maria: members of the senate judiciary committee about to hold a hearing. the key witness, sally yates, set to testify about what she knew about the investigation and what she knew about michael flynn. louisiana senator john kennedy will be sitting on that panel. he joins us now. good to have you on the program. thank you very much for joining us this afternoon. thanks, maria. how are you? maria: what are you looking to get from sally yates? well, what she knew. i want to know when she knew it. and i want to know who she told it to. i like the president s suggested question. did she or does she know someone who did leak classified information? that s a very fair question. in terms of mr. flynn, i m not really interested in relitigating that. i think it s pretty clear. i ll stipulate whether they ll admit it or not, i bet the white house will, too, that hiring
democratic national convention when debbie wasserman schultz was pushed out and they wanted to talk about something else other than her e-mails. we re still hearing the same thing. we have no evidence of collusion. i wish they d hurry up. we really need to get to the bottom of this. this issue s been raised in the minds of the american people. everybody in america doesn t read aristotle, but most americans get this. they re smart folks. they figured it out. there s been allegations that the russians somehow influenced the result of the election. let s get to the bottom of it, let the chips fall where they may. just because the russians tried to doesn t mean they succeeded. i don t think the russian activity and i believe there was russian activity, i don t think it determined the outcome of the election. that s my opinion. let s see the facts and put it behind us. maria: you said something that the president tweeted about. you will ask sally yates how
maria: do you think there will be anyone who takes the fall or anyone who is on the hook result of all of the obstructionism that we have seen since the president took office? well, there ought to be. every president is entitled to appoint his own people. if they re an ax murderer, that s one thing. but if they re qualified, just because you don t like their politics, doesn t mean you don t vote to confirm them. by this time most of president obama s major appointments had been confirmed. we just our process has been very slow because the democrats have used every procedural road block they are. maria: that s right. that s their right. they re entitled to do that, but what s the point? they know we ve got the votes. maria: their.is they want to stop the president s agenda. that s not a fair point. that may be a point, but that s not a fair point. i m talking about a good faith point.
she said it was too short notice. the invitation coming about two weeks ago. and that it was not extended on a bipartisan basis. that is not to say that rice is unwilling to cooperate with this investigation. her lawyer indicated that she will testify to members of these committees, but we need to be in a nonpublic, classified session. maria? they have been at this a long time and still no evidence of it. thanks so much. right now we want to look more into this. we bring in fox politics editor chris stirewalt. your reaction? democrats are certainly not gonna pass up on the chance to rub donald trump s nose in michael flynn again. an there a story today that basically sums it up. they thought the president had done had his first real success on the legislative side with getting the first version of cuts of obamacare through the house. then democrats just want to make sure it s back to russia,
ready to begin the hearing. pher saeu tky dy, what do you e to hear? sally yates, there is a sense she will contradict what the white house has said. i don t think it really changes very much unless there s something revealing. we re not going to get details. the lot of the information that she would have to deliver is classified. we might only get a limited scope in this testimony and during this committee hearing because of the fact that most of the information is classified. maria: jump in here, chris, as we watch the cameras take pictures before they begin. we ll take you there as soon as you re done. sally yates is poised to become an even greater hero to the democratic party than ever before. i believe by the time today is over they will be talking about sally yates for president. they love her. maria: let s listen to senator lindsey graham beginning this hearing now. followed by some