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thank you. all right, let s dig deeper now into where the judiciary committee is heading and the ground it may cover up to and including the question of impeachment. joining us is david cicilline, democrat of rhode island, who is a member of the committee. congressman, you just heard jerome corsi, who said the request from your committee is ridiculous, he called it harassment, said he s already given all of this information to the special counsel and can t you just get it from them? well, it s a kind of ridiculous claim. he says on the one hand, he s already produced it, which is why we recommended a very short timeline of just a couple of weeks for people to come in compliance, because we specifically said, if you ve already produced this material for either the special counsel or the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york or any other government body, just provide us what you provided them. he claims he doesn t have copies. well, all he has to do is authorize t ....
Question of impeachment. joining us is david cicilline, democrat of rhode island, who is a member of the committee. congressman, you just heard jerome corsi who said the request from your committee is ridiculous, he called it harassment, said he s already given all of this information to the special counsel and can t you jufs get it frst get it fro? well, it s a kind of ridiculous claim. he said on the one hand, he s already produced it, which is why we recommended a very short timeline of just a couple of weeks for people to come in compliance, because we specifically said, if you ve already produced this material for either the special counsel or the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york or any other government body, just provide us what you provided them. he claims he doesn t have copies. well, all he has to do is authorize them to furniture sh with a copy. it will be easy to come into compliance. but the judiciary committee has a responsibility to collect these ....
This is not meant to be an impeachment proceeding. it but if he calls up dozens of week after week for hearings, it potentially as the same politically damaging effect as an impeachment hearing even if you call it something different. that is important enough that jerry nadler addressed that on tv saying we re not doing that but we re making the argument as to why it should happen. that s right he is drawing a very, very stark line between what would take place in an impeachment proceeding and what his role is as chairman of the oversight committee. he says it is all about oversight work. that it is the constitutional mandated work that his committee has to carry out, ali. jeff bennet at the white house. i want to bring in one of the individuals who is on that very long list of people that congressman nadler is asking ....
Mr. gaetz on air force one in 2017 and subsequent phone calls to keep up the oversight work. he was hoping for fair treatment from mr. mueller after the congressman appeared on fox news. that did not preclude him from encouraging his scrutiny of the investigation. he has played trump s stooge before in earlier episodes. right. obviously continues to do that. it s fascinating that he would sort of go out with this by himself the day before the hearing. i don t know what he is auditioning for. is he hoping for a cabinet post? maybe auditioning for an indictment. it makes it a federal crime to threaten or attempt to threaten a witness to influence his testimony or cause him to withhold his testimony. i am just dangerous enough with the law and twitter to throw that out there. ....
For our viewers. the president cleheered on lawmakers in interviews and in private urging mr. gets to keep up the house republicans oversight work. that did not preclude him from encouraging his allies cross-suit knscrutiny of the investigation. i have been critical of some of my republican colleagues oversight of this administration on russia. i think every republican member of congress ought to be concerned about the president s overly conciliatory rhetoric about vladimir putin. when the president of the united states makes critical statements of nato, talking about withdrawing from it, condemns the european union on a regular basis, criticizes our allies, ....