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Department of justice finally to turn over subpoena documents related to the anti-trump dossier. chairman devon nunez saying they will be turned over after threatening to hold doj and fbi in contempt. this announcement just hours after fbi director christopher ray and deputy attorney general rob rosenstein met with house speaker paul ryan in a closed-door meeting, the fbi has been accused of anti-trump bias by top agents during the hillary clinton and russia investigation. we will keep an eye on...

Dope. we know rex tillerson would not deny when asked whether he called the president a blanking moron. this is not just hes too liberal or conservative. this is people close to him screaming he is unfit to be our president. >> thats what fundamentally distinguishes this white house from previous white houses. its difficult to compare the trump white house to the bush or clinton white house. when you talk about the president being surrounded by people who have contempt for him or dont feel loyal...

Announcing a deal with the promise of justice finally to turn over subpoena documents related to the anti-trump dossier. devon nunez says they will be turned over in coming days after threatening to hold the doj and fbi in contempt, this announcement hours after christopher ray and deputy attorney general rob rosenstein met with house speaker paul ryan in a closed meeting. the fbis accused of anti-trump bias by top agents during the hillary clinton and russia investigation. paul manaforte is fig...

Basically making calls to people, right, sometimes complaining about people, inner circle, whether its jared kushner or kellyanne conway, being obsessed with rupert murdock approval. so it gave me sort of citizen cane, home alone, roger dangerfield feeling from this whole thing. >> if i can offer one piece of literary criticism. michael wolf previously wrote a biography of rupert murdock and he seems to be a source for a lot of stuff in here, including the conversations late at night. so i think...

Mueller. the washington post has a story about this where they said devin nunes crafted a report of corruption and he began threatening contempt l information for wray and deputy attorney rosenstein. what do you make of this idea of there is investigation to find corruption? >> my history working with the fbi, i dealt with facts and evidence. i see this is straight out politics. you have one individual and from what i read, it is not like he had the rank to file of whats behind him in the commit...

>> if they dont produce those on the 33rd of january if they dont go back and testify about what was being referred to in all those meetings about the dossier they can be held in contempt for that, too. leland: referencing specifically a subpoena sent to the fbi from house intelligence committee. what is your reaction to that? >> my understanding was that is a one-sided opinion that democrats are not involved in the issue is whether subpoena. that raises a question is this a political thing. is ...

Russia investigation how often he repeated no collusion, something like 13, 15 times over and over again seems to be fixated on. that i think his comments on the justice department that you highlighted earlier, he believes he can do whatever he wants with the justice department, particularly surprising. he even praised eric holder, president obamas attorney general for being quote loyal to the president and he said hd he admired that. he held that up as an example. which is really notable, consi...

Ironclad. that he will not fire robert mueller. it is something we keep here over and over again. despite what the president has to say. ellison barber, thank you. get to see you as always. in the last hour we had the gop perspective on all of this. direct from congressman francis rennie who has a message to investigators. >> i think if they do not produce those doctrines on 3 january to be held in contempt. i think mr. rosenstein did not go back and testify about what was being referred to in a...

Begin with the dossier. rather it began because of something george papadopoulos said in a bar and was passed on to american officials by australian officials. >> if they dont produce those documents on the third of january they should be held in contempt. >> whether its lisa page, we need to interview anyone with access to information and we need access to documents. >> i want the doj to look into how this dossier was hand what they did with it. reporter: at least three house republicans say sp...

Whats the next step congress can take to, as you say, get to the bottom of it? >> well, i think if they dont produce those documents on the 3rd of january they should be held in contempt. i think if mr. rosenstein and mccabe dont go back and testify about what was being referred to in you wiall of those meetings the dossier and they could be held in contempt. they need to testify under oath. leland: weve got separations of power here and congress has the oversight and conceivably, you had a repu...