they ve completely abandoned that in favor of basically being an advocate for the president. and it s really undermining rule of law in this country, certainly undermining their functions as a member of congress and disappointing. > do you think they re making requests intentionally knowing they ll be rejected to lay a predicate for impeaching or moving against rosenstein? i think anyone who knows anything about the way investigations are conducted would know this is an absurd request and, of course, it wouldn t be granted. you have to wonder why did they do it. and i think the answer is they expected it would be deny aden looing for a reason to attack rod rosenstein to create some doubt about lis legitimacy as an independent counsel. the work that the investigation is doing. and this is part of a pattern we ve seen for many, many months of undermining the legitimacy of the investigation, attacking the professionals at the department of justice, attacking the individual who are leadi
as they can to find ways they can please the president by attacking the investigation and the department of justice. they have the an oversight responsibility. they ve completely abandoned that in favor of basically being an advocate for the president. and it s really undermining rule of law in this country, certainly undermining their functions as a member of congress and disappointing. > do you think they re making requests intentionally knowing they ll be rejected to lay a predicate for impeaching or moving against rosenstein? i think anyone who knows anything about the way investigations are conducted would know this is an absurd surd request and, of course, it wouldn t be granted. you have to wonder why did they do it. and i think the answer is they expected it would be deny aden looing for a reason to attack rod rosenstein to create some doubt about lis legitimacy as an independent counsel. the work that the investigation is doing. and this is part of a pattern we ve seen for m