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Going to move forward with these criminal contempt proceedings and a referral to the department of justice. but in speaking with members of the committee as well, the leader of the committee, bennie thompson, indicated that another option perhaps is providing meadows immunity in case he was to plead the fifth, if he does decide to cooperate. so there are some options that the committee has. but the committee has to make a decision here. do they want to go through these criminal contempt proceedi...

Republicans request for james comeys memo. he said he believes the doj cannot meet the republicans demands adding quote, i fear the majority will have manufactured an excuse to hold the deputy attorney general in contempt of congress. a joint news conference with the japanese prime minister, he said he has been restrained forwards the investigators. listen to this. >> on the mueller probe, have you concluded that its not worth the political fallout to remove either special counsel mueller or deb...

The f.b.i. agents ive worked with never exhibited this animus towards anyone let alone a candidate and i dont know why the bureau would use opposition research in a court filing and didnt brother -- bother to vet it or investigate it and you can be a fan of the f.b.i. and bothered by it. i have a ton of friends still there but hes are legitimate questions. the f.b.i. cannot investigate itself. michael horowitz can do some of it, but not all of it. i think we need a woman or a man with an apoliti...

It. >> sandra: gary cohn stepping down after agreement with the president over his tariffs proposal. now, word those proposals could go through with or without him. our panel takes that one up. and top republicans calling for a second special council to investigate potential abuses at the justice department. why trey gowdy tells us the d.o.j. cannot investigate themselves over this. >> its not the process, its the actors who were involved in 2016 and we have to be mind follow identify the folks ...

Here. now, two top republican lawmakers demanding the justice department appoint a special counsel to investigate possible abuse at the d.o.j. its a big deal on capitol hill and our panel will take that up in a matter of moments. >> you can be a fan of the f.b.i. and still be troubled by what theyve done and want to understand better how and why it happened. thats where i am. i dont have a war at the f.b.i. i have a ton of friends there but these are legitimate questions. the f.b.i. cannot inv...

Good to see you. good to have you on the show. >> good morning, chris. >> this is not an easy conversation to have. do you believe -- of course you do. what do you make of the suggestions that the fbi, the doj cannot be trusted you were infected with just toxic people. >> referring to the memo at the house of representatives, a lot of congress has seen it and a lot have been disturbed by it. if you have evidence of wrongdoing, we need to see that because if there is something going wrong at the ...

Trump administration wants to loosen up the rules, get more aggressive. i think whats really going on here is that jeff sessions was sending a message to his boss, president trump. trump has criticized sessions as we all know for several reasons. one of the reasons hes been critical is because he says the justice department needs to be more aggressive pursuing leaks. we heard president trump decry leaks many many times. i think sessions was doing that yesterday. sessions was also using empty rhe...

Somebody unbiased, nonpartisan, ethical, fair-minded and a person who would be appointing that special prosecutor is eric holder. and so once it starts to look like the d.o.j. cannot ethically cover this, thats when that should come into play. i think were there. we learned today, eric, that they werent just targeting tea party groups at the irs. they were targeting religious groups, the billy graham organization, pro-israel groups. this is a complete, complete den graduation of the first amendm...