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
investigative steps at this point. but as i made clear in the questions that i had for the director today, each and every one of these allegations given their seriousness, given no one is looking into this for the last month that these urgent matters need to be thoroughly investigated. we ll moves a expeditiously as possible. of course it has been the history of this administration prior to this very graphic exception of the publishing of this call record and the provision of the complaint, declassify indication de cl declass if i indication of the complaint, that they have attempted to obstruct in every way. but we will work to conduct thisthis as swiftly as possible. and president trump just tweeted about you saying that you have zero credibility and another fantasy to hurt the republican party. how do you respond? i m always flattered when i m