but if he is a justice department employee, you can do that. i am not sure that is the best way, but the most important thing regardless someone outside of doj, will they use a grand jury and conduct a legitimate investigation or hillary part two where they don't subpeona anybody and use a grand jury and kind of a half measure investigation. that is not going to cut it in this case. we need an actual rigorous information. mueller is turning over anything he can find to turn up dirt. how can you do that with no evidence of collusion and not do the same thing or at least at rigorous with abuse which we have substanteated. >> lou: the mueller special counsel is an utter farce. this is a president subverted by the special counsel and his appointment last may and produced no evidence of any kind of collusion. and going after issues he could including going after the united arab emirate and seems to have forgotten the geography and the role of pretense. because it is nothing more than that. a if counsel has to be focused here and we are call taught t

of the justice department. the justice department cannot investigate ets in this. there has to be a special counsel. and the only way to get to the truth is through a federal grand jury where people are put under oath and they cannot lie. for example, the inspector general has no authority currently over john brennan or james clapper or even james comey because those people have all left the department. he can't interview any of the people from the department of state. there has to be a grand jury with a prosecutor who has authority to subpoena all of those people. and the key to this, the key to the lie eang the misrepresentations to the fisa court is going to be john brennan, james clapper, james comey and the senior officials at the justice department. lou: this is not i hope extraneous but it just strikes me that james comey fired for a host of reasons, but certainly fired, has a book coming out. and i can't even understand why -- part of his responsibility, of course, the national security interest of the

we have a justice department, the justice department can do criminal investigation. maria: 10,000 lawyers in the system. >> what is the conflict in this justice department investigating that episode? i don't see any. you have a special counsel only when there is a criminal investigation to be conducted and there is some good reason why the justice department can't do it and every time you appoint a special counsel you're in essence saying well the justice department can't be trusted to do this and i'm not in favor of that. maria: how long can this special counsel's work go on, judge? we've been waiting to see russia collusion between president trump and the russians. it doesn't exist. >> part of the problem here is that this special counsel was appointed in a situation where the letter of appointsment was not consistent with the regulations that apply to a special counsel. you're supposed to appoint a special counsel when there's a crime and some reason the justice department can't do it, but the letter appointing him says he is to pursue the investigation that james

but when you look what he did with the last pardon, joe arpaio, there was no real justice department review. it was the president's ultimate decision to move forward here. presumably if john dowd did move forward with this, there was some decision by the president

why not use the justice department lawyers? disgraceful! if president bush named a tweet at you, what would your reaction have been? guest: we are talking about something that would not have happened, frankly. i had the type of relationship with the president -- we would have a private conversation. we have to understand something about the relationship between the department of justice and attorney general and the white house and president. the attorney general, mike -- unlike any other cabinet member, one, you were chosen to promote and carry out the president's he enforcement agenda, which campaigned on in the presidential election. you are part of his team, but you also work at different hats, with their spec to investigation and prosecution, and that is you follow evidence where it may take you, even within the white house. your job is to enforce the law. people lose sight of the fact that the attorney general where's this two hats. it is appropriate because you are a member of the president's cabinet to be subject to criticism of the

what i think is really important to note here is when the justice department sent a letter to the department of commerce back in december asking for the inclusion of this question, jeff sessions's justice department said that they needed this question to enforce the voting rights act. you and i may know jeff sessions has been no champion of civil rights and has called the voting rights act an intrusion and so suddenly jeff sessions has found religion on the voting rights act is the basis for this i think is laughable. and the decision to add a citizenship question that was made yesterday by secretary ross in effect weaponizes the census for the kind of native partisan agenda that donald trump and jeff sessions have been promo promoting and this is a deeply alarming thing because ultimately the census is a constitutionally mandated program that's supposed to count every single person in the country, not just is the sense. every person. >> i know a little bit about the interesting constitutional origins. we have few things that were actually actively directed to do by the founding fathers and

judicial watch now suing the justice department. >> it's about time. there are several villains in the whole trump-russia hoax. and then of course nelly orr was in on it providing research and her husband at the department of justice meeting secretly with simpson and steele and they're all meeting with reporters trying to get them to trash trump before the election. it's about time that nelly orr and bruce orr and others have to answer for all of that by providing documents and testimony. lou: i don't suppose the special counsel looking for collusion, having found none, will pivot and look at the corruption of the hillary clinton era within the obama administration, the obama politicization if you will and weaponizing of executive branches including the doj and fbi. >> no. it appears as though mueller assembled a team of people to get trump and nothing else will be a distraction. lou: give me your best judgment. what is the best way to shut down that moronic episode in the special counsel? >> you said it yourself. defund them. members of congress ought

this corruption in the obama justice and fbi not only ruined the justice department and fbi. it splashed on to the court and what a disaster. >> sean: congressman jordan. you have to send your staff over every day. that's the only way to get the information and that has to happen every day. >> we don't know if this judge in any way signed off on the fisa warrant. this series of facts. >> sean: one of the biggest trump haters in the country is bragging about a relationship and the judge knows all about what he does. >> yeah, sure is. >> sean: thank you all. in appreciate it. when we come back, dr. sebastian shows sean spicer how the media is smearing the peck for the cian as too tough on terror on this special edition of hannity. you won't see these folks at the post office they have businesses to run they have passions to pursue how do they avoid trips to the post office? stamps.com mail letters ship packages all the amazing services of the post office right on your computer get a 4 week trial plus $100 in extras including postage and a digital scale go to stamps.com/tv and n

what i think is really important to note here is when the justice department sent a letter to the department of commerce back in december asking for the inclusion, jeff sessions with the question to enforce the voting rights acts. to say suddenly that jeff sessions, justice deputy found religion on the voting rights act and that is the basis for this, i think really is laughable and what the decision to add a citizen ship question that was made yesterday by secretary ross, in effect weaponizes the census for the kind of native partisan agenda that donald trump and jeff sessions have been promoting and this is a deeply alarming thing because ultimately, the census is a constitutionally mandated program that's supposed to count every single person in this country, not just citizens, every person. >> i know a little bit about the interesting constitutional origins. we have few things that were actually actively directed to do by the founding fathers and constitutional inheritance. we have to have a post office. there aren't that many of those. i'm familiar with that. i'm also familiar with the

quinn as you gear up to go to court to address the justice department's complaints about the potential at&t time warner merger, what is the benefit to at&t as a corporation to having time warner in its staple? >> guest: the benefit to at&t generally as being able to create more products for consumers that are more tailored to consumers. one of the first things that we introduced after we announced the deal was the directv now over-the-top application product , so it's i guess the justice department refers to those as virtual a mvpd's for what it is, it's an application by which a consumer can get access to a skinnier bundle of content simply by downloading an app, providing your credit card application and you are watching it on tv. and so there is no waiting around for somebody to come in and install it. it is literally something that consumers can have in a manner of minutes and the app rides over the broadband internet connection. i think the advantage is what we learned after we acquired dreck tv a couple of years ago is changing the norm, changing and breaking ground on introducin

he used the justice department as a place for truth and inquiry to go to die. and now we are trying to resurrect the inte dwrity or the idea of it in the fbi and justice department. it is it on its face a department that is filled with political corruption, is it not? >> i think the public lost faith in the justice department deputy fbi and increasingly in the cia, most people ask who will guard the guardians and either comey or deputy director of the fbi must be saying something other than the truth because they gave inconsistent statements. the director said i never authorized anybody to leak. and the deputy director said i was authorized to leak and i would like to find out and see the report of the investigative agency and the report of the ofls of professional responsibility and let the deputy director of the fbi waive privacy and demand publication. report and then we can decide for ourselves. >> lou: the president could order the release of those records and documents and do you not think he is? >> he is. i think the public has the right to see it. and i

quinn, as you gear up to address the justice department complaints about potential at&t time warner merger acquisition what is the benefit to at&t is a corporation? >> the benefit to at&t generally is to create more products for consumers that are more tailored to consumers. one of the first things we introduced out-of-the-box after the deal was directv now over the application product so i guess the justice department refers to this as virtual but it is an application by which a consumer can get access to a skinnier bundle of content simply by downloading the app or provide a credit card application now you are watching it on tv. there is no waiting around or someone to install it is literally something consumers can have in a matter of minutes and over the broadband internet connection. the advantage is what we learned after we acquired directv a couple years ago is changing the norm and to introduce services in this area is hard and i think the content industry made it faster to bring the product to market and i think we are seeing a very different landscape today even than we did when

department the justice department suing it over sanctuary policies. the a.g., jeff sessions will make the announcement later this morning where she expect to say the following, the department of justice and trump administration are going to fight these unjust and unfair constitutional policies. we're trying to help you reduce crime. charlie, i'll start with you because you are with me here. as a candidate president trump said he'd do this. >> it was in the last administration that sued the state of arizona for the exact opposite of this saying the federal government was refusing to enforce immigration laws and arizona stepped in to try to enforce the laws and won the case that the federal government has the exclusive right to set the immigration policy. in california, they're saying the opposite. as a state we have the right to thwart the federal government from forcing immigration laws. at some point -- and i think this is a big reason why donald trump won the election. you have democrats playing this card with immigration not wanting to enforce -- n

, so you're still having the department of justice investigating the department of justice in their division called the fbi, what do you make of it? >> i just don't understand why jeff sessions can't do his job. you know, if he was going to take this approach, why didn't he take this approach during the russia investigation as well. so if he took one approach when it came to the russia investigation, then he needs to appoint a special counsel for this same investigation. but it seems like -- this has been my concern about jeff sessions the entire time. i feel like he should inform the president if he planned on recusing himself from the very beginning. gregg: absolutely should have. and there he stood the night he was swoorn i sporn in sworn in e first thing he was going to do with meet with doj officials about recusing himself. talk about an unconscionable betrayal. jeff sessions is the poster child for deception and betrayal. has he lost all credibility as attorney general? >> i think that's diminishing greatly because he's inconsistent. there's no reason to be inconsistent here. there's n

there is this culture of arrogance at the fbi and justice department. that impedes virtually any oversight either by judicial watch to the courts or congress through its constitutional powers. and it's real concerning that this isn't happening during the obama administration but by appointees president trump jeff sessions has got to step up and take back control of the justice department. rod rosenstein has a personal interest, it seems to me, in keeping this information away and director wray is completely out to lunch on these issues where is he more concerned about the institution of the fbi and protecting its reputation than cleaning house in terms of the corruption issues. you know, and now we have got this issue now about the court. you know, we have been -- i know a little bit about the judicial ethics process. can i tell you it's unusual for a court to recuse themselves from a case like this without an explanation. it's unusual and these telling you in public what was the reason for doing so in such a high profile case. >> sean, it's unusual for

department again namely bruce ohr and we said it wasn't just the fbi and justice department but it was also the state department knew about the dossier and had some impact there and then sort of raises the obvious question, well if it was the fbi, the justice department and the state department, did the white house also know in 2016 about the dossier before it was taken to the fisa court and was the basis for securing a warrant? that's a pretty important, we don't know for sure but lots of things start to point in that direction, so that's something that has to be investigated. david: that's an extraordinarily important question and once again shayla murray the former advisor to both vice president biden and president obama but for her husband to have been working for fusion gps it's kind of hard to believe she didn't know something about what was going on. >> yeah, exactly. david: we got to leave it at that congressman jordan thank you so much for coming in. >> thanks david take care. david: well some members of the mainstream media treating kim jong-un like a brilliant states man, sh

yet justice department and the fbi have done nothing more than demote someone. this is deeply troubling in is no sign they are going to expedite a response to your lawsuit. how long do you expect it to take to get resolution and get those records if you are to get them. >> we filed those requests in early and mid-december. we'll get before a judge the next couple weeks. there will be a scheduling conference. i guess it will be calendared for production within 60 days. lou: you will have the records? >> they will start producing them within 60 days. lou: like the state department will they take two years to provide them all. >> i'm sure they will cry we is me and have a hundred reasons why they can't do it in an expeditious matter. lou: this is deeply troubling to every american. this is not just a republican and democratic issue. there are rancid, corrupt, rotten people in the democratic party that took control of the democratic party and much of the administration. it's undetermined what role president trump and his administration played, but it has to be a sig

>> well, i think the justice department has a very static the marketplace is. if you look at the market definition that they put into you know, i rief, think it's a 1990s view. he only nod that they have given to any of the changes that the ned is, they take market and they define it as the that exist today. the comcasts of the world. the charters of the world. world.hes of the and they say, okay, so there are mvpds as well but they don't compete with all these other things going on in the world. just a really narrow way of looking at it. backwards s a very looking lawsuit as opposed to where we see the market going changes that are happening in the marketplace. >> talk about the political element here. obviously, the president campaigned to an extent on this issue. he said that this was a merger deep concerns about. do you feel that political concerns fit into this lawsuit? don't ink answer is, we know. and the judge, i think, took the case, that, youe know, either the doj is going to or they are not and the motivations, he didn't really want to get into that

so it's i guess the justice department refers to those as virtual mvpds. but what it is, it's an application by which a consumer can get access to a skinnier bundle of tv content simply by downloading an app, going in, providing your credit card application, and voila, you're watching it on tv. and so there's no waiting around for somebody to come and install it. it is literally something that consumers could have in a matter of minutes, and the app rides over the broadband internet connection. and i think the advantage is, you know, what we learned after we acquired directv a couple of years ago is changing the norm, changing -- breaking new ground on introducing services in this area is hard. and i think having an anchor tenant, if you will, in the content industry made it faster to bring this product to market. and i think we are seeing a very different landscape for video products today even than we did when we introduced the, when we announced the acquisition back in october of 016. and i think -- 2016. and i think that's where this market is going. i

the department of justice is upside down. so many of its top officials have been demoted, removed, retired, if you will. what is going on that there is such a lack of understanding within the department about what amounts to integrity, principle, judgment and discretion, and a highly, highly committed goal of serving the cause of justice? >> it is clear i think one of your previous guests said it. this is about exonerating hillary clinton because she is hillary clinton and creating a witch hunt to trump up charges against the current sitting president. people need to understand, the office of professional responsibility at d.o.j. is the internal affairs division of the fbi. when they said this guy had to lose his pension, that's massive. my sources tell me was so desperate andy mccabe thursday went to the doj and begged to be vested into his pension. when he was rebiewkd web said i'm going to bring you all down. that's the level of arrogance and ideological axis president obama put into place. lou: i want to see him pull down

justice department suing california. it's awesome. good evening from washington, i'm laura ingraham and this is "the ingraham angle." we have huge breaking news and a lot of ground to cover from every angle tonight. trey gowdy makes a big announcement, reversing course and backing president trump over attorney general sessions. will we see a second special prosecutor? and a story that just broke, as i just said. the trump administration suing the sanctuary state of california for interfering with federal immigration laws. we are going to tell you about the major implications of this suit in just a moment. plus, big news out of broward county where the sheriff's department there is denying an exclusive report from the angle and doubling down on their insistence that they did nothing wrong. but first, trump busts the tyranny of the expert class. that's the focus of tonight's angle. the experts have been wrong on so many things over the last three decades. think about it. they've been wrong on china, they were wrong on the iraq war, they

you've worked in the justice department, what's your reading of this? >> my reading is it's a grave injustice, lawrence. pete's reporting is accurate, and there is a serious mark on mccabe's record. the record overall, though, is 21 years of exemplary service and respect by everyone within the department. what really sticks about this one is the rush to get this done by friday, which was only motivated to, in a petty way, take his pension away from him. compare this with john you, opr recommended a certain discipline, it then went to the attorney general. ewe was given six months to state his case to the attorney general, who did, in fact, reduce the sentence. the fact that mccabe was rushed into this presentation yesterday and sessions turned it around today i think is completely abnormal and was done only in order to be sure they could take away his pension before sunday. >> harry, let me stay with you on this distinction because the case you just mentioned was not a member of the fbi. is there, within the justice department, a higher standard for mem

you've worked in the justice department, what's your reading of this? >> my reading is it's a grave injustice, lawrence. pete's reporting is accurate, and there is a serious mark on mccabe's record. the record overall, though, is 21 years of exemplary service and respect by everyone within the department. what really sticks about this one is the rush to get this done by friday, which was only motivated to , in a petty way, take his pension away from him. compare this with john you, opr recommended a certain discipline, it then went to the attorney general. ewe was given six months to state his case to the attorney general, who did, in fact, reduce the sentence. the fact that mccabe was rushed into this presentation yesterday and sessions turned it around today i think is completely abnormal and was done only in order to be sure they could take away his pension before sunday. >> harry, let me stay with you on this distinction because the case you just mentioned was not a member of the fbi. is there, within the justice department, a higher standard for me

why not use justice department lawyers. disgraceful. sessions responded to the president's criticism, passive agreesessive ambiguity. the attorney general issued this statement, saying, quote, we have initiated the appropriate process that will ensure complaints against this department will be fully and fairly acted upon if necessary, as long as i am the attorney general i will continue to discharge my duties with integrity and honor and this department will continue to do its work in a fair and impartial manner, according to the law and constitution. our first guest tonight has called for ag session to step down. he's one of 13 congressmen who today sent a letter to sessions demanding a second special counsel to investigate the fisa court abuses and seeking answers all 13 congres congressmen as ty hillary clinton's investigation ended and the trump-russia probe began. joining us tonight, congressman jim jordan, a member of the oversight committee and also a member of the influential house freedom caucus. good to have you with us, congr

department to reopen its investigation of "fast and furious" department of justice lead gunrunning disan s. >> republicans today, ending investigative phase of the russia probe. 150 pain draft report, found no evidence of collusion. now coordination or conspiracy between trump campaign and the russians, respec report also demonstrating, and it addresses problem contacts between senior intelligence community officials and the left wing media in the country. congressman mike conaway, who has been leading russia probe, just discussed the committee's conclusions on special report. >> we have reached a point we interviewed all of the folks we need to, look at 300,000 documents, 73 interviews, answering your questions we set out to answer, yes, the russians did try to interfere with our election process, they had cyberattacks, we could find no evidence of collusion between either campaign and the russians. charles: there still two committees in senate investigating, russia's 2016 elect meddling. senate intelligence committee and judiciary committee. in texas authorities search for a possible s

justice department lawsuit claims the entire system is unconstitutional. joining us with reaction is orange county supervisor. michelle steele a legal immigrant, who get this, was called a racist "b" word over her willingness to cooperate with eyes and joe alioto-veronese a former criminal justice commissioner. great to see both of you. let's start with you, michelle. when i read what they said about you with your background, i would like to say i was surprised, but i wasn't. because if you buck the liberal trend in california on an issue like immigration. they feel like they have free license to call you any name in the book. tell us how your life has been in the 24 hours since this decision was made. >> oh, my god, i'm very happy about it. because i was the one to actually introduce the resolution. because our local police and law enforcements agents hands have been tied. we really have to work. as a supervisor. orange county has to be safe. so public safety comes first, but it was really interesting that you can hear i speak korean and japanese is my se

michael horowitz seen as a nonpartisan inspector general at the justice department. steve schmidt, the former mccain campaign manager for president back in 2008, a republican now an analyst saying tonight on twitter, seriously, someone more technologically more competent than me where good americans can fund this great patriot's full pensi pension? you have never trumpers saying he deserves the pension. how is that possible when the office of professional responsibility was saying he needs to go? >> we don't know. we haven't seen the details. everybody needs to calm down for a second. if t if the office of professional responsibility lays out the case, i don't think that you want to argue. it's interesting, of course, the way that you set it up was to say that the democrats wanted this. michael horowitz has been there. guess what? it was president trump that questioned jeff sessions about horowitz credibility? they asked why don't you have staff people doing investigating here? sessions made the point that he thought it was michael horowitz in his i.g. responsibility