they want to have congress pass a law and say in future administrations, you can t get these things. i don t know what their other motivations might be, but i don t think they have any legal challenges here. matt, what s your take on this? i think barbara is exactly right. they don t have legal ground to stand on. i think you can tell by the fact that who they sent the letter to. if they had a real legal objection to what bob mueller s team has done, i think you d see them in court, arguing these e-mails ought to be clawed back from the mueller team and can t be used in any future judicial proceedings. i think what they re trying to do is throw more chum in the water for republicans on the hill, breitbart media, so they can undermine the mueller investigation. i think that s the goal. not to actually undertake any new legal process. let s play politics. will it work? think about how republicans are going to feel if they get this big win, if they get tax reform through. will thi
profoundly wrong to make that decision and make it public as if it were made with finality. the job of the fbi s doctor decide whom to prosecute but to present the evidence to professional prosecutors and the doj and let them make the decision. he took that away from them. bret: mollie, you know what critics say. this is all chum in the water, thrown out there to try to muddy the water of this russia investigation. there is so much to the story, so many details. ultimately we are talking about whether you can trust the fbi to do a good job investigating people in politically sensitive constructs. that s an issue not just with hillary clinton investigation but with the ongoing donald trump investigation. the statement, james comey, you showed him stating he had never coordinated what he was about to say. we also know from the letters that there was a great deal of coordination going on. that coordination and these
wins, dams needed chum in the water. this is it. i say they let them eat their own if they wish. but they cannot be allowed to kill off the political adversaries with unproven allegations. and female politicians and activists should also be really careful when they take this because someday, maybe, that men might decide to turn the tables on them and start launching their own, maybe it s called #mentoo movement. if you don t think it could happen? just watch. then who s going to be left to call for some modicum of due process or fairness before lives are destroyed? and that s the angle. let s go right to brett and martha as we have breaking news. what do we know? martha: we can now call the race in alabama. fox news is not projecting that doug jones will defeat
language skills, how good they are with their hands, how smart they are, things like that need to take a higher priority than if your uncle know somebody. kimberly: make it more of a meritocracy and it allows it to be more properly and thoroughly vetted in terms of what contribution can you provide to this country. we have a lot to offer you. why shouldn t there be some reciprocity? and without, thorough vetting. i m all for it. when you see a situation like this today. it strengthens the argument of the president. you see what he has had enough, like dana said, he went on a very far a limb to say that this could be a death penalty offense despite that there was not an actual loss of life. dana: that is one of the things that he does in a statement like this, he will throw that chum out there in the water, where some of us are like oh, i can see that. that will definitely leave the news. and that will be much more about president trump calling for the death penalty, rather than a
fbi, his fiance was interviewed by cnn, as she says, he didn t take any initiative on his own without campaign approval. is she a reliable source? look, what she wants to do is defend her fiance who is not allowed to talk to the media upon advice of lawyers. so you would presume that she s out there defending him. now i have to tell you that she did not come to us. that pamela brown actually went to her and took the effort and took the initiative and did some great work there by getting her to talk. so it s not like she just offered herself up and said, oh, here we are, i really want to talk to you. but did she have a motive here? i mean you are smiling. of course she has a motive. what are you supposed to say my boyfriend is a chum and i ll marry him anyway. she had no options. she s going to say he s not the coffee boy, speaking of