accomplish, but it did i think reveal their determination in the house to act in many ways as a defense squad for the president. rachel, we heard from the house republican chair, gowdy, nunes, and goodlatte, there is no writing about collusion. james comey didn t say there was any collusion inside these memos. i heard other people, other allies of the president say that in the memos james comey notes that it would be a good thing if comey found out if any satellites, people connected to the president, were perhaps dealing with the russians. and those two things are revelatory, they say. as ron puts it, enough to counter the other side. listen, i ve been asking myself the same question all morning, do republicans regret putting these memos out and asking for them. i think it is having the reverse effect than they were expecting. what they were trying to do is catch comey in a lie and see if he had exaggerated any of his communications with the president to sort of undermine him and
involved in a very extensive effort to influence what has been going on with the mueller investigation. this is obviously a very important investigation to the country because of the russian interference in our election. there is a big question as to whether or not the trump campaign was involved in the collusion, the so-called collusion or if they were working with the russians in terms of the election. and so these are very serious issues that are before the country. they should be investigated. and we should allow that investigation to go forward. and i m very disappointed that my republican colleagues will not sign on to a bill that allows mueller to be independent. congressman goodlatte and trey gowdy writes that the memo shows that director comey never wrote that he felt obstructed or threatened. is that fair?
, like mr. comey, are no longer, most of them are no longer there. maria: there may not be there, but many of them are still there in different positions and they still have security clearances. isn t that right, congressman? that is right, and those that are still there, based upon information i ve seen, should be removed and i hope that the department and the bureau are taking the steps necessary to finish that job because it is very important that justice be served and people who are not serving justice should not be in the department of justice or the federal bureau of investigation. maria: congressman we ll take a short break. i want to ask you about criminal referrals when we come right back. congressman goodlatte stay with us we ll be right back and then we ll talk with congressman john ratcliffe and congressman ed royce, follow me on twitter at maria bartiromo at sunday futures let us know what you d like to hear from our guests this morning as we look ahead on sunday morning
there s a lot that i don t know, but there s also a lot that the rest of us don t know and what i think is appropriate is the investigation by mr. hube r in utah and a full investigation by congress, which ought to do its job and really tease out all of the details. maria: all right we will leave it there, michael mukasey, always a pleasure thanks so much good to be with you. maria: we ll take a break when we come back the u.s. and its allies are sending a clear message to the syrian regime. congressman ed royce is a chairman of the foreign affairs committee joins me next to talk about the force taken between the u.s. , france and the uk more as we look ahead on sunday morning futures right here.
mr. comey announced publicly a week or 10 days before the election that he was reopening the investigation. he could have informed people in the congress prior to reopening that investigation that he was going to do so and then the facts could have come out after the election, but if i were a democrat i d be very disturbed about the fact that he made that decision. i think his book is going to confirm that he took inappropriate steps here and that deputy attorney general rosenstein who is the person that actually made the decision to terminate mr. comey made the correct decision. maria: we will leave it there mr. chairman thanks very much for joining us this morning. thank you maria. maria: we appreciate it, more on the james comey book, with house judiciary committee member john ratcliffe of texas will join me next to discuss the new report from the department of justice detailing its reasons behind the firing of former fbi director andrew mccabe and how this plays into the internal