look at rod rosenstein. >> as soon as you rip the bandaid off, get on with the business of president being in office. he can't function. he recused himself out of the most important thing he has to do. there is systemic problem there. he has got to be able to do it. but he can't. brian: russia related. >> when gowdy and goodlatte sent to the attorney making the request, they addressed it to the attorney general and the deputy attorney general. that never happens. it is acknowledgement that rod rosenstein is really running the place and attorney general sessions is there in name only. steve: something happens in

rod rosenstein is already first in the succession. he has already made this public commitment that he will not fire robert mueller unless there is good cause to do so. well, if the president fires rod rosenstein, though, the line of succession would go from him to the assistant attorney general for the office of legal counsel and then to the head of the national security division at the justice department and then it would go to two specific u.s. attorneys, first, the u.s. attorney in the eastern district of north carolina who is bobby higdon and aaron cox, no relation to archer cox, although i should check. these nine senators wrote to the whole line of succession. at the saturday night massacre, you had to go through three. this is written to all five, rosenstein, francisco, engel, demerce, higdon, cox. and this is what he said: in this case it's written to all five below rosenstein, francisco, higdon, cox. we have significant concerns he could order the authority to interfere with the probe or shut it down. you fall in the line of

in this case it's written to all five below rosenstein, francisco, higdon, cox. we have significant concerns he could order the authority to interfere with the probe or shut it down. you fall in the line of succession at the department of justice if the deputy attorney general were resigned or removed. we request you provide a written and publicment m meddling. as such, we ask that you publ publicly commit to refuse any order or request expressed or implied to interfere in the investigation including but not limited to firing mr. mueller, cutting off funding or resources, limiting staffing or inhibiting his ability to follow the facts wherever they may lead. so again, that letter is being sent out tonight from democrats on the senate judiciary committee and they are saying they want a response right away. so far there is no word prom the -- from these five officials whether they will make that kind of promise. it is worth noting that the man above the doj in the oversight position now, rod rosenstein made that promise so it wouldn't be weird if other officials fo

so the likelihood is that if the president directed rosenstein to fire mueller, rosenstein would resign in protest and we would have another saturday night like massacre where archibald cox resigned, rather than carry out nixon's orders. constitutionally that creates a huge problem for the president. i don't see it's going to happen. with respect to mueller, i don't know that he's really needing to protect himself against being fired because if he's fired, ana., the investigation does not end, it gets carried on by a new appointed special counsel. that's what we saw in watergate, they fired archibald cox and new special counsel carried on through the conclusion. >> doesn't that depend on what congress does? doesn't congress have to appoint a special counsel? >> no the special counsel is appointed by the attorney general and that's still rod rosenstein because attorney general sessions is recused. it if they fire mueller, he appoints a new special counsel and the new special counsel has to consider whether or not the firing of mueller without cause fits into the mow sayic of obstructioni

, i guess, hopes rosenstein will do? >> that's a good question. you know, if the white house wants to communicate their wishes to rosenstein, they can. the deputy attorney general is one of the only officials in the justice department who, in my understanding, actually has the authorization to speak with the white how. usually there's a lot of very thick walls and procedures in place for communications between the white house and the justice department. and i know ari will correct me if i'm wrong about this. the deputy attorney general is one of the people who can communicate easily with the white house. if the president wanted to tell rod rosenstein that he would like to see mueller get fired, he he can do that. he wouldn't need to have his personal attorney make a statement like this. i'm disinclined to think that this statement is part of a sophisticated plan to covertly communicate to rosenstein in part because coupled with the quote that we just read, john dowd also sent me kind of a musing paraphrase of tennessee w

he was deferring to a team that answered to rod rosenstein for goodness sakes and it was rosenstein's very signatures that reauthorized these wiretaps based on false information that the department of justice and fbi knew was false information. i think we need a more engaged attorney general. >> judge jeanine: well, was the attorney general in the company of rod rosenstein at that point or rosenstein's chief of staff? as i understand usually is? >> it was the members of the rosenstein team that were present and when members of congress asked jeff sessions to be more autoer isive and take action on second special counsel, he deferred to staff members. i fear, judge, jeff sessions has become an employee at the department of justice and he is not fulfill his duties as attorney general. >> judge jeanine: thank you very much, congressman. >> thank you. >> judge jeanine: joining us now with action independent women's voice president and fox news contributor tammy bruce and fox news contributor lisa booth. all right very interesting lisa and i will start with you. that is my understanding of

the question is will rosenstein do it or not. >> he can do it at any time. the question is, can he do it politically, and will the blowback be worse than the benefit? i think that's what they're trying to game out here. i mean, listen, the whole theory of why they fired andrew mccabe over his failure to be totally honest, that didn't last 12 hours. the cover story didn't even survive the morning news cycle. they're being very open and blatant about their motivations here. and that is to create a political situation where the mueller investigation is untenable and where the firing of mueller can be defensible. they're not there yet, okay. it's clear that the political backlash of firing mueller would vastly overwhelm any political benefit that the president could have. it would set in stage a cascade of events that could lead to some really drastic things that could be very bad for the president and his team. but they're trying as hard as they can to shift the public's perception of what's going on here. and doing so, you know, fired a 20-year fbi veteran two

any information is the attorney general won't meet in an without rosenstein or rosenstein's staff and he defers to them for answers. >> perhaps he doesn't want the appearance of impropriety. i am curious what will come out. he had a solid industry of going after government agencies leading to shake up and going after the dea and the colombia prosecution candle and that can be the impetus for another special counsel there. >> in some ways i think we see scandal after scandal and it wouldn't be surprising when we look at whomever you look it's not only corruption and collusion but late -- blatant and sloppy and we must push. the inclination is it's too big or shocking but this is our chance of cleaning up the government. >> you are looking and reading the same things we're reading. ergo, he's not doing anything? >> his body was the senate. i'm a big fan of jeff sessions but maybe he thought would be more bureaucratic. and even with him trying to keep it tamped down like in the mccabe session, if you wake up in the morning there's a new scandal because it's finally all coming out. >> all

he was deferring to a team that answered to rod rosenstein for goodness sakes and it was rosenstein's very signatures that reauthorized these wiretaps based on false information that the department of justice and fbi knew was false information. i think we need a more engaged attorney general. >> judge jeanine: well, was the attorney general in the company of rod rosenstein at that point or rosenstein's chief of staff? as i understand usually is? >> it was the members of the rosenstein team that were present and when members of congress asked jeff sessions to be more autoer isive and take action on second special counsel, he deferred to staff members. i fear, judge, jeff sessions has become an employee at the department of justice and he is not fulfill his duties as attorney general. >> judge jeanine: thank you very much, congressman. >> thank you. >> judge jeanine: joining us now with action independent women's voice president and fox news contributor tammy bruce and fox news contributor lisa booth. all right very interesting lisa and i will start with you. that is my understanding of

rosenstein, he is brought to the core, because he is tied into all of those. he is doing the bending of deep state actors. rosenstein actually signed one orth more of the spies applications in case of the renewal. in other words, the bulk of them are made up of the dossier. what does rosenstein have to hide here? why is he protecting all of his friends? why does he have all of these conflicts of interest? how can heco be the guide that appoints mueller and involved in the investigation when he, himself, engage in potential wrongdoing? think about that. why does the attorney general, jeff sessions, he had to recuse himself. rod rosenstein, okay, he renewed the fisa application, he knew hillary bought and paid for a i, he k knew the judges were being lied to, but then he gets to a point, he's bff, robert mueller, to be the special counsel? all of this is why we need a second special counsel. these people cannot investigate themselves. as for those clinton email records, doj inspector general michael horowitz, remember, we are waiting on his report. he has gather

he's buddies with rod rosenstein. he cannot be invested to investigate scandals that his friends are involved in. comey is at the center as it relates to the clinton e-mail fix. rigging the investigation. comey said the clinton dossier was salacious. he said that in january 2017 to president-elect trump at trump tower. in october, 2016, he was using that same dossier, the one he said in january of 2017 is unverified and salacious to get the warrant to spy on trump associate carter page and hence the trump campaign. then rod rosenstein, like comey, he signed off on one or more of these fisa renewal applications. it's one massive huge deep state conflict of interest after another. they're protecting themselves. they're trying to preserve their own power. we cannot allow this to happen if we want law and order to reign in this country. we have to investigate the investigators. we have to literally drain the swamp and the sewer. that brings us to our special investigation. who is robert mueller? everybody says he's the gr

it's up to rosenstein. previously rose enstein -- rosenstein hasn't seemed warm to the idea. graham's participation in calling for a second special counsel could be viewed a little bit more highly than some other republican senators. it depends on what rosenstein's thoughts are on the matter and it doesn't seem he's warm to the idea. julie: some could argue a special counsel with prosecutorial powers could and should investigate the debunked antitrump dossier and steele and how the fbi used that information as credible in order to then turn it into a fisa court alleged abuse to obtain a warrant to survey and surveil the trump administration, or at that point the candidate trump and their team. the senators also point out this in the letter. i want to read this as the second part. the department of justice has a responsibility to determine whether mr. steele provided false information to the fbi and whether the fbi's representations to the court were in error. if steele lied to the fbi, and the fbi bought it, without seeking a second source, who then investigates the fbi's rel

his boss rod rosenstein offering support. rosenstein says the special counsel is not an unguided missile. he doesn't believe there is an issue for terminating the special counsel. rosenstein's endorsement of mueller follows reports that president trump tried to fire the special counsel last summer. >>> if there is a blue wave building ahead of the mid terms, we could get a strong indication in pennsylvania. republicans in the final hours of the frantic bid to keep the district from falling into democratic hands. if conor lamb beats rick saccone, republicans could be in danger in the fall. >> all they have is hate. that's all they got. the party of dependant. they have to get out and continue the fight. >> president trump carried pennsylvania's district by 20 points in 2016. polls open at 7:00 a.m. more from alex marquardt. >> reporter: good morning, christine and dave. in just a few hours time, the voters and candidates conor lamb and rick saccone will head to the polls. this tells you a lot of the power of the democratic bas

may if rod rosenstein leaves his position. the thing i was thinking when i saw it is boy that picture is going to make trump angry. he's going to know exactly the purpose of that picture after sessions put out that statement kind of pushing back and standing up to the president a little bit today. it wouldn't surprise me if we see a tweet about it tomorrow morning. >> thank you both for joining us. >>> if you're wondering why jared kushner has failed to get a security clearance how about this, jared kushner had white house meetings with executives and then got more than $100 million in loans from those executives. that's a breaking news report tonight in the "new york times." the reporter who broke that story which is no doubt of huge interest to the special prosecutor will join us next. you wouldn't accept an incomplete job from any one else. why accept it from your allergy pills? flonase relieves your worst symptoms including nasal congestion, which most pills don't. flonase helps block 6 key inflammatory substances. most pi

rosenstein with one of the folks who actually signed off. the trump campaign volunteer, we will get to the correspondent catherine herridge with the story. catherine. >> thank you, martha, the two page letter makes the second page where special counsel with alleged surveillance abuse and surveillance at the fbi and justice department. part of the congress may make the argument that there is a potential and actual conflict of interest. carter page was made in october october 16, days before the presidential election. allowing the government to collect his phone records, emails and text messages under the statute because the bar so high for the u.s. government to spy on the u.s. citizen inside the united states, the war and had to be renewed every 90 days. former fbi director james comey and andrew mccabe in the current deputy general rod rosenstein stein off on the renew orioles. the is whether rosenstein with his bosses recusal would support a second special counsel that would support his own actions and decisions part of the press secretary

the best job security that jeff sessions has right now is rod rosenstein. if jeff sessions were to be fired or quit, rod rosenstein would become the acting attorney general. you can bet, shep, that democrats would slow-walk any attempt by the president to nominate somebody to replace jeff sessions and install his own political leadership at the department of justice. if the democrats got rosenstein as attorney general, even acting, they would have a field day. >> shepard: slow walk like the beltway in morning rush. >> worse than that. >> shepard: hardly moving at all. john roberts, you're the man. more on the up's tariffs announcements and concerns over a trade war. let's go to gerri willis. we don't know what will happen. we know what the president said. sometimes very often history will show and the facts are that the president says something and then none of it ever happens. that's possible, too. >> let me tell you what is true this afternoon, the dow is down about 230 points. as i see it here on my thompson financial. there it is, 226. that's a real thi

rod rosenstein was a career federal prosecutor, not a political guy. he was a member of the federalist society, but not somebody who is ever seen as a political activist. he is the person in charge of the day to day activities of the entire justice department, along with the mueller probe. and on and on. the people who we see who are in the very highest levels of law enforcement, despite the president's best efforts, are not close, loyal allies of the president. chris wray over at the fbi, despite the fact that he worked with chris christie, is close, is sort of in the same broad social circles, in the same world as james comey, andy mccabe and bob mueller. if the president wanted a justice department that would sort of indicator to his whims, he is not getting it. >> i will note he did get his way on andrew mccabe. >> that's true. >> after berating him for over a year. betsy woodruff and harry litman, thank you for being here. >> sure thing. >> thanks, chris. >>> next, incredible new charges against the company that ran president trump's data operatio

they would seize the documents you have to have a warrant and seize them. >> sean: rob rosenstein -- forget about 1.2 million documents, congressman. he didn't want to hand over 3,000. it was subpoenaed. in the last hours, on bended knee begging paul ryan don't force us to do this. which is we would not have learned about a lot of it. he appointed the special counsel rosenstein and it appears that he signed off on one of the fisa renewals. isn't that a conflict of interest? >> it begs the question. the 4 page memo that nunes and gaudy put out the door and rob rosenstein begging with the speaker of the house not to release. it the whole world and the attack on the intelligence community and the fbi. we look at that memo now and think really? that's what you went to bat for? this is the same fbi that went after college basketball players. expose the truth. >> sean: thank you all. we have two exclusive interviews when we get back. devin nunes will react to the big announcement today. also we will interview the fbi informant in this massive uranium one scondal. he was inside putin's netw

gregg: rod rosenstein doesn't want him do and he takes orders from rod rosenstein, the real attorney general. >> they should be looking for justice and the truth. gregg: my speern experience is t very few of them are interested in fairness and justice. they're interested in putting another w in the won/loss column in prosecutions. >> i agree with you. but my biggest concerns when it comes to the justice department, the fbi, is the leaders that we sent there to drain the deep state are somehow becoming almost a part of it now. and i'm not just talking about jeff. i'm talking about our fbi director, i'm talking about all of these justice officials that this president put in there to get control. now it seems like they're going to dinner with one another, they're rubbing elbows with one another and it seems as if they all have each other's back instead of doing the business of the american people. and i think that's very problematic. gregg: andrew mccabe, turns out, according to the office of professional responsibility, he lied four times twice under oath. >> of course. gregg: but rebe

if rod rosenstein had his way, we wouldn't know about any of these scandals. people now need to be held accountable. this is why people like, oh, grassley and tillis and cornyn and graham are demanding as we have been demanding for a year a second special counsel to investigate the investigators. they can't investigate themselves. as for that very important context, we learned that strzok and judge contreras were friends and that judge contreras oversaw the flynn case which after he accepted the case was a mystery. why did he recuse himself? now, we still don't know the exact reason why, but this could have something to do with it. we also know that peter strzok was the fbi agent. he oversaw the january 2017 white house interview of lieutenant general flynn and here's what we really need more information on, strzok is the former fbi counter intelligence official who signed the paperwork to start the entire russia investigation. and as these new text messages revealed, judge contreras was on the fisa court. and sources have been telling us that judge contreras

this is rod rosenstein. he in my opinion, his relationships with comey and mccabe and others must now be brought out in the daylight. rosenstein comes out tonight, ah, the special counsel is not an unguided missile. i don't believe there is any justification at this point for terminating the special counsel. why? because now they can set perjury traps? now that there is no russia-trump collusion? let's move to the finances of oh, jared kushner. like where was that in the original mandate or investigation? investigative creep is the biggest problem with the special counsels. >> it was. and rosenstein wrote it in his appointment assignment to robert mueller. he also violated the special counsel law when he selected robert mueller. you have to, if you read the law carefully you have to have evidence of a crime. there was never any evidence of a crime. yet, he appointed a special counsel to investigate in search of a crime. that is backwards. >> sean: because of his buddy, james comey, who you think is the most

rod rosenstein would be the person to do it. he's come out and said there's no cause to fire bob mueller and whoever that person is would need a reason also. those are the missing pieces whether or not he would fire him and the things impeding it. >> what you're suggesting is the s if he wants to fire mueller, first he who is the fire rosenstein. >> all the regulations. it is incredibly hard to do that. but he has done things before. like fire comey. easier to fire comey than to fire mueller but again he is unpredictable. >> i'm with nia 100%. it is not something he just checks a box and it happens. rosenstein has been quite clear. he doesn't think that mueller should be fired. i just, i learned to stop saying donald trump will never do, fill in the blank. win the election, fill in the blank. it is not just that his views are different. it is that he revels in doing things that people think no one would be willing to do. i think that's a motivation for him to do things in a way that for every other politician. the idea that this

so i think you'll continue to hear carping, probably about sessions, maybe about rosenstein. but it would be a crazy step to fire jeff sessions given what it would do to essentially blow up official washington and derail the rest of the trump agenda for the rest of the year. >> just double checking that we're all on the same page there, scott. in terms of getting to mueller, you think he would go through sessions ultimately to get rid of mueller? >> i think he has to. i think the protocol here is that mueller has to be fired by rosenstein, who works for sessions. so there's a progression of people here in the department of justice that they would have to go through, and i just -- at this point, given how far down the road we are, given what we know about the investigation, the wises course of action here is for the president and his team to do what they have been doing, cooperate, turn over documents. submit to questioning and try to get it done as soon as possible. firing people, going down a road that makes it look like you're trying to end an investigation that clearly has

and they can't report to rosenstein. rosenstein's signature is on. so papers associated with russia's extortion bribery money laundering scheme that enabled the sale of uranium one. >> judge jeanine: that's right. and with respect to not just the clinton foundation, but the uranium one aspect is anyone looking at that, sara? >> yes, they are. >> judge jeanine: who? >> that is part of this investigation.y >> judge jeanine: huber or arkansas? >> huber is looking into this, as well as little rock. it's the fbi field office in little rock, arkansas, . we're still not clear as to why that initiated there. but i can tell you, this judge jeanine, there are five fbi field offices involved in this investigation. the only one we have heard of is the little rock, arkansas, office. but i can tell you there is four other fbi field offices involved in the clinton foundation investigation. >> you know what? i have confidence in the rank and file fbi agents, the field offices, the trouble is at fbi hoover headquarters in washington, d.c. >> judge jeanine: absolutely

john dowd, the president's attorney, says he hopes rod rosenstein chooses to end the investigation but stopped short of calling for mueller's firing. for more on breaking news and the stories we have, nbc justice correspondent pete williams and nbc white house correspondent kelly o'donnell. welcome to you both. pete, we're seeing a lot more reaction about the timing of the dismissal of andrew mccabe. i mean, 26 hours hours before the beginning of his retirement. tell us how this came about. >> it all started with an inspector general report looking into the whole way that the fbi conducted the clinton investigation, e-mails, the foundation, and what the inspector general said is that last -- or rather, in october of 2016, during the election, andrew mccabe authorized fbi insiders to talk to a reporter from "the wall street journal" to basically knock down the reporter's contention of what he had heard, that the fbi was slow rolling the investigation of the clinton foundation. to the contrary, this article said, people at the fbi were saying, no, they were pushing for it, and it was the

it goes after rod rosenstein again. because rod rosenstein is the gatekeeper to bob mueller. he's served in the justice department for years. he's a man that's viewed as a man of great integrity. who is the bigger presidential target, bob mueller or rod rosenstein? >> the president and -- really likes his deputy attorney general and bob mueller really doesn't like him. ty cobb said it was because of media speculation, but the only reason the media was speculating about it is because the president was directly attacking him. >> the statement by the president's lawyer -- it's going to be an interesting week. >>> up next, the whistle blower. the trump administration's campaign firm took information from facebook that it never should have. we are the tv doctors of america, and we may not know much about medicine, but we know a lot about drama. we also know that you can avoid drama by getting an annual check-up. so go, know, and take control of your health. it could save your life. cigna. together, all the way. it could save your life. if your adventure keeps turning into unexpect

i pray acting attorney general rosenstein will follow the brilliant and courageous example of the fbi office of professional responsibility and attorney general jeff sessions and bring an end to alleged russia collusion investigation manufactured by mccabe's boss james comey based upon a fraudulent and corrupt dossier. for one we know it wasn't based upon the dossier. it was based on information that started with george papadopoulos. we'll start there in terms of the facts that are wrong with the assessment that's been made by the president and his attorney here. dowd would later say this was him speaking, he wasn't speaking on behalf of the president. it is important because it does sort of demonstrate the thinking that he shares, as you indicate, with the president on this issue. >> and to be clear, when i was first communicating with dowd on saturday morning shortly after mccabe was fired by attorney general jeff sessions, he e-mailed me that statement. i e-mailed back and said is this on behalf of the president? dowd replied to me yes, speaking as his counsel. i wrote my story, af

gregg: i would not expect rosenstein to say anything else since he appointed mueller. he has a vested interest in mueller finding evidence of collusion which doesn't exist and is not a crime. this guy right here, rosenstein, mueller, comey, they are all thick as thieves in with each other for a very long time. they worked with each other, allies, mentor. of all the great lawyers there are in the nation, you would have thought rosenstein could have found someone other than bob mueller. and if he had an ounce of integrity he would investigate comey and investigate comey for obstruction of justice in the hillary clinton case and investigate comey for signing off not once but numerous times on to an unverified dossier which under the law must be verified. lou: a phoney dossier. not one, but two of them. we don't know where the department of state is in all of this. we haven't weighed in with the department of state and its relationships. with the former employer christopher steele, the man who was paid over $1 million to come up with a work of fiction. there is not a singl

he went to dinner with rod rosenstein in public. rod rosenstein oversees the special counsel. bob mueller can't do anything without the blessing of rod rosenstein, and rod rosenstein is doing things the president doesn't like. there was a cartoon back in the day called mr. magoo. you can find it on the internet if you want. behind the scenes, the president referred to the attorney general as mr. magoo. he has hired the best his entire life but is stuck with sessions, who is not defending him and is not sufficiently loyal. the attorney general is supposed to be loyal to the president, not the facts or constitution. >> and there's a reason why all the president's aides have tried to keep jeff sessions from quitting. reince priebus, former chief of staff, on the order said, i practically pulled jeff sessions back into the white house to prevent him from resigning, because everybody knows if he fired sessions, it would cause a catastrophic effect on his presidency. the hill has made it very clear they do not want to confirm anybody else for that position. it would be probably, i t

mcgahn was asked to not recuse himself, whether mcgahn was being asked to go to rosenstein, to have rosenstein fire the special counsel. all of these things speak to the state of mind of the president. mueller has to determine whether that's calls corrupt intent. that's what these questions are designed to elicit. >> because there's no question that in a vacuum the president has the power to fire or even attempt to fire in this case the attorney general or try to force him to resign. the issue here is was there a pattern, correct? >> that's right. you look at this behavior in the context of multiple other things that the president is accused of having done, asking for a loyalty test from comey, firing comey, asking priebus, his former chief of staff to push back against stories, asking coats and rogers, the national intelligence advisers to intervene with the fbi to put an end to this investigation. all these things create a pattern of behavior which has to be looked at in terms of whether this is obstructive behavior. i should say one thing. when we talk about obstruction of justice, just to

it is clear why rod rosenstein did this. it is part of a year long pattern of obstruction and stone walling and noncom mriance and congress' effort and constitutional duty to investigate and oversee the actions of the doj. it is call would check and balances. and think about this for a second. if rod rosen stein had his way we would not know about the scandals. people need to be held accountable. and people like grassly and pills and cornyn and graham are demanding as we have demanded a second special counsel to investigate the investigators. they can't investigate themselves. as for the important context. we learned that strok and contrarez was friends and the judge after he accepted the plea it was a mystery. why did he then recuse himself? we don't know the reason why, but it could have something to do with it. and peter strzok was an fbi agent and over saw the january 17th white house intruf general flynn. and strzok is the former fbi counter intelligence official that started the russian investigation and judge contrare

gregg: it was ignorance on the part of rosenstein to appoint a special counsel. collusion is not a crime. i have yet to see anybody point to a criminal statute in our codes that makes it a crime. then he compound his felony by giving a clause in the appointment that says oh and anything else you might find along the way. lou: the kitchen sink amendment. lou: democratic corruption conclusion in all of this, and the judiciary and oversight committees, neither is congressman meadows and congressman gaetz point out, two out of 20 witnesses from last october have been questioned. gregg: he did give a call for a second special counsel. but this is one of the few members of congress who saw the fisa application. he knows the deceit and the concealment perpetrated by the department of justice and fbi that demands a second special counsel. lou: he's playing hamlet here. it gets tiresome, particularly when the people's business requires his focus. gregg: what are you doing your time, trey. wage and smell the coffee and get on with your job. lou: the senate intelligence com

if i was james comey, andrew mccabe, sally yates tonight, rod rhodes rosenstein, strzok,, i'd be very worried based on the possibility that all of it is coming out right if we had an honest inspector general, i am thinking about some of them might be in legal jeopardy in a big way. >>>> let me tell you about the inspector general.l. here is what i believe. they have a job to do. this is part of the job that they should be doing. i believe that mr. horwitz, from everything i hear, he's an honorable man and he will do his job. remember, there is a lot of pressures that come with that because the inspector general ultimately, his boss is the department of justice. this is not a simple move for the inspector general to make, to go after the top people in the fbi. is why i think i am glad that mr. horowitz is going to continue to look into this. but i also have a lot of concerns about that there's no one is looking into this. how are you going tos have masr comey testify to the inspector general? is not goingte to sit for an interview and neither is mr. mccabe. >> sean: we need a special c

gregg: i would not expect rosenstein to say anything else since he appointed mueller. he has a vested interest in mueller finding evidence of collusion which doesn't exist and is not a crime. this guy right here, rosenstein, mueller, comey, they are all thick as thieves in with each other for a very long time. they worked with each other, allies, mentor. of all the great lawyers there are in the nation, you would have thought rosenstein could have found someone other than bob mueller. and if he had an ounce of integrity he would investigate comey and investigate comey for obstruction of justice in the hillary clinton case and investigate comey for signing off not once but numerous times on to an unverified dossier which under the law must be verified. lou: a phoney dossier. not one, but two of them. we don't know where the department of state is in all of this. we haven't weighed in with the department of state and its relationships. with the former employer christopher steele, the man who was paid over $1 million to come up with a work of fiction. there is not a singl

so basically mueller is calling the shot even though rosenstein outranks him, even though rosenstein is supposed to be in charge. basically mueller is running roughshod and the investigation is not focused. when you talk about things like united air rai arab emirates dus that have to do with the so-called collusion. i go back to the nunes memo. people didn't pick up on this piece as much. but the idea that peter strzok is the one that started the so-called collusion investigation, he opened the case a couple of weeks after they shut down the hillary case, this famously anti-trump agent who said we needed an insurance policy. he gets it based off of 1078 random tip that some pop dop louse is saying these things drunk at a bar that didn't amount to criminal offenses even if true. so this thing from the stort has been exposed to something that should have never gotten to this case -- this level. and i think that, you know, mueller -- all of the cases he's brought, you don't need a special counsel for any of those. assign those to the justice department, manafort, all of these others. bu

he wants rosenstein to fire him. and that's something that a lot of folks on the hill, especially republicans, have said the president should absolutely not do. he should not direct people to fire mueller. this investigation should continue to its conclusion. so fred, it will be interesting to see where this goes and how folks respond to it, but right now, it seems very much that people close to the president are trying to walk it back as quickly as possible. >> all right. abby phillip, thank you so much. we'll check back with you. >> this comes after attorney general jeff sessions fired former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe, just 26 hours before he planned to retire with full benefits. mccabe, that is, after serving more than 20 years at the fbi. and according to sources, mccabe was accused of misleading internal investigators about his role in directing other fbi officials to speak to the "wall street journal" about his involvement in a public corruption investigation into the clinton foundation. president trump

one of the concerns here, judge jeanine is the fact that rod rosenstein, is he reporting to rod rosenstein. if he is look at uranium one as well. remember rod rosenstein oversaw a lot of those cases when he was the u.s. attorney in maryland. and i don't know how that is in a conflict of interest. there are some issues here that are very concerning. i understand what gregg is saying and that was something that i questioned as well. how can huber, who is part of the doj be investigating bad guys in the doj? but i do believe things are moving forward in certain aspects. we saw that with the firing of andrew mccabe. i also believe we will see some criminal prosecutions down the road on this. >> gregg: statute of limitation are going to run on a lot of the them. you have to move expeditiously and they are not. >> judge: the one in arkansas is looking at the clinton foundation. >> gregg: yes. >> judge: i read this guy is looking at the clinton foundation, too. >> absolutely. and they can't report to rosenstein. roach stein's signature is on. so papers associated with russia's extortion bribery m

rosenstein in a rare interview told "usa today" quote the special counsel is not an unguided missile. i don't believe there is any justification at this point for

it was really striking he goes and has dinner with rosenstein or the solicitor general. that was underreported yesterday. there are so many things to report, who can keep track. trump's attack on sessions but sessions' response was tough and immediate. i will serve as long as i can with honor and integrity and defend the integrity of the justice department, which in effect is saying what trump was asking him to do which in this case was not to use the inspector general to look into something but somehow to launch his own investigation, would be contrary to the integrity of either his own integrity as attorney general or that of the justice department. pretty stiff rebuke to the president of the united states. >> the irony is, he is talking, jeff sessions, about using the inspector general at justice to investigate the fisa procedures that had been questioned by the republican minority on the house intelligence committee. he was actually doing the bidding of the white house but still being attacked. >> not doing it in a way that was putting enough of a thumb on the scale,

>> he hopes rosenstein will end the special counsel investigation in a statement provided to fox news john dowd said, quote, bring an end to alleged russia collusion investigation manufactured by mccabe's boss james comey based upon fraudulent and corrupt dossier just ended in merit in light of recent revelation. dowd is trump's personal attorney and speaking in own personal capacity and not on behalf to have president. democratic senator chuck schumer released statement, mr. dowd's comments are yet another indication that the first instinct of the president and his legal team is not to cooperate with special counsel mueller but to undermine him at every turn. the president, the administration and his legal team must not take any steps to curtail, interfere with or tend special counsel's investigation or there will be severe consequences from both democrats and republicans in a tweet, a late last night, president trump said that the firing of mccabe was a great day for democracy, obviously there are a lot of democrats as well as andrew somebody cake who disagree with that. democrats s

it's being run by other people -- >> sean: rod rosenstein. >> largely rod rosenstein. sessions is kept out of the dark come out of major decisions, he doesn't have a clue. i get that from people in the doj. >> i do, too. and so does sara. i wish we had more time. when we come back, reince priebus, also the great one, mark levan, will analyze all of the new information. stay with us. this news breaking addition of "hannity" continues. empowering. downright exhilarating. see for yourself why chevrolet is the most awarded and fastest growing brand, the last four years overall. switch into a new chevy now. current qualified competitive owners and lessees can get this 2018 chevy equinox for around $199 a month. chevrolet. find new roads. >> she is fiercely loyal. she said perhaps problematically before the house com >> she's fiercely loyal, perhaps problematically, before the house committee yesterday. she tells white ladies on behalf of the president. i assume that she will continue to defend him and do what she can to protect him wherever she may be. >> it is up to all of