their hands. to give them a free pass in drug running is a major issue. a lot of us in the congress realized they were bending over backwards to placate iran but we not think they were going this far. bret: congress and the justice department are looking into. the hezbollah investigation. jeff sessions saying i am hopeful there were no barriers. the story from politico. susan, that the obama administration held back on these hezbollah investigations. tied to drug rings in an effort to protect the iran nuclear deal. i have not seen substance yet a
lawmakers say they are looking at evidence which could implicate top former obama officials including national security council official ben rhodes, he was one of the key architects of that iran nuclear deal. let s bring in congressman ron desantis, a republican from florida, and one of the lawmakers who sent the letter seeking answers. this is unbelievable. harris, hezbollah is one of the most lethal terrorist groups in the world and they have american blood on their hands. you go back to 1983, the bombing of the marine corps barracks in beirut lebanon, that was done at the hands of hezbollah. they were supporting militia in iraq, targeting u.s. troops and they are one of the biggest problems in places like syria and in terms of the groups that israel worries about. to do anything that would give them a free pass in either drug running or money laundering is a
is there any other reason? no, no, look, again, the issue is the recusal, okay? that was a disappointment, and the president made clear to the new york times that that was a disappointment. and that should surprise nobody. the idea that you remove yourself from that process, and you don t inform the person who is your superior, why would anybody be surprised at the president s statement. i wasn t. nor should jeff sessions. i want to make sure we re not talking past each other. the recusal from the russia investigation. so the president isn t saying he s unhappy with the attorney general s approach to immigration or drug running or no, no, no, he made that clear. he said in regard to the russia investigation. he s made clear that the attorney general has his vote of confidence. he s one of the most loyal, toughest individuals in the cabinet, in the meetings of the principals. he s perhaps one of the people that most represents the kind of mentality that got the president e
serious as those in watergate. obstruction of justice. lying to congress. drug running by the cia. illegal war in nicaragua. nixon is no trump and trump is no nixon. what have one thinks about the 37th president, whether you hate him because of vietnam or hate him because of the epa, it s established that nixon was also a figure of exceptional intelligence, political skill and public service experience. a scholar, a lawyer, a student of foreign affairs and the world beyond our borders. his domestic programs look moderate to liberal in comparison to almost every president who has followed him. he was also a deeply paranoid man and a deeply dark his of side personality emerges loud and clear in the secret watergate recordings. without going into the details, don t, don t lie to them to the extent to say there is no involvement, but just say this is a sort of a comity of
for them, we re looking at something of a little bit of a cease-fire. the sentencing commission basically taking what you mentioned, the largest single release of prisoners ever, but the most they say other than the undocumented immigrant class, most of them would be essentially drug offenders who served eight years out of ten-year sentences. so people who aren t in for other violent offenses who have done eight year z, which is a a very long sentence for drugs and are getting out about two years early. this is the start of a wave of potential releases. so if they served eight years on average, what kinds of drug crimes did they probably commit. probably not enough to be part of serious violence or gang banging or drug running. they were somewhere in the middle. a fair amount of drugs on them, enough to be arrested and