struggle on what s doing that. south carolina congressman tray gowdy is going to be another voice for the president defending him, because people have been telling the president that rudy giuliani isn t being he s being aggressive enough, but they re saying he s not being aggressive in a way that they find is strategic and helpful to the president. > switching gears a little bit, let s dig into these numbers a bit more. this is what you see when it
advisers if they don t take their advice. take a listen to this. it can be proven beyond any evidentiary burden that russia is not our friend and tried to attack us in 2016. so the president either needs to rely on the people he has chosen to advise him or those advisers need to reevaluate whether they can serve in this administration, but the disconnect cannot continue they should resign if he continues to not listen or take their advice. do you think the president s intelligence officials are feeling the same way as congressman gowdy tonight? i think we re all fortunate they re not feeling that way, don. i think for the people on the president s national security team i think this is not the time to walk away. the easy thing to do is to walk away. i think that what they should do and this is more admiral position is to take a step back and muster the courage to speak truth to power. muster the courage to be able to stand up and say to the president, mr. president, i
that present? i think the danger going forward is that we don t know what happened in that meeting. trump has been fairly consistent in his behavior here, but it s very clear there are two things, don. first is president trump s inability to disassociate meddling in the election with his own worries of collusion. and what bothers me there is basically we re saying he can t put the core interests of the national security first. and the second is he thinks something s out there. i don t think putin was actually showing him the videotape or anything controversial at the time. i think he believes something s out there and until he does he s going to continue to kowtow to putin s desire there. republican congressman tray gowdy was not happy with trump vi inviting putin to the white house. he says the administration should consider quitting his
e-mails to a woman whom he was involved with that suggests that he didn t like donald trump, and those e-mails, when they became those text messages, when they became public, really became part of a partisan war, about whether or not someone who is involved in the investigation into russia as well as hillary clinton was someone who could be an unbiased investigator so now we have an extraordinary morning in front of members of the house judiciary and oversight committee. on the firing line without a doubt. democrats going after republicans. vice versa. one of the things that was talked about repeatedly was when strzok partially defended the impartiality of the fbi. including after this very heated exchange with congressman tray gowdy. take a listen. you need to understand that
department of justice or the fbi or even the state department regarding these matters and have hit a brick wall? well, we started out last fall. congressman tray gowdy and i handled a number in 2016 and 2017 and at first it seemed as though we were going to be getting the documents we needed, but that slowed down, particularly as some of the information came out through the page struck text, for example, that showed an extreme amount of bias on the part of a number of people at the higher levels in the federal bureau of investigation, a very serious matter, and things came down to a trickle. so, we issued a subpoena last week and i think that the department, the attorney general is very upset about this. i think that action is being taken to increase that production and i think that the subpoena, which is due next