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This guy is laughing at all of us because he scared the hell out of jeff sessions. he decided to recuse himself and he still doesnt know why. >> rosenstein bumbled this from the start. he shouldnt have appointed mueller. and he seems to think he is superior to congress and even the president. judge jeanine: he is superior to congress and everyone else. did you hear what i said? >> i didnt. judge jeanine: he is superior to congress and everyone else because hes not listening to anyone else. >> th...

This guy is laughing at all of us because he scared the hell out of jeff sessions. he decided to recuse himself and he still doesnt know why. >> rosenstein bumbled this from the start. he shouldnt have appointed mueller. and he seems to think he is superior to congress and even the president. judge jeanine: he is superior to congress and everyone else. did you hear what i said? >> i didnt. judge jeanine: he is superior to congress and everyone else because hes not listening to anyone else. >> th...

If he doesnt turn over what you want, you hold him in contempt. judge jeanine: not you, but its not being done. you need to do it. judge jeanine: why cant you do it? >> i support doing it. i am not a chairman. judge jeanine: therein lies the rub. >> im supporting chairman meadows. we need consequences. eitherwise they will trickle -- otherwise they will trickle some out and wont actually do it. another part of it are the redactions they are doing. a lot of these are not done to protect our natio...

An absolute right to that memo. they have subpoena power, impeachment power over high-ranking officials, power of contempt. ultimately it doesnt make sense for the deputy attorney general general, a very smart guy, not to sit back look at this -- frankly start with the oversight manual. every american can google the congressional research services oversight manual. 150 pages of case law. makes crystal clo clear that congress has the right to the document. >> do you believe that rod rosenstein is...

Abuse of power at the fbi and the department of justice. you heard devon nunes earlier call into fox & friends and you basically said were done, we are ready now, to pursue contempt of congress charges because youre not getting the documents your committee chairman have asked for. how far are you willing to go with this? are you going to pursue contempt and impeachment charges? >> well first lets actually talk about what were seeing. its not just us and its not just the american people. last fri...

>> one of the most powerful republicans in congress offering a direct challenge to attorney general, jeff sessions. earlier today, house intelligence committee chairman devin nunes saying that he is going to start procedures to hold attorney general jeff sessions in contempt of congress. this, after the congressman nunes accused the justice department of stonewalling his investigation into allegations that doj and the fbi abused surveillance powers and their scrutiny of the trump campaign. >> tw...

Washington examiner and fox news contributor james freeman is assistant editor for the wall street journal editor editorial page, good to see you both your thoughts on whats transpiring this morning, james? >> well i think were seeing this standoff on the nunes and with congress wanting to know exercising its appropriate oversight authority what happened at the fbi, fbi doesnt want to share the documents and i think either speaker of the house paul ryan has got to hold the contempt votes to forc...

Now. we have breaking news. the department of justice is saying that they have responded devon nunes. he was on fox & friends earlier saying that his latest classified letter to the doj was ignored. the letter from the doj which they are sending spells out the administrations written response says the doj. now basically, devon nunes said that two weeks ago, that he sent a letter to the attorney general jeff sessions a classified letter per usual this is from devon nunes it was ignored not acknow...

Parts do you not like and what addendums could you make to make it a palatable deal? you also, you know, macron has signed off on it and hes trying to encourage, you know, trump to do it as well. so its going to be very interesting because its going to put europe right here and where does the deal go if its only with europe. >> so to that effect, youll have issues like climate change where were different from our european allies, tpp, and heres another issue where this white house is separating ...

A source telling cnn the team is calling it one play at a time, its as if the players are executing the plays on their own. joining us to talk about it cnn political analyst carl bernstein. the third point in guilianis statement was about the presidents firing of james comey. guiliani wrote that the dismissal of director comey was clearly within the presidents article 2 power. while thats certainly true earlier this week guiliani said that comey was fired because he wouldnt publicly acknowledge ...