reporter: you are hearing more about investigate particularly from the members who now wield gavels, running the powerful committees that have subpoena power that can investigate. so we are hearing from two key committee chair men overnight about the revelations in this report saying they want to look into this further. one is the house intelligence committee chairman saying we know the president has engaged, the allegation may have been in an effort to curtail the investigation and cover up the business deals with russia. we will do what is necessary to find out if it s true. that referring to the fact that michael cohen admitted to lying before the house intelligence committee in his previous testimony. did he do it at the direction of the president? adam shif wants to understand if that is what happened.
cnn has dropped the lawsuit. speaking of decorum, the president has been busy lately on the old twitter machine. here is what he said about adam shif. before i read it decorum requires a warning. you can probably tell where this is going. so funny to see little adam schitt talking about the fact that matt whit taker was not affirmed. joining us now two mean who have seen all kinds of behavior from all kinds of presidents. the president said decorum was needed in the white house yet he doesn t appear to be very concerned with his own decorum regarding congressman schiff.
than just an argument of harassment. it could be a legal strategy. how do you think democrats or can they get on somewhat of the same page on these issues in terms of where are we going to put the bulk of our energy, press conferences, hearings? are we going to put it on this oversight before the mueller probe wraps up or are we going to pour our energy on the promises made on health care? they seem so divided on that internally. if you look at nancy pelosi s comments. it s not like she really emphasized oversight investigations and got into the nitty-gritty of tax returns. you have chair men that are taking over these committees that have been extremely frustrated by the way that the republicans have run the committees. when adam shif replaces devon nunez that is a big difference. there are a lot of questions on
can grasp that they have something to hold him accountable, when he over reaches, when he puts children into cages and push back against policies that are hurting people. adam shif will take over the intel committee saying we re going to protect bob mueller and his investigation on my watch. what s the most likely course of action for a democratic house of representatives, not just with the trump side of it but with the constructive legislative side? sure, so democrats have two tracks. there s the investigation side and the legislation side. they re going to work with president trump on issues like infrastructure. trump campaigned on a crumbleing infrastructure. so democrats are saying step up. we ll work with you on it if you re serious about it. other things that as far as
the fisa warrant renewal process as signing off on the fisa warrant as it pertained to carter page, but this is what congressman adam shif had to say about all of this. but his statements today are very concerning about rod rosenstein, and the fact that he is sort of dangling rod rosenstein s job, and the firing of rod rosenstein in my view would be an act of obstruction of justice just as firing bob mueller would be and it is further evidence that what happened with james comey was not an isolated act. to me, that is a very definite part of a pattern of obstruction of justice. and james, would you agree that there is a are removal of rod rosenstein by way of the president firing him, is that tantamount to obstruction of justice or constitutional crisis? fred, i m a cautious skeptic in these thing, because for 25 yees i served in the fbi, and the thing that is paramount in the fbi is that it is not always