for a long time and i remember the summer after i graduated college i read one of your books, the wiseman. i came across some startling details to me about all these things about the roosevelt administration right before world war ii like sending destroyers to great britain at a time when america was in peace and that piqued my interest in the school. so i i wrote an academic thing and a dissertation but nurtured the fact that in the back my mind maybe i would return to some of that stuff and get narrative nonfiction like you do. along the way i got encouragement for great people from amy, the tiger mom and here we are. >> part of it was done as a federal judge in his i correct? >> [inaudible] [laughter] evan also went to law school and i originally -- >> i never clerked for federal judge. >> yeah, this has been a passion for number of years starting when i was in law school and served in the obama administration and clerked for a judge and now at a law firm so done a number of different things while i have been nursing this project along but it's been in gravel passion of mine to get thi

it's the same effort that wiseman and his cohorts put into the enron investigation. this is chapter and verse of a federal investigation like this. i believe they're trying to put pressure on paul manafort in the hopes he will give something on donald trump. i don't believe there is anything to give. so paul manafort finds himself in a pressure cooker with really no way out except to face them down in court which is what he plans to do. >> you spoke to him recently. how did he sound to you? >> you know, paul knew what he was signing up for when he decided to fight this. he knew the lay of the land then. he knew the men and women involved in the special counsel's office -- all you had to do was look at enron and the merrill lynch executives who were eventually found not guilty put them in prison while they waited for that. paul had to believe during this stage of the game that it was getting more difficult, wiseman and the rest of the prosecutors in the mueller investigation were turning up the heat. it's hot. of course it is. but paul is standing up tall. he is going

you have all of the same people that have been exposed here and jenny wray and andrew wiseman. and it is the same corruption that will be exposed down the line in robert mueller's witch hunt, it is no different. >> it sort of makes you wonder if the only people who work in the f.b.i. peter strzok and lisa page and andrew mccabe. and james comey. and yet, why did they do that? they wanted to control it and it was controlled by the obama white house. that is clear. and mueller assembled a team of partis ans some of which were in the on hillary fix. >> sean: this is the beginning of the process and a lot of these people are in deep trouble. more analysis of the congressional hearing on the ig report and next, newt gingrich coming up. i am totally blind. and non-24 can make me show up too early... or too late. or make me feel like i'm not really "there." talk to your doctor, and call 844-234-2424. they have businesses to run they have passions to pursue how do they avoid trips to the post office? stamps.com mail letters ship packages all the amazing services of the post office righ

some have complained, well, wiseman has a history of putting innocent people out of work, destroying lives, not only making them unemployed but making them unemployable and as the supreme court has said all for things that were not even crimes. that doesn't seem to deter him. just as it has never deterred robert mueller from destroying people's lives, people of integrity, honest, upstanding people, whether it was ted tevens, colin powell, one of previous cabinet members, decorated lita man, had nothing but just accolades to say about ted stevens and what an honorable, honest,up right man he was. and the mueller f.b.i. framed , they hid information that not only would raise a reasonable doubt that showed unegive ka -- unequivocally he was not guilty of having a gift of hundreds of thousands of dollars an addition to his cabin, he not only paid for it , he paid above the value because as he said before, i have to go above and beyond to keep people at bay who might want to come after me. i've got to keep my nose so clean. yet, i guess it could be argued, well, maybe mueller didn't know

allegations that there were improper disclosures to the media from the lead prosecutors there and andrew wisemanon would have had the impact really of limiting his ability to mount his defense with his lawyers. that's one of his main arguments, shep. >> shepard: thanks, catherine. more on that as we getit. where are we, big picture? let's go to john bussey, associate editor for the "wall street journal," whom this network shares common ownership. there's a lot of lies. there's some that haveleaded guilty, to items regarding russians, others that are charged with items regarding ru and there's those that lied with items regarding russ and now all of these investigations and the push backs and the national anthem and the philadelphia eagles. this is not normal in america. what is this? >> it's an argumentative president that today got stood up on a date at the white house so he cancelled the dat so he did so in a way that diminished the eagles, essentially accused them of not being tick, suggested that they weren't standing for the anthem regardless of where you are on that issue. it's wrong. they

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 mean holy cow. >> you know what, congressman, share your frustration, congressman desantis, i'm going to ask you this. the american people understand what's going on. you look at this guy, rob rosenstein, he is so knee-deep swamp it's pathetic. he's the o

i knew andrew wiseman, for example, is someone he worked in the past, he probably worked with some ofwith others who have good reputations. up all have stellar reputation, great experience in handling the matters. you also want to shore up the needed expertise in a case like. this. as you mentioned, some of those subject areas where you need expertise. i think that's how he assembled it. this is a group of people who are current or former justice depared apartment lawy department lawyers. most certainly politics did not enter into the equation whatsoever. >> barbara, always great to speak with you. thanks so much. >> thanks, david. >>> u.s. attorney jeff sessions is no stranger of public shaming from his boss. >> i am disa pointed in the attorney general. if he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me prior to taking office and i would have quite simply picked somebody else. >> that was president trump last july after jeff sessions stepped down from the russia investigation. the president needled sessions last week first with this tweet quoting republican congressman trey g

the filing is from mueller and andrew wiseman. back on "the beat" in april, he alleged that this very prosecutor would try to set trump up. >> it depends on who's asking the questions. if the deputy chief, andrew weismann is behind the asking of the questions, then it's for the purpose of setting him up, because among the people he's indicted, there'll be one or two people who will be cooperating in form of witnesses. >> that lawyer knew weismann's rep for pressing witnesses and to flipping. one way to do that is just to scare them in general. another is to find a lawful means to jail them before trial. which means the thing that might scare them at the end of the trial, day-to-day life in prison, that can come way earlier. now, is that legit? sure. bail agreements have the force of law violating them can put you in jail long before your trial, as martin shkreli learned. >> former pharmaceutical exec martin shkreli now behind bars, after offering $5,000 for a lock of hillary clinton's hair, prompting the judge to revoke his bail.

you have wiseman, who is that hillary clinton's funeral, meaning her party got turned into a funeral.democrats begged to differ and comments made after the release of a 500 page report. senate minority leader chuck schumer noted the doj found no evidence of political bias and never criticized mueller or his investigation. senator schumer and california democrat adam schiff agreed that james comey and his team made serious errors of judgment. vladimir putinnt and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu spoke by phone today about the situation along syria's border with israel. the kremlin said the two also discussed beefing up their coordination on the fight against terrorism. the conversation follows up on lks in moscowrs' ta and the defense minister's visit to russia last run -- month. status onno change in joint military training between u.s. and south korean milita forces, despite president trump's decision to suspend those military exercises. japan's as the large-scale exercises help ensure that evolving tactics and procedures are executed smoothly and that allied forces are in s

you have wiseman at hillary clinton, meaning her party that turned into a funeral. and they were screaming and crying how can you have people like this so you have the 13 angry democrats. you have tremendous animosity. i did nothing wrong. there was no collusion no obstruction the ig report went a long way to show that. i think that the mueller investigation has been totally -- [ inaudible question ] >> so passionately about the circumstances that lead to otto warmbier's life. and then you defend kim jong-un. >> i don't want to see a nuclear weapon destroy you and your family excuse me, because i don't want to see a nuclear weapon destroy you and your family. i want to have a good relationship with north korea. i want to have a good relationship with many countries. what i've done, if you remember, if you're fair, most of you aren't but if you're fair, when i came in, people thought we were probably going to war with north korea. >> if we did, millions of people would have been killed seoul has 28 million people 30 miles off the border you would have had 30 or 40 mi

attorney and the head of the fbi was involved in that and a guy named wiseman were all involved in investigatingt and so on that the squelch information. if they had allowed all the information they knew to come out, there is no way the commission on foreign investments in the u.s. could have approved that deal that ultimately led to $145 million donations into the clinton foundation. issues.e a lot of rosenstein has been involved in a great deal and for goodness sakes, rosenstein was involved in the -- getting the fisa order from the court when he absolutely knew or should have known that there was not a proper basis for getting that warrant to continue. there were all kind of issues that need to be asked of rosenstein, there is going to be an issue today, democrats are raising the issue that proper notice was not given. my understanding is they are supposed to give 7 days notice. host: on the hearing on thursday? guest: on the hearing on thursday and my understanding is proper notice was not given and that will be one of the issues for discussion. my good friend jim jordan has a child getting

you have wiseman who was at hillary clinton's funeral, her party that turned into a funeral and theye screaming and crying, they were going crazy. how can you have people like this. i call them the 13 angry democrats. you have tremendous animosity. here is the good news, i did nothing wrong, there was no collusion, there was no obstruction. the ig report yesterday went a long way to show that and i think that the mueller investigation has been totally discredited. [inaudible] >> spoken so passionately about the circumstances that led to otto warmbir, in the same way you are defending kim jong un's human rights weapons. >> you know why, because i don't want see you and your family destroyed by nuclear weapon. i want to have a good relationship with many other countries and what i've done if you remember, if you're fair which most of you aren't, but if you're fair, when i came in, people thought we were probably going to war with north korea. if we did -- quiet, quiet, quiet. if we did, millions of people would have been killed. i don't mean -- 28 million people miles off the border. w

peter strzok, lisa page, andrew wiseman all of these agents would have been better off working for georgethe upper echelons of the f.b.i. running both investigations with the amount of bias they had. >> sandra: trey gowdy we've been talking about that textbook bias. here is that moment and that exchange. >> they pre-judged the outcome of the hillary clinton investigation before the investigation ended. and these exact same f.b.i. agents and attorneys pre-judged the outcome of the russia investigation before it even began. if pre-judging the outcome of an investigation before it ends and pre-judging the outcome of an investigation before it begins is not evidence of outcome determinative bias. for the life of me, i don't know what would be. that's textbook bias. >> well, i think that is the case. we heard that case also a little bit yesterday before the senate judiciary committee. another issue we'll be hearing today is the f.b.i.'s cooperation with congress and congressional oversight issues. something really fascinating came out yesterday that i expect will be explored more today. the st

association with hillary clinton, whether it was the people i just identified or whether it was andrew wiseman who attended hillary clinton's election night party or whether it was jeanie rhee who defended the clinton foundation in foia defenses, seems so bizarre that the people you would go and accumulate to prosecute the president of the united states and investigate him would be so intertangled with these fact patterns regarding hillary clinton. does that strike you as odd? >> i don't know if it strikes me as odd other than i know as to the three individuals you mentioned occurred. >> is that usual for someone who is like directly tied to one element of a fact pattern to then migrate over to the other matters? >> excellent point. from a management matter, having done corruption cases, you wouldn't put someone who just investigated an individual on one side to go and investigate the other person. >> who made those staffing decisions? >> the leadership of the fbi. >> it would have been james comb who was fired and andrew mccabe who has been referred for criminal prosecution as a consequence o

uranium and he worked with a guy named mueller who hired a guy named wiseman in that investigation and they have hidden what went on there and even forced a witness to sign a nondisclosure agreement. unheard of in that situation. it is imperative that we bring these things out. we have too many people in the justice department. i watched one of them yesterday. i can't go into what he said but i was going, wow, we know that's a lie what he just said. he's so good. then i realized he must have said straight face to his wife 100 times about, oh, no, there's nothing going on with me and ms. paige. there are too many people in the justice department that have gotten too good at lying. we need these documents to see what is the truth. i yield back. mr. meadows: i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from new york is recognized. mr. nadler: mr. speaker, i now yield three minutes to the distinguished gentleman from georgia, the ranking democrat on the intellectual property subcommittee, mr. johnson, three minutes. the speaker pro tempor