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lies about a former president. >> sandra: let's get to a bit from your op-ed. you write. ocasio-cortez is entitled to advocate for whatever position she wishes no matter how antithetical they may be to american values and our way of life. that's the beauty of our system but she is not entitled to lie. no one in public office is. she owes ronald reagan and the public an apology. >> sandra: she sure does. she is taking cheap and dishonest shots. she should do her job. >> sandra: you look back at the economy during the days of reagan and how his policies created an economic boom and we look at the growth today and wish for some of the numbers that we saw as far as economic growth during those years. >> that's exactly right. the economic growth during the reagan administration benefited all segments of society. >> sandra: fascinating to look back at that. you know, just broadly speaking
>> one of the important crises we faced was racial discrimination. it stirred our nation to the depths of its soul was dr. martin luther king junior. let us not only recall dr. king but rededicate ourselves to the commandments he believed in and sought to live every day. >> sandra: that was president ronald reagan in november 1983 at the signing of a bill to make martin luther king day a national holiday. the 40th president back in the news this week after democratic socialist ocasio-cortez that many of his policies were rooted in racism. >> a perfect example of how special interests and the powerful have pitted white working class americans against brown and black working class americans in order to just screw over all working class
these proceedings that there was any kind of russian collusion at all? the answer is no. the lying if that's established was about something else. there wants collusion. >> my point is we don't know what these lies are. it could be a major fill in the blank. >> that's number one. collusion isn't a crime. we'll have to see where the mueller team goes with this investigation. what we've seen so far donald trump national security advisor guilty of lying to the f.b.i. foreign policy agent -- there are a bunch of liars surrounding this president and it is problematic for the president to go into this election season. >> sandra: we're tracking the breaking news here. the latest we brought to you is paul manafort will address the court shortly as we await this sentencing in washington, d.c. as far as the mueller investigation is concerned, where do you think things stand? it seems like the speculation is on a daily basis when that
questioning with lisa page. he says that page testified that there was advice from the obama administration's justice department that this statute was too vague and that it was not sustainable and that it should not be proceeded upon. we've also had a tweet from the president this morning reacting to this news saying he believes this is evidence that the obama administration justice department was a broken and corrupt machine. what's important here when we think about the gross negligence statute, sandra, is that it did not have that requirement for intent and it was f.b.i. director comey who said consistently he wanted to find intent in order to pursue any prosecution of hillary clinton and her team, sandra. >> sandra: a lot to take in there. thank you. >> bill: want to bring in louisiana republican senator john kennedy who serves on the judiciary committee. you listened to that report. i'll play for you july of 2016, james comey when he ran the f.b.i. >> i know there will be intense
agent of russia. the two things simply aren't the same. >> sandra: some of what we've heard heading into the prosecution of the case in the fileings said his sentencing -- he wrote. his defense team argues he should be sentenced in a term of imprisonment significantly below the statutory maximum. in their words they said this case is not about murder, drug cartels, ponse scheme or collapse of enron. so what -- to what degree do you think that the judge will take in those words and the fact that he has had family members, his wife has written letters calling him the rock of the family, they've relied on him for years, how much will all this play a part in the sentencing we're about to see? >> it will play somewhat of a part. sandra, to talk about sentencing below the statutory
it is entirely cynical and very discouraging to a lot of folks. yes, there will be more. susan is right. there will be more people involved and i think we'll hear more about this. the other thing is if i can for a second, this plays into a deep worry the american people have, i share that worry. we see it in politics. this was appealed to by donald trump and bernie sanders. is the system rigged? do you remember when donald trump said is the system rigged? bernie sanders asked the same question. in his case it was right. people believe that america is about equal opportunity. no privilege. bill clinton, work hard and play by the rules. this is a clear violation of the rules and people are really mad about it. >> sandra: really mad about it and you don't have to look far whether in your own neighborhood or at work and talking to somebody who sits by and you work closely with. parents are stressed to the nines when they've got kids that age or high school where they're trying to get them into
will also press the judge so that manafort will give up his remaining fortune of $11 million because he violated a plea agreement to fully cooperate with that investigation, sandra. >> sandra: what are you learning about who told the f.b.i. and the f.b.i. lawyers to stand down on the hillary clinton email investigation? what's the latest on that? >> well, at the heart of this breaking news this morning, sandra, is something called 18usc793 subsection f. what we showed to our reporting at fox news it's a gross negligence statute to be applied to hillary clinton. what we learned this morning is lisa page, when she testified under oath last fall, she shed new light on whether there was advice from the justice department under the obama administration not to pursue this gross negligence statute. we have a tweet from congressman john ratcliffe, a republican who led that line of
our 10:00 a.m. hour. >> sandra: another top story this morning. we're waiting to learn paul manafort's fate. his sentencing on federal conspiracy charges in washington expected this morning as new transcripts come to light renewing questions about the f.b.i. and d.o.j.'s handling of the clinton email investigation. catherine herridge following the stories for us. good morning. >> good morning. this is the second and final sentence for the former trump campaign chairman paul manafort and it brings to an end the most public and high-profile prosecution that was brought by special counsel robert mueller and his team. the issue for the federal judge amy jackson berman today is whether the sentence here in washington will run back-to-back with the 47 months that manafort got in virginia last week for bank and tax fraud convictions or whether it will run simultaneously. the max they're looking at in washington, d.c. is a decade and in a pre-sentencing memo
>> sandra: britain's parliament dealing another major blow to theresa may defeating her second brexit plan but a new vote today could be a test for british lawmakers 16 days before the u.k. is set to leave the e.u. >> this really is another heavy defeat for may. and her brexit deal. many people say it's dead in the water. it has major implications not just for the u.k. but also for the u.s. and relationship between the two countries. may lost that vote yesterday by 149 votes. a major rejection and it leaves the country in chaos with europe shaking its head asking what the u.k. wants. after that defeat may offered parliament options moving forward. >> does it want to hold a
and why joe biden goes well in the general election is because he speaks to an administration that wasn't as swampy as this one. >> all the stuff with manafort is well before donald trump. nothing to do with the trump administration. >> was he not the chairman of his campaign? >> that's not what he is on trial for. >> sandra: he is making the case none of the counts against him now. >> you know who you are by the company you keep. >> bill: the judge ruled manafort breached his plea agreement by lying. manafort admitted that. prosecutors haven't disclosed why they considered those lies to be important because they want to continue the investigation which would seem to indicate on the mueller matter why the lies were important. were they deep or shallow lies? did they pertain to russian collusion or have nothing to do with it? there lies the critical question in the courtroom right now. steve. >> the underlying question is there any evidence in any of