jason: the big question after the latest bombshell revelation in the russia investigation is how will president trump react. we now though know that deputy attorney general rod rosenstein specifically authorized a special prosecutor to investigate paul manafort for potential collusion with russia or ukraine. that information was in a partly redacted and formerly secret government memo filed in court by special prosecutor bob mueller late last night. let s examine the implications of this latest revelation with republican congressman john duffy of wisconsin and washington attorney and democratic strategist scott bolton. scott, i want to go to you first. do you think that this is really justified? physical in the right direction? what in the world with ukraine have to do with the russia collusion on the election of 2016? is a former prosecutor and
two days ago laura: he wrote the textbook on ethics. he created the field. yes, he did. he was my student, and i m so proud to have had him as one of my students in my legal ethics class 30 or 40 years ago. he was a great, great man and a great contributor to legal ethics and totally neutral, totally objective. always called it the way it should be called. a great man. laura: incredible. his textbooks, law school, i mean amazing. congressman duffy, reflecting on that for a moment. setting aside whether donald trump being involved and hillary being involved. we as americans have to have faith in our government, especially with a strong potentially devastating effects of a prosecution and an investigation and surveillance of american citizens that our
michael flynn might not have had the intent to lie. he s trying to withdraw that guilty plea. we re going to keep this panel going. let s bring in republican congressman from the great state of the wisconsin sean duffy. big breaking news night. we have andrew mccabe, deputy director of the fbi fired before his big pension would kick in. some crying foul, saying this fire is political, but it was done at the behest of the opr office, which is not a political office and there s conclusions about his conduct devastating. congressman duffy. yes, i criticized jeff sessions quite a bit that he held back and waits for the office of professional responsibility to give us the recommendation. he handled it correctly. but laura, we have a former head of the fbi that is now fired.
part of andrew mccabe. laura: what about the morale of the fbi at this point? we ve heard for some time that there s been a desperately low morale. credibility of the fbi being questioned the last few years, even going back to 9-11 with the cia and the intelligence there. the intel community have this vaunted reputation. they re there to protect us. what about their morale, congressman duffy? can it begin to recover? is this seen as a shot across the bow? professional career agents. they don t like this cloud hanging over the fib. they just want to do their job. there s good people there. they show up, they sign up to do their job. when you have the top of an agency or a bureau rotten like this, it s disheartening. you give them hope when you clear it out and we re going to
michael flynn might not have had the intent to lie. he s trying to withdraw that guilty plea. we re going to keep this panel going. let s bring in republican congressman from the great state of the wisconsin sean duffy. big breaking news night. we have andrew mccabe, deputy director of the fbi fired before his big pension would kick in. some crying foul, saying this fire is political, but it was done at the behest of the opr office, which is not a political office and there s conclusions about his conduct devastating. congressman duffy. yes, i criticized jeff sessions quite a bit that he held back and waits for the office of professional responsibility to give us the recommendation. he handled it correctly. but laura, we have a former head of the fbi that is now fired. i think shows the system