they are about what they view as another partisan attack by the democrats. it stepped on what was perhaps the best 24 hour window of donald trump s presidency so far, enjoying the afterglow as it were of what was a largely well received speech before a joint session of congress. and now he is forced to respond to this. kasie hunt, the other problem we have is that the republicans are not hanging tough. you have got jason chafe, et cetera, and now senator portman. who are some of the other defectors who are now saying that he should recuse himself. reporter: those are what i would say are the two major cracks in find of republican unity here around this issue. jason chafe, et cetera, i talked to him earlier. he said yes he needs to recuse him. the problem he has is of course the contradictory testimony, not necessarily the meeting with the ambassador itself. that meeting is not necessarily out of the ordinary.
we re looking into it. we are the tip of the spear on checks and balances. when something is awry, we will go dive into it. you re always generous with your time, mr. chairman. thank you for joining us. jason chafe. joined by the member of the foreign relations committee. if you re listening, senator, i d like to get your quick reaction of what we ve heard from the house chairman. well, i think that congressm congressman chaff iz to drive and pursue some critical questions he had under the administration and former secretary clinton. he seems to have lacked the zeal. certainly on the issue that you presented with the federal lease that exists on the old post
pockets, to enrich himself. so, that is the chief problem here. and the ethics chief s decision to come out so harshly and slam trump s plan to did not sit with with jason chafe its who wrote a letter demanding he appear before the oversight committee. this is the letter itself, to quote-unquote, to help the committee understand how you perceive oge s rule among other things, please make yourself available to a transcribed interview with the committee staff as soon as possible. but no later than january 31st, like stop, doesn t have anything else to do before january 31st. he s pretty busy. let s put it out there, though. what are democrats on the oversight committee saying? are they with chafe its or are they with shaub? democrats are playing into this fight. we spoke with connolly of virginia, and he blasted chafe its. i think it s really taking a double standard to a new level.
actually finds, if anything. but certainly i would also agree that when donald trump feels that his victory is impugned the slightest bit, he does react. so, i would agree with you, mark, that it is a good time for him maybe to focus on the task at hand, which is actually becoming president of the united states. but the problem with donald trump in the past, if past is prologue here, has been that he does not tend to focus. he tends to get distracted by these things, by these slieghts against him as sees them. that may be the case depends what they find. the justice department review was orchestrated, the inspector general says, not only the complaints coming in from democrats, but complaints coming in from republicans. they re responding to the republican complaints as well. jason chafe its, the republican chairman of the house oversight committee, he s welcoming this review. he has his own review that continues at the same time.
this. you could easily do something like this, you could say i have no idea. i will think about it. judge napolitano: he has to say i haven t seen the report, so much material is not yet public. will you look at it? if he says no the case is closed, the person that doesn t want her prosecuted, if he says i have a duty to look at whatever the fbi brings me. brian: he doesn t bring it up. jason chafe it will continue to look into it. judge napolitano: a new case for her prosecution because she argued and democrat argued she was sloppy and nobody was harmed by this. we now know secret information cut in the hands of those who wish us well, the israelis and those who wish us ill, the