but mueller also testified that in no way was his investigation over the last two years ever blocked or impeded. consistently what we heard from republicans is that there were double standards. congressman john ratcliffe pressed mueller on what justice department policy allowed him to make his decision and his statements on the issue of obstruction. that he did not exonerate the president but they did not bring criminal charges. and robert mueller could not point to that policy, because as ratcliff said, it does not exist. but we heard from congressman jim jordan but there was a double standard. he pressed the special counsel on this intelligence asset, someone who started the ball running on the whole russia investigation. special counsel mueller said that he could not answer that question. jordan responded, multiple trump campaign associates were prosecuted for lying to the special counsel, yet you say in
systemic effort to interfere in the 2016 election for the benefit of donald trump. it establishes that the trump campaign recced the russian interference because it expected to benefit electorally from the information stolen and released through the russian effort. one would think the democrats would simply apologize and get back to law making and oversight but it s clear they couldn t stop this grotesque spectacle even if they wanted to. martha: there you have it. here now john ratcliffe a member of the house intelligence committee. good to see you congressman ratcliff, thanks for being here tonight. good evening, martha. thanks for having me. martha: one of the people you spoke to today was andy mccarthy and couple of fbi officials also in the room talking a little bit about how substantive the steele dossier was and whether or not it should have been used to get these fisa releases. what did you learn there? well, andy did a terrific job outlining a lot of the questions that
we have 1.7 million more jobs than we have people on unemployment. pretty good. one of the many records. thank you both. now, with the mueller probe over, well the attorney general is now finally getting to the bottom of what we have been investigating now for over two years on this program. and because of his attempt to move from the exhaustive two year witch-hunt, well, investigate the investigators holding our government accountable, well, democrats have vilified barr. some have even propose they d be thrown in jail by the sergeant of arms and put in hand cuffs. today during an event on capitol hill. the attorney general reportedly tracked down speaker pelosi and asked her if she brought her hand cuffs. gregg jarrett, fox news legal counsel, of course, and legal crintsder and author of the best selling hoax jason chaffetz. jason, you are the one that told me and i didn t know this that congressman ratcliff told you that the top of a fisa warrant had some very interesting words on it
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didn t start until the end of july. there is a loft evidence to the chron temporary. you also have an fbi, the upper echelon in chaos. most all of these people have had to resign. they have been fired. how is it that mr. comey presided over one of the most inept fbi organizations in the history of the fbi? and why is it there was so much bias and animus going on there? that s just, you know, the first hour let alone the other hours. steve: exactly. it s going to go on and on. you say the questions are going to be asked by mr. gowdy and congressman ratcliff as well. i had heard a rumor in washington mr. ratcliff was being considered for attorney general. now we are hearing it might be bill barr who once upon a time was a.g. i hear good things about mr. barr. seems to be highly qualified. i think mr. trump would miss a real opportunity to put a john ratcliffe in there. a great background. great trust on both sides of the aisle. but john ratcliffe brings a