to him, it has become completely politicized. that s what it appears to be. d and if our federal law enforcement is using itsal position, using its power for thsition, using its power for just a danger to democracy. this is the thing that indicates that democracy broken. is broken. and it also is a anrd t also is a to the american people becausers we have a law and order issues here. americans very often atain the local and state levels, complain about the neee needd fr justice reform. so when you get a signal from federal law enforcement thatw em that the rules don t matter, rug to complys don t matter, with a subpoena, that. the reality is , is that that th the fbi is not an island unto itself. it s not a sovereign nation.d to it doesn t get to say no to the oversight body itself in the senate or in the house. when it comes to this is why then it comes to this is why they exist, why thereey is oversight so that we can make sure that laws are not being broken, that partisanshipn is no
investigative work at all, nveot knowledge at all, as to the veracity and authenticity of the laptop, that it is thatht not an inclined donationkind to president biden or thendonati candidate biden? well, that is the questionn that the federal election commission currently is is investigating. just a few weeks ago, they told parties in the case that they have an open matterto under review. that s a fancy worr d for the fec, saying it s underre a investigation, that this may investigation, that this may political contributionth and it wasn t recorded or disclosed to the american public. so that investigation is ongoing, by the way, that that opened just a couple of weeks before jim jordan in the house intelligence committee and others made these bombshell revelationw s befos. these revelations will inform that in a bigger way. i will make one other. nt, it s it s actually three straight elections that the intelligence committee involved got involvede in 2012. mike morell, the same eit
you have to ask him. but certainly we all know that every former president has access to their documents, it s how they write their memoirs. they don t have great recall of everything that s occurred in their administration. that is republican congressman mike turner, the top republican in the house intelligence committee, floating a new throat about where former president trump may have taken classified documents from the white house to mar-a-lago and had them at mar-a-lago. joining us is former republican congressman will herd of texas, also a former undercover cia officer. thank you for being with us. congressman mike turner said maybe the former president had it to write memoirs. does that clear things up for you, having sensitive information in his basement? of course it doesn t clear things up and the excuses of why he had this information is changing every single day, which causes some concern. the reality is we know that
smart guy, by the way. you little pencil neck. you can chuck that up to a childish man behaving childish will you but he was the president and still is right now the unquestioned leader of his party so even as the doj s inspector general today began investigating the matter, republican lawmakers were down playing it. charles grassly saying in a statement today investigations into members of congress and staff are nothing new. congressman chris stewart who sits in the house intelligence committee says i support investigating leaks of classified information that glides right past the evidencel investigation. everything we re learning suggests not just to us but intelligence and law enforcement professionals this plain reeks. as manu raju was told the bottom line from the first day of the russian investigation i assumed a hostile government would do something like this. i just didn t think it would be
getting reinforcement from the people around him and being very vocal about it. no question about that. kristen holmes from west palm beach. thank you. and ke discuss with ar national security correspondent and a former security prosecutor. thank you to you all for being here. and president trump rantsed about the entire impeachment process. saying he wasn t afforded a lawyer or witnesses. you were there for all of it. fact check for us. the fact of the matter, he was offered opportunity for his lawyers to come in and question witnesses. not during the house intelligence committees part of the investigation but during the house judiciary committee s part of the investigation and then after he was offered that, to come in and question the witnesses, first constitutional lawyers then the actual attorneys who are involve ared in the house intelligence