that. do you find that credible? that he believed that? yes. that he was right about it? that he was right about this? no. as we lay out here, that s the responsibility of the attorney general or the deputy attorney general. the highest ranking, whether it s the u.s. attorney the highest ranging prosecutor has to make that decision. under our system, they re accountable to the public, to this committee and to the organizati organization. did you come across any evidence that he was worried about his own reputation? we had a lot of testimony as to why he did what he did. the integrity of the fbi and the organization. and it really is a series of explanations to individuals as to what they believed. director wray, when should criminal investigations be wrapped up?
the video. this is a president, he thinks he makes deals. well, he doesn t actually make deals. he just kind of gives things away and shakes hands. it s all about building hotels and real estate and growing the trump organizati we re going to talk later about his kids making $80 million this year while they worked at the white house. it s so detached. even with all of the corruption and craziness of trump, there is going to be no trump tower of pyongyang. this is a country that is many decades away from having a beautiful beach front trump resort. it s been i believe possible to separate our national foreign policy, what that is from whati family financial interest. we are not able to distinguish the two is a dark cloud that is
here is all i am a lot of common ground. making the school safer. we know that. we are going to hide from the issue of gun violence by just looking at s shootings when they re 1/2 percent of the problem. you should take it seriously. we don t seem to be doing that. chris, take a look at sandy hook promise. great organizati it is a great organization. out of it is. what our government should be, in the lead, not hiding. all right. now. i agree. last piece of sound. former president clinton. made a lot of waves of the wrong kind by saying he wouldn t do anything different where monica lewinsky was involved that metoo hadn t changed his disposition. stephen colbert gave him a redo on the question. here s what he said. here s what i want to say. it wasn t my finest hour, but the important thing is that was very painful thing. that happened 20 years ago. and i aapproximate apologize
is first and foremost, it is not like every other agency of the federal government. it occupies a unique position. and importantly, as an independent investigator for prosecutors and the department of justice, and importantly there is only one individual in the fbi who serves at the pleasure of the president, meaning is a political appointee, and that s the fbi director. everybody else in a organizati of some 30,0-us professionals, is a career civil servant. and my experience after working in the fbi for a number of years, being a prosecutor and assistant u.s. attorney, working day in and day out with agents is not that there s a lefty problem. so people have their political feelings. you don t think it gets in the way of the job, but that takes us to those texts between strzok, i think you say his name, and someone else who was part of the counsel team, part of the russia investigation.
mismarketing practices. all of these crises in terms of drugs, they all started with legal prescriptions. if you go all the way back to the german pharmaceutical company, bayer, and the introduction of heroin back in the late 1800s, and then cocaine and then amphetamines and methamphetamines to treat anxiety and depression, i mean, these are all drugs designed by the pharmaceutical companies, and they re the ones making all the laws, and they re the ones that are making it very challenging for us to combat these distributors who are pushing these pills in ways that are being, you know, obviously prescribed that are high risk to individuals and wiping out a whole generation. so mike in 30 seconds really or so, because we don t have a lot of time left and i wish i could talk to you longer, but how do you get clean from this? i love the name of your organizati organization, but how do you get clean from this? you re at the bottom you know, you ve hit rock bottom. you ve been addicted