if she unmasked them for political reasons, then yes, it s a crime. there s only one reason she would ask for a name and that s of national security interest. what is the document of the surveillance conversation she reviewed shows that there is nothing whatsoever relating to national security or foreign intelligence. what if it s all about politics? then she would have made a false statement and her unmasking request, that s a felony, it s untouchable by five years behind bars. julie: what about the leaking of names like michael flynn? clearly a crime. it could have been susan rice. i could have, she s one of the individuals who would have had access to it. she absolutely denies it, but will wait and see if we get to the bottom of it. whoever leaked the classified information, that s a felony, five years behind bars. also, there is another felony,
thing. when you see little babies that are dead from gas in a very, very heinous form of gas that very few people have access to, that s bad stuff. that s really bad. the president would not tip his hand in response to that. on the devin nunes issue, then no official response from the white house but i m told it s of no concern to them really. the house has to do with the house has to do and they have full faith that mike conaway will be able to lead a thorough investigation. julie: thank you so much. jon: new allegations against susan rice. that s next. i picked out my dream car.
votes have been cast. that means there is no way for mitch mcconnell and the republicans in the senate to get to 60 votes to end debate on the nomination of neil gorsuch to be a member of the u.s. supreme court. therefore, there is going to be a parliamentary maneuvering. mitch mcconnell is going to be actually changing his vote and ultimately, what will happen is that neil gorsuch s will be confirmed, likely by a majority vote. that has never before happened with the supreme court justice in the u.s. senate. it is a big day. both parties have reasons to regret what s happening, but it s happening. julie: fox news alert, one of our top stories about devin nunes now saying he will temporarily step aside from the russian investigation. a california congressman says
that creates bad optics. it gives the opposition and opportunity to sate your bias, you are impartial. are not impartial. you re a rogue republican trying to help out the president. i guess some would argue that his job is to support the president. he went right to the top. he went right to the president. unfortunately, the president started tweeting and that s what started this whole thing. again, he should have brought his counterpart along, adam schiff, because the optics are really ugly here and all he is doing is giving ammunition to his opponents. that was an unwitting mistake. julie: coming up, we are going to be talking about susan rice. talk about optics, talk about concealing evidence, perhaps unmasking names and whether it was illegal. and did she contradict herself? julie: her reputation doesn t necessarily look great
a lot of talk of safe zones to ease the humanitarian crisis. 12 million refugees destabilizing europe. the head of nato, former head of nato, said publicly that russia is using refugees as an asymmetrical weapon to destabilize europe and the united states. they ve done more with refugees than divisions of soviet tanks ever did to undermine nato, and then we know isis is trying to infiltrate fighters and those refugee close, so i think of the short term, a strike and the longer-term, safe zones, and then we need to drive al-assad to the bargaining table. as long as he thinks he is winning and getting territory, he s not going to sit down and negotiate. jon: it sounds easy, but is it? thank you. julie: history in the making on capitol hill. the senate voting for an