for 100 years, our fbi has an obligation to find out who is interfacing with the russians and to get those fisa warrants from a judge and follow those people. tucker: was there a fisa warrants in this specific case because this first contact between the fbi and cia informant and a member of the trump campaign took place in july of 2016. three weeks before the counterintelligence investigation started. do you have information there ir a fisa warrant for that? no. i m not saying that. there is no evidence tucker: what are you saying saying? the members of the united states senate and house, who have looked at the classified information, which i havepp not seen, we have that te fbi acted he could continue tont make up stories about spygate. tucker: i m not making up any stories. stop with the insults. i am not making up stories.
said that the dinner was with pell even noting it would take place a day before the cardinal s birthday. this tri this trip is under scrutiny by $120,000 and his justification. it was a g-7 trip a week after the paris decision jim, the epa claims that scott pruitt didn t know the cardinal was coming to the dinner. however that does seem to be contradicted by the may schedule where he is the only named vatican participant and clearly states dinner with cardinal pell and even mentions the following day is his birthday. there is a paper trail. sarah gannon, thanks very much. be sure to tune in tont for a special report investigating the controversy epa chief scott pruitt tonight here on cnn in the 9:00 hour. phone is ringing and it looks like a number you know, but, wait, is it a telemarketer?
impeach 45! i didn t hear you. impeach 45! thank you! tucker: for mark green has been around democratic politics for decades and he joins us tont to assess this impeach trump campaign. thank you for coming on. there is: disagreement among democrats whether trump should be impeached before muller finishes investigation or after, but there is pretty wide agreement among democrats that he ought to be impeached. let s say that happens.t what happens next? would you be happy with president mike pence? i completely disagree with ernest, progressive democrats who say tactically, not legally, let s impeach trump because mike pence will be worse. we don t know, it s all speculative. but a justice road, let justice be done, even if the heavens fall.
tont the washington post he had to recall board has weighed in on the president s decision to decertify the iran nuclear deal. the headline, quoted, trump has charted a perilous, their spelling, not ours, perilous course on iran. quote, in an act of political vanity and geopolitical followly, president trump has made one of the most serious national security challenges facing the united states that of iran, considerably worse. joining us now to talk about this urgent matter tonight, retired four star u.s. army general barry mccaffrey. nie ear hack is back with us.
to his credit, fighting back. kimberly: maybe the media needs the prescription for the trump derangement syndrome,di dr. siegel. absolutely. the president has shown a sense of humor we have not seen on the other side. he showed compassion when representative scalise got shot. on his birthday, he never mentioned it was his birthday. he only talked about the man being a fighter. right now, president trump is trying to look after a young baby. again, i m not going tont speculate about president trump, who i have not met. i don t know about his physical or mental health. but i will say it s really unethical and irresponsible for physicians to try to do it on television or anywhere. even if somebody suffers from mental illness, that doesn t invoke the 25th amendment. duke university did a study ofme