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former acting attorney general matt whitaker noticed something very specific in that email. he is here to weigh and live in a couple of minutes but hello, welcome to "fox news @ night." i am shannon bream in washington. kevin corke with new information on flynn, biden, and much more. >> during an april 2017 appearance on "pbs newshour," ambassador rice was asked if she was aware that the trump administration's transition team had been surveilled before he took office. as had been alleged by house republicans. her answer in particular in light of the email to herself on inauguration day may surprise

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former acting attorney general matt whitaker. great to have you back. >> great to see you. >> shannon: so a spokesperson for former ambassador nsa susan rice says it has been previously documented by rice's attorney, she wrote the memorandum in a response told white house counsel. reporting that that is unusual and not heard of, and there are some questions about it tonight. what do you make of it? >> i noticed several things about that memo. one of them is how strange the term "by the book" appears in the lens of history. because i would suggest that you are going to do things in regular order and follow ordinary procedure, but four days after the memo was written, somebody said that the investigation was going to be "by the book," jim comey sent agents to the white house inconsistent with any book i have ever read especially the justice manual that guides these things and all the tradition of past administration. this was anything but a bye the book investigation. and it looks like a cover your backside memo to me. >> shannon:

former acting attorney general matt whitaker noticed something very specific in that email. he is here to weigh and live in a couple of minutes but hello, welcome to "fox news @ night." i am shannon bream in washington. kevin corke with new information on flynn, biden, and much more. >> during an april 2017 appearance on "pbs newshour," ambassador rice was asked if she was aware that the trump administration's transition team had been surveilled before he took office. as had been alleged by house republicans. her answer in particular in light of the email to herself on inauguration day may surprise you. >> i know nothing about this. i was surprised to see reports from chairman nunes on that count today. >> so did former national security adviser susan rice forget what she written down in the waning days of the obama administration memorialized in the infamous email she sent to herself, or was it something else? that depends on your point of view, but by any standard it was a curious declaration. for many lawmakers it also raises more questions about it also raises questions

matt whitaker, thank you so much.on the new book. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: the coronavirus emerge from wuhan china, likely from a lab. the chinese government inventing mass quarantine. now headed into another lockdown. why is that exactly? details on that story ahead. ♪ when bugs move in we stress out and spray. well, we used to. new ortho home defense max indoor insect barrier kills and prevents bugs for up to a year without odors, stains or fuss. new ortho home defense max. bugs gone. stress gone. we were paying an arm and a leg for postage. i remember setting up shipstation. one or two clicks and everything was up and running. i was printing out labels and saving money. shipstation saves us so much time. it makes it really easy and seamless. pick an order, print everything you need, slap the label onto the box, and it's ready to go. our costs for shipping were cut in half. just like that. shipstation. the #1 choice of online sellers. go to shipstation.com/tv and get 2 months free. shipstation. the #staying

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i think it's really important that we acknowledge what matthew whitaker said about the bill of rightsnd the constitution. thank god we have them. if you look across the country and you look at the way that some of these governors and the people in power have taken this over the line multiple times in terms of arbitrary rules for some people and not others, the good thing is that the constitution keeps us all equal and really does protect our civil liberties at a time when they are most at risk and at danger. >> harris: it's interesting, leslie, to hear katie say, "thank god we have those things in place." because where would we be without them? what are your thoughts? you're in california. let me not skip that point. this really affects you. gavin newsom is your governor. how do you feel about the fact that a mall can open, albeit a mall is a big place, but so are the mega churches. okay? maybe not as big as a mall, but they are huge. how do you feel about that? is >> leslie: we had a legal challenge to that in california. on may 5th a federal court upheld the governor's ban. with a s

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matt whitaker former acting u.s.general and author of "above the law" thank you for your time. >> happy mohammed. griff: same to you. lori loughlin and husband changing plea in collision admission scandal and instead taking a plea deal meaning they will spend just months behind bars. dolls the punishment fit the crime? emily compagno reacts next. (announcer) now more than ever, it's important to lose weight, improve your health, and strengthen your immunity. starvation dieting, processed foods, shakes, and diet gimmicks have made us heavier and sicker. the solution for losing weight the right way is golo. we help transform your body and change your lifestyle, so you can lose weight and get healthier. over 20,000 people of all ages, and entire families, switch to golo every week, because golo works. golo is a unique approach to weight loss that targets insulin resistance and body fat. insulin resistance makes it easy to gain weight and harder to lose it. golo is a patented system that uses natural plants and minerals,

molly whitaker, who has autism, rode a horse for the first time her mother, lisa, says it changed allheir lives. >> it has been amazing, it really has been. >> reporter: do you think it gives her a certain confidence in dealing with the world. >> yes. >> yes. >> she just said yes. >> it just puts a calming effect on to all my children. >> reporter: but due to the shutdown, this is gallup n.y.c. today. normally on a day like this, this place would be bustling with kids and horses and activity. instead, it's almost a ghost town. most of the two dozen therapy horses that live here have been sent away. >> there probably would be 20-- 20-- 25 people here. we'd have a hand full of students riding, three or four students riding at a time. >> reporter: executive director james wilson. >> it's cheaper to take care of them upstate. >> reporter: because they're out to pasture. >> but also because we want to minimize the number of horses we have here in case we have staff get sick. >> reporter: cost of maintaining the horrs and staff at their two locations in new york, is more than $100,000 a mon

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. >> reporter: jan whitaker has written about the history of department stores.rupted. >> the department store has been in decline for a very long time. >> reporter: neiman marcus and jcpenney are on the verge of bankruptcy. others have furloughed hundreds of thousands of workers and seen their credit downgraded. >> covid-19 is really more of an accelerant than it is a change agent. and that is, the future is happening, playing out the same way. it's being pulled forward faster. department stores are likely the walking dead. they were in the 7th inning of their life, now they are officially in the bottom of the 9th, if you will. especially retail apparel. >> reporter: at brook field properties, they are still t may beedgingir bets a stores, keo a mall or anchor store, one big department store that's on either side or two different sides, is that still the case today? and if not, what replaces it? >> our department stores are still valuable partners for us. and it varies according to market. we have properties where we are replacing department stores with grocer,

matt whitaker attorney general and "a brand-new book "above the law" entrances tonight.u for coming on. what do you make of this theory that the cia, fisa spied on flynn? >> as you pointed out because he was not unmasked there was no request the time of the phone call on december 29th until really the white house meeting on january 5th and ultimately the white house chief of staff requested a masking of general flynn, perhaps another explanation because january 3rd of 2017, andy mccabe went to the national security division head at doj and said essentially the contents of the call. so there is a period of time from the 29th of december, 2016 and the meeting between mccabe where someone told mccabe and then mccabe transmitted that information. and there is no unmasking in that period of time. so it is very curious to say the least. >> tucker: so you were in the justice department. explain to us nonlawyers, would it be legal for the cia to spy on american citizens and then leak what they found two other agencies in the media? >> the short answer is no. there are constituti

. >> i'm bill whitaker. >> i'm anderson cooper. >> i'm scott pelley. those stories, tonight, on "60 minutes." ( ticking ) >> this portion of "60 minutes" is sponsored by progressive insurance. save when you bundle auto, home, or motorcycle insurance. visit progressive.com. >> pelley: jerome powell shook washington, wall street and the world this past week when he warned the pandemic crisis threatens "lasting damage" to american prosperity. as chairman of the federal reserve, powell is among the most powerful people in the economy. he acted swiftly in the sharpest collapse since the great depression, but he fears congress's initial three trillion dollar bailout will not be enough to save a generation from low growth and stagnant incomes. we asked chairman powell how high unemployment will go and how long it will take to see a recovery. he spoke to us this past wednesday after a blunt speech that gave markets a shove. mr. chairman, i just got a push notification on my phone: "dow tanks more than 500 points in wall street sell-off after fed chair warns ec

former acting attorney general matt whitaker says he has never seen anything like this and calls the order from the appeals court a big deal. >> it is telling someone to do their job, a public official, and when the court of appeals accepted the motion from general flynn's counsel to compel the judge to dismiss the case, that's an extraordinary move and so to have a district court judge have to respond to an appellate court, i can't think of another example where a judge has had to directly do that. >> reporter: as for judge sullivan's new attorney, according to the washington post, beth wilkinson is expected to notify the d.c. court of appeals within the next week she will be representing judge sullivan. wilkinson is one of the most prominent attorneys in d.c. she is a former assistant u.s. attorney who prosecuted timothy mcvay in the oklahoma city bombing. she represented several people connected to the hillary clinton e-mail investigation and most recently her firm represented justice brett kavanaugh for his confirmation hearings. again, it is extremely unusual for a federal judge

to my former acting attorney general matt whitaker reacting to the news yesterday that the federal judge overseeing the michael flynn case has hired a prominent attos refusal or delay to drop charges against the former national security advisor. as requested by the justice department. in beth wilkinson represented brett kavanaugh during his supreme court nomination. joining us now is former doj prosecutor. thank you for being here. so do you think ultimately, we will get an explanation from this judge from the delay? >> we are going to get a lot. it's starting to sound like a little bit of a bad joke like how many lawyers does it take to dismiss a case, this is typically a very ministerial type thing with a judge can very easily sign off on an order may be without any sort of hearing that says this case is dismissed on motion of the government. this judge for whatever reason has been very invested in this case, so it sounds like we are heading towards a fairly sensational hearing with an awful lot of arguing going on about something that typically doesn't require much. remember, judge su

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but it will take months, even manufacturers want to maintain their china supply chain, says ott whitaker the c.e.o. of a medical manufacturers trade association. >> i think there is likely going to be a shift to some degree as well to more u.s. manufacturing. but i think the reality is, you still have to recognize that global supply chain exists today. you're doing both. >> schifrin: fema says that since late march, the u.s. has imported from china more than 163 million masks, gloves, gowns, thermometers, andsh lds. gloves-- have been imported from all over the world. senior trump administration officials describe the air- bridge of suppliesccs a massive s. but, obama administration officials say it shouldn't have been necessary. >> we realized the systems would collapse. >>chifrin: in 2015 and 201 christopher kirchhoff served on the white house ebola task foe, and led the obama administration's "lessons learned" study, that predicted today's p.e. shortage-- and a way to prevent it. >> we didn't make a major investment in p.p.e. that weew e needed. had our testing and surveillance system

infomercial salesmen, like the mypillow guy or con artists like his former acting attorney general matthew whitakerhim who helped run a scam patent company accused of bilking investors out of millions and once marketed a so-called masculine toilet which boasted a specially-designed bowl to help well-endowed men avoid unwanted contact with porcelain or water. "the average male genitalia is between five and six inches," the firm's press release said, "however, this invention is designed for those of us who measure longer than that." so you went through all the trouble of coming up with a scam product just so you could put out a press release making it sound like you got a big [ bleep ]. did you even sell any of these toilets? or did you just put the title in your tinder bio? also, give me a break. you're telling me your dong is so big, every time you squat down in a toilet, you're taking a tip dip in the tool pool and yeah, i did just come up with the terms "tip dip" and "tool pool," and i'm not saying they should start selling the masculine toilet again, but if they did, they could use both of those

matt whitaker interview, he has a book out, above the law.cedented legal move in washington, a lot of people talking about it. you have the interview, that's great. thanks, sandra. pete: thank you, sandra. sandra: i'm looking forward to that. griff jenkins, happy memorial day to everyone. we hope everybody is going to get back out there and do their thing safely and some of the churches reopening, places of worship. we're going to ask alex azar about the new cdc guidelines on all of this coming up, top of the hour. pete: thanks. happy memorial day to you. jedediah: thanks, sandra. griff: still ahead, helping veterans heal by turning their stories into songs. legendary song writer and founder of operation song performs live on "fox & friends," next. ♪ ♪ jedediah: through the power of music, one legendary song writer is helping our military one song at a time. griff: his nonprofit, operation song, pairs veterans and military members with song writers transforming their story into music. pete: joining us now is song writer and founder of operati

mr whitaker, whittaker, the mp for calder valley in yorkshire. mrwhitaker, good morning.here will not be a review of these fines. what do you think of that? i think it's fair enough. i think what should be happening is, like your previous person just said, is perhaps we should investigate whether dominic cummings has broken the law and he should be fined too, that would be the simplest solution to all of this. would you like to see a police investigation into mr cummings' movements? well, i think if people are saying he has broken the law, then some form of action needs to be looked into to find out whether he actually did, and if he did he needs to pay the consequences and pay that fine. all right. he is not resigning and borisjohnson doesn't look like he's going to sack him. it's time you moved on, isn't it? it is time we move on but the only way we are going to move on and deal with all the things that need dealing with, i don't need to tell anybody how dire some of the things are with the pandemic and what we need to do to get on, but, he needs to resign, or the boss

. >> reporter: jan whitaker has written about the history of the department stores.come the disrupted. neiman marcus and j.c. penney are on the verge of bankruptcy. others have furloughed hundreds of thousands of workers and seen their credit downgraded. >> covid-19 is more of an accelerant than a change. the future is happening and playing out the same way, but it is being pulled forward faster. and department stores are like the walking dead. they were in the seventh inning of now they're officially in the bottom of the ninth, if you will. >> reporter: at brookfield properties, they're still committed to department stores, but maybe hedging their bets a little. many of us who walk into a mall are used to an anchor store, one big department store on one side or two different sides. is that still the case today? if not, what replaces it? >> the depart ll via pers for us. it varies according to the market. we have properties where we're replacing department stores with grocery stores. but then we also opened a new property in connecticut last year with two department

attorney general matt whitaker. thank you so much for joining us. matt: good morning, maria.maria: why they were investigating trump goes back to the oval office, goes back to president obama, given the timeline that we have on january 5th, there was an important oval office meeting where obama brought up the logan act as they tried to take down general flynn. your reaction to all of this? matt: well, my reaction is the american people want accountability and they want to not only know what happen but they would like anyone that broke the law to be prosecuted and i think what bill barr was saying he doesn't have evidence and we have to have regular order at the department of justice and we have to follow the law to restore integrity and we cannot follow the same play book which obama doj did, cut corners, lawless like we saw with obama holder like comey who brought nightmare to our country. maria: yeah, and the name of your book is above the law because they were acting above the law based on what we know right now, two out of four wiretaps of carter page were unlawful. we wi

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with us right now is the former acting attorney general, matt whitaker, on all of that, author of above law. i think, matthew, what they're saying is that the attorney general framed himself above the law on this, this is a guy, the general who had already pled guilty to lying about meeting with a russian operative so that's sort of changing things after the fact. what do you think? >> i think what this is all about is the fruit of a poisonous tree. i think the flynn investigation started without predication. it was part of the cross fire hurricane investigation that the fbi was planning on closing until they decided to try to entrap general flynn. i think this is a just outcome. this is what the law demands. sometimes the law isn't popular as i found out myself. at the end of the day, what the law demands is that general flynn and his charges are dismissed and i think this is a good outcome. neil: stubborn residual concern that he did plead guilty to lying and that is all -- it might have been set up, it might have been forced but he pled guilty to that and it's got even the concern of

whitaker was matt in there. he left shortly after bill moore took over. -- bill barr took over. thesignature is in some of pfizer renewal. they suspected he was a russian spy or working with russia. it was his decision to appoint robert mueller as the special investigator to look into alleged ties between the trump campaign and russia. he also stood next to william barr when william barr announced they would not pursue obstruction after the second volume of the mueller report came out. he also stood by william barr when he explained robert mueller could not conclude there was any evidence that russia and the trump campaign had colluded. anything with this russia probe, he has had his fingerprints on. host: coming as the fall campaign begins in earnest between the biden campaign and the trump campaign. how much of this is getting to the facts and how much is presidential politics? guest: these hearings are largely presidential politics. for republicans, they will try to score points by getting him to admit there was not a lot of evidence, there was no evidence that the russia pro

david whitaker lived a life of love and adventure.s for the navy during world war ii. —— flew missions. and he was 95 when he died of covid—19. missions. and he was 95 when he died of covid-19. my father survived being shot at by germans, russians, and he got done for, finished off by and he got done for, finished off by a virus you couldn't even see. he had been living at the erskine homes for ex— servicemen and women. his family said his care had been excellent. but here, like so many other care homes, the virus has taken its toll. we know that, and we know for 25 deaths, which is really difficult to see, because i know the politicians and the first minute of state is someone's relative, but for us it really is. because we are with those residents on a day—to—day basis. do you think you over the peak in care homes? no, i don't think we're over the peak yet. they have already spent an additional £20,000 on protective safety equipment here. staff wearing masks the entire time they are around those they are caring for. anna porterfield

whitaker was matt in there. he left shortly after bill moore took over. -- bill barr took over. thesignature is in some of pfizer renewal. they suspected he was a russian spy or working with russia. it was his decision to appoint robert mueller as the special investigator to look into alleged ties between the trump campaign and russia. he also stood next to william barr when william barr announced they would not pursue obstruction after the second volume of the mueller report came out. he also stood by william barr when he explained robert mueller could not conclude there was any evidence that russia and the trump campaign had colluded. anything with this russia probe, he has had his fingerprints on. host: coming as the fall campaign begins in earnest between the biden campaign and the trump campaign. how much of this is getting to the facts and how much is presidential politics? guest: these hearings are largely presidential politics. for republicans, they will try to score points by getting him to admit there was not a lot of evidence, there was no evidence that the russia pro