Lesniewski for cq roll call. Senator, let me ask you about the news from this past week. You have concerns about the meeting between director comey general,eputy attorney where he was asking for Additional Resources to investigate russia was the same person that wrote the memo that led to his firing. My. Grassley it is understanding that within a few hours of this interview, somebody in the Justice Department cleared up that they were not asking for additional money. You accept that explanation from the Justice Department depart despite the reporting to the contrary that comey was seeking additional money . Sen. Grassley i usually accept what i am told unless there is lingering suspicion. Ms. Werner you have questions about the way the president handled the situation and the firing of director comey . Sen. Grassley i would look at my relationship with the fbi generally and i would look at a particularly with my relationship with comey. In my constitutional job of oversight, of having a
Steve scully joining us on newsmakers is senator chuck grassley. Thank you for joining us. And joining us with the questioning is erica werner who covers congress for the Associated Press and Niels Lesniewski for cq roll call. Senator, let me ask you about the news from this past week. You have concerns about the meeting between director comey and the Deputy Attorney general, where he was asking for Additional Resources to investigate russia was the same person that wrote the memo that led to his firing. Sen. Grassley it is my understanding that within a few hours of this interview, somebody in the Justice Department cleared up that they were not asking for additional money. Ms. Werner you accept that explanation from the Justice Department despite the reporting to the contrary that comey was seeking additional money . Sen. Grassley i usually accept what i am told unless there is lingering suspicion. Ms. Werner you have questions about the way the president handled the situation and th
Steve scully joining us on newsmakers is senator chuck grassley. Thank you for joining us. And joining us with the questioning is erica werner who covers congress for the Associated Press and Niels Lesniewski for cq roll call. Senator, let me ask you about the news from this past week. You have concerns about the meeting between director comey and the Deputy Attorney general, where he was asking for Additional Resources to investigate russia was the same person that wrote the memo that led to his firing. Sen. Grassley it is my understanding that within a few hours of this interview, somebody in the Justice Department cleared up that they were not asking for additional money. Ms. Werner you accept that explanation from the Justice Department despite the reporting to the contrary that comey was seeking additional money . Sen. Grassley i usually accept what i am told unless there is lingering suspicion. Ms. Werner you have questions about the way the president handled the situation and th
Our phone lines are open, 202 7488000 for democrats, 202 7848001 four republicans, 202 7488002 four independent voters. Caller i dont think there is a lot to get worried about. When the drums of war were being beaten, they had Satellite Photos of the North Koreans outplaying volleyball and the fleet that was supposed to be right over the horizon was down in indonesia. Is a piece of news i would like to talk about, oreilly was going to get picked up and they were going to have him go toe to toe with ed schultz. I think that would be a good program. Host and is joining us from maine. Caller good morning and thank you. I would like to put this in context with the nuclear deal with iran. The agreement with north korea. We did effectively stop their development of Nuclear Weapons. It was only when george bush under pretext of insurmountable north korean in this case unilaterally scrapped that deal and we see where we are now. I would like to go back further in history to the peloponnesian w
Director was asking for Additional Resources to investigate russia was the same person that wrote the memo that led to his firing . Sen. Grassley it is my understanding that within a few hours of this interview, that somebody in the Justice Department cleared up that they were not asking for additional money. Ms. Werner you accept that explanation from the Justice Department despite the reporting to the contrary that comey was seeking additional money . Sen. Grassley i usually accept things until i find that people are misleading or its misinformation. Questionse lingering about the way the president about the way the president handled the situation and the firing of director comey . Sen. Grassley i would look at this more my relationship with the fbi generally and i would look at it particularly particularly with my relationship with comey. In my constitutional job of oversight, of having an opportunity to have a new fbi director. Because let us look at how he briefed us recently in s