Investigations. doj made that clear most recently in a letter that they sent to house judiciary chair jim jordan. it s a long-standing policy at doj, and it makes a lot of sense. you don t want to do anything that could interfere with the integrity of an ongoing criminal case. but that doesn t mean that doj can t share important information with congress that helps congress to engage and its oversight functions. and here, there s a lot to explore at the two branches of government working together. because it s clear that classified information is a problem. it s a national security problem. we have issues with overs classification of information. we have related issues regarding how we the security with which classified items are maintained. so this briefing is appropriate, whether or not it will be enough to satisfy congress remains to be seen. we saw and joyce, thank you both. coming up, chicago s latest city to test out universal
When it comes to funding the government, like comes to lifting the debt ceiling. an optional pieces of legislation, because a lot of what these members have got to do on these committees as you know, right legislation that never passed the senate, can ever get signed into law by president biden, things that occur since the oversight functions which are also very important. but there are some important matters of governing, you know, which have a very very serious consequences. okay. okay, moderate wing. use your power wisely, i guess. nbc s senior political reporter sahel kapoor, el risco to see you sahel, thanks for your time. joining us now is mark leap of, mark an author of thank you for your of two, donald trump s washington in the price of submission. mark, great to see you. perhaps you as a wise man washington, can tell me, sahel just said the moderate wing of the gop is not content or perhaps bold enough to use the power that they have to keep the hard lined conservative you
Governing, i think. when it comes to funding the government, like comes to lifting the debt ceiling. an optional pieces of legislation, because a lot of what these members have got to do on these committees is you know, right legislation that never passed the senate, can ever get signed into law by president biden, things that occur since the oversight functions which are also very important. but there are some important matters of governing, you know, which have a very very serious consequences. okay. okay, moderate wing. use your power wisely, i guess. nbc s senior political reporter sahel kapoor, always great to see you sahel, thanks for your time. joining us now is mark leap of, mark an author of thank you for your of two, donald trump s
I think it s important as the house republican conference is working through the next few weeks to make sure they are figuring out how we are going to improve, how the house functions, to challenge the status quo, make sure that we are putting up the fight, whether it s the oversight functions of the house of representatives or the legislative standpoint where you have a democrat controlled senate and democrat white house, so i think it s important to work through these differences over the course of the next few weeks to make sure you have a strong united functioning majority and kevin mccarthy was nominated as the next speaker of the house and he s speaking to some hold-outs to try to work it out. see how that goes. but kevin has the strong support of an overwhelming number of the conference. sandra: andy biggs is saying at least 20 will not back mccarthy. i don t know if i surprised you with the question or you are