Report to congress. By the way, an ig appointed by this president , who looked at this evidence and established in his view this was credible and urgent. Belying the point that somehow this was a rogue operator. If you dont mind, if i can follow up, we know from the New York Times reporting last night that the department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel, his memo, in part, concluded that this document, after reading this document, its a partisan person. Its somebody who doesnt like the president. That is part of the reason why initially he said to the administration, we dont have to give this to congress. The question is, does that even matter . Lets say thats true. Lets say this person voted for voted against donald trump. Does it matter . Hold that thought. Listen to this line. This is remarkable. This is from the classified appendix. This is very important. I quote, according to white house officials i spoke with, this was, quote, not the first time under this administration that
into former trump campaign officials. another democratic senator went to ukraine and pressured the ukrainian president not to investigate corruption allegations on involving joe biden s son. according to ukrainian officials, the democratic national committee contractor alexandera chalupa tried to get ukrainian officials to provide dirt on trump officials and tried to get the former president to comment on alleged ties to russia. ukrainian official was a source for nellie orr, wife of department of justice official bruce orr, as she worked on the anti-trump operation conducted by fusion gps and funded by the democrats. of course, democrats on this very committee negotiated with people who they thought were ukrainians in order to obtain nude pictures of trump.
dignified or not are the words we hope for, we should aspire to that. this is the supreme court of the united states, one of the greatest legal institutions in the world. jon: very good point. frederick lawrence, appreciate your insight. pleasure being with you, jon. the kavanaugh controversy putting pressure on the republicans facing mid terms. how can they turn the tide? more on this when eliza collins joins us later this hour. bob goodlatte confirming that nellie orr the wife of demoted justice official bruce orr will testify on her ties to the unverified trump dossier. nellie orr worked as a contractor for fusion gps that created that dossier, all this days after the committee announced plans to subpoena memos from former acting fbi director andrew mccabe
after comey wouldn t lay off flynn and then you have the false narrative of the trump tower meeting that we now know was dictated by the president, when you have him with the steady drum beat against jeff sessions and complaining that attorney general sessions is not protecting him and is saddling his presidency with controversy because of the endless investigations, when you have him pulling director brennan former cia director brennan s security clearance that can be seen as a punitive measure and now you have the president sort of you know, laying into a career justice official bruce orr and it sure looks like it s because mr. orr is dog his job trying to hold russian oligarchs accountable, i only wish i had that sort of mountain of evidence to bring obstruction
for the investigation. it s no secret that president trump has had some targets in the department of justice, you have attorney general jeff sessions, recently the past couple days taking aim at official bruce orr, whose focus is international and russian organized crime. the president threatening to revoke his security clearance because of his ties to the russia investigation. i understand you know him personally. i don t know him personally. bruce was one of the people who first interviewed me to join the department of justice back in the bush administration, and so i went into the fraud section, he worked in organized crime, but he is a career civil servant. he is also someone who is not political in any way. he preceded the bush administration, he was there then, he was there during obama and here during trump now and i think this threat of revoking his security clearance, who is not only, he s not someone who s like the other people that trump