democrats really haven t had a say about when they d call witnesses. and now it really seems like the republicans are driving towards a potentially premature conclusion. in terms of firing mueller, obviously, rod rosenstein right now is the only person who can fire robert mueller. he says pretty clearly on the hill he doesn t see any reason to do that. if jeff sessions goes and donald trump brings in another attorney general, that person would presumably take back over the supervision of the russia investigation and could fire mueller. that person would have to be confirmed by the senate and you can imagine the senate would extract a promise not to fire robert mueller unless there was good cause. there are some rules here. we shouldn t get too carried away and there are institutions that are holding firm. rosenstein held firm on the hill. christopher rey at the fbi spoke in support of the fbi. but absolutely, no doubt the fbi is under attack by the president. it s okay for it s fine
failure, and i was part of the effort that worked to declassify the pdb because it wasn t enough to show congress what the president knew about 9/11. the public needed to see what the president knew. so to steve s point, you can t even begin a policy-making process until you know what the intel is. yes. there s so much to say about this. am i that crazy lady shouting the news on the corner? the no, you are shouting the news on the corner, but you re not a crazy lady. yes, the whole thing, steve made the point that the minority or the majority here on the intel committee, on the house side particularly, has been corrupted. this entire thing from the very first day that donald trump became president of the united states until today, there has never been a serious attempt to address, confront, get to the bottom of the most serious
signaling we may never hear from them. do you worry they re trying to shut down the investigation by year s end to lay the foundation for donald trump to fire bob mueller? that s exactly what i m worried about. i think that the sort of bannon and his allies and the white house, are making the argument we can t shut down bannon while there s still congressional investigations going on. you need to shut those down first so we can put pressure on mueller. this is an effort to deprive the country of getting to the bottom of what the russians did and what help they might have had from the trump committee? is it a coincidence it would be the house intel committee if bannon and trump have their way, say their investigation is over, they didn t find anything, wash their hands of it, permit donald trump then to wave something in front of the american people as an excuse to fire bob mueller? do you think it s a quince den then that the cia director mike pompeo hails from the house and
noth the unqualified nature of this individual nominee, but what is happening in the senate right now? they are rushing. they are jamming through federal court nominees faster and faster, and the stakes are high, because federal courts matter. yep. federal court judges van enormous amount of power and especially at the trial court. what you re seeing from the republican senator s questioning is an appreciation of how important those courts are. right. and the weighty issues they need to be ready on day one to address. this nominee and others from president trump we ve seen are just not qualified for the job. so i totally get president trump is the president. he was elected, gets to pick his judges. there are lots and lots of vacancies for lots of reasons, and people have to just get used to the fact he s going to appoint the judges he wants to appoint, but what s the process here? doesn t somebody take this guy aside and ask him some test questions and say, hey, he s not
you know, with a great deal of concern about what they perceive russia to have tried to do last year in this country. what they still think that russia is still trying to do in this country. they say things that wouldn t be very different from what ambassador mcfaul has just said in terms of their concern. but it s not mirrored by what the president of the united states says. there s such a disparity between what he s saying and the people who work for him say. it s hard to understand who speaks for the government? what is the point of view of the united states government under president trump? peter bake ear. if i could just jump in. so here s one. i dodged your first question. let me at least you admit it. one hypothesis given what you said. one hypothesis that i hear is that donald trump, president trump, calls, reacts to putin, but it has no practical effect on the actual policy toward