Do in their oversight roles divorce documents from the department of justice and which documents, after rod rosenstein has given many, many, many documents, he is resisting providing the republican members of the house on the intel committee. this is a struggle to define what is within the purview of oversights and what is overreach. i have spoken to people who have their concerns about how the fbi might ve conducted the hillary clinton investigation but still say you can t share raw intelligence from an investigation that could be provided to the witnesses. today you had dni, fbi, everyone huddling with president trump and rudy giuliani who was on a p.r. campaign demanding that he can t sit for an interview with the special counsel unless we know about other witnesses that were revealed in a new york times story this weekend. you can t demand that you be
Congress to exist doesn t take seriously the oversight roles. it is a wonderful example of how a bureaucracy will function if it has no accountability to anybody. it terms up being a joke. that s what cfpb has been in a sick, sad kind of way. there is a legal issue that will have to get fleshed out. do you want this kind of protection or do you not? it seems the trump administration has made the decision that it should not exist. that s why they want mcmulvaney there. we have the barney frank who helped create the bill. who do you think should run the agency? clearly the deputy director.
What do you think you re going to make sense of? clearly there is a relationship twreen the trump people and russian interests that seem to go back a long ways. and mueller will get to the bottom of it. the various house and senate committees will have their oversight roles to play. but there is a lot more to this. and frankly, i m very distresd that the president of the united states of america is not more focused on getting to the bottom of a country, another country, not even our friend that country s efforts to interfere with our democracy. i should think that should be on the top of things to get to the bottom of. and yet he s doing everything he can to casting aspergsz on his own attorney general, who i did not support by the way. and i think this is all to set the stage on how to get rid of mueller. i want to play a bit from the
About russian meddling in the u.s. election or around the world. he might be an exception to the rule. there is a special counsel investigating right now. the senate intelligence committee, which feinstein sits on, just held hearings yesterday. why do you need this separate investigation? members of congress, in the house and senate, that is part of their role. they have various oversight roles. we talked about this a little bit earlier. the fact that diane feinstein is asking for this indicates both the level of frustration with the trump white house and republicans but mostly the trump white house which hasn t seemed to understand the enormity of what russia has done. i wish they would agree with you, scott. clearly, the president does not. he has never said a bad word about russia or about vladimir putin. i also think it indicates that we are in a different space now.
Committee, which feinstein sits on, just held hearings yesterday. why do you need this separate investigation? members of congress, in the house and senate, that is part of their role. they have various oversight roles. we talked about this a little bit earlier. the fact that diane feinstein is asking for this indicates both the level of frustration with the trump white house and republicans but mostly the trump white house which hasn t seemed to understand the enormity of what russia has done. i wish they would agree with you, scott. clearly, the president does not. he has never said a bad word about russia or about vladimir putin. i also think it indicates that we are in a different space now. after the james comey testimony, as much as trump and his supporters want to claim victory, it was completely the