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Includi including michael cohen and everybody else. we dont have to do any follow-up to get documents to determine whether people were telling the truth or not. the kind of thing that is the staple of real investigations. we see what a folly that was. when the republicans walked away and decided to devote the time to investigating the investigators, kept our work going. it was hard because we couldnt compel them. we will invite the republicans to rejoin the investigation if they are interested a...

We are going to do our work. now, dont forget, inquiries into deutsch bank was part of the work we already started to do. we sent letters to deutsch bank trying to find out about two internal reviews they had done. what did they find out? of course they did not answer us. we have been trying to find out about the money ties to russia through deutsch bank. we know that deutsch bank lends this president or has loaned him a lot of money. we want to know whether or not money laundering is going on. ...

Welfare of people who are struggling every day to make a living. they dont mind them getting ripped off in many ways. whether we are talking about the consumer financial protection bureau that oversees things like payday loans and are they involved in trying to -- this administration is involved in many ways in trying to undo the work that we have done to try and protect the average family and homeowners. >> you entered congress i believe in 1991. >> yes. >> thats been 28 years ago. what is it l...

Citizens of our country. the select committee on the climate crisis. i voted yes on balance because it was worth pursuing and supporting. >> its great to talk to you guys and talking to members of congress younger than me. you start with basketball and now members of congress. its great to talk to you both. thank you very much. >> democrats in control, they have new tools to hold the presidents acting attorney general who is still there somehow to account. how they plan to use them, after this. ...

African-american or a woman. that all changed when maxine waters took the gavel this afternoon and becomes one of the most powerful people in washington joining the other chairs and congresswoman maxine waters joins me now. madam chair. >> thank you. >> you said you were up all night working last night. >> yes. >> what were you working on? >> all the work we have to do today and tomorrow and maybe over the weekend. >> i want to play something. you said there are a few new stories about how will ...

Going on. those of us pushed on to it were kind of punished. >> that was a bad assignment. >> terrible assignment. >> because of savings and loans? >> the scandal going on. >> you got on there because it was a back water. >> thats right, thats right. thats exactly right. i paid my dues and i stayed on and i worked hard and i learned from great chair men. >> you have been on for 28 years? >> yes, i have. yes. i learned an awful lot and i know an awful lot and i have been the leader as a ranking m...

Its all very secret and cloak and daggar and you are an elite group of people. how much has the committee been broken. its the institutional basis for the last two years. >> i will tell you the good and the bad news. the bad news is obvious. we operated in a bipartisan fashion until march 20th. that was the day in 2017 when james comey testified publicly that there were two investigations. not just a clinton investigation, but one of the trump organization. that prompted the now infamous midnigh...

Do the work that you are familiar with. the day job, the bread and butter and the oversight of the mammoth agencies and making sure they are funded appropriately and maintaining peoples privacy and operating constitutionally and legally. all of that we have continued to do in a nonpartisan way. you dont see that. >> i guess from a sort of emotional human level and institutionally you are able to cordon those things off from each other. >> we have. we made the decision not to let our differences ...

>> thats right. >> how are you thinking about the balance between those two imperatives? >> we have to be very clear that we have lots of responsibilities in this committee. as you know, i have been focused on the consumer financial protection bureau, the centerpiece of the dodd frank reform and mulvaney who was sent over temporarily by the period to oversee it after the guy who headed it left to run for governor. he tried to dismantle the consumer financial protection bureau. before we got the ...