welcome back the embattled FBI agent Peter struck Hadding back to Capitol
Hill this week he will testify Thursday and do so in an open hearing at the
House Judiciary and oversight committees following his 11 hour closed-door
session with lawmakers last week joining me now is congressman Andy Biggs who
serves on the Judiciary Committee congressman thank you for joining us
this morning thanks for having me good to do with you
so Peter Strock testified behind closed doors did so for an incredible amount of
time 1011 hours I believe what do you hope to learn from him this time around
out in the opening out in the open considering you've already heard from
him behind closed doors well don't forget
that while he was sitting behind closed doors he had two attorneys kind of
filtering questions and answers so there's a lot left to get to and I think
we're gonna still go back and you know talk about this the biases how he
conducted the investigation don't forget he was the IG said he was the lead
investigator on the Hillary Clinton investigation he's the lead investigator
on the the Russian collusion and then somehow he ended up on Muller
investigation so there's still a lot of bone on that a lot of meat on that bone
regarding of bias and whether he actually was enacting some of that bias
in his investigations Peter Struck's attorney has said there
is a transcript before Peter Straub testifies release it out to the open so
everyone can see it what's wrong with that I don't really have a problem with
that but I think you're talking and and and his attorney knows this if you've
ever done a deposition or worked with with courts getting a transcript done
and getting it done right takes time because I mean he was there for 11 hours
so it's a lengthy transcript he gets to go through it and say well way to say
that wasn't quite right typically before he gets released publicly
there is another investigation speaking of documents the DOJ document requests
that yourself and others on the hill have been calling for saying you want
more documents they did produce more documents are you satisfied with where
things stand right now no I'm completely dissatisfied I'm glad they're finally
dribbling them through but I mean just think about this we have some requests
that have been out almost a year now that they haven't fully responded to but
you know they are getting some out but I think the public just like me are fed up
they want the documents let's let's get them quit dribbling them out let us see
them so I'm glad they're giving us some but I am fraction I mean if they're not
going to give them to us then then we need to take the next steps we can't we
can't just beg them anymore help me bridge the gap though if you
want those documents quickly but you say the transcript needs time I mean it
sounds like if you want everything quickly shouldn't the straw transcript
be out there - well the struck transcript will be out there in a timely
fashion I think but but don't forget like I say some of these requests that
we've made by subpoena to DOJ have been out there for almost a year now that's
that's a long time that's longer than a week all right so let me ask you about a
different investigation out there and that is the one in - the president the
president's one of his top attorneys Rudy Giuliani saying in an interview
with The New York Times over the weekend that there's basically two conditions
that he is setting forth for the president to sit down with Robert
Moeller one that there is evidence that the president committed a crime and two
that it would be essential to ending the investigation here's what Rudy Giuliani
told the New York Times he said quote if they can come to us and show us the
basis and that it's legitimate and that they have uncovered something we can go
from there and assess their objectivity do you think that's a smart a smart play
therefore mr. Giuliani and the president's legal team well maybe a good
PR move I think it's a bad legal move myself I mean the the authority that
that's out there is only if the president is you know if he's committed
a crime then the remedy is impeachment and then once out of office then you can
pursue proceed with the criminal investigation and conclusion of that I
don't think you should sit down I don't think that this is going to be objective
in any way I think it's been a skewed from the start I mean the fact just take
a look at the Muller investigative investigative team they won't even give
us all the names of those people but we know that the the people that are on
there have been revealed to be highly biased against this president which to
me indicates that maybe the investigation itself is tainted and I
wouldn't I would not subject the president to that interview congressman
sit right there if you can for I mean I want to get your thoughts on immigration
I know you've been to the southern border recently
and to your thoughts as well on one of your colleagues there and the house
freedom caucus so so stay there with us meantime we continue to watch what is
happening out in Thailand in the northern part of that country stay stay
with us and we'll be right back here on Sunday morning futures
hello and good Sunday morning to you we will get back to those breaking
developments out of Thailand in just a minute the first president Trump
preparing for his historic Supreme Court announcement tomorrow night as he also
gets ready for what could be a tense meeting with NATO leaders and a sit-down
next week with the Russian President Vladimir Putin plus the stage is set for
yet another explosive hearing on Capitol Hill with the embattled FBI agent Peter
struck who was set to testify publicly for the very first time hello and good
morning i'm blake berman info maria bartiromo and this is sunday morning'
futures it is just one day before President Trump announces his second
Supreme Court nominee and lawmakers are already raising concerns about some of
the candidates I'll sit down with John Malcolm who helped put together the
president's initial judicial list and the leaders of our NATO allies are
bracing for his arrival in Brussels later this week and the president's
upcoming summit with Vladimir Putin I'll get reaction to all that in an
exclusive interview this morning with the US ambassador to Germany Rick
Grinnell plus all eyes will be on Capitol Hill Thursday when Peter struck
testifies publicly before the House Judiciary Committee about his anti-trump
text messages and his role in both the Clinton and Trump investigations I'll
ask one committee member congressman Andy Biggs what he wants to hear from
struck as we look ahead on Sunday morning futures
but first right out of the gate this morning this is a Fox News Alert at
least four boys have now been recovered from that flooded cave in northern
Thailand Thai Navy SEALs backed by an international team of divers and experts
pulling off a remarkable feat here in just the last couple hours and this
dangerous rescue mission has just begun and could last for quite some time
President Trump tweeting out his support just moments ago writing on Twitter
quote the u.s. is working very closely with the government of Thailand to help
get all of the children out of the cave and to safety very brave and talented
people Jeff Paul is live on the ground in mae sai thailand this morning with
the breaking news Jeff where does everything stand right now well Blake
I'm just getting some new information into our hands that another operation to
free more boys will commence in 12 10 to 12 hours that's according to the
governor here in this province where we are 50 foreign divers 40 Thai divers are
currently involved in that rescue operation that has been confirmed now by
the governor has freed at least four of the boys obviously they're trying to get
them out as quickly as possible it's been very raining out here making those
rescue operations only more complicated yesterday while we were out near the
cave site lots of mud out there but certainly lots of resources lots of
people working around the clock to get these boys to safety now we do know that
those boys who have been rescued are being taken to the hospital to be
checked out we do not know their condition the governor said that he had
spoken with at least one of them and said that they are imperfect this is a
perfect situation he didn't go into much detail about their condition but it
sounds like they're getting the care they need right now and more boys could
be headed to safety very soon like Jeff great to hear this morning a story we
will follow all throughout the day here Jeff Paul from Thailand this morning
Jeff thanks meantime the countdown still on this morning to president Trump's
Supreme Court nomination as he prepares to name the second high court pic of his
presidency that'll come tomorrow night 9:00 p.m.
here on the East Coast six appellate court judges are believed to be on the
short list with three possibly maybe four candidates emerging as the top
contenders the president also bracing for
a confirmation fight no doubt about it that will come afterwards with a very
slim Republican majority in the Senate joining me now John Malcolm he is the
vice president of the Institute for constitutional government at the
Heritage Foundation and a former Deputy Assistant Attorney General he also
compiled the list of Supreme Court justice recommendations in 2016 seven of
the eight that you compiled ended up getting onto that list nowt about ratio
yeah no not that at all one of them was Brett Kavanaugh so let's start there he
is 53 years old Yale Law graduate DC Circuit Court of
Appeals so he's a local they're kind of on the farm team for the Supreme Court
but there are also concerns from some that he is not conservative enough and
that he has ties to the W 43 Bush administration we know what the
president thinks about the bushes in some cases are the the critiques that
he's not conservative enough accurate well I don't think so I think the world
of Brett Kavanaugh in addition to gonna yell he clerked for Anthony Kennedy on
the Supreme Court he then worked for under Ken Starr at the Office of the
Inspector General for five years he was a senior adviser to President Bush and
he's written over 300 opinions in his 12 years on the DC Circuit he is highly
regarded by judges across the country he's a committed textualism and and an
originalist cares a lot about separation of powers is not in favor of giving
undue deference to agencies there have been a couple of opinions in which he
actually ruled the way conservatives would want him to rule in terms of
reaching the right outcome but he didn't give the most pure conservative reasons
for reaching that outcome and that's caused some criticism but you know he
sits on a court with a majority of Democrats and he has to appeal to the
Supreme Court to Raymon Catholics 51 years old out of the Sixth Circuit he is
a University of Michigan law grad so not necessarily in the mold of the Ivy
League of which the other eight justices are there was a story in The New York
Times this morning that Mitch McConnell has pointed to kept ledge as one of two
that could possibly have the easiest nomination path do you see it that way
well he hasn't attracted the kind of criticism from a few conservatives that
Brett Kavanagh has and he certainly has a long judicial track record he's been
on the Sixth Circuit I think for ten years now possibly a little bit longer
also clerked for Justice Kennedy University of Michigan is a fine law
school he also wrote a book recently about leader
ship that I think was well done and attracted a lot of attention he'd also
do a fine job as an Associate Justice Amy Coney buried 46 years old Seventh
Circuit she's only been on the Federal Court of Appeals for since November I
believe right so you're talking only seven eight months there are some
questions about whether or not her resume is long enough a Notre Dame law
graduate is the resume there well she hasn't been a judge for very long but
she's been a very distinguished academic for a long time she was at GW and then
University of Virginia and since 2002 she was at Notre Dame
she has compiled an impressive body of scholarship was supported by scholars
across the political aisle around the country during her confirmation hearing
and of course held up as grace under fire during her confirmation hearing and
then there's also Thomas Hartman we were led to believe that he finished second
last go-around to Neil Gorsuch to help me out with this if you finished second
last time there's an opening this time why wouldn't hard Hindman be the pick if
you're the president well the calculus changes with each with each pick and
it's a whole new ballgame Tom Hartman has actually been the judge the longest
he was a district court judge in 2003 and he sat on the 3rd circuit since 2006
a very distinguished judge close of course to the president's sister has a
very solid opinions on religious liberty the Second Amendment so it doesn't
surprise me that he's in that final list whether you'll get that knot or not
remains to be seen Democrats are rallying around Roe vs. Wade there will
be if this nominee whoever it is goes through a fifth nominee that was put on
the High Court by a Republican president I want you to take a listen here real
quick - what then candidate Trump said on the tear on the trail during one of
the debates watch do you want to see the court overturn you just said you want to
see the court protect the Second Amendment
do you want to see the court overturn well if we put another two or perhaps
three justices on that's really what's going to be has that's will happen and
that'll happen automatically in my opinion because I am putting pro-life
and justices on the court I will say this it will go back to the states and
the states will then make a determination if it is one of those
three what happens to Roe do you think well I think that the concerns about Roe
versus Wade being overturned anytime in the near future are sort of overblown
there's only one justice on the court Clarence Thomas who has called to
revisit Roe the justices move very slowly and incrementally with
respect to any kind of precedent and of course with John Roberts on the court
you never know exactly which way he would go if row was squarely presented
to the Supreme Court and he's also the president has also said that he's not
going to have a litmus test as have other past presidents and I take him at
his word there are some who say I want to see a conservative woman on the court
that would be a me koni Barrett in this case is is that something for someone
like you who watches the court and who compiles a list is that something that
if not unnecessarily this instance something that you would like to see
happen at some point down the line well I I don't tend to think in terms of
genders and races I look for four qualities that having been said I had a
woman on my list Diane Sikes there are a number of highly qualified women on the
president's list Allison I'd Margaret Ryan
Amy Coney Barrett Joan Larson and if you picked any of them that would be great
all right prediction time who do you think the president will pick slight nod
to Brett Kavanaugh but it could experience dealt with a lot of second
that sits on the second most important court in the land deals with a lot of
issues that will be that the administration will care about but Amy
Barrett and Raymond Catholic are right up there this whisper came campaign
against Calvin all right now you know I think that everybody in Washington has
their favorites it's a little bit like cage match where only one person emerges
and so whisper campaigns happen to promote their candidate and to try to do
in these so you think it will be Cavanaugh if you had the selection who
would you choose if I had the selection it would be it would be Cavanaugh but
the others would also be outstanding thank you very much John Malcolm we
appreciate it you put the initial list together it might come to fruition with
the Cavanaugh pick we'll see we'll see
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