was it solely on the question of lie, potentially, to the fbi, or were there other aspects of what you heard from robert mueller that moved you to where you are now? well, that was certainly one of the factors, but it s been accumulation of things that really led me to this point. the fact that they have not answered our questions. they have not provided information. they won t come and testify. hiding behind executive privilege. all of that in addition to the mueller testimony. and also, i m trying to conduct a study on the emoluments violation with the hotel and they just stonewalled us as well. and the people who are calling me here in my district in las vegas since the mueller television investigation have just increased in number and intensity in favor of this moving forward with this impeachment inquiry. you got to a question i wanted to ask you. so before robert mueller testified, did you hear a lot from your constituents about impeachment? did it increase after mueller
yeah, i think you re on to something. i think we have a tendency during this administration that s perfectly understandable to deify decent but flawed public servants. and i think that s how we should characterize dan coats. he was a decent man but he was certainly flawed. i think he could have done more to stands up to the men and women of the intelligence community when their work was being politicized. i think he could have done more to stand up to declassifications of things like the nunes memo. right. these efforts that had no other ends except to protect donald trump. i think he could have done more and said so publicly. when donald trump asked in the oval office to intervene with comey and to intervene with mueller, to put this russia investigation to bed, i think he should have sounded the alarm at the time, but i think we do have to judge dan coats by what he did do, and that is when push came to shove, he did speak truth to power before the american people. we know that
attack on our democracy and ordering the staff to do the same are serious crimes. joining us now is congresswoman dina titus from the great state of nevada. thanks very much for joining us. you are now off the fence and you say it was robert mueller s testimony that moved you in that direction. was it solely on the question of lying, potentially, to the fbi, or were there other aspects of what you heard from robert mueller that moved you to where you are now? well, that was certainly one of the factors, but it s been accumulation of things that really led me to this point. the fact that they have not answered our questions. they have not provided information. they won t come and testify. hiding behind executive privilege. all of that in addition to the mueller testimony. and also i m trying to conduct a study on the emoluments violation with the hotel and they just stonewalled us as well. and the people who are calling me here in my district in las vegas since the mueller televisio
spoke? well, i ve heard kind of a consistent drumbeat, but it certainly increased after the investigation. i think so they re paying closer attention to the issue here. and that has gotten them more and more stirred up. there s been this sort of meme, the reason not to impeach, what people are saying to their representatives that they just want to hear about they don t want this done. that s kind of been the perception that democrats believe that the public doesn t want it. you re saying that s not true. i don t think it s true in my district and i think as people get more information as we do an inquiry, it will be less and less the case. they want us to get things we ve always said we need to legislate as well as investigate. the frustration should really be with the senate because we have passed some major legislation out of the house in terms of election protection, gun violence, medicare, protecting
apparatus just as he did at the justice department. donald trump is learning from his hiring mistakes just as jeff sessions, dan coats, apparently did not do enough protecting of donald trump, nor enough going after trump s enemies. i mean, look at the bang-up job the new attorney general is doing. he s investigating the intelligence community itself. looking for evidence that they were all totally wrong about russia trying to help trump in 2016. now that is loyalty. when trump announced in may that he was granting the attorney general authority to selectively make public any classified information that he wants to, dan coats pushed back, warning about the consequences. coats said the intelligence community would continue providing, quote, apolitical intelligence to the president. we can t have that. so now coats is out and the president is ready to finally have someone at the top of the intelligence community who thinks the investigation into trump is a sham. americans need to know