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Former federal prosecutor, thank you for talking to us robert. the justice department missed a pretty important deadline on thursday. they were subpoenaed by the house judiciary committee for documents related to alleged abuses and the hillary clinton email probe. >> this would not be the first time that a deadline has ever been missed. he looks at the message has been conveyed now through the political process that the justice department needs to focus its attention and comply. otherwise will happen is the committee will issue subpoenas to get the documents. republicans on the committee are u...

And it is, it has a political dynamic to it. but i mean i have said previously, issues involving abuse of the fisa court process is a legitimate issue of public concern.there are documents that will shed light on the issue, the justice department has them. and also of course, there is a pending inspector general investigation led by michael -- with a report sometime due later this spring. it will all come together and i think the committee is right. in performing their oversight function, it is to make change. the only way they can make changes once they have the facts. >> i want to dive deepe...

Everybody, whether it's somebody in your hometown in jersey or someone in a basement in romania is now a publisher. anybody can be a publisher and say what they want. now you have a president who coined a phrase, tapped into a political blood stream. it has worked very effectively, clearly for his base. remember that, everything you're talking about, talked with a.b. stoddard about trade, this is all about playing to the base and make no mistake, there has absolutely worked. two years ago the pew group asked americans about whether they saw the media as having an oversight function, a watch do...

Talking about, talked with a.b. stoddard about trade, this is all about playing to the base and make no mistake, there has absolutely worked. two years ago the pew group asked americans about whether they saw the media as having an oversight function, a watch dog function. democrats and republicans were about the same, mid 70s, yes, they agreed. two years later the democratic number has gone up a little bit, the republican number is in the 40s. that's how it's plummeted. with this democratization, you have -- trump, as his white house guest, benjamin netanyahu is doing fairly effectively in is...

Duty. dad brought papers home from work every afternoon. fast forward, internet comes and everybody, whether it's somebody in your hometown in jersey or someone in a basement in romania is now a publisher. very democratic but that's the problem. anybody can be a publisher and say whatever they want. now you have a president who coined a phrase, tapped into a political blood stream. it has worked very effectively, clearly for his base. remember that, everything you're talking about, talked with a.b. stoddard about trade, this is all about playing to the base and make no mistake, this has absolu...