i want to ask you about something that happened this morning. the president giving you what was described as a measured response. now blasting the appointment of special investigation. he calls the investigation the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in american history. do you agree? the best thing that could have happened to the president happened yesterday, this independent counsel and director mueller s appointment could very well lead to the credibility of an investigation that can allow all of to us move on and get back to work on capitol hill to achieve the agenda republicans set out to achieve. this is a good and valuable step forward for to us do that. there s no garn tweet findings will become public. they should and i believe in time they will. transparent investigation would be healthy and allow us to move forward and get back to work. jim comey were to testify publicly what would you want to hear from the former fbi director, what questions would
you have for him? transparent committee heari with director comey wld be valuable. i m sure that my colleagues that serve on the committees would ask a number of tough questions about what he knew, what led along the way to his firing, but there are so many questions that we can start with, but what did he know and what ultimately led to the timing of the firing of director comey. that s the biggest aspect and troubling part of all of this, was the timing. the president was very justified once again in the firing of director comey, but the timing being suspect as it was, it would be good to ask director comey about what he knew that led to the timing. and are you concerned there may have been obstruction of justice here, something that your democratic colleagues on the hill are talking about? again, that s the opportunity that we have with director mueller s opportunity as a special counsel to get to the bottom of the matter, get to the facts. i m very willing and patient to
inauguration, weeks before inauguration, he was being investigated for this turkish work. should somebody be held accountable for not vetting him properly? well, absolutely. we went through a rough period because of his appointment and then withdraw and the trump administration lost a lot of time. i think the way the trump administration has performed, it is our oversight responsibility in congress to look at that. we re going to get some of that information today when mr. rosenstein appears before all the senators. it ll be in a closed session, but we ll find out a little bit about how the sequencing has been done, toward the fbi firing. i think all the issues raise serious questions that the congress needs to oversight the executive branch of government. we need to exercise our constitutional responsibility. let me ask you about jim comey here. have your colleagues on the intelligence or judiciary committees been able to reach him about testifying? can you tell us about the
going through all that we have learned in the last week but the main thing to remember about this is we re going to keep learning more. it s not as if this is going away or if trump gives a speech the investigation stops. michaeyns appointed national security adviser to the president by the president. the president had his one on one meeting with jim comey, the president fired jim comey. these are actual facts that are going to be investigated and that s not going to stop because some people rally to trump or trump says a few things or tweets or doesn t tweet a few things. bill you talk about the things we learned over the last week, the new york times report that says mike flynn his lawyers notified white house counsel during the transition in early january. tim, who was head of the transition at that time, it was mike pence. his loyal support of the president, do you see that affecting his political fortunes moving forward? sure. my colleague, sorry, yes, tim, go ahead. mike
requests? i know there s been requests made. they re both doing investigations that are very important. i would hope mr. comey would cooperate. some of this will be done in closed sessions. some done in open session. the american people have a right to know these sequences. i mean, it s very troublesome, the conversation the president had with mr. comey in the oval office that was report bed by t new york times. it is troublesome he was in charge of an investigation, mr. comey, of mr. trump s associates and then he gets fired. the loyalty oath requested by the president. all these are issues that must come to public light and must be reviewed by the congress. i hope also by an independent commission. so interesting you bring this up. i want to play what senator john mccain just said in the hallways of the capitol in the last couple minutes here. yesterday you compared the current situation to the iran-contra. president reagan was able to get everything out at once. not all at