Russia probe where does the investigation go now. Former independent counsel, ken star, will join me live plus an exclusive interview with Speaker Paul Ryan, how does the speaker of the house respond to the critics of his new spending bill does he plan to stick around after the Midterm Election . All that coming up right now as we look ahead on sunday morning futures. And in developments this past friday special counsel Robert Muellers russia investigation mueller indicting 13 russian nationals on friday accusing them of interfering in the 2016 president ial election. Coming up in just a moment we will hear from former independent counsel ken star about that but first my exclusive interview with the attorney general Jeff Sessions. I spoke with mr. Sessions a few hours before the indictments were handed down and i asked him about the Mueller Probe including his decision to recuse himself from anything involving russia but i began with the immigration battle and the negotiations that simply fell apart on thursday. Look, this is an opportunity for the American People maybe our last real opportunity to create a immigration system thats lawful, that ends the law lessness, the and serves the national interest. President trumps plan is strong , the bill included that pretty effectively. Its the kind of legislation i think could work, that i supported and it didnt pass, but ive got to say we have got to talk about this as a nation. We need President Trumps plans call for ending the legality, having real enforcement with a board ecall. It calls for meritbased system instead of the chain migration, it calls for ending the visa lottery which is a ridiculous policy and always has been. Why we cant get that done baffels me and i think that its the American People are there and we cannot stop. Weve got to get this done. Maria so is there anything that the administration is willing to give on . Surely you saw that of ed in the journal on friday which was titled president millers immigration veto and they talk about the fact that this last bill included authorizing 25 billion over 10 years for the wall on the mexican u. S. Border. That was a victory and its 2. 5 billion in the first year probably more than the democrats wanted so where is the opportunity to come half way . Well, we dont have to go half way beyond the fundamentals President Trumps fundamentals are good. Who can oppose ending the visa lottery . Who wants to continue the law lessness. Who wants to allow create a situation in which you get amnesty a legality for young people that are here and not end up with a legal system that will be enforceable in the future. Theres nothing meanspirited about it. We admit 1 Million People a year lawfully into america, hundreds of thousands of workers are here in addition to that every year taking jobs, so were not talking about ending immigration the president is in no way talking about being unkind and its some time in the future after the illlegality has ended we can begin to talk about people who have been here a long time and who have not violated our laws in other ways. Maria do you expect to get a deal done on daca before the march 5 deadline, sir . I dont know. The people who say they want to fix that, President Trump has offered them that. Hes been very generous in his legislation. I think that is a very generous policy, goes beyond actually what president obama had in his daca policy and goes beyond even what some people who favored the daca expected, so thats been very generous so were, hes already made compromises, so the question really is when we pass this bill, will we once more fool the American People, will we once more just give legality, legal status to people who enter the country illegally and never follow through in an effective way . The promises that have been made to them politically and ive got to tell you on the enforcement side, there is some big loopholes in this legislation. You can not lead the department of Homeland Security and the department of justice unable to actually deport people who enter ed the country illegally. Maria well i think you make a great point. Theres a lot more to come on this so i want to get back to this subject because you mentioned lawlessness. There appears to have been a lot of lawlessness going on in the government over the last eight or 10 years and i want to ask you about the abuses of the fisa court because any way you look at it appears the fbi and department of justice are using their power over the election because they simply did not like donald trump. We know that in a number of issues, now people want you to start handing down justice. Newt gingrich joined me on this program last sunday, here is what he had to say about that. Listen to this mr. Attorney general. He is not in any way recused on this information. He should be appointing an independent counsel. He should be demanding that we get to the bottom of this. Im totally mystified because hes a great guy. Hes a solid conservative. He certainly in his career has been a fighter and this behavior is just totally unlike everything i knew about Jeff Sessions before the last six or eight months. Maria are you, sir, investigat ing the fact that the fbi used the dossier to get a wire tap against Trump Associates and they did not tell the fisa court that the democrat s and Hillary Clinton paid for that dossier . Let me tell you, every fisa warrant based on facts submitted to that court have to be accurate, that will be investigated and looked at and we are not going to participate at the department of justice in providing anything less than the proper disclosure to the court before they issue a fisa warrant other than that im not going to talk about the details of it but ill tell you were not going to allow that to happen. Maria do we need another special counsel in place to look at what the fbi and the department of justice abused its power, how they abuse their power . Well the Inspector General has been working very hard on that and hes been relentless and tough. Ive seen or heard some of his work thats been produced already. Much of what we know about this has been produced by his work and the department of justice. The Text Messages that have all been made public or disclosed by the department of justice. Weve made congress, weve Given Congress records and documents beyond anything ever been produced really. Probably in history, and were going to continue to be open with them and be responsive. We have a responsibility to ensure the integrity of this process. Im going to use my authority as the attorney general to ensure that but the management of this case from which im recused is in the hands of mr. Mueller and supervised by the acting attorney general for this investigation Rod Rosenstein, a proven professional and Deputy Attorney general. Maria well theres a lot of conflicts around the special Prosecutors Team we know that but thats putting aside because i know you recused yourself but there are felonies apparently that have already taken place. We had on this program just last week the chairman of the Intel Committee devon nunes and he said there are felonies that are going not looked at at all theyre going by over and over. Listen to what he tells me just last sunday. The big felony in all of this that nobody talks about from the very beginning was the leak of highly classified information when they leaked the phone call of the Russian Ambassador talking to general mike flynn right before the inauguration. That was a felony, nothings ever been done about it. Maria is your Office Investigating this, sir . That is ava o legislation of the law to leak classified documents and it is being investigated. I will say this, there are last two years before i became attorney general there were each year, there was three open investigations of classified leaks and now we have 27 and were going after this aggressively. I have directed it personally. Some of the matters involve this matter and some of it is a matter that im not recused on and we are pursuing aggressively maria so you feel that there are matters that you can get into . For example, theres a lot of feeling out there that the Hillary Clinton email investigation was a sham. You know, Loretta Lynch told jim comey to call it a matter and thats exactly what he did and in fact it was a criminal investigation. We know he wrote an exoneration letter, james comey did before he did the interview with Hillary Clinton. What have you learned in terms of the opening reopening of the Hillary Clinton email investigation . Will there be charges, will there be accountability here, sir . Maria . Were going to do our job in this department properly and correctly and im not going to be led in the discussion of all of the details of matters that you might be interested in. We cant do that in the media. Were going to restore the rule of law. Were going to restore pro pry in how cases are managed and thats all i can promise you. Maria do you regret recusing yourself with anything related to russia sir . I believe i did the right thing. The only thing i can do is i participated in this campaign and its such under explicit regulations of the department of justice that no one can participate in the investigation of a campaign in which they were an active participant. Maria let me ask you a broader question here. How can you ask maria im sorry sir . You cant ask other members of the department to follow the law and follow the rules the attorney general himself refuses to do so. Maria yes thats absolutely true in terms of a broader look at whats happened here, sir we know there was an incredible abuse of power at the top of the fbi and department of justice now weve seen the text, we know what has gone on. How do you turn this ship around i mean clearly there have been agencies, government agencies. When did it happen that they became so politicized and can you change this . Maria, im not going to acknowledge the correctness of all of the statements youve made, people will make up their own mind in due time about those things but we are setting a tone of professionalism and responsibility and lawfulness in this department. We expect of every member and weve got a new fbi director, a new deputy fbi director a new Legal Counsel in the fbi directors office, and a new press person in the fbis office , so we made some real changes there. Chris wray is a man of integrity and decency and brilliant lawyer and experienced department of justice employee and we intend and we made other changes within this department that i think will put us on a path to fulfill my responsibility to the American People and that is to conduct our work professionally, honestly and without political bias. Maria thats all we can ask you to do mr. Attorney general. Up next, more of my interview with the attorney general Jeff Sessions including his take on the missed warning signs in the Deadly Florida shooting spree. Follow me on twitter at Maria Bartiromo on sunday morning futures let us know your thoughts on attorney general Jeff Sessions stay with us were looking ahead on sunday morning futures. It patrick woke up with back pain. But he has work to do. So he took aleve. If hed taken tylenol, hed be stopping for more pills right now. Only aleve has the strength to stop tough pain for up to 12 hours with just one pill. Aleve. All day strong. Maria welcome back attorney general Jeff Sessions is ordering an immediate review following the news that the fbi did not act on a recent tip a month before the confessed killer in the Florida High School shooting rampage. Before that news came out i asked sessions about the missed signals from the fbi in the case yes, there clearly were and even the schools refused to let the person come in, or bring a backpack because they were concerned about it. I met with a group of sheriffs yesterday. They all believe that we need to do a better job of receiving these signs and acting on them and following up on them better. That is probably the most valuable thing we can do to stop these kind of cases. We see the recent incidents, maria of the grandmother who was concerned about a grand child and that appears to have been a dangerous situation that her going to the police and them acting on it may have prevented, so absolutely weve got to do better about that. Were going to review department of justice policies and were not perfect either and were going to make sure were getting to the highest possible level of responding to appropriate notices of danger like probably was out there in this case. Maria its really terrible. Can you explain why the administration reversed an obama era policy last year that would have forced Social Security officials to report records of mentally ill people getting benefits . People are saying look there was a plan in place that you would have known if a mentally ill person acquired a gun. I dont know how that would work, exactly the background on that, but i would just say to you we have got to be more effective in it. If a person is hearing voices and hes making threats to shoot and kill innocent people, that person is subject to being taken to a legal official and being declared a subject to having Mental Health treatment. I think that probably existed in this case. I cant say for certain but well see, but i have to say, you are correct that we need to do a better job of identifying people who obviously who even could possibly present threats to children in the school. Maria all right we will leave it there mr. Attorney general we really appreciate your time this morning thanks very much for joining me. Thank you. Maria attorney general Jeff Sessions there. Coming up next the new developments in the Robert Muellers russia probe 13 russians indicted for meddling in the 2016 president ial election where does the investigation go now . Former independent counsel ken star joins me live, next were looking ahead right now on sunday morning futures back in a moment. The things we do rising before dawn. Sweating it out. Tough to do it all. But we can always find time to listen to great thinkers and explorers whose stories take us places our hamstrings cant. All we have to do is listen. Download audible to start listening. whispering with the capital one venture card, youll earn unlimited double miles on every purchase, every day. Not just airline purchases. Think about all the double miles you could be earning. yelling holy moly, thats a lot of miles shhhhh shh whats in your wallet . Man shhhh . From godaddy in fact, 68 of people who have built their. Website using gocentral, did it in under an hour, and you can too. Build a better website in under an hour. With gocentral from godaddy. Maria welcome back a federal grand jury indicting 13 russian nationals and three Russian Companies for their alleged part in a plot to interfere in the 2016 president ial election. President trump is claiming vindication saying that it shows now there was no collusion on the part of his campaign. So where does the investigation go now . Want to bring in the former independent counsel, in the whitewater scandal ken star. Good to see you sir thanks so much for joining us this morning oh, my pleasure maria. Maria we have a lot to talk about you were in the seat of special counsel. Your reaction to the 13 russian nationals about the three companies indicted on friday. Well first were now aiming our guns so to speak where they should be aimed. I think we should stop pointing fingers at one another in this country and realize who the real enemy is and i say enemy. These are spies. They came into our country. They spent millions of dollars. They didnt need to cold youd with anyone. They had a massive operation based in st. Petersburg russia, not florida, and we now know that the people who were financing this according to the indictment were pemex really close to Vladimir Putin so the real target was the russian government seeking to do what . Seeking to so discord. The focus has been just one more thing on all this elect President Trump but they were also saying in the facebook ads vote for Bernie Sanders and it was an effort to pit us against one another and Vladimir Putin has succeeded. Theres all this finger pointing and the great thing about this indictment by Robert Mueller and his team is that they have refocused if americans will listen if they will read that 36 page indictment they will see my goodness the real enemy is not within its the enemy without. Maria but do you know what ken the issue that i have with that is that thats nothing new. Ive got to tell you i remember going to st. Petersburg when i was working at a Different Company 10 years ago and when i went to st. Petersburg in moscow 10 years ago i was told maria dont bring your blackberry any devices as soon as you enter Russian Air Space they will have access to all of your stuff. It was at that time i had a different blackberry or different name because i didnt want the russians to hack into my calendar and anything else they could. That was 10 or 12 years ago when i went to moscow s