the government is communicating very clearly the situation on a daily basis. i think we all need to practice not only individual good hygiene, but also be practicing being good citizens and doing our part. >> neil: the fear, it seems to be that it would affect citizens right in the ne

joining me now is the former acting attorney general under president trump, matt whitaker. see you. >> hi, harris. >> harris: is this too much about nothing? doesn't everybody have an opinion? >> no, in fact, having been in the chair has both acting attorney general and chief of staff to the deprived of justice, i saw firsthand how these nationwide injunctions by district court judges, especially in california, frustrated this president's agenda and really the administration for doing it much of anything. as it related to the southern border and issues relating to immigration. i think ted cruz is absolutely right. he's not only a smart lawyer, he's got experience in front of this court. his point is that there's been 55 nationwide injunctions issued in three years of the trump administration. about half as much were issued during both a combination of obama and bush. with 16 years, we didn't see this volume of these nationwide injunctions. the only way, when you're dealing with california district courts and the ninth circuit, to get any kind of relief, is to go in this eme

. >> matthew whitaker has been losing his sight since childhood. heta has come to the hos in oxford for groundbreaking gene therapy. >> i realize is the sight that i have and theseat tnts can prevent further deterioration, that is for me. fergus: the treatment costs an eye-00watering 600 pounds. but nhs discounted price with manufacturer novartis. >> i can kind of make it out. fergus: s theurgeon prepares the gene therapy. eye.y they will treat the right the left will be done in a few edeks. it is deliv via an injection under the retina of the back of the eye. the treatment delivers working copies of a 40-gene rpe 65. these are encased in a harmless virus, which breaks into the retinal cells. once inside the nucleus, the ree acement gck starts the action of a protein essential for healthy vision. this is a life-cnging treatment for patients hopefully preserving and improving vision for decades it should have the biggest impact with children. whole thing s-- hting sight loss before permanent damage is done. >> this is the first approved nhs and gene

>>be matthew whitaker ha losing his sight since childhood. he has come to the hospital in oxford for groundbreaking gene therapy. >> i realize is the sight that i have and these treatments can prevent furthe deterioration, that is for me. fergus: the treatment costs an eye-watering 600,000 pounds. but nhs england has agreed to a discountedce p with manufacturer novartis. >> i can kind of make it out. fergus: the surgeon prepares the gene therapy. today they will treat the right eye. the left will be done in a few weeks. it is delivered via an injection under the retina of the back of the eye. thent treatelivers working copies of a 40-gene rpe 65. these are encased in a harmless wviruch breaks into the retinal cells. once inside the nleus, the replacement gene kick starts the action of a protein essenti for healthy vision. this is a life-changing treatment for pients hopefully preserving and improving vision for decades. it shoulhave the biggest impact with children. whole thing s halting sight loss bef done.manent damage is >> this is the fir

and bill whitaker of "60 minutes" in the questioning. the congressional black caucus institute is co-hosting. you can see that debate tuesday february 25th at 8:00 eastern, 5:00 pacific right here on cbs. >>> president trump has named richard granell as the acting director of national intelligence. the president made the announcement on twitter yesterday. he has been a vocal supporter of mr. trump. he doesn't have much experience working in intelligence, which democrats quickly criticized. he's a long time republican political operative and former aide to senator mitt romney. he will replace joseph mcguire the current acting dni. >>> a gunman suspected of killing nine people and. injuring several others in germany was found dead. the suspect targeted two hookah loungs and authorities found him dead inside his home and found the body of his 72 mother there. officials say he may have been motivated by far-right belief. >>> the japanese government says two passengers both in their 80s from a quarantined cruise ship in japan have died from t

gayle king and i will mod or garre, margar brennan and bill whitaker joining us.hat's tonight's "cbs eveniah o'donnell in charleston, south carolina. we'll see you at the deb >>> this is "the cbs overnight news." >> i'm nickki battiste. we have a lot more to tell you about this morning, starting with a looming crisis at the nation's airplanes. starting october 1st, you won't be able to get through the security checkpoints unless you have what is called a real i.d. it's a driver's license with some added security measures. most people don't even know about the deadline. and for those who do, most still haven't upgraded their license. you can, of course, just carry around your pass poport if you e one of those. kris van cleave has the story from dwight d. eisenhower airport in wichita, kansas. >> reporter: three in ten americans have a real i.d. and congress is getting worried, too. a number of lawmakers sent a letter to dhs, asking what the contingency plan is, so people don't show up at an airport october 1st and learn they can't fly. it's the must-have for 2020,

norah o'donnell, gayle king will moderate, joined by margaret brennan, major garrett, and bill whitaker of "60 minutes." you can watch the debate tuesday at 8:00 p.m. right here on cbs and on our 24-hour streaming network, cbsn. the white house is again pushing back hard on reports that russia is trying to help president trump win re-election. the president calls that "disinformation," even as he warns democrats to be careful of russia when it concerns the sanders campaign. bofta yimam is at the white house. bofta, good evening. >> reporter: good evening. yesterday, the president denied russian interference in the 2020 election, and now his national security advisor is backing those claims, as seen in an interview on "face the nation." >> so you are saying that it is not, in fact, the u.s. intelligence community's assessment that russia has a preference for president trump? >> i--i have not seen that. >> they're trying to start a rumor. it's disinformation. >> reporter: according to senator bernie sanders, u.s. officials also briefed him about a month ago on russian efforts to help his

whitaker, but that only applies to credible fear. so that doesn't restrain judges who want to deny because of the merits a.b. case. in the face of this decision in matter of a.b. that tries to fore close the claims, what is happening in reality to decision making? the center for gender and refugee studies we assist attorneys and attorneys tell us about the outcomes in their cases. it's not a representative sample. it's not comprehensive. it's that sample of attorneys who ask for help from us, and so also we wouldn't have any prose -- pro se cases. people can't or don't know about us or don't seek our system. this is what we have seen. we've seen 50 unpublished cases for fear ofd.v. gangs where there were 37 denials and 13 remands back to the immigration judge, and generally the bai cites the matter of a.b. and says after superficial analysis, you know, whatever. not positive. doesn't grant. in immigration court we've seen something different. we've seen 170 asylum or withholding grants. in d.v. or partner abuse, child abuse cases. al

bill whitaker. >> let's talk about education.th carolina's schools score in the bottom half of the national assessment. black students here consistently score worse than white students. ma mayor bloomberg, a key element of your response to failing schools in new york city was a dramatic increase in public charter schools. as president, would you pursue that same strategy and seek to expand charter schools nationwide? >> i'm not sure they're lapropriate every place. i can only tell you in new york, they provided parents with an alternative to send students to them. we had the charter schools are mixed in with the noncharter public schools, because our charter schools are public thhools as well. they've helped each other. i saw a statistic the other day, when i came into office, zero new york city schools were in the top 25 of the state. when i left, 23 out of 25 were from new york city. we've cut the gap between the rich and the poor. we've made an enormous difference in all of the options that parents have. i increased teacher sa

attorney general matt whitaker. asked a.g. of the house investigative committee. he will be down there in a couple weeks. first off, do you think that the president did nothing wrong. >> absolutely not. this is a chain of command issue and it's a judgment in discretion issue. the lying prosecutors in this roger stone case appeared to have, you know, piled on as many enhancements as they could under the sentencing guidelines and got to the 7 to 9 years range. there isn't a drug dealer or gang that wouldn't get to that level of enhancements. what the department of justice did, through the chain of command. asas are supervised ultimately by the attorney general. the attorney general decided this was a case that needed a little adult supervision. brian: what democrats are pointing out is that the president found out about the sentencing recommendation was from the prosecution. not the conclusion from the judge. and he tweeted about it. it's over the top. and he said you have got to be kidding me. the only way can do it. this is ou

whitaker but that only applied to credible fear. so that doesn't restrain judges who want to deny on the merits because of the a-b case. ok so what -- in the face of this decision in matter of a-b that tries to foreclose these claims, what is happening in reality to decision-making. so the center for gender and refuge study wes track and attorneys tell us about the outcomes in their cases. it's not a representative sarple. it's not come -- representative sample. it's nom comprehensive. it's that samp of attorneys who ask for helps for us and we wouldn't have any pro se cases because people who are not represented don't seek us. this is what we've seen in terms of trend. we've seen 50 i.b. cases in this area of d.v. or fear of gang where there were 37 deniles and 13 remands back to the immigration judge. and generally, the b.i.a. cites a decision of the a.-b and after the a.g. decided in matter of a-b, not positive. doesn't grant. but in immigration court we've seen something different. we've seen 170 asylum or holding glants in d.v.

. >> reporter: former acting attorney general matthew whitaker touched on the russia threat in the uk, he told the crowd i'm never going to deny that russia tried to interfere in 2016, in 2018 and trying to interfere this 2020. jim acosta, cnn, the white house. >> so that is the reporting of how things stack up state side. how come things stack up there in russia? let's bring in nathan hodge there with the story. nathan, the u.s. president here saying again this we go again. bernie sanders quite blainely s plainly saying he is no friend of vladimir putin. how is this playing there through russian officials and media? >> reporter: yeah, we're also seeing kind of a repeat of what we've seen in the past, which is blanket russian denials. yesterday we were told warnings of russian meddling in the 2020 election were, quote, paranoid messages. and this squares very much with the messages that we've heard in the past from the kremlin, basically vladimir putin has said that russia does not, mass not and will not meddle in the elections of other countries. but it is also important to point out

in the meantime, the acting homeland security secretary along with the attorney general matthew whitaker team to look at what's going now. >> dana: hello, everyone, i'm dana perino along with emily compagno, greg gutfeld, lawrence jones, and juan williams looking at me. this is "the five." for nato, breaking news coming out of washington. new outrage over the sentencing of roger stone, attorney general bill barr criticizing president trump for tweeting about the case but adding that he was not pressured by the white house to intervene. some democrats are not buying that explanation. >> very important to question the integrity of the attorney general and that's why the president's response was so muted. >> i would not be surprised if the attorney general and the president were not in cahoots. speak what he's really saying is i know what president trump wads, i'm going to do exactly what trump wants. i just wish he wouldn't tweet about it because it's so embarrassing. >> dana: calls for the attorney general to resigned our end to the intensifying. dropping the investigation into former fbi

the the white house reviewing hisbo, say they are planning to censor it bit matthew whitaker is actingormer attorney general and he joins us tonight. i'm not going to ask you about john bolton eating ice cream because we agree that's repulsive. but what do you make of -- sorry about that. what do you make of his book and what do you think it will contain? >> first of all, tucker, no doubt there is significant policy areas on this. even before he became national security advisor, this is the same man who wrote on a notepad, 10,000 trip to columbia when venezuela was a hot-button iss issue. there was a very strong desire to have a very strong american foreign policy of sending troops wherever in the world they might go, which is inconsistent oftentimes with what president trump ran on in 2016. what i think this is is an attempt john bolton to sell more books. we know most of his disagreements and most of his thoughts on foreign policy, so he's got to stay relevant and talk about and make it sound like there are things in addition to the sprinkles that come with his book, there's actually

norah o'donnell and i will moderate joined by margaret brennan, major garrett, and bill whitaker of " minutes." it's co-hosted by the congressional black caucus institute and the democratic national committee. you can see the debate tonight at 5:00 pacific on cbs and to anony anny in new york. >> thanks. >>> disgraced hollywood mogul harvey weinstein is in the hospital this morning following his conviction for rape and sexual assault. after appear be unsteady his feet -- unsteady on his feet after the verdict, he left the courthouse by ambulance complaining of chest pains. he could spend the rest of his life in prison. jericka duncan spoke to his attorneys. what are they saying? >> reporter: they simply say he did not get a fair trial. no surprise here. his attorneys plan to appeal the decision. for now, weinstein will remain in custody as he awaits his march sentencing. >> how are you feeling -- >> reporter: harvey weinstein arrived at court a free man but left as a convicted rapist. as deliberations entered a fifth day in the former hollywood giant's trial, a jury of seven men and f

attorney general whitaker warning russia is trying to interfere in 2020. >> i'm never going to deny that russia tried to interfere in 2016. they tried to interfere in 2018 and trying to interfere in 2020. >> that is interesting. it's interesting that the former acting ag the man who replaced jeff sessions who was hounded out of the office by trump for recusi recusing himself from the russia inquiry agrees with officials who told the president what he doesn't want to hear. >> foreign actors will view the 2020 u.s. elections as taunt to advance their interest. we certainly are seeing and have never stopped seeing since 2016, efforts to engage in malign foreign interference. >> right now proxies geared up to repeat the interference in 2020 election. >> we are running out of time to stop them. >> they're doing it as we sit here. >> official after official. stepping up and saying the same thing. the russians are interfering in our election. again. and the face of all this, with russia continuing to attack the foun dags of democracy, free and fair elections. what is this president doing? he's

. >> ryan, even the former acting attorney general matthew whitaker, a huge trump loyalist said this today, watch this. >> i'm never going to deny that russia tried to interfere in 2016. they tried to interfere in 2018. and they're trying to interfere in 2020. >> but his boss, trump, still calling this a hoax. does it all come down to his insecurity that this evidence suggests that his victory was somehow tainted, that it undermines his win? >> i think it's a mix. first of all it's kind of nuts that we have to give kudos to the former acting attorney general for stating the most basic facts about this but in the current environment this is a sort of -- you deserve a pat on the back, i guess, if you served in the trump administration and you're willing to defy trump on something this obvious but i think it's a mix of two things with trump. one is, as he's often said, he believes that the russia intervention in 2016 is used to delegitimize his victory. at the same time there seems to be a wink and a nod to the fact that, well, what's the big deal? right, if -- if he's going to get a li

. >> and gayle kx*ing will be in charge of the debate with norah o'donnell, bill whitaker, and i'm headingre myself to join them. our debate is tuesday at 8:00 p.m. eastern time. hope you join us. until next week for "face the nation", i'm margare captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org growing up in a family that struggled economically powerfully influenced my values. bernie sanders he's fighting to raise wages. and guarantee health care for all. now, our country is at a turning point. hard working people, betrayed by trump, struggling to survive. in this moment, we need a fighter. bernie sanders. we know he'll fight for us as president because he always has. i'm bernie sanders and i approve this message. can we go get some ice cream? alright, we gotta stop here first. ♪ ♪ from smarter atms, to after hours video tellers ♪ ♪ comcast business is connecting thousands of banks to technology that turns everyday transactions into extraordinary experiences. hi there. how are you? do you have any lollipops in there? (laughing) no, sorry. we're helping a

. >> laura: joining me now is former acting attorney general matt whitaker, was trump justified in being outraged about this juror? >> yet, this is an extraordinary moment, and i remember when i was u.s. attorney and we would have trials where there were allegations of jurors. >> laura: people are going to your resume. >> qualified to talk about these issues, plus the u.s. attorney and what i know is once a juror is corrupt or has a bias, the whole system falls apart. really i think we should be concerned about jurors especially here unfortunately in the district of columbia where they kind of game the system and have biases that they aren't willing to admit. this person clearly had, maybe not prejudged the case but certainly had a preferred outcome and opinions on the case. >> laura: is there any way to go back in? is there any way to go back in and try to overturn this case? at this point, just because of the juror itself? >> yeah, once the jury has rendered its decision, obviously there's all sorts of procedural things and undoing a jury verdict is hard but not impossible. >> laura: t

. >> matt whitaker was the president's acting attorney general he joins us tonight. mr.nk you so much for coming on. >> hey, tucker. >> tucker: seems like the other day they were lecturing us how the president was undermining public institutions. now they're telling us the trial that played out longer that it needed to in my view wasn't a real trial. >> it seemed boring like a real trial. [laughter] >> tucker: good point. >> in all seriousness, this is -- it's an impeachment trial. let's not confuse a criminal trial or civil trial with sort of juries of your peers versus a senate impeachment trial which is what we saw where the house brings their case over and the senators makes the rules and very clear the president is going to be acquitted. so the chagrin of all the folks in the video. this is the way the system works. if you bring a terrible kind of pell mel case to the senate you will end up losing it and the president is going to be acquitted. >> tucker: i don't understand the talking points. you saw the speaker who has become hard eyed extremist. she said it's not

whitaker died last december in san quentin, also of natural causes. he was 79 years old. >>> new layers the layers to the disappearance of two missing idaho children who haven't been seen since september. court documents show a family member may know where the two are it is refusing to cooperate with the investigation. >> reporter: five months since the disappearance of an idaho brother and sister. seven you'll jj vallow and 17 -year-old tylee ryan. newly released surveillance footage shows jj running across the lawn in the complex he lives with his sister and mother. it is dated september 17, days before he was last seen magnet school. authorities say their mother and stepfather, chad daybell, old doomsday purpose, withholding information regarding the kids' whereabouts. now, the ex-husband is claiming in court documents his ex-wife knows something about the disappearance of her aunt's children. is is melanie's current husband told law enforcement quote melanie says sometimes children are full of life and then just like that they go dark. this as lor

put up on the team of members, it's being led by jared kushner, pat cipollone, pam bondi, matthew whitakerformer acting attorney general, van jones, democratic comment airor tore cnn, brett tulman, alice johnson previously pardoned by president trump, and jerron smith, the director of american innovation. usually this sort of thing is handled by doj. >> this is different. he's going outside the normal channels. it's largely been folks he saw on fox news or powerful friends advocated for. this is an attempt to sort of normalize the process. another thing to add to areaod kushner's portfolio. it speaks to a good re-election issue for him. alice johnson, her pardon was featured in the super bowl add. they think it could be a way to lure some new african-american support or at the very least they'll try to make the case to min mooids the differences between the president and whoever his democratic foe ends up being. >> and minimize the differences between the pardons he's handing out. thank you very much. >>> and coming up, the president has tapped a man without significant intelligence experi

here now with reaction is the former acting attorney general matt whitaker. mat matt, i have identified a number of statutes on this program that i think very well would have been violated prima facie case. certainly a president who has a worn oath and duty to faithfully execute the laws. asking that question seems to me was fulfilling that part of his oath. >> well, it's very concerning. one of the things the senate asked for the suspicious activity reports that the treasury department collects from big banks when bank elmlyly employees see transactis that don't quite add up. sounds like some of these sars, they are called, that were turned over to the senate committee and the chairman. and so i am going to be very interested in what those show. if transactions that hunter biden was involved in between the ukraine and the united states banks raised flag at those banks, that could at this point off some really concerning activity on behalf of hunter. >> sean: i have read and i have put up on the screen bribery act, foreign corruptions act. basically says if y

matthew whitaker is acting former attorney general enjoins us tonight.ng to ask about john bolton eating ice cream because we both agree that's repulsive -- >> not a good visual. spoon i'm sorry about that. what do you make of his book and what you think it will contain? >> well, i think first of all, tucker, john bolton, there was no doubt there were significant areas of policy that he disagreed with the president even before he became national security advisor. one of those is iran. this is the same guy that wrote on a notepad, 10,000 troops to columbia when venezuela was a hot-button issue, so this is -- there is certainly kind of a very strong desire to have a very strong american foreign policy of sending troops wherever in the world they might go, which is inconsistent oftentimes with what president trump ran on in 2016. what i think this is is really just enough time for john bolton to sell more books. we know most of his disagreements and most of his thoughts on foreign policy, so he's got to stay relevant and talk about and make it sound like th

matt whitaker, good to have you back. >> good to be here. >> i want to play a little bit of what theit is. >> i want to find out what did mccabe and call me know. when did they know that the dossier was unreliable? the department of justice has withdrawn the to warrant a request saying they were illegal. and in january of 2017, the primary russian sub source told for members of the department and the fbi that the dossier was a bunch of bartok and hearsay. and not reliable. >> a lot of people digging into this. do you think that the chairman will get any farther than anybody else has so far? >> durham probably has a little bit more power and his criminal investigation that he is conducting. i think it's very important -- everything the fbi does whether it's fisa or whether it's the law enforcement powers it's all laws passed by congress. i think it's very important that congress understands how the powers that they have authorized have been used. and if those powers need to be revised or extended, or however adjusted based on what happened. we make sure that they pass laws that addres

senator roger whitaker and then three democrats. of those four senators who were in the room when mitt romney gave these remarks today, at least two of the four senators in the room with him left the floor in tears when it was over. including senator chris murphy of connecticut who spoke with reporters just after he walked off the floor. just after senator romney finished. listen to this. >> i was in the chamber to hear that. you know, i've gotten to know him pretty well over the course of the last year. i think history will judge that to be one of the more important speeches of my time in the senate. >> you sound choked up. were you emotional? >> yeah. it's the hardest they know to do in the world. you stand up to your party and to your friends and to your donors, and to just decide to do what's right. i think we all wonder whether we would make the same decision if we were in the same position. i was choked up listening to him speak. he was choked up giving that speech. that's all -- >> did he give a heads-up to any of you? >> i'm

. >> sean: matt whitaker, thank you for being with us. we will stay on that issue.ause, if we don't stay on the issue, that would o be, well, a duel justice system. weave need equal justice and application of our laws. that's very simple.qu very same thingth they accuse donald trump of. quid pro quo hunter up to their eyeballs in and wasn't only ukraine as we pointed out. o as we pointed out. and while the 2020 race is heating up, one failed former republican nominee is reportedly facing scorn and isolation from his own party. senator mitt romney is now reportedly ostracized from his own party after castingg the sole republican vote to convict.er i'm told by my source that's promised the entire senate republican caucus that he was not going to do this just the week before. here with more, new york congressman lee zeldin. former california congressman darryl issa. i hear a rumor you might be going back to congress? is that true? i didn't want to you leave. >> well, i'm headingto back after hung jury bob menendez blocked my nomination for trade development agency. i h

in the meantime, the acting homeland security secretary along with the attorney general matthew whitakerg now. >> dana: hello, everyone, i'm dana perino along with emily compagno, greg gutfeld, lawrence jones, and juan williams looking at me. this is "the five." for nato, breaking news coming out of washington. new outrage over the sentencing of roger stone, attorney general bill barr criticizing president trump for tweeting about the case but adding that he was not pressured by the white house to intervene. some democrats are not buying that explanation. >> very important to question the integrity of the attorney gen

thing we should note this evening is that the president's former acting attorney general matthew whitaker just touched on the russian threat during an appearance at oxford in the uk earlier this evening. he told the crowd there quote i am never going to deny that russia tried to interfere in 2016, tried to interfere in 2018 and they are trying to interfere in 2020. that's from the president's former attorney general. the question is whether or not the president will accept that information. wolf. >> we'll see if he does. jim acosta. thank you very much. joining us now, denny heck, a democrat who serves on the house intelligence committee. thank you so much for joining us. first of all, what's your reaction to senator sanders getting this formal briefing that russia is also trying to interfere to boost his chances in 2020. >> well, wolf, obviously anything i may have learned in that closed and classified briefing last week i can neither confirm nor deny, but look, let me say this, i have not endorsed in this presidential rates. i have no skin in this game, but i saw senator sanders stakes

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