votes. go to the polls a couple of months ago to re-elect. he still has support. that s what is making this story particularly challenging to find out what is the stamina of the protest. how large they are. the government has shutdown the internet and social media. making it hard for them to get that information out. still having a hard time of how big this is. i just want to say it s not president trump that iranians don t necessarily want intervention from. historically. it s westerners in general. if you think all the way back to the 50s when they overthrew in 53 fueled by the u.s. there s an inherent mistrust with any sort of intervention from the west. house chairman devin nunez is preparing to move past russian metaling. fbi and justice department. fox news reported in a thursday letter to deputy attorney rod
levels. you have low moral at the staffing agencies. we re cutting spending. there s certainly a downside. something we might be feeling for years to come. switch gears for a moment and talking about the russia probe. particularly devin nunez seen stepping out into his own calling for the fbi to be investigated. appears to have at least some support from paul ryan. do you see broader support on capitol hill, maybe in particular among the republican party that this call for investigating the fbi and doj may gain some traction. the kind of things he s talking about are also the things other republicans have talked about. they ve said this is an overreach by mueller in terms of his mandate. and also you know, the way that this investigation got started was murky. and maybe there was some as nunez would say corruption
rosenstein. nunez wrote to dnj and failed to produce in subpoena related to dossier. doj fbi s intran gent is part of a prodder part of behavior that can no longer be tolerated. seems the doj and fbi need to be investigating themselves. by tomorrow, january 3, the justice department must provide all records and available dates for witnesses to testify. the washington post reported that republican negligence committee member trey gowdy of south carolina said his heart would be broken if follows through on a corruption expose about the fbi. gowdy suggested nunez has taken some of these steps without the express blessing of house speaker paul ryan. in october, speaker ryan
appeared to show frustration over the response to subpoenas about the dossier. take a listen. we have had document request with the fbi for a long time. they ve been stonewalling. the fbi and justice department need to give congress the documents it s been requesting. they need to do so immediately. you used the word stonewalling. you think there s intentional stonewalling. we ve had document requests out there for sometime. president trump pledged to shrink the federal government. would seem he s making good on that campaign promise. shows by the end of september, all cabinet positions with the exception of homeland security veteran affairs and interior shed hundreds of employees since trump took office. by the tend of last september, the number of permanent federal workers, 1.94 million was down nearly 16,000 since the beginning of last year. that compares to obama s first year in office in which 68,000 employees were added.