mitch mcconnell. let the republicans pass it and we ll put an end to it if you can get rid of the filibuster bill. heather: it is deadline day for the department of justice. paul ryan threatening to hold rod rosenstein in contempt of congress if the d.o.j. doesn t hand over documents related to the russia and clinton email probe. so will the department comply? alan dershowitz is in studio. bill: we ll remember the life and legacy and the brilliance of our friend, charl krauthammer throughout the day. it s my job to call a folly a folly. you are betraying your whole life if you don t say what you think. and you don t say it honestly and bluntly. it s just a burst pipe, i could fix it. (laugh) no. with claim rateguard your rates won t go up just beacuase of a claim. i totally could ve. (wife) nope! switching to allstate is worth it.
to issued a contempt order it should be done. it s rare for the legislature to hold a member of the executive in contempt but it has been done. then you have to go to court and get the court to enforce it. i think generally it s used as a sort thing to hold over the head of justice department officials and in the end they comply. i suspect that will happen here. we may see drama. they may say no. bill: these documents the hillary clinton clinton email, fisa application, why would the department of justice not want to surrender that paperwork? well, in my long experience with these matters, when the government claims national security much of the time it s to avoid embarrassment. there are not really national security secrets involved. for example, they failed to turn over the smoking gun strzok communication in which he said we ll stop the election
the speaker has been clear and told me this mr. meadows, i and others introduced which says the full house goes on record and tell the department of justice if you don t give us what we have within a certain time period we ll move to the next step. the resolution comes first, if rosenstein doesn t comply, then it s contempt and we re prepared to file articles of impeachment against mr. rosenstein if he doesn t give the house of representatives and congress a separate and equal branch of governments to give us the documents to get answers for you, the press and the american people. we re at the end of the line. bill: why do you think they ve been so stubborn? because it s embarrassing. we ve caught them hiding things. why did they redact the fact strzok and one of the fisa court judges were friends. it is not classified. it is not an ongoing investigation. they redacted it. we had to go to the d.o.j. to get the unredacted document to
away from talking about it but he didn t also force it into conversations. and i remember having one conversation in particular with him about where he is almost casual about it, if that makes sense. it might sound odd to folks. we were standing in the makeup room. charles was a huge movie buff. i think he has seen every movie every made in every language. he watched movies endlessly. and when we were talking in the makeup room he asked if i had seen the movie called sliding doors. a movie in which a woman is away from her apartment. she makes the subway train in one scenario and gets home and finds out her husband is having and affair and her life takes one path. and in the second scenario she misses that same subway and doesn t make it home and doesn t find out her husband is having an affair and her life takes quite a different path. she is happier in the scenario where she finds out where the unfortunate thing happens where
somebody should have said don t wear that jacket. i believe the question was will she wear it again? my only answer to that is i don t care, do you? [laughter] bill: that is perfect. that s perfect for the lightning round. thank you, guy, ed and juan. appreciate it, gentlemen. thank you. do you think she will? heather: yes, i do. i think she will. she already did when she was returning back to the plane, right? he wore it twice. bill: we re all about contrarian thought today. heather: we ll talk about amazon taking heat for selling facial recognition software to law enforcement. will it help the good guys or simply bring the surveillance state one step closer? charles payne on deck to talk about that. if you and i don t know and have no way of even knowing that we are under surveillance, we can t even challenge that surveillance. llion