Joining us now congressman ha ream jeffreys of new york is also a member of the judiciary committee, and questioned bob mueller yesterday. congressman, how do you think bob mueller did? did you guys get what you needed in terms of his testimony moving forward trying to further inform the american people as to what happened to our democracy in our election process? yes. i think it was an important step in the right direction. bob mueller confirmed the principle findings of his investigation which was thoroughly done and conducted with integrity. finding one, of course, that russia attacked our democracy in sweeping fashion for the explicit purpose of trying to artificially place donald trump at the white house. the second finding was that the
Trump campaign welcomed and embraced russian interference in extraordinary fashion at the highest level, and third, bob mueller confirmed that substantial evidence existed that the president obstructed justice in the context of the investigation. he also made clear that despite donald trump s lies that have been peddled repeatedly out of 1600 pennsylvania avenue focussed on the notion that he was completely and totally exonerated, that that was not the case, and, in fact, nothing could be further from the truth. chairman jeffreys, it s willie geist. with all that testimony on the record over the course of about fix hours, we have reporting out of democratic caucus meetings yesterday where i assume you were with nancy pelosi and jerry nadler had a debate. the reporting is nadler is ready to push forward with impeachment proceedings. do you support that idea? i support the approach that
Principal th principle that no single individual is above the law. that is the united principle in terms of how we will move forward. joining me now is a member of the house democrat leadership. it s new mexico congressman. i ve got a bit of a satellite delay. unless you re going to change your mind here. up until today you ve stayed with the message of most of the top leadership saying not yet on impeachment? a, are you still there and if you are, what is your trigger? what are you waiting for to make that decision? well, chuck, you re absolutely correct. i stand with speaker pelosi and in the words that were shared by our great chairman jeffreys, next week we ll be voting to hold not only attorney general