an investigation into collusion and people around him. into financial dealings going back some years long before he entered the last race. if that is true that does seem like mission creep on a pretty grand scale. well, i think mueller has a pretty broad, if i remember his charter correctly, he has a broad scope of inquiry. that s common in investigations like this. and there is no indication that i have seen that mueller is involved in any of these wiretap applications. but there is no question when you bring a guy-like like bob mueller on, you are going to get a very thorough and extremely aggressive investigation. that s the way he operates and really bob mueller doesn t care what you think or i think or anybody thinks. tucker: he ought to care what we think because we are american citizens and he is not god and there was a new york times piece in which you are quoted that said i m
initiated a wiretap against a campaign official in the middle of a campaign. does that give you pause? does that seem weird to you? i think it s worrisome if it happened. we don t really know for sure whether it happened. i think, tucker, it s good to keep something in mind for you and all your viewers to keep it in mind. having been through and participated in a high profile investigation like, this you can just assume that 50% of what you read at a minimum of what mueller is doing utterly false. can you assume that at least 50% of what mueller is doing at any given time is not in the papers and have you no idea what it is. tucker: that s my assumption about everything. everything i hear in washington i take 50% off the top of everything. this specific allegation that he was wiretapped, that manafort wars the subject of government surveillance is something that has been
an investigation into collusion and people around him. into financial dealings going back some years long before he entered the last race. if that is true that does seem like mission creep on a pretty grand scale. well, i think mueller has a pretty broad, if i remember his charter correctly, he has a broad scope of inquiry. that s common in investigations like this. and there is no indication that i have seen that mueller is involved in any of these wiretap applications. but there is no question when you bring a guy-like like bob mueller on, you are going to get a very thorough and extremely aggressive investigation. that s the way he operates and really bob mueller doesn t care what you think or i think or anybody thinks. tucker: he ought to care what we think because we are american citizens and he is not god and there was a new york times piece in which you are quoted that said i m
law and federal constitutional law is that the government can do this. and we remember in the scooter libby investigation, judith miller from the new york times actually spent about three months in jail for refusing to give up sources. so if that s something that the doj wants to really aggressively try and pursue, i mean, they can. i think the costs would be in public opinion, and certainly political costs in congress. one result might be that congress will finally pass a federal journalists shield law, which has been proposed many times over the past few years and has never quite made it into law. but if the government starts cracking down and really trying to go after journalists, we might see that. yeah. and we could also see a standoff in that case, dana. look. everybody knows the members of this administration have been leaking. they have been leaking about each other like crazy. the latest target seems to be the national security adviser, hr mcmaster. the daily caller has s
been aggressive about prosecuting people who have leaked. chris: charles? i think he will regret having made this statement the same way he will rebret about the private sector doing so o kay. if it s offensive, the idea it would have been leaked when we know in the report itself quoted the white house officials that let him prove it having a special council appointed. from what you said, they would have said appointed special counsel. had it been equivalent of the scooter libby investigation. it looks as if it s not. the key here is dianne feinstein. if she demands it, it will be done. democratic chair of the senate intelligence. liberal chair. she is angry over the leaks and she should be. she needs to speak out. chris: syria where the carnage continues and prospect for peaceful end to assad regime seems slimmer than ever. briefly, lightning round, steve. where is the country headed? what the s the u.s. role? it s not a good place.