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The Johnson Administration and the Nixon Administration regularly tried to politicize on weapon eyes the fbi. Against civil rights activists and lots of other people who werent able to fight back against that big and overreaching state. One of the reasons why you have earned so much support for the way you conceived of this mission end of this calling today is because of the ways you have made it clear how you think this oath obligates you to work for the constitution and in defense of the constitution on behalf of the American People, not on behalf of either political party. As you have reiterated again and again, the willingness to resign and put aside the investigation, i think that is why you hear so much bipartisan support for your confirmation today. Would you also pledged to this committee that if ever directed by the white house to shut down or curtail an investigation that you would report that back to this committee . Not necessarily in a public setting but at the very least
But also there was politicalization about that all regularly tried to politicize and weaponize the fbi against civil rights activists and against lots of other people that werent able to fight back against that big and overreaching state. And i think one of the reasons that youve received so much support for this mission and this calling today, is that you think this mission and this oath to defend the american constitution on behalf of the people not on any thats why you have so much bipartisan support for your confirmation today. Would you also pledge to this committee that if ever directed by the white house to shut down or curtail an investigation that you would report that back to this committee . Not necessarily in a public setting, but at the very least in a classified setting, would you commit to that any influence from the white house to curtail or end an investigation you would report it back to this committee. I would make sure that i was compliant in all my legal duties but
Across the country with the Trump Administration taking aim as clinics that provide abortion. A win for advocates but for groups like planned parenthood, a major blow. Theyre fighting hard. The vp of planned parenthood is here with us live coming up in this show. We start with day one, year two of the russia investigation way ton of modelines popping up on that. First Washington Post report President Trump wanting to out an fbi informant. He says the story is big thaern watergate. On that, even if the crit aiks degree, the president and his lawyer up early. Reporting corroborates what people have told us off the record. We dont no if theyre right or not. We have people who knew a little about the investigation, theyre either gone from the the president this morning may have been quoting a fox news commentator as his source of being concerned about this. This is a man who has the thrt to pick up the phone and say that the doj did you put somebody in my campaign. That would be that would