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He should be talking about to the white house counsel about it. whats interesting is this is so circular, i think. because the reason that trump now says is that he needs to fire sessions and that some of the republicans who previously would have opposed that are now crumbling is because their relationship is so bad. but why is it so bad? its so bad because trump has made it bad. the question is, does he want to fire sessions because he wants a new attorney general to come in who then wont be re...

Pry manage the personal lives to anyone associated with donald trump send aing them so open this the prison -- sending some of them to prison. what justifies the existence of the investigation? few ask but kim strassel does. and joins us tonight. what is the pretext for continuing this at this stage? >> it is hard to know. we were supposed to talk about the trump-russia collusion. so far in all the time that the special counsel has gone away he has not found any evidence of that. now his mandate...

The house at the moment. its very rare, its a nuclear option. andrew johnson was impeached not least because he was a democrat in a republican era. he even put on the ticket in 1864 by lincoln to broaden the republicans appeal in that tumultus election. the first impeachment proceedings is andrew johnson actually started before 1865 was out and they ultimately found a pretext for it. president nixon was more of a cover-up in terms of political espionage and abuse of power and with president clin...

Justice took a 12-year-old tax case among other things applied tremendous pressure on him. michael cohen he refused to break -- such a respect for a brave man." are we reading too much into this? >> the president is trying to lay a foundation where he can pardon manafort and have a pretext to say why. if the president marpardons manafort, people are going to go nuts. hes trying to prevent manafort of cooperating. that tweet you just showed us and the quotes and prior tweets, i think this is an u...

Mark steyn rejoined us with his view. to think shes going to do it, and for what office and under what pretext? >> i think we can all agree, as you are talking about with ann coulter a couple of minutes ago, that the real message of the 2016 election is that americans want a permanent hereditary political class drawn from the same three or four families. and 25 years of the clintons isnt enough. if you go and see a bill clinton speech where he is getting a seven-figure sum from a couple of saudi...

Do you think shes going to do it, and for what office and under what pretext? >> i think we can all agree, as you are talking about with ann a couple of minutes ago, that the real message of the 2016 election is that americans want a permanent hereditary political class drawn from the same three or four families. and 25 years of the clintons isnt enough. if you go and see a bill clinton speech where he is getting a seven-figure sum from a couple of saudi princes to give a speech on diarrhea in a...

I think its now down to about four and a half million but at that level, everyone might as well have security clearances. im with senator blumenthal, in an effort to have bipartisan compromise i think unaccompanied minors are coming across the rio grande but i should hand them their security clearances. senator blumenthal, go for it. >> tucker: i like that idea. the irony, there are so many layers of it. these are the exact same people telling us we dont have a right to know what our government ...

I think its down to 4.5 million. at that level everybody might as well as have security clearance. i think in bipartisan compromise as uncompanied minors are coming across the rio grande, ice should hand them their security clearance. go for it. >> tucker: laughtering laughing. -- [laughing]. i like that idea. these are the same people telling us we dont have a right to know what our government is doing. we dont have a right to know the pretext under which carter page was spied on by the obama a...

The i.g. said comey mishandled the clinton investigation. the i.g. said mccabe lacked candor. the i.g. said strzok tarnished the fbis reputation. bruce ohr was demoted after talking to a source he probably shouldnt have been talking to. when you look at that and take it altogether, do you say, hey, listen, theres a problem with the fbi? these are high-ranking officials at the fbi, the director, the deputy director, a top agent, an associate deputy a.g. all demoted? >> so obviously there are prob...

And utter bad faith. and similarly, you have, yes, of course -- i think that if you have an i.g. investigation into any big institution, you will probably come up with people who have made mistakes. in this case they find people that have made mistakes and then they go above and beyond the recommended punishment for those mistakes. >> this is the director, deputy director, top agent, associating a.g., its not just people, theyre pretty high up. >> well, they didnt recommend that he fire strzok. ...