find it, and maybe somebody else deleted or something happened before you guys, but he was able to find it and you didn t. it is very disappointing to see that text message there, because i think you would agree, just think of the timeline here, you have peter strzok, he opens up the counterintelligence investigation against trump s campaign, the end of july, then a week later this text message, he ain t going to be president, we ll stop it, then the next week, the infamous insurance text message, we can t take the risk of a trump presidency, you need an insurance policy. the american people see that, doesn t that undermine the whole integrity of the actions of people like peter strzok? yes, congressman, that obviously is highly inappropriate. and it is more than that, though. it is more than that. i mean, the inspector general did find the bias affected. he didn t say it affected the decision about hillary, but said once we got into the fall, when you had the huma abedin e-mails
trump s campaign, if that was done, was it done appropriately. let me ask you this, you talk about the mueller investigation, it is really the rosenstein investigation. you appointed mueller, you re supervising mueller and supposedly about collusion between trump s campaign and russia and obstruction of justice, but you wrote the memo saying that comey should be fired. and you signed the fisa extension for carter page. my question to you is, it seems like you should be recused from this more than jeff sessions because you were involved in making decisions affecting both prongs of the investigation. why haven t you done that? i can assure you that appropriate for me to recuse, i would be more than happy to do so and let somebody else handle this. it is my responsibility to do it. and all i can tell you how do you have obstruction of justice possibility for a president exercising his powers to fire an fbi director that you said should be fired and, oh, by the way, the ig report mak
will include lessons from the inspector general s report, and we are considering other recommendations. we already revised department s confidentiality policies to emphasize that nonpublic sensitive information obtained in connection with our work is protected from disclosure. we intend to enforce that principle on our employees, and we need to demonstrate respect for it ourselves by protecting sensitive information and trusting it to the fbi. a congressional oversight is vital to democracy. by june 27th letter which i will submit for your consideration explains how the executive branch handles congressional oversight requests for law enforcement and intelligence information. the fbi is managing an extraordinary volume of congressional oversight requests, some of which seek details about criminal investigations and intelligence sources. as a result of president trump s commitment to transparency, the
to make everyone in the kremlin smi smile. yeah, i think you re right, poppy. i think one of the main reasons for that is that the tweet that you re seeing from president trump seems to be the exact line that we have been hearing from the kremlin, also from the russian foreign ministry as well. we have been hearing that they believe that president trump is someone who they call a pragmatic politician, who wants better relations with russia despite some of the things that happened around the presidential election in 2016. and they believe that it is president trump s political opponents who are trying to hold that up, making it difficult for him, expelling russian diplomats, putting extra sanctions on russia simply to poison the climate between russia and the united states. so i think you re absolutely right. i think a lot of folks in russia will be very, very happy with that tweet that they saw. and, of course, very much looking forward to that summit. we have to keep in mind, also,
then you have other pretty conservative members like chris stewart of utah, bob goodlatte, the chair of the committee, saying, hold on a minute, hold on a minute, not sure that s necessary. let s see if we can get the answer we need from the documents the doj has already turned over. what do you make of that? i think republicans need to figure out where they land on rod rosenstein s future. you re right to zero in on his future. that s because president trump in the past, any number of investigations or findings or classified memos that the house republican committees have declassified has used this to try to discredit in some way, not just bob mueller, not just the justice department at large, but rod rosenstein. and if you look at it, firing rod rosenstein from trump s perspective makes a lot of sense. constitutionally he can do it, where as it gets really iffy on firing bob mueller. and rod rosenstein is the person who oversees and approves all of