Independently investigate these things other than som conservative outlets, you present the information they don t take the information and run with it as only media can, but they attack you. this is the same department of justice. durham made the point, like a laser focuses on donald trump, it concocts information against donald trump, changes evidence to try to go after donald trump. works with the democrat party to go after donald trump, then drops everything when it comes to hillary clinton as they drop everything with the bidens. this oversight responsibility that you and jim jordan and others have, you are not getting a hell of a lot from senate other than a few senators like johnson and grassley, the fact of matter, this oversight responsibility if legislative as well, these institutions have to be changed. these institutions have to
You? well, the only argument that has merit in my experience when dealing with congress from the executive branch is if you have an ongoing investigation, this idea that something is not classified, but confidential is something that is not typically recognized. congress has legitimate and important oversight responsibility. including what they are doing in this case. in my experience, this is not a reason not to turn over this document and the fbi is throwing up a smoke screen right now. todd: look at it in a room where you don t have to worry about things that could be leaked. i feel like they are making up every excuse in the book and it is not right. i asked if you were a.g., would you bring charges? our a.g. is merrick garland, the hunter biden investigation has been going on for years and we ve been talking about joe biden and his family for a while
Of justice, of and house judiciary committee but it s very well-established that even there are with the doj, where there is real jurisdictional oversight responsibility that we cannot intervene in an ongoing case. then you take it from the federal level to the state and local level, or we have no jurisdictional power over the investigator of impacciatore s and this is unheard of an outrageous it s clearly an attempt to elevate donald trump completely above the law, completely above the constitution and that s what s so scary about, this the gop is turned into a missy anette cult of personality. around one. guy who s proven himself to be a one-man crime way, and they ve wrapped themselves in their careers, their destinies around donald trump, it is staggering to me that trump lawyer joe
Congressman raskin, thank you so much for being here, you are a scholar of the law, we ve heard the phrase, investigate the investigators many time in the trump era, this feels different, is this even legal for jim jordan to ask alvin bragg to come before congress in the middle of an open investigation. let s start with, us we actually have jurisdictional authority over the department of justice, of and house judiciary committee but it s very well-established that even there are with the doj, where there is real jurisdictional oversight responsibility that we cannot intervene in an ongoing case. then you take it from the federal level to the state and local level, or we have no jurisdictional power over the investigator of impacciatore s and this is unheard of an outrageous it s clearly an attempt to elevate donald trump
Investigate the investigators many times in the trump era but this feels different and is this even legal for jim jordan to ask alvin bragg to come before congress in the middle of an open investigation? well, let s start with this. i mean, we actually have jurisdictional authority over the department of justice in house judiciary committee but it is very well established that even there with the doj where there s real jurisdictional oversight responsibility that we cannot intervene this an ongoing case. then you take it from the federal level to the state and local level where we have no jurisdictional power over state investigative and pross skew electoral authorities and this is just unheard of and outrageous. it s clearly an attempt to elevate donald trump completely above the law, completely above the constitution and that s what s so scary about this, the gop has turned into a messianic