absolutely. and it s interesting to the hear people say this. you know, you had so many people talk about how this political prosecution of donald trump is okay because no one is, no one is above the law. but it s also true that no one should be under the law, which is actually what we ve seen with president trump for the last six years where he seems to be reit thed more poorly than the treated more poorly than the average american would be, being denied due process or seeing all these political prosecutions. there is a very big concern here that because this line has been crossed of doing a political prosecution, the only way to stop it will be for some red state attorney general or a district attorney in an 80% republican area to come up with something, to golf after some to go after some hot democrat rising star or the former president or their former presidents,, and they certainly have some they could go after between bill clinton and barack obama for various things. that i
prosecutor. nobody in congress can do diddly-squat to him. it s a silly stunt by people who don t know how to do their jobs. laura: your response that this is basically out of your jurisdiction, congressman. not true. no district attorney has the authority to prosecute federal election laws. bragg doesn t decide whether or not he can go before congress. when he grossly overstepped two levels of government, he authority the authority of the u.s. house of representatives committee of oversight. congress has legislative purview. federal election laws are written by congress, not by the manhattan district attorney. so we absolutely have the authority to call in mr. bragg to find out why he s overstepping his authority by two entire levels of government. laura: what is your theory on
every crimes and misdemeanors. the few felony cases he brings he loses most of them. who is the star witness for this prosecution of president trump? michael cohen who came in front of our committee four years ago and lied six times in front of congress. that s their star witness who the basis of their prosecution. again, this is crazy and the country understands. jesse: congressman, bragg doesn t have to bring the former president to manhattan, to book him. hey, they can do this over zoom. do you think that bragg and the left are trying to bait americans here. trying to do what you said they want that picture. that was a great monologue. this is where the left wants to go. it s all about politics. everything they do is driven by political considerations and that s what is frustrating so many americans when you see that the department of homeland security was going to set up a disinformation governance board
the russians are staging troops on the border of ukraine and we are the biden administration is saying no, no, don t sanction our russian pipeline so americans can sell gas and energy in to europe. we want the russians to do it. i m confounded. doesn t make much sense to me. i was glad to see there were a handful of democrats that opposed their own president and decided to support what would have made sense, which is what we did in the trump administration, sanction that pipeline and make sure that russia can t dominate ukraine and germany when it comes to energy. charles: we know it will be a long cold winter in europe. secretary a pleasure. thanks very much. appreciate it. thank you, sir. have a good day. charles: president biden taking a victory lap for his infrastructure plan that was signed in to law two months ago. a distraction from the recent setbacks on build back better and voting rights. we ll debate that. you re looking live at buffalo,
to be vulnerable. keep your guard up at all times. charles: thanks, david. new york city police commissioner, howard safer. commissioner, i ve got a lot to go through with you. first, exactly all of a sudden they mushroomed. i remember when these were big a long time ago. what is driving it? we re back to the bad old days. the district attorneys like alvin bragg in new york and others are sending a message that if you commit crimes, you re not accountable. the nypd arrested the murders of the woman in burger congress in harlem who was shot for no reason. yes, it s a violent time. we re letting things get out of control. district attorney bragg doesn t understand what his job is. it s not to legislate the law. it s not to protect criminals. it s the protect the public.