fine line as he ramps up his campaign. here is the conundrum for ron desantis. on the one hand you have to attack trump to beat trump. on the other hand you have to attract trump s voters to win. how do you do that? if anything, i think the diehard trumpers, millions in the republican primaries, they are going to they are punishing desantis for his new attacks on trump. politics is about the art of what you can t see not what you can. and i think trump has a tremendous advantage right now. harris: very busy weekend of campaigning ahead. seven big-name g.o.p. candidates in the race and they are about to get company next week. former vice president mike pence and chris christie and doug burr gum will announce their bid for the white house. rich edson is in iowa where former president trump is set to speak shortly. again, we ll bring you that live. rich. good morning, harris, you know the security is here, the supporters are here, the media is here. just waiting on presi
any kind of working relationship institution to institution the f.b.i. should have to respond to this subpoena. but we ve seen past situations where frankly the folks who are over there, the department of justice and the f.b.i., have been very reluctant to hand things over even under congressional subpoena. just to give you one prior example, you may remember the eric holder was found in contempt of congress by the whole congress, 255 people including 17 democrats voted to hold him in contempt when he refused to hand over information about the fast and furious gun running program in mexico that obviously created so much consternation. that was really something that was a long time coming that he prevented congress from gaining access to documents they had the right to see. the same thing is happening with christopher wray. he is saying they can t access something that is unclassified,
to tell president trump know when he has to based on the law of the land. eric holder wasn t able to tell barack obama no. indeed, he was a co-conspirator so to speak in some of the political schemes to evade the law. whether it s the fast and furious gun running program, whether it s the illegal recess appointments, whether it s the deferred action, illegal amnesty is granted circumventing the authority given only to the congress eric holder was a co-conspirator in that effort. i think that s why it s so important to drain the swamp at the department of justice, jeff sessions is exactly the right person to do that and will go for the rule of law, something the american people have a right to demand. bill: we await the testimony there on the hill. john cornin with me now. thank you. martha: as the confirmation hearings get underway donald trump is making other news as well. he named his son-in-law jared
crimes but he actually refused to give immunity to one of the key witnesses who could have exposed further conduct within the irs. that s just unconscionable. on the fast and furious, look, it is just a patent false claim that he had nothing to do with it until after the fact. organized crime case and it was approved at the highest levels of the department of justice as all of those kind of cases are early in the process. i have 10 seconds left. what about targeting a.p. reporters and fox reporters? that s awful. well, i think it was wrong to ever put james refinery in the position that he would be subpoenaed for trial. thank you very much. great last minute christmas ideas. tickets to see bill and dennis miller on their don t be a pinhead tour make great gifts. he tickets for shows in dallas, new mexico and west bury, long island, go to bill o reilly.com and link right over to the box
what he has been doing as head of the department of justice on his watch. john, you say you are okay in general you are okay with everything eric holder has done over his six year tenure. no intelligent person is okay with any public official ever. to ignore john mitchell and some other people and say this is the worst ever and to talk about difficult problems being scandals, i mean, it s not like he approval and authored fast and furious. but he did, when he found out about it, have the u.s. attorney remove and reassign the head of atf and gave congress 64 million pages they couldn t 64,000 pages they couldn t make anything of. not going after some of the people. not stopping the program. not putting a halt to the program that he could have. let s talk about testimony the irs scandal, targeting what would you have him do? conservative groups, the irs is one of the most feared and revered groups in america, agencies in america