that the department of justice does not give over information relevant to ongoing investigations to congress. that's something the house intelligence committee through the use of the purported ovsight role has done away with >> tucker: when you say purported oversight role, do they not have an ovee? >> they have an oversight role. >> tucker: what do you mean purported? >> they are using the guise of the oversight role to ask for o information either that they should not get or that they are potentially and by many accounts coordinating with the white house and others who are the subject of the investigation, that's an entirely different problem. >> tucker: i understand you're a partisanke involved in a paan debate but take three steps back. there is a public t interest hee soth we know that the last administration had a paid informant spying on at least three members of the trump campaign.