be released when we both agreed to release it. and i think i ve shown my cooperation with the other side by just yesterday agreeing to two interviews that they want of their at their request. and so, i think we re going to move forward without any glitch in the way we have been operating. the one republican who was outraged by senator feinstein did is the one who knows absolutely nothing about the rules and procedures and customs of the senate judiciary committee. donald trump wet the tweeted the fact that sneaky dianne feinstein who has numerous occasions stated that collusion between trump/russia has not been found would release testimony in such an underhanded and possibly illegal way totally without authorization is a disgrace. must have tough primary. joining us, democratic member of the senate jewish yeah committee
sam stein, optimism correspondent, thank you very much for joining us tonight. thank you, lawrence. really appreciate it. coming up, senator amy klobuchar will tell us where the committee goes from here now that senator feinstein released the previously secret committee transcript, the fusion gps interview. one of the first sources consulted by fusion gps in its investigation of donald trump when they were assembling that dossier, one of those very first sources will join us.
look, i believe in transparency. and that was key. there were things leaking, things were coming out and being used about that testimony that weren t fair and it was important that the american public got the full story. senator grassley did say today that he was concerned that something like this might inhibit jared kushner from cooperating with the committee. well, i would be more concerned if this was a witness that said i don t want this public and you might have then people not want to come forward and talk behind closed doors. but in this case, you had the situation where a witness actually publicly said i want this out there. things are coming out that aren t true. for instance, the number of things were coming out about that in fact they had asked steele to go to the fbi and that just came out as not true in the testimony that steele had gone to them and said he felt it was his obligation to the go to the fbi and being reported that democrats paid for this report
and, in fact, in the testimony glen simpson explains that both republicans and democrats were paying. the as we know, the president tweeted today that republicans should finally take control of the investigations. we are not sure whether he also means the special prosecutor s investigation. but he certainly seemed to mean the congressional investigation. and your committee s investigation, the jewish yash committee. let s listen to how your chairman, chairman grassley reacted to that today. i don t know what the president has in mind and i don t think i better comment until i have a discussion with the president on that point. and i don t intend to have a discussion with the president on that point an i hope he doesn t call me and tell me the same thing that you said he said. thank you. senator, your reaction to that? well, i think that was pretty direct. what the chairman was saying, while we like to see hr hearings and hope we have more coming up is that he s not going to
so the day after senator dianne feinstein, the ranking member of the senate judiciary committee took it upon herself to release the interview transcript of fusion gps co-founder glen simpson, the reaction from the republican chairman of the committee and other republicans on the committee to my great surprise was not outrage. instead, the republican reaction suggested it was no big deal. i m actually okay with that. i want the public to know about the dossier and how it was used by the fbi. i want the public to see some of the things i have seen about mr. steele. and even more to my surprise the almost always cantankerous sounding chuck grassley, the chairman of the committee, who s usually very easy to anger sounded like he wanted to make peace with senator feinstein. obviously i was a little disappointed because i had an understanding, i had a time to