conflicting facts, the fbi should immediately investigate whether secretary nielsen s statements violate federal statutes that prohibit perjury and false statements to congress. a spokeswoman for the department of homeland security said the lead document only shows a, quote, menu of options that secretary nielsen had and that she specifically rejected the family separation choice. joining us editor and chief of prit co magazine blake hounshell. talk to us about what a possible purge i didn t investigation would look like. well, this is obviously, you know, pretty hard ball tactic by senator merkley. all he has done so far is referred this to the fbi. i m skeptical that the fbi would take something like this up. i think the bureau would understandably be reluctant to weigh in on what you could argue is really a policy dispute between democrats and republicans. certainly there are shades of gray in what in the memo that merkley found, but i think it s pretty clear that secretary
russian government was involved in hacking. it could be related to the timing of the release of e-mails, coordination with the presidential campaign. there s so many different ways and so people started to shorthand it with collusion, but it basically means conspiring with somebody to do something. josh, we can t forget that president trump recently fired jeff sessions put in the acting ag matthew whitaker who democrats see as a stooge. what s going on inside the justice department with whitaker as it investigation just chugs along? you hit on it. obviously he was the subject of a lot of reporting we were doing. this baggage he brings to the office of the acting attorney general and that is his past comments on the investigation being highly critical of mueller. i think that and this may be possibly a positive sign that the more mueller is able to do his work, the more we see filings and documents, the more we see enforcement actions tells us that whitaker isn t necessarily trying
shorthand it with collusion, but it basically means conspiring with somebody to do something. josh, we can t forget that president trump recently fired jeff sessions put in the acting ag matthew whitaker who democrats see as a stooge. what s going on inside the justice department with whitaker as it investigation just chugs along? you hit on it. obviously he was the subject of a lot of reporting we were doing. this baggage he brings to the office of the acting attorney general and that is his past comments on the investigation being highly critical of mueller. i think that and this may be possibly a positive sign that the more mueller is able to do his work, the more we see filings and documents, the more we see enforcement actions tells us that whitaker isn t necessarily trying to impede his work because presumably as the person overseeing this, he would have to approve or at least know what s going on as mueller moves forward. i suspect that part of that is because a lot of atten
when she with them on the server. what ivanka has done pales in comparison to what hillary clinton did. katie: it doesn t excuse either would pay there s a massive difference between hillary clinton setting repair private email server in her house and deleting tens of thousands of emails under congressional subpoena and fbi investigation. however, it s a basic principle. if you re working in government, you use government email to do government business. whether you are hillary clinton or ivanka trump. i would be david: the government katie: i would be consistent on the other side of the argument as alan dershowitz, saying that it s both a problem. based on the rules, he should follow them and have government emails. harris: when he stop and now, melissa? do they need to do it investigation? appointed jessica for this. the democrats say they don t want to take anyone s word for it and do that. does that go be too i think they have to step
the democrats were moved to tears at something that should have been baked in. an fbi investigation into serious and credible allegations of sexual assault? i think that we are in a place of we haven t learned from 27 years ago. we should not be in this place today. if you think about it, dr. ford is getting less than what professor anita hill got 27 years ago. if donald trump had asked for an fbi i shouldn t call it investigation, but to reopen the background check, just like george h.w. bush did in 1991, we probably would be done right now. the fbi investigation would be done. we d be one step closer to wherever we were with this scotus pick. but something that did happen today which was surprising is we had bipartisanship. and that is the first time we ve seen that in a long time. you had flake work with senator coons and others coming together and saying, you know, we can t move forward. we need to hold this. we need to have the fbi reopen the background check on