Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles STEVE: WELCOME BACK. WHO BET TORE -- WHO BETTER TO HELP US UNDERSTAND THE LEGAL ASPECT OF THIS IS FOX NEWS LEGAL ANALYST GREGG JARRETT AND THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOK THE WITCH HUNT. LET'S START WITH THE LATEST ON THE IMPEACHMENT AND THEN WE WILL GET TO THE NEW INFORMATION IN YOUR BOOK, AFTER THAT, BUT JUST VERY CLEARLY, WHAT IS THE ARGUMENT HERE ABOUT THE LEGAL BASIS FOR THIS IMPEACHMENT EFFORT? >> THERE IS NO LEGAL BASIS. THE CRIMINAL DIVISION AT THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, THESE ARE CAREER PROSECUTORS, THE BEST IN THE NATION, LOOKED AT THE OFFICIAL RECORD OF THE CONVERSATION BETWEEN PRESIDENT ZELENSKY AND TRUMP, AND THEY UNANIMOUSLY CONCLUDED THERE IS NO CRIME. THERE'S NO CAMPAIGN FINANCE VIOLATION. SO ON WHAT BASIS ARE DEMOCRATS MOVING FOR IMPEACHMENT? THEY'VE EMBRACED THIS RATHER NOTION THAT IT WAS AN ABUSE OF POWER BECAUSE HE WAS TARGETING HIS POLITICAL OPPONENT JOE BIDEN. THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT THE FRAMERS FEARED THAT AN OPPOSING PARTY WOULD SEEK FOR PURELY POLITICAL REASONS TO TRY TO REMOVE A PRESIDENT. AS YOU POINTED OUT, WHEN BIDEN ENGAGED IN A QUID PRO QUO, HE WAS VICE PRESIDENT. IT WASN'T RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT AT THE TIME -- HE WASN'T RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT AT THE TIME. AND THIS PRESIDENT, ANY PRESIDENT WHO HAS REASON TO BELIEVE THAT A PUBLIC OFFICE HOLDER IS ENGAGED IN A CORRUPT ACT, IT IS INCUMBENT UPON HIS DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE OR HIM TO ASK UKRAINE LOOK, IF YOU HAVE EVIDENCE OF THIS, PLEASE TURN IT OVER TO US BECAUSE IT'S A CRIME FOR A PUBLIC OFFICE HOLDER TO CONFER A BENEFIT IN EXCHANGE FOR SOMETHING OF VALUE TO HIMSELF OR IN THIS CASE TO HIS SON. THIS HASN'T BEEN DEBUNKED AS THE MEDIA AND BIDEN CLAIM. THERE'S ENOUGH EVIDENCE HERE TO JUSTIFY LOOKING INTO IT. STEVE: AND SO CAN I JUST ON THAT POINT ASK YOU ABOUT THE RUDY GIULIANI ROLE BECAUSE A LOT HAS BEEN MADE OF THE -- HERE THIS QUESTION THE WHOLE TIME WELL IF THERE'S SOMETHING TO INVESTIGATE HERE, WHY DOESN'T PRESIDENT TRUMP USE THE RESOURCES AT HIS DISPOSAL AS RUNNING THE EXECUTIVE, THE FBI, AND SO ON, JUSTICE DEPARTMENT? WHY DOES HE HAVE RUDY GIULIANI DOING IT? IT SEEMS TO ME THAT ATTORNEY GENERAL BARR WAS MENTIONED IN CONNECTION WITH THESE INVESTIGATIONS. WHAT ARE THEY TALKING ABOUT? >> WELL, THE PRESIDENT CAN USE WHOMEVER HE WANTS. THAT'S HIS RIGHT AS CHIEF EXECUTIVE. BUT IT WAS ACTUALLY BILL BARR, THE ATTORNEY GENERAL WHO ASKED THE PRESIDENT TO PLEASE INTRODUCE HIM TO FOREIGN LEADERS TO PURSUE HIS OFFICIAL DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE INVESTIGATION INTO THE ORIGINS OF THE TRUMP RUSSIA COLLUSION HOAX AND ANY OTHER RELATED MATTER. SO IF GIULIANI RUNS ACROSS IN HIS CAPACITY AS THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PRESIDENT INFORMATION ABOUT A POTENTIAL CORRUPT ACT BY JOE BIDEN, HE HAS EVERY RIGHT TO FURTHER LOOK INTO IT AND TURN IT OVER TO THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, ON BEHALF OF THE PRESIDENT. STEVE: ALL RIGHT. LET'S MOVE TO YOUR FANTASTIC BOOK THE FALLOUT TO THE RUSSIA HOAX WITCH HUNT. I SAW YOU ON "FOX & FRIENDS" TALKING ABOUT IT THIS WEEK. THEY PROMISED THREE REVEALS IN YOUR BOOK THAT WERE NEW PIECES OF INFORMATION THAT WE HAD TO KNOW ABOUT. BUT THERE WAS ONLY -- THEY RAN OUT OF TIME. AND WE ONLY GOT TO TWO OF THEM. CAN YOU GIVE US ALL THREE TONIGHT, GREGG? >> SURE. ONE OF THE ASTONISHING THINGS I FOUND OUT IS APPOINTMENT OF BOB MUELLER OF SPECIAL COUNSEL WAS MADE BY ROD ROSENSTEIN, NOT BECAUSE THE EVIDENCE MERITED IT, BECAUSE HE GOT MAD AT TRUMP. IT WAS AN ACT OF VENGEANCE AND RETALIATION AGAINST THE PRESIDENT. AND ROSENSTEIN KNEW WHAT HE DID WAS WRONG, WHEN CONFRONTED ON THE DAY OF THE APPOINTMENT IN HIS OFFICE, HE LITERALLY COWERED BEHIND HIS DESK AND BLUBBERED AM I GOING TO GET FIRED? THAT'S CONSCIOUSNESS OF GUILT. THE OTHER REVEAL IS THAT A YEAR BEFORE MUELLER CAME OUT WITH HIS REPORT, THERE WAS THIS UGLY CONFRONTATION BETWEEN TRUMP'S LAWYERS AND BOB MUELLER AND HIS TEAM OF PARTISANS IN WHICH MUELLER ADMITTED THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE OF COLLUSION, AND TRUMP'S LAWYERS BECAME ANGRY. WHY DON'T YOU TELL THIS TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE? HE REFUSED TO DO IT, AND A SHOUTING MATCH ENSUES WITH TRUMP'S LAWYER POUNDING ON THE DESK AND YELLING AT BOB MUELLER. AND THE THIRD REVEAL WOULD BE THAT AT THAT TIME, TRUMP'S LAWYERS WERE DEEPLY WORRIED ABOUT THE MENTAL STATE OF BOB MUELLER. HE SEEMED LOST, CONFUSED, DISORIENTED. HE DIDN'T UNDERSTAND FUNDAMENTAL FACTS ABOUT THE CASE. HE SEEMED TO BE OBLIVIOUS TO THE LAW OF OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE. AND OF COURSE WE LEARNED A YEAR AND A HALF LATER, JUST THIS LAST JULY, WHEN MUELLER TESTIFIED, IT WAS AS IF THE -- YOU KNOW, THE CURTAIN WAS PULLED BACK ON THE WIZARD OF OZ, AND HE WASN'T WHAT HIS REPUTATION HAD PROMISED. STEVE: WOW. WELL, THERE YOU GO, THANK YOU, GREGG, VERY VERY -- >> THESE ARE SOME OF THE MANY STORIES IN THE NEW BOOK "WITCH HUNT", WHICH JUST CAME OUT.
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