Laura Ingraham shines a spotlight on everyday Americans and examines how their lives are affected by politics at the federal, state and local level. When you were chair of the House Oversight committee on who wrote the talking points, who were interested in the families mightve happened in new york, not to mention the Trump Organization and the trump foundation. We would have investigations in congress. Congress is hapless right now. When you were chair of that committee, you investigated. I think you would be investigating right now. Jason you know what. You know why congress is hapless . This Attorney General does nothing to provide documents that congress has issued subpoenas for. Math, come on in here and give us your perspective. This Attorney General is in name only. He i think hes one of the most feckless, ineffective Attorney Generals this country is ever had. Jason, i understand where youre coming from. I am a big fan of Jeff Sessions but i feel it for the last year and a half
be the subject of the case. the president pushing back that this is a disgrace, a massive fishing expedition going after him and his family but congressman ted lou, democrat, tweeting this is not a fishing expedition, it means there are lots of potential fish to catch. a lot of people call this the pre-impeachment phase. what do you make of this? congress has a lot of authority through oversight and investigations but that s usually related to how the executive branch is operating under the money appropriated for it and also if new legislation is needed. i haven t seen any of that here and i haven t seen specific evidence of actual violation of the law which is usually a basis before you start an investigation. adam schiff seems to be copying joseph mccarthy and wanting to open up investigations where they don t have evidence of wrongdoing. he says they do, they keep saying we need more facts but they are making allegations in the meantime.
aaron, tell me, why are we in this situation for years after the fact he left congress. thank you for having me on, jason. anytime you re involved in a legal matter, your attorney say don t say anything and justice will prevail. i ve always believed in our criminal justice system, that they are interested in truth. but sadly, it became very clear that over the two years that they were investigating me, that they were on a massive fishing expedition. they went so far while i was still in office. the obama justice department to much to wire up the low-level staffer in my office and directed that staffer, without a search warrant, to steal documents in my office and attorney-client privilege material and even still records of the house of representatives. then they were forcing court to admit they didn t find anything. of course natural jason: let me put up this graphic. one of the things that catches my attention, the house counsel is there to protect the institution, not necessari