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Over, that well know what his sentence will be. >> thank you, shimon prokupecz. and counsel who investigated bill clinton. his latest book, "contempt, memoir of the clinton investigation" and i want to get your perspective on the russia investigation since youre one of the few people who knows what its like to serve as special counsel. weve been covering this. the federal judge delaying michael flynns sentencing at his request. the jubdge was clearly peeved h was caught off guard by the fbi even...

Now is tell the truth, dont obstruct justice because at the end of the road, there will be accountability. the truth will come out. >> because he was found in contempt, you make a point in your book. you say that neither bill, and you say also hillary clinton has the character to be the leader of the free world. you call hillary clinton in your book smug, dismissive, brutal, a liar, vindictive. i wonder because these are also the adjectives that critics of president trumps, that they will use. d...

Johnson. a lot of speculation of how did you treat her and so forth? but we were vindicated by the book and exactly the right way using experience, personnel and so forth. what we know now is that yes, this is different. this is government to government and especially when youre going to be interviewing the brand-new national security adviser. you do check in with the white house counsels office. it was very bad form. not illegal. they could do it but it was, i would call it an abuse of power. >...

Tragic figure. do you, i wonder if you worry when youre talking about that, that youre treading precariously into victim blaming territory? >> i im jum just trying to eva sad chapter for the entire country, that the entire matter could have been concluded in terms of law enforcement. authorized by attorney general janet reno and i think theres a real misunderstanding, breanna, about that, how did this all come to be? the lewinsky phase of the investigation. it was because the president was in th...

From a bank or a financial institution and money laundering cases. whats really interesting here is the effort by which this company has gone to try and not give this information over. >> weeks. >> the money theyre spending. held in contempt. so theyre paying a penalty for doing that. so clearly, whatever is going on here, its important for both the special counsel and for this company and it could also signal to us that this is nowhere near over. this could go to, we know that mueller has been ...

Invest gieigation that can hauny white house. they are only roughly three people alive who held that role. bob mueller, patrick fitzgerald and my next guest. ken starr who investigated bill clinton. thanks for coming tonight. >> my pleasure. >> lets start with -- and the book i want to mention "contempt. "lets start with this news on mike flynn. what went wrong for him in court? >> i think the judge was offended by what he read. thats obvious. he said as much. he also said something thats been e...

Papers and not actually a hearing. and the judge is taking it so seriously to not only impose a contempt action and order against the company, but also to have a monetary penalty attached to that and an increasing one. this is a case where youre looking at a criminal sanction, youre looking at that time punitive damages in some form or fashion, a judge taking it very seriously. this is no, you know, small potatoes matter. >> yeah. and laura, when they lost in the district court, the corporation,...

Associated with the trump campaign and people associated with the russian government. so those are among the big burning questions central to this investigation that are still part of what mueller is working on. and so perhaps this is what this is part of, this is one of the questions that is left here for this court to decide. whether or not this information comes into this investigation and is something that they can use. >> youve been going through the document, laura. what else do you see? >...

Investigation. they have been in court fighting this now for quite sometime and it seems as though unless this company appeals, goes higher to the supreme court, they will be forced the release this information. >> yeah, this court of appeals decision says it is a corporation thats owned by a foreign country. the corporation isnt identified, but presumably this corporation has activities going on here in the united states. >> thats right. the and whatever is going on, theyre trying to obviously ...

>> bret: fox news alert, a federal court has denied a motion from an unnamed foreign corporation challenging the subpoena demanding information for a federal grand jury impaneled by special counsel robert mueller. this entire case is still secret. the company contended compliance would violate its own countrys laws, we dont know the country or the company. the court disagreed and is holding this company in contempt for failing to produce information. the company is appealing, thats a win for rob...