side by side with putin. will you tell russia not to meddle in the 2020 election? yes, of course we will. don t meddle in the election. let s not forget this stunning moment when the president said he doesn t see anything wrong with taking election help from a foreign source. okay. let s put yourself in a position. you re a congressman. somebody comes up and says, hey, i have information on your opponent. do you call the fbi? i don t think if it s coming from russia, you do. i ve seen a lot of things in my life. i don t think in my whole life i ve called the fbi. you don t call the fbi. you throw somebody out of your office. al gore got a stolen briefing book. he called the fbi. that s different. this is somebody that said we
yes, of course we will. don t meddle in the election. let s not forget this stunning moment when the president said he doesn t see anything wrong with taking election help from a foreign source. okay. let s put yourself in a position. you re a congressman. somebody comes up and says, hey, i have information on your opponent. do you call the fbi? i don t think if it s coming from russia, you do. i ve seen a lot of things in my life. i don t think in my whole life i ve called the fbi. you don t call the fbi. you throw somebody out of your office. al gore got a stolen briefing book. he called the fbi. that s different. this is somebody that said we have information on your opponent. oh, let me call the fbi. give me a break. life doesn t work that way. he said all of that out loud, right out in the open. and when you look at the time line, it is crystal clear exactly why the president keeps inviting all of this. he keeps getting away with it. that s why. the day after rob
i don t think in my whole life i ve ever called the fbi. in my whole life. you don t call the fbi. you throw somebody out of your office. al gore got a stolen briefing book. he called the fbi. well, that s different, a stolen briefing book. this is someone who says we have information on your opponent. oh, let me call the fbi. give me a break. life doesn t work that way. the fbi director says that s what should happen. the fbi director is wrong. when you re running for president, you should okay. compare that to a president who took vladimir putin s side over his own intelligence communities over russia s election interference. my people came to me, dan coats came to me and some others. they said they think it s russia. i have president putin. he just said it s not russia. i will say this, i don t see any reason why it would be. the fact is our democracy is under threat.
russia not to meddle in the next election? don t meddle in the election. compare that to this president who said he would take dirt on a political opponent from russia or other foreign governments. somebody comes up and says, hey, i have information on your opponent. do you call the fbi? i don t think if it s coming from russia, you do. i ve seen a lot of things in my life. i don t think if my whole life i ve ever called the fbi. in my whole life. you don t call the fbi. you throw somebody out of your office. al gore got a stolen briefing book. he called the fbi. well, that s different, a stolen briefing book. this is someone who says we have information on your opponent. oh, let me call the fbi. give me a break. life doesn t work that way. the fbi director says that s what should happen. the fbi director is yong. whrong compare that to a president who took vladimir putin s side
wheeler is doing to make sure that we re undermining the obama administration s rules against corruption and against pollution. that s what i think we need to be thinking about, is everybody has a different place to play, i m not on the judiciary committee, but that doesn t mean that we re, you know, walking away to the beach, we can still hold this administration s feet to the fire. i want to ask you also about one of the headlines made out of the president s recent interview here, he talks about accepting foreign campaign for help. let s take a listen. you don t call the fbi. you throw somebody out of your office, you do whatever al gore got a stolen briefing book, he called the fbi. that s different. this is somebody who said we have information on your opponent. oh, let me call the fbi. give me a break. life doesn t work like that. the president appeared to back track on those comments. did you move you any closer to supporting an impeachment inquiry? the president sh