First Campaign Manager, cory lewandowski, who continues to be a close advisor to the president. Its a Fox News Sunday exclusive. Plus, new reports the fbi is investigating the Clinton Foundation, and that mr. Trump tried to head off the rush of pro. Everything that ive done is 100 proper. Thats what i do, i do things proper. Chris we will ask her sunday panel which side is in more legal jeopardy. And our power player of the week. For my entire life, ive tried to use the gift that god gave me to improve health. Chris all right now now on Fox News Sunday. And hello again from fox news in washington. President trump and Republican Leaders met at camp david this weekend to plan their legislative agenda for 2018. But that was overshadowed by a new book about the president ,w n that report some of his top advisors dont think is up to the job. Coming up we will get reaction from corey lewandowski, mr. Terms First Campaign manager, who remains in close touch with him. First, cia director mike pompeo, who briefsq the president on the nations most pressing intelligence matters. n director, welcome back to Fox News Sunday. Director pompeo great to be with you, chris. Chris lets start with the book, the author Michael Wolff reports that are most everybody on the president s team in his cabinet questioned whether the president has the mental and emotional fitness to be the commander in chief. Here he is. Gd moron, and 88. Man doeso[ not read, does not listen. So hes like a like a pinball just shooting off the side. Chris as cia director, you give the president s daily intelligence brief almost every morning, what do you see . Director pompeo with those statements are just absurd, chris. Just pure fantasy. My personal experience, i was with the present yesterday at camp david, and with them almost every day. We talk about some of the most serious matters facing america in the world, complex issues. The president is engaged, he understands the complexity, he asks really difficult questions of our team at the cia so we can provide any information that he needs to make good informed policy decisions. And i watched him do that. I watched him take the information that the Intelligence Community delivers and translate that into policies that are of enormous benefit to america. Statements like the one mr. Wolf made about how we all think about the president are just ridiculous. If they are frankly beneath the conversation this morning, chris. Chris but it is the conversation. Director pompeo only because you made it so, sir. Chris i didnt make it, Michael Wolff did. The president has by responding to it. Directly. Fitness to be president. Director pompeo completely fit. I paused only because its just a ludicrous question. These are people who jus just he not yet accepted that President Trump is the president. Im sorry for them in that. We are going to move on and with our mission. We are incredibly focused on keeping americans safe and< things like this book, frankly, are just passing moments in history. We will get on, we will do the appreciate the good work that we do. Chris i want to press on a couple of more points, i promise that we will then get on to her day drive. The author quotes an email that was supposedly representative of the view of one of the president s top economic advisors,b gary cohen. I will put it up on the screen. Trump wont read anything, not one page memos, not the brief policy papers, nothing. He gets up halfway through meetings with World Leaders because he is bored. Back in may you were quoted as saying one of the ways you keep the president engaged in your Intelligence Briefings is with your words killer graphics. Director pompeo absolutely, i love color graphics. So do you, you use them on your screen all the time. Its how you convey information. If this president reads material that we provide to him, he listens closely to his Daily Briefing. Different president s, the previous president didnt receive his briefing in that way, he didnt take up Daily Briefing from his director. President obama chose not to do that. This president is an avid consumer of the work product that our team at the cia produces and we do our best to convey that to him nearly every day. Chris a year ago i asked the then president elect during the transition about why it was that he was only taking an intelligence briefing about once a week. Heres what he said. I dont have to be told the same thing in the same words every single day for the next eight years. I dont need that. Chris and yesterday morning mr. Trump fired back a questions about his Mental Fitness with this tweet. Throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart. Not smart, but genius. And a very stable genius at th that i say this very respectfully and i understand your impatience with our dealing with the subject. The cia does psychological profiles of World Leaders routinely. What would you say about a world leader who refers to himself as a very stable genius . Director pompeo are not going to dignify the question with a response. This is a man who is reading the United States of america. Engages with Intelligence Community that are sophisticated. He deals with the most complex issues and has handled them in a way that i have great admiratio and respect for. We are keeping america safe and President Trump is completely capable of working alongside of us and leading us in that effort. Chris i want to pick up on that last point, you say you are keeping america safe. By raising questions about the president s fitness, in a sense and the president became part of this, making this the big topic this week. Has this book weakened our country . Weekend are standing around the world . Director pompeo no. Chris all right, lets move on. Lets turn to these protests in iran against the government. If the revolutionary says this morning that they have put these demonstrations down. One, is that true, and two, what do you make of the fact that our closest european allies failed to support us when we tried to rally around the protesters . Director pompeo with this issue in the protest in iran is very real. If the Economic Conditions in iran are not good. Thats what caused the people to take to the streets. President trump made very clear that america supports the iranian people and is looking for them to have a voice and better economic and Living Conditions. Meanwhile, the Iranian Regime threatens violence, they waste their money in places like lebanon and syria in yemen trying to foment goodness knows what. Making them the Worlds Largest state conserve spirit. That is a backward looking regime. A theocratic regime that is looking backwards. Instead of a resume looking forward to make the lives of their people better. Whether its 1999 crushing violent revolts or solo money, pick a leader, whether its the ayatollah, each of them views themselves as running a theocracy and the iranian people dont want that. My full expectation that you will see the iranian people to revolt against this. Chris let me ask you a couple of specific questions. Have the authorities, the repressive authorities of the Iranian Regime, have they put on the protest . Director pompeo are certainly been violence that has taken place that the regime has used force to push back against it. But its my expectation these protests are not behind us. Chris secondly, the Iranian StateProsecutor Says that this is all the work of the cia and he talks specifically about your top man on the iran task. Director pompeo falls. This was the iranian people. He started by them, created by them, continued by them, demanding a better set of Living Conditions and a break from the theocratic regime that has been with them since 1979. Chris you have been very clear in your statements about the regime. President trump has been, if anything, even clearer about it. Why is it that our top european allies failed to support us on this and in fact france, when we brought it up before, the emergency meeting at the United Nations security council, joined with russia and china and said this isnt a fit subject to bring up at the u. N. Security council . Director pompeo if they will have to answer for their behavior. But my sense is we are in the same position. When i talked to my counterparts in europe, they are with us in working to figure out ways to counter irans maligned behavior throughout the world and indeed we are working together with them in that effort. Chris the president faces some deadlines in the next ten days as to whether or not to stay in the iran deal or to reimpose sanctions. Congress is working on legislation. Could they do something over these next ten days that would make it sensible and reasonable for us to stay in the iran deal . Director pompeo they could come across. Ive only seen a little bit of this, its not in my lane directly. They could do something. They could take some of the weaknesses from the agreement, from the joint comprehensive agreement, extend deadlines, put sanctions into place where they could really happen. There are some things they could do to make that deal better and ultimately the president will have to make the decision whether to remain in the deal or not. Chris when you talk about changes they could make, one of them would be supposedly that they would basically say that we the Firm Deadline as to when we could do it. We would remove some of the timelines and say if they meet certain thresholds than the shank sins go back in place. Director pompeo thats right, chris. There are other things. If the agreement itself covered only a set of maligned behaviors, their nuclear program, other things which present real threats to america, to the world cup that i hope we can all counter together. Chris one more trouble spot, this week north korean and south korean officials are going to hold their First Official talks in two years to discuss Relations Just ahead of the winter olympics. This was the initial reaction, the negative reaction from our u. N. Ambassador nikki haley. We wont take any of the talks seriously if they dont do something to ban all Nuclear Weapons in north korea. Chris are these talks a good thing, or do you see them, your best cia estimate, as an effort and this wouldnt be the first time by north korea to try and drive a wedge between south korea and its alliance with the United States . Director pompeo the North Koreans are in a tough spot. President trump has made very clear that the u. S. Policy is denuclearization of the peninsula and that we are going to achieve that. You see the North Koreans to what they have historically done, reaching out, trying to find space, trying to come up for air when they are being strangled. Weve made very clear that their behavior is unacceptable. If yes this is certainly part of that. We will see how the talks go on tuesday of this week and what they are able to resolve with respect to the olympics. But the american position is unchanged. Chris you sound in your answer as if you have great skepticism about the question as to how sincere north korea is in trying to improve relations. Director pompeo the North Koreans are behaving out of fear. If they are very concerned that america for the first time in an awfully long time is serious about denuclearization of the peninsula. I think they are trying to find a foothold, trying to find a place to reach out. We just have to wait and see how the conversations going tuesday. Chris final question, kim jong un, the head of the regime, in his new years day statement where he reached out and talked about wanting to deal with south korea, he also talked about the fact that he had a Nuclear Button on his desk and President Trump responded with this tweet. Well someone from his depleted and foodstarved regime please inform him that i too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger and more powerful one than his and my button works. Question, how is that helpful to get in his back and forth of taunts with the leader whom you and the cia judge as unstable . Director pompeo this is the first time in an awfully long time that american policy has been consistent. That tweet is entirely consistent with what we are trying to communicate. We want the regime to understand that unlike before, we are intent on resolving this, and it is our Firm Conviction that resolving this diplomatically is the correct answer. But this administration is prepared to do what it takes to ensure that people in los angeles and denver and new york arent held at risk from kim jong un having a nuclear weapon. That tweet is entirely consistent with that policy. Chris quickly, how do you respond to people who are very critical of the tweet and say it lowers the threshold, it trivializes the possibility of nuclear war . Director pompeo i just simply disagree with them. We in this administration understand the seriousness of what it is we are undertaking. We understand the threat. I speak with the president about it nearly every day. We are intent upon laying out a set of plans that achieve the goal that frankly previous administrations have been unprepared to be engaged in. 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We are very well prepared for the coming year. We finished very strong. Chris President Trump laying out republican plans for 2018 after meeting with g. O. P. Leaders this weekend at camp david. Its time now for our sunday group. G. O. P. Strategist karl rove. It rachael bade, who covers congress for politico. Julie pace, Washington Bureau chief for the associated press, and guy benson of townhall. Com. Karl, i gather you, like i, ripping through the book. I stayed up until 11 00 on friday night. It what you make of the book and what does it tell you about President Trump and his team in the white house . If you didnt like drum, you are not going to like him any better and if you like trump you will dismiss a lot of the book. But not since that vietnamese monk poured gasoline on himself in an intersection in saigon in 1963 and lit a match that we seen someone immolate themselves as steve bannon did in this book. It is clear that this book was based on a large number of interviews taped with steve bannon by Michael Wolff, including chapter 20, or all of these ugly things he says about terms family are at a dinner with wolff in his apartment in arlington and theres clearly a tape recorder running. The biggest victim of this book, by the book itself is steve bannon. His glory hopes of organizing a movement, raising millions of dollars, backing candidates canada its like republican and maybe running himself for president in 2020 if trump didnt run. If all of these desires and dreams up in smoke. Chris briefly, because i want to bring in a very dumb like everybody else in. Bannon, whatever you think of him, one would think is a rational guy, why would he do this . Because he has a gigantic ego. Let me say one other quick thing. The problem for the president is not this book. Its his. Its not the book, its his behavior. Going out and issuing a tweet saying im a very stable genius and im like really smart is not helpful. It elongated the book, drew more attention to it and dominated the conversation and there were Better Things for him to talk about then when we Say Something like that. People will say why are you so defensive about it . The question is whether the president feel compelled to be so defensive about it . Chris i want to pick up on that. If the book comes out just as the president was writing pretty high with the passage of the tax bill, a long list of good economic news. How much has the book and the president s reaction to it thrown them off their game as they prepare for whats going to be a tough month, very tough month, we will get to it in a second, the government running out of money in 12 days and a very challenging Midterm Election year . It has overshadowed everything that republicans on the hill and white house advisors had hope to spend this week talking about. No effort made, no serious effort made by the white house this week to sell the public on the tax overhaul, which is pretty unpopular right now. They will have to bolster its popularity if republicans hope to run on it in the fall. Theres no effort to lay the groundwork publicly on a spending bill. Very little public conversation about immigration and daca or the border wall. Took carls point, this book based on the content of it was going to be news, but it would not have reached this level if it not had been the president coming out and going after steve bannon. If it hadnt been for the tweets yesterday, so much of the governanccoverage of this is dry the president s reaction. Thats fully in his control and he cannot avoid a fight. If he sees somebody going after him personally he feels like he has to get in there, he has to mix it up. He does not feel like a president. He is about squabbling with even a former advisor. Chris not to mention something that was almost unprecedented. Having his lawyers threatened to sue steve bannon and the publisher and Michael Wolff, the author, which again was just like, thank you mr. President , if im the publisher of that book. As i said, the first key government deadline is to find a way to keep the government funded in 12 days or else we will have a shutdown. Democrats say no deal on spending and less there is a deal on daca and the dreamers, and yesterday at his meeting with Republican Leaders at camp david President Trump laid out his conditions for that. I want the wall. At the wall will happen or we will not do daca. We want to get rid of chain migration. Very important. And we want to get rid of the lottery system. Chris rachel, democrats say we can go for Border Security but we will not go for a while and we found out in the last couple of days that the administration is saying the cost of the wall just for the first phase would be 18 billion over ten years. How when the next 12 days can they make an agreement to keep the government funded when youve got all these conditions about yes daca, no wall. There has to be a wall . I think everybody on the hill is asking the exact same question right now. Democrats saying they want this done before they agree to a longterm budget deal. At the problem here is that the president wants something that they are not going to be able to approve or vote for. We heard this week that to Senate Republicans in this Bipartisan Working Group that everybody thought would come up with a bipartisan daca deal actually walked away from the table. North carolina, oklahoma. If they left because they said democrats are not willing to give anything on Border Security. Meanwhile you have the president sort of doubling down on his partisan rhetoric in terms of demanding a wall. If im not sure how this will come together. I am skeptical, however, that democrats are going to take the shutdown in january because they had a chance to do that before in december and they blinked. They voted for a shortterm spending bill. Im skeptical that they will hold the line on this, we will just have to see. Chris just sort of being clear here, immigration people and the hispanics are saying this is your time for leverage. Youve got to get this as part of a spending deal. Youre suggesting the democrats wont do that . They said they will do that before christmas, that they were not going to support any kind of spending deal or agreement before they left for the holiday break and yet there were a number of democrats in the senate who voted for shortterm spending bill. I think that there are a lot of republicans who thought this was the hill that democrats were willing to die on and they would have to cave to democratic demands on daca. The sense im getting out is that they think maybe deal with it later in march. Chris theres also a split that we saw this week within the Republican Party. If you have House Speaker ryan, who continues to push for welfare reform. It reports this week that the president and Senate Leader mcconnell have called on that and want to lead with infrastructure. If you have any sense of the order with the priorities, and what are the chances that she will need democratic votes for any serious legislation this year . Much better chance for democrats to hop on board an infrastructure bill than spending reform bill or welfare reform. What i was talking to top House Republican sources prior to the new year they were saying we are doing the tax cut, its going to be a great deal for the American People and then we need some fiscal discipline. We will get to welfare reform next. I was always skeptical saying the president s appetite for that sort of things has always seemed very limited. He came out on the campaign trail hard against entitlement reform. If you really going to follow up a tax bill with Something Like welfare reform . It seems like hes really backing off of that with Mitch Mcconnell being his conduit on capitol hill saying lets talk about Infrastructure Spending instead. That might be an easier lift in an election year. Chris which raises another question, the first Midterm Election for the party that has the president in office is always tough with the exception of you in 2002 with george w. Bush. How much trouble are republicans in as they had towards the midterm in 2018 in november . Big trouble. President s Approval Rating is in the high 30s and the republicans are 24 seats in the house away from losing their majority. As a result i think we will see two republican agendas in 2018. If we will see the unified republican agenda, house, senate and white house, which is going to focus on infrastructure and media daca deal and a couple other things. And then were going to see a House Republican agenda in which they do tackle things like poverty and welfare and reform so the members have the ability to go home and say we passed it, i voted for it and its now bollix up in the senate. Theres always been a tension between the house and the senate. The House Republicans will use that tension creatively in order to say we are working, they arent. Vote for me, your republican congressman and the senate can go to heck. Chris im glad you cleaned it up that way. Thank you, panel. We will see you take a break here. We will see you guys a little bit later. When we come back, corey lewandowski, President Trumps First Campaign manager and still a top outside advisor on the controversial new book, and Steve Bannons sudden fall from power. Chris coming up, the white house pushes back on claims of that new book, fire and fury. He said he interviewed me for three hours in the white house. That didnt exist. Its in his imagination. Chris we will talk with President Trumps First Campaign manager and still outside there are two types of people in the world. Those who fear the future. And those who embrace it. The future is for the unafraid. All because of you chris a look outside the beltway at savannah, georgia, after its heaviest snowfall in three decades. Back now to the fallout from Michael Wolfes book on the drum presidency. Joining us from manchester, new hampshire, President Trumps First Campaign manager, corey lewandowski, who is now chief strategist for America First action, april trump super pac. Corey, what do you think of the book and how accurate is it . Mr. Lewandowski let me first say happy new year and let me be very clear, this is a book of fiction. Not only is it not accurate, there are so many misrepresentations in this book that it shouldnt be taken seriously. And if you look at the critics of mr. Wolff, his contemporaries, his colleagues, the new york times, cnn. Clearly not people who have been friendly or supportive of this president or his administration. If they have called into question the simple factor in this book as factually inaccurate and mr. Wolff himself claimed at the very beginning of the book that it looks like hes taken liberties to put things in the book that may not have happened. If he lets the reader decide. That is not journalistic integrity and this book is a complete application. Chris all right. Here is one excerpt of the book were Michael Wolfe describes your relationship with the president s two sons don jr. And eric and also Jared Kushner. 1m lets put it up. Lewandowski regarded both brothers and a brotherinlaw with rolling on the floor contempt. Not only were don jr. And eric stupid, and jared both supercilious and obsequious, the butler, but nobody knew a whit abouk n z . ew politics. The fact is you didnt think much of don, jr. , force you out as campaignavprx7s manager. Mr. Lewandowski is veryebfq important, mr. Wolff and i never spoke about this book. Where he comes up with these assertions of what i think of the trump kids or Jared Kushner are completely madecmk up. Ive never spoken to÷ him about this. Let me be as clear as i can be. It looked, i talk about this in my book. I think eric and don are fantastic advocates for their father. Have a very close working relationship with Jared Kushner. I respect what he has done by leaving his business and coming to government service. If these are made up5 zr accusas from a person who never spoke t7 or the trump family. Chris okay, but one could brf these people we just talked about were known to;w other corey, but your discretion and wk her views is not one of the things that i necessarily agree with. Let me ask you another question, honestly, did you ever refer to jared as the butler . Mr. Lewandowski ive never donec . athat, andirn that is such conjecture, such speculation, andgv like i heard on the entire chapterym that this guy wrote about the seat back, never called match lap fhspa back or party, but the decisi puuz3w hae me moved out in june of 2016, that was a decision that we now live with. Ever disappointed in june of 2015 . Everything humanly possible from that day to vn make sure the trp agenda moves for your whethert t was right after i left the campaign on television or to the state on the outside . Yousgds bet i have. Mk[ chris you also think that ifj youglxn hadnt been fired,p votes. Mr. Lewandowski 5ki. K, i because selfishly i wantellcw to see ;qg him when my home statei wanted to see him win nevada. [r it was an amazing election victory that donald trump is all the credit for but i do6n7ca thk that if there had been a role for me had i not been asked to leave. Chris lets get to the Central Point here. Michael wolfe basically says that all the people around; g de president questionjuj his fitns to be the commander in chief. Here he is. Soi one description that everyone gave, everyone has in common, they tt n all say he is likea. S. And what they mean by that is he has need for Immediate Team to start planning that run for president. If thats not instant. K donald trump achieves in that v success against an amazing field success against an amazing field of republican dedication and hard work1en byht candidate trump to do something nobody ever thought he could do. Chris i want to make it g ursq to you and you say twoong years ago that i did a power player on you. Vi we talked often since then. Ive read your book and clearly her admiration for donald trump is there and in no way to your question his fitness, in fact quiteji the contrary. If youmy basically say hes kind of a g3p,5eyyig a a if i forget whether you use9 those words are not. co you also do talk rnwc about some behavior that is questionable, and i want to discuss that, because that is also part of your description. You say at the four majorg4 n fd ujut c c fried chicken, pizza and diet coke. And heres what you say about hi candidate3w would lose his tempr the mode that he switches into whefiy ings are going his way uapu t. It would break most hardened men and women into little pieces. Around the campaign we would call it getting your face ripped off. You talk about one instance when the president got so upset hes in a÷ helicopter, i think you ae yq÷e orders the pilot to fly it down n Cell Phone Service so he can chew out paul manafort. Mr. Lewandowski⌟ we failed as a staff. Or 20 hours a day in every day on the campaign trail and when something didnt go right it wasnt because he wasnt giving 125 effort, its at the microphone didnt work< properly. Something that we should have had done for him wasnt[kni rigt and thats the accountability. He expects, demands7oo and deses if and when i failed as a Campaign Manager he let me know. Better person fore let me know. That. I didnt take it personally. I wanted to work harder because i saw what heq n was doing and i forced our staff to work harder. Theres nothing wrong with¤ . Z9n i took that as a level of professionalism that forced me and myc÷ team to be better becae thats what he deserved. b to[6 j remember, at the significant early stage of this campaigns there were four or five people against the republicaaoi juggernauts. Campaign, the lockg campaign,co the cruise campaign, where they q had hundreds of people. We were doing this with a muchxd smaller team and so what we had y be perfecthad toqs every day and when we2in were ad he hold us accountable and thats the right thing to do. Chris ive got about 2 minutes, i want to5snzekx geto one last subject with you. Letsnp2 talk about accountabil. Steve bannon. You have generally gotten along with him. How do you explain him accusingm their meeting with that russian lawyer int june of 2016 at trump tower, and also suggesting that some of them may have been involved, including jared, and Money Laundering . How do you explain him being so indiscreet . Mr. Lewandowski i cant explain it. 4j4 p c that whatsoever. I know don, jr. , i know Jared Kushner. If they patriots. Country. They have given up so much. R them, im talking about steve bannon, why would he do that . Mr. Le7fe]m in i cant justify what steve said. If thats what steve said that he owes donald trump, heels donald trump jr. , he owes Jared Kushner and the entire trump family an apology if thats what he said. If thats what he said bens shame on steve bannon because that is so outofbounds to accuse somebody of treason. Steve i have a hard time believing what wolfe wrote. But if thats what steve said that shame on c steve for doing line. Chris final question because here was the president at qlz camp david yesterday onh the author Michael Wolfe and also on steve bannon, here heawq awsn aterviewed with him in the white house at all, he was never in the oval office. We didnt have an interview. F1i, sloppy steve brought him into the white house quite abo59 bitd there was one of those things thats why sloppyewn steve is nw looking for a job. Chris the president says kaj and theyve got no more dealings ÷ if 30 seconds, what is Steve Bannons place in republican politicsu wo 7o now . Mr. Lewandowski look, the only person that is ahead of the republican parj5q c c president of then8 united state, donald trump. And they x didnt vote for steve 7 anybody else to be the president of the United States. Fo. If steve bannon wants to get on the trump team and join with the president to make sure that we cpgoldn the c house in 2018, wd the senate or expand our majority, then he will be welcome to do that. But if you want to run an agenda which is antithetical to the . Vdf president s agenda and there is no plate in the Republican Party for you because donald trump lt the head of the Republican Party. He is the head ofv our6kpdaav and his is the agenda that the corey, thank you, thanks for getting. o through snw in new hampshire. ÷ to talk with us today. Mr. Lewandowski wwr thank you very much. Xd chris coming up,7 n President Trump denies he did anything wrong in trying to stop attorney general Jeff Sessions russian investigation. And guess who elsefa is still under investigation . Hillary clinton. Go8 everything0c . Y that ive dons 100 proper. If thats what i do is i do things proper. After a year of study there has been absolutely no collusion. Xx if t theres been no collusion between us and thed8 russians. There has been collusiunw betwen gnc and ÷ russians. Chris President Trump denying any7 wrongdoing as the special counsels russia probe continues. And taking obviousmk[ pleasure n reports the fbia a is still investij. jrr lary clinton. And we are back now with thevnna ob÷ guy, lets start with the n, appares investigation of the Clinton Foundation and allegations of go and now g. O. P. Senators want the criminalno]gy investigation of e man Christopher Steele who was behindcccx the socalled russia dossier. What you make of thatxu nd the fact that it looki n like Hillary Clinton is back as a 2os that officials in the fbi. Crime. As for mrs. Clinton. Chris y part of what theyre 6zul papadopoulos and michael flynn. A problem for trump world people. It should be a problem for anything else. Gclu would be a. 3 consistent that what youre going to hear from democrats is this is just old fight because the president is having tantrums on twitter and so the Justice Department is responding in a political way. If thats what9or they are goino say. Q allegationse in 2016 reported by cnn, by the wall street journal that thereescl were fbi agents anc that were looking into the Clinton Foundation and those officials. There may be somethingf d there that was never fully n properly andjf so trumped will say this is legitimate. Chris meanwhile, rachel, under heavy pressure from House Republicans,4 u the fbi has finally agreed to turn over upre1 and they went up tom ]lcnly capito, that they cooperate that they cooperate hill. Top justiceco Department Officials went to talk to speaker ryan specifically about narrowing documentfo w÷ andbr ws increase, trying to bring them to capitol hill. They didnt want to turn over all those documents but Speaker Paul Ryan stuck with the need this information from you wnr and its Congress Duty to oversee the executive branch, so we have a right to do this. I think this is sort of a tentative truce evenruru5euujp days later. We saw Lindsey Graham and chuck should be investigating the author of the dossier that sort of triggered a lot of this russia sgadal investigation. ei and thats not small potatoest there. They are not particularly seen these guys are oversight bowls who a lot of people on both sides of the aisle reallynzny respect. We also sought to conservatives, mark meadows and jim jordan, say that they want Jeff Sessions to step aside because they dont like the way the fbi is handling the russia probe. This is just going to continue. Its a partisan thing right now and the fight . Nm between the fbi and theyn,kn republicans on thel democrats who originally had no hes got to stay there and s0 we cant leave this because they dont want to see anything that interferes with the special counsel. Which brings usxd to you, karl d them 1 special counsel. We learnedsn;cw this week thd white house apparently lobbied attorney general sessions not to recuse himself ii march of 201, 2017 when all of this was coming out that he had meetings r ambassadors. When you look atgorrn that, the lobbying of Jeff Sessions. When you look at the firing of james comey. When you look at the president s rolee bsn in helping to write tt air force one statement that turned out not to be true about don jr. s meeting with the russian lawyer, how close are they getting to a case of obstruction offa justice . On the first two instances, i dont think they have anyifle[ problems. U im not a lawyer, but but every lawyer, most every lawyer i how thw could be arln case made there unless theres an on the third question of lnu÷nae statement being drafted on air force one, everyb that statement in drafting that is going to have to answer questions at the fbi and see if they square with earlier statements they made about it. The point about Jeff Sessions. Lets be clear about this. In 1978 the Congress Passed an sp lsis hr thebge a w jfks attorney generalcz andk. The result of 1982 of the rules were set down, no employee of the Justice Department shall participate in the criminalok investigation if he has a personal or political relation with an organization about that political relationship means a elected2,x official or aowoc cae arising from service asl7oc a f principal advisor there too. Jeff sessions waszom the first senator to endorse donald trump and a senior advisorhg5 to him throughout the campaign. Those lawyers may disagree, but dr heglx rp no other course excepti,a to recuse himself. Chris julie, the president s lawyers have been saying for somecn peri d c thanksgiving and the never going to say its going to go away early in 2018. They also say the president is [l out, xz 9 confident . They remain confident in the anything wrong either on collusion in the campaign or with comeys firing orlc pushig they are less confident at this art because all of these targets that theyq . T keep sett, if the p president gets frustr. If you can understand why. n a client and your lawyers are telling you that this investigation is wrapping e ™j4 then it doesnt it becomes quite frustrating. They now expect that this is period of time. It realistically when you talken to people, lawyers for other people who are beingt procure, bejf quite a lengthy investigation, am to the end ofawjajvqp . Two years of the trump n investigation. Is familiar with special td us guys take whatever time they need. It why the s will keep the president controlledgo8bfloo÷3yu9t0rau sf its a confounding strategy. np couple of deadlines on there. The calendard thanksgiving has passed, christmas has passed, u theym ef thevds year has passed. In the investigation isnm . J stl going. I think the one thingnf to v7 this year is how the president responds when he comes to the going to be called in to talk to bob mueller wrapping up. Chris karl is the one c l3ir actually been some advyd2h from having ben a your job. Aumc departmentalized, stay focused on your mission and dont be expecting it to wrap up soon or keep focus on it, to the degree that the president is obsessed himself or hnaeajpsq ica well. 4]r stay that no product on my chargesv e were brought against karlpc< whh thank you panel, see youe next sunday. Up next our power player of the week, the nations top doctor and has plans for battling our most pressing health issues. Oko today, right now. This is truecar. Chris health care is one of the most Divisive Political issues in our country, but one man here in washington is all about ratcheting down the debate and working for solutions. Heres our power player of the week. I think that the role of the Surgeon Generals being one who leads with the science, who promotes health and prevents disease. Chris the countrys 20th Surgeon General. In charge of the 6500 officers of the Public Health service. More important, he is the nations dr. Period in the 60s, luther terry warned about the danger of smoking. In the 80s, see everett koop fought for lets stop the rumors and commiseration about aids. Chris sometimes in your job science bumps up against politics. How do you balance those . Science has got to be the key for the Surgeon General. There is a saying, chris. People need to know that you care before they care what you know. If chris adams believes instead of a zerosum game where one side wins and the other loses, Public Health is about building partnerships. On climate change. We know the science says that man is having an impact on the climate, but we also know that people are dying from not having jobs, not being able to feed their families. Chris whether gun violence is a Public Health issue. Gun control i think in and of itself is a term that turns people off. Im interested as the Surgeon General in gun safety. Chris the most pressing problem now is the opioid cris crisis. 91 people a day dying from overdoses. The nations Life Expectancy declining for the second year in a row. Back in october, President Trump declared it a Public Health emergency. We will defeat this opioid epidemic. It will be defeated. Chris so far the Trump Administration has not kept its promise to ask congress for more funding. Drug addiction is personal for you. Your brother is in prison. My younger brother philip suffers from addiction. Its painful to share, but it helps people understand that if this can happen to the Surgeon General and his brother, it can happen to anybody. Chris Vice President pence appointed adams as indianas Health Commissioner when he was governor. It was dr. Jerome adams led from the front. Chris he saw the doctor dealt with an outbreak of hiv in a deeply conservative rural county. They are extremely politically controversial. Chris adams convinced the Law Enforcement and business communities. That we cared about the same things that we cared about. Resolving this epidemic and share with them how the science could lead to that outcome. Chris so dr. Adams may sometimes have to walk a tight rope in his job, but he says always in pursuit of the greater good. For my entire life ive tried to use the gift that god gave me to improve health for individuals. And i get excited each and every day that i get to come to work and feel like i had a small impact in improving the health of this country. Chris dr. Adams is now working on a Surgeon Generals report on the link between Public Health and a stronger economy. Thats it for today. Have a great week and we will see you next Fox News Sunday. [narrator] the following is a paid advertisement for the 3 week yoga retreat. 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