does it not, to the republican leadership and the white house? he is one of the republicans speaking out about that today. most of the republicans who are on these panels that are investigating and looking into these allegations related to russian meddling and about collusion between the trump team and the kremlin have said it would be a mistake in the past for trump to try to fire mueller or move him in any way. it should be allowed to see itself out. what they also will tell you or in the past have said they believe that the process of the investigation will eventually exonerate trump. that may have changed depending on what the indictments are and they are seeing what it is that mueller has with that gets to a courtroom. people like trey gowdy are trying to play both sides in a way because he is the chairman of the oversight and government reform committee and a lawyer himself and he does want as you played in that clip, he wants to let mueller do his job unfettered by the politic
inspector general at the department of justice. he has 450 employees. they have started this investigation. you haven t heard a single leak, unlike what mueller is doing. you haven t had a single leak. and sometime in 2018, probably in the first half he will go probably before the oversight and government reform committee is and look at this report. it will start with that tarmac meeting and go all the way through the firing of comey. and it will be probably the most definitive report. and that is going to be an explosive time. my guess, and this is purely a guess, they covered these documents. the department of justice realized the enemier general has them. now we have to release them to judicial watch. there are probably more. to think there is only 30. if there is one, there is a lot more than 30. steve: we can screw with congress but can t screw with the judicial branch. yes. congress doesn t have a way to get to the courts. when i issued a subpoena on the department of justice,
bandwidths to do. we see now the dianne feinstein and the senate side is looking towards looking at the judiciary, investigate obstruction of justice. my colleague adam schiff has said he really is reaching out to conway to have the house intelligence committee look into some of this. and of course my own committee, the oversight and government reform committee, ranking member cummings has been relentless in terms of our own duties to this. but members of congress, of course, have other matters that we re working on. you know, we re not talking about health care or some of the other issues that our constituents are interested in. so the special prosecutor will really be doing a lot of the groundwork that members are not able to do. representative stacey plakett, thank you so much for joining us tonight. thank you so much. ari melber, thank you. thank you. thank you for making us all have to think faster when the stories come out. thank you. ari will be hosting a special e
those positions both in democratic as well as republican administrations. so i don t see what the issue is. i think it s really tenuous. and they re reaching in this respect. with your justice department experience, what is your advice to your colleagues in the house about their investigations and how to coordinate those investigations with the special prosecutor so that they don t interfere with each other? sure, lawrence. i think that one of the really important parts about having this special investigator is that he is able to go and look into and has the resources to investigate things that members of the house do not have the bandwidths to do. we see now the dianne feinstein and the senate side is looking towards looking at the judiciary, investigate obstruction of justice. my colleague adam schiff has said he really is reaching out to conway to have the house intelligence committee look into some of this. and of course my own committee, the oversight and government reform com
information, at the time not knowing it was, in fact, fake news, or news that had been planted by the russians, he acted in the manner in which he felt was going to support the integrity of the fbi, the integrity of the justice system, as well as the integrity of the investigation, as well as the election that we were going to have. so this solves some of the questions as to have somewhat of an overreach, that then director comey did, which left many of us who were prosecutors really a bit wondering what was his rationale behind doing that. he was a meticulous person. this also goes to wouldn t a meticulous person make sure if there were questions raised about this quickly, before using it to come to a conclusion, make sure you know exactly what those what you re dealing with. sure. or you think the way he operated was reasonable? well, you know, that s the million dollar question and one that those of us on the oversight and government reform