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the fbi is a better place without james comey. he disgraced himself. and he undermined the agency that he was supposed to be in charge of. he made it a political operation and nothing could be more dangerous than that. >> in the totality of the 448-page report, there are a number of instances, one of which the president talks to the white house counsel and asks him

firing james comey remains one of the best decisions that the president made. the only problem is, he could have done it sooner and maybe it would have been a better thing. but absolutely the right decision and every day since that he's proven he was right all along. >> sean: he could be fired for any reason or no reason at all.

it goes on to say, james comey usurped attorney general lynch's power. never should have done a press concerns. y mll otrump fired led the end comey, substantial ed indicates that the catalyst for the president's decision to fire comey was comey's unwillingness to publicly state that the president was not personally under investigation, despite the president's repeated requests that comey make such an announcement. i want to end with a comment by senator mitt romney. who also weighed on this. he released a strong statement friday about the report. here's what he said, i'm sickened at the extent and pervasiveness of dishonesty and misdirection by individuals in the highest office of the land. including the president. i'm also appalled among other things fellow citizens working in a campaign for a president welcomed help from russia. senator romney said it was good news that president trump wasn't charged with a crime. but does he have a point that this shouldn't be a standard for the highest office in the land? >> the campaign i managed did not welcome he

james comey stealing government documents. you have a whole group of people who lied to judges, concealing evidence and deceiving them. that is a wide variety of crimes and of people in the fbi and department of justice were using their positions of power for political reasons to abuse the legal process, those are crimes. >> sean: did they hate the the greg the hillary investigation? >> they absolutely did and so did comey >> sean: with 53 more closed-door testimonies that we can get. did they also try to rig the 2016 election? with the dossier? >> yes. they were spreading this dossier all over washington to congress, the gang of eight and too many members of the media in order to rig the election. >> sean: did they try to commit a coup and unseat a duly elected president? >> when that failed they try to coup again thanks to rod rosenstein. considering recording the president and gathering evidence. >> sean: job i can't wait for you to report. that is a of a tease. i want you to know. i heard every bit of that. i didn't miss a

lou: first, james comey. my gosh, your thoughts. >> well lou look for president is being vindicated every day on this issue. this issue was about a false investigation, a hoax and james comey was a part of it in the president did himself and more importantly the country the greatest favor in the world by firing james comey. he has been vindicated every day on this issue. lou: you are a man of god so i know i've got to test you. james comey was in charge of the fbi. john brennan in charge of the cia. james clapper the national director of intelligence under president obama. how could you come up with three nasty pieces of business and incompetents like those three? no matter who you are let alone in the united states. >> look i do believe in god. i believe god is in control of all things and i think he allows this to happen for a reason that we can't always see but lou i also believe that god plays donald trump in the oval office for country at this time and i trust god's plan even though i don't always unders

james comey, you signed off on this application in october of 2016. like you said, that it's to the best of your knowledge true and accurate or there's consequences. but then that was october of 2016 you signed that. in january 2017, james comey, you told then president-elect trump that its contents were salacious and unverified. you told him that at trump tower. so james comey, did you lie on the fisa application or president-elect trump? either way, that makes you a liar. i would bet you probably lied on the application to spy on an american citizen because you knew full well that even the author of the dossier, christopher steele, because bruce ohr warned you he didn't know if the dossier was true. steele testified in an interrogatory, he didn't know if it was true. he had no idea if any of it is true. that would make that dossier unverifiable according to its own author. i told comey and many times before, you have the right to remain silent and you should have taken that advice and might you want to start. james clapper and john brennan look dist

but overall, i mean, what was your impression of james comey in this interview? >> i think he was being really care from here? i think that he kept talking about giving people the benefit of the down the, giving mueller the benefit of the doubt, giving barth benefit of the doubt. i think like everybody else he wants to take a look at exactly what mueller wrote because he knows mueller very well and he knows how thorough he is, and he knows that if mueller could have come to a conclusion he probably would have dom a cloougs and so the big question is why? why didn't he? maybe there was disagreement among the lawyers. we just don't know, but i think in listening to comey today it was clear to me that he wants to know what mueller knew and doesn't want to come to any judgment about it just yet. >> wants to know what's in the report as we all do. where are we, carrie? >> there's a difference between facts that would establish an indication that somebody was obstructing versus facts that would form the basis of a prosecutor being able to prosecute a case because under

in an exclusive interview with cnn, former fbi director james comey said attorney general bill barr deserves the benefit of the doubt for his handling of the mueller report, but questions barr's reasoning on whether president trump obstructed justice. >>> mar-a-lago breach. federal prosecutors charge a woman with illegally entering president trump's mar-a-lago resort in florida while the president was staying there this weekend. the complaint says four cell phones, a laptop, a hard drive and thumb drive with malicious malware were all in her possession, along with chinese passports. >>> and grave terrorist attack. after a month of silence, north korea is calling the mysterious raid on its madrid embassy a grave terrorist attack. we have new details on the raid and the shadowy group that apparently carried it out. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> breaking news. it's open warfare between president trump and house democrats. the oversight committee has voted to authorize a subpoena for the former white house official in charge of approving security clearances following a wh

he tried to fire james comey, when he asked jeff sessions to un-recuse himself. i wanted to point out this graphic, a portion of a mueller report page 370 where people refused to carry out the president's orders. it says quote, the president's efforts to influence the investigation were mostly unsuccessful but that is largely because the persons who surrounded the president declined to carry out orders or recede to his requests. you have a person who is trying to commit an illegal act but people around him are preventing him from doing that. is that grounds for prosecution? perhaps not by the special counsel but congress? >> not just a person, the president of the united states. >> right. >> this is really at best, you know, a d minus report card just skating by f because he got a couple answers from others, but he's playing it as an a plus. in fact, there are many instances than what the special counsel describes, you can certainly see, as attempted obstruction, and even as obstruction in which you just read, boris, you have the special counsel saying we knew en

he asks james comey the fbi director to seeing the way to let the flynn thing go. he did not do that and pursued the flynn investigation and he became an important cooperator. he said to get rid of robert mueller and mcgahn refused to do and refused to go to the press and say this never happened, you never asked me to get rid of the special counsel because he knew that was a lie. >> sarah, thank you very much. >>> and nelson cunningham, a former us assistant attorney under president clinton and kim whale a former federal prosecutor, appreciate you being with us. nelson, what do you make of the role that don mcgahn played that we now know he played in this white house? >> he seems to have turned out to be donald trump's secret weapon in protecting his presidency. because the president kept on asking him to do improper things, including firing robert mueller, things that clearly would have shaken trump's presidency after the firing of james comey. we all remember the saturday night massacre under richard nixon. don mcgahn refused to do that. he refused to do that and

over and over again, countless people think james comey should be fire. and as far from the truth that she said in the investigation that speaks to the problem the white house has. a lot of people don't trust the president. reporting like this, it shows, why should you trust the president when the press secretary is lying to the american people? >> i need a break but i do think the media come off the collision question which dominated, not that the allegations should have been reported but now i think it's all about obstruction, protection of alleged obstruction. many blasting bill barr for hosting and news conference on this. -- so with xfinity mobile i can customize each line for each family member? yup. and since it comes with your internet, you can switch wireless carriers, and save hundreds of dollars a year. are you pullin' my leg? nope. you sure you're not pullin' my leg? i think it's your dog. oh it's him. good call. get the data options you need and still save hundreds of dollars... do you guys sell other dogs? now that's simple, easy, awesome. c

and james comey his firing, the fbi can be fired for any reason or no reason at all. they serve at the pleasure of the president. the media mob on thursday begins obsessing over phantom of obstruction of justice charges in the coming days, ask yourself. now, if they really care about obstruction of justice, have any of these people ever shown any outrage over the clinton server scandal in real obstruction with real evidence? remember, having top secret classified emails, there was a crime. she had it on an outside server. mom and pop bathroom closet server. that is a violation of espionage act, 793. so she had an underlying crime and then she had intentions. why did she delete 33,000 subpoenaed emails and hard drive with removing some cards and post up devices with hammers? the intent is obvious she wanted destroy subpoena evidence to violate a crime, committed a crime come espionage act. to remove all the action, that shows intent. nobody in the media who is going to try to find some intent when trump never did it and ever fired anybody, why don't they care about rea

james comey stealing government documents and leaking them. you have a whole group of people who lied to judges, concealing evidence, deceiving them. that is a wide variety of crimes and if people in the fbi and department of justice were using their positions of power for political reasons to abuse the legal process, those are crimes. >> sean: did they rig the hillary investigation?se >> oh, absolutely, they regret.e the doj rig fit and so did comey. >> sean: even peter strake and lisa page say, it's a circular firing squad. we have 53 more closed-door testimonies we can get. did they also try to rig the 2016 election? with the phony dossier? >> yes. they were spreading this dossier all over washington to congress, the gang of eight and to many members of the media in order to rig the election. >> sean: did they try to commit a coup and unseat a duly elected president? >> when that failed they tried to coup again thanks to rod rosenstein. under the 25th amendment. considering recording the president and gathering incriminating information. >>

takes time to get to work. >> it does, not like it is a regular old restaurant. >> james comey still talking about james comey. >> he said he's throwing his hat into the 2020 presidential race but yesterday was april fools' day. he tweeted that right there but then post a follow-up tweet saying could you imagine a president who use this website the meaning twitter, to make dad jokes rather than hurl insults? happy april fools, taking a jab at donald trump. a lot of reaction to this. carolyn says that is a scary thought but trish tweets kind of brilliant. we all need to lighten up and have a chuckle these days. i thought it was pretty funny myself. >> there is a photo shoot for everything nowadays. >> this one raised some eyebrows. a woman is going viral for celebrating her divorce with a photo shoot, pictures of the 47-year-old complete with burning wedding pictures, knee-high boots and she says she wanted to show strong women can move on and be happy and these pictures have been like thousands of times on facebook. let's get to one facebook post from amanda who says these are my fav

the firing of fbi director james comey. the appointment of the special counsel and efforts to remove him. efforts to curtail the special counsel. efforts to prevent public disclosure of evidence. further efforts to have attorney general jeff sessions take control of the investigation. efforts to have white house counsel don mcgahn deny that the president ordered him to have mueller removed. the was following a "new york times" report. conduct towards flynn and paul manafort, and conduct toward former personal lawyer michael cohen. they also evaluated the why, as we heard earlier from bill barr. he sort of laid this picture out that the president was fighting back, that he was a victim. in this report, it says that, quote, the president expressed concerns to advisers that reports of russia's election interference might lead the public to question the legitimacy of his election. so that also gives you a glimpse into the why. what they were looking at in terms of why the president and his aides might want to curtail the invest

over and over again, countless people think james comey should be fire. and as far from the truth that she said in the investigation that speaks to the problem the white house has. a lot of people don't trust the president. reporting like this, it shows, why should you trust the president when the press secretary is lying to the american people? >> i need a break but i do think the media come off the collision question which dominated, not that the allegations should have been reported but now i think it's all about obstruction, protection of alleged obstruction. many blasting bill barr for hosting and news conference on this. -- -we bought a house in a neighborhood with a lot of other young couples. then we noticed something...strange. oh, could you, uh, make me a burger? -poof -- you're a burger. [ laughter ] -everyone acts like their parents. -you have a tattoo. -yes. -fun. do you not work? -so, what kind of mower you got, seth? -i don't know. some kid comes over. we pay him to do it. -but it's not all bad. someone even showed us how we can save money

the president's termination of the fbi director, james comey. that came days after comey declined to answer questions about whether the president was personally under investigation. republican reports the president told the russians that firing comey had taken off pressure over russia. number 4. the appointment of a special counsel and efforts to remove him. the report notes that president trump called don mcgahn and ordered him to tell the acting attorney general that the special counsel had conflicts of interest and must be removed. mcgahn refused. he said he decided that he would resign instead. an attempt by the president to interfere. number 5, efforts to curtail the special counsel's investigation. in june of 2017, the president told the former campaign manager corey lewandowski to deliver a message to jeff sessions to tell him to publicly announce that the russian investigation was very unfair to the president. lewandowski was uncomfortable with that order, he said and passed the task to another senior official who was also uncomfortable

comey did that back in 2016? >> well, putting the report out is not really commentary, in my opinion. look, this mueller investigation is a unique moment in american history. we had a sitting president of the united states investigated for possible collusion with a foreign power associated with his election. and it's preoccupied the country for two years. i just think to restore trust in our institutions, which is one of the things that's really lacking in our country right now and it's very concerning to me, i think full transparency of this report will help establish trust. everyone will have an opportunity to read it, no one will think anything's being hidden from them, and i think -- that doesn't mean people won't draw different conclusions, but getting it out there is good. gerry: we'll be right back with john delaney to get his further thought on the mueller investigation and the 2020 presidential race, so please don't go away. ♪ ♪ great news, liberty mutual customizes... uh uh, i deliver the news aroun

when president trump asked former fbi director james comey to let michael flynn go when he later fired comey, when he tried to persuade former attorney general jeff sessions to unrecuse himself. over and over again mueller describes episodes where the president tried to hinder this investigation. >> in the end the special counsel does not charge the president with obstruction acknowledging that a sitting president cannot be indicted. but mueller does not exonerate him either. if we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the president clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state. based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, however, we are unable to reach that judgment. and mueller does not conclude trump or his campaign cooperated or conspired with russian efforts to help them and hurt hillary clinton, but mueller says those in trump's circle were definitely deceptive about their russia contacts. the report says, the investigation established that several individuals affiliated with the trump campaign lied to the office and to cong

remember, james clapper, james comey. john brennan, were all aware of what was going on and according toig sources in the intelligence committee, would be no way that obama would not have been briefed on some of this, considering it was a potential candidate for the presidency, that after he became president. so i think there's going to be n lot of questions being asked and a lot of people having to answer them. >> sean: sara carter, thanks for that report. we promise you we will not stop. all of these bad, corrupt actors must be exposed. this cannot happen to future presidents. this abuse of power. you cannot have rigged investigations with the fbi and doj and attempt to spy on opposition party candidates. bought and paid for but not tell fisa. thought and of course, using unverified material. there is no shortage of high-ranking government officials plotting to take down donald trump, rigged the election in her favor. she did steal the primary from bernie sanders, yet with seemingly never-ending investigations. d still

last but not least firing james comey not obstruction. by the way, the good news president trump summed it up perfectly when he tweeted out euler, the ag based on mueller findings and greater intelligence no collusion, no obstruction, these crimes were committed by cricket hillary, the dnc, dirty cops and others. and investigate the investigators which we have been doing. the tables have turned and their last rubber bullet. it will hit, fold to the ground and it's all over. "wall street journal" will smart guy calling for grand jury and his right to investigate bad actors in the deep state and abuse power. if the federal bureau of investigation to recover its reputation but i -- upper echelon, the first item on attorney general barr's agenda to make good on something, that set off a frenzy to propose last week. and the county of the fbi's buying committee asked with a spite on trump. they did. many times, many ways and that attorney general has a vow to establish team, to investigate the federal government spying on the campaign, great ar

we're seeing with these remarks, especially the ones about james comey, it's just not true. and also, another pretty damning instance in the mueller report about the white house press shop is when they wanted rod rosenstein to hold a press conference saying it was his idea to fire james comey. they were essentially trying to send the number two at the justice department to go on television and say something that was not true, so it would back up the president and make him look better. if that gives you any kind of instance of how the white house press shop is functioning here, and instead of trying to put good news out about what the president is doing, they're instead trying to make the president's decisions look less bad. >> you know, julie, there's only been i think two white house press briefings in the past 100 days or in this current year. and i guess the silver lining is if you can't believe what the press secretary is saying, maybe it's better than they don't do those press conferences. >> i'm really torn on this because on the one hand, you go into the press briefin

the president has a right to fire james comey. and the fact he's talking with his advisers about what to do about mueller is also not a crime. and it's not considered obstruction of justice because, remember, mueller worked for the executive branch of government. so the fact he had good advisers around him that said both politically and legally this is not a good thing to do or may have ignored some of those issues as they came up is a good thing and they are serving the president well. >> gentlemen, we have to leave it there. jim and renato, thank you very much. >>> the criticism directed at white house press secretary sarah sanders for lying from the podium and now how she's essentially doubling down. get fructis sleek & shine with moroccan argan oil hair is super sleek, even in 97% humidity. no parabens. fructis sleek & shine by garnier, naturally! car vending machines and buying a car 100% online.vented now we've created a brand new way for you to sell your car. whether it's a year old or a few years old, we want to buy your c

james comey is giving the benefit of the doubt. the pentagon however zealous it is we will see how nasty these wars are going to get. >> there is the conversation about whether damaging derogatory information on the president should be released if he's not going to face any indictment or legal trouble because we saw james comey got in trouble because he unloaded many thought a case against hillary clinton but she wasn't going to have a chance to defend herself in court so where do we go with that? people will want to see everything. >> that is a good principle. if you're not charging someone with a crime you don't scare them. that was what was wrong with what james comey did with hillary clinton. we've had two years of absolute, we've got a country being held hostage by a narrative that russia intervenes, trump was an agent of vladimir putin. more transparency in this case is good and it is important to remember the department of justice in the last couple years has obstructed when congress asked when they subpoenaed things and try

james comey. right now what should james comey be thinking about or andrew mccabe and your thoughts that they should be the focus of this. >> yeah, the fastball -- fbi does a fantastic job. if i'm james comey, i'm nervous. let's put the magnifying glass on comey. see what he was up to and strzok was up to. we know he had anti-trump animus. you also know that comey leaked confidential information to a journalist. so let's put the magnifying glass on the fbi, on the senior leaders and let's see what we got. >> charles: also during the hearing, a lot of puzzlement that the trump campaign was not even notified. again, perhaps an example of disdain or maybe something more nefarious. >> nobody knows for certain at this point, but the allegations are there. if what is alleged to be true and we know some people in the fbi have acted improperly, we have to get to the bottom of this. the fbi's house isn't order, if they engaged in chicanery, it's important and we need to find out what went on. >> charles: w

>> jesse: can we go back to james comey for a second? every james comey photograph that he tweets, he is alone. him staring off a cliff, staring into the woods. >> dana: someone has to take the picture. >> jesse: so he is with one person? >> greg: has poor wife is like you always want to be alone in these pictures. and my just here to take your picture? >> dana: they just lost the shock per second. i prank people -- i prank people with the picture. this was jasper catching a fish finally on the jersey shore. actually that didn't happen. his dog sitter barbara thought it was real. >> juan: the worst april fools' joke ever done twice by my brother. once he drove to an insane asylum and told me i had to get out. another time, he gave me a chocolate bar and said ex lax. >> katie: did you eat it? >> dana: whatever remember that. all rights, you know the drill. "one more thing" is up next. i switched to liberty mutual, because they let me customize my insurance. and as a fitness junkie, i customize everything, like my bike, and my calves. libe

then we got our good friend, the man who stands above it all, james comey. why did he sign off on that first fisa warrant in october of 2016? to spy on the t trump campaign associate carter page, using him for a and paid for phony russian.ca as the bulk of evidence? that means that he is signing off that it's true and accurate to the best of his knowledge. we now know it was never verified, and we all know it's unverifiable because christopher steele, he doesn't even stand by his own dossier. remember, he told donald trump, president-elect of the time, he wanted trump tower, the contents of the dossier were salacious and unverified. yet three months before he went before a fisa judge and said the dossier it was true and correct. three months earlier. the question for jim comey tonight is comedy july and october of 2016 or january of 2017? by the way, why did sally yates and rod rosenstein who signed off on the last fisa warrant, why did they sign off on something that is unverifiable? by the way, we can forget about john brennan, james clapper. were they tra

james comey testified under oath in congress about these events. the president was not willing to be interviewed under oath about these events. he was not willing to talk to federal investigators, and so when you're making credibility assessments i think that's a really important thing to consider. this is not just a he said-he said. this is he said under oath and to federal investigators where the risk if you lie, if yis you get prosecuted versus he said through a lie on tv and a bunch of shifting things. it's clear that the mueller team made their credibility assessment for all those reasons in favor of james comey and i guess the president. >> as always, we appreciate you coming on, matt axelrod. >>> congressman eric swalwell is calling on attorney general barr to resign. does he think barr will actually leave his job ini'm going to ask congressman swalwell next. there are healthy snacks, there are tasty snacks, and then there are kind bars. made with ingredients you know and love. like whole nuts, real fruit and a drizzle of dark chocolate. do

we go to our good friend, the man who stands above it all, james comey. why did he sign off on that first fisa warrant in october of 2016 to spy on the trump campaign associate carter page, using hillary's bought and paid for phony russian dossiers, the bulk of evidence. that means he's signing off that it's true and accurate to the best of his knowledge. we now know it was never verified. and we know it's unverifiable because christopher steele doesn't even stand by his own dossier. remember, he told the trump -- donald trump, president-elect at the time when he went to trump tower that the contents of the dossier was salacious and unverified. yet, three months before, he went before a fisa judge and said the dossier was true and correct. three months earlier. so the question for jim comey tonight was did you lie in october of 2016 or january of 2017. and by the way, why did sally yates and david avonte and rod rosenstein who signed up on the last fisa warrant? why did they sign off on unverifiable. were they trafficking the dirty dossier throughout the

we talk about james comey, first the president had the constitutional right to fire james comey. in the report that bob mueller issued, and this is where people are not going to. you look at what he said about james comey. he said that the we aren't that he fire james comey to cause any interference with this investigation. here's what we know. the investigation continued, bob mueller did not get fired. rod rosenstein was not fired. and the report has been issued. >> shannon: i want to ask you about something else that came up repeatedly with respect to michael cohen, michael flynn, and also paul manafort. when you look for the report, all of them have some variation of saying, i've been assured by -- they say a personal attorney. i don't know if it's you, somebody else on the team, the president, one of his personal attorneys that we would be "taken care of." if you start to cooperate with the prosecutors, that's going to be lost. they didn't use the word pardon, they hinted heavily that someone on the team told them they would be okay. >> i said from the outset when the initial

which he did all of america a favor in firing james comey. lou: absolutely. >> the idea that the justice department would come in and second-guess his personnel decision is beyond their powers. so the ag should have never allow them to begin putting pen to paper there. that being said, the overwhelming evidence is that there was no obstruction. obviously if they could have made the case they would have. and the big news here is that the russia hoax has been exposed. the deep state cue cabal has to focus on something else now, as you mentioned, the taxes. lou: can you believe that, by the way? is that the most idiotic thing you've ever heard of i? there's no requirement by law that the president divulge his taxes. he basically told everyon everyo go to hell when he was campaigning. >> this would be an abuse of the irs to target the president. this shows that the president has been ur under siege. we have to thank the stars that the mueller operation is over, because the president has been under a siege. the presidency is under siege. the repub

are most of those ten things we already knew, are they the firing of james comey. we also know there are a lot of nervous people in the white house because they testified under oath. did they reveal conversations or requests from this president we didn't know about already that are now part of that list of ten instances where the president may have obstructed justice. >> you know, the attorney general seems to be saying here that the president had no corrupt intent. so what was it then that led him to ask don mcgahn to get rid of mueller? and maybe we'll hopefully find that out in the mueller report, but could his best defense be that he was not fully informed about his role as president? what was right and what was wrong to do as president. and that i didn't know that firing mueller would have been seen as any kind of obstructive behavior or it would have been seen as obstructive or threatening my attorney general would have been seen as obstructive behavior or firing james comey. i didn't know that, and i was just sharing with the american people on twitter how i

but something as startling as the fact that the president asked you to ask james comey to stop an investigation is of such significance that it's difficult to imagine that he simply forgot that fact. >> as testified to by the fact that multiple staffers of his who he spoke to at the time not only all reported the same story about what he told them. i guess if you were trying to pursue this as a prosecutor, you would try everything you could to get as close to the facts that you could about the conversation in question without the opportunity to interview the president about this, is there any other way that prosecutors might pursue this? >> i think if they were interested in pursuing it, they might reinterview some of these people. at the time of the interview, i think only three months had passed from the initial meeting. that was when memories were very fresh. and i would really love to see the underlying reports. we get just a couple sentences from the fbi 302 reports. i would be curious to see what happens in those reports. did they ask dan coats to follow-up these things. did they refresh

fbi was when these reports come out. >> james comey was fired by donald trump in may 2017. democrats demanding documents donald donald trump's plan to send migrants to sanctuary cities. we then following that. some of those cities pushing back, even threatening legal action. griff jenkins is live for us in washington where this story has taken on a life of its own. what is going on? >> reporter: let me try to put this together. house democrats are responding to a threat and rejected on legal advice of immigration officials but involving a legitimate effort to possibly unleash detailed migrants into sanctuary cities. in a letter to the white house three powerful democratic the chairman right not only does the administration like legal authority to do this but it is shocking the president and senior administration officials would consider manipulating these decisions for purely political reasons. they list of demands from the white house, emails tonight, internal dhs emails and emails from dhs and i said all dhs document discussing transfer released from detainees. what promp

the 10 episode scrutinized fire mueller include trump firing of fbi director james comey, the president directed to have mueller fired, and efforts to encourage witnesses not to cooperate. the president's lawyers are saying mr. trump's conduct well within his constitutional powers but mr. mueller thought the episodes were worth looking into to determine whether or not crimes were committed. in other news, the notre dame cathedral fire may have been caused by an electrical circuit. a french police official is telling the associated press that is just a working theory right now and cannot be confirmed just now. investigators still don't have the green light to work in the cathedral and search in the rubble for safety reasons. crews are still using wooden support fragile parts of the structure. consumers in the u.k. are brushing aside turmoil over brexit. retail sales unexpectedly going up in march, the third month in a row. good selling in stores and online rising 1.1%. risingunemployment and incomes are helping to underpin consumer spending. protesterslondon, who had blocked roads and br

but you heard james comey saying the republican party bears responsibility for the situation we're in part because of not being willing to speak out. that why you're doing this? because you feel some sort of a moral obligation, an obligation to take him on? >> no, i'm doing it because i think i could start monday as president of the united states. and i've thought that for 10 or 15 years. however, i would agree with what james comey just said, and i think one of the major issues in this campaign is going to be the rule of law and the erosion of the laws and covenants that have undergirded the world economy and the united states system of justice in the past. they're really being thrown to the dogs. and that was made plain even today by the statements involving spying by the attorney general. >> and i want to play that for you again. i want to make it clear, your background obviously as governor, you worked in the department of justice under ronald reagan. you know bill barr. you know bob mueller. what did you make of what bill barr said yesterday? and let me play again just the operat

we go back to james comey there was deviating from the justice department but also characterizing her behavior, hillary clinton's as sloppy. the problem with what we're going so see today is it's completely backwards. we don't know what's in the report yet we're going to be hearing from officials. the way i would accept what's going to happen is if the attorney general comes back to the microphone tonight or tomorrow morning after we've had time to read the report and answer questions. >> can i take issue with just one piece, the editorial piece. we've already seen barr editorialize. i think we are going to see him do exactly what he did in that four-page summary which is to put his frame and spin on it, that the president didn't do anything wrong, and he will couch if it in language of he is no the exonerated but -- as though he is not guilty of anything. i think we have to be careful about seeing barr for what he is. he is not calling it straight down the middle. >> here is a look at the room and the room where it will happen. >> wait a second. does it get more exciting than that? >

the president said, if i fire james comey, i realize it's xt going to ed the investigation. everybody was clipping that out. we put that in. they drew that conclusion that that was not for that reason alone, that was not an obstructi obstruction. the reason you have a decision to be made of whether a witness or client sits down to talk to the prosecutor is based on the evidence prented. we're governed by our cannon of ethics and d.c. bar rules as well as the go-- >> jay, let me ask this question th the only non-lawyer in conversation. this appears based on what we have seen a good day for the president here. let's talk about the american public. given those ten items listed, i think more than ten, of ct potential obstn of justice, should we feel better or worse about our president today? >> better. number one, every american should be glad to know that there were no attempts by the esident or people that were with his campaign to interfere as the russians were doing in the election. that's clear. with regard to the obstruction, remember the basis upon which the president was

former director james comey is willing to give him benefit of the doubt. let's see what we get first and depending on how overzealous it is then let's see just how nested his political and legal wars are going to get. >> shannon: there's this whole conversation about whether damaging, derogatory information on the president should be released if he's not going to be facing any kind of indictment or legal trouble because we all saw then-fbi director james comey got in trouble because he unloaded, many people thought, a whole case against phil flynn but she wasn't going to have a chance to defend herself in court. so where do we go with that you met people in the hill are going to want to see everything. >> in general that is a very good principle to uphold. that was what was so wrong with what james comey did with hillary clinton. in this case i think we had two years of just absolute -- without a country basically being held hostage by a narrative that russia had intervened and that trump was an agent of putin. i think that more transparency in this case i

what he said about james comey, we are not saying he fire james comey because of interference with the investigation. is what we know. the investigation continued, ron rosenstein was not fired and the report has been issued. shannon: i want to ask you, with respect to michael cohen, michael flynn and paul manafort when you look through the report all of them have some variation of saying i have been assured by they see a personal attorney, the president, one of his personal attorneys that will be, quote, taken care of. if you to cooperate with prosecutors maybe that will be lost. they didn't use the word pardon but they hinted heavily that the -- one on the scene told them they would be okay. >> from the outset of this when the initial allegations were made about this, no one on our team authorized, discussed the pardon of an individual or a for a pardon. >> but still communicated we are going to take care of you, those are the words. >> based on what other people told from, one of those who told him that is going to jail for committing perjury. >> i can't wait to talk to the american

james comey says he has no idea what william barr means when he says spying into the trump campaign didn't happen. andrew mccarthy is here to weigh in. also tonight progressive freshman lawmakers are sticking together defending congresswoman omar in the midst of the controversy over words she used to describe a september 11th terror attacks, critics calling it racist, the attacks on her. i'm shannon bream in washington. julian assange, captain harris looking into the connection with the mueller probe but we begin with kristin fisher on the dramatic arrest. >> it was quite dramatic and the question is will julian assange be extradited to the united states. that hearing is set for may 2nd. he was dragged out of the ecuadorian embassy in england, was finally evicted for violating the conditions of his asylum. 4 hours later the us government charged him with conspiracy for his role in the chelsea manning hack. 's attorneys say it sets a dangerous precedent for journalists all over the world. >> this means any journalist can be extradited for prosecution for having published truthful informatio

james comey was a disgraced leaker and used -- >> sarah -- >> -- authorization to spy on the trump campaign. there's no evidence of collusion. i stand by the fact, george -- >> sarah, hold on a second. the special counsel writes that those comments were not founded on anything. that's what you talked to the special counsel about when you were facing criminal penalties if you didn't tell the truth but now you're trying to walk away from it. why can't you acknowledge that what you said then was not true? >> i said that the word i used, countless, and also if you look in what's in quotations from me it's that and it was in the heat of moment, meaning that it wasn't a scripted talking point. i'm sorry that i wasn't a robot like the democratic party that went out for two and a half years and stated time and time again that there was definitely russian collusion between the president and his campaign, that they had evidence to show it, and that the president and his team deserved to be in jail, that he shouldn't be in office when really they were the ones that were creating the greatest scandal i

two people come out of the report fairly well one is james comey because almost everything he said in his controversial memos about his meetings with the president, president telling him to go easy on michael flynn, the mueller report comes down on the side of saying we believe james comey. the other person conversely that it seems to exonerate is carter page who was the subject of all the fisa warrants saying there was no indication whatsoever carter page conspired or coordinated with the russians at all in the enterprise. comey and page. >> dana: we'll have to get the wall street journal on to talk about that. martha, bret, chris and shannon. thank you. we have more ahead and carl rove will join us with political and legal unless. that's up next. ng home loan benefit we've earned with our service. the newday va cash out loan can help you get over 50,000 dollars to pay off the credit card debt, put cash in the bank, and reduce your payments by over 500 dollars a month. and since newday's been granted automatic authority by the va, they can say yes when banks say no. get the financial

she participated in the obstruction of justice to smear james comey in order to slow down or stop this investigation. yes, she has no credibility. i think there is a much bigger thing here she participated in the effort with president trump in order to obstruct justice >> to that end, another lie revealed by the mueller report is president trump, quote, certainly didn't dictate the statement on air force one regarding the trump tower meeting with russians that his son put out. given all this and given the pattern do you think sarah sanders should resign? >> i would say as a general rule that nobody should serve in that job or should be allowed to serve in that job who has play tantly lied to the public and done so in a way that's making fun of the job. i don't know that she has that much power. i think there is a lot of power the white house press corps has. if the president trusts her, he doesn't prepare her to provide information that's of interest to the public. no. i think she should resign. the press has the power here and the white house to not take what she says and what she nee

we know that james comey leaked a classified memo. we know that certain people, andrew mccabe in particular, probably james comey as well, lied to federal investigators or lied under oath to congress. bar is not the type of person in the case of clapper and brennan, that's okay. he's a professional. he understands there's nothing that the left can do that will sway him if there's culpability. it's a very scary thought. that will change the news cycle if there is culpability. >> jason: it's a great piece. i encourage people to look it up. thanks, victor. mexican troops pulling their weapons on u.s. soldiers on our side of the border. the stunning report before mark morgan and tom holloman tell us how to respond. ...finding the right drop can be overwhelming. and ordinary eye drops... ...just add temporary moisture. but you want more. you want relief that lasts. you want to address the main cause of dry eyes. you want soothe xp eye drops... ...from bausch + lomb. the only eye drop that contains restoryl mineral oils. it's shown to help