news understanding that richard burr was not at the white house today. obviously, if you are watching, senator, give us a call. we d love to know where you come down on this. what is your theory on the and what s your opinion of the situation that seems to started as a bipartisan decision on collusion with russia? the overwhelming narrative, a subtext for the entire year. everyone is aware of it. it sort of hasn t emerged much, which is the stark partisanship that exists isn t america today. everyone knows it. think through it started with devin nunes a stooge of some trump staffer since fired in the kelly regime. i raemember sean spicer saying you re going to hear about this tried to assassinate
we ve got a lot of work to do yet, but our committee has gone out of its way to ensure a continued bipartisan backing for this effort. and i m committed to seeing the effort through. however, it should be very clear that our committee cannot and will not stand as a substitute for mr. mueller s investigation. as chairman burr and i have noted on numerous occasions, the fbi is responsible for determining any criminal activities related to this inquiry. as such, mueller has already moved to indict two individuals and has negotiated two additional guilty pleas. there is an investigative path this is an investigative path reserved solely for law enforcement. and it is essential that it be permitted to go on unimpeded. the country no doubt remains
there are many people, republicans on the house committee, who would happily get stand behind donald trump if he fired bob mueller. so now mark warner out alone on the senate floor. what message does that send about where richard burr is? d why are the two of them not standing side by side? we may hear from richard burr within hours or within a day that he s with mark warner. but if he s not and if the senate committee is headed in the direction of where the house committee is, we re entering a dangerous period because if this becomes partisan and donald trump is given the encouragement of not just republicans in the house who he s kind of orchestrating but republicans in the senate that he can go ahead and fire any of the people you mentioned, that he can fire rod rosenstein, get to firing bob mueller. if he seems like he has a permission slip from republicans on both sides of capitol hill, the likelihood he ll do it which is already high will become much, much higher if he thinks t
democratic senator take to the floor, clearly alarmed. i know on the house side they ve been alarmed for longer because i think the bipartisan spirit of their investigations broke down well before it did, if it has, on the senate side. can you talk bay democrat taking to the floor truly alarmed that the president may fire and set a crisis. in the previous incarnation where we had this moment where, as you point eed out, the house bipartisan nature broke down. what we saw was richard burr and mark warner standing up side by side in a bipartisan show of, we are the adults on the senate. the bipartisan adults in the room. don t worry about the house of representatives. we are standing as one. we ll get to the bottom of what s going on. now we ve seen the house process has completely fallen apart and it s clear that there is no red line around firing mueller and
was an obstruction, to prevent it in the future, and there is increasing evidence that the russians are continuing their attack on our democracy and they will go through the 2018 election repeating that kind of undermining democracy if they are not made to pay a price. the senate intelligence committee chairman, richard burr, told cnn today in response to a question on whether his committee had interviewed a majority of the witnesses they will, he said, i think it s safe to say we have two other campaigns we re just starting on. one of them we believe he s talking about is a campaign of green party candidate jill stein. do you think there is anything to mine there? do can you think that will be fertile ground for investigation? the russian attack on our elections in 2016 was endlessly ingenious and inventive, using all kinds of social media, all kinds of intermediaries, sources and information for them.