united in the call to open government and provide smart border security. phil, it s not like congress can t agree on anything. they agreed to condemn the racist language of steve king. he s already been stripped of his committee assignments. i want to play for you a clip from a radio interview he gave tonight. we ll talk about it on the other side. we reached a place here now where i m pretty comfortable with this. i mean, i am, i am at peace in my soul with this, and i m confident that, you know, what i have done has been true and right and just and honest. and much of those folks over there, you know, i don t condemn anybody, especially not to eternity, but i would i m very comfortable standing before god and answering to all of this. phil, he is barely hanging on to a congressional seat in iowa.
smart ways to do border security and so this notion that somehow democrats have not kept that on the table is real a just wrong. and there are not going to be democrats who break with the democratic leadership because democrats are actually united in the call to open government and provide smart border security. phil, it s not like congress can t agree on anything. they agreed to condemn the racist language of steve kung. he s already been stripped of his committee assignments. i want to play a clip from a radio interview he gave tonight. we reached a place where now i m pretty comfortable with this. i m at peace in my soul with this and confident what i have done, you know, has been true and right and just and hoppest. honest. and a bunch of those folks over there, i don t condemn anybody, especially not to eternity.
kept that on the table is really just wrong, and there are not going to be democrats who break with the democratic leadership because democrats are actually united in the call to open government and provide smart border security. phil, it s not like congress can t agree on anything. they agreed to condemn the racist language of steve king. he s already been stripped of his committee assignments. i want to play for you a clip from a radio interview he gave tonight. we ll talk about it on the other side. we reached a place here now where i m pretty comfortable with this. i mean, i am, i am at peace in my soul with this, and i m confident that, you know, what i have done has been true and right and just and honest. and much of those folks over there, you know, i don t condemn anybody, especially not to eternity, but i would i m very comfortable standing before god and answering to all of
that caused the fbi s suspicions to increase? my guess is they were very reluctant to open the investigation and consider him to be a target of the investigation because there is concern that the government will be perceived in a way that is partisan, and they want to do everything they can to stick to facts and law and not be anyone s puppet in terms of being used for political gain. but at some point, you can t deny facts. and the fbi begins to have a responsibility to investigate something that is a threat to national security. and so the statements to lester holt, the letter, and the statement to the russians about the great relief, pressure being relieved once jim comey was fired, all of those things stared them in the face and made them believe they could not ignore those facts any longer and had a responsibility to protect the national security of the united states by investigating this fully. i think a lot of people have come to see the obstruction of justice inquiry and th
president. for much of that time, that means we focused on criminal obstruction. that s sort of been the collective conscience, the public s understanding of this to this point. there s a criminal obstruction investigation into the president. but what we re bringing forth tonight, what we learned was that there was also this counterintelligence aspect of that investigation where they were looking directly at the president s ties to russia. so what initially began here as what we all thought was an obstruction investigation was much bigger and had larger national security issues and concerns to it. because the folks at the fbi at the time saw this as a potential outgrowth of russia s larger meddling within the country. as you were pointing out earlier, the fbi s general counsel at the time, jim baker, testifying on capitol hill last year in closed-door testimony, talking about how they saw this as a national security threat. the firing of comey as a national security threat, because it