not getting jokes. i don t know if they will have a vested interest calling out stuff like making prompts off supplements that don t work. i hope they do. poor mehmet oz will have to try not to make jokes. i actually don t think that s a problem with him. al franken, i appreciate you doing this. thank you for joining us. my pleasure. so the prosecution for the january 6th insurrection. why isn t the justice department using all the legal weapons some people feel they have? a reality check is next.
new york times, and the washington post. it goes much further than that. cnn s paula reid is joining me now with more on this. paula, tell us what the attorney general said. reporter: kate, in his statement, the attorney general says that there are important questions that need to be explored about how the trump justice department went about obtaining these records. now just to underscore how extraordinary it is, it s highly unusual to obtain lawmakers records like this outside of an investigation into corruption. in the course of the justice department does frequently investigate leaks. the biggest question we have right now is what exactly happened. why were these records seized? who oversaw this? who knew what when? former attorneys general and the deputy attorney general, they ve denied being involved in many of these record requests. going forward, according to the statement, the deputy attorney general, lisa monaco, she is going to be reviewing the justice department s proc
that this is getting broader and wider. and it s what s still not clear, and paula was speaking to this, is who really was being targeted. why they were being targeted. they were being targeted for a subpoena, but are they the target of an investigation? we know in barbara starr s circumstances, we know that she was not a target of an investigation. why isn t the justice department explaining why can t the justice department explain the circumstances around this more? certainly the justice department could explain it if they want to. there s nothing prohibiting that. but the justice department likes to hold on to its ability to conduct secret investigations. sometimes you re investigating intelligence matters, sometimes you re investigating mob figures. and for instance, if you re looking at their bank records or other kinds of records, you certainly don t want them to know that you re doing that as you re putting the case together. but of course in the situation that we have her
head-shaking, head-scratching move that we see, and then, of course, coupled today with his statement about the murder of khashoggi is absolutely stunning. reporter: now, jim, people close to president trump say he often asks why isn t the justice department going after james comey or hillary clinton? but right now it seems that republicans back in washington are asking him the same thing about the saudis. jim? kaitlan collins, we often wonder when the president tweets that stuff, is he just tweeting? seems he was making a formal request. back with the panel now. anna navarro, let s look at the list of the people that the president we ve learned or has publicly attacked in the past 48 hours. hillary clinton, james comey, bill mcraven, former head of special operations forces. congressman adam schiff. all those people, among them republicans, the supreme court justice. but not saudi arabia. he gives saudi arabia a pass. explain that.
he called them extremely professional and respectful while they were raiding his lawyers were telling him not to. home, his office, and his hotel i can t imagine the aggression room. that directly contradicts the that he feels at this raid on president s description of the michael cohen s office is going raid which he called a break-in. to make him feel better about cohen says he is upset about being targeted but actually doing an interview. it s also something that you thanked the agents when they would think is eventually going were done. when asked if he was worried, to have to happen in some ways cohen told cnn, i d be lying to to get any kind of closure from you if i told you that i m not. do i need this in my life? this. zach, we have to note no. do i want to be involved in this? we ve been talking about this no. a source familiar with the that this is not directly tied raid on that new york hotel room to the russia probe. where cone and his wife were the assumption i