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Ainsley: out of the millions. steve: now up to 6,000. the 3,000 that the department of justice handed over on monday apparently were largely duplicate. things that the investigators had already seen but the doj gets to say hey, look, we gave you a bunch of papers. well, they are worthless. here is the thing. what they want at the core is they want the very original paperwork that started the spying on the trump people. so far the department of justice has only given heavily redacted versions of ...

Before that and not even yesterday about firing bob mueller. >> what about rosenstein? >> really at this particular point its members of congress who have a bigger problem with rod rosenstein, myself included. that he is not giving us the documents and he is not doing his job. if he is not going to do the job he needs to go and find one that he will do. and so the frustration with the a.g. and the deputy a.g. is probably more focus of congress and it probably makes the presidents dissatisfaction...

Reform bill passed. so i think that he made a decision that he was going to hold his nose in terms of all of the terrible things donald trump has done for the past year and all the terrible things he said and people he attacked gold star families and other individuals that are not deserving. >> let me ask somebody else. i think devin nunes has done a lot to hurt the republican brand as well. last night on fox. >> what are the chance you are going to hold him in contempt of congress right now. >>...

Presidents use of his twitter account has gotten even more extraordinary and more unusual. >> you mentioned the senate probe. on the house side, there are republicans who are threatening to put pressure, contempt or even impeachment against rod rosenstein who oversees the probe. is there any grounds for that. >> ari, i believe what ive heard from the house they were not only going to potentially sanction a long-time professional republican appointee, mr. rosenstein, but also sanction or impose p...

Hes a defender of civil liberties and not necessarily a defender of the president. thats ha he says in my conversations with me and on my show. >> he said he doesnt advise the president. he has said that publicly. he said he doesnt want to be one of the presidents lawyers and quite frankly a source i was talking to said, alan is of more talking on television about the presidents case than he may be inside and so there wasnt any indication to me at all that he was going join the legal team. >> he...

Find someone who can. >> all right. joining the panel now danny set value is. lets get into this. is it feasible to hold them in contempt the congress? >> its feasible. its a terrible political idea to hold them in contempt. i think that threat, while a congressional possibility, it would be ultimately a political disaster. >> we have two tweets from the president on this. first its lawmakers are angrily accusing the department of justice of missing the

Us there were only a couple hundred more if we just drop the investigation, he would give them to us. we then received over a long period of time tens of thousands more documents and there is still more in the fast and furious investigation. this is a rotten to the core system in which they take unclassified documents and fly spec them and redact thousands and thousands of lines, based on, quote, law enforcement sensitive. to do that, they put a few people in a room. they slowly work on it and t...

That denigrate christian and traditional morality and then have you roseanne who is not necessary lay social conservative, is a trump supporter. and you have these ratings and rush pointed this out. despite the fact that in the two major markets, l.a., and new york city and the tristate region, you had terrible ratings there but yet they had such robust ratings throughout the country. it overwhelmed them. thats symbolic of whats going to happen. in the next election. uprising normal people rejec...

The great oral arbiter of everything. i have had it with all of them. as a group you see never ending attacks and never ending hypocrisy here. and on this show i will do it. i dont know many other people willing to take this on. i will take it on every night because it needs to be addressed. >> sean, the left has contempt for fly over countries. their policies are divorced from the results. for their stated goal. they claim they care about blue collar worker, they say trump only pretends to care...

Held lois learner contempt but didnt physical through with it we have certain tools at our disposal. we can use the power of the purse and hold officials in contempt. if theyre still incals trant we can impeach civiles officers. we have to be willing to do that. otherwise any will run out the clock on this stuff. >> pete: have you representatives, political appointees in these departments appointed by president trump. i actually had the opportunity about an hour ago to speak to a senior doj offi...