Congress does have an oversight responsibility. you ve got people on the ground who understand based on their ex-military service. so, again, i think there is some benefit to this and the condemnation, i don t get it. so earlier today, a briefer from the state department told congre congressional staff that they ve evacuated 4,500 americans so far, but about 4,100 americans remain in afghanistan wanting to get out. then the state department said, no, that number s wrong, the briefer misspoke. the briefer was an assistant secretary of state. but be that as it may, then blinken came out and said it s actually 500 american citizens definitely want to get out. there are about a thousand they re trying to ascertain if it s true or not. when pressed, blinken said those are just american citizens, not permanent legal residents, which, as you know, have just as much of a right to get on one of these planes holding up their status. yeah. i think that secretary blinken
congressman, i ve got to ask you, because you sit on the all important ways and means committee and that is the committee that is going to get access now to trump s tax returns. first of all, what do you expect the timeline to be? when do you expect to get access to that and what are you going to be looking for? first of all, we expect them to be delivered as they should have been, you know, immediately, section 6103 of the tax code is unambiguous. the ways and means committee, the chairman of the committee has absolute right to examine any return. the full committee, not likely, will see all of this. the chairman will have to make a decision about what he can do with the information. but most important aspect of this, the reason to look at it is to determine a couple of things, one, whether or not the irs was properly enforcing the tax laws of the united states on the president of the united states. that s an important oversight responsibility that we have. but we also have a legi
Made up of people from the general public. but republican leadership shot that down. leader mccarthy said he didn t want it after negotiating it. so i think it is fitting and proper, exactly house bill 503 that the house passed, now we re in the business, and i want to say, on july 27th will be 202 days after the january 6th riot. that s absolutely too long for congress to take an oversight responsibility on looking into what happened and guarantee that it never happens again. so we re where we need to be. i m committed to it. the other members of the commission, we might have one member be absent from any of our sessions. they take it seriously. and i think you will see after tuesday s hearing, which we re
Independent oversight responsibility, so the idea that the fbi director says i m not going to answer because we ve got an internal process going on is really the height of impropriety. i really think there are some cognitive dissonance going on right now in the department of justice. where you have the fbi director who is a holdover, but is now part of the garland doj performing the way he did today at the same time, you have the garland department of justice handing over a house request, not even a subpoena. various documents related to the white house election interference. to me, the attorney general is getting his house in order. i think they re still going to be some shakeup in terms of how they present themselves to
I think that s pretty optimistic. this will go above the partisan politics that we ve seen. i think that like sahil was saying you have people like chuck grassley who take the oversight responsibility of congress very seriously. senator schumer was saying right there that this goes beyond politics, that this is about the separation of powers in congress and the white house, and that s something that no matter who is president, somebody is going to be upset about the overreach, and that s something that republicans have been talking about a lot. you talked about democrats like this is something that they have already been feeling in their guts, right, they ve been telling them for four years that donald trump was using the doj or the doj was being used as a bludgeon of his political opponents over and over. so the people caught up in this are those people, including,