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>> the temptation is to scratch your head or smile at the obvious stupidity of it its pretty serious what paul manafort is demonstrating is a corn tempt for the court. he faces a total of 80 years in prison. put apart the flight risk and danger to community what hes demonstrating here is sheer contempt for the judicial process, and i want to ask you about the other breaking news this hour, k.t. mcfarland is testifying -- taking questions obviously to become ambassador to singapore, was asked exp...

Law enforcement decisions. brian: "wall street journal" today, lead editorial, they have a major problem with the mueller investigation, especially how slow he moved to move him out as well as being obstructed when it comes to devin nuñes intelligence committee. >> that is another strange relationship. these things are not supposed to happen when the same political party runs congress as rubs the white house -- runs the white house and the executive branch. who ever heard of a republican congre...

Heres the other point thats very important, you just raised, erin. obstruction of justice is a crime. no president is above the law. this point is very serious, for the presidents council even to suggest that any president is above the law really raises again a question of respect for the law, and the rule of law, and also potential contempt for the rule of law, i think it is that serious. >> all right. thank you very much for your time, senator. more breaking news, new details about a top fbi...

Plane. i give you socks on a train. im happy to report, no derailment or stop at the police station. who do you think this was? tweet me your guesses. thats all the time tonight. will be here tomorrow from new york. shannon bream and the "fox news @ night" team are next. dont guess but text me later if you have any idea who that was walking the aisle in socks, bare feet. >> shannon: dont go barefoot on the train. thanks, laura. heres whats coming up. the trump administration takes on its own fbi...

Pleaded guilty or faced an indictment. it is quite a contrast. i want to turn to global editorial director for "the huffington post," howard fineman. this is a comparison that has two big takeaways, i think, and then i want your view. one, if you serve long enough with big administrations, some people get in trouble. there are two historical aberrations that the numbers show. number one, barack obama never had any aides indicted for anything, let alone convicted. thats one aberration. the other ...

How about you just not do this. ive said it over and over again, how about some discipline in messages and communications from this white house. >> jennifer, to you, i want to point out a tweet from a former u.s. attorney preet bharara who was fired by president trump. writes, quote, praise to high heaven, putin, duterte, erdogan, heap scorn and contempt on your own fbi. this is called ass backwards. hes been a vocal critic of the president and putting him almost in the same league with these me...

Duterte, talking about dictators of the philippine, erdogan of turkey, keep scorn and contempt on your own fbi. this is called in his words ass-backwards. how do you see it? >> i have to say i think its very poor form for the president to be making the statements about what is the premier law enforcement agency in the world, which trains other law enforcement agencies, but, you know, again, i think this is a signal the president gets nervous fingers whenever he feels something is creeping a litt...

Sessions, if hes not going to appoint special counsel to investigate, the house has no choice with to move forward with contempt. suddenly now they want to make people available to talk to the house after the requests, threatening of being in contempt. thats unacceptable. we are talking about millions of dollars that private citizens to have been paid through hiring attorneys to fight this ridiculous russia case. this has to be justified. rob: lets go back to hillary clinton scandal, before the ...

Department for many years. f.b.i. agents should not bring in their own political bias into these investigations. and the fact that this was one of the lead agents on the hillary clinton email investigation, if true, i think its very disturbing and possibly could call for a reopening of that investigation. >> sandra: lets bring in jason chaffetz. what do you think about that? >> chairman mccaul is right. there are a lot of people appalled by that. we know trey gowdy. they want to talk to the agen...

There was a lot of stonewalling. do you think the chairman is going to be proceeding with contempt of congress? >> we want the documents about the drama. when you go to a floor fight on contempt of congress, its inherently political. we just want the information and access to the witnesses. we have an investigation want to conclude quickly but the speaker has waiting. thats pretty unprecedented. with the department of justice or the bureau has a legitimate reason for withholding that information...