Course we have oversight responsibility. we re not subservant to the president in congress, we re a coequal branch. the other thing the vice president said after that was that this is a partisan exercise and i just want to remind people, it has been a very partisan exercise because the only people we have really interviewed and testified have all been republicans. and so, yeah, there have been a ton of republicans coming in and talking about what the former president did and what he knew. and people may not, you know, fully love what liz and i are doing if you re a republican, but guess what, we haven t changed our belief system. a lot of other people have. this is a bipartisan committee doing bipartisan work, and i think frankly history will judge this very well. before the election, congresswoman marjorie taylor greene, a republican of georgia pledged that quote not another penny will go to ukraine under a republic republican-led congress. what is your response to her, and how worr
now, of course as the committee notes, that did not stop pence from detailing some of those deliberations in conversations in his new book, so help me god. what do you make of what you have heard from pence this week since rolling out this book? it s really disappointing, i think mike pence is trying to please two groups, those concerned with trump and those that really like donald trump. here s what i have learned in the last five years, you can t please them both. you have to pick. you have to commit whatever you believe truth is and pick that side. he can t on the one hand say what donald trump did was terrible, a threat to our democracy and say congress has no right to my testimony. i fully believe in the separation of powers, but that was violated on january 6th when the former president launched a mob into the legislative chambers, violated that separation of power, and of course we have oversight responsibility. we re not subservant to the president in congress, we re a
Think merrick garland is the one to prosecute this case if it were to get to that stage. it doesn t make that much sense. but ted cruise says joe biden has completely weaponized the department of justice to attack his political opponents. three days ago, trump announced and now a special counsel, questioning it. and this is the trump derangement syndrome this time with a gun and a badge. the other thing we should point out about cruz s statement is that merrick garland was pretty transparent about the fact that donald trump announcing his candidacy was part of the reason that they decided to appoint this special counsel, and try to take it out of the department of justice politically, so la is another part of it that we have to keep in mind. but again, halle, backing into your original question about what we re going to see on capitol hill here, republicans are going to try to do their own version of this, through their oversight responsibility in congress, and jim jordan, james co bur
Have our committee be able to review what documents were obtained, and in particular, if there was a danger to sources and methods, and the documents weren t top secret, sensitive, compartment information, that s a source of damage. in our oversight responsibility, i think it s important for that to be shared with us, but i also recognize the justice department has a deep interest in pursuing justice. we have a deep interest in making sure they can do so successfully. so, it may be more sharing with us information about what s contained and the risk than, for example, the actual affidavit. what you know, i feel like you have been on the front lines of trying to protect u.s. national security, not from things trump wanted to do, but the things he did do. extorting zelenskyy for dirt on joe biden, fueling and inciting
That includes the attorney general. reporter: adam schiff said protecting classified information is a priority. writing in a statement as we learn more, we will discharge our oversight responsibility. nancy pelosi urged patience. i know very well how vicious they can be. you would think there would be an adult in the republican room that would say just calm down. see with the facts are. lucas: others drew comparisons to hillary clinton s e-mails. i listen to lock her up, lock her up, lock her. because hillary clinton mishandled in most or whatever. lucas: this is how james comey described them. seven e-mailed chains classified at the special access program at the time they were sent and received. lucas: run-pass ryan fitzpatrick says it is a matter