does it really matter that he said that, you know, maybe he didn t, i don t know, before he started before he started cooperating with the special counsel and stopped trying to cover up for trump that he had tried to possibly let his lawyers investigate a potential pardon, i don t know. i just don t think this matters. we have to be looking at the bigger picture and that s what we have to stay focused on. i mean, president obama s former senior adviser tweeted earlier this week about the document request from your committee saying, quote, the wide ranging nature of it too easily plays into the witch hunt meme. do you think he has a point at all? would a more targeted request have been a better strategy here or are you good with the 81 contacts? no, look, we should be clear about this. during the obama administration, just as a contrast, republicans during the obama administration made requests for literally millions of documents. that s not an exaggeration. so this is the beginni
does it matter he said maybe he didn t, i don t know, before he started cooperating with the special counsel and stopped trying to cover up for trump that he had tried to possibly let his lawyers investigate a potential pardon? i don t know. i don t think this matters. i think we have to look at the bigger picture and that s what we got to stay focused on. congressman, president obama s former senior advisor david axelrod tweeted this week about the document request from your committee saying quote, the wide ranging nature of it easily plays into the witch hunt meme. would a targeted request be a better strategy or good with the 81 contacts? no, look, we should be clear about this. during the obama administration, just as a contrast, republicans during the obama administration made requests for literally millions of documents. that s not an exaggeration. this is the beginning of the
certain information from congress and certainly executive privilege would seem to apply at least in some of the cases here. i m sure there are appropriate places where executive privilege would dominate. but what i understand is the white house may be issuing in a sense almost a blanket denial and that goes against the very nature of a co-equal branch of government. you know, my hope would be that my expectation i guess would be that the house made fairly extensive requests. there will be some back and forth. but at the end of the day the congress has the right to provide oversight including over all aspects of the executive branch including the president and the law s got to be followed. president obama s former senior adviser david axelrod criticized the scope of the document request. he said the wide-ranging nature of it too easily plays into the witch hunt meme.
but yesterday he ripped into democrats, calling their investigations, quote, a disgrace. essentially what they re saying is the campaign begins, instead of doing infrastructure, instead of doing health care, instead of doing so many things they should be doing, they want to play games. so in playing games, is it oversight or is it overreach. joining me democratic congress greg meeks of new york. thank you for coming in. president trump says these 81 requests, it s a fishing expedition. and even some democrats like former obama advisor david axelrod have said however legitimate the areas of inquiry, the wide ranging nature of it too easily played into the witch hunt meme. does he have a point? do you think you could have done it a different way and been just as effective? i think the president could be more cooperative and more honest with the american people.
in moscow. they weren t there. endless fishing expeditions have nothing to do with the truth, everything to do with making every working day a public trial against the president. look at this, even david axelrod has more sense than this. former chief strategist forag obama agreeing, writing on t twitter that the democrats wide-ranging investigations to easily play into the witch hunt meme. look at that, he s right. and that s because the democrats are engaging in a witch hunt. here with reaction as we now are looking at two very distinct paths for the future. fox news contributor dan bongino along with fox news correspondent at large, geraldo rivera. that was hot. that was really scorching.t the president should listen to you, that s what the republicans sean: he gets accused of that and it s total b.s.is i don t know about that. all i know is that alexandria ocasio-cortez makes a very convenient target. what you wanted to be gandhi? do want her to go begging with? a wooden bow