Transcripts For CSPAN 20170618

People at the fbi who did the investigation, or talk to jim clapper, one of most credible people ever to serve in United States government and get the facts. Quit denying it. I think it undermines his election. We have to put that aside. The real problem, chuck, is the russians are not going away. This is not a oneoff deal. They will come after us in 2018 and 2020. As marco rubio keeps saying, this could very easily work in the opposite way. Putin is not a republican. Given the various tweets the president i wont repeat them again, put the idea he is upset with the Deputy Attorney general in his managing of the special counsel, do you think the Deputy Attorney general needs to recuse himself because he was at least consulted on the comey firing . I dont know about recuse himself. That will be his decision. I think definitely he will be interviewed by the special counsel because of his involvement with the president. Can you oversee an investigation you were going to be a witness on . I dont know quite what oversee means in the context. Bob mueller has special more or less independence. He will pursue this. The long discussion with the president s lawyer is a matter of time. Ueller will investigate what he thinks is important and will find out in a matter of time whether he is following up on the question of absorption of justice. Some of your Senate Colleagues are concerned President Trump is preparing to fire mueller and rosenstein. How would you react if he did . First of all that is not going to happen. The best thing that can happen for the president and the country is the full and credible investigation. I truly believe that. If we want to put this behind us, lets put it out there and lets not undermine the credibility of the investigation. My view is that the best thing that happened for the president and the country. I believe ultimately that is what will happen irrespective of all the other stuff going on out there. Would you have predicted he would have fired comey . I dont think that has anyway impeded the work of the fbi on these matters. In fact i know it hasnt. It is not impeded the work of the Senate Intelligence committee. These investigations continue to move forward. They are broad they are about everything. The senates work is about russian interference and how they did it. Involves working with americans, whether wittingly or unwittingly, taking city of part of it. I think everyone should wait for the report to come out and we continue to make progress in that direction. Any questions about the integrity of Robert Mueller . His reputation is stellar. I believe he will conduct a full and fair and arrow investigation and thorough investigation. This week the House Intelligence Committee with the interference ring last years election with former Homeland Security secretary jeh johnson. He testifies before the committee on when they. We have live coverage beginning at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan3. You can watch online at cspan. Org, or listen on the free cspan radio app. Russian president Vladimir Putin recently commented on a congressional investigation in a russian interference well taking questions in moscow during his annual callin program. Other topics included relations with ukraine, russias role in syria, and the upcoming g 20 summit which President Trump expected to attend. This portion is 50in