out. and just like that the suspicion of russian collusion just got loud r. we bring in a former member of the house intelligence commity. congress woman bachmann, nice to have you on. good to talk with you, brooke. i know you called him a decent guy. what is your reaction to his firing? well, he is a decent guy. he s a very hardworking and career person in the fbi. but, clearly, president trump has the constitutional authority and judgment to make the call on who he wants as his fbi drerk. and again, i think it s important to understand the context of all of this. this is a highly politicized set of facts we re dealing with. we had the former president of the united states, president obama, state publicly that hillary clinton was not guilty of the e-mail controversy where she took a private server and had government business on a
finances, right? right. she says that is not why. her campaign for making secret payments to a state senator in iowa who worked for the presidential campaign but she says she required all campaign staff to follow all the rules and doesn t have any reason to believe anyone broke the law. there is a group called house majority pack helping democrats take back the house. they say her retirement is good news and list her extreme right-wing views as reasons for that. all right. thank you very much, peter. congress woman bachmann was an early leader in the tea party movement. you remember that. the congress woman organized the first house tea party caucus meeting in 2012, ten congress
surely they select their employees very carefully. i mean, what do you make of that here? here is the muslim brotherhood saying we can t even get on in the home team, what are we going to do with foreign agents of our particular ideology in politics? it s funny because on the one hand, you see that they re actually using the question, what a lot of politicians do to get to their own issue, the concern that the egyptian military has retained more of the key legislative powers in egypt. that s more of what they care about than our own scuffles. the other part is the serious part, which is again to mr. christy s point, that congresswoman bachmann s statements here while wrong for all of the reasons we have covered on the domestic front and out of order period, also have the unintended consequence of muddying up discussions we may or may not be having with other political parties and governments around the world. again, not the role you want to play as a member of congress.
congresswoman bachmann is on my list with alan keyes and other for being some of the most entertaining individuals, and she s crossed it line from eccentric wacky aunt to someone her own campaign manager said crossed over into evil territory. she s rapidly losing her entertainment value. dr. evil would have a whack hat to hit her with. why don t we see more leadership moments like this on issues like gun control or taxes or therepu dare to speak out against lock step positions in their own party, like grover norgist insisting people sign a pledge not to raise taxes? you have seen a remarkable amount of republican leadership on the issue of taxes and budget reform. the republics have passed a budget. the senate refuses to negotiate on that issue. let me go back to michele bachmann. this is very, very important and it pains me to have this
would the united states leave the u.n.? no, but we would dramatically reduce our reliance on it and confront certain realities. people talk about a peace process. 11 missiles were fire inside israel last month. last month. over 200 missiles have been fired into israel this year. do you think if we had 11 missiles fire inside the united states we he this president he might say gentlemen gee mayd communicate and you would like us more. most americans would say if you are firing missiles at me that might not be a very good gesture, okay. the united nations camps we have helped fund have been training grounds for terrorism. as congress woman bachmann pointed out the last time we he debated she was over there with textbooks that are clearly teaching terrorism that are indirectly funded by the united states through the u.n. we have no obligation to lie and every obligation to tell the truth about how bad the u.n. bureaucracy is and why it