intelligence services, our own origins of democracy. i think we all agree law enforcement needs checks and balances. we need to ensure that law enforcement is not abusing its considerable power. that s why we have mr. horowitz sitting in that seat. what he has come to tell us, we re not even hearing. as soon as we get a little more news from the hearing, senator feinstein giving the democrats response, we ll cover some of that, as we covered some of graham. bob costa, i m told, has been keeping in touch with his sources. bob, what are you hearing? talking to people close to president trump and white house advisers, they are watching this hearing. they know that the ig report, mueller report, entire impeachment inquiry has cast a shadow and now along with
we ll figure that out later. i think it s a question that needs to be asked. for a moment let s assume there was a lawful predicate to open up a counterintelligence investigation. what s been described as a few irregularities becomes a massive criminal conspiracy over time to defraud the fisa court, to illegally surveil an american citizen and keep an investigation open against a sitting president of the united states, violating every norm known to the rule of law. many of your prosecutors, many of you have been u.s. attorneys. many of you have been defense attorneys. trump s time will come and go. but i hope we understand that what happened here can never happen again, because what happened here is not a few irregularities. what happened here is the system fail
that sounds sin car length but wait until they get to tax reform. at least with tax stuff you have give backs and you can cut individual deals. this is different. let s do a little bit of a different spin on it. let s assume it does pass in the house. it s too much pressure. the freedom caucus they stood up against boehner but this isn t just ryan. this is the president of the united states but even if they went in the short-term what s the chance it is a victory that when they get into the senate they have bigger problems and don t care about trump. this is the classic legislative vietnam where you re fighting to prove your credibility rather than having a clear idea of what the ultimate goal is because the price of getting this bill out of the house if they do survive by a vote or two has been to revise it in a way that makes it