congress oversight duties. and somehow bill barr then says there won t be a criminal case and that i think is the guts of what s so wrong here. somehow this justice department and bill barr who s given us very little room to trust his decision making in this regard cuts off both avenues of review, and they re very different as we know. prosecutorial and congressional. it s an amazing sort of legal magic trick doj pulls off. sounds like a crime has been committed, why don t you let us see it, and they say no crime, no one s going to see it. this also sounds fratly corrupt itself, ian, and not done in good faith. when you re a white house lawyer you may look at a law that s not clear and look at possible interpretations including one that is aggressively in favor of the executive branch. but here s one you can t do that the executive privilege doesn t include the ability to interpret something in order to cover up
potential achoffense they need know more about. the request is being held unlawfully against transmission to the congress. and i think they re going to try to continue to educate the public. but i don t believe that this immediately means we re turning to impeachment. you bring up the unlawful behavior. susan, from a legal standpoint, i don t think it s a bridge too far to at least talk about comparisons between what just happened in the uk this morning with their supreme court saying essentially boris johnson blocked the ability of parliament to carry out its job. you know, we have seen the trump administration time and time again block the ability of congress to carry out its oversight duties. right. so that s one thing that s going on right now. the dni is refusing to comply with the intelligence community whistle-blower act which requires that they transmit this complaint to congress. now, i do think that we re seeing a little bit of an awakening in congress. that s that the co
it was a collaborative process. congresswoman, what about what you mentioned earlier? this isn t why you got into congress. this is not what i think your constituents voted for you to do, so what about the argument that by definition starting an impeachment process does take your time and energy away from other issues? that s something i have been very concerned about, but we as congress people need to make sure that we can do our oversight duties, perform our constitutional duties, protect our country while at the same time focusing on the american people and the needs of the american people. quite frankly, in my district it is not enough to impeach the president. in fact, many people probably won t agree with my decision, that we need to use every possible tool in this instance. however, we have got to make sure that we tackle our tax problems in new jersey, that we make sure we have the gateway tunnel program fixed, that we move forward on health care costs. these are the things
i appreciate that. wow. you just heard corey lewandowski say stuff out loud. how will house democrats conduct their oversight duties going forward? we ll ask one of them, next.
the department of transportation that no officer or government official, including the secretary of transportation should use that public office for private gain. that is what this inquiry is about and we re just trying to get to the bottom of it as part of our oversight duties. very interested to hear what you get because the secretary s office says they will be complying. i want to ask you about some other news happening. corey lewandowski on the hill today will be before the judiciary committee for its first impeachment hearing, if you will. if he says he s not going to say anything beyond the mueller report, do you think it s worth having him testify? yes, i understand that he s potentially running for the senate in 2020 so it will be interesting to see if he makes an announcement at this hearing. but i think there are two issues. one is that even the allegations within the report, namely, that he may have been asked to attempt to obstruct justice by