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Consistent with his stand away from russia attitude to date. but i think he had to do something. so, this is inconsistent. this doesnt match with tough words about putin. he felt compelled to do t. >> are you surprised we didnt her directly from the president? he didnt bring this issue up about meddling when he spoke directly with putin last week on the telephone. >> he advertises the things he wants to draw attention to and hes not drawing attention to this. he is falling in line with what is c...

♪ brian: all right. quick headlines right now. animal edition. a mountain sloin caught after taking a stroll through a california narngd. using a drone to track down the cat before tranquilizing it good thing open. released into the wild the wild meaning california. fishing trip these guy also never forget. >> holy -- oh my [bleep] god, bro. brian: a lot of redactions in that a massive great white shark sneaking up on that fisherman. fisherman being generic rick off the inlet in florida. no on...

Refusing to surrender fast and furious documents. and as a result of that, nothing happened. they didnt pursue the contempt. he wasnt punished to a democrat a badge of courage for the republicans to hold you in contempt. who will this republican house have to hold in contempt? ainsley: jeff sessions. >> this has never happened before this kind of dispute. you cant hold the doj or fbi in contempt. brian: does jeff sessions know he is attorney general? what is his answer to this? >> it is a great ...

Could face impeachment. >> when we get back in two weeks, if the 1.2 million documents arent in the capitol, thi then he should immediately move to hold the department of justice and the fbi in contempt and if we have to vote on contempt, then we should immediately move to impeach those officials. ainsley: what can we expect next? here to break it down for success fox news senior judicial analyst judge andrew napolitano. will he get the documents? >> i dont know the answer to that looking for 1....

Moment, end quote. the book says hillary clintons gender played a big part in the amount of attention the issue received. quote, i think it was the unease people felt about hillarys motivation as a woman seeking power that made it impossible for us to very fully put this matter to bed. it was a box we could never get out of, end quote. president of judicial watch tom fenton joins me now. i should tell you, tom, as we look at this, its jennifer palmiary saying this. your thoughts? >> she has a ra...

Anything like this. the department of justice and the fbi are not unaccountable. they work for the executive branch here their budgets are paid by the legislative branch. they are note unaccountable. unaccountable would be unprecedented power in our government. power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. they respond to the president. can i say, this too? i never heard of anything like this. when i was secret service agent we used to work treasury. if you got a refund and someone stole y...

Why arent they following the rules, dan? and if they dont hand over all these documents, whats going to happen to them? do you really think anything will happen? there will be a punishment? >> you know, ainsley, i wish i had some good news for you here. ainsley: i agree. >> i hate to be so cob on a monday morning. what has happened? jack squat? nothing has happened in the past. eric holder basically said go pound sand on the fast and furious case was held in contempt and now he goes out and give...

Dan, good morning. >> good to be here. good morning. brian: we watched over and over again over the last previous eight years as house members would call more and more obama from eric holder on down to go testify and they wouldnt be truthful. they wouldnt show up and from the irs scandal. nothing would ever happen. now something is going to change. devin nunes said. this. >> when we get back in two weeks. if the 1.2 million documents arent in the capitol, then he should immediately move to hold ...

Then what? >> so if i was chairman goodlatte what i would do quickly because i had to go through this for the last year, fighting department of justice and fbi for documents i think the american people now know that they stonewalled for many many months so he could actually figure out that fusion gps was paid by the democratic party and that clinton campaign to collude and interact with russians to get dirt on president trump, that took us a long time to find out and what i would recommend to my...

Building for something i know you dont support which is the naming of a second special counsel, this time to investigate how the fbi and justice handled hillary clintons e-mail investigation, among other things. >> right. look, the idea is that doj and fbi are resisting all these efforts to investigate themselves. again, remember, under donald trump rod rosenstein at justice and christopher wray at the fbi tried to make an in run around the intel commit at this and atd they only -- committee and...