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Congress and congress largely cowering from the executive. and this is really a good time for to have that change. you know, i just was reading jane harmon s book, long-time member of congress, talked about the incredible shrinking congress and that it s time for congress to really exert its power. it has the ability to do oversight now. and it should have a more willing justice department to answer questions. and i m confident that the attorney general and the deputy attorney general have that view of their obligations to congress. andrew weissmann, thank you very much for joining us tonight. your expertise on this is invaluable. we really appreciate it. you re welcome. thank you. and up next, you ve heard from members of congress on this program, congressional experts, others about what s happening in ....
Testifying, and sometimes you re subject to unfair abuse. sometimes the questions are, you know, not merited. but that s irrelevant. because these are congressional oversight committees, and they re entitled to answers. it s particularly upsetting to hear the fbi director refuse to answer to a congressional oversight committee on the grounds that the doj inspector general is investigating. that s a doj s own inspection service, but congress has its own independent oversight responsibilities, so the idea that the fbi director says i m not going to answer because we ve got an internal process going on is really the height of impropriety. and i really think there s some cognitive dissonance going on right now at the department of justice where you have the fbi director, who is a holdover but ....
General sir, you re just being asked a simple yes or no question. did you discuss the leak investigation with jeff sessions? congressman, again, respectfully, i m not trying to be difficult here, but the inspector general has been asked to look into this. i have a very good work relationship. sir, you re being evasive. these are yes or no questions, sir. you re under oath. these are yes or no, simple questions that we need to get to the bottom of. joining us now is andrew weissmann, former fbi general counsel and former chief of the criminal division in the eastern district of new york. he is an msnbc legal analyst. andrew, in your old job, what would you have advised the fbi director to say today? well, i actually found this quite a painful day to watch, because a lot of directors and other people don t relish going up in front of congress and ....
Is now now is part of the garland doj, performing the way he did today. at the same time, you have the garland department of justice handing over pursuant to a house request, not even a subpoena, various documents related to the white house s election interference. so, to me, that smacks of the attorney general getting his house in order and you know, i think there s still going to be some shake-up in terms of how they present themselves to congress and the american public. can the attorney general order christopher wray to answer those questions to congress? yes. the attorney general and the deputy attorney general are senior to the fbi director, who reports to both of them and all of them report to the president of the united states. so, you know, this is the ....
The democrats negotiations with republicans in congress on an infrastructure bill and other matters. now it s time for you to hear from someone with a different perspective, not a congressional expert, not a historian, not a pundit. a guy who used to cheat at card games will tell us the fundamental mistake democrats are making in their negotiations with republicans. that s next. that sex nt. can you be free of hair breakage worries? we invited mahault to see for herself that new dove breakage remedy ....