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>> jesse: president trump has delayed his fake news awards until a week from wednesday. what? that doesnt mean we dont have to wait. well hand out our own media awards tonight. these are just from the last two days. were going to recognize the work of such luminaries carl bernstein and mika brzezinski. our lack of impartiality award goes to nbc. they called oprah our future president and took 14 hours to take the tweet down. nbc blamed some mysterious third party for posting the tweet. we wouldn...

But at the same time, i feel that god allowed me to be in this situation so that i might submit fully to his will for my life instead of just living a life of partiality. living a life thats going to church one sunday and partying the next. the way i keep my peace, the way i sleep at night, is by reading this book right here. and letting my mind stay at ease knowing that i didnt do it. thats how you can have peace. >> franklin could be sentenced to decades in prison for his fairfax county convic...

And im glad he had the conversations and that he didnt listen to the white house counsel and the other two people that trump sent, because he actually -- and im not a jeff sessions fan. he did the right thing in recusing himself. he talks about how during his nomination hearings because of the fact that it came out that he met with the russians, that he told the congress that he would recuse himself. if anything came up where his impartiality was questioned -- of course his impartiality would be...

There are two things that -- there are two things that i want -- there are two things that i wanted to make, two points. jeff sessions, i went to look at the statement he made when he recused himself. hes talks about how he had conversations -- several conversations with department of justice counsel. and im glad he had the conversations and that he didnt listen to the white house counsel and other two people that trump sent because he -- im not a jeff sessions fan. he did the right thing in rec...

Mentioned, so many people that miller bought in for the people working on that were very anti-trump in the campaign and still to this day. i think the impartiality of this investigation has been called into question and i have some real serious concerns about it. >> harris: your thoughts? >> the days of j. edgar hoover were answers only to itself. this is a good step in the right direction for the fbi to actually turn this information over to congress. congress has oversight. the fbi doesnt oper...

Counsel, because gregg is right, they cannot investigate themselves. >> what this is me off about mueller and those lack of fairness and impartiality, he knew early this last summer that strzok had sent these text messages to lisa page. he knew that, removed him, but never disclosed it to congress upon their demands. he stalled for four long months, and so did rosenstein, they covered it up. if you truly care about the fair administration of justice, you do not cover that up. and to those that a...

Themselves. >> what ticks me off aboutes mueller and this lack of fairness and impartiality, he knew early this last summer that strzok had sent these text messages to lisa page. he knew that, removed him, but never disclosed it to congress upon their demands. he stalled for four long months, and so did rosenstein, they covered it up. if you truly care about the fair administration of justice, you do not cover that up. and to those that argue, well, he removed them, so it is okay, how much damag...

Requested by the american people and congress? >> exactly right. they have discredited themselves. they should clean this thing up and make sure that the people that work there maintain the impartiality and fairness that the american people expect. >the fbi and doj has massive affect on the citizens lives. for people to be conducting themselves like some of these agents did is very disturbing to me. leland: seem adverse to any criticism or discussion of their work or oversight of their work as y...

New tonight, doubling down. a republican congressman defending his call for a quote purge at the fbi and justice department. his comments come after messages emerge after two fbi agents part of robert muellers team, criticizing president trump during the campaign. >> are you sure you want to be throwing a word like purge around? >> well, it might be a pretty strong word. im not maybe the most nuanced political person in the world coming from a career the in business, but im pretty frustrate. as ...

Call for a purge at the fbi and justice department and he says now that word is a little strong, however he believes theres a problem. >> as an american citizen i am nervous and discontent those people would have those kinds of lack of impartiality. >> a lawyer under george w. bush slammed the congressman for saying this on cnn. listen. >> we dont have purges in the united states of america, and thats soviet germany, and thats not the rhetoric we use in the united states of american and that man...