we don't hear from sally yates all the time. john brennan is a reluctant parties pabt in this arena. bhu hear from two voices like that sounding alarm about our politics, these are not people who want to be on cable television or who want to be -- >> my point is where are the people -- >> we know where they are. >> that's the crux. there will be new people popping up. but the core eight or ten people -- >> those eight or ten people don't want to pass legislation proposed six months ago to protect bob mueller. >> on a day-to-day basis who are asking them questions? where are they in that is the pathetic part of this. trump is a given. what is pathetic is the other leadership in the republican party. >> steve? >> i agree. i mean, look, they're co-equal branches of government. there is absolutely no oversight when you look at the level of corruption in this administration, the bad deals that are going on, a co-equal branch of government, the congress whether it's democratic or republican controlled should assert its prerogative. sh

i sit down with the former acting attorney general sally yates. pres embattled veterans affairs nominee, and much more. >> woodruff: we return to the arguments at the supreme court today over the constitutionality of president trump's travel ban. marcia coyle of the "national law journal" was inside the court and is here with me now. so, marcia, welcome. this is such a watched set of arguments before theourt. people have been talking about this, anticipating it for montt . tell us wre the main concerns that were discussed today. >> judy, the justices really are focused on three key isses before the court, and that is did president trumexceed his authority under federal immigration law in issuing this proclamation, or travel ban? did the travel ban itslf discriminate under federal immigration law on the basis of national-- nationality, or, also, under the constitution, on the basis of religion? so that's where we saw the bulk of the questions go to both lawyers who argued today. >> woodruff: so we do have n odd yoi excerpt from the court. you were

breakdown the arguments testing the limits of president trump's authoritand get response from sally yates, who loster job by refusing to then, new details raise serious questions about mr. trump's pick toead veterans affairs. and, miles'brien gets exclusive access inside facebook to reveal how the social media giant struggles with the problem of false news. >> one of the issues we face ish misinformation is often very engaging. so, people don't create a lot of fake boring stories. in general, if they're going to go through the trouble of creating a fake story, it's about something reallyd interesting anciting. >> woodruff: all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> babbel. a language app that teaches real-life conversations in a new language, like spanish, french, german, italian, and more. >> the lemelson foundation. committed to improving lives through invention, in the u.s. lsd developing countries. on the web at lemeon.org. >> supported by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur g undation. committed to buildmore just, ve

was his supervisor and he didn't call sally yates. did he call her or not. >> john, you better jump in now. >> i am not going to let you get away with that. >> he did more than just shame hillary clinton on july 5th. he actually laid out a pretty strong case and then decided not the prosecute. i don't know if i'm agreeing with lanny or not with you i think something different happened in july. >> i have got to go. >> did he call sally yates on october 27th when you were all debating, did he or did he not? the answer is no, he did not. >> we will have more time to continue this conversation at another time thank you gentlemen. >>> when we come back a story that says a lot about american justice in black and white. my conversation with meek mill. he speaks the me from prison and says his punishment does not fit the crime. >>> in the milled of all this bombshell news out of washington and around the world there are important stories that are not making headlines, stories that matter to all americans, like the way our justice system deals

sally yates was the acting attorney general of the united states. she was fired after she told the white house that she believed trump's muslim ban was likely unconstitutional. that's the reason she was fired. but we soon learned that while she had been acting attorney general, she had personally gone to the white house to give the white house a warning about national security advisor mike flynn and his communications with the russian government, which he had been lying about. and this all happened very quickly, at the very start of the trump administration. trump got sworn in on friday, january 20th. flynn was interviewed by the fbi the following tuesday, january 24th. on thursday the 26th sally yates was up at the white house giving them that warning about flynn. then she got called back the next day, asked to come back to the white house to discuss that warning further. that was friday, the 27th. then there was the weekend and then on monday she was fired, january 30th. it all happened very quickly. the whole first ten days of the trump administr

on thursday, sally yates was giving the warning. then she got called back the next day to discuss that warning further. friday the 27th. then there was the weekend and monday she was fired, january 30th. the whole first 10 days of the trump administration. she was out. she was fired, even before flynn was. one of the enduring mysteries about the russia investigation and this president and this white house is that even after these totally unprecedented warnings from the justice department with the acting attorney general coming in person to deliver the unprecedented warning about being compromised by a foreign power and even after that warning and subsequent warnings that day, they kept that guy on for another 18 days. they didn't fire flynn until midfebruary. an enduring mystery that has yet to be explained. a few weeks after they finally did fire flynn in may 2017 we found out that the white house had way more warning than just the heads up they got in person from sally yates. new york times was the first to report that flynn had w

it is ten minutes after sally' yats yates and what a sharp departure. we can see this happening during comey's dinner. but now we have priebus as well. perhaps no aspect of the hole back and forth communications. it is well established. and if priebus wants to know this, there could be rare circumstances when it could be okay, but you have to go through the channels. this is a harvenger of the surrender of the comey memos. great pressure from the white house, which really should be completely hands off to have details of the most sensitive topics, including the possible criminal culpability of the president of the united states. >> pete williams, let's talk about how comey answered these questions. let me play a little bit of comey. just as the memos were being released sitting down with rachel maddow to talk about his book. and she was obviously talking about this. >> you're having this interaction with reince priebus at that time, the white house had been warned that mike flynn was perceived to potentially be compromised by a foreign power. the fbi in

sally yates publicly, and she's an interesting character. for me it was even more fun because i actually know her because i ran her husband's campaign for congress in 1994 and i hadn't seen her since then. so it was kind of a reunion, too. >> that's a small world. >> super small. sally yates, the attorney general was the same person i met in the campaign eating popsicles with her kids. >> don't you find avenatti a fascinating character? is he beating trump at his own game? >> he is a titanic match for the president, and he is right out of central casting. he's super creative. i mean he like trump knows how to get the media's attention over and over again. and he has -- well, the other thing is not only has he been creative strategically as we know with monica lewinsky and other cases like this, sometimes it's not where the investigation starts but could be some minor thing like an illegal campaign contribution that ends up being the real problem that ends upturning the tide that ends up being the problem. >> that's what he's sort of predicti

>> you know, i follow sally yates online and she does post sparingly. retweeted it saying what sally says. this is a significant moment. it seems we are, maybe at the threshold of firing rod rosenstein, which has the feel of a saturday night massacre. the only thing that's changed is his approval of a search warrant for trump's attorney. if you can fire somebody for that, it suggests we are no longer a nation that respects the law and the rule of law. so, i would submit that would be further evidence of obstruction of justice. it would be a terrible thing for our country. i echo what she has to say. >> what does it tell you that "the new york times" and others report that donald trump is more worried about michael cohen's prosecution, confirmed on a criminal investigation after a doj filing this week, more concerned about that than the mueller probe? >> it's interesting. that is going to be more protected because it's being handled by the southern district of new york, not a part of robert mueller's probe. the focus relates to business transactions, per

again, this was from the former deputy attorney general sally yates who president trump fired. i'm curious to get your thoughts on something. we tend to focus pay lot on the possibility that president trump may fire special counsel robert mueller, but in reality, would it be just as egregious to fire rod rosenstein? >> the reality is he can essentially fire any of them. he is the head of the executive branch and the doj reports into the president so he can get rid of sessions, can get rid of rosenstein. there's some questions about whether there are some conflicts as far as rosenstein was the one who actually wrote the memo saying comey should be fired, so if there's an obstruction of justice investigation around the fact that comey was fired and whether he should have been fired, then potentially rosenstein may have to testify which is a problem having him run an investigation essentially or oversee it where he's actually somebody who could become a witness down the line. >> up to this point he would have known all the various aspects of the mueller investigation to some exten

sally yates.oniously quit, remember in the beginning of the administration, does this sound plausible? >> absolutely. that is good insight. that will also be part of what we will have the opportunity to examine relevant documents and investigation. the department is now sitting up a room at justice where we will be able to send or investigate is down there and see the documents. >> laura: how many documents? >> up to 1.2 million. it's important understand not all those 1.2 million documents are relevant to our investigation. that's what was given to the inspector general. of course we are very interested in his report as well. but we have our own entitlement and our own investigation to look at those documents. they will start producing documents. we will then have the opportunity to see them unredacted and get possession of them, the westernmost material to the investigation. >> laura: with this big segment on these caravans coming -- why do we call it caravans? it's like a circus. caravans. it's

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white helmets volunteer rescue groups say at least forty people including many children were sticks yates dilla chemical attack. the regime continues the intense and violent shelling barrel bombs were dropped by helicopters carrying poisonous substances. until now paramedics haven't been able to enter because of the continuous shelling the regime is trying to wipe out this area. syria denies its government forces launched any chemical assaults nonetheless international condemnation has been swift and blunt. u.s. president double trouble took to twitter blaming russia and iran for supporting syria and describing its president bashar assad as an animal in rome pope francis during mass and simply to square denounce the attackers unjustifiable. we pray for all the dead for the wounded for the families who suffer. there is no good war and bad war. nothing nothing can justify the use of such instruments of violence against people and unarmed populations in. the syrian army released pictures which it says show troops moving towards. the army dismissed claims of the caste attackers fabrications t

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weissmann wrote a note to sally yates. "the wall street journal" reported weissmann attended hillary clinton's election night party. do you want him to be the pitbull to go after you and this never ending, zero mandate witch hunt? that's what's happening. would you want that guy going after you with that track record, and why would mueller ever a point that man? then on his team, jeannie rey. she previously done legal work for the clinton foundation. huge democratic donor. can we say conflict of interest? next, we have the disgraced lovebirds peter strzok and lisa page. based on all the text messages that so have been exposed, it's apparent they were out to get trump from the very beginning. they are the ones who texted about having the insurance policy in case donald trump actually won and called them pretty much every nasty name in the book. they got removed once their bias was exposed. last but not least, we have one other crime family. this is near and dear to comey's heart. we call it the speech crime family. during h

president trump fires sally yates on january 31.ing to defend his executive order on immigration. nine days later the "washington post" lifts the vail on flynn talks with kislyak. >> the "washington post" just posted this national security adviser discussed sanctions with russian envoy before trump took office. despite denials. >> i don't know about it. i haven't seen it. what report is that? >> on the morning of february 13, the administration publicly supports flynn. >> he does enjoy the full confidence of the president. >> later that same evening the that support collapses. >> breaking news tonight. confirms donald tlump national security advise heas resigned. >> michael flynn served the shortest s shortest tenure in history. >> the congress memos created by james comey. >> one day before michael flynn was fired. reince priebus asked comey do you guys wiretapping flynn essentially with a fisa warrant? a secret national security warrant. >> in reaction to the memos president trump defends flynn. tweeting. his life can be totally d

. >> remember sally yates, the deputy attorney general ran down to the white house to talk to the white house counsel don mcgahn, her hair on fire about michael flynn. clearly there were intercepts they were listening in on with kiss kislyak. did he tell the white house counsel? did he tell the president about it? we don't know the answer to that question. we do know the president at this point is saying, this guy, i don't know. he was complaining that flynn hadn't told him about a phone call from a foreign leader, right? but we don't know what else was in the president's mind at that point about flynn and why in the end he kept, you know, he asked comey to kind of stop the case. that's the kebs that's really hard to make for me. >> you mentioned reince priebus. i want to skip that. bob, i want to get to this piece and we'll get to the president's reaction in a second. there's this bit about russia and the prostitute. trump told comey the hooker from the dossier total bunk, nonsense but that putin told him we have some of the most beautiful hookers in the world. what does that tell sfru

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why didn't you recommend to her or to sally yates, she should recuse herself. it's the cleanest way out of this. >> that's a great question. maybe i should have. before we had a chance to have a conversation about it, she announced publically she would not recuse herself but would instead accept my recommendation and that of the career prosecutors. at that point, then i have to make a decision. i like her very much but do i stand with her or do i announce it separately. >> i'm going to close with this. susan collins last week on the show, i asked her about your book. here is what she said. i'm curious to get your reaction to what she said. >> i cannot imagine why an fbi director would seek to essentially cash in on a book when the investigation is very much alive. he should have waited to do his memoir. >> should you have waited? >> i hope she will read it and see that it's not about the investigation. it's about -- not even about donald trump. it's about something much broader that i thought it was important to talk about now. >> i was just going to say, is yo

where was sally yates to make the announcements? was jim comey saying awful things about hillary clinton when he wouldn't have the guts to charge her? >> i think the governor surfaces a big issue. we're that the point in time -- and i think this president has added to it -- that nobody trusts any part of the government has any integrity. and the president survives and thrives in an environment where you say, you call me a liar, everybody is a liar. you say i have no integrity. nobody has integrity. we might as well accomplish what we want. >> to maggie. with the possible exception at least for now robert mueller. clearly the president all week long is seething about this. and has not ruled out getting rid of him. >> i don't thing he's ruled out anything. most of the people close to him do not believe he'll fire mueller. he did touch that stove once before, right? with comey. it obviously didn't turn out well for him. >> he responded to one of your reports this week saying, if i wanted to fire him in december, i would have. >> that's

loretta lynch saying iqs myself, sign the papers and direct sally yates to do it. but if comey was all upset about that all you do is say a making a recommendation to the deputy attorney general sally yates because loretta lynch is wishy-washy. he didn't do it. he didn't follow procedures because he thought only he could save the world. that set up the october because if he had not done the first one he would never had to do the seguin. >> he didn't have to do the second one because at most you could at said go head into the investigation of the extra e-mails that were found and if there were some reason to believe that the whole investigation needed to be reopened and there was some problem then he could go to congress and say i miss spoke before. there may be reason to go ahead and opened a criminal investigation or to indict ms. clinton but, in fact, they came back and the anthony weiner emails showed nothing a kid than this big press conference and all other polling showed that it derailed the clinton campaign for nine or ten days, the last few weeks of the cam

>> yes, and i should say that sally yates knows something about what it's like to be fired by president because she was, remember. she was acting attorney general and she refused to defend the first travel ban and so she got fired as well. so, she knows, she knows the feeling. but i think that just simply getting rid of bob mueller or simply -- well, bob mueller is a different matter. simply getting rid of rod rosenstein doesn't end the russia investigation. getting rid of mueller it doesn't it would fold back into the justice department where mueller was appointed in the first place. firing people to make the russia investigation go away is probably not going to be very effective. >> the justice department's inspector general's report on fired fbi director andrew mccabe on a different topic details four times when he gave misleading statements. it accuses mccabe of inappropriately authorizing sensitive information to a reporter. it is referring to a "wall street journal" article about twengs between the fbi and d.o.j. on how to handle the clinton e-mail probe. mccabe was said to insist

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( laughter ) the ultimate test is how you handle it when he publicly hue mill yates you. >> it's a greatonor but we do have a very special relationship. in fact, i'll get that little piece of dandruff off. little piece. we have to make him perfect. he is perfect. it is really great to be with you and you are a special friend. thank you. >> thank you. >> trevor: yo! this dude just picked something white off macron's soldier and announced it is dandruff to the cameras, he's like, look, look, i found a dandruff. i found it. and credit to macron, he just went with it. that's diplomacy because if i was macron i would have clapped back. i would have been, excuse me, i have no dandruff, no, donald, you are a human dandruff! you are the flakes on the scalp of society, i shampoo you from my life! ( laughter ) but he handled it perfectly, every moment macron handled perfectly, whether giving speeches or playing outside, you could feel macron was connecting with trump. and we all know trump is not the sentimental type but clearly macron made him feel the way he never felt before, human. ( applause

briefing the trump team before the inauguration on the allegations contained in the then unsub stants yated dossier on russian interference with the election. comey writes, they were about to lead a country that had been attacked by a foreign adversary, yet they had no questions about what the future russian threat might be. instead, comey writes, they launched into a strategy session about how to spin what we just told them to the public. the republican national committee set to launch an aggressive response to the book just unveiled a new website called lien comey.com. i spent some time on that new website this morning. it says comey wants to portray himself as a nonpartisan boy scout rather than a washington insider. it also feature, anne-marie, several video clips of prominent democrats criticizing comey's judgment and his integrity. >>> cbs news has confirmed president trump plans to pardon lewis "scooter" libby. he was convicted of perjury in 2007 in connection with the connection of the leak regarding valerie plame. president george w. bush committed his jury sentence but did not gra

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breakdown the arguments testing the limits of president trump's authoritand get response from sally yates, who loster job by refusing to then, new details raise serious questions about mr. trump's pick toead veterans affairs. and, miles'brien gets exclusive access inside facebook to reveal how the social media giant struggles with the problem of false news. >> one of the issues we face ish misinformation is often very engaging. so, people don't create a lot of fake boring stories. in general, if they're going to go through the trouble of creating a fake story, it's about something reallyd interesting anciting. >> woodruff: all that and more

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. >> ambushed by sally yates who refused to enforce the president's temporary travel ban. mr.set up the ambush. comey was running the fbi at the time. then there was a thought he was lying. maybe he should start with pardoning general flynn. lou: i think you have got a terrific idea. pardon everybody. >> congress isn't doing its job. they are providing see row overside -- zero oversight for mueller. lou: the senate is and the embarrassment to the nation in wait has done and the role it played in this investigation. the senate intelligence andst judiciary committees. they move at a snail's pace and think they are working overtime. i think devin nunes has been tremendous. you can make mcconnell and paul ryan. they are a joke, they are bought and paid for by lobbyists, the chamber of commerce, the business round table, you name it. >> some of congress has done some good work on the fisa and dossier. they need to provide oversight. in the senate they are moving to try to protect shim by being held can account. lou: thanks, tom, good to see you. up next, james comey throws loretta

i was wondering if you could different yate tinker from the previous standard and different yate thosetandards from the message test in spencer washington in 1974 and second part, if there were to be a case coming before the supreme court today and n which the plaintiffs were high school students and they were disciplined by their high school from participating in the march for life, what kind of tests do you think a supreme court today would hold? do you think they would look at the tinker test and apply the particularized message test? do you think they would defer to o'brien or do you think the court would come up with a new test? thank you so much. >> to clarify, are you talking about the o'brien "f" the draft -- >> caller: yes. >> the draft card burning? >> caller: yes, ma'am. >> or the sign against the draft. the draft card burning. well, that had to do with -- first of all, they ruled against draft card burning. so -- and that was an adult and it was also outside of school so it was a little bit different. now, if a case got to the court today about walkouts, it depends what wou

sally yates name she quit in the beginning of the administration. it is it sound mruzable. >> good insight and that will be part of what we will knappin related to documents for our investigation. the department is now setting up a room. at justice where we'll send our investigators down and see the documents >> how many. >> up to 1 penalty 2 million. not all of those. it is important to understand not all of those documents are relevant to our investigation that is what was given to the inspector general. we're interested in his report we have our own enentitlement to look at the documents they will produce documents we will have the opportunity to see them unredacted and get possession of them the once that are material to our investigation. we did a segment on car van. why do we call it caravan. coming toward the u.s. border rushing the board and overwhelm the susare proposing legislation that would deal with the loopholes in the asylum process. congre congressman we gotta deal with this. >> secures america's future you said great things benefit

the department of justice still manned by an army of sally yates who are in a hunkered down mode and not interested in releasing anything that might be awkward or embarrassing. a lot of double talk and foot dragging. if you want to believe that the justice department and the fbi, even going back to the comey memos, they were saying, it's impossible to release this, or the heavily redacted and take years to do. of course it's all nonsense. david: we see that time and again when they come out with the excuses saying it's going to violate a state secret or going to invade somebody's privacy and then we see when it -- some stuff is still redacted in the memos but we get the gist of it perfectly. >> the same is true with the nunes memo. that was supposed to be the end of the world, the republic could collapse. david: bottom line, they're protecting something. what is it that they're protecting . >> a politicized witch hunt where the fbi leadership and the department of justice was attempting to steer the outcome of a presidential election. that simple. david: and i could just focus on the