writer, as well, for the duration of the obama administration. joining us this morning to talk about his new book "the world as it is." you write in that book that the whole reason for coming to washington in the first place and later meeting then senator barack obama was your experience in new york on september 11th. tell us about that and how that brought you to washington. >> you know, i was on a totally different course in life. i wanted to be a writer. i was working on political campaigns. and on 9/11, it was election day. i was standing at a polling site and had a clear view of the second plane hitting and the first tower falling and i knew whatever i was going to do in my life -- i was 24 years old -- was going to be about what happened next, what the response to this was. i went to an army recruiter who didn't know what to do with an english major. i worked my way into foreign policy but felt i wanted to get involved in politics and that led me to the obama campaign. >> your meeting with barack obama fairly quickly thereafter he brought y

in january 19 of 2017, the obama administration -- these documents had not yet been released -- the obama administration put out a press a couplehat included dozen additional bin laden files. then the press release declared that all of the files had been released, that was it. mr. joscelyn: hundreds of files had not been released. they released 282 files exactly at that point, out of the hundreds of thousands of files. the director of the office of national intelligence saying the only connection between iran and al qaeda is that they are at odds and they hate each other. january 19that twoment, it might be, in my decades plus of covering washington, the the single most misleading document i have ever seen. just one lie after another. the documents suggest around and al qaeda are working together. -- iran and al qaeda are working together. that document says they don't like each other, they won't mess with each other. those documents are out. what is stunning to me is we are seeing much the same thing in the broader public and in the academic immunity as in the intelligence community as b

that is something the obama administration did not want to hear. [applause] >> so we've got, lots and lots of questions, which is good. let me just add before we get to these, we'll try to go through them pretty quickly, sort of current state of play on the bin laden documents. we'll touch on this in a little bit in the next discussion i have with michael anton, who is inside the nsc when these documents were finally released. the trump administration released these documents. in january of -- >> november 1st, 2017. >> november 1st, see tom knows these things. in january -- >> 2017. >> january 19th of 2017, the obama administration, these documents had not yet been released. the obama administration put out a press release, director of national intelligence, james clapper, put out a press release included couple dozen additional bin laden files. >> yeah. >> the press release declared that all of the files had been released. that was it. that is january 19th of 2017. >> hundreds of thousands of files had not been released. hundred of thousands. they

administration janet johnson obama's head of the department of homeland security and sole proprietor the name jack these days . these days johnson received two hundred ninety thousand dollars a year to serve on the board of lockheed martin the largest american defense contractor and the world's biggest weapons manufacturer the world's biggest merchant of death show much more aggressive than the doily thing.

reversal of the obama administration plan, the obama administration imposed limits on certain hunting tactics, on national parks and alaska. lands in not parks, but preserves, the tactics include the use of bait, motorboats in dens, and other provisions. host: the reversal of the rolling back those restrictions and allowing those methods? guest: that's right. as we have been discussing, there is something dispute over how much of an impact it would have. host: while our bus was in alaska we spoke to bruce dale, with the alaska department of fish and dale -- fish and game, this is what he had to say about the common period. >> the ngos that support the national park service are in enormous machines that churns up gathering public input. and promoting input from certain groups and interest groups. and compared to the small number of people who live in alaska, especially the small number of rural users that are relying on these, the numbers of comments and the types of comments are only useful to a point. host: so they are hearing from people outside of alaska? .uest: by the scads and th

if you look at the obama administration, they wanted to say it was over. if these groups are connected to al qaeda to lead going forward and this thing is spreading across the globe but it really is part of al qaeda structure, that means your narrative about the 9/11 was being over falls flat. one of the phrases is what obama did is a played disconnect the dots. when you had intelligence that connected bin laden to others around the globe, they downplayed that. let's play the next clip. this is from barack obama and this is stunning. our actions are effective. do not take my word for it. in the intelligence gathered at bin laden's compound, he wrote we could lose the reserves to enemy airstrikes. we cannot fight airstrikes with explosives. other communications confirm this as well. am: obama sites to lines from 17 page letter bin laden wrote. he takes it out of context and ignores all the parts that contradict what he was saying. right here there are lines that are highlighted. if you read the preceding paragraphs, they contradict the point he was trying t

>> guest: these are rules, this is a reversal of an obama administration plan, the obama administration impose limits on certainis hunting texas on national parks and preserve lands and alaska. not parks but preserves, tactics include the use of bait, dogs, the use of light indians, motorboats and a few other provisions. >> host: the reversal would be rolling back those restrictions and allowing those methods? >> guest: that'sho right, and as we've been discussing there are some big dispute over how much of an impact that would really have. >> host: while i bus was in alaska we spoke with bruce dale with alaska department of fish this is what he had to say about the comment period, what they're hearing the public. >> national park service, ngos that support the national park service are enormous machines in terms of gathering public input and promoting input from certain groups and interest groups. and compared to the small number of people who live in alaska, especially the small number of rural users that are reliant on these, the numbers of comments and the types of comments are only

the trump administration ready to overturn another obama era initiative. guidelines on how to consider the race of a student applying to get into college. part of a conservative campaign against affirmative action that a new supreme court justice could have a major impact on. also, desperate rescue. crews working to try and free those 12 boys and their soccer coach, trapped in a thailand cave. the complicated mission that could leave them in that cave for three or four months before they are free. and protesting pruitt. a woman insisting the embattled epa administer resign interrupts his dinner. two of his aides are reportedly telling investigators about some of his most controversial decisions so far. we'll get to those. but we start with the trump administration planned roll back of affirmative action in higher education. the administration is prepared to abandon an obama era policy that called on universities to consider race as an admissions factor. attorney jeff sessions last fall called on the justice department to re-evaluate the policies that he be

administration corrupt absolutely and while they want you while the obama administration that you the people used to be there want you to care about stopping donald trump the last administration or enriching themselves in the how low the halls of war profiteers and wall street banks how do you walk to d.c. the fiesta. thank you but well come on only now let's take the news from behind as you know i try to avoid whichever stories attract the mainstream media's frantic idiocy each week but i also know that some of you probably want to know who to trust on the latest hysteria does your for example robert ball are just indicted twelve russians for supposedly orchestrating a cyber attack on the d.n.c. meanwhile a longtime veteran of the intelligence community and former weapons inspector scott ritter has published a column in troop dig this weekend titled the indictment of twelve russians under the shiny wrapping a political act and he points out that there is one major problem with the indictment it doesn't prove that which it asserts and it's not backed up by anything that demonstrates h

but this was during the obama administration. they were doing whatever it was during the obama administration. i heard that they were trying or people were trying to hack into the rnc, too, the republican national committee, but we had much better defenses. i've been told that by a number of people. we have much better defenses, so they couldn't. i think the dnc should be ashamed of themselves for allowing themselves to be hacked. they had bad defenses. and they were able to be hacked. but i heard they were trying to hack the republicans, too, but, and this may be wrong, but they had much stronger defenses. >> brennan: what's your biggest competitor, the biggest foe globally right now? >> well, i think we have a lot of foes. i think the european union is a foe, what they do to us in trade. you wouldn't think of the european union, but they're a foe. russia is a foe in certain respects. china is a foe economically certainly they're a foe. but that doesn't mean they're bad. it doesn't mean anything. it means that they're competitor

he was fired by the obama administration, but allowed to keep clearance even as he led those lock her up chants. >> the president's plan seems to be unplanned likely at the suggestion of rand paul. he is considered a big vote in the supreme court battle. we have more from cnn's jeff zeleny on what "the wall street journal" calls a dumb idea. >> reporter: dave and christine, the officials have been critical of him and his presidency. this has never happened before. it is something we are told the white house is considering. in the briefing room, sarah sanders acknowledged the president was considering it when she said this. >> the president is exploring the mechanisms to remove the clearances because they mondetie security clearances of being influenced by russia which is inappropriate. >> reporter: the white house is considering it. it is unclear if they will do it. a senior administration official tells me the president likes this conversation and debate, but has not decided if he will go ahead. it served to change the subject. certainly the russian investigation in all of the entire

so now is not the time to look back at what the obama administration did. the president and his team really needs to look forward and figure out how they're going to secure these upcoming elections. >> and it's still somewhat befuddling, even a mystery, if you will, why president trump goes back and forth on the russia interference. there are two theories, let's discuss. one is big, that the russian president somehow may have compromising information on donald trump. the other, more innocent, that donald trump just refuses to acknowledge russian interference because he thinks that delegitimizes his election. your thoughts. >> yeah. so you know, let me take the compromising information question first. you know, there's been a lot of discussion of that. there are a couple of things i would say about it. one, i think that people have to understand how the russian mindset works when it comes to compromising information. russians identify individuals of influence, individuals of some notability, and they collect compromising information on them all the time. the

and now, and iranian lawmakers claims the obama administration granted u.s. citizenship to more than 2,000 iranians including government officials after the iran nuclear deal was signed. upon hearing this, the president took to twitter saying "just out that the obama administration granted citizenship, during the terrible iran deal negotiation, to 2,500 iranians - including to government officials. how big and bad is that?" david, this is more evidence of why the president pulled out of the deal. >> david: we must not forget that iran does not want to be our partner. they want to take everything they can from us. every time we learn something new about this iran deal, there is more outrage of this country of the president getting out of this deal. come on, you tell me, you go to that deal and tell me that it is a good deal for america. you will advocate that there are iranians? >> dagen: a number of people in those roles. >> jessica: the sleaziness of this deal. $7 billion and set in the middle of the night. that relates to a state-sponsored terrorism. and by

is an important disagreement between the obama administration and the young yahoo! -- and the netanyahu government. >> an important question. i spent a lot of time on this in my book. the reality is that barack obama obviously had a different point netanyahu, not a fundamental relationship in israel. we provide more support for the security that any of ministration in history. issues, howrincipal to deal with iran and his nuclear program and how to accomplish it. we supported a two state solution to the israeli -palestine conflict and were unable to make progress there. and it was a failure of our administration. but the reality is that when you parties who are willing to take big risks as the former is really leaders did, there is only so far you can get. it was really, do we believe we can resolve this issue diplomatically with the nuclear program? our view was that iran was a bad actor. they threaten terrorism. that is why we wanted to prevent them from getting a nuclear weapon. at the end of the day, prime minister netanyahu didn't want to see that go forward. h

they start to mimic some of the same sayings obama administration had, on the run, decimated. don't go down this route, because you are underselling. the american people need a clear assessment. don't go for the cheap political victory. obama deserves credit for ordering the bin laden raid and taking out a few high-value terrorists, maybe, but don't oversell the picture. mr. hayes: that was good for lightning. how do you feel about waterboarding now in light of all this? mr. joscelyn: i revised my system on waterboarding, because what was said about waterboarding was inaccurate. some of the ways the cia explained was that it was no different than what navy servicemen go through in their training. that is not true. when you read the description, it was far more severe. one of the guys waterboarded went into seizures from waterboarding he experienced. he is not typical of someone going through training. there are a lot of people obsessed with this issue. my view was, waterboarding was used on three al qaeda senior terrorists, all with blood on their hands. if we had bombed them

speech writer for the duration of the obama administration. talking about his new book, the world as it is. your whole reason for coming to washington and later meeting then senator barack obama was your experience in new york on september 11. tell us about that and how that brought you to washington. >> i was on a totally different course in life. i wanted to be a writer. i was working on political campaigns, and on 9/11, it was election day. i was standing at a polling site. i had a clear view of the second plane hitting the first tower falling. i knew then that whatever i was going to do in my life at 24 years old was going to be about what happened next. and i went to an army recruiter who didn't know what to make. found my way down here to work for lee hamilton. i worked my way into foreign policy. but felt i wanted to get involved in politics. politics is how you made change. that led me to the obama camp. >> you are meeting with barack obama fairly quickly thereafter. he brought you on board. this is early in his campaign for the presid

trying to right that wrong under the obama administration. national left wing media hysterical over the president's nomination of brett kavanaugh to the supreme court. oh, my gosh. the little darlings, here they go. >> slamdunk. >> in the trenches with conservative against clinton. >> cul cut his teeth on the star report, moved in right ring legal circles. >> how do you think he feels? he never got the moment that kavanaugh will get. >> a president under investigation, for possibly colluded with a foreign adversary decides who will make our policy for next generation is absolutely insane. lou: there is some insanity. she was looks beyond it. joining us john malcolm, vice president for institute of constitutional government at heritage foundation, great to have you with us. heritage foundation and federalist society playing a person role in creating that list of 25 names from which the ha--president has been working o great applause for choices he made, two already, to the supreme court. kudos to the heritage foundation, and to the federal soc

about the 12 russians yesterday took place during the obama administration, not the trump administration. why didn't they do something about it, especially when it was reported that president obama was informed by the fbi in september before the election. now, it is interesting this should happen. he is referring to the indictments that came yesterday. the white house issued a statement, did not acknowledge this was essentially an attack on the united states. now president trump is saying obama should have done more. jim, as you know, president obama tried to do some things, even though his staff criticized him for not doing more, but the counter intelligence investigation into this was launched under the obama administration, obama cia director warned counterparts in russia and president obama warned putin directly in a meeting about russian meddling. there's plenty of evidence there were attempts to do things before the election. president trump is not even willing to sort of address now what is a crucial issue which is what happens now. what happens when there's an election three mont

or maybe the obama administration were such wonderful peace loving people that nowadays they're busy volunteer ring of fire departments and working in homeless shelters in and knitting doilies for the underprivileged who have been there we are doing. but no no that's not really what's going down journalist zack harder and paul blumenthal did a little digging and here's what they found is a little where are they now from the obama administration janet johnson obama's head of the department of homeland security and sole proprietor the name jack these days. these days johnson received two hundred ninety thousand dollars a year to serve on the board of lockheed martin the largest american defense contractor and the world's biggest weapons manufacturer the world's biggest merchant of death show much more aggressive than the doily thing. his job is to make sure lockheed martin gets government contracts many of which are with the department of homeland security his former office how convenient. to say yeah hey bill could you send us lots of money for guns. judge johnson called trump separat

get that off my chest so for this segment let's spend some time on the obama administration where are they now rights we're led to believe the obama administration where these wonderful public servants who fought for truth and justice and say the pledge of allegiance quietly to themselves before masturbating so you. so where are they now i mean i mean they tell us trump is a fascist a dictator destroying tomography then shouldn't obama and joe biden be like storming the white house on some sort of mad max vehicle with spikes sticking out of it should we see hillary and eric holder like voltage trumps motors without buccaneer knife in their teeth as a sex addict iran i.r.s. . or maybe the obama administration were such wonderful but he's loving people that nowadays they're busy volunteer ring of fire department the working at a homeless shelter is it a knitting doilies for the underprivileged who have never had to a week. with no. oh no that's not really what's going down journalist zack harder and paul blumenthal did a little digging and here's what they found is a little where are th

or maybe the obama administration were such wonderful peace loving people that nowadays they're busy volunteer in the fire department. working in homeless shelters it and knitting doilies for the underprivileged who have been married to a week. but no no that's not really what's going down journalist zack harder and paul blumenthal did a little digging and here's what they found is a little where are they now for the obama administration jed johnson obama's head of the department of homeland security and sole proprietor the name jack these days . these days xians are received two hundred ninety thousand dollars a year to serve on the board of lockheed martin the largest american defense contractor and the world's biggest weapons manufacturer the world's biggest merchant of death show much more aggressive than the doily thing i. hear ya used to make sure lockheed martin gets government contracts many of which are with the department of homeland security his former office how convenient that susie yeah hey bill could you send us lots of money for guns. judge johnson called trump separa

this is during the obama administration, they were doing whatever it was during the obama administration. >> so he says he hadn't thought about requesting the extradition of 12 officials. what do you want president trump to do when he meets with vladimir putin and the building behind me tomorrow? >> i don't think putin will probably deliver the 12 russian spies. but i sure as heck think the president of the united states ought to ask that these russian spies are actually released to the american government for american -- legal process to continue. they attacked our government. let's take mueller investigation in full over 30 indictments, five guilty pleas and we still have whole questions around obstruction of justice and the various people part of the trump campaign who are now cooperating with the government to see whether there was absolutely collusion. these are still questions mr. mueller's investigation have to answer and i just wish the one thing that president would stop doing was stop calling this a witch hunt. this has been a very productive investigation that put further proo

they were doing whatever it was during the obama administration. >> so he says he hadn't thought about requesting the extradition of these 12 officials. what do you want president trump to do when he meets in the building behind me tomorrow? >> i don't think putinwill probably deliver those 12 russian spies. i sure think the president of the united states ought to ask that these russian spies are actually released to the american legal process to continue. they attacked our government. >> it is to put it around the russian interventions. do you have hesitation criticizing president trump while he is overseas that politics should stop at the water's edge? >> listen. i am saying to mr. trump let's make sure we put more people in that meeting with putin, a trained agent. we need to make sure that the americans and for that matter the world gets a straight story of what happens in that meeting. let's also examine the fact that this is a president throughout the last week who is basically treated our allies like adversaries that were totally inappropriate and continue to street our adversar

security clearance revoke not yet but for those six former obama administration ofs,

administration, not the trump administration. why didn't they do something about it, especially when it was reported that president obama was informed by the fbi in

now for the obama administration jed johnson obama is head of the department of homeland security and sole proprietor the name jack these days. these days johnson received two hundred ninety thousand dollars a year to serve on the board of lockheed martin the largest american defense contractor and the world's biggest weapons manufacturer the world's biggest merchant of death much more aggressive than the doily thing. job is to make sure lockheed martin gets government contracts many of which are with the department of homeland security his former office how convenient. suzy yeah hey ben could you send us lots of money for guns. judge johnson called trump separating children from their parents immoral and un-american he's involved in however he's involved in these super american activity of selling weapons to kill lots of people so i'm not sayin don't attack the trump administration go to town i buy like a half a golf course go in there like a midlife crisis trying to get his ball out of the office i by god get a good job i don't. can't like go to town on drama. you're working for a w

what you saw at the very beginning of the trump administration as opposed to the end of the obama administration was that the bureaucrats and the administrators went at it immediately trying to things add 34i68, nministrative bothering with congress. you can do things quicker that way, but they're more durable. i'll give you a quick example of that. when you saw the obama administration change the rules on transgendered and being allowed to serve in the united states military, that was done very quickly. that was celebrated in some quarters. questioned in others. but as soon as you had a new administration, they were able to reverse that. and so when you think about lasting and durable changes, you come to the congressional aspect and legislative aspect and that's why these midterm elections are going to be so contentious. not only do we have emotional zee bates about abortion and roe v. wade and what's going to happen with the supreme court nominee, but you also have the very real issue of how you legislate and how you investigate. and that's why i suspect you're going to citi a lot of energy o

was in office, what does it say about the obama administration's response? >> i think that we can clear i will say at this point that -- that the way that the obama administration handled the information that it had as early as september of 2016 could be called into question in terms of it was definitely worthy of probably in hindsight at least a bigger reaction, however, again, this is an ongoing investigation and there was a lot of concerns we learned through hearings and through the -- inspector general's report, there's been a lot of concerns not only by the fbi but by the white house under the obama administration in terms of not interfering with the election process. the irony is, however, then the election process was interfered with anyways, so certainly i think that things could have been handled better by the obama administration, however, that does not exculpate president trump from the way he's reacted to the information that he's had during his administration about the russian hacking, about now the russian government connection to the hacking a

the russians and the obama administration. the democrats defend the obama administration and all of a sudden they don't like the russians so they've been kowtowing like in 1917. >> sean: that's why they call you the great one. we will see mark on sunday night, the number one show on cable at 10:00 p.m. when we come back, dr. sebastian gorka, dan bongino, and the other news of the day. don't touch that television dial, we need you. that's why there's otezla. otezla is not an injection or a cream. it's a pill that treats psoriasis differently. with otezla, 75% clearer skin is achievable after just 4 months, ... with reduced redness, thickness, and scaliness of plaques. and the otezla prescribing information has no requirement for routine lab monitoring. don't use if you're allergic to otezla. otezla may cause severe diarrhea, nausea, or vomiting. tell your doctor if these occur. otezla is associated with an increased risk of depression. tell your doctor if you have a history of depression or suicidal thoughts, or if these feelin

do you think that would be appropriate during an on-going campaign that the obama administration would be kept up to speed on a russia collusion investigation? do you think that would be appropriate? >> sir, you're mixing a couple of things. it would be entirely appropriate for the white house to be aware and concerned about what the government of russia was doing with regard to elections. >> that was not my question. i agree. i have a bill that i encourage my colleagues to talk about russian interference, where we can make sure that didn't happen. we're talking about investigation that would include collusion being talked about with the white house. we have evidence that would suggest not once, not twice, not three times but four times it was discussed with people in the obama administration. were you aware of any discussion that took place with regards to russia collusion investigation that took place with the obama administration's executive branch? >> so i want to ask you, sir, when you say investigations, are you talking about investigations i'm not saying there were or were not,

or maybe the obama administration were such wonderful peace loving people that nowadays they're busy volunteer in the fire department. working in homeless shelters it and knitting doilies for the underprivileged who have never had to a week with. but no. oh no that's not really what's going down journalist zack harder and paul blumenthal did a little digging and here's what they found is a little where are they now for the obama administration jed johnson obama's head of the department of homeland security and sole proprietor the name jack these days . these days johnson received two hundred ninety thousand dollars a year to serve on the board of lockheed martin the largest american defense contractor and the world's biggest weapons manufacturer the world's biggest merchant of death so much more aggressive than the doily thing i. hear ya obvious to make sure lockheed martin gets government contracts many of which are with the department of homeland security his former office how convenient . susie yeah. could you send us lots of money for guns. judge johnson called trump separating c

because i get that off my chest so for this segment let's spend some time on the obama administration where are they now rights we're led to believe the obama administration where these wonderful public servants who fought for truth and justice and say the pledge of allegiance quietly to themselves before masturbating . so where are they now i mean i mean they tell us trump is a fascist a dictator destroying tomography then shouldn't obama and joe biden be like storming the white house on some sort of mad max vehicle with spikes taking out of it should we see hillary and eric holder like vaulted it trumps motorcade with our buccaneer knife in their teeth as a sex tapper to iran i.r.s. . or maybe the obama administration were such wonderful but he's loving people that nowadays they're busy volunteer ring of fire department. working in a homeless shelter is it a knitting doilies for the underprivileged who have never had to a week with. but no. oh no that's not really what's going down journalist zack harder and paul blumenthal did a little digging and here's what they found is a little

but again this was during the obama administration. they were doing whatever it was during the obama administration. i heard people were trying to hack into the rnc, too, the republican national convention but we had better defenses. i think the dnc should be ashamed of themselves for allowing themselves to be hacke hacked. >> this is one of the instances where the president says is as important as he doesn't say. you didn't hear him defend the election system. he attacked president obama and the democrats as he did over the weekend on twitter so as you mentioned the president is making his way here from scotland. he doesn't have official events once he arrives here so here's the schedule with the usual caveat that this is subject to change. 6:00 a.m. eastern he has the one on one sit down with the russian president followed by a meeting an hour later where usual officials would be in the room. we expect the russian ambassador to the u.s. as well as the secretary of state to be in that meeting and it's followed up by that joint press c

again, this is during the obama administration. they were doing whatever it was during the obama administration. i heard they were trying or people were trying to hack into the rnc, too, the republican national committee, but we had much better defenses. i had been told that by a number of people. i think the dnc should be ashamed of themselves for allowing themselves to be hacked. >> reporter: there you have in that clip, what many people are worried about, president trump and vladimir putin will agree, the obama administration was a very bad thing and, actually, donald trump would rub his shoulder and move on once vladimir putin says no, no, i have nothing to do, officially, with the hacking of the american democratic process. that's one of many, many worries. the summit will begin when the two of them sit down without note takers or advisers and just translaters there. donald trump said this would be the easiest part of his european tour after that meeting with nato allies after a meeting with britain's prime minister, theresa m

the russians and the obama administration. the democrats defend the obama administration and all of a sudden they don't like the russians so they've been kowtowing like in 1917. >> sean: that's why they call you the great one. we will see mark on sunday night, the number one show on cable at 10:00 p.m. right here on the fox news channel. when we come back, dr. sebastian gorka, dan bongino, and the other news of the day. don't touch that television dial, we need you. ♪ touch shows how we really feel. but does psoriasis ever get in the way? embrace the chance of 100% clear skin with taltz. up to 90% of those with moderate to severe psoriasis had a significant improvement of their psoriasis plaques. most people were still clearer after one year. with taltz, 4 out of 10 even achieved completely clear skin. don't use if you're allergic to taltz. before starting, you should be checked for tuberculosis. taltz may increase risk of infections and lower your ability to fight them. tell your doctor if you have an infection, symptoms, o

i think he loved the obama administration. obama refused to get involved in syria. he stated he wouldn't go in response to the war taking place there. putin only needed to hear that so many times before he decided to go in himself ostensibly to fight isis. but now what he's look at is the opportunity to sell weapons around the middle east, to gain new clients around the middle east. he cozies up with iran and his mullah and the assad regime. i think we can expect him to double down on that primarily because when didn't hear much from the president telling him that was not how responsible

, the obama administration. corrupt to the core. >> and the president, who we both love has to basically clean this thing up. he has ability to do that should do that right now. lou: do you think he should straight away? >> absolutely. lou: all classified material put it out there. >> absolutely. lou: i don't think there is another way to inoculate this country further against the expansion of this horrible, idealogical corruption. i think the president, i think he is a only one who can fix it. it begins with utter transparency. >> totally agree. lou: ed, always good to see you. >> thank you. lou: ed rollins. twice failed presidential hopeful, that's right, hillary rodham clinton making a public appearance this weekend. the picture we thought was worthy of note but we didn't think any of our comments would be worthy, so we thought we would just let this picture speak to you directly. there it is. up next, the national level-wing media tough talk on iran. maybe a little dose of that. what do you think? >> the pro

also, new questions about what if anything the obama administration did to stop it. president trump tweeting about that fact just this morning and now democrats are facing some tough questions. take a listen to cnn's jake tapper. >> you read the indictment and you think the obama administration, they really missed the ball on this. yes, they issued that report but president obama said, what did he say, he told putin to cut it out or knock it off. it wasn't particularly strong. in retrospect doesn't it seem perhaps the obama administration was to a degree asleep at the switch. leland: bring is congressman dan killdee. fair critique there? >> i think obviously in trough expect we all -- retrospect we wish there was firmer action against the russians. it felt as if the administration was attempting to look as if they were not introducing this subject in the middle of the campaign. to be fair, in december of 2016 the obama administration did put forward some pretty robust sanctions which congress eventually took up and passed in 2017. leland: does it seem a little bit mo

are you aware of any conversations that happened with obama administration officials? >> i am certainly aware of conversations that occurred with obama administration officials. i am aware of a variety of conversations that took place across the u.s. intelligence community talking about the russian efforts. i am aware, my recollection and understanding, again, i was not present at any briefing. my understanding is there were not discussions of identities of individual u.s. persons who may or may not have been the subject of investigations. >> you are parsing words. >> you asked me to parse words. if you want a specific answer to be careful, the only way i can do it is by parsing. >> the chair recognizes the gentleman for 5 minutes. >> thank you. mr. chairman. against the wisdom of my grandmother that said that when you see a circus going on, don't jump in the middle of it and expect people not to call you a clown, i will ask questions anyway. it's a distraction from real issues we should be talking about in this country. we have asked this committee to have a hearing o

what the obama administration did in response as to what they learned? >> yeah, that's a really good question. let's start with the obviously point. this isn't an attack on our country the first thing we do is we say, go, it didn't happen on my watch. technically speaking, it is correct. i'll say two things about that. the story needs to be told and told again that they when to the nancy pelosi to mitch mcconnell to the speaker of the house and the leadership and said we have a very serious attack about occurring and about to occur. we need to talk to the american people about it. to warn them about it the senate leader, mitch mcconnell said, no this is a partisan attempt to do x, y, z, i will not permit it. mitch million ccconnell said st is happening. yes, i do believe the obama administration should have responded more. we seen the closure of two facilities. >> that is a lot more pain extracted from him. >> thank you so much for being with us this morning. ? thank you. >> still to come, 12 boys and a soccer coach rescued from that thailand cave are ex

it stopped a deal after the agreement with the obama administration. they say you are launching satellites, but this could be used to deliver a warhead. the north korea yns said this i all for peace. i spoke to an official a few years ago. listen. >> what can you say to the world to prove this is not a ballistic missile program in disguise? >> translator: why would we drop nuclear bombs on the people of the world including the united states? >> reporter: we know since there were a lot of threats to drop bombs on the united states and elsewhere. north korea is taking steps to denuclearization and taking apart the sohae launch site. they launched a couple of satellites from the site. they use liquid fuel from there. you roll the missile out and they assemble it for a period of time before it is launched. north korea has moved on from sohae. they have moved on to solid fuel technology. those missiles can be rolled out quickly and launched from mobile launchers. that is what north korea has been doing in recent years. this is i am bis symbolic. this is one

administration corrupt absolutely and while they want you all the obama administration that you the people used to be there want you to care about stopping donald trump the last administration or enriching themselves in that how low the halls of war profiteers and wall street banks how do you walk to d.c. to thank you. welcome welcome on the only camp now let's take the news from behind as you know i try to avoid whichever stories attract the mainstream media's frantic idiocy each week but i also know that some of you probably want to know who to trust on the latest hysteria does your for example robert waller just indicted twelve russians for supposedly orchestrating a cyber attack on the d.n.c. meanwhile a longtime veteran of the intelligence community and former weapons inspector scott ritter has. list a column in troop dig this weekend titled indictment of twelve russians under the shiny wrapping a political act and he points out that there is one major problem with the indictment it doesn't prove that which it asserts and it's not backed up by anything that demonstrates how the

administration. they believe that the crisis that we have right now and to some extent the syrian crisis the arming of the rebels and the armed groups and the terrorist groups in that country was all due to the well put it simply incompetence of the obama administration so in that respect putting at least some of the of the blame on the united states may be helpful i think many people in russia would say that they also recognize that russia made mistakes in policy choices but. i would rather look forward rather than trying to you. perhaps unsurprisingly the mainstream media also raised the alarm over the summit calling trump weak and warning that the american president will see too much ground possibly to president putin. is of course not the calmest of people how do you think ill react to this criticism do you think he's going to take that sort of weight with him into the meeting well i think in the thing that this is what the media trying to do the morning watching us in b.c. after a very long time

you worked in the obama administration. as we saw there in the piece president obama expressed similar frustration with european allies a couple of years ago. why aren't the countries, we saw canada, germany, why aren't they meeting the limit? >> there's an actual perception gap here, as well. we have five countries right now meeting the goals. eight more online at the end of the year and technically have until 2024 so they have years to get there. that's the factual side of things. trump is playing to a feeling of the base with a raw deal. and in particular, in bailing out europe. unfortunately, the bulk of our defense spending has been in iraq and afghanistan which is not necessarily a nato approved or nato caused mission. and that's post-9/11 and the president himself asked for a 10% increase in the military defense budget and we are spending a lot on the military and that's something discretionary upon the president and the united states itself. >> phil, there's a line in the letter to merkel that caught not only my eye

this is something that started in the obama administration more than three years ago. some $5 billion, equipment, men, materiel, and at the same time working closely with nato countries. germany, other countries, in eastern europe in the countries of latvia, lithuania, estonia making sure russia knows that e cannot, cannot continue to act as they did in uukraine. quickly, the u.s. standing within the nato organization. do you feel damage has been done? >> absolutely there's been damage. everybody is trying to paper over a very serious breach that the president created. good that they're papering it over. we've got to move forward. got to stay close to nato. got to be with the european union, all of whom the president has attacked after attacking and then says, oh, everything's fine. we've got to work very, very hard to make sure that everything is fine. that we have strong allies in europe and as well in asia. >> representative john garamendi, so good to see you. up close and personal. thank you so much. >>> coming up next, what potential legal trouble roger stone is f