questions, saying an internal investigation is under way into all the parties that have come to light. the labour leader, isolating because of covid, tweeted today. it s not just the labour party that are angry about this, there are plenty of my parliamentary colleagues who have no idea - what anyone in that e mail chain was thinking, or how. - this is utterly indefensible, it cannot be defended. - they weren t saying it publicly. what should the prime minister do with these latest revelations, sir? ..but arriving in parliament today, tory mps, some angry, some aghast, and a new opening for labour. i apologise again, unreservedly, for the upset that these allegations have caused. the prime minister has asked for an investigation. there s no need for an investigation into the simple central question
yesterday, he wouldn t answer questions, saying an internal investigation is under way into all the parties that have come to light. the labour leader, isolating because of covid, tweeted today. it s not just the labour party that are angry about this, there are plenty of my parliamentary colleagues who have no idea - what anyone in that e mail chain was thinking, or how. - this is utterly indefensible, it cannot be defended. i they weren t saying it publicly. what should the prime minister do with these latest revelations, sir? ..but arriving in parliament today, tory mps, some angry, some aghast, and a new opening for labour. i apologise again, unreservedly, for the upset that these allegations have caused. the prime minister has asked for an investigation. there s no need for an investigation into the simple central question today, did the prime minister attend the event in the downing street
you feel, furious? are rightly furious. is that how you feel, furious? you feel, furious? yes, and disappointed you feel, furious? yes, and disappointed and you feel, furious? yes, and disappointed and aghast. you feel, furious? yes, and | disappointed and aghast and you feel, furious? yes, and - disappointed and aghast and almost in disbelief. i am trying to remember what was happening in may that year, the davies was happening, in scotland, a mile from my house in portobello beach, police removing individuals for sitting on the beach on the hottest day of the year. people were being told by police to get back in their house less than an hour before this was meant to have kicked off. we had a cabinet minister on television telling people you could only meet up with one person outside. i don t know if he knew there was an e mail going around from the senior civil servant asking one people to take a bottle into the back garden 20 yards away. it is utterly appalling and i think it
sos is correct in what happened, but the fact is that millions of americans have come to believe, rightly or wrongly, that something untoward took place, and it is incumbent to conduct an investigation to assure the american people that we have lead at these claims. do you have a sense of how many, how many inputs like that went from doj? because we ve seen reporting about the lasers and there s been reporting about all sorts of and so wacky was a threshold that met opening an investigation, do you have a sense if there were more and how many? it is a great point. i don t have a sense of how many times this happened, but just from looking at these e-mails themselves you can tell that this was an ongoing tension between career officials in the criminal division at doj, one of whom is cited in this e-mail chain, and political leadership at the top of the justice department and rich donoghue who you just read from mentions that earlier in one of the e-mails there. he specifically says
senate judiciary committee conference call tonight in hopes of speaking with republicans on the panel. however, he said only the democratic members were on the call. we received an e-mail chain sent to us by the gop folks on the judiciary committee who essentially say they have been asking for any information that ms. ramirez has on whether she d be willing to talk to senate investigators from mr. clune. he s unwilling to give that information until they talk and find out more details about what specifically the gop side wants. joining us is cnn political analyst kirsten powers, also amanda carpenter author of the new book gaslighting america: why we love it when trump lies to us. kirsten, i m wondering what you make of this kind of back and forth from the attorneys, from ms. ramirez and also the gop folks on the judiciary committee, the investigators. well, what it sounds like is that they don t trust the