Fifty years from now, when Americans look back on the riotous break-in at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, will it have as much impact as memories of the Watergate scandal continue to have today?
whether you re applying a different standard between presidents? it began with actual perjury and we believe intimidation of witnesses in a judicial proceeding. that s another question. what president clinton had to face was a civil action, civil rights action and he had to be honest. he had to settle the case which he should have done or conduct himself lawfully which he didn t. i don t think anyone disputes he committed perjury and here was the crescendo, what we reached, and this was with the complete agreement of the ledgendary at the time, sam dash, now departed who was in the watergate episode as a special counsel to senator sam. all of this led up to abuse of
their efforts. because they can t win on the issues so they re going to try and argue process. we were all impressed by the performance of barry burke, the state counsel the other day. and i know we re not politicians because we re not there, but all these members of these committees especially senior members who earned their seniority want their five minutes. but the problem is it s like basketball, it s always going to the other side for five minutes and the republicans have no interest in coherence. that s right. is there any way to streamline these hearings so you have some coherent however you do it coheerrent set of questions so the witness can star? i have no doubt they have to work on that and they will work on that. this is too grave of a situation to actually sit down and put some rules on paper. remember sam dash in the hearings, the prosecutor? yeah, absolutely. and if you have to go down that
route you will. but there are members who spent hours, days, months in this hearing from witnesses, listening to information and reading. and sometimes they do have a right to participate in these hearings, but how do they do it? who s going to ask what question? what points are you trying to make to the american people? let me ask you congresswoman, you ve earned your position on that committee, those are hard assignments to get. how would the members react to the idea of a coherent investigation or examination of these witnesses by a prosecutor, a staff prosecutor? the process that we have used in these private interviews has really allowed the expert attorneys that have made their lives by questioning people, we ve allowed them to be the point person and ask the question. an hour by the democrats, an
from the get-go. just very briefly, sean, when questions were raised back during my investigation that ohb you are a republican, i reached out specifically to the other side of the aisle because the appearance of fairness and evenhandedness in the administration, it s very, very important. so we brought in sam dash of watergate fame on the democratic side, brought in a deputy, registered democrat, voted for president clinton. it s important to give the public assurances that what you are doing is fair. and it s evenhanded. that is, i think, a very important question for bob mueller to answer. sean: i was not impressed with the nine and a half minute, disastrous press conference. this is not going to be what the democrats think, i can tell you that. although bob mueller s people apparently, according to fox news, just breaking, the