that includes transcripts that the special counsel and the justice department have not yet had access to and a great many that they have but have not been allowed to use for particular purposes, including in prosecutions for false statement or obstruction or perjury or any other like offense. so the special counsel s office, the department of justice and its elements will now have access to those transcripts for any purpose which will facilitate justice. if the president meant to intimidate democrats in congress last night with that strange line saying there cannot be war and investigation, it s not working, but today s reaction by the house democrats has given us even more to discuss with the senator who says the trump administration is an ongoing foreign policy garbage fire. and joining us now is democratic senator chris murphy of connecticut. senator, thank you very much for joining us. i really appreciate it. i have to say, when i saw your tweet yesterday, that is
happened in 2016, and, frankly, what may still be happening now. obviously one of our great worries is that some of the most bizarre aspects of the president s foreign policy vis-a-vis russia and saudi arabia can be explained by the president s existing financial ties, his family s financial ties to those countries, and so we have an obligation to get those questions answered. now, let me say this, i and i think adam schiff hope the answer is not that the president tried to steal the election nor is he making foreign policy decisions based on his family s perspective income. i m not wishing for the end result of this to be a scandal that already dwaufrs those that we have today, but we at least have to try to get to a conclusion and an answer. senator, before you go, let me ask you a personal question what it was like for you on the floor last night. when i was working in the senate, i saw democratic senators on their way to state of the union addresses by president george h.w. bush
it s our responsibility as a congress to do oversight over the executive branch, and i would argue both on domestic matters and foreign policy matters. just because we re questioning the president s wisdom in foreign policy doesn t mean we re making the country any weaker. in fact, i think the obligation s going to be on congress in these coming years to represent the united states abroad if donald trump won t. so, yeah, this idea that somehow you re compromising america s national security by standing up to the president domestically has no parallel in u.s. history and is not exactly how the framers imagined the relationship would work. senator, i want to get your reaction to something the president said today about congressman adam schiff. the president an avid television watcher, the most avid television watcher in the history of the presidency, pretends not to know who he is. let s listen to this. the chairman of the house intelligence committee adam schiff said he was going to
president s existing financial ties, his family s financial ties to those countries, and so we have an obligation to get those questions answered. now, let me say this, i and i think adam schiff hope the answer is not that the president tried to steal the election nor is he making foreign policy decisions based on his family s perspective income. i m not wishing for the end result of this to be a scandal that already dwaufrs those that we have today, but we at least have to try to get to a conclusion and an answer. senator, before you go, let me ask you a personal question what it was like for you on the floor last night. when i was working in the senate, i saw democratic senators on their way to state of the union addresses by president george h.w. bush and then for many more years i saw republican senators on the way to the state of the union addresses by president bill clinton. i never saw an angry senator on their way. i saw bored. i mean, both parties incredibly bored and thinki
other like offense. so the special counsel s office, the department of justice and its elements will now have access to those transcripts for any purpose which will facilitate justice. if the president meant to intimidate democrats in congress last night with that strange line saying there cannot be war and investigation, it s not working, but today s reaction by the house democrats has given us even more to discuss with the senator who says the trump administration is an ongoing foreign policy garbage fire. and joining us now is democratic senator chris murphy of connecticut. senator, thank you very much for joining us. i really appreciate it. i have to say, when i saw your tweet yesterday, that is language that is that you don t find very much of in past usage in the united states senate, but it made be wonder throughout the speech what is chris murphy thinking? to be calling it this garbage