live there. when donald trump attacks people this is being perceived as race if racist, do you understand why. he s pushing back by what he sees as wrong. reporter: and the growing concern that the powerful committee chairman is using his oversight powers to investigate people close to him. this is not about not liking the president. it is about loving democracy. it s about loving our country. i m begging the american people to pay attention to what is going on. reporter: last week cummings said his committee will subpoena the text messages and emails of trump s son-in-law jared kushner and his daughter ivanka trump. trump responding on social media accusing cummings of trying to hurt innocent people through oversight. president trump announced on twitter this afternoon that he was meeting with a group that he called inner city pastors, a
we can go on and on with examples. he denied having talking points when he came out and attacked the so-called squad the other day on camera. these are pictures of the talking points that the washington post took. you can see they were typed up for him and he actually wrote handwritten notes. these are just interesting examples of lies because they can be disproven. and there are other lies as well. the talking points at the usa summit, he said the articles of the constitution give him the right to do whatever he wants, even though article 2 outlines congress s oversight powers and the impeachment process. trump even convicted some of the factual statements that mueller made about the ability to indite a president after they leave office. mueller said you could be charged once you no. he didn t say that. again, you re fake news. could you charge the president with a crime after he left office? yes. repetitive as this, are we talking about the same thing
but the facts are there that there was no exoneration, that he found at least five instances of obstruction where all three elements of the crime were committed, and there was actual evidence to prove those, that he needs to proceed on those. there s also impeachable offenses that aren t necessarily crimes you. mentioned stonewalling, for example. stonewalling interferes with congress s oversight powers. congress has the power of impeachment and the power of oversight. and president trump is interfering with both the investigation of criminal acts, just like richard nixon, obstruction of justice, cover-up, that s what it is. but in addition he has taken a blanket approval of nobody cooperating. he has said no one will cooperate. i won t give you any documents. this is not just on the criminal investigation. it s on whether or not can he is separating families. this is a terrible invasion of the powers of congress.
members in the united states who are eager and desperate to have their children back. families belong together and children deserve to be free with their loved ones. do you feel like the hearing and being able to share all of this with members of congress, do you feel like it moves the needle, that this will spur action? we need immediate congressional oversight over the cvp facilities and over the prolonged detention of children in cvp facilities. children should not be detained any longer than 72 hours. we found children who were detained there nearly a month and congress must exercise its oversight powers to ensure that we never see a situation like this again. today, we understand there are these i.c.e. raids happening in nine u.s. cities, according to the trump administration. we re still working and trying to find the evidence that. the trump administration says they are focused on those who committed crimes.
he was essentially calling on congress to do their constitutional duty and begin impeachment proceedings against the president. is that how you interpreted what he said? again, i think mueller was more than capable of asserting that if that s the conclusion he had reached, that the president should be impeached. but no, he said, this is now in the hands of congress. and i think that leaves it open to congress to determine whether to investigate this through its oversight powers, whether to initiate impeachment proceedings. there were really two things bob mueller was not prepared to say. he was not prepared to say that we were able to exonerate the president. he reiterated once again that while he didn t have the power to indict, he did have the power to say that we could not find sufficient evidence of guilt. and he declined to do so. and similarly, i think what he decided to do here is he decided to say, the reason we conduct this investigation is to preserve this evidence for, amo