here s what we learned in the briefing room. i want to go back tom last clip you played. he was smooth, glib, charming. you can tell with scaramucci, trump wanted a peer or a strategy i. things are too far gone to dismiss the russian investigation as hoax. the spounl is calling witnesses, investigating, looking for document stories that come out every night. so scaramucci has to come out with something better than name calling if he wants to steer attention away from the focus on the russian investigation or somehow diminish it. you can t pretend this is not happening. he might want to go through glass. they won t do it now. there s an investigation. there s something taking place.
whether you ve got enough to proof it to the jury beyond reasonable doubt or anything like that you gear up a grand jury investigation. you know there are memos, tapes, witnesses and the fbi has been looking into some of this, but what we really need is a prosecutor, we needed special counsel. we ve got to start calling witnesses in under oath. i know some of this will has been on the hill. it may happen in a fashion. the fbi has got a criminal investigation here and they need to pair with a prosecutor and get down to brass tax. that can t be a rer individuals are now witnesses in this investigation. so we needed special counsel and we still start to take testimony and subpoena these subpoena. the most incredible thing today is the fact that the white house
applies to what we ve learned in this memo. well, i think we ve got an obstruction case, at least, at the level of what would normally trigger a grand jury investigation at this point. you don t decide at this stage whether you ve got enough to proof it to the jury beyond reasonable doubt or anything like that you gear up a grand jury investigation. you know there are memos, tapes, witnesses and the fbi has been looking into some of this, but what we really need is a prosecutor, we needed special counsel. we ve got to start calling witnesses in under oath. i know some of this will has been on the hill. it may happen in a fashion. the fbi has got a criminal investigation here and they need to pair with a prosecutor and get down to brass tax. that can t be a rer individuals are now witnesses in this investigation. so we needed special counsel and we still start to take testimony and subpoena these subpoena.
isn t going to accept it. but my pressure is going to be public hearings, get the witnesses before, let the public see what we see and draw the same conclusions. all right. the secondary criticism is the work is not getting done. there s reporting out there you don t have enough staffers and the staffers who are appointed to this aren t really professionally up to snuff. they are not lawyers, forensic people. they don t have an investigative background. what do you make of that situation? they do have an investigative background. some of the people working on this worked on the committee s investigation of the benghazi weapons of mass destruction, of the massive torture report. these are people that have experience. i think at some point, chris, in this process when we get to the point of calling witnesses and interviewing witnesses, we do i think we should bring in some prosecutorial experience, if you will. people who are experts at
tapped to testify. will we hear from them? i don t think we should. this is like my ncaa bracket. it is hosed up from day one. i lost on the first weekend. let s step back. a critical point we are blowing through. the purpose from the outset is to understand russian involvement in the election and to have the congress ask appropriate question. is there a congressional role? and ensuring the next elections that we can protect candidates and the american people to vote free and fair. i think congress should look at whether they provide cyber protection for candidates like the secret service provides physical protection. what are they doing? calling witnesses. who can call witnesses for their cell phones or travel records? who has the investigative tools and walk across the street to the department of justice and ask someone be considered for