russia hopes italy can normalize relations with europe again. >> it is not just up to russia. we are ready to do our part as long as artificial obstacles are not put up. they are a process. we are national partners geographically. >> some europeans may take issue with the last bit given vladimir putin said that. today was all about italy and russia. and some interviews he gave before the trip head it was asked about the united states when he said russia is able to have that conversation on strategic issues and he mentioned that to donald trump at the g 20 last week. >> thanks very much. a culture clash at the vatican. let's start with former cia station chief daniel hoffman. great to have you. what is your reader vladimir putin visiting the pope? >> an opportunity for vladimir putin to play a role on the world stage, he is seeking to light of the european union, he sees the opportunity with a country that has traditionally had better relations with russia in contrast to germany for example and i think vladimir putin sees that as an opportunity to break european efforts to main

than with russia. ignoring all these red flags as well as the transparent absurdity of the claims they are making, the democrats have argued for nearly three years that evidence of collusion is hidden just around the corner. like the loch ness monster, they insist it's there even if no one can find it. consider this -- in march 2017, democrats on this committee said they had more than circumstantial evidence of collusion but they couldn't reveal it yet. mr. mueller was soon appointed, and they said he would find the collusion. when no collusion was found, and mr. mueller's indictments, they said they find it in the final report. then when there was no collusion in the report, we were told attorney general barr was hiding it. then when it was clear he wasn't hiding anything, we were told it would be revealed through a hearing with mr. mueller himsel himself. and now that mr. mueller is here, they are claiming that the collusion has actually been in his report all along. hidden in plain sight. and they a

russia, russia, russia. >> this cloud about collusion with russia will hang over him no matter where he stands. >> i think they are shocked that the noose is tightening. >> it's clear that mueller is now connecting the dots between a massive obstruction intended to hide the truth. >> donald trump is done. he is done. no question about it. >> he has to know his future looks like it's behind bars. >> we have a>> treasonous. >> it's a russian op. >> sean: the media reported out-right falsehoods. the ache look. >> they have the phone records and it's to a blocked number. now there is good evidence that was probably president trump. >> we begin with a new report that paul manafort, the president's former campaign chairman paid single visits, multiple ones to julian assange at the ecuadorian embassy in london. this is according to "the guardian." >> president trump directed his attorney to lie to congress. >> sean: so the liberal main stream media mob has become nothing more than an extension, a branch of all things radical, extreme party as they echo every talking point of the party. the

russia has refused and instead propose a prisoner swap. the foreign minister told russian state media, quote, we would like to call on the american side to resolve the situation on a reasonable well-balanced basis, not waiting even for a verdict to mister whelen. the united states was suggested to release a russian pilot serving 20 years in an american prison for conspiracy to smuggle cocaine. he was arrested 9 years ago in liberia. whelen asked donald trump to raise his case when he met with vladimir putin when sidelined at the g 20 summit. the white house says the president and vladimir putin discussed several issues but in their readout there was no specific mention of whelen's case. mike: fox news alert. july 4th weekend off to ability start for chicago. an additional 1500 police officers patrolling the streets, dozens of people have been shot. authorities were confronted with a different problem. mike tobin picks up the story from here. >> reporter: chicago police went into the holiday weekend to deal with gunfire in trouble areas, a

they laid out the case for obstruction, laid out that russia interfered and as you heard, even at the very end, from adam schiff, intelligence committee, he still thinks there is a case to be made here and the one thing mueller was clear on is russia interfered in 2016 to help trump and they continue to interfere as we head toward 2020. >> greg: the hype turned into tripe. >> sandra so many awkward moments. andy mccarthy reacting, even involved in the investigation, when you saw the way he was ill prepared for questions that came at him, including who appointed him in massachusetts, u.s. attorney? he answered george h.w. bush, he was corrected it was ronald reagan. how many witness interviews did you sit on, 500 of them, he answered few. fusion gps, he said he was not familiar with that, behind the steele dossier. i felt bad. >> mueller is a stand-up guy, i felt that the democrats set him up and trotted him out when he wasn't ready or prepared and it made him look terrible. >> he had the aide that was sworn in to help him follow along. he didn't know what was in his own report, it was

russia was, too. that was the whole point, to gain relief from sanctions which would hugely benefit their incredibly wealthy oligards. sanctions relief was discussed at the meeting at the trump tower, was it not, sir? >> yes. it was not a main subject for discussion. >> trump administration national security adviser designate michael flynn all discussed sanctions in a secret conversation with the russian ambassador, did he not? >> correct. >> so, to sum sraoeuz, donald trump, michael cohen, paul manafort, eric prince and others in the trump orbit all tried to use their connections with the trump organization to profit from russia, which was openly seeking relief from sanctions. is that true, sir? >> i'm not certain i can adopt what you're saying. >> i will. i'd further assert that was not on dangerous, it was unamerican. greed corrupts. greed corrupts, and it is a terrible foundation for developing american foreign policy. >> mr. radcliffe? >> director mueller, given your constraint on what you're abl

likely, to get more to the russia side of this equation and how much russia did or didn't do, with the trump campaign did or didn't do. the photographers taking position here and we will see an opening from the chairman adam schiff. >> martha: it's worth pointing out that aaron zebley is sworn in on this half of the testimony this afternoon. this intelligence inquiry. and also that adam schiff is the chair. it's set to go about two hours based on the number of questioners in this case. and we will see where this goes as we see robert mueller surrounded once again by photographers. perhaps this will be one of his last days in the spotlight. he didn't want to do this at all in the first place, but he is doing his duty and has appeared today. he starts the second segment of all of this with chairman adam schiff. >> at the outside, and be off of my colleagues, i want to thank you for a lifetime of service to of the country. your report, for the don't like those who have the time to study, his methodical methodical and i'm sitting. he tells a foreign adversary's sweeping and systematic inte

he claims he possessed actual evidence of russia collusion. he didn't just say that one time, he said it repeatedly. >> there was significant evidence of commute collusion. indeed, there is, of collusion of people in the trump campaign with the russians. i think there's plenty of absolute evidence of collusion or conspiracy. >> tucker: in the end, you know what happened or didn't. shift did not produce the evidence. he didn't have it because it doesn't exist. schiff was bluffing which is to say, lying. he still is, actually appeared as of yesterday, schiff was continuing to claim that the term camping quotes embraced foreign health made use of it, and covered it up. in other words, collusion. schiff still believes the cook for collusion hoax. or does he? today, adam schiff went on cnn to carry water for his boss, nancy pelosi. impeachment mining not be a great idea, he is told cnn viewers. but wait, that doesn't seem to make sense. if donald trump is working for a hostile foreign power, as adam schiff was told countless time that he is, how ca

that russia is a preeminent threat to the united states. not china, not google, not a bunch of other countries, not the saudis, russia. and that's insane. actually. "twitterstorm" dick cheney's said what -- >> tucker: i don't care what dick cheney said. >> but he's not a democrat or even a stupid republican on congress but you can disagree with him, but he's not alone. he will let me ask you a question peered rather than go back into the past and try to prove acts of various religions, i want to it with few sounds from your speaker of the house, nancy pelosi. this was a couple of hours ago. alex arthur ran onto ran into her on the hill and answer, do you think trump speaks treason he is what she said. [indistinct question] >> we are in the courts are now. >> are you any closer to figuring out what pruden has on from? >> that's why we need to have -- trump? the answer to our subpoena. >> do you think we might have some sort of blackmail the president? >> i wonder what putin has politically, financially, personally. so do you think it is blac

who ises the mastermind of the plan to insert donald trump into russia meddling, which we know russia has been meddling for decades? >> well, i think we can say -- let's talk about what we can, what we know are facts, what we can say for certain. i think that's helpful. we know the clinton campaign, number one, so they're aware of a lot of this, right? they're involved in the creation of thes do area -- the creation of the dossier, they hire fusion gps and christopher steele. that's a fact. we know the fbi is involved to some degree. we don't know exactly what they were doing before july 31, 2016. why? because they wouldn't answer the questions that we had over the last two years. and, in fact, when we were getting close, we wanted transcripts, there were things that we wanted, those were not beginning to the united states house of representatives under republican control. do you know why? because the mueller dossier team wouldn't let it happen. so that's why i say somebody needs to look at these characters that were on mueller's team. i think they obstructed justice. they obstructed

the real russia investigation is only beginning. now today's hearing capped off what will now go in history as one of the single biggest, most epic embarrassments in history, in american history. what happened today should shock the conscience of every american. the liars in the democratic party, their cheerleaders in the media mob, they have been exposed yet again. you can never trust these people, ever. for t

. >> it's not just up to russia. we are ready to do our part if artificial obstacles are not put up. we are natural partners geographically. >> others take issue because last week putin said liberalism is dead. before the trip putin was asked several times about the united states but he said that russia is ready to reset the conversations, dialogue on strategic issues. and that he mentioned that to president trump at g20 last week. >> mike: thank you. culture clash at the veteran today. start there with the fox news contributor and the former c.i.a. station chief daniel hoffman. great to have you. >> good to be here. >> mike: what is your read of vladimir putin visiting the pope? >> an opportunity to be on the world stage. he sees an opportunity in italy of a country that traditionally had better relations with russia in contrast to germany for example. putin sees it as an opportunity to break efforts to maintain sanctions. >> mike: should others in europe be anxious by the outreach? you should always be concerned ab

the us accuses russia of violating the treaty. moscow denies it. two brand-new foreign-policy twists tonight challenge the trump administration, let's discuss what it means with brookings institution visiting fellow james christian and senior fellow for the national interest, christian whitein, good to have you. donald trump tweeted earlier iran just issued a new warning, rouhani says they will enrich uranium to any amount if there is no new nuclear deal. be careful with the threats, iran. they can come back to bite you like nobody has been bitten before. what is your reaction to that? >> it's good to be clear with iran what the consequences are and what the iranian's have done shows the fundamental flaws of obama's iran deal which iran is trying to use europe to resurrect, use nuclear blackmail. the iran deal left iran with all the capabilities, centrifuges it needs to crank up a lot of uranium. it just needs to go on from there and needs the basic capabilities were plutonium bomb, reactors that produce plutonium. the president is going to have to

representatives from germany, france, britain, china, russia and the e.u. discussed the 2015 agreement. the united states pulled out of the pack last year and has begun imposing new sanctions on tehran which recently surpassed the uranium enrichment levels agreed upon in the accord. iran's deputy foreign minister says the nuclear deal, known as the joint comprehensive plan of action, can be saved. >> both sides, as i said, have complained, complaints about each other. i think the atmosphere today was constructive and the discussions were good. i cannot say that we loved everything, but i saw -- i i can say there are lots of commitments to the jcpoa and its survival. jon: the emergency meeting comes amid escalating tensions between iran and britain, each of which has seized an oil tanker from the other nation. >>> missile defense officials say the united states and israel carried out a high-altitude hit to kill engagement with an anti-ballistic missile interceptor system in alaska that they co-developed. this comes after u.s. officials say iran successfully

mueller was the final word for me on all things trump and russia. the other side now it's their turn to be looked at. maria: yeah, real quick, senator, before you go, there's a story this morning huawei is planning extensive layoffs in the united states in the wake of the blacklisting. your reaction to that or how we're dealing with china? do you think we will see a deal between the chinese and the u.s.? or they reneged on the big-ticket items and we're not going to do a deal unless they stop stealing? >> i don't think the president trusts china to keep their word. he's been the toughest person on china. he's destroyed isis, got out of the iran deal, he's built a military. i like president trump's foreign policy, but dealing with china is a national security issue, just not an economic issue. if we get a deal, it will be a good deal under donald trump. there will be no fake phony deals. maria: senator, always a pleasure to see you. thank you very much. >> thank you. maria: a lot to talk about with senator graham this morning. we will continue the co

, russia, russia, but focusing on donald, donald, donald. explain to people the opportunity cost because you have limited time and resources at the committee. what are the congress not doing that they should be doing in the meantime? >> exactly, adam schiff obviously will be in nirvana during all of this, because he has been pursuing at the entire time when he should be pursuing instead of donald trump and his obsession with donald trump as china. iran, russia, north korea, real threats that we have two our country and how they are evolving and what is china doing in hakki, what are the threats to the infrastructure? what is the intelligence committee doing with respect to what iran is doing with their weapons program? what are racing with russia and their attempts to undermine democracies in eastern europe? all of these are areas that our staff should be spending time on. adam schiff should be spending time on, and the committee should be spending time on. it makes us less safe. >> jason: it is absolutely a point that i hope everybody diges

russia meddled in the 2016 election. the president did not conspire with the russians and nothing we hear today will change those facts. but one element of this story remains, the begins of the fbi investigation into the president. i look forward to mr. mueller's testimony about what he found during his review of origins of investigation. in addition the inspector general continues to review how baseless gossip can be used to launch an fbi investigation against a private citizen, vanely a president. those results will be released. we'll need to learn from them to insure government intelligence and law enforcement powers are never turned on private citizen or political candidate as a result of political leanings of a handful of fbi agent. origins and conclusions of mueller investigation are the same thing what it means to be american. every american has a voice in democracy of the we must protect the sayingty of their voice combating election interference. every american enjoys presumption of innocence and guarranty of du

i faced great pressure because of russia. that's taken off. i'm not under investigation, close quote. is that correct? >> that's what was-written in the report. >> the gentleman from virginia. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. mueller. we've heard a lot about what you aren't going to talk about today. let's talk about something you should be able to talk about. the law itself. underlying obstruction statute and your createive legal analysis particularly your interpretation of 18ucs1512c. 1512c is obstruction justice statute based on auditing and financial obligations for public companies. you write this provision was added as a floor amendment in the senate and explained as closing a certain loophole with respect to document shredding. whoever corruptly alters, destroys or conceals record, document or other object or attempts to do so to-for use in an official proceeding or otherwise obstructs, influences or impedes any official proceedings or attempts -- it proposes to give clause c2 a broader interpretation. reading it as a freestanding prohib

it's not just russia. other countries have these capabilities so i hope this wakes all of us up that we have to unite as republicans and democrats, say it doesn't matter who any country helps. we never want to see something happen. >> martha: i think you will find a lot of agreement on that for sure. some of the key questions, most likely to come tomorrow, as far as robert mueller's, do you think the president colluded with the russian government? if he is at -- if he's asked that point blank, what you think it was a? >> i think you will say the laws that were written at the time he did not violate a conspiracy law. but again, this is where we have a learning experience. just because a prior congress didn't imagine any campaign whatever work so closely with foreign adversary doesn't mean that we want it to happen again or that we should shirk the responsibility to write laws so that no campaign, democrat or republican, does this. we don't want to see this mess ever happen again. >> martha: and what if he s

wasn't doing enough to stop the erosion of democracy in russia. i coauthored in december 2003, the managers remain bravely concerned with the deterioration and systematic dismantling of democracy in russia, we push president bush's administration air public administration to do more. of course, i helped lead the charge against the obama administration completely feckless, russia politics. president obama marked his 2012 opponent for taking them too seriously. his administration saw a naive reset with the kremlin and for eight years i helped lead the charge against that weakness. in 2010 i stood with john mccain. has vladimir putin was building up his missile arsenal we even had to push president obama to commit to deploying capable missile defenses to europe. in 2012 i had the support to apply heavy sanctions following the killing in a russian prison. the obama administration flinched and tried to tiptoe around our legislation to avoid messing up their charm, but we packed them in a corner and the president signed the bill. in 2014 i and other rep

his report did not have proof of criminal conspiracy between donald trump and russia. the trump administration slamming iran's claims they busted cia agents over their nuclear program. the response comes as iran denies the us shot down its own drone last week. that he said she said that is pushing tensions over the edge. >> the iranian intelligence official who made the announcement said the spies work that sensitive military nuclear installations and also said some have been sentenced to death. they were trying to collect sensitive information and install monitoring devices at the military and nuclear sites where they worked. they failed their mission and were arrested according to iran. according to the trump administration it is not true. >> totally false, they put out propaganda, they put out lies. >> part of the nature of the ayatollah july to the world -- to lie to the world. >> growing tensions between iran and the world are most visible in the strait of what news. last friday, iran sees a bridge wheel thinker, iranian state tv released video of what appears to

liberty. ♪ >> martha: so is the russia probe over? may have landed with a bit of a thud today on capitol hill. the president said recently after the impeachment vote failed in the house that he was glad to have that cloud lifted. so did today marked the beginning of the end of the trump-russia probe? the president of course certainly hope so. >> the performance was obvious we not very good. he had a lot of problems, but what he showed more than anything else is that this whole thing has been three years of embarrassment and waste of time for our country. and you know what, the democrats thought they could win an election like this. i think they hurt

russia has refused and instead floated a prisoner swap. surrogate rehab cobb told the russian state media "we would like to get the american side to resolve the situation on a reasonable well-balanced basis, not waiting even for a verdict. he suggested the united states release constantine your sanko, a russian pilot serving 20 years in an american prison for conspiracy to smuggle cocaine. he has a asked president trump to raise his case. the white house says the president and president putin discussed several issues although in their read out there was no specific mention of the case. >> mike: july 4th weekend is off to a blood he start for chicago. even with an additional 1500 police officers out patrolling the they were also confronted with a different problem. >> chicago police went into the holiday weekend prepped to deal with areas. after the organized fireworks display some people continue to light off firecrackers. >> private security officers that were assigned at the peer. this is called the dmp like situation as individuals were

and russia's involvement in the 2016 election -- eric: was it seen that the president was downplaying that and coats, you know, staunchly pushed back -- >> yeah. eric: in terms of action on the intelligence community? >> that's spot on, yes. dan coats was defending the intelligence community and also making very clear that the intelligence community's intel on the fact that russia had, in fact, intervened in the 2016 election was accurate. and the president, of course, cast doubt on that for some time, and that's something that this cabinet official stood up against. i also remember there being a particularly remarkable moment where dan coats was asked, i believe by andrea mitchell of nbc, about the president's remark at the time that he might invite president putin to come visit the white house, and dan coats was not aware of that and said something along the lines of, well, that would be special. that was an unguarded moment, dan coats has since kept a lower profile, but that didn't go over well in the white house. eric: yeah. i remember that, he was caught off guard on that. coats

first tonight, when robert mueller's final report on russia came out this spring, the geniuses on television had one word for it. "damning." truly and completely damning. so damning you could block the colorado river with it and create your own hydropower. it was that damning. watch. >> the report contained a potentially damning list of ways the president tried to influence the investigation. >> it's arguing that the mueller report is far more damning. >> it's not pretty. it's an ugly, damning piece of business. >> i agree with him that it's absolutely damning.

counting his 34 year record of urging action is russia. >> this kind of objection is a routine occurrence here in the senate. it doesn't make republicans traders, or un-american. it makes us policymakers with a different opinion. this modern-day mccarthyism is toxic and damaging because of the way it works our entire public discourse. >> mcconnell has blocked efforts on a number of election security bills handle the republicans have long argued the federal government should largely stay out of telling the states how to run their own elections. and today, he descended his opposition to the democratic bills, calling one so partisan that it only received a single republican vote in the house. as soon as mcconnell was done though, senate minority leader chuck schumer attempted to keep the pressure on. >> so here's an easy way for leader mcconnell to silence the critics who accuse him of blocking election security. stop blocking it. >> robert mueller made it very clear in his testimony that our country needs to do more to protect our elections and while the trump administration has taken some

. >> ed: i want to put something else on the table, your party has talked a lot about russia, russia, russia, and joe biden talked about it to see and then. listen to this bites. >> that's he isn't doing elections in europe. look what happened in hungary. look what happened in poland, look what happened -- looks what's happening! do you think that would have been in my watch and barack's watch! i promise you it wouldn't and it didn't. >> ed: it won't happen on biden's watch or barack's watch, it did happen when barack obama was president. >> not only, putin took primera. i remember barack obama whispering to dmitry medvedev, we'll have more flexibility the election. he was the one who pointed to then candidate mitt romney and said you think russia is our number one geopolitical file, you are getting your geopolitics from the 1960s? we want our geo policy back. i'm also questioning them or weren't the russians, they were hacking our elections when barack obama was president and he did little to nothing about it? >> ed: i want to give a fair crack at that. i don't understand what what t

he was the guy. >> bill: russia, russia, russia, racist, racist, racist. as the president trying them into this conversation? >> it's very good suggestion, i think. one of his skills, maybe his best skill is making his opponents are crazy about this they do really stupid things. and i think bringing bob mueller to testify was a stupid thing. it backfired. if you go down this road of racist, racist, racist, most people in the country are going to say but what about those unemployment rates? what about the opportunities being created for generations of african-americans who have not prospered? and by the way, what is elijah cummings doing in baltimore? what have the mayors done in chicago about the murder rate there? the murder rates in many of these cities. i think the president has not -- he has made a good argument. i don't think he's followed there, but that is also true because the democrats will not work with him. >> bill: last point on this. 108 democrats support impeachment. up to 12 democrats. >> looks. the numbers nationally for the democrats are g

out of the deal, the other members, britain, france, germany, russia and china stayed in. had iran not enriched, not shot down drones, not stolen tankers and taken hostages they would be in a more similar pathetic position -- sympathetic position. eric: how much can this escalate? take a listen. >> if iran tried to seize a u.s. flagged vessel in the strait, how should or would u.s. forces in the region respond? >> i never want to get out in front of what we'll do in any particular situation. >> but it would be a bad thing. >> president trump made it clear. when american lives are at risk, the united states will defend itself wherever that risk takes place. eric: they went for british tanker, went to others. do you think they would have the gumption to target us? >> they might. they came awful close when we shot down that drone several days ago. the new secretary of defense told a little bit more about how this is going to work. there will be close air and maritime surveillance for u.s. vessels. the europeans are putting together something similar. esper said this doesn't m

is one of those in democratic party that has investigated president trump in his proposed ties with russia, cummings and other members to have house both republicans and democrats on the august recess right now until september 9th, a lot of time between now and september 9th, that's when the house comes back and the senate will be in a few more days, eric, thank you. >> arthel. arthel: president trump celebrating a big victory after supreme court cleared the way for his administration to use military funds to build sections of the border wall with mÉxico. garrett tenney live in washington with those details. >> arthel, the legal fight over the case is far from over, in the short-term no doubt, this is a win for the white house, the 5-4 ruling allows the administration to move with plans to build border wall while case works its way through the courts. president able to access 2 and a half billion dollars from the pentagon's budget to build an extra 100 miles of barriers along the border in california, arizona and new mexico. wow, big victory on the wall, the united states supreme court ov

so has russia and iran. my bill would put a stop to that and save gotta go through this extra background check. if you want to work on sensitive technology in american labs. >> it has really burrowed into our establishment, not just academia, but when you look at washington and the chinese influence through think tanks and lobbying, there's one particularly egregious example that we've highlighted on the show which is president obama's former head of cybersecurity, they're now working for a law firm, don't you think that whole practice of lobbying for a foreign government should not just be declared as it has been in this case it actually outlawed. >> i would say it's very, very concerning. they have cheated up the system systematically for years or if it's trying to conduct espionage on our college campuses or whether it's forcing our companies to sign these technology transfer agreements and they don't give us access to the market anyway. it's time we realize the threat china poses to our middle class, to

. >> can you state with confidence the steel dossier was not part of russia's disinformation campaign? >> that part of the building of the case predated me by at least 10 months. >> reporter: mueller frustrated some lawmakers with his often terse answers and appeared off-balance at times. >> i am reading from my question. when you talk about the firm that produced the steel reporting the name of the firm that produced it was fusion gps. is that correct? >> i'm not familiar with that. >> it is not a trick question. fusion gps. >> reporter: the testimony continued in the house intelligence go anywhere mueller characterize donald trump's comments on the stolen clinton emails. >> problematic is an understatement. >> trump campaign officials build their strategy around those stolen documents. >> generally that is true. >> they lied to cover it up. >> generally that is true. >> reporter: democrats were accused of being desperate. >> this hearing is political theater, a hail mary attempt to convince the american people that collusion is real. >> mueller had this morning about russian interfe

we watched the challenge from china and russia flying into south korea. what is schiff doing? continuing the lie he gave to the american people that he had evidence. speaker pelosi is the one who is the democrat lead on intel. we have too many serious items around this world happening to have him chairman of the intel committee. judge jeanine: let's talk about what i think is a fascinating division on the democrat side. nancy pelosi and aoc met yesterday to try to resolve their differences. nancy is sasha rude politician. she he like any family we have difference and we are fine. what's your take on what happened? >> this is not a family feud. this is war. what we saw happen ned. nancy pelosi surrendered to the socialists. she sat down with a freshman. aoc's own chief of staff tweeted this month that he challenged any american to name one thing that this new democrat majority has done that helps the kitchen table. judge jeanine: here it is. pelosi claims we can't focus on impeachment because it's a distraction from the kitchen table issues. but i challenge you to find voters w

assange released the stolen emails at the heart of russia gate. mueller had no entry speaking with him. >> tucker: what's interesting is the core claim that russia had a meaningful effect on the election outcome, that it was the russian government running this operation in order to aid donald trump, that claim has been brought completely, i would say, by both parties. republicans are mad about the russia hoax and all that, but they still repeat that line again and again, we know that this happened, and you are saying that we don't know really that this happened. >> mueller doesn't really know core details. there is a vague in his report when he talks about how the emails were stolen from the dnc. he uses the qualifier that russian officers appear to have stolen emails, not that they stole the emails, which i think is suspicious. also it doesn't know how the emails made their way to wikileaks. despite having such an invasive window into the operations of russia, mueller can't tell us how the emails got to wikileaks. >> tucker: wait a second. if he

nobody wants russia involved in american elections. one thing i think everybody can agree on. but as far as the exchanges yesterday i think it's rooted in the fact that bob mueller and nobody is perfect he wasn't able to respond so some very basic questions. that just infuriates people. the other thing i would add about exoneration, you're right. i'm a lawyer and done government investigations. you can't exonerate anybody. you either prosecute or decline the prosecute. >> jon: ken starr had no problem saying that bill clinton committed obstruction of justice and should be prosecuted. that's what happened there. >> bob mueller was clear about the parameters of olc guidelines and what it did to the investigation. that's the main point of contention that barr and mueller have been saying. they weren't even considering bringing on an indictment out of -- because of olc guidelines and he could be prosecuted after leaving office. the exchange -- i don't know if the -- buck landed the biggest bomb of anyone. >> sandra: your party went into those hearings yesterday hoping that somethi

it's based in russia. there's fears that the company shares your personal information with the russian government. however, face app's ceo says that's not the case and there's no reason to worry, he says. the dnc is not taking chances. they're warning 2020 campaigns to delete the app immediately and chuck schumer is demanding the fbi launch an investigation. this is right up greg's alley, isn't it? >> greg: it's amazing that people are concerned with privacy are willing to forfeit their personal data to an app that have not bothered to do any -- the mildest research. i'm talking to the one producer johnny on "the five" that takes pictures of everybody. oh, this is fun. no, it's not. let's say it's totally safe. why would you want to do this? you're like jumping to the finish line of life. you're going to end up there anyway. enjoy the time now. hope and -- that you make it there, be that old. because that means you won. but don't it now. it's like what is that app could stand your vital data and predict yo

. >> you found in your investigation july 27th, candidate trump called on russia to hack hillary clinton's e-mail for the first time they did about five hours later, correct? >> that's correct. >> you found august 2 that mr. manafort met with a person tied to russian intelligence, mr. kilimnik, gave him internal campaign strategy where russia was intending to do a misinformation campaign. >> i'm not certain of the tie. >> the fact of the meeting -- >> yes, that is accurate. >> your investigation as i understand it also found that in late summer of 2016, the trump campaign in fact devised its strategy and messaging around wikileaks releases of materials that were stolen from the democratic national committee, correct? >> is that from the report? >> yes. >> according to mr. gates. >> yes. >> thank you. you also talked earlier about the finding in your investigation in september and october of 2016, donald trump jr. had e-mail communications with wikileaks now indicted about releasing information damaging to the clinton campaign, correct? >> true. >> so i understand you made a decision, a pro

because so many of the democrats are saying russia, russia, russia, like a bad scene from the brady bunch and then daca, the president put more on the table than the democrats even wanted and when he did they walked away from it. border security. this is something that the democrats are on video. you can watch dozens of pieces of tape from schumer, pelosi, name a democrat from 5 or 10 years ago, biden included. they all talked about how we need to secure our borders, we shouldn't have illegal immigration. we have to get it under control. now that donald trump is president, they have no interest in getting it under control. and the list goes on and on. it is a real wasted opportunity but it is not just wasted for the democrats. it's wasted for the country. we as a country could be doing better. i'm amazed this president is getting done what he is getting done wearing as many anchors around his neck as has been placed there by the democrats. >> alicia: of course, democrats feel like they have a responsibility to hold the president's feet to the fire and his administration and i want to play

the real russia investigation is only beginning. now today's hearing capped off what will now go in history as one of the single biggest, most epic embarrassments in history, in american history. what happened today should shock the conscience of every american. the liars in the democratic party, their cheerleaders in the media mob, they have been exposed yet again. you can never trust these people, ever. for two plus long years, two and a half years, there they were, now robert mueller, the golden goose. according to them, he was going to swoop in and prove their insane g russian lies, conspiray theories, once and for all. and that donald trump is going ha be washed up and impeached and run out of town. well, as a matter of fact, i'm watching the media today, and they were just about more depressed than they were at election night 2016. t all week, they were hyping up mueller's testimony. just this weekend, you had two of the biggest liars in the united states congress, there they were, chairman nadler, and the cowardly adam schiff

you might remember, it is first russia, russia, collusion, collusion, stormy, stormy, s-hole, s-hole, and now it is racist, racist. they have history of falling into this trap. >> impeachment. impeachable. >> impeachment. >> impeachment. >> i impeachable. >> the russian investigation. >> colluded. >> stormy daniels stormy daniels. >> stormy daniels, the stormy saga.. >> stormy daniels affair. >> adult film star stormy daniels. >> is there a difference if the president said [bleep] hole and [bleep] house? >> donald trump has turned the oval office into a [bleep] hole. >> sean: now it is racist, racist, racist. very predictable, the host of fox nation's "keeping up with the jones," the man on the street, special correspondent and contributor lawrence jones is with us. also author of the bookis "swamp wars," jeffrey lord, one thing i will say is that your own former network, they are very l consistent, they latch on. and they don't let go. and they repeat and repeat and repeat and then the ratings go lower and lower and then they find the next thing they can hype hysterically. and here w

after two years of russia collusion, russia, russia, russia, the president is a russian agent. it was outrageous, it was a lie. it was built on a lie. that has failed, it has flopped. the speech and hearing is over, the report is done and the democrats move on to race and that's where we are today. this president has done more for the african-american family than any president in history. you look at the record -- >> bill: dr. carson was making some of those points. geraldo, you said earlier today, you said what would democrats do with these urban disasters? you said how much aid to inner cities is being siphoned off by greedy politicians? >> it's all true, bill. i think the president of the united states as the hud secretary dr. carson just explained has done some magnificent things vis-a-vis the inner-city and racial minorities. the economic opportunity zones. his criminal justice reform, is move away from mass and preparation of black and brown men, but my goodness, why doesn't the president used the kind of sober and measured language of a statesman who wants to convince pe

russia doesn't police the world. they police russia. if you look at china, they don't police, they don't have troops everywhere. what they have is people taking out minerals from the ground. they don't have troops. we have a case in afghanistan we have troops on a mountain -- it's a mountains you, rough country. beautiful in a lot of ways but we have troops. on the other mountain ridge china is there with big excavating equipment taking out minerals. they don't have people -- now it's dangerous for them because their people tend to be shot as they operate the machines. it's not exactly the safest place. so, we've reduced the force substantially in afghanistan, which i don't talk about very much. that is okay. >> could you see getting out entirely? >> president trump: the problem is i would like to just get out. the problem is it just seems to be a lab for terrorists. i call it the "harvard of terrorists. "when you look at the world trade center they were trained. they didn't -- by the way, they attacked their own country. they didn't co

, russia right now is supporting iran, you see why -- many of us think that the current agreement was no good for us. so with regard to going forward, look, iran wants a peaceful this and they want to be able to continue to secure their regime, they need to understand that it's the only way they can get to their best interest is to get to an agreement that's one that we can live with. arthel: i think you're saying that you need to have an agreement revised or a new agreement in place that would call for more than one of those signatories to go against the u.s. in order for iran to say, guess, what everybody is pulling out of this including the u.s., they are not following the rules so we are not going to either? >> yes, on the verification, the agency, the international agency that is responsible for that should be able to go anywhere at any time unannounced and if iran is complying with framework they shouldn't worry about that that needs to be part of the change and also timeline, 10, 15-year timeline is unacceptable either, we want long-term commitment. finally, arthel, we want to

what did russia do in 2016? then a specific reference to the trump campaign. i think that is mueller's out. his out on when did you go there was no collusion, when we interview the last witness. so mueller does not want to come. he does not want to come because he does not want to deviate from his report. what you're going to get are these incendiary questions about obstruction and impeachment. you are not going to learn anything that you don't already know. it's just going to be great for people --'t >> sean: he's going to have a hard time answering how he had one candidate paid for russian lies and it became the basis of a fisa warrant. how does not become an influence on the 2016 election? but taxicab medallions did? i would like an answer to that question. >> i hope somebody can get that asked and answered in 5 minutes. 5 minutes is not much to unlock the mysteries of the world. >> sean: bob mueller's nine and a half minutes was not exactly stellar. i think the attorney general graciously bailed him out with a joint statement. that is a guess on my part. >

the hostile regime of russia?-- by the way, we can bring russia and putin to their knees tomorrow if we outproduce the energy. it's over for them. putin, russia will be on their knees. no more russian interference. north korea is watching tonight. what happens in iran will have ramifications all over the globe. the question is how did we get here. quick history lesson. 2015, obama and biden loosened sanctions on iran. h they gifted the mullahs cargo planes of cash. in exchange, the government of iran promised not to build nukes for ten years. the radical islamic government of iran continued to fund terrorism with our money all over the world. they continue to chant death to israel, death to america. they continue to be the number 1 state sponsor of terrorism around the world and thanks to biden-obama, they had cash to burn. that means this all changed. donald trump was sworn in asat president. he was not biden, he's not obama and i'll be very frank, he knows the world knows, he's not theresa may either. i think th