weekend statement about the level of compliance and agreement for more time. though the speaker s statement doesn t specify how much extra time they are getting. melissa: catherine herridge, great reporting. thank you. for more on this bring in republican congressman steve russell of the house oversight committee. thank you for joining us. what is your take on where we are and do you think they will comply with the 5:00 p.m. deadline? let s hope that they do. we will see, my guess is they will try to find some way to delay it. but this ought to concern all americans. anytime we have our intelligence and investigative agencies even giving the appearance of investigating or planning informants in the elections, we ought to be very, very concerned. so my advice to the f.b.i. would be much like they give to the people they investigate. if they have nothing to hide, hand it over. there shouldn t be any problem. melissa: they would say that the mueller investigation is still going on a
last word. i don t agree that it is that bad. and it s that corrupt. there are people in there who act improperly and they have been removed from the roles but generally speaking we can be in agreement the people who work in the institutions are good americans who did the job properly. there must be some better reason than they don t want to be embarrassed. it s not melissa: i don t know. you have had so many people fired and the stuff that has come out. save it for another day. thank you both of you. we are awaiting the arival of the king of jordan at the white house. when that happens we will go there live. man: i got scar tissue there.
order. joined, by the way, by a number of republicans such as senators graham and mccain who also have issued a statement very much questioning president trump s executive order on immigration targeting muslims. as an immigrant myself, immigration issues are at the forefront. i m aware that immigrants are a particularly vulnerable group. and so, i m going to do everything i can to make sure that immigrants in our country are not targeted and every time we target minority groups, american indians, slavery, the chinese exclusion act and more recently the internment of 120,000 japanese-americans in world war ii, history shows that we have been very, very deeply wrong. the white house denies they re targeting muslims. we don t have to get into that right now. in effect it does. let s talk about what happens in an hour or so. the full senate will convene to
i want to start with a statement from the president-elect s office from jason miller saying president-elect trump never advocated for any registry or system that tracks individuals based on their religion. to imply otherwise is completely false. the national registry of foreign visitors from countries with high terrorism activity that was in place during bush and obama administration gave intelligence in the law enforcement communities additional tools to keep our country safe. the president-elect plans on releasing his own policies after he s sworn in. what s your reaction? there are people very close to president-elect trump, the most recent being the person that you just featured. saying things such as the internment of japanese americans in world war ii is a precedent for a registry. targeting of minorities, ethnic on the basis of ethnic and religious backgrounds is not okay. during world war ii, it was a very, very dark part of our country s history and should not serve as a p
internment of japanese americans in world war ii is a precedent for a registry. targeting of minorities, ethnic on the basis of ethnic and religious backgrounds is not okay. during world war ii, it was a very, very dark part of our country s history and should not serve as a precedent, it should not happen again. how are you interpreting the signals that have come from this this administration or next administration that as it gets together, in terms of the ways that it s thinking about, quote, keeping the country safe. you saw in that quote, he said he has to do whatever to keep the country safe. and i think about what that might look like at particularly in times of crisis, after a terrorist attack abroad, then-candidate trump called for ban on all muslims. he s since walked that back.