clear that they had several objectives. . , one was to put out these mischaracterizations, distortions, these lies in order for them to be replayed on the various right-wing networks, as well as for their own reelection purposes. secondly, i think that they re trying to discredit the investigations underway to really look into what donald trump did while he was in office, and then also after he was in office. third, i think he is trying to intimidate chris wray and the fbi to try and prevent them from actually doing their work, investigating these leads as appropriate. the fact that the republicans are doing this really is so surreal. republicans, for so many years, were known as the law and order party, the ones that were defending the law enforcement officers, the fbi, intelligence professionals, and others. and now, the tables have really turned. and it s the democrats there come to the aid and rescue of the fbi and the intelligence community, as a way to protect these institutions
does that concern you at all, the gaslighting may be effective in the end? well, unfortunately i think it is affecting the attitudes and sentiments of many americans. watching that testimony today by chris wray and those questions being lobbed at him from the republicans, it was clear they had several objectives. one was to pollute the information environment so they can put out these mischaracterizations, these distortions, these lies in order for them to be replayed on the various right-wing networks as well as for their own re-election purposes. secondly, i think they re trying to discredit the investigations under way to really look into what donald trump did while he was in office and after he s been in office. and third, i think he s trying to intimidate chris wray and the fbi to try to prevent from doing their work and investigating these leads as appropriate. and the fact republicans are doing this is really just so surreal because republicans for so many years were known as
politicization, when frankly the opposite appears quite true seems to endanger us from these kinds of groups, terrorists, foreign and domestic, cartels and gangs. do you think there is any chance that we ll wake up and have a real conversation about the real threat of today s current republican party? i certainly would like to think so, nicolle. i watched most of the hearing today with chris wray. he is a very, very accomplished and competent public servant. we re very, very fortunate to have him at the helm of the fbi during a period of very stormy partisan waters he has to navigate right now. he demonstrated professional patience as well as respect for the congressional oversight process despite the mischaracterizations and all of the broadsides that he was hit with. and the misrepresentations which i think most concerns him, the fbi does a tremendous job every
could not do with it they know how legal it is they give it to the fbi and they hold onto it and then deny that it is real and then the election happens with three mischaracterizations. then within that international business deals show being hunter biden that is affiliated with the chinese government supporting the program like congo and lithium he is supporting that. he is providing money for that as part of his investment partners. that is not even in this so his attorney says i got in between the weapons and the taxes this is my deal i don t even of the laptop entered into it. listen. if hunter biden s laptop had any part of the investigation? i don t. you never asked?
that people have not spent for two years to pull it back and give it back to the hard working taxpayer of america, i don t see how that is debatable. only in congress to democrats think that they have a hard time doing that. that doesn t mean we re going to get to an agreement. all it means is the process is a better process, something that i ve been requesting a long time, that gives us a structure to be more productive but a short time frame to get it done. did you talk any policy substance? we did. we went round and round giving our different perspective. when it came. these are all good discussions but these are things that we discussed february 1. had we talked for 97 days, we could have got a lot done. unfortunately, you narrowed what we could talk about. you made mischaracterizations of what republicans would do. we proved we re spending more on