Has not begun a formal probe in the 2016 election, but democrats are in the Committee Want one in light of whats come out of the course of the investigation. What would be different if the House Judiciary Committee got involved . We have encouraged, i have encouraged the chairman to take up these issues. The Judiciary Committee is the proper forum for discussions of the f guy director, the issues around his firing, the issue around morale at the f guy and whats going on. Fbi reports to our jurisdiction. The people that we have there, the firing that was said to be because the fbi was demoralized in people werent happy with director comey, thats something we havent heard anywhere except for from the trump team on that day, we should have a hearing. We should also have a hearing on the impeachment process. In thef people leadership on my side of the aisle think its too early to talk about it. Yet, and are not there thats what special counsel will or will not produce. The procedure is something that we can look at, or at least some of the issues concerning the statements that have been made about the judiciary. My Sub Committee that im the Ranking Member on. The constitution and the courts, the president has been disparaging of the courts with socalled judges, getting rid of the ninth circuit and other calls about judges and when he had the Trump University lawsuit he complained about the judge because of his ethnic heritage, that his family couldnt get a fair trial if someone was a hispanic american. These are issues we should have gone into and i think they will be discussed host at the Judiciary Committee hearing. Host what has the chairman discussed at the Judiciary Committee. Host what has the chairman told you . Ofst that they are taking certain matters dealing with russia and the election and the had atuation again dismissal of the purview. The rational response is nevertheless a cojurisdiction with the special counsel in the committee. The senate Judiciary Committee is looking at these issues. Along with the House Intelligence Committee in their investigation. Host focusing on Robert Mueller, do you believe that he can conduct an investigation fairly . Probably the best person in United States of america to be chosen for this position. I wanted to refresh my recall on Robert Mueller when he was was appointed. I went back to some the times and i had interchanged on the committee over the years. A gentleman, always on top of the case, new his facts down to the line. Good, outstanding fbi director. Former special, counsel for george h. W. Bush, writing today in a column that the former fbi director, james comey, and Robert Mueller, have been friends for years. Defined his professional persona more than any other in public service, it would be surprising if they hadnt formed a bond together. For less is there a way mueller to be expected to evaluate credibility with the fresh neutrality and objective sharp eye it demands. Guest i dont think you need i think he has an objective sharp eye. I think he has objectivity about all the things that he needs to have, but the fact is, and i guess it is in fact my opinion, i was not thrilled with james comeys decisions on Hillary Clinton, but i thought those decisions were errors in judgment, but not errors in integrity or honesty. He felt that he had a duty after he had told the committee that the investigation was over to the back and have investigation continued. He felt that was his responsibility. High degree of rectitude like none i have ever seen in government. That anybody can honestly say that james comey is an honest and forthright and anybody who doesnt, the administration is just putting up falsehoods to defame a fine gentleman, to a man who served our country well in justice and fbi and theres no i dont. Gree with any criticism mr. Mueller couldnt judge them because theres nothing to judge. There are other people, you have to have a team that says our einsteins race mark. Will of the investigation into Hillary Clinton you called for james comey to be fired. Do you think he should delete fbi director . I do think he should today. The mistakes he made were mistakes of political judgment to violet the Justice Department policy and he got into it with loretta lynch. There was probably an error with her having such a longest rushing with that long discussion with president clinton on the tarmac. Comey felt that he had to take certain actions in leadership positions to show that the fbi was independent of any collusion that might have existed between clinton and lynch. I dont know that there was, but i think he did what he did because he thought it was necessary and his up ringing of doing the right thing. I thought it was wrong politically and i think it cost of the election, i think it through the election. There were questions about secretary clintons character from the Clinton Foundation and the way that money was raised and action was taken, some of which interface with the state department. The possibility that she could being underictment, investigation alltime, indicted, locker up, those things turned a lot of people on the cusp over and said we cant have that. They voted for what they thought was the lesser of evils. Of comey had not done that Hillary Clinton would have been president. He was wrong. Once he got into the investigation of President Trump in the russian interference it was important to continue on that thread because there was not going to be a political judgment to come down the pie. Was our democracy in jeopardy . Is there a question about treason on the part of any people or collusion . Complicity . Fire theresident to man who was directing the investigation after he to gettly asked several him to drop the investigation on flynn, we always hear about Michael Flynn more and more, incredulous and unbelievable as it is that they allowed him into sensitive and classified hearings when he obviously had working forosed, the russian government and the turkish government. Yes, i think that comey should not have been fired and after he was in the Trump Administration if trump had wanted to fire him, he should have fired him and they won. Once the investigation went on, youre talking obstruction of justice. Guest congressman steve cohen host congressman steve cohen, with us for another 20 minutes. Caller good morning, representative. I have a major concern in that i truly believe that the russians were involved, that they did penetrate the Voting System to cyber attacks. My concern is that for these recent elections, i hope that mr. Mueller is actually going to send some people in. Especially into the atlanta area to verify that the russians did not impact that election by cyber attack. I want to cyber people involved. Make sure that we maintain the integrity of our Voting System from this point moving forward. And that there are resources make sure that voting is fair and honorable route the nation. Otherwise the russians and trump and his people always run this country. Your job is in jeopardy. Everybodys job is in jeopardy. Our republic democracy is in true jeopardy. Guest very well said, sir. I couldnt agree with you more. The system in georgia, the Voting System, i dont really have questions about it, but i have questions in general about Voting Systems. I know that they dont have a paper trail. One of my constituents wrote to me about the company this morning. A lot of people are concerned about voting irregularities and the possibility of it in fear interfered with by some outside group. Its possible that there was interference in some of the there definitely was an attempt by the russians to find out the roles in certain states, certain information by election commissions in certain states. They werent doing that for sport. Host on this topic, the senate Intelligence Committee holding a hearing on the Cyber Efforts against u. S. Election systems in 2016. That is starting in about 15 minutes after we finish up with congressman cohen here. Guest the senate is bumping me once again . [laughter] host we wont, weve got another 15 minutes left with congressman. Eric, go ahead. Good morning, america. Good morning, cspan. It would be great, because im an independent, it would be great for you to be honest about this last election and just be done with it. We know, most common sense and reasonable people know that what happened was was that you and your party spent 1,000,000,003 and you lost. In the middle of that your servers were hacked and expose the fact that there was collusion between the media, cnn , specifically, donna brazil and many other people and that that withsion led to a fracture bernie sanders, the socialist side of your party. Had a lot of disgruntled employees inside the dnc. Thats what happened. Now this is all a distraction so that you cans stop the trump agenda. Guest first of all, youre not an independent, you are obviously a republican. That was as partisan a call as i can imagine. There were several reason for losing the elections. Didnt get enough votes in pennsylvania and wisconsin. It was a mistake for Hillary Clinton not to go back to wisconsin and not to have as good a policy on issues that appeal to young people in ann arbor, university of wisconsin, madison to bring the vote out. The interference in the election by the russians, bringing out a bunch of stuff that was unnecessary and caused people to have questions, they had fake news out there to make Hillary Clinton look at. In my minduestion whatsoever and i dont think a reasonable or common sense is and would either that the russian influence was considerable and, in my opinion, it did, i dont think anyone else could say that great will might have contributed to the election of donald trump and that is why john lewis called it legitimate. Asll we will deal with it long as he is the president. We will resist this as long as it is harmful to common sense and the people. Are doing isthey giving tax breaks to the richest and upper 1 . The word on health care is to give Insurance Companies and medical Device Companies and the wealthiest 1 and 2 in the country egg, big tax breaks. Hundreds of thousands in terms of medical devices. Millions in tax breaks. Putting 23 Million People off of insurance and away from healthcare and killing medicaid, a program set up to help the disabled. Seniors, and mothers who are pregnant or poor. That is unconscionable. This is unconscionable and the American People wont stand for it. Posts line for republicans, good morning. Caller good morning, john, good morning, representative. My question is quite simply this. How did the russians influence the election . From what i understood from the news and all of the stuff, all of the voting was offline. There was no way that they were able to get into the voting booths or the voting machines. And also, on the clinton situation there, which one is it that the democrats are saying they lost . They either lose by the investigation on clinton, or is it the russian influence . Personally i feel that really exist. Other than the fact that they may have got into the dnc. And put out what was basically the emails in the dnc. Host sir, i tend to agree with you on the election apparatus. I have seen questions about the integrity of the vote counts for the voting machines, but im not one of those people. I think we lost the numbers in the states that came the electoral victory. But i think that the russian interference affected the mood of the public and a lot of people on the edge that made a difference. It wouldnt have done that if the fact that she was being investigated, which was the comey angle, not the russian angle, donald trump would not have he spent the last 10 days of investigation of the election saying that shes under investigation and shes a criminal. Worse than watergate. He knew that from polling that that would move a certain number of voters his way. And he was right. Some people would say that it may not have been polling, it was his got. His gut was right and hes pretty good and thats what hes good at, using his got to know what gets those people motivated. He use that information and use the russians. He went on television and said if the russians are listening, find those 30,000 emails. The man played everything right on his sleeve. He knew that the russians were listening and i think he gave himself away. Just like he said i said to myself, this investigation isnt going so well, lets get rid of comey. And then he calls him a nut job . To me thats unamerican. No matter what you think about james comey, and i have questions about what he did, hes a fine, upstanding, decent, honest american patriot. Host alan is a democrat from brooklyn, new york. Good morning. Bush versus gore in 2000, the reason the courts thought they could stay the election immediately or stay the vote count was they felt it might be irreparable harm to the presidency of george w. Bush. Compared to the situation we have now it seems that we have a far greater likelihood of irreparable harm being done to the country from permanent or lasting actions of a president whose legitimacy may be determined to be void after the fact. A lifelong tenure is given to Supreme Court justices and lower court justices. Changes to the paris crime paris climate treaty. Irreversible changes in the condition of the environment that cannot be turned back. Given this and the slowness of the investigative process in the impeachment process as it exists, do we need to tweak the 25th amendment to allow another condition aside from the illness or impairment of a president where he is under a sufficient cloud that the legitimacy of his act would be impossible to reverse . If found to be illegitimate after the fact, certain actions would be impossible to reverse and would therefore there would be another avenue to put in some kind of temporary power while the investigation is being completed . Other ways there is no way of unhooking this as trump is cooking to find out that hes Holding Office legitimately. Its an interesting proposal. It would give congress or whoever you gave the power to too much over the election. Its somewhat akin to impeachment. Its a political proceeding and if a person gets the point, hopefully, where even the republicans understand it is damaging the brand, they will come to take action. It certainly reminds me of that about the domestics in the south, the africanamerican woman that worked constantly serving the white folks and what they put in the cakes sometimes. By are you calling for an investigation into the president s son, eric trump . Judes is doing Great Research to cure pediatric cancer. To 16ump has raised up million after a pledge of 20 million for saint jude. There is no question that through some sources he will raise that money through others helping. But i do think that its wrong to charge expenses for the Golf Tournament at his fathers which were given free. For the first four or five years everything was free. The fees of the golf courses, the food, the drink, you name it. All three. Donald trump saw all of this money and said dont give it away, charge it. Last year it was 350,000. I know a lot of people that know a lot about Golf Tournaments and charity Golf Tournaments and they say there is no way that that tournament should cost anywhere near that. It was an amount of money that trump got to his coffers, donald trump, i dont think that eric trump was involved, he listened to his father. He transferred 100,000 from his foundation to the eric trump Cap Foundation to cover expenses. Out of the pocket of saint jude, but the 100,000 that donald trump got was from other people that gave him money and we have seen where he has taken improper funds to make contributions to the secretary of state of florida who was about to investigate him and now she was in and she got a 10,000 or 20,000 check in. He violated the law. When he took money out of his pocket and gave it to eric, it was basically washing money. Money that he got from one source and gave to eric to free up as it came to his pockets as revenue. That is illegal and i think it should be investigated. Host the Justice Department, of a showing interest in starting an investigation . Guest no, they havent. They have said it should go to the local jurisdiction and the fact is that saint jude is appreciative of the money theyve gotten. Im sure they wish the charges were not made. They have not expressed that to me but im sure they wish that is if it was they would have another billion dollars but they appreciate what eric trump has done and i would like to make it clear that he has done a lot for saint jude and i commend him for that but i dont think that giving the money to his father was the right thing to do. Host freddie, good morning. Caller i want to introduce myself. Whoa black obama voter switched to voting for donald trump. Somebody called earlier and said he was an independent and the congressman chose to set a you are a republican. This says a lot about how politics are with this congressman. I was listening to him and he was talking about president clinton on the tarmac and he called it an error. Just imagine if it was a republican. He would be shouting all over. You told him about the relationship between jim comey and the guy we suspected. Robert mueller. He didnt find any pr