officials of the fbi and justice department accountable. a sessions signal to you first in an interview a few weeks back that he already has been quietly having u.s. attorney john huber of utah operating outside the beltway, using his prosecutorial powers, a broad mandate to investigate misconduct that could extend beyond the fisa abuse. the former top officials at the fbi, james comey and andrew mccabe, could be facing scrutiny, for not just failing to tell the fisa judge that the anti-trump dossier was paid for by the dnc and the hillary clinton campaign. this prosecutor could be looking at mccabe s leaking to the media that was unauthorized, his lying to investigators. plus, those of fbi text messages. we learned that the friends of mccabe have set up a gofundme page to help pay for his legal costs that may be escalating rather dramatically because it sessions were two senior lawmakers, i am confident mr. huber s review will include a full, complete review of the matters in a manne
and bob goodlatte, sessions is reserving the right to name a second spown beyond robert mueller down the road to hold officials at the fbi and justice department accountable. sessions is revealing for the first time he already has been quietly having that u.s. attorney john hiewbler out in utah operating, as you said, outside the beltway, using his prosecutorial powers with a broad mandate to investigate ms. conduct that could actualle.misconduct. andrew mccabe could be facing big scrutiny for not just telling the fisa judge that the anti-trump dossier was paid for by the hillary clinton and dnc. leaking to the media, his lying to investigators about that, plus those fbi text messages that have gotten so much attention. sessions writing in part, quote: i m confident mr. hiewbleer huber s review wl include a full complete consistent with the laws and
which we think strikes into the heart of what civil rights and human rights are all about. secondly, we raised objections to the justice department s pivot and i know jenae will talk about this in the texas voter i.d. case, and thirdly, we expressed objection to any effort by the justice department to retreat from any of the 20 police consent decrees that exist where cities have been found to have engaged in unconstitutional policing and now on a corrective action course, as well as urging him to continue the federal criminal civil rights prosecutions and investigations in the walter scott and the eric garner cases, where those men have been victims of unconstitutional policing, and police brutality. so we raise these objections, but it was important because we re historic institutions, who have worked with the justice department, and also held the justice department accountable.
consent decrees, which allow the justice department to hold law enforcement agencies accountable when they have engaged in predatory plitsing, the same kind of predatory policing we saw in ferguson that the department of justice used to hold that department accountable. he is opposed to those kind of decrees. he has to address the record. if he addresses all those, will you support him then? based upon the record, we cannot support him. so in other words, we do not take our opposition as a matter of partisan blood sport, personal anonymous. the senator can be a nice person, but not have a sufficiently excellent record or good record or a passable record to lead the department of justice. and you have been clear at least in your statements today, it is not about whether he could run the department. it is more his policy views you are questioning and you want to hear from him about coming this week. he has to. i want to read a couple quotes from you from session s
that might compromise the investigation or change a witness s testimony. so there s some information that we re not able to put out right now. but again we re going to continue to put out as much information as we can to be open transparent and hold this department accountable to the community that we serve. we have more questions for you. i want you to stand by. we ll take a quick break. much more right after this. people ship all kinds of things. but what if that thing is a few hundred thousand doses of flu vaccine. that need to be kept at 41 degrees. while being shipped to a country where it s 90 degrees. in the shade. sound hard? yeah. does that mean people in laos shouldn t get their vaccine? we didn t think so.