take the reigns and be assertive. you can't do that when he is recused. it may be time for him to step aside. >> that's a significant statement coming from you from the house intelligence committee. let me get a final thought. on one of the avenues being explored by robert mueller, follow the money as they used to say. money laundering allegations. is that something your committee is looking at as well? >> well, you can't not look at these different elements. it's probably not our focus. let's review if we could for months and months, we heard collusion and the dossier and found out that hillary clinton used a foreign agent on russian sources and no one wanted to talk about the dossier any longer and now we are talking obstruction or maybe money laundering and the other elements. we ought to let it do what we