question the election results in this nomination started to part. unravel when pete williams and to the other point, as far did he thank you for watching as where the party is going, this guy? this is a disaster for thank pete williams. republicans. pete williams decided to take a if donald trump becomes is look at this claim that he put terrorists in prison. reelected, the republican party he started looking at court will completely fracture. records in the eastern district i think it will become almost a of texas and saw no terrorism third party at some point. cases whatsoever, none. and the only thing that they re we couldn t find his name on any doing right now on trump s terrorism case. campaign is trying to register he worked on the holy land case more of those angry people. but investigated juror they re looking for every last misconduct. the whole thing unravel. person who s not registered to that started with journalism. vote who may be a trump i m glad president trump
explained to john how miserable it would be for him and his family to deal with these people. john has therefore decided to stay in congress where he has done such an outstanding job representing the people of texas and our country. more than that, when you started digging into his bio, into his past, what he claimed as national security expertise was his time as a u.s. attorney in the eastern district of texas, right on his congressional page. he writes in his buy ie biothat bio that he put terrorists in prison. his office couldn t give us any examples of him being a prosecutor. on top of all that, he has spent years behind closed doors and congressional interviews with intelligence officials, as well
a partisan, confabulating his resume and not having the actual experience for the job. when alex marquardt and evan perez, they asked ratcliffe s office about this and ratcliffe s office offered up this statement. department of justice records will confirm that as both chief of anti-terrorism and national security for the eastern district of texas from 04 to 08, john ratcliffe opened, supervised numerous terrorism-related cases. cnn s initial search of court records does not find any terrorism cases that he was listed as prosecuting. what do you make of their statement there after the research you ve done? yeah. so i can decode that as a former u.s. attorney. first of all, it doesn t speak at all to the specific lies, i think would be the right word, about the cases he s touting on
and the top democrat on the committee told me today that this raises enormous red flags. director coates was willing to speak truth to power. i have seen no evidence, at least from what i ve read and seen about mr. ratcliffe, that he ll bring that same level of independence. and what i fear is that the deeper we get into the trump administration, the more this president wants yes men like bill barr, the attorney general. if there s ever a time when we need to make sure the intelligence community speaks truth to power, it s now. do you think that s disqualifying him, padding his resume? listen, i m going to sit down with mr. ratcliffe, but this is one more item that raises enormous red flags to me. reporter: ratcliffe s office said that while working in the eastern district of texas he, quote, opened, managed, and supervised numerous domestic-related cases, but republicans have more questions. richard berg told us earlier today that he wasn t going to