central investigative issue that the president appears to be most concerned about and something he s been trying to hold back, that he s been trying to keep secret, that he s been trying to keep private. but he is now losing that fight. one of the surprise revelations from the mueller report and from mueller s testimony to congress was that mueller and his team didn t do a financial investigation pertaining to the president, his business, his family. although robert mueller repeatedly asserted unequivocally that financial entang lts particularly secret financial entanglements are a primary means of foreign governments compromising u.s. persons, gaining leverage over americans including people in u.s. politics. mueller asserted any such investigation into the president, into whether president trump might have had those kind of compromising financial ties, that was viewed in the special counsel s office they saw that as a counter intelligence matter and not what they were doing, and so t
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tweets that president trump directed pete s way. one of the other serious allegations in your lawsuit is that the texts which mr. strzok expressed his political opinions about president trump but also criticizing people like bernie sanders and eric holder and other people in politics, those texts were improperly and perhaps illegally made public. do you know who in the justice department or who in the fbi chose to release those materials to the press either unofficially or with what was ultimately essentially an overt publication of those materials? we don t know, but we intend to find out. it s clear that those texts were unlawfully leaked, violated the privacy act. the media got them before even the jurisdictional committees of congress got them, and there s no exception under the privacy act allowing for that kind of record to be leaked to the media.
from its foreign enemies and he has an incredible amount of affection for the institution. so this runs counter to some of his instincts, but he s doing this for the other men and women who serve this country faithfully in the fbi and who should not have their constitutional rights overridden by someone determined to turn the entire executive branch into his personal weapon to use against his political adversaries, real and imagined. does the president have the right to reach down into law enforcement agencies including the fbi and pluck out individual officials or agents who he believes are biased, who he believes have political views that will affect their work? well, there s an act passed by congress that governs what kind of political speech federal employees can and cannot exercise. and pete s political speech in this case falls primarily
we asked the house counsel what to do. i can t tell them what to do. so the speaker is going the speaker wants to vindicate the constitution and she s been very direct in and the constitution and so do we. political considerations aside, we must protect the constitution. this is probably one of the worst crisis we face in the constitutional law since after the civil war in terms of aggrandizement of power to the executive, in terms of denial of congressional power and separation of powers, in terms of the president asserting powers that he doesn t have and using them. we have to have limited government. we have to have constitutional government and only congress can do this so we have to do this and the speaker understands that, and we will have to pursue it regardless of the political consequences, but obviously, we have to take politics into account. it still sort of flummoxes me that the analysis that the