time. i think it should be restarted by the republican majority now. but if they don t take steps to reopen it, yes, i absolutely believe we should. congresswoman spear, thank you so much. when we come back the president acknowledging today he repaid michael cohen more than $100,000 for expenses during the election. that according to his finance disclosure released today. so was that hush money paid to stormy daniels? my name is jeff sheldon,
block numbers before. you think it s him, right? i think there s no question. if democrats retake the house come november, do you think that the investigation should be restarted? i think the investigation is incomplete at this point in time. i think it should be restarted by the republican majority now. but if they don t take steps to reopen it, yes, i absolutely believe we should. congresswoman spear, thank you so much. when we come back the president acknowledging today he repaid michael cohen more than $100,000 for expenses during the election. that according to his finance disclosure released today. so was that hush money paid to stormy daniels? as you can clearly see,
the fbi of bias more broadly. then you have trump s transition lawyer questioning whether bob mueller got thousands of e-mails from the trump campaign legally and then jim jordan and rand paul and other house republicans saying stuff like this. they are not denying there was a coordinated effort and it s all coming as the russia investigation is giving signs it s heating up. how do you see it? it s interesting that you have seen an effort by republicans to undermine the mueller investigation. there is nothing that unusual about it. the interview with congresswoman spear is what democrats did regarding ken star in the investigation into president bill clinton. the difference was we had a special counsel law at the time and the president couldn t fire the special investigator on a whim even though this this case president trump would have to go through a couple of attorneys
this is what he told kqed last friday. i believe the president wants all of this shutdown. he wants to shutdown these investigations and he wants to fire special counsel mueller. the rumor on the hill when i left yesterday was that the president was going to make a significant speech at the end of next week and on december 22nd when we are out of d.c., he was going to fire robert mueller. now, i spoke with congresswoman spear just before airtime. here s that conversation. representative spear, this rumor on the hill that the president is going to fire robert mueller by this friday, is that still what you re hearing? well, i certainly heard it last thursday. it s been tamped down a little bit, in part because the president himself has been asked the question and he has said no. but it s not as if the president doesn t change his mind from time to time. so it s a great concern to me, and i think to many of my
believes that the fbi acting director was in fact very forth chg, w coming, was willing to answer all of of our questions virtually except for a couple. and i think his testimony was helpful to our investigation. you are colleague, adam schiff, says he s worried republicans will try to shutdown the house intelligence investigation by the ends of the month. is that something you see? well, we re very concerned about that. these interviews now have stepped up in their pace, two or three in the same day. i have been in the intelligence committee offices all day long today. and it is a pace that you can t keep and also i think do a good job. there s other interviews being scheduled outside of washington, d.c. which makes it very hard for us to vote on bills and also be at those very important interviews as well. congresswoman spear, thank you so much for being with us.