well, yeah, whitaker is coming to congress next week. but the president should just allow the investigation to continue. and then when it s done, make sure that it s fully transparent and released to the american people. the gop announced their roster to sit on the house intelligence committee today. democrats have been grumbling that they were dragging their feet. how soon could we see a vote to release the panel s transcripts to mueller? i hope soon. i know that s one of the top priorities of chairman schiff as well as all the members on the committee. we also have michael cohen coming next week before the committee. there s a lot of work that we have to do because we want to be a committee that protects the future because we know the russians are just as interested in attacking us in 2020 as they were in 2016 and 2018. so if we re going to protect the ballot box, we ve got work to do, don. and, you know, the focus, you know, should be everything all the resources we can devo
what happened when he fired fbi director comey. as a result of that he got a special counsel on this case, and his aides told him if he fired mueller the situation would be he would be ripe for impeachment. that s why he department didn t do it. it s not that he deserves some kind of credit for observing the rule of law. it s some kind of self-preservation on his part. i want to add he has no hesitation at taking pot shots at the mueller investigation repeatedly on twitter talking about the witch hunt and mueller s angry democrats. so he s done everything he could to stir up his people, his base towards animosity towards the mueller investigation and to discredit it. but he realizes the political limits of going too far and actually trying to fire mueller. so he says he hasn t spoken to the acting ag whitaker about. but a term i ve been hearing a lot from conservative media,
stuff. it may be an effort to bring them back on track. talking about his popularity in utah or europe. or the wall and issues he s fighting about right now. we saw when speaker pelosi took that gavel, she looked like a boss. she s got and her committees now will have extraordinary subpoena power. so they get trump s tax records, which the republicans prevented the people from having access to, unlike every other president. and they get to subpoena robert mueller if attorney general barr, if he s confirmed or whitaker makes that move and says that the report isn t made public or they changed things, then she will be able to summon mueller and require him to state everything that he s discovered. it bears repeating that this is a brand-new world the president has not faced anything like this in the two years he s been in office. divided government, yes, but house the house is now in being run by the democrats, and he s going to face oversight and ethics investigations that
there was also news about matthew whitaker, the acting attorney general, revealing the ins and outs or some of the ins and outs of an investigation currently under something currently under investigation in the doj. what do you make of that? to somebody who is not currently employed at the doj? acting ag whitaker reveals federal prosecutors still investigating claims of gop misconduct. it s an incredibly distressing piece of news. the story, and we get it from the person on the other end of the conversation, former attorney general ed meese, says he had lunch with acting attorney general whitaker and during that lunch, whitaker disclosed to him details of the ongoing doj investigation that involves hillary clinton s e-mails, whatever mismash former attorney general sessions managed to put together. this is ethically inappropriate, and the acting attorney general should immediately be referred
to opr, the office inside of doj that looks into whether or not prosecutors violate their ethical obligations. there is an even more sinister twist to those to this, though, and it would depend upon the content. we don t have any reason to believe he would have disclosed information but doing that would be a criminal violation that would put this into the inspector general s lens. really inappropriate to have a conversation with folks outside of the department about ongoing investigations. and the fact this actually has leaked out now has to open up further questions about whitaker s conduct. it already has, very clearly, since you re raising those questions. there is a bit of news out of the white house. there was an overhead announcement among the in the press room at the white house. sarah sanders will hold a briefing. it was to happen at 4:10. we re not going to go to it, but it is interest, peter.