let's tackle susan rice but that is not the main point. arthel: john, these people in washington seem to forget they answer to us because we pay their salaries and the bill than we are the citizens. >> they have completely forgotten that. you cannot over emphasize this point. the nsa is spying on american citizens that have done nothing wrong, people are able to get these names and use them internally or externally for political reasons, something is wrong with that but i agree about susan rice not participating in the senate hearing. becomes a circus about susan rice, trying to find out in a senate hearing about russians interference in the election, susan rice said she would testify in a classified hearing. they should get to the roots of this but if you make this into a political football it detracts from everything that needs to be done. dagen: don't we deserve to hear what she needs to say? i mean everybody. her excuse was it wasn't a bipartisan requests. it was only from lindsey graham. >> that is the most disappointing part of the r

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you are not making an argument against having susan rice come, are you? why is it bad to have more information from a player in this drama? you can tell me susan rice isn't one of those plugged in people in washington under the last administration when all of this occurred. why wouldn't you talk to her? that will be crazy. >> because you already have two witnesses that have the answers. i don't believe she will have the answers. >> tucker: ask her questions. she's not afraid to talk. she's on tv all the time, making up stories about benghazi, or talking about pulling the reductions off names. i just don't get it. why not more? >> because i don't think those are the questions that are going to come her way. i think it's been clear that it has been about unmasking the way that is issue. [laughs] i get it. i'm beginning to think this is more partisan than you guys are presenting it. >> speaking for myself, i don't think that this issue, declining an invitation as a partisan act. it is something that i understand why she is doing it for their rare reasons i j

and now susan rice is turning it around. she's criticizing president trump for a quote rocky and unsteady foreign policy. saying that the president is acting like the quote crazy aunt in the attic. >> the united states is supposed to be the grownup at the dinner table. we're not supposed to be crazy aunt in the attic that nobody knows what is going to do next. liz: joining me now is benghazi attack survivor and coauthor of the book 13 hours, he is mark. good to see you, mark. i love having you go on. >> thank you, liz. liz: do you agree. it's good to see you. do you agree with susan rice is saying about the trump administration? >> well, of course not. i mean, you know, it's ironic that the news media on the left is going to go after the most uncredible person there is, you know? she not only got the story wrong on benghazi, she got the bergdahl issue wrong, she got the iran nuclear arms deal wrong, the information on benghazi if you go back and remember and look through the investigation, she said that she got it from the c

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right now, remember susan rice? she is back in the news again.eg maybe not for the last time.r this morning, president trump tweeted this, "susan rice, the former national security advisor to president obama, is refusing to testify before a senate subcommittee next week on allegations of unmasking trump transition officials. not good!"te susan rice says that she is declining to testify because the invitation wasn't backed by the subcommittee's top democrat, sheldon whitehouse. for reasons of separations of power. the question is, as she hiding anything? joshua gapler, democratic strategist joins us tonight to explain. mr. galper, we have spent the last five months hearing from democrats, we need to know more, get it all out in the open, let's have an investigation, here is an opportunity for susan rice to come in, to explain herself, and she is declining. it is hard to see why. >> tucker, i would explain this this way. let's look at the larger context. this is an investigation into the interference by russia and in

let's talk about susan rice, let me move this forward. susan rice was asked to come before congress to testify. she's former president obama's national security council, she turned down senator graham's request to do that. does that mean a subpoena and why not show up and say what you kn know? >> because she's fearing this entire endeavor has become politicized as a side step, which is true. look what they did, devin nunes, recused himself again. once the smoke was there, he drags out susan rice and now both republicans and democrats are saying after that kerfuffle she did nothing wrong in her job requesting to see information about potentially who was talking or having if you will unsavory conversations with potentially with russia. but they keep distracting you all the time from what should be the focus. who knew what about russia and who's talking and who's lying. i'll say it again, if donald trump has nothing to hide, nothing to lose calling for an independent fully independent investigation, have everyone testify under oath including

why refusing to testify for susan rice. >> reporter: i'm told susan rice used this as a partisan request. lindsay graham and sheldon whoit house wrote to her. he said i don't see your testimony as germane to the subject, which is russian hacking in the election. i was told she was going to accept the invitation when she thought it was coming from republicans and democrats. she saided when she found out, no, it is part sedan. of course, the focus, her concern, is it going to be a conversion to take away the russian experience and focus on the uncorroborated claims that she tried to unmask people relat relates. >> the fbi director, jim comey testified today for four hours. >> yeah. >> he repeatedly and passionately defended his decision to go public with the clinton e-mail just days before the election, right? >> that's exactly right. he said he had no regrets. he said it was a very difficult, he said even painful decision for him personally that he's gone back over since then many times. each time he does, he doums the conclusion that he made the right call. at times definal and other tim

right now susan rice, who spoke earlier at this conference. >> good morning, everyone, i'm susan rice, and you may have seen a parody of me on certain cable news channels. since i left the white house, i've become deeply concerned that the united states is squandering one of our greatest strategic assets, america's leadership of the world. i'm here to argue for a better strategy, a progressive strategy that will renew our global leadership. it seems that the current administration looks at the world and sees only threats. immigrants, refugees, muslims, mexicans, even trade. it's america first and the rest of the world last. i fully recognize that we face serious threats. i spent eight years actually reading the presidential daily briefing. and the last three and a half years personally briefing president obama. but the world i see is also filled with profound opportunities. our relationships are not zero sum. they should be mutually beneficial. through enlightened self interest, we can expand opportunity, not hoard it for the few. i believe the responsible national security strategy m

closed doors first he talks to us about susan rice and others. there is more. congress going after north korea. we'll tell you what all that is about today. may the 4th be with you on this may 4th. see you in ten minutes, top of the hour.

it seems the susan rice anglingf this will be the dominant story. if she has to be seen ad. it will make her look a lot worse. >> this story transitions through a number of phases. the question was, was the trump campaign complicit? did they work with russia? now this information obtained through whether it's fisa warrants. information obtained through america's collecting capabilities. why was this released? so it's really in many ways democrats having badly handled this when they were in charge that aloud this story. they thought they had the trump team corners to being bad for them. charles: the big business of small business. i'll explain. we're on to you, diabetes. time's up, insufficient prenatal care. and administrative paperwork... your days of drowning people are numbered. same goes for you, budget overruns. and ring costs, wipe that smile off your face. we're coming for you, too. for those who won't rest until the world is healthier, neither will we. optum. how well gets done. charles: president trump arabia, brussels,ed the vatican and israel. pneumococcal pneumon

taking aim -- no surprise -- at susan rice. on twitter, he write, susan rice, the former national security adviser to president obama, is refusing to testify before senate subcommittee next week on allegations of unmasking trump transition officials. not good! i'm impressed that was 140subco into russia's intervention in the election, and rice was mentioned in transcripts about targets. an attorney for rice said she declined the invitation from lindsey graham because it wasn't bipartisan in nature, citing that ranking democrat itehouse objected. i want to bring in former george w. bush speechwriter and special assistant, senior editor at the atlantic, and julie hershfield davis at the "wall street journal." susan rice has been a lightning rod for republicans. you can go back to benghazi. what do you make of the latest and the president's reactions? >> president trump is a gambler. he is willing to take a lot of risks. what the story here is, there was, allegedly, a foreign espionage penetration of the american political campaig

why won't susan rice talk? >> bret: hillary clinton is obviously convinced of the linkage, the collusion, even though there's not evidence that we've seen. she talked about it at length today about the linkage and she believes the trump campaign is there. here are former clinton cia director and former obama cia director. "there's a lot of things i've seen, i think have been disclosed too much. the real scandal here, makes it hard for the secrecy that's essential for the operation of the u.s. government. i think people who have broken these tacit informal agreements taking classified information attorney lids are basically traitors to the country." then you have michael morel and the obama administration, acting cia director about the kushner story on "the washington post" " just a perspective of two former democratic cia directors. >> democratic is the keyword. they are not partisans. what they are speaking for is the institutions, and they are basically saying you might have a romantic notion. being a deep th

he said susan rice is refusing to testify before senate subneat next week. not good. yul yet. should suzann rice testify? >> no. because it's not within the scope of the hearing. i find it odd that people like jason and donald trump says these investigations are going on too long. any good american should want our intelligence committees to find out so they don't impact future elections. susan rice was invited, was' all know now under pretenses that suggested this was a committee invite. it was not. it was one senator's invite. therefore, she declined. >> yes. >> if a republican were invited under false pretenses, if the departments were in the majority they would probably be doing the same thing. >> cory booker came on last night and told me i wish she would come and testify. lindsay graham's a straight hooter. >> i think we have a preliminary problem more than a substantive problem at this stage. because she is now a focus of trump. i understand why cory booker would want her testify. the notion that she would know something -- for 40 years administrations have had rules abo

former national security adviser susan rice have argued that their activities were legal under the so-called minimization rule that changes -- that's the change that obama made. and that the intelligence agencies were strictly monitored to avoid abuses. >> within the context of the trump campaign, the trump transition, did you seek the names of people involved in -- to unmask the names of people involved in the trump transition, the trump campaign? people surrounding the president-elect? >> let me begin. >> in order to spy on them. >> absolutely not for any political purposes to spy, expose, anything. >> you know, the denial, that interview was done from her with all of this was surrounding engulfing washington. and, you know, this new report states that the intelligence court and the nsa's own internal watch dog found this not to be true. her denial to andrea mitchell. i want to bring in right now the man who sued the obama administration over the nsa

"watters world" takes on susan rice, bill maher and hillary clinton. a psychiatrist at yale claims trump is mentally ill. he's here to defend his he's here to defend his diagnosis did you know slow internet can actually hold your business back? say goodbye to slow downloads, slow backups, slow everything. comcast business offers blazing fast and reliable internet that's over 6 times faster than slow internet from the phone company. say hello to internet speeds up to 250 mbps. and add phone and tv for only $34.90 more a month. call today. comcast business. built for business. >> this man has been erratic since day one. but he has a confused mental state that has gotten worse. we are not diagnosing anything. but there is no doubt there is something impacting his thought process. >> song is wrong with him. the republican party is enabling the mental illness on a daily basis. jesse: the mainstream media ramping up their attacks on president trump. suggesting he's suffering from a mental illness. 800 mental health professions have formed a group called "dut

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security adviser susan rice and amy klobuchar. [indiscernible conversation] cake please welcome to the stage -- >> please welcome to the stage. [indiscernible] >> can you hear me now? great. i am going to give the governor an extra minute given that little snafu. we're pleased to have the oven or with us. governor, since you have been have relatively short tenure since november, your opponents have worked hard to throw obstacles in your way and in the way of north carolina citizens in exercising their right to vote. just yesterday we heard the supreme court decided not to review a case that would have -- [applause] regarding one of the most comprehensive anti-voter laws we have seen in a very long time. maybe we could start with you talking about the dynamics around that. restrict people's rights devoted north carolina. >> sure. north carolina is an epicenter for the fight for the right to vote. when you look at what the republican national legislature is done of the past couple disastrous.s been the fourth circuit said the north

. >> harris: former national security advisor susan rice is under fire for refusing to testify before a senate panel. in the unmasking of u.s. citizens during the russian investigation. nine top lawmaker says her refusal makes it seem like she has something to hide. does she? we'll talk about it. we are waiting a big vote in the house. republicans making another push to repeal and replace obamacare. they say they have the votes. stay close. usaa gives me the peace of mind and the security just like the marines did. the process through usaa is so effortless, that you feel like you're a part of the family. i love that i can pass the membership to my children. we're the williams family, and we're usaa members for life. introducing new depend silhouette active fit, with a thin design for complete comfort. they say "move it or lose it" and at my age, i'm moving more than ever. because getting older is inevitable. but feeling older? that's something i control. get a free sample at depend.com. hi, i'm frank. i take movantik for oic, opioid-induced constipation. had a bad back injury, my doct

that's very troubling. >> they asked susan rice to testify but they haven't subpoenaed her. do you think a subpoena is coming? >> i'm not really sure. i saw the push back on the susan rice request where it wasn't bipartisan, where everyone else that was requested to appear was coming from both sides of the aisle. i am perfectly capable to say that people play politics, but it seems to beafter the e, quote, unmasking, scenario came out that she was the one who was asking for information about what trump transition officials were doing, who they were talking to, that both democrats and republicans agreed that she had done nothing outside the bounds of normal protocol there. but i could see a subpoena coming for sure. both sides love to put their people up there. susan rice is a target ever since ben ghazi. >> maria: there is a conversation taking place this afternoon if obama knew that there were issues around michael flynn, why didn't they do anything about it? why didn't they stop his national security clearance? sean spicer talked about this today. listen to this. >> presid

then we have the unmasking issue, then we have susan rice saying i'm not going to go and testify before theav senate subcommittee. how many people were unmasked? tell us how deep this isn't tell us what laws were broken? >> 35,000 americans names were run through the nsa database last year by the obama administration, 35,000. to put that in perspective, that's three to 400% more that were run in 2013 there's only a few possibilities. either we have a whole lot more terrorist in the country or a somebody has a lot of explaining to do that were started to look at people's dossiers into folders in the nsa who don't e really post national security threats. >> sean: i want people to know.si what were suggesting here such a dramatic increase that there's a very strong likelihood that the obama administration at the t highest levels used our national security agency and literally unmasked, surveilled at thel american people under the guise of national security and there is no way it was possible. >> someone has to do some explaining it apparently doesn't seem to be susan rice who doesn't want

ambassador, do you think susan rice should testify. if she didn't do anything other than a national security job she should say so i think everything that she said publicly so far and what we know from other reported sources is illegitimate. if that's not the case. i would go through a congressional committee. we have seen her being proven wrong after the fact. then she admitted to knowing about it. i don't think she can. honestly from her own perspective if there is no problem here it is to her own interest to reestablish her credibility. she is a private citizen now she can say she doesn't want to testify. indy appropriate committee can issue a subpoena. at least they have a summary course. i don't think this story is over. susan it seems that she looks like she's something to hide. i'm afraid that she does. i had been through this experience with a deep minimizing names of american citizens myself. if you haven't have a legitimate national security reason to see the american name in the national security agency. but if you say to th

then we have the unmasking issue, then we have susan rice saying i'm not going to go and testify before the senate subcommittee. how many people were unmasked? tell us how deep this isn't tell us what laws were broken? >> 35,000 americans names were run through the nsa database last year by the obama administration, 35,000. to put that in perspective, that's three to 400% more that were run in 2013 there's only a few possibilities. either we have a whole lot more terrorist in the country or somebody has a lot of explaining to do that were started to look at people's dossiers into folders in the nsa who don't really post national security threats. a >> sean: i want people to know. what were suggesting here such a dramatic increase that there's a very strong likelihood that the obama administration at the highest levels used our national security agency and literally unmasked, surveilled at the american people under the guise of national security and there is no way it was possible. >> someone has to do some explaining it apparently doesn't seem to be susan rice who doesn't want to testif

in a include for form -- susan rice. john brennan, samantha power, all of these officials seeking to unmask the names of trump campaign officials, the come i -- committee seeking classified documents from the agents, so far the committee has met nothing but resis stanlt froresistance from the agent, james rose we rosen with our report. reporter: fbi concerned they were served with sou supervisorinas, each named as figures of interest three senior obama era officials, former "house" national security adviser susan rice was dedicated last month. rice at the time denied wrong doing and told us today she is unaware of subpoenas directed at her, and john bron an was also named in the declineys of in the land. brennan declined our request for comment, the soup en' naimi of samantha power, she is a former. >> she served in barack obama senate office before joining his administration. they are now devoting greater scrutiny to power, they don't to see her roll. contacted by fox news, power declined to cometoda disclose use well s

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it wasn't susan rice per why are you going after her? >> eric: because she knows. >> the intelligence community does the unmasking. >> eric: the only reason i can come up with this political reasons. >> i don't understand. >> kat: it is hard to prove what her motivations were. if she claims it was something else. >> eboni: she wants more context to talk about the constitutionality and other things at play. >> national security advisor is almost the only entity that can ask for this information. i think she acted properly. she acted honestly. i've known her for many years. she's a woman of high integrity. >> eric: we are talking about the same woman who went on five separate talkshows and blamed a videotape for the attack at benghazi. >> we all agree about russia. it's difficult to continue make the claim that you want to get to the bottom of what happened with russia when somebody thinks thinks -- so many things become politicized. >> eric: thank you, dana loesch. that's it. thank you, governor richardson. thank you for watching. follow

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breaking news, susan rice refusing to testify. that just breaking, president obama's national security advisor just moments ago sending a letter to say she will not appear before a panel in the senate judiciary committee. rice says it is because the invitation came from the republicans only and didn't include the democrats. quote, given the nature of the request, rice has declined the invitation. that and much more in this letter. after today's dramatic testimony in front of the judiciary committee. did he stupidly treat presidential candidates clinton and trump differently? in other words, did he pick sides in the 2016 election? today the director arguing to a not completely convinced senate judiciary committee that he treated clinton and trump the same, and that his decision to disclose the clinton investigation e-mails just days before the election was the right call. >> i faced a choice, and i've lived my entire career by the tradition if you can possibly avoid it, you avoid any action in the run-up to an election that might h

david, i want to get to susan rice in just a moment, but first the breaking news into cnn. we are going to hear from the national security adviser, h.r. mcmaster. he will brief the press, we are now just learning, at 11:30. it's a lot sooner than we had previously thought. and he is doing it alone. we will only hear from h.r. mcmaster in public. he will be the public face of the defense over stories that the president shared classified information with the russians. what's the significance of this? >> well, first of all, the significance is, as you said, he will be alone. that was not what was originally advised on the white house schedule. it was that he was going to join sean spicer at the daily press briefing. we now will not see sean spicer on camera. so, you are right, h.r. mcmaster, as we saw last night in the white house driveway, john, will be the face of this. as you know, he was in the room, as he said last night, when this event happened. president trump talking to the russians. and his credibility is on the line right now. this is somebody who the president nomi

susan rice, the national security advisor, former cia director john brennan and former u.n. ambassador samantha power. all three subpoenas referenced on masking, a big signal that the house intel committee is escalating its investigation into national security leaks. i wonder what these could possibly become of the standard for unmasking is very subjective. there could be something incriminating. i don't know. >> eric: can we point this out again? i am thrilled, the house intel committee. susan rice, national security advisor under president obama was the one who unmasked flynn's name after they said no, we don't see any need to unmask it. somehow figured out -- they asked for documents. hoping there are some emails explaining why she wanted them unmasked. my hunch is that it's purely politics. to keep plausible deniability away from president obama, she asked for the trump administration person who had dealings with the russians, unmasked against the nsa, cia, and fbi. >> eboni: you could be right. it could be politically motivated. as kat points out, the standard is loose

perhaps you saw the susan rice unmasking documents, it led him to send that tweet. it was an imprecise tweet. it's one that should have been sought over. maybe twitter wasn't the best medium to send that out. but there's a question about the unmasking of people in the trump campaign by cia officials. >> unmasking wasn't what the president was talking about initially. >> but there is a case to be made that wiretapping is a term that's been used since the 80s to use surveillance in a broader way, it can be defined broader than just obama tapping -- >> he sent the tweet and called it a wiretap and then later learned from nunes, because he was concerned about unmasking. that unmasking he learned about weeks later. >> i was in congress when he passed the patriot act. i was in congress and got classified briefings on eric snowden's treason. i think there should be a lot of concern, democrat and republican on surveillance of american people during the metal data debate. we track your phone calls but we don't listen, no, we don't frack your phone calls. we have gotten a lot

. >> which is what soozen rice is all about -- >> it has nothing to do with susan rice, and that is a complete distraction. don't do that. >> that's not true. another thing is -- >> we're going to consider the question of sally yates today and get her thoughts on the hearing. life. intelligent technology can help protect it. the all-new audi q5 is here. ♪ ♪ i'm dr. kelsey mcneely and some day you might be calling me an energy farmer. ♪ energy lives here. the shlike a bald penguin. how do i look? [ laughing ] show me the billboard music awards.

i think the concern is that it went far beyond susan rice. susan rice, although be it asu very important player, we don't have all the information out yet, i know that right now they haven't seen all of the reports from the nsa with regards to the unmasking of the people are still going through that. there is concern that it went far beyond her to other high-level officials and that it wasn't solely focused on russia. this has to be the question. why weren't they unmasking these conversations, americans, if they didn't have anything to do with russia? what was the national security concern here? this is why people need to be brought forth before the house and intelligence community to answer questions. >> sean: in 2015 and in 2016, you and john solomon reported ao dramatic acceleration in the number of people surveilled and unmasked. there's just a lot that has happened to be connected to l donald trump.e it's a widespread and release and unmask, isn't that a crime? >> it changed a lot. releasing the intelligence, yes, that is a crime. of cou

breaking news, susan rice refusing to testify. that just breaking, president obama's national security advisor just moments ago sending a letter to say she will not appear before a panel in the senate judiciary committee. rice says it is because the invitation came from the republicans only and didn't include the democrats. quote, given the nature of the request, rice has declined the invitation. that and much more in this letter. after today's dramatic testimony in front of the judiciary committee. did he stupidly treat presidential candidates clinton and trump differently? in other words, did he pick sides in the 2016 election? today the director arguing to a not completely convinced senate judiciary committee that he

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i would say -- i'll go back to joe lewis' quote on susan rice. this is a woman who said there was no genocide in rwanda. >> the president -- the president of the united states -- the president of the united states of america has accused his predecessor of violating the law and the constitution by wiretapping him. that is a -- it's a provocation. he has -- >> the outcome, they lose this tool, that's going to be a big deal. >> we have to leave it there. >>> the new republican health care plan is on the verge of failure. where the whip stands tonight. and why gop congressman says the list of no votes could be longer than expected. and we're keeping an eye on may day protests in several cities, after arrests in portland and protesters destroying property. more than one flavor, or texture, or color. a good clean salad is so much more than green. and with panera catering, more for your event. panera. food as it should be. but with my back pain i couldn't sleep or get up in time. then i found aleve pm. the only one to combine a safe sleep aid plus the 1

and of course we know that susan rice is not the first time she hasn't told the truth. we remember the benghazi scandal, which is still going on. cheryl: uh-huh. >> we know about this. but now we have confirmation that this is happening. and it's just one aspect of our lawsuit. in fact, it's titled claman versus obama. you can find that at freedomwatch.org. these are crimes, serious crimes. and this is what special counsel robert muller should be investigating as part of his independent counsel investigation. and of course we're pursuing it in court. we're going to be going back in front of the judge seeking -- cheryl: well, let me just stop you. before you move on, though. so -- but doesn't muller already have that authority to include this? or does he actually need to get additional authority from the attorney generals office? i'm not sure. >> he does have the authority insofar as that the masking occurred of the russian collusion. that's the pretext for it. so he can move into that. now, the problem is that muller, and i've had experience with him, is a very politica

i think the concern is that it went far beyond a susan rice. susan rice although be at a very important player, we don't have all the information out yet, i know that right now they haven't seen all of the reports from the nsa with regards to the unmasking of the people are still going through that. there is concern that it went far beyond her two other high-level officials and that it wasn't solely focused on russia. this has to be the question. why were they unmasking these conversations, americans, if they didn't have anything to do with russia? what was the national security concern here? this is why people need to be brought forth before the house and intelligence community to answer questions. 2015 and in 2016 come up with you and john solomon reported a dramatic acceleration in the number of people surveilled and unmasked. for just a lot that has happened to be connected to donald trump. it's a widespread and release an estimate so that a crime? >> it changed a lot. releasing the intelligence, yes, that is a crime. of course. that's the

rice declined her invitation and president trumis tweing out this morning, quote, susan rice, former national security advisor to former president obama is refusing to testify before a senate subcommittee next week on, he continues, allegations of unmasking trump transition officials. not good. molly hemingway joins us now, federalist senior editor. it is not good, molly, is she going to get away with it? >> this is ridiculous. we need to know from her what was going on. we know there was unmasking of trump officials during the transition. this unmasking of information was not necessary for intelligence reasons. it had nothing to do with russia. the information was widely disseminated. this is kind of abuse of the intelligence system we have to be really on guard against and we need to know a lot more about it. so she is not appear something really not a great sign. charles: i think also another big issue or question for people, last-minute decisions by the obama administration that made it possible for so many more people to have access to this. so many more sources of potential lea

obama and susan rice and the gang. can president trump super defamation of character and force the democrats to put up or shut up in terms of evidence? this witchhunt is costing american taxpayers a fortune. it is ridiculous. guest: let me go to your question. he can sue for defamation but he won't be successful. there's a case called "new york that" versus sullivan imposes a higher standard on public officials suing people for slander. you have to show what is called the actual malice standard. the people whose head is about you either knew it was false or showed reckless disregard to respond to what he thinks is false. e have to be very careful we don't start burning the foundation of our democracy in this fit of passion on both sides. host: speaking to that, vivian the thought her head exploded when she heard mr. comey was fired, but she's far concerned about who will replace him. what faces that person? your head an, i hope is okay. i think there has been a lot of reckless about ertain sheriff being appointed and r

susan rice is declining to testify at that hearing on monday. she called the request a diversion from what is supposedly the topic of the hearing, the trump campaign and russia and noted the invitation came just from the republican side of that committee and the ranking democrat of the committee said the white house backed her up on that saying it was not actually a bipartisan request to testify and he supports her decision to say no. there's a lot going on right now, just in washington right now. the house vote on repealing obamacare is likely to take place sometime early tomorrow, early to midday tomorrow. we have the latest on that coming up next. the trump administration may also be about to lose yet another senior nominee for the new administration. this is somebody who replaced their previous nominee. they may be losing their new nominee for that same job as well. that story ahead tonight as well. on the trump russia investigation, all of a sudden we are in full pushback mode in terms of the other side of this. the smoke bombs are flying,

susan rice is declining to testify at that hearing on monday. she called the request a diversion from what is supposedly the topic of the hearing, the trump campaign and russia and noted the invitation came just from the republican side of that committee and the ranking democrat of the committee said the white house backed her up on that saying it was not actually a bipartisan request to testify and he supports her decision to say know. there's a lot going on right now, just in washington right now. the house vote on repealing obamacare is likely to take place sometime early tomorrow, early to midday tomorrow. we have the latest on that coming up next. the trump administration may also be about to lose yet another senior nominee for the new administration. this is somebody who replaced their previous nominee. they may be losing their new nominee for that same job as well. that story ahead tonight as well. on the trump russia investigation, all of a sudden we are in full pushback mode in terms of the other side of this. the smoke bombs are flying

so that is the very latest on susan rice. ainsley: hand it over to abby huntsman. >> i have nothing to hide. i have headlines to bring this morning. hope your thursday is starting off well. fox news alert now, and a brand new warning about deadly truck terror attacks. the tsa urging truck owners and retail agencies looking out for terrorists who may steal their vehicles and use it as killing machines. this comes avraming attacks worldwide and one at ohio state university and bastille massacre last sumner france. >>> texas could on the first state to ban sanctuary city. giving approval to the new law threatening to throw police chiefs in jail if they refuse to cooperate with federal immigration officers. the bill adds to republican governor greg abbott who says he is getting his signing opinion warmed up. the measure is expected to go into effect, september first. >>> brand new video. team usa hornets and super hornets flying over the uss carl vinson. two south korean destroyers by the side as tensions continue to rise with no