just polluting the environment, polluting the air and the water, letting polluters pollute and having no oversight or accountability. he did exactly that. so for each nominee, i looked a the merits and decided is this person going to help move our country forward or not. for the most part president trump has really lined his cabinet with people who are absolutely uninterested in helping american people. a few nights ago we had here on the show in that seat where you re sitting there right now an official who until last year, less than a year ago was the top counterintelligence official of the justice department. he ran the counterintelligence section, and he sitting right here described president trump as a clear and present danger to the national security of the united states. and you ve spoken of the president in very clear terms, strong terms even tonight. you obviously voted against him more than any other senator. do you think about this presidency and national security terms, i
on to recuse himself, it s improbable he s going to give any credence to recommendations that he recuse himself. and it s inconceivable that he would recuse himself, because the president installed him in this job to get rid of an attorney general who could who was recused. so it s just we are in this hall of mirrors here where we are now stuck with a perilous situation at the department, and we are going to have to rely on the moral courage and fortitude of people like rod rosenstein and other department officials to speak truth to power and to advise the incoming attorney general as forcefully as they can what steps they think he should take, that are in the best interests of the department of justice. david laufman, chief of the counterintelligence section at the justice department, which meant he had an oversight in the russian investigation before special counsel robert mueller was appointed. mr. laufman, i know speaking publicly on these matters is not your favorite thing i
i don t know the answer to that. does he know the answer? i don t think we know until these guys come out of the meeting. but the fbi does have a counterintelligence section as to whether there was. it s a separate thing for the fbi to interview a potential candidate. i think. if there is something that is inappropria inappropriate, aren t the weapon cans if something is done inappropriately, and the president has the right for an
the fbi official that signed the document that officially opened the investigation into russian meddling in the 2016 election. he worked as the number two official in the counterintelligence section and he was considered one of the top experts on russia at the fbi. all of this now is likely to add to the political firestorm over the russia investigation. the white house and congressional republicans want the fbi to provide more documents because they think that there could be some political bias in the handling of both the clinton investigation, wolf, and the trump/russia investigation. the president has been tweeting extensively about this, as we know, evan, thank you very much. let s get back to congresswoman jackie speier. congresswoman, based on what you just heard from ecvan, is this something that the house intelligence committee should investigate? something i m hearing for the very first time and it certainly is worthy of our review. i will say the fact that robert mueller
russian attack, and the trump campaign s possible collusion with that attack. well, that inquiry, that russia part, right, the nut of the investigation, that was reportedly being run by peter stozok. at least he was the head of the counterintelligence section of the fbi. abc news reports today that speert strozok only is not running the russia part of the investigation anymore, abc is reporting that he is no longer part of the mueller inquiry at all. and according to abc, while mr. strozok might have previously run the counterespionage section at the fbi, now they report he s working in human resources. and nothing against human resources, but what happened there? i mean, that was like you were the principal, and now all of a sudden you re working in the cafeteria. what happened there? i mean, this is a single report from abc news.