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London who helped the fbi with its investigation, the informant. his name became public. every source he worked with is now worried. every investigation he worked on is now burned. i know there is a very real concern that information that goes to the president through either through direct means or through congress, through house republicans eventually becomes public and hurts the probe. >> betsy, any chance there would be a leak investigation involving the president and that sort of information...

The documents youve been reporting on, ken. >> why dont you just direct your subordinates to get those documents over to congress? are you going to do it? >> the one thing i want to stay uninvolved in, at least for now -- i may get involved, but ive been told by so many people, dont get involved. >> congress wants those documents. >> its not good -- and theyll get the documents and its getting and theyre getting and theyre great people. i didnt like the scene the other day where everybody was sc...

Officials involved in the initial stages of the probe. to suggest the mueller investigation was tainted. >> for them it was an investigation to stop donald trump. >> reporter: democrats argue republicans are only making document requests for sensitive materials now to give the president a pretext for firing rosenstein who oversees the mueller probe. >> they want to impeach you and indict you and get rid of you. they want to undermine this investigation. mr. rosenstein, good luck. were in the min...

Weve seen the bias. we need to see the evidence. if you have evidence of wrong doing by any member of the trump campaign, present it to the damn grand jury, whatever you got. finish it the hell up. this country is being torn apart. >> republicans also continued to seize on the anti-trump text messages between two fbi officials voinvolved in the initial stages of the probe. >> for them it was an investigation to stop donald trump. >> reporter: democrats argue republicans are only making document ...

A separate and equal branch of government. you have not complied with subpoenas. you have 7 days to get your act together. thats not jim jordan. i think thats the majority of the house of representatives. in just a few minutes i think that will happen. i dont know why you wont give us what you ask for. >> i hope your colleagues are not under that impression. thats not acerality. >> it is accurate. >> mr. chairman, allow the witness to answer. >> sean: the house did , in fact pass a resolution de...

Judges is by an opposition party candidates in an election year. sadly their efforts, their document requests, their subpoenas, they have been met with nothing but obstruction and hatred, antipathy, and animus from the deputy ag, who has a bad temper, rod rosenstein. today some of these house members had a rare opportunity to hold rosenstein accountable right to his face. it started with this powerful opening statement from house judiciary committee chairman bob goodlatte. take a look. >> the re...

Majority staffs by some kind of partition. do you think that was part of the effort so they could go about their business of saving this presidents neck without your committee and staff people getting involved? >> yes, they have taken away the bipartisan comedy thity that wed in prior congresses solely to protect the president, not the democracy or the ballot box in our future elections and i think theyll pay a price in november, chris, because people want someone to push the big red button that...

Here, so hell correct me if my understanding is incorrect. but i understand mr. jordan accused you, mr. rosenstein, on the floor during debate, of threatening the hip sy staff if they attempt to hold you in contempt for failing to comply with document requests. i think it is important to put this on the record. have you ever threatened congressional staff including but not limited to house intelligence committee staff as it relates to requests for your -- for you to produce documents or any othe...

Closed doors. it was a big day leading into this. >> i suspect at some point theyll get strzok up to testify publicly. it seems unimaginable he could go through this process without being held to account in a public forum. we saw the president gave him bad reviews. i suspect many people on the hill who still want to get answers that only he can provide. i dont think weve heard the last from peter strzok. >> sandra: as far as this resolution demanding the justice department, jessica, comply with ...

>> impeaching rod rosenstein, how much has that come up during the hearing? >> it has come up tantangential trying to make the point that these document requests have to be fulfilled that they will pursue other means against him. but whats not on camera, just in between the recesses and people coming in and out, rosen stein has working the room, looking very intentionally unrattled by this, and i do think its intentional. he has tried very hard to project an era of coolness, of professionalness ...