Department that essentially says the president is above the director, therefore the president is not subject to the jurisdiction of the director, therefore it doesnt meet the definition of urgent concern, therefore the Inspector General is done. The Inspector General cant investigate anymore. Thats the Inspector Generals reading of the Department Opinion, that he is no longer allowed to investigate this. Is that your reading as well . Chairman, not necessarily the president , but the allegation has to relate to the funding, administration, operation of an Intelligence Activity within the responsibility and the authority of the director of National Intelligence. Okay. Im just trying to get to whether the president is somehow beyond the reach of the law. No, sir. No person in this country is beyond the reach of the law. Well, thats the way it should be but im trying to figure out whether thats the way it is as a practical fact. The Inspector General believes that based on the opinion tha
directed to use classification protocols to protect the president s corruption. that s what we re talking about. matt miller, it would be unbelievable if we hadn t seen it over and over again. as president, donald trump has written checks to michael cohen to pay for keeping quiet women with whom he had alleged sexual relationships. he sat in the oval office and finished out his payment plan for the hush money scheme for which he s now an unindicted co-conspirator in the southern district of new york. the other point that ben may be making too elegantly, we look to this president for high class crimes and they re often pretty low rent crimes. that s the thing about the transcript or the partial transcript or the rough transcript that we saw yesterday and the activities described in the whistle-blower s complaint today. they sound like the president we ve seen operate for the last three years. we ve seen a lot of congressman schiff. let s listen to him. and others potentially