television, if you as a citizen have a reasonable expectation of privacy, for instance, your girlfriend and laying out by the pool in the backyard and you have a 12 fence, if my television camera shoots over the 12 fence at the naked woman i have committed a crime because she has reasonable expectation of privacy so the drones should not be able to do it for the same reason. judge napolitano: i would make the same argument. the government would commit the crime. this is very serious. it is one thing for the government to do and another thing for the defense department to do it. the defense department cannot engage in any activity in the united states of america, without an executive order from the president, that must be published. if the president is authorized, the defense department, jonathan spoke of the air force, to fly drones over everyone s backyard and we don t know the president and the air force have violated numerous federal, criminal statutes. shepard: but no one cares
from the out going ceo, tony hayward. high will not go away, a pauper, though, he ll get $1.6 million up front and a board position on a joint bp-russian venture and the british paper says he could ultimately collect up to $20 million, perhaps in stock profits. juliet? juliet: molly henneberg live from washington, thanks. bill: the american southwest is pushing back against uncle sam s attempt to block arizona s new immigration law, the governor is asking the judge to throw out the legal challenge by the white house, and saying the justice department cannot prove actual harm. what about that from a legal standpoint, an attorney and fox news contributor, tamara holder, good morning to you and ann marie mcelvoy, is a former prosecutor. live here in new york. what about this potential harm, do you have a points on that. possibly. i mean, i think the government is arguing here, the department of justice is arguing that it is
we will have much more on this late-breaking verdict and reaction from our legal panel coming up later on in the hour. but first, the attorney general jeff sessions says no second special counsel will investigate claims of fbi surveillance abuse, at least not for now. good morning to you on this friday. julie: i m julie banderas, a lot going on. a utah u.s. attorney, john huber will be spearheading a broad review. he will be looking at possible fbi surveillance abuses as well as the clinton foundation and the obama era uranium one deal. some republicans say anything short of a special counsel is insufficient, claiming the justice department cannot investigate its own people. i think it s unfair and inappropriate for the attorney general and rod
that claim. sessions himself is recused from a lot of this activity, there s a little bit of tangential issues he s trying to circumnavigate. julie: it wasn t sessions that appointed the special counsel, it was rod rosenstein. there s a lot of pressure by republicans and the president, who tweeted back in february, why is ag sessions asking the inspector general to investigate, he has no prosecutorial power. isn t he an obama guy? disgraceful. it is he going to find himself in a partisan war here? as it is indeed the case, the justice department cannot investigate itself. there is definitely a party partisan tug-of-war here. i think attorney general sessions is trying to maintain some credibility for his organization. he is responding a little bit to
general rod rosenstein chuck grassley along with lindsey graham, tom tillis and john cornyn rights, quote, we believe a special counsel is needed to work with the inspector general to gather the facts and make prosecutorial decisions if they are merited. the justice department cannot credibly investigate itself without enhanced measures of independence. they have confidence in the inspector general but he lacks the tools and authority of a grand jury, interviewing witnesses outside the justice department. this as a top democrat on the house intelligence committee, adam schiff signals he may be losing confidence in special counsel mueller. we can t simply rely on bob mueller. his job is different from ours, his job is to determine who broke the law. we re going to go back to miami with an update on the bridge collapse.