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From the left trying to stop him in this effort. heres the bottom line, tucker. barack obama weaponized the department of justice and politized the fbi. i know a lot of rank-and-file fbi members. they are all embarrassed about this. the doj weaponized. we saw it go down with the irs as well. and how the weaponized department of justice went after congress and michael grimm and many others. its on its way to happening for quite sometime. we are at the most politicized level of our doj and fbi in ...

Last week said the fbi director threatened to resign over trumps effort to oust the deputy there, andrew mccabe, a story the white house didnt even deny, and yet tonight, that fbi director wray publicly explaining why that fbi agency out like trump wanted. the same case that was the pretext for firing comey. if youre keeping score, trump wanted comey out because of russia, but his doj said it was because of clinton bias, and this official wanted mccabe out, and now the fbi says, wait for it, its...

Thank you for joining us. give us the reporting on this. first of all, the fact that rosenstein is now in the target zone, and the fact that tray gowdy is out there saying i still trust mueller to do his job if he gets the time and resources to do it and he isnt interfered with. how do you put that into partisan politics terms? >> its not surprising that rosenstein is still in the target zone. this is someone who president trump refers to as that democrat from baltimore. this is someone he has c...

Since the original mccarthy era. i harbor no ill will for any past xenophobia and only hope that justice is eventually served. what do you make of the full of rosenstein here, what it means of him as a possible target and his role as a neutral or good faith arbiter, which i dont know if you think that in this investigation? >> so rod rosenstein i dont think has always handled himself completely aboveboard. obviously he wrote the memo that justified the firing of james comey when you think he had...

Voted to release this memo that they wrote tonight, and cnn is reporting that president trump has said about rod rosenstein, quote, lets fire him, lets get rid of him. "the washington post" reporting that the president thinks this nunes memo theyre going to release will give him a pretext so he can go ahead and fire rod rosenstein. obstruction of justice is a crime, it is a crime of which even presidents can get in a whole lot of trouble. and it is fascinating to game out which of the presidents...

That justice is eventually served. what do you make of the full of rosenstein here, what it means of him as a possible target and his role as a neutral or good faith arbiter, which i dont know if you think that in this investigation? >> so rod rosenstein i dont think has always handled himself completely aboveboard. obviously he wrote the memo that justified the firing of james comey when you think he had to know what the underlying reason was. but the ironic thing about that, the nunes memo is ...

There was a zealousness at the fbi to get surveillance on somebody like carter page, more as a pretext to get at trump or get at people closer to trump. was there really a need to do page? i think thats what were going to have to ask ourselves. is this memo about carter page? >> you can ask me every way you can think of what the memo is about. i cant get into specifics. what i can tell you is what we already know. the democratic national committee and the clinton campaign, which are one is the s...

What the president had at his disposal were memos that provided a pretext. another explanation to give to the public for why comey was being fired. he treated hillary clinton unfairly. thats not plausible. the one that made its clear thats not the real motivation was the president himself. it was over some the fact that the mueller firm worked for jared kushner even though mueller didnt. this is another effort to produce pretext to conceal the real reason for getting rid of mueller. that does go...

Its important that he did do. so this is a systemic power of conduct and it absolutely bolsters a claim of obstruction of justice. there are many other examples as well and once you begin to put together example after example after example it really does give you a pretty good indication of what donald trumps intent was and including sort of the kind of cover-ups afterwards, the pretext that they come up with for why they would fire jim comey, why they would want to fire bob mueller. there was s...

And i do not understand the universal judgment that he was mistaken. that was never credible as a reason why trump would fire coemy and it was belied by a subsequent interview that he gave to lester holt. intent is in the charge of obstruction of justice. asserting false reasons for the firing of comey and then mueller suggests he was riding his real rationale. if the reason for the firing and the order that mueller be fired was that the president to use his words was just fighting back, fightin...