plus part two of my interview with newt gingrich. hear his advice for president trump about tweeting. donald trump, shakespeare, liberal takedown. we'll get into all of it with our panel. "justice with judge jeanine" fos affected. i'm robert gray, now back to the judge. judge jeanine: we have a lot to talk about with my panel. joining me the american union chairman matt schlapp and chris hahn. i want to stay with the topic a little bit. i'm concerned about the acceptance of the violent rhetoric on the left. chris, please tell me you are as well. >> i don't like violent rhetoric at all, judge. i didn't like it when it was aimed at president obama, and i don't like it with it many aimed at president trump. we can be opposed to each other in a civil way. i have been arguing with you for 8 years, judge, but i love ya, the same to you, matt. judge jeanine: you love matt? >> sure. maybe it's because i'm with the aclu. judge jeanine: here is my concern. my concern is everybody is talking a big game. i'm not going to say they are going to la

newt gingrich makes a good point. james comey, in the middle of the night, after he was fired, realizes he is going to somehow form the dialogue that's going to require a special counsel. in the middle of the night he gets up and leak his memo, tells his friend to leak the memo to "the new york times." at that point from his private citizen. he shouldn't be doing that. not his job to get an independent counsel appointed for the term case. it is going to be a witch hunt, i agree. >> eboni: may be jim comey thinks it's his patriotic duty to make sure we have a special counsel. >> kat: perhaps. also we are talking about newt gingrich, what he said about the special counsel when it was announced, that this guy was great. honest, integrity. the media better calm down. it's a case of deciding how you feel about somebody. based on what is politically convenient. >> eboni: let's meet today's specialists. she's an entrepreneur, family law attorney, and a regular on the fox news channel but she specializes in being the best mom

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our guest is newt gingrich. ,hose listening on sirius radio the book is called "understanding trump," and it was a twitter battle between you and joe scarborough the last couple of days. he got personal as well. started thatt was on his part. i've known joe for many years and he served in congress with me back when i was speaker of the house. it's our like the process of being a morning joe has gotten to him, and he's gotten more and more extreme. he after -- he went after me in ways that make no sense. host: why? guest: i don't know why he was saying the things he was saying. i've been around for a long time i lost my first two elections and kept campaigning. i spent 16 years of increasing majority. i've done a lot of things that that i don't get paid for. and working in the defense department and helping human services and other things. he implied that i would do something because somehow i would be paid off. and i was astonished. i thought he knew me better than .hat i've got two grandchildren and i want them

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newt gingrich has brought up excellent points. why is mueller staffing a staff full of four attorneys who have all donated to the democratic party. >> ken star gave money to republicans. republicans were fiep wine with. >> but one of these attorneys argued with the most expansesive concept of obstruction of justice. these are the people being staffed. that's crazy. >> that was his job as a lawyer. he was an advocate in front of a court. thae that's ridiculous. if this president fires mueller by firing rosenstein, his presidency will be over. he will so horribly shoot himself in the foot. he will be unable to proceed forward. >> stand by to stand by, folks. special coverage of this continues in just a moment. thanks, kaley and matt. yeah. could save thousands. you should probably buy me dinner. no. go to lendingtree.com for a new home loan or refinance. receive up to five free offers and choose the loan that's right for you. our average customer could lower their monthly bills by over three hundred dollars. go to lendingtree.com ri

and newt gingrich voted for that. so i'm not sure how you can be a sitting congressman and speaker of the house voting for articles of impeachment which passed through, as we know. bill clinton acquitted in the senate. but now you voted articles of obstruction of justice against the president, you can obstruct justice. let me say one other thing. many have said, and i disagree from a legal perspective, that the president can fire a special prosecutor. he would have to order, that is president trump, the attorney general to do so. the attorney general recused himself. so we may see another recusal in rod rosenstein, so we may see ms. brand, if she takes over. so what if she resigns? this could get rather messy. >> rosenstein said he would only fire if there is cause. let's play for you what newt gring ri gingrich said in the '90s. >> what you have lived through for 2 1/2 long years is the most systematic, deliberate, obstruction of justice coverup and effort to avoid the truth. >> speaking of the clintons there. so pre

. >> let's listen to newt gingrich making the case for firing the special prosecutor. >> i think that what republicans ought to focus on is closing down the independent counsel, because he is not independent. he apparently is very close to comey. we know comey hates trump. you have to assume that that has to leak over to mueller. and you have to assume that the people mueller is going to bring in are essentially justice department people who were 33-1 in favor of clinton over trump. >> david frum, your reaction to newt gingrich. >> first, he is calling him an independent counsel. that's an important mistake. the independent counsel law was allowed to lapse attend of the last century because there were doubts of constitution. that the special counsel is under the president because people have argued the president can be trusted to investigate himself. if that turns out not to be true, you are into political recommend dolphins most dire kind. maybe newt gingrich would welcome that because it's kind of an apocalyptic scenario and he enjoys those. i don't want to sound like i have the lim

donald trump didn't invent this, newt gingrich didn't invent this. james carville we saw with the bimbo eruption, saying you drag a $100 bill through a trailer park there's no telling what you'll come up with. this is what you do when you're in trouble, you go after the messenger, you attack the attacker and that's exactly what they're doing. >> if you want to see another example, over the weekend jay seculo, somebody matt lewis knows very well and he was on the sunday shows and asked directly whether or not the president would consider firing the special counsel, this is what he said. >> will the president promise not to interfere, not attempt at any time to order the deputy attorney general to fire robert mueller? >> the president of the united states it's a unitary executive. he'll seek the advice of his counsel and inside and outside. i'm not speculating what he will or will not do you. i can't imagine that issue will arise but that is an issue the president with his advisers would discuss if there was a basis. >> april ryan, refusing to knock it

>> we'll ask newt gingrich. one of mueller's biggest critics. >> technically, the president of the united states cannot obstruct justice. >> when he's ready to discuss it, he will. >> do those tapes exist? and if they do, will the president comply? i valtravelled to the heart of trump country to find out. do you want to get to the truth about this? do you care? is it important? insights and analysis from our power house "roundtable." everything you need to know. what happens after the president of the united states says i am being investigated. >>> good morning. and to all the fathers out there, a very happy father's day. this week, a new sense of urgency over president trump's future and the cost of political anger. the shock of that wednesday morning shooting a gunman targeting republi congress practicing for their annual charity baseball game. banner headlines. hometown paper of congressman steve scalise still in the hospital facing more surgery and a long recovery. the hospital reports scalise is doing bette

. >> newt gingrich productions. >> thank you, sir. up next on is busy breaking newsnight this friday night. >> just last week, reuters reported on 18 new previously undisclosed contact between the trump campaign a russian government officials. >> the biggest tinfoil hat conspiracy theorists in the country, the biggest of all, rachel maddow now backtracking on pushing the trump russian collusion lie? what she's been doing for months and months, nowck you won't believe what she's saying. will explain and get reaction. michelle malkin a later tonight, michael myers, weighing in on the deep state trying to take down the president. also, pat buchanan on a long history of left is hatred and violence as we continue. like this igloo 48 quart cooler for under $20. new balance 608 trainers for under $50. plus, free catch and release ponds and giveaways this weekend. is america's number-one you kmotorcycle insurer. yeah, she does purr! best bike i ever owned! no, you're never alone, because our claims reps are available 24/7. we even cover acces

i think that newt gingrich knows what he said is not necessarily accurate. what it is true though, is it is challenging to bring an obstruction case against a president. that becomes a political decision that might end up being in an impeachment proceeding. bob mueller will have a hard time indicting the president of the united states because of enlisting doj rules that prohibit that. >> back in 19 the 8 during impeachment process and all of us remembered that. the president of the united states bill clinton was impeached in the house of representatives. newt gingrich was the speaker at time. he was not convicted. eventually in the u.s. senate. much more right after this. i was always "the girl with psoriasis." people don't stare anymore. i never joined in. that wasn't fair to any of us. i was covered. i tried lots of things over the years. but i didn't give up. i kept on fighting. i found something that worked. that still works. now? see me. see me. i found clear skin that lasts. see if cosentyx could make a difference for you- cosentyx is proven to help pe

did you vote for newt gingrich over the years? >> yes. >> reporter: voting for the republican or democrat for the seat? >> the democrat. >> reporter: one of the reasons he's voting for the democrat and not republican, handle, has to do with donald trump. >> you hear the president, let's drain the swamp, but here we are in the 6th congressional district, right, 38 years of the same style, the same approach, the same thing. >> reporter: it's been nearly four decades since a democrat has held the congressional seat in this district. which is troubling others on this street, too. >> it's time for a change. >> reporter: glen says it's kind of cool to live on the street where newt gingrich used to live but he and his wife, susan, are democrats and have the only political yard sign on the block and it's for john ossoff. they say it's a referendum on the performance of donald trump. >> i can't remember any president going back to ronald reagan or earlier who has been as crude and coarse to other people. i can't imagine ronald reagan talki

and therefore, newt gingrich is attacking bob mueller. members of congress on both sides of the aisle find mr. mueller to be someone of bravery and courage who served his country with bravery in vietnam, who served both parties. >> let's talk about the democrats he was talking about. congressman. is that a point? if he's got democrats in there, if he's got people who have given to clinton and other democrats? >> no, i think anyone who knows bob mueller knows he is choosing the best people to serve on the investigative team. people with experience in the issues he wants to investigate and believes need to be investigated. as you and pierre pointed out, he can't go through f.e.c. filings to determine if he should or shouldn't hire people. he's picking the best people. members of congress have confidence in that. what's happening here, the president wants to take down bob mueller. his lawyer wants to take down bob mueller. the question is, why? and i think the answer is they want to lay the foundation to discredit whatever bob mueller comes

it's out this week by former house speaker, newt gingrich. he's going to join us in just a moment, as washington continues. and later, we'll turn our attention to animal welfare and u.s. businesses with the head of the humane society of america. but first, our guest on "newsmakers" is democratic congressman tim walz of minnesota. we talked with him about a number of veterans' urebs. he's the ranking democrat on the house veterans affairs committee, including the veterans' choice program, which allows veterans to get healthcare through private doctors, might offer help closer to where the veterans live. >> it's going to run short of money before we budget again, and that will be an interesting debate, if you will, of do we give them more money? do we allow the freedom to move things? is he argument going to be made that this is the back door to privatization? all of those things are on the horizon for this summer so. they are coming to the end that have money now. we just reauthorized them to use what was little left. it sounds like to me, and

first up, near is newt gingrich with his latest book, "understanding trump." [applause] >> good morning and welcome to the national press club. i am from the new jersey advance media and star ledger and past president of the club. columnist george will once said the late senator daniel patrick of new york wrote most -- more books than most senators have read. newt gingrich has written more books than senators have read and now there are four more house members. we will speak for 20 minutes and then questions from the audience before signing the book. if you have not purchased the book, please, do so now. proceeds benefit the journalism institute, the club's non-profit that does training and helps the club on freedom of press issues. before beginning, please turn off or silence your cell phones. i would like to acknowledge the members of the head line team responsible for organizing the event. if you are in the audience stand to be recognized. mr. martin, mr. matthew, larry ruso, heather, bill pierce, bill lawsuit check, frank and staff liason, lindsey underwoo

few weeks ago the same newt gingrich robert mueller superb choice to be special counsel. going back to the first tweet the deep state spear, newt gingch speaker of theouse worked in congress 20 yearsnd al of a sudden deep state? >> forget speaker of the house and worked in congress, lives here as a d.c. lobbyist and insider. newt gingrich wants to sell books it would appear. i'm not sure he believes this. i don't know. i would never get in the former speaker's head. but it did strike me as strange for somebody who's been in this city for 35 years. >> matt welch, thank you. jake sherman, good to you here in the flesh as well. we are a few hours away from the congressional charity baseball game at nationals park. we will talk to one democrat if tonight's game about why it's so important to play ball tonight. over here! over here! no! (dog barking) whoever threw it has to go get it. not me! somebody will get it... ♪ (dog barking) anyone can dream. making it a reality is the hard part. from the b-2 to the upcoming b-21, northrop grumman stealth bombers give america an advan

. >> what about newt gingrich? who always seems to come back like the joker, back saying the president can't be indicted for abuse of authority, abuse of office, or even obstruction of justice. because for him to do it, it's like nixon talking. if i do it, it's legal. >> i think there is a legal debate in the view of the department of justice before this administration was that you can't indict the president, because if there's something the president's done, that is so terrible, the remedy is impeachment. >> let's take a look at it. here's trump ally newt gingrich defending the president friday, saying the mere fact that he is president means that he cannot obstruct justice. this is different than saying he can't be indicted. let's see what he says, how he says it. >> technically, the president of the united states cannot obstruct justice. the president of the united states is the chief executive officer of the united states. he wants to fire the fbi director. all he's got to do is fire him. >> well, back in 1998,

and i agree with newt gingrich 100ers. a tornado has come through d.c. and there is debris all over the place and a lot of this tornado is the president's own doing and his staff is trying to pick up the pieces and when they try, another tornado comes through. the president is his own worst enemy from a communications standpoint. i can't speak to legal standpoint. but as a pr person, he's stepping on his own message here and he's doing so almost deliberately. it is self-destructive. so speaker gingrich is absolutely right. i would say, mr. president, i understand that you want to tweet and i understand this is a mechanism for you to get or message out. but please only tweet about the positive things so we could augment your message and augment your policies. >> why would the president put these tweets out? what does he get out of it? this is publicizing information that in the first place reflects rather poorly on him and may not be true. >> i don't think it is a strategic play. i think this president from day one -- >> reactionary? >> even in the reason

in fact, it was newt gingrich who said they probably could and should fire bob mueller. so this act is complicated and it was changed in 1999. >> the act of kree creating a sl counsel? >> after ken starr. there was a sense that if you give someone too much independence, there's no accountability. and there has to be a way for someone to be accountable to someone after ken starr. so they came up with this compromised solution, which is that the president can actually fire mueller and ken starr could not be fired at that point so i think they were looking for a middle ground here. the question is, that nobody can answer, nothing is perfect here. would it be a great solution for the president of the united states to ask rod rosenstein, who would then resign, so ask somebody else, to fire the independent counsel? no. but can he do it? absolutely. >> all of these structures, independent counsel, are designed, at least in a general way, to try to take politics out and make people independent. the story of washington, though, is that politics is never out. and even if people ar

gingrich bit, this is the same newt gingrich who tweeted in may that he liked the mueller announcement, saying it was a superb choice. what gives here? what's changed? >> well, you know, he clearly thought when mueller got appointed that that would be sort of an alleviator of pressure for the white house, saying, okay, now everybody can calm down because this is in the hands of a special counsel, and let that process go forward. now, after seeing reporting about the team that mueller's put together, i think gingrich is now trying to discredit not just mueller, or not so much going after mueller, but after the entire investigative effort that the special counsel's put together. here's the problem, kate, i think it's going to be very hard to make this kind of strategy work, and perhaps that's why we're not hearing it from republicans on the hill, but it's more sort of these trump surrogates and fans outside right now. and that's because even ken starr this morning, kate -- >> right. >> -- was saying bob mueller is uniy peachable, amazing kreblz. he was praising the legal team mueller's p

. >> the other thing, newt gingrich. this calls into question how much longer the mueller investigation is going to go on and whether or not the white house might try to fire him. that conversation is starting to bubble up right now. take a look at what newt gingrich said on facebook live today. >> i think that what republicans ought to focus on is closing down the independent counsel, because he's not independent. he apparently is very close to comey. we know comey hates trump. you have to assume that has to leak over to more. and you have to assume that the people mueller is going to bring in are essentially justice department people who are 33-1 in favor of clinton over trump. this clearly cannot be an honest, independent investigation. >> he also did a tweet out to that effect, but in direct conflict with the tweet he sent out about three weeks ago where he said robert mueller is a superb choice to be counsel, his reputation is one of integrity, the media should calm down. does he not know we can see his tweets? >> i

that is from newt gingrich about bob mueller. for a little historical context, we try that every now and then in washington, here's newt gingrich a short time ago, may 17th. robert mueller is a superb choice to be a special counsel. media should calm down. so we had our staff, look, there is one person on the staff so far and we're going to look at them all who gave about $18,000 to democratic causes over the years. that's one person. this is washington. is that reason enough for newt gingrich to suddenly turn and say bob mueller, a guy who was fbi director under george w. bush extended his term so that he could stay on, bob mueller has become a partisan hack overnight? >> no. because bob mueller is the one in charge of this investigation. ultimately to decide how to proceed and there is some oversight over him by rod rosenstein even though there is a special counsel, so he can't really just do whatever he wants in this investigation. can't just do whatever they want. so the question is -- the jury's out about how bob mueller con

newt gingrich called mueller the tip of the deep state spear trying to undot president's agenda. >> i think this is a really important point and i'm glass marco rubio and some other republicans have underscored they have confidence in mueller and about his integrity and his career and that it's unimpeach pa able. the reason that's important we have gotten more than an inkling from donald trump supporters including newt gingrich and others, he, donald trump could be on the verge of wanting to fire mueller and we all know that would be a complete disaster, it would be a disaster for the white house, it would be a disaster for the investigation, it would be really bad for this country. i think that's an important point that republicans in congress who are supporters of this president are really saying to same under no uncertain terms you better not be thinking about bob mueller, firing the special counsel because that will be the worst thing that you can embark on in this really good situation that you're in. you're going to make it that much worse. i also think it's a signal to the admi

newt not going -- gingrich, been there, done that. host: newt gingrich is going to be our guest in a half-hour, so we hope you tune in. he's out with a new book, "understanding trump." he'll be with us at 7:45, 7:50 east coast time. air nick california, welcome to the conversation. caller: good morning, america. i have to somewhat laugh about this. we seem like we're stuck in time, suspended in time. this is what happens when you brave. when you have bad behavior, you get suspended in time. so welcome to suspension of time. i never thought that time would end like a "get smart" movie. remember the "get smart" comedy series with russian chaos? chaos has finally got into the white house, y'all. but it's all misinformation. soviet union was all fake information. it was based upon us building weapons of mass destruction, keeping us scared. and unfortunately, there's a generation that was feared, scared. they made these -- you can't get under, and fear nuclear bombs and stuff. it was all fake, to get us to buy weapons and sell weapons to t

you know, rebecca, the former speaker of the house, newt gingrich, he's been outspoken in his defense of the president throughout all of this period. i want you to listen to what he said this morning. >> the president of the united states cannot obstruct justice. the.of the united states is the chief executive officer of the united states. if he wants to fire the nbc director, all he's got to do is spitfire him. >> he was the speaker of the house when bill clinton was president of the united states, and he was accused of obstructing justice, and he was eventually impeached by the house of representatives and the speaker of the house was newt gingrich. >> right. well, now the shoe is on the other foot, and newt has taken a different view of things. i don't want to try to be a newt translator here. it might have been he was talking about criminal obstruction of justice versus impeachment which is a political process and it's very hard to charge the president with a crime. if muler were to find anything troubling about the president himself, it might be he takes that to the houpgs, to ts

coming up sunday morning, newt gingrich talks about his new book "understanding trump." and humane society president and ceo wayne discusses his book "the humane economy." also financial times columnist on his book "the retreat of western liberalism." be sure to watch c-span's "watch it to journal" -- "washington journal" live at 7:00 a.m. on sunday and join the discussion. timrrow on "newsmakers," walz will look at overhaul of the veterans affairs department and the accountability at which the house passed earlier this week. he serves as regular member on the veterans affairs committee. a reporterg him is from politico. 10:00 and 6:00at on c-span. barack is completely presented to his story and that is different from history. >> part one of our interview with biographer david garrow and talk to buy his book "rising star: barack obama." >> i think that barack's political aspirations and since of destiny lead him to push sheila jager aside. during that time, there was a well-known political figure in chicago. hugely respected man. senator did newhouse who everybody in bla

it is not kind -- newt gingrich's district, going back a long time. he was ahead in this poll that came out in the atlanta constitution. seven points over the republican nominee. if he were to win, i think that would really embolden the democrats and send the republicans into panic and send some interesting singles -- signals. simple -- is it that simple? guest: i don't think it is that simple. she spent a lot of time campaigning in wisconsin. host: she spent a lot of time in pennsylvania. guest: there was a way in which she did not connect naturally, certainly to the extent that her husband or president obama. host: this point is that rich people have no idea how was middle-class people live? guest: i'm not talking about rich people. coastal liberals are not all rich. some of them make pretty modest salaries. it's not about money, it's about cultural values and attitudes. host: kathleen, good morning from ohio, democrats line with michael tomasky of the daily beast. i really appreciate your writing and perspective. i was a sanders supporter. i could

also, newt gingrich, geraldo rivera, all here tonight with reaction. plus we are awaiting the return to the united states of an american student who was jailed in north korea for more than a year. he is indeed in need of serious medical treatment and is currently in a coma. we are following that story closely. but first, jeff sessions testimony today, a huge win for president trump and his administration as they continue to fight back against the unprecedented attacks against them. that is tonight's very important opening monologue. the attorney general jeff sessions came out of the box today swinging and ready to shoot down the massive lie that is been pushed endlessly by the democrats and of course the destroyed trumpet media about so-called trump russia collusion despite no evidence at this point. it is evident now that it is a complete and total lie and fabrication. so when attorney general jeff sessions was pushed about it by the democrats, he punched back hard in a major way. >> i was your colleague in this body for 20 years, and i participated,

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handel: and former speaker newt gingrich. "newt"]g chanting ms. handel: these statesmen have created very big shoes to fill. i will do my best to live up to the standards that they have set. to the jon ossoff supporters, know that my commitment extends to everyone of you as well. we may have different beliefs that we are a part of one community, the community of the sixth district. [cheering and applause] ms. handel: i will work just as hard to earn your confidence in the weeks and months ahead. i give every georgian this promise, my promise is to work every single day relentlessly to make our state and this country a better place. [cheering and applause] ms. handel: my pledge is to be a part of the solution, to focus on governing, to put my experience to work in helping to solve the very serious issues that we are facing in this country. i might be the only, if not one of the few, former chamber ceos to serve in the u.s. congress. [cheering and applause] ms. handel: i know i am one of the few who have come out of local office as a former county c

. >> we have seen it with newt gingrich as a prime example with his tweets. paraphrasing here, that mueller is beyond approach, highly respected, by partisan, and be thankful he's there. >> let's just put up those, just to give you a sense, the before tweet, we're going to put up first, republicans -- okay, no? this is today. robert mueller is a superb choice to be special counsel, hiss reputation is impekt kl for honesty and integrity, the immediate yes should now calm down. lo look who. >> i think what people like jason is doing is a service right now. keep in mind that donald trump has had a pattern of doing things like that. you had the firing of james comey, those were surprises to us. they just happened. you know, the tweet, the firing of james comey pretty much happened without any warning, in this case we could have what could serve as a trial balloon, he's going to hear from some of his friends and allies that it's a very bad idea and i think it would be really good for the country if he takes that message. >> maybe it's a direct attempt to intimidat

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newt gingrich, first seen praising robert mueller and now disparaging robert mueller. is now weighing in on what special counsel mueller is investigating, namely whether the president is guilty of on instruction of justice, not that he denies the crime, he denies that any president ever could. >> presidents of the united states cannot obstruct justice. the president is the chief executive of the united states, if he wants to fire the fbi director, all he has to do is fire him. >> newt gingrich accused president clinton of obstruction of justice. page, first to you, first the fbi director does serve the president and can be fired any time. but do you agree that the president cannot obstruct justice? >> newt gingrich is right that the president has the constitutional authority to fire the fbi director, the attorney general, the deputy attorney general, anyone in the executive branch. but if a president acts with corrupt intent, if he's doing it for a bad purpose, he's stepping outside of his role as president and he's doing it as donald trump private citizen, and i think

former speaker of the house, newt gingrich is on the sofa with us. what did you make of the remark remarks? >> newt: could have been a good of speech as paul ryan has ever made. he used exactly the right language and he is speaking to the country and speaking to the entire house. you saw that and nancy pelosi's initial reaction which was totally to embrace what he said. just as you pointed out earlier, the president rose to the occasion today. i think that here, you had ryan as the speaker of the whole house, not leader of the republicans speaking. >> sandra: before he began, we are talking on the sofa about the emotions that must be running through there today. he led by saying there are very strong emotions today. an attack on one of us is an attack on all of us. i want to give us news and hear -- we learned coming about bernie sanders and his campaign connection to the suspect. again, confirmed dead and the president. bernie sanders is saying in a statement, i've just been informed of the alleged shooter at the republic in baseball practice is som

. >>> newt gingrich was more blunt in his blame for the shooting. take a listen to this. >> you've had an increasing intensity of hostility on the left. the intensity on the left is very real. whether it is somebody holding up a so-called comedian holding up the president's head in blood or it's right here in new york city, a play that shows the president being assassinated, or it's democratic-leading national politicians who are so angry, they have to use vulgarity because they can't find any language. you've had a series of things which send signals that tell people it's okay to hate trump, it's okay to think of trump in violent terms, it's okay to consider assassinating trump. suddenly we're supposed to rise above it until the next time? >> let's turn to the other big story this morning in what's being billed as a turning point in the investigation into russia. "the washington post" reporting the special counsel interviewing senior intelligence officials as part of a widening probe that now includes an examination of whether the president himself

. >> now we should point out that some of the president's top aides, like newt gingrich, is talking and the president did not echo the remarks earlier today. there was talk that president perhaps attending tomorrow night's congressional baseball game that is still on the schedule but the white house says that is not happening at this point because of security concerns. they just don't want it tato tay chances, wolf. >> that game scheduled at national park in washington. let's talk about the whorrifyin scene this morning. thanks so much for joining us. before i ask you any questions, i would like to you give a bett better sense of what those terrified lawmakers, including yourself, experienced as dwun shots rang out over and over and over again. our viewers are afrnxious to he this as well. listen to this extended portion of the cell phone video taken by a witness. [ gunshot ] [ gunshot ] [ gunshot ] [ gunshot ] [ bleep ]. >> we know where he's at. we know where he's at? i assume people have been calling 911 already. >> just a portion of that video and that audio. we are here with republ

senator, did james comey taint the process as newt gingrich said as i played earlier? or did he do the right thing by sharing or leaking whomever you are and whichever way you see that, those memos? >> well, seems to me he thought about this very, very carefully, very clearly and the information he gave out was proper within the law, that he -- comey would not do anything improper within the law. i think also, he is concerned about frankly the president he was serving under and believed that certain things he comey should say for the good of the country. >> and talking about domestic issues here senator, want to change gears a little bit. so much happening with the comey testimony, 19 million people watching that hearing on thursday. but while that was happening, the house actually passed a bill rolling back dodd frank, which is a law aimed at preventing another financial crisis. this has no chance really of passing the senate but it did happen with really little attention. what's your reaction to that? >> i think dodd frank needs a little work. it's no perfect. i thin

the hypocrisy is drifting from the words of newt gingrich. the idea that the president of the united states can do no wrong is a fallacy that democracy does not allow. >> yeah. and here he is, this is him on nbc news talking about what laura said. listen. >> i was going to fire comey. my decision. it was not -- >> you had made the decision before -- >> i was going to fire comey. there's no good time to do it, by the way. >> because in your letter you said i accepted their recommendations. so you had already made the decision. >> oh, i was going to fire regardless of recommendation. he made a recommendation. he's highly respected. very good guy, very smart guy. the democrats like him. the republicans like him. he made a recommendation. but regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey knowing there was no good time to do it. >> okay. so if you listen to that and you look at today's tweet, he's contradicting himself, because originally it was said, well, he fired him in his letter because rod rosenstein and then he said, no, i was goi

also, newt gingrich, geraldo rivera, all here tonight with reaction. plus we are awaiting the return to the united states of an american student who was jailed in north korea for more than a year. he is indeed in need of serious medical treatment and is currently in a coma. we are following that story closely. but first, jeff sessions testimony today, a huge win for president trump and his administration as they continue to fight back against the unprecedented attacks against them. that is tonight's very important opening monologue. the attorney general jeff sessions came out of the box today swinging and ready to shoot down the massive lie that is been pushed endlessly by the democrats and of course the destroyed trumpet media about so-called trump russia collusion despite no evidence at this point. it is evident now that it is a complete and total lie and fabrication. so when attorney general jeff sessions was pushed about it by the democrats, he punched back hard in a major way. >> i was your colleague in this body for 20 years, and i participated,

it comes from newt gingrich, who tweeted, republicans are delusional it they think the special counsel is going to be fair. look who he's hiring. check fec reports, time to e rethink. the question is these people that bob mueller has appoint ed some call it an all-star team, but they have all made donations to the democratic party. is that a problem for the investigation? >> i think that he's realized it will certainly run some people the wrong wi. you have to dig into the numb s numbers. there's a couple members that have given money over the course of years. i don't think that's such a big deal. one of the people appointed has given a sizable amount of money over a period of decades. and in this time when everyone is is partisan and everyone focuses on everything, there's some people that will look at that and conclude they are going to have that for president trump. let's back up. newt gingrich, who did raise an interesting point e three weeks ago, said that bob mueller was unimpeachable and republicans should rest easy. and so what you have seen over the past few days is a move by

let me put up a tweet from newt gingrich, former house speaker. "republicans are delusional if they think the special counsel will be fair. look who he is hiring, check fec reports. time to rethink." this guy a few weeks ago john mccain said was a great choice for special counsel, jason chaffetz, impeccable credential, senator burr was complimentary. why go after mueller who served under bush and obama? >> different between trump partisans and republican leaders on the hill. i don't think you'll see anybody on the hill on the republican side. for a few fringe members go after robert mueller, because they know his integrity is unimpeachable. >> newt gingrich knows that, too. >> newt gingrich is an off the hill trump partisan who likes to be provocative and sending the sort of message that i think we'll see emerging from the trump right out in the ether, which is let's get mueller and undercut him, and i think that it's only a matter of time, given the pattern we've seen before, before trump himself begins to tweet sort of asking questions about mue

gingrich we did this. "republicans need to focus on closing down independent counsel, because it clearly isn't independent most quote. do support that, closing down the special counsel? >> ronna: are not going to get into what the special counsel should or shouldn't do or if it should go on, what i will say is the trump administration is complying 100%. they want this done. they want to move on. the democrats have a playbook, we know it, resist, obstruct, we see them do it at every level, resisting the president on things like helping the people in obamacare. the supreme court nominate the new was highly qualified in the old course search and now it's throat out on the administration. open as many investigations as possible, while the administration as much as possible because they are trying to run out the clock to 2018. that is their playbook, we know it. here's what we found from jim comey, the has never been under investigation, there has been no obstruction. >> chris: comey didn't say that, he said th