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Had his wires tapped. i'm not sure what the president meant by that, but it looks like people in his orbit working for his campaign were being surveilled by the administration. why is that not aul huge story? >> tucker, it should be. we're only looking at what i believe to be the biggest political scandal of our lifetime. you know, chalk that up that up to hyperbole. if you're a liberal who is scared by this, i couldn't care less about your opinion on this. we know some things for fact right now. the use of the word wiretap may be poorly worded. trump wasn't a federal agent. he is using the wo...

How had his wires tapped. i'm not sure what the president meant by that it looks like people in his orbit working for his campaign were being surveilled by the administration. why is that not a huge story? >> tucker, it should be. we're only looking at what i believe to be the biggest political scandal of our lifetime. you know, alcoholic tha that yot up to hyperbole. i couldn't care less about your opinion on this. we know some things for fact right now. use of the word wiretap may be poorly worded. trump wasn't a federal agent. he is using the word people in every day conversation would use....

Relationship? >> i'm a criminal defense attorney, i'm not an anti-pot person at all. but this is not the way to change law in the united states. the proper way is an amendment or to withdraw the legislation. or the proper way is through the legislative branch. it's not states acting in open defiance of federal law. because what happens is you have exactly these problems. the only reason that the doj isn't enforcing it is because of the coal memorandum issued under a prior administration. and the present administration has the prerogative to withdraw that. in addition, yes, while you may be con...

Executive editor at the national consortium for the study of terrorism and response to terrorism at the university of maryland. paul just walked us through how well known amri was to the authorities. for months on end he was on the u.s. no-fly list. he was on this list of the most dangerous people in germany, the islamist terror spectrum list. at the same time, you have these porous borders in europe. he was able to cross at least two borders to get into italy from germany. a lot of criticism coming from the far right in europe now about this. what do you make of the fact they knew who he was,...

Might take that as honest. another juror might take it as not honest. it's not a good idea, especially if he doesn't plan to testify. >> what are the factors in considering whether or not this is a hate crime? >> when it comes to hate crimes, the important thing is to remember you need a predicate crime. we shouldn't put the cart before the horse. for him to be convicted of a hate crime in the sense of murder, he has to first be guilty of murder and this undoubtedly will be a self-defense case. now, there's the issue of him being a prohibited person under federal law carrying a firearm. >> bec...