committed. our constitutional mandate is to look at is to maintain the rule of law, which means examining not only crimes, but other abuses of power and obstructions of justice. felix sader is expected to publicly testify before congress next week to discuss his role in trump tower moscow. i want to bring in nbc s garrett hague now. he s in south carolina s low cut on the shrimp and grits trail with beto o rourke. garrett, let me start with you. i m interested in what beto o rourke has had to say about the transmission of this report, but give us a sense more broadly of what we ve heard from the democratic candidates over the last 18 hours or so. well, david, the democratic candidates have been essentially unanimous in their view that the report needs to be made public, all of it, and as quickly as possible. o rourke told reporters this yesterday afternoon after his last stop here in charleston.
our responsibilities on judiciary. i think, also, you know, as you may know, we launched an investigation chairman nadler and the house democrats, 81 pieces of information we were seeking. they are pieces of information that have already been provided, say, for example, to the southern district of new york. in other cases that are ongoing. remember, just because bob mueller may not be recommends indictments, we don t know that for sure, there are pieces that he has almost farmed out to other places that we need to get the information on. and, we, the judiciary committee need to call forward witnesses to continue our massive investigation into all these different pieces that are related to the constitution and that really our committee has jurisdiction over. i m glad you took us there. felix is going to sit down in front of your committee, he s scheduled to.
should mention to the american people who might be watching, in michael cohen s testimony. if we go back to the beginning, the special counsel was appointed because russia interfered with our election. then the question was who conspired against the united states with russia? up to and including the president of the united states. we know six people in the president s circle have been indicted, pleaded guilty and are on their way to prison. we have to look at that time motivation. if the president or those around him conspired with russia, what was really the president s motivation? i believe mr. sater is a key witness in terms of determining what the president s motivation may have been. we know the president was interested in building a trump tower in moscow. felix sater was working along with michael cohen to try to make it happen. the felix sater issue brings up what could be not a contradiction but a conundrum for democrats with the mueller
election had he or those around him had over a hundred contacts with the russian dictator or russian officials. 26 russians have been indicted for undermining our 2016 election. the president was involved in a deal to build a tower in moscow. i m not going to predict what may not be in the report. i think it still remains to be seen. what i do know is that we are going to take whatever action appropriate and we are looking at abuse of power, corruption, conspiring against the united states. so we are anxious to see the report, as you are. felix sader, an individual who worked inside trump tower for a time and had connections in business dealings with the russians. he will come before your committee behind closed doors. what are the key questions you want him to answer? we heard his name repeatedly i
credible? so he was incredibly cooperative. as we all well know, as has been represented in open sources, he brought receipts. he did bring documents. i m not getting into exactly what they were. it is a question now of piecing toke the whole cloth. it s not appropriate or prudence of standard practices to dra any hard and fast piece of testimony or one document. all of these have to be pieced together. it will including gathering information from people beyond michael con. as of course, you know the intelligence committee has announced we will have felix sader in for an open session i believe later on this month. that s a piece and parcel of this as well. it is, indeed, as talking with you and getting what we can. i do appreciate the candor you are able to give us. thank you so much. divide and conquer, how