that could take it out of criminal realm. it really would be a violation of the statutes. i would suspect that the attorney general nominee would believe that the appropriate remedy for that would be impeachment, not prosecution. but it certainly falls under obstruction. can you speak to that, mike? because you re the former chairman of the house intel committee. that is the committee, not, obviously, while you were overseeing it, but that s the committee that michael cohen is said to have lied to when he testified, and there s also this question of what is congress going to do? because there s been some reticence on the part of democrats to jump on that impeachment bandwagon. what do you think? i think they shouldn t be too quick on this. two problems here. a political problem for the president and a legal problem, and the legal problem is a little less clear to me. the sourcing of this information, i m a little skeptical of. it wasn t people involved in the investigation, it was
while. what s your take on how this went down today with horwitz appearing on capitol hill. it s amazing that comey, you see them on twitter in iowa cornfields and he s at various national parks but no time to come to capitol hill. comey s strategy on this is to hope it s going to blow over. that it s going to go away, that washington will forget about it. i think the opposite has to happen. ethically have to think about it this way, laura. vic about when we have cases of police misconduct or prosecutorial misconduct in the criminal realm. a cop is found having planted evidence or hiding evidence. we go and look at previous cases that that police officer handed. we want to drill down, find out how bad the problem was. i think we need to do the same thing here. the ig report as far as i m concerned is the beginning. it s not the end of this investigation. laura: let s go to chris han, senator kennedy at one
appearing on capitol hill. it s amazing that comey, you see him on twitter in iowa cornfields and he s at variousn national parks but no time to come to capitol hill. comey s strategy on this is to hope it s going to blow over. that it s going to go away, that washington will forget about it. i think the opposite has to happen. ethically have to think about it this way, laura.ity think about when we have cases of police misconduct or prosecutorial misconduct in the criminal realm. a cop is found having planted evidence or hiding evidence. we go and look at previous cases that that police officer handed. we want to drill down, find out how bad the problem was. i think we need to do the same thing here. the ig report as far as i m concerned is the beginning. it s not the end of this investigation.in laura: let s go to chris hahn, senator kennedy at one point was, he seemed bemused by the idea that no bias was
them, they would be very, very serious. not likely, wolf, to be something that the congressional investigations would uncoverment we don t have the resources or the expertise to pursue that sort of thing, but i assume that points to the criminal realm, i said might be because i don t know, one of the topics that could be of interest in the special counsel bob mueller. speaking about potential money launld laundering in the k with the author, michael wolffe, provide any evidence to you of money laundering by the trump organization? did not provide evidence. that s an important point. he made allegations that, again, the public can you read, precisely what they are, allegations, very serious allegations, but, again, not one that this investigative committee has the resources to pursue, but one hopes if there s anything to the allegations, those who live in the criminal realm, that is to say special counsel, would be doing the investigation of those
we ve talked so much about the work that mueller is doing, the special counsel is doing and the investigative power he has. realistically, what can a committee like yours learn about this that bob mueller isn t going to learn? that s a great question. i think as you look at the last couple of months you re welcome get a sense of what s going to happen here. bob mueller has the ability, first of all, he has resources and the ability to get people to wear wires to cooperate. he s going to do a more comprehensive job when it comes to the question of whether any crimes were committed. we re not really prepared to do that. we don t have the resources. that s not what we do. we re going to be about what did the russians do. how did they do it? how can we prevent that in the future? bob mueller is going to be about what you saw happen in bomb shell fashion two weeks ago, indictment, guilty pleas, koorngs, that whole thing in the criminal realm. all right. congressman, thank you so much. g