inquiry. we want an open, public inquiry, bipartisan inquiry to make theyu never intrude on the election. instead what we get is behind closed doors, grand jury, we will never learn anything. everyone is yelling lock him up, lock her up. that s not the way to proceed. we shouldn t be criminalizing political differences. we should be gathering information from every side. this was a terrible election. it was an election filled with problems and we ought to use itw as a lesson to avoid problems like this in the future and a special counsel is the worst way to do it. jeanine: am i hearing you say that even if in these open processes, we find the law was violated, we don t prosecutehe people? no. you use the criminal law last, not first. when you appoint a special counsel, what you are saying is we know there were crimes committed, now let s find out were.rimes they
overseas is reduced dramatically. jeanine: thanks so much for being with us. and joining us more reaction to the national security strategy is fox news contributor and former u.s. ambassador to the u.n., john bolton. good evening, ambassador. i want to talk about the latest story that it appears that the obama administration, in their efforts to get this iran deal past, basically passed on hezbollah and let them off the hook. and they deliberately overlooked the drug trafficking and the drug smuggling operations, weapons trafficking, and it was across the board, treasury department, justice department, along with state department. can you think of a good reasonju for that? i think in obama s mind, his administration would have done anything to secure the nuclear deal with iran.
job. every time i see him he looks like he some prisoner andd the whole reason we have a special prosecutor is because we have an attorney general who can t do his job. and we have deep-seated systemic problems within the department of justice. we need a real leader that that is going to take control and root out the deep state and what they re doing, the tentacles that they have, and until that happens i think this is going to continue one. i really do. jeanine: the sad part of it is you ve got andrew mccabe, who should have been fired the day christopher wray came in and christopher wray hasn t done it makes me concerned about the new head of the fbi, christopher wray. and you have rosenstein with all of his conflicts. he supervising mueller, who was best friends with comey. i could go on and on. this is awful. i will give you ten seconds, gregg, wrap it up. i agree, i ve written many columns saying jeff sessions should resign. he is recused himself out of the job. the president
republican. to get to the bottom of this so that we can go forward with as much confidence as possible. this bothers me too. i m a democrat, i m not a republican, but i want a fair and transparent investigation and i would also, as i ve said here on this program, like hillary clinton investigated too. we have a lot to investigate and we need to get as much credibility as we can inut mueller s investigation. jeanine: at the end of all of this, isn t it about if you kind of see how he s handling this, he s basically saying, i m not going to fire him and he s basically saying there s nothing there.g it seems that this really is winding down. don t you think that the president now has some leverageo on mueller? he can bring them up on ethical charges without a doubt to me. someone suggested that there be a second special prosecutor. how is that first one working out?se i wouldn t do a second one. i really do believe that it is time for attorney general sessions to go. i don t think h
predecessors. he said for instance he s making the economy a national security priority for the first time. that s been going on some 40 years that has been a key plank of the speeches that are given, every president gives. there was a little trump-ism there but i think it wasy generally quite subdued. jeanine: yes. what did you think, dan? patriotism. pride.ht america first. judge, these are things for eight years that we frankly did not hear pronounced loudly from barack obama. it was an international apology tour. i will never forget after that speech where he said american exceptionalism. we are exceptional, just like the greeks are exceptional. he was saying that they were exceptional about their own nation, which they do. jess, listen, that s a scam. that s nonsense. here s the deal on this. i love the greeks, i m a christian, i believe we are alln children of god, but the greek system of government stinks. i m sorry. we are the greatest country on earth, you re the ameri