to the fbi and department of justice and other agencies. he's publicly described the memo as space number one and two. it began with me might run and presentation of information. so this is phase number two. we hope it will come to an end and focus on what the russians did to interfere and let me know about the campaigns conduct of communication and what we can do to prevent this from happening in the future. so that is where we hope the investigation will get back on track and with that i am happy to answer any questions. the vote is unanimous in their think the republican members understood after calling for full transparency they were getting hammered over the course of the week for trying to hide the minority response. what do we do with the white house essentially either redact to protect itself or refused to release. i think it's great to be hard for the white house like it was hard for republicans on the committee to block the release of this and that's why we will insist that the department of justice and fbi report on what is neces

you can not lead the department of homeland security and the department of justice unable to actually deport people who enter ed the country illegally. maria: well i think you make a great point. there's a lot more to come on this so i want to get back to this subject because you mentioned lawlessness. there appears to have been a lot of lawlessness going on in the government over the last eight or 10 years and i want to ask you about the abuses of the fisa court because any way you look at it appears the fbi and department of justice are using their power over the election because they simply did not like donald trump. we know that in a number of issues, now people want you to start handing down justice. newt gingrich joined me on this program last sunday, here is what he had to say about that. listen to this mr. attorney general. >> he is not in any way recused on this information. he should be appointing an independent counsel. he should be demanding that we get to the bottom of this. i'm totally mystified because he's a great guy. he's a solid conservative. he certainly in his car

department in san francisco, and the state of california through the department of justice, to make -- live those reforms that were proposed by the city more than 270 of them, and make sure they get implemented. that is how you gain the confidence of the people of your city and county. i think it's important to note that simply because the federal government decides to abandon ship, did not mean we were going to let the ball drop. there is fumbles that can cost you a whole lot and we saw a fascinating game yesterday at the super bowl, but i will tell you this, at the end of the day, the people in the city and county of san francisco are going to be the big winners, because we picked up the ball and we're going to run with it and do this for the people of california and san francisco. [applause] my team at the department of justice stands ready to be with you as a partner. i can't tell you how important it is to have independent eyes overseeing these reforms. accountability, transparency, confidence and trust all come from giving people a sense there will be independent review of the

attorney's manual, which is for the department of justice. they won't be internal operating guidelines, but the goal is to signal to all of our employees the policies want them to follow. what were referred to as the yates memo which replaced the thompson memo they were not real rosenstein at all at least. because what i intend to do is to codify these rules in the u.s. attorney's manual. what it is is an individual accountability policy. it's an evolving master by a number of deputies attorney general to articulate and not just corporations. it's not sufficient. it may be necessary, but not sufficient to simply require corporations to write a check. we have to be focused on identifying individuals because that's the most effect way to establish a deterrent in the long run. that is the goal of this individual accountability policy. we are reviewing it. i anticipate when we codify foliar u.s. attorneys manual it will follow the same general guidelines in the existing policy. there may be some modest changes and that is not to say anybody but i

and department of justice. very ill serves the public and we hope they will stop, but nonetheless, the chairman has announced his intention to continue with other so-calledthis investigation into the fbi and department of justice and maybe other agencies. he has publicly described this memo as phase one, in fact it is phase two. phase one began with the midnight run and presentation to the white house of information he had gotten from the white house. we hope these phases of distraction will come to an end and once again, the committee will focus on what the russians did to interfere with our elections, what we know about the trump campaign's contacts and communication or collusion with the russians and what we can do to prevent this from happening in the future. so that is where we hope our investigation will get back on track. with that, i am happy to answer any questions. -- if the president does block this -- schiff:tative chef: -- i think the republicans realize that after calling for full transparency, th

this past november, the department of justice and the department of homeland security announced the results of operation raging bull. operation raging bull was our enhanced efforts to target ms-13. it culminated in the arrest of 267 arrests both in the united states and in el salvador -- >> shepard: two big things we don't want you to miss. a live look at the dow jones. seconds ago we were up 600 points. the dow in a turn-around tuesday. certainly most likely will not recover everything from yesterday with 20 minutes left to go in the day. but you know, positive is positive. and yay positive. another thing we've been promising all day and we're going there for us. this is a live look at cape canaveral in florida. spacex is about to launch a new rocket and it's a very big deal. this is a falcon heavy rocket. it is right now the most powerful rocket on the planet times two. this is set to be the biggest and brightest and most impressive rocket launch since the space shuttles retired and spacex reports it to be the future of human space travel. this rocket has 28 merlin engines, five million p

designated to other divisions of the department of justice. as sarah mentioned, my duties include oversight of the nearly 700 prosecutors in the criminal division and that includes the organized crime and gang section, the capital k section and the international criminal investigative training assistance program, and the office of overseas prosecutorial development assistance and training. i had the opportunity to just now brief president trump about one of the most significant threats to the public safety of our communities, ms-13, and i appreciate the opportunity to also speak with you today about that threat. ms-13 or mara salvatrucha has grown to 30,000 members worldwide. 10,000 of whom live right here in the united states spanning 40 states and the district of columbia. this murderous gang has infiltrated our country. it is estimated that there are 2,000 members in los angeles between 800 and 1200 members in dallas and houston, 2,000 members on long island, between 800 and 1200 members in boston, and approximately 3,000 members living rig

from the hill on the committee say of course the department of justice, of course the fbi wants this memo released if they did something improper. what i don't understand is if this is a real investigation of the fbi, and the department of justice wouldn't one of the first steps be to bring the fbi, big christopher wray or whatever fbi department official in front of the committee and grill them? >> yes, in a closed environment. and i have been on the receiving end of that when one or more members or committees thought the intelligence committee was up to no good and that would traditionally be the way it was done or another way would be to refer their concern, in this case, the department of justice inspector general who is there as an independent voice. who has qualified competent and objective staff to look into this. obviously this has got all kinds of political overtones and where it seems to me chairman nunes is more concerned with trying to protect the president. >> how unusual the situation is it. we have seen nunes in a position that looks similar to this where he made the m

work that's ongoing within the department of justice. this notion that the department could not investigate the florida shootings and conduct this investigation into russian meddling is ridiculous. maria: yeah. >> the special counsel was the point of the focus solely on that and the rest of the fbi is focusing on the other issues the other challenges to the american public today. maria: but does it hamper him to actually, you know, look at overseeing the fbi given that he comes from the fbi, given his relationship with james comey. >> it is something to be concerned about and i'm hopeful that bob will realize that there is proceed bias with respect to his relationship with james comey, there is perceived bias with respect to his previous experience at the fbi and that at the end of the day he will do the right thing and follow the evidence and reach the conclusion that is perfectly appropriate based upon that evidence. maria: it's incredible how many leaks there have been sir. i want you to hear jeff sessions one more time from my interv

of justice and local police department was not a priority. under attorney general sessions, the department of justice will no longer issue audit reports or suggest reforms for local police departments. as they see it, the elimination of these reform efforts fulfills their commitment to respect local control and accountability. but not here in san francisco. we won't accept that. we are not going to let this go. we're not go to stop our collaborative efforts to improve relationships between our police department and communities of color. that is why i'm so grateful that our attorney general is working in partnership with our city. we're going to continue to do everything we can to implement those 272 recommendations. these reforms, in an effective manner, and i'm committed along with, i know, supervisor cohen to doing all we can to do that. i am more hopeful now than ever. our values in san francisco are just as important. our fight never more clear and our role to implement these reforms never more needed. i look forward to working with attor

but there's a lot that goes on in the department of justice. the deputy attorney general's job is to help manage those 115,000 employees in the department. there are a couple of large components, bureau of prisons is about 35,000. f.b.i. includes about 35,000. but we have a lot of different operations and as the governor mentioned, the unifying theme of the department of justice is about rule of law, ensuring equal protection, ensuring the rule of law is enforced fairly and equitably around the country. we are best known for criminal enforcement, that's just one part of what we do. attorney general sessions has made it a priority to make sure we are faithful to the rule of law and i think that impacts in many ways your activities as very relevant to some of the issues we're going to discuss today. >> you have worked with the epartment far long time. in your current role, less so. is there anything about your new role that surprised you, that you underestimated or overestimated? mr. rosenstein: probably the publicity, which i underestimated, the

the department of justice. we are looking at other issues related to firearms and stocks are an extremely high priority to us. question related to cyber security. in terms of the pursuit of the perpetrators of cyber crimes, the department has traditionally gone after perpetrators with a whack a mole type strategy. i did not know if there even a thought about applying rico to some of the folks that register domains -- one of the things we have been saying is that you have certain domains that are where all the bad guys kind of reside. so i did not know if you had been thinking of applying rico in that regard. in general, yes. we apply rico when we have a lawful basis. if you have a particular case in mind, i invite you to reach out to the fbi or the u.s. attorney's office and share that with us. we use whatever tools are available, and yes, the rico statute essentially allows us to sweep up a large pattern of activity by an organization in one case. and we use it pretty extensively -- used it in -- used a pretty

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his word, leadership of both the fbi and the department of justice. is all of this, what happened today by the republican party and your committee, presumably working together the white house, an act of obstruction of justice led by the president? >> well, you know, wolf, it could be. i say could be because we don't know what interaction the republican staff on the committee he had with the white house. if this was something that was done in orchestration with the white house, that was. this was orchestrated by the white house, that could go to obstruction of justice. a lot of people are insisting there is no big revelation. why are the democrats making such a big deal about fighting the release of this memo is the why did you fight it so hard? >> i understand the repacks this is a big dud. they billed it as the greatest evidence of abuse since watergate or the history of the republic. that it heightens systemic abuse. it is because the precedent of releasing information, cherry picking evidence, it is a terrible line to cross. those that cherish the

the president dmiensd the leadership of the fbi and justice department. president trump: i think it' a disgrace. a lot of people should be ashamed of themselves and much worse than that. david: congressman jim jordan and matt gaetz joins. also gregg jearr jarett -- gregg jarrett and tom fit o fitton of judicious you watch. joining me, congressman devin nunes explaining why it was so important to release the memo. >> i have an obligation to the american people when we see fisa abuse. these are secret courts that exist to target foreigner for catching terrorists and people who might be bad actors. and the americans citizens represented before this court have to be protected. the only place that can protect them is the u.s. congress when the abuses do occur. it's not a place we wanted to go, by the where we had to go. bret: did you read the actual fisa applications? >> no, i didn't. david: house oversight chair trey gowdy who helped write the memo did. catherine: the memo makes the case the court was kept in the dark by the fbi and the justice department whe

one, it shows the president's miscomprehension of the role of the department of justice. it is not his team. rod rosenstein serves the american people. the justice department is not donald trump's department. it is the american people's. second, it corroborates what jim comey has testified about, the loyalty oath that the president demanded of him. >> but it does not corroborate what rod rosenstein testified to. correct me if i'm wrong, didn't rod rosenstein testify he had not been asked for a loyalty pledge. >> that's an excellent question. he did testify before congress that there was no loyalty pledge demanded of him. he may have interpreted somewhat differently when the president said are you on my team. he may not have interpreted it as a pledge of loyalty. he is going to have to explain the differences. >> there are six people. we have a graphic to show everyone, that have been asked for some sort of, call it what you want, an are you on my team question or a loyalty pledge of some kind. we have it there. rod rosenstein included. but you know the question. is this j

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the information is right on the front page of the department of justice and we have staff were truly dedicated to this issue and assisting victims and we want very much to hear public feedback. that being said, our grand cypress prescriptive and we are limited in terms of who we can get to because it's laid out in the statute. however, we do have discretionary grants, discretionary grants and were looking at ways to use that discretion in order to fill gaps and better serve the needs for the other thing we solicit in a formal way feedback from all of our stakeholders and that report is on our website. it is given to congress and it's on our website for anyone to see. feedback is vital to making sure needs are met, and i agree with rob in terms of, we need to learn locally, i think what gets overwhelming is how we disseminate the information, how we are able to take a project that's working very well here, tweak it and then it works over here and that's why conferences and forms like this are absolutely vital. we have got to keep talking and communicating. i think that is how we have

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thanks to partners such as the department of justice. we are able to bring these folks to than three weeks ago, a man was sentenced to 21 years in prison. for more than a decade, through physical violence, isolation, manipulation, sexual assault and threats to victims' families, the man who does not deserve a name forced multiple young women and girls to engage in commercial sex acts and perform at exotic dance clubs. his brutality is almost unspeakable. on one occasion when one of the women he treated like property upset him, he made her choose between two punishments, she could either drown or jump out the window. she chose to jump out the window. after she survived the fall, he kicked her head so hard, her teeth fell out. but thanks to the u.s. immigration and customs enforcement's homeland security investigations unit, the fbi, the department of justice, you're getting my point here on partnership, the milwaukee police department, the u.s. attorneys office for the eastern district of wisconsin, and doj civil rights division human tra

organization by the department of justice. i have numerous pages of talking give them i want to perspective from the field. when you have agent identifying based on intelligence and conducting targeted enforcement will have it -- be able to determine the ms 13 members and once they are presented to the immigration judge, or detention purposes, we explain that these individuals are threats to society and they are ms 13 members but we cannot provide all the information that we have. in many instances, the information we have is part of a ongoing criminal investigation. the individuals are being released. then we have to utilize the resources and focus on these individuals that have been released. from our perspective from the field, there are many things that could be accomplished within immigration law. i can type from my perspective both what i am seeing, we have it is going out, arresting and then we have individuals that were arrested and releasing them. efforts in 2005, isis arrested over 700 ms 13 members. in this last qua

of justice, you're getting my point here on partnership, the milwaukee police department, the u.s. attorneys office for the eastern district of wisconsin, and doj civil rights division human trafficking prosecution unit, today that monster of a man is behind bars and there i hope he stays. unfortunately stories like this are just far too common. and they don't always end in justice. that's why cooperative actions like today's summit are so important because we must work together to end this scourge on our communities. at the department of homeland security, the blue campaign, i'm wearing blue in honor of our blue campaign, i hope that you all will do that next year in january, which is the month that we at dhs remind everyone of this challenge that we face, the blue campaign is our unified effort to raise public consciousness about human trafficking and bring the traffickers to justice. in addition to new public service announcements this year, the blue campaign will continue to develop industry tool kits and training products. these products will help you all, private industry, la

of the department of justice. as sarah mentioned my duties include oversight of 700 prosecutors, the international criminal investigative training assistance program and the office of overseas prosecutorial development and training. i had the opportunity to brief president trump about one of the most significant threats to the public safety of our communities. ms-13. and i appreciate the opportunity to also speak with you today about that threat. ms-13 has grown to 30,000 members worldwide. 10,000 of whom. live right here in the united states. this violent, murderous gang has infiltrated our country. it is estimated that there are 2,000 members in los angeles between 800 and 1,200 members in dallas and houston. 2,000 members on long island, between 800 and 1,200 members in boston and approximately 3,000 members living right here in washington, d.c. probably the most violent and ruthless gang terrorizing our streets today. their motto is mata viola catrola which means kill, rape, control. it is this motto, indiscri

thanks to the investigations unit of the homeland security department, the wisconsin department of justice and the fbi, the milwaukee police department and the u.s. attorney's office along with other agencies, today that monster of a man is behind bars, and there i hope he stays. unfortunately, stories like this are far too common and they do endalways and in justice -- in justice. that is what cooperative actions like today's summit are so important because we must work together to end this scourge on our communities. at the department of homeland security, i am wearing blue in honor of our "blue campaign." -- january is the month that we at dhs remind everyone of this challenge -- it is our unified effort to raise public consciousness about human trafficking and bring traffickers to justice. in addition to new public service announcements this year, the blue campaign continues to develop training kits and products to help you all, private industry, law enforcement stakeholders and nonprofits to identify the signs of trafficking. from truckstop cashiers and hotel clerks to police officers

combating this was one of the top priorities at the department of justice. as you'll hear throughout the are tackling it with our law enforcement tools, our financial resources and our partnerships with state and local law enforcement, industry, and service providers. and last year alone, the doj victims of nearly 500 defendants in sex trafficking. in a single operation last fall we freed it is for children. we are also dedicating the oj grant funding to this effort, over $47 million in 2017. some of these funds allow service providers to help trafficking victims on the long road to recovery. funding this is not just the right to do for the victim, it also supports our prosecutors, stable victim is more likely to testify against a trafficker. the doj also provides funding and training for local law enforcement on how to identify human trafficking. course, it is not enough for law enforcement to be aware of the problem. we need the eyes and ears of all government agencies and also of the public. we need the help of the media on on humanhe light trafficking. f

well, we at the department of justice embraced that goal. we don't shrink from it, and you and i know from experience, it can be done, particularly if we are working together at a high level. some people do not think it is possible. like therime rates are tide. they just go up and down and nothing we do makes any , but strong law enforcement and smart prosecution can bring crime down. we are going to prove it can be done. it is our goal to reduce homicides in america. to bring them down. we want to reduce opioid prescriptions. there's too much opioid prescriptions being put out in the streets today. i'm amazed. we have cases against doctors. a drug take down long ago and we had 50 doctors indicted. the dea isn the data putting together in this package that shows the buyers and positions and how much is being prescribed by certain physicians. it is shocking. this is got to be stopped. people have failed to know, but you know how tough these addictions are. people cannot walk away and have a two-week treatment and never be bothered high drug a

the fact the san francisco police department, california department of justice and the mayor's office entered a memorandum of understanding. i want to be clear. i want each of you to understand there is only one body charged with oversight of the san francisco police department, and that is the san francisco police commission. that is the seven member body that sits here today. that in september, i believe it is, when the u.s. d.o.j. announced it would step out of the collaborative reform process that the department and commission voluntarily entered into for the purpose of analyzing best practices, training, tactic systems and offering recommendations to enhance the relationship between the department and the community, we began a cooperative partnership relationship when they stepped out of that arrangement it was decided that we needed another independent third body to look at the reform measures we were passing, the actions we were taking to make sure they were within best practices. it was decided that, of course, we cannot say we are creating these measures and they are the best

to be observed in terms of not pressuring the department of justice officials. there is no way by december of 2017, that one could make that argument about the president. >> kent, how do you see this when it comes to the president asking for loyalty. that certainly seems to be an reoccurring theme, it is several people, is that a problem? >> well, certainly when we look at the justice department as being different from all the other cabinets because of their independent law enforcement decision they -- decisions they have to make there. you know early in the report that you just cited of the under statement of the report was this president crosses lines that previous presidents stayed on the other side of. i think donald trump does not all over the place. jeffery thinks that this one is evidence of criminal activity but, look, he crosses lines all over the place propriety and language and putting things on twitter that used to be in-house discussions. how do you digest all this is a little different. an example of that is no one would believe that bill clinton n

he has turned this task to the fbi, the leadership of the fbi and the department of justice will sit down with the democrats on this committee and work it out. so this is not a trump edited document. this will be law enforcement looking at this and coming to a solution, which is a key difference. look, if they send out a document and everything is redacted and there's only a couple of words left, that would be a mistake because i think it strengthens their argument to let all the information fly and let the people decide. it shows confidence in what you're doing, so i agree with you on that. but the task of editing goes to law enforcement, not people in the oval. >> we don't know that. >> you either trust law enforcement or you don't. >> thank you. >> and the fact that you released the nunes memo over the objection of law enforcement really, i think, damages your argument when you say, i'm not going to release the democratic memo based on the objection of law enforcement. all i think that, you know, we're saying here is there should be one standard for democrats and republicans. is t

of justice and the department of state. those organizations of the u.s. government are responsible for administering federal requirements for disclosure of foreign involvement in certain domestic activities. count two charges conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud by internet research agency in the end it individual defendants. counts three through eight charge aggravated identity theft by internet research agency and four individuals. there is no allegation in this indictment that any american was a knowing participant in this illegal activity. there is no allegation in the indictment that the charge conduct altered the outcome of the 2016 election. i want a continuity caution yot everyone charged with a crime is assumed innocent until proven guilty in court. at trial prosecutors must produce credible evidence to prove each defendant guilty beyond any reasonable doubt to a unanimous jury. the special counsel's investigation is ongoing. there will be no comments from the special counsel at this tim time. this indict

he continued to pass information to the department of justice under obama through bruce ohr who was demoted, even after he was cut off from the fbi. here with reaction, the president's son and executive vice president at the trump organization, donald trump, jr. this thoughts on the memo. >> pretty incredible. i want people think what if bush had done this to obama? what would be reaction be? i have never seen the made more interested in not having more information in my life because they are all complicit in this. i said it on "hannity" the other night. what's been great about the last year of nonsense i had to go through is the tomorrow collusion that has been uncovered is at the high top of the fbi. we have to make a distinction between the people at the top and the guys on the streets who have to kick in the doors. boots and suits. jesse: they are alleging in the memo that this guy paid for by hillary. a foreign agent created fake dirt about your far it and shopped it to cnn, "the washington post" and the washington times. then took those reports and gave it to the judge to help bolster