at the beginning of today s hearing, the top democrat reminded his colleagues about the much more important work that they were not doing today. mr. chairman, i must say before i begin my formal statement that this country has a number of emergencies right now under the jurisdiction of this committee which we re not spending any time or attention to. the leading one being that 3,000 children were improperly taken away from their families and the administration seems either unwilling or out of totally incompetence unable to return the kids to their families. the committee spent nine hours and 45 minutes failing to find anything that peter strzok did that was politically motivated in his investigator work. the committee has not had
mr. chairman, i must say before i begin my formal statement that this country has a number of emergencies right now under the jurisdiction of this committee which we re not spending any time or attention to. the leading one being that 3,000 children were improperly taken away from their families and the administration seems either unwilling or out of totally incompetence unable to return the kids to their families. the committee spent nine hours and 45 minutes failing to find anything that peter strzok did that was politically motivated in his investigator work. the committee has not had one hearing about the children that president trump has separated from their parents at the southern border. the trump had administration did not meet the tuesday deadline this week
we had this very interesting report from the washington post, reporter dev lon barrett here talking about that. he said in his reporting for that story and washington post reporting for that story, they re looking at the impact of the firing of people who are doing the investigator work, shoe leather people doing the investigation. he s hearing 75% anger and 25% fear, actually scared in terms of what happens to them next. probably a healthy reaction. you studied the fbi intensely for your seminal work on their structure as an institution, how they function, good things about them and bad things about them. how do you think fbi agents will respond to this firing? do you think this could have the effect by decapitating the agency, could that have the effect of derailing the investigation? no, it can t. an investigation has a life of its own.