also got the phone records of these top officials, including mark meadows, who successfully ducked the house committee. then you have, as mentioned, that interesting agee garland interview with lester holt. let s listen to a bunch of that. there has been a lot of criticism, a lot of pressure that the doj is behind the power curve, behind the committee, not moving quickly enough on what appears to be solid evidence in some cases. as i said, we have been moving urgently since the very beginning. we have a huge number of prosecutors and agents working on these cases. it is the fundamental tenant of what we do as prosecutors and investigators is to do it outside of the public eye. andrew. so, i think everything he said is there. you know, i would have some follow-ups to that. i doubt he would answer them, but i think that he s somewhat highlighted the nature of the investigation because everyone knows there was a very active
what has been kept hidden that you want to get to the bottom of? tax returns. and so if the democrats come into power in january in the house, you re going to support an effort to subpoena the president s tax returns? i would encourage my colleagues to do just that, but insofar as it relates to the house permanent select committee on intelligence, there were a lot of loose ends associated with our non-investigation because i think at the end of the day it would be hard to legitimately characterize the exercise we went through for over a year as an investigation per se. for example, we never had the opportunity to interview george papadopolous as most people know. i think the ranking member, congressman adam schiff, has also suggested there s background information associated with financial entanglements with russians and people and agents on behalf of russians that were not pursued. but above and beyond that, i would say, as i have so many
most people doing the investigating flash covering the investigation, insight, voted for her and neither expected nor wanted the election results. they want her working behind that building. so there is part of that. it doesn t matter because the most important part of the non-investigation right now is the russians trying to gain advantage when hillary clinton was becoming secretary of state and trying to gain advantage last week with her, her has been another people in the obama administration. that should be investigated because that is not interfering possible interference with an election. that s trying to get advantage of federal government, with her country and that s worth investigating. a surge of treats yesterday from the president from the fake dossier come investigate the russian deal, no collusion and then out came a statement from ty cobb. the question are unrelated to
investigation or non-investigation began the president said, this is terrible stuff going on and he sat down with bill o reilly i believe on super bowl sunday and sought not a bit of evidence. how did he know this? i don t know. which was no investigation. whether that intimidated the department we do not know. and we do not know if the department of justice needs to be intimidated. we will learn more when there are impeachment proceedings of the i.r.s. who is continuing the coverup. the members of the house of representatives want this to happen. fast forward to what we just saw, the president said, again, before an investigation or before he knows of the investigation, and he certainly should not know what the f.b.i. is doing, he rejudges what they are finding or not finding. they should of course feel if not intimidated, i don t think you can intimidate this f.b.i.
people thought it was crazy when they heard about it for the first time. now we all use it this is where foursquare, the location-based social media was launched two years ago it makes me think about what president obama said in his state of the union, we have to america has to out-innovate others to succeed. this is the place, ali, where those people are really brewing their companies, getting the funding they need. this is the place where the incubation of ideas is happening, ali. we can see that sign behind you, the cnn grill, cnn.com and cnn money, we have a big presence there, we like to see where the non-investigation is coming from. exciting conference, but twhat was going on in japan was hanging over it. inside the grill there, there are massive tv walls, there are monitors. people were watching what s going on in japan. it s played a part in some things going on there. it s played a really big