Freedom of information act, tom, thanks for joining me. Im not sure where to start with this. You were pretty active and caught my eye by suggesting comey, everyone says he writes these memos and they are detailed and he has been doing it. Why not have all his memo made public. Would that happen. That would be the shocking thing here in washington would be to release the information. These notes or men owes or whatever the document is is being characterized by a third party. And so lets get the document out there, see what the context is. See what comey said or wrote. And then make judgment calls based on that. We cant just rely on aknown plus sources, reading a document to reporters to make leaps of logic that there was obstruction of justice or necessity for impeachment. Its absurd. But frankly this is part of a pattern. You had illicit surveillance of the trump team, you had unmasking that was certainly illicit and probably illegal. Now you have memos spoon fed to antagonists in the media to make it seem he did something wrong. If i were advising President Trump i would say release all the memos. Did he do a memo about the tarmac meeting between bill clinton and Loretta Lynch . The context is important and getting the information out as quickly as possible is the key here. Charles we have breaking news and i want your opinion on out. Deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein announced the appointment of former d sorks j official Robert Muller to serve as special counsel to over see the investigation into russian efforts to influence the 2016 election and related matters. I hope there is an emphasis on the related matters. This is an investigation this is a political witch hunts. Giving it more legs than it actually has. The crimes we are aware of are illegal leaks of classified material. The unmaskings are the troubling aspect. We have had repeated confirmation through sworn testimony that there was no collusion between President Trump, his campaign and the russians. If they are investigating russian connections between political operatives and russia. Why is it only seemingly focusing on people close to trump. If mueller does the typical establishment approach it will be a disaster. If his purview is broad and he looks at what he needs to look at, the unmasking and surveillance, we may get some answers. Charles mueller will have all the powers of a u. S. Attorney and be able to impanel grand juries. Also which is critical. Rosenstein will be the acting a. G. On this since we recall sessions recused himself from the Russian Investigation. You have been critical of the f. B. I. And maybe the notion that all this comey news is something akin to retaliation. Do you think at this point the f. B. I. Is more part of the deep state out to get perhaps donald trump or protect their turf or is it still a legitimate intelligence gathering operation work on behalf of the American Public. I have confidence there are a lot of acts who want to do the right thing. Comey was one leader in the f. B. I. After he was fired the Washington Post reported that there are f. B. I. People telling the both we are not going to forget this and we are going to strike back. So you have implicit retaliation threatened against the president for firing comey. And lo and behold x have record spirited out of the f. B. I. , read to reporters, obviously in a way to make in trump look bad. Charles hopefully well get help on the leaking. Thats a serious aspect to this that somehow keeps being overlooked by constantly changing headlines. Now to my panel. Ford, i want to start with you. The news never stops in this particular case. We have Robert Mueller who will be taking over the russia investigation and related matters. As far as the memo is concerned, what are your thought on it. A memo read by an among us in source. We have anonymous sort built upon anonymous source. Everyone needs to take a chill pill. This a he said she said. Even if we take the comey membership oh at face value as being reported by the New York Times, i would say the hardly rights to obstruction of justice. And as jonathan turley, a law professor at George Washington university says, its hardly an impeachable offense. Its absolutely absurd. Charles from the Deputy Attorney general rosenstein with respect to the news we just broke. In michah passity as acting attorney joints in the Public Interest for me to in michah my capacity, i will appoint a special prosecutor. Charles the Mainstream Media has leaked to the i word impeachment. It seems to be reckless and irresponsible. You have the bubble of washington, d. C. Its a battleground. The right and left are fighting tooth and nail. The media gets involved, and they take one side other other. You have got to wonder what the general public is thinking about all this out there. Do they think its high crimes anmisdemeanors or do they say Ts Government has not been working . Its a huge distraction or something in between. Its important that the chief investigative agency, the f. B. I. Is independent. We know that. Thats one of the founding principles. In addition to which we have oversight responsibility of the congress. So now what you have is independent appoint of this new individual who will be independent, and the other committees doing their investigation. Everyone is so impatient. You have got to let it play out to see what is real and whats not. Charles joe borelli, you were Donald Trumps new York Campaign manager. This coming on the heels of suggesting getting rid of the daily press conference. Right now it feels like there is some form of turmoil in the trump administration. How do they get in front of these news stories. Getting back on an offensive posture would benefit the trump campaign. This is the scandal du jour of the Democratic Party of those in the government who want to malign the government. This latest thing about obstruction of justice i think is beyond hysteria. Allen Alan Dershowitz is sayine obstruction of justice claim is ridiculous. Charles are you confidence they can get this done . Thats for the president to determine. But they need to do a better job or look for replacements. I come at this from an optics perspective. I think putting a former f. B. I. Director in under department a. G. Rosenstein is a brilliant move. Even though democrats will cry foul, they will have to admit hes qualified to run an investigation because he has run the f. B. I. But im very concerned about the deep state. Charles the leaks, we dont talk about them, we dont hear them. None of this fist quoteunquote news. It probably would be made a lot easier with the lastsecond decision by the Obama Administration to give wide access to folks to unmask individuals and get this information to the Mainstream Media. Leaks are going to heed rode the foundation of any governance. People should be prosecuted. The problem as i experienced in government is when you you do the mole hunt and try to find out whos leaking, its kind of a fools errand. There are so many ways of hiding in this digital age. Whats coming out of the white house isnt helpful to anyone. Whats the agenda . Whats going to be done . And whats the rule of law . Is there a Tipping Point where you are going to say the rule of law has been changed . Or is it still intact. You have james comey. If he felt he was intimidated, why did he sit on this for three months. Why did he have a memo perhaps in his drawer where there are several statutes that require him to notify some one in the chain of command that this happened. This is obviously a serious accusation. Something to seriously imply, driving the stock market down 375 points. For him to sit on this get out of jail free card boggles the mind if it happened at all. Director comey is being demonized. The cops on the street saw him as a leader put in impossible positions. Hes not a political figure. Hes an investigator. I disagree with you 100 perso . Whether its the clintonl investigation when he was deputy a. G. With the terror surveillance act of actually speak out if he finds himself in a sticky situation. This does not match his modus operandi. Im not saying hes not being honest here. But im saying it doesnt fit his usual pattern. Charles jay stop chaffetz tweeting, muellers impeccable credentials should be widely accepted. The Mainstream Media going off the rails attacking President Trump. 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The meade jails more interested in pushing an agenda than they are reporting actual facts. They are not being answered. Why cant the media just get over themselves, the facts they lost, they called it wrong. Charles its not just anone husband sources. They determined to be judge, jury and executioner these days. I simply asked the question. I said how do we question these aAnonymous Sources. The point i was make so mcmaster is miss leading you or the Anonymous Sources are miss leading you. Which do you believe a veteran of esteemed background or anonymous source. Two form officials confirmed the main points of the story. They come out, name those people. Then well have something to talk about. Its not just cnn, its Washington Post, New York Times, wall street journal, cnn, abc, nbc. Who are the sources . They are hiding behind anonymity. Please, you are just going attack sources. Charles she was in your grill pretty tough there. You asked a legitimate question the American Public should be asking. Who are these Anonymous Sources. People work onbehalf of america. You haved secretary of state and head of the nfc said that didnt happen. We have seen anonymity used to attack trump time and time again. When you allege impeachable source, you dont gets anonymity anymore. Charles you were extremely poitds at least from what i can see. You could have turned over some tables. They pounced on you pretty good and she was in your face pretty hard. How did that ends. Did they at least acknowledge that maybe the American People has a right to know who was making the accusations . The issue was, it was a cold panel, they consistently do this. Where its 5 or 4 against one. They dont want you to think for yourself. They want to dictate the narrative. If you quit you are a racist, bigot, homophobe. The heavy ageneral today he against the American People to say donald trump is bad no matter what and dont question anything we say. Charles they say they are right because they were backed up and corroborated by the New York Times and Washington Post. Using the Mainstream Media as a test of credibility. They all name the same form officials. Either stand on your own merits here. Charles when you make these kinds of accusations, you owe it to the American People. Coming up, is the gop jumping off its trump train . We are left humiliated and contradicted. Instead of allergy pills. It delivers a gentle mist experience to help block six key inflammatory substances. Most allergy pills only block one. New Flonase Sensimist changes everything. Here comes the fun with seadoo. Starting at just 5,299 and get 0 percent financing. Visit seadoo. Com today. Think has exposure to energyfund infrastructure mlps . Think again. Its time to shake up your lineup. 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Charles are you buying what Charles Krauthammer is saying, donald trump is not getting any support from his own party for the reasons krauthammer put out there . Ben franklin said something we all should be mindful of. We are going to hang together or we are going to hang separately. The gop has to understand that. The media has taken off the referee jersey and put on the jersey of the opposition party. They are going to not only come after the president , they will then come after the republican majority in the house and then the senate. If they dont hang together, they will hang separately. This underscores something. Donald trump is a major disruptor of the status quo and business as usual. My uncle told me dogs dont bark at parked cars. He has elicited a powerful and sustained response from the opposition. If we dont hang together, well hang separately. Charles even today in the gop press conference paul ryan was asked about his level of confidence in donald trump, i thought the simple answer was yes, im very confident in the president of the united states, instead he talked about investigation it was note a fullthroated support of the president. I havent heard too many republicans in the last couple weeks give that full throat of support. Krauthammer was really talking about white house staff. I dont agree with him. I think the white house operation is running just fine. When you are talking about the hill republicans, you are absolutely correct. Im disappointed, i want to see full support. When they get a microphone stuck in their face they freeze up like establishment conventional republicans always have and its not acceptable anymore. When our president is attacked mercilessly by the media and the democrats, thats an attack on the entire Republican Party and our vision for america. We need to see everybody on the hill calm down and relax. The president did the republicans on the hill a huge favor. This russian probe is going to be over fast because there is nothing there. Charles thank you both very, very much. In those words of wisdom, ill tale a few of them. How about this word of wisdom. Go back to africa. They are the calling card for the socalled intolerant left. Wait until you hear how their latest target responded. As soon as i left the hospital after a dvt blood clot, i sure had a lot to think about. What about the people i care about . Including this little girl. And what if this happened again . I was given warfarin in the hospital, but wondered, was this the best treatment for me . So i asked my doctor. And he recommended eliquis. Eliquis treats dvt and pe blood clots and reduces the risk of them happening again. Yes, eliquis treats dvt and pe blood clots. Eliquis also had significantly less major bleeding than the standard treatment. 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