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it is specific we have article 1 there a long list of powers, the longest article in the constitution it very specific. a long list. you it study it you will not find the power to conduct a criminal investigation. it violates separation of powers. congress is made up of politicians. congress was never set up to conduct criminal investigations any of sort or criminal investigations as part of a justice department, u.s. attorneys effort, to target an individual or group of individuals. s...

two months after the attack in which he defended the capitol rioters. and video of then vice president mike pence reacting in realtime to congressional calls for him to invoke the 25th amendment to remove donald trump from office just days after the insurrection. also featured interviews with ivanka trump and jared kushner including the first daughter claiming that her fathers goal was to have every vote counted, even as he was trying to do the exact opposite, trying to overturn the e ...

department if donald trump replaced rosen with jeffrey clark, that loyalist who was there to help him overturn the election. jeffrey clark, former justice department official, whose home was just searched by federal investigators. the committee says its going to take us inside a heated oval office meeting on january 3rd when todays witnesses confronted trump over his threat to put clark in charge of the justice department until trump eventually backed down. playing a leading role in to...

Pushing trumps false election claims and who trump talked about, discussed, trying to appoint to be the attorney general and who will figure prominently in todays hearing. im jake tapper. this is cnns special coverage. attack on democracy, the january 6th hearings. aides to the house select committee say todays hearing will zero in on all the ways then president trump tried to pressure justice department officials, including pushing them to publicly say that there was widespread voter fraud, whe...

Committee, adam schiff who of course is behind the democrat memo to oppose this that hapt been released, he said it could cause a constitutional crisis. and the house leader nancy pelosi said this earlier today. >> he has abdicated his responsibilities as commander in chief to protect the american people by protecting our intelligence source ance ts and rest. if the president uses this fake, horrible release of distorted intelligence as an excuse to fire acting attorney general rod rosenstein o...

Talking about earlier it seems like folks in the media have tds. trump derangement syndrome. they say the president had no right to fire acting attorney general sally yates. is that fact or fiction? >> thats fiction. its complete nonsense. look. president reagan fired 11,000 air traffic controllers when they went on strike and, remember, a guy named stan mcchrystal was fired simply over misinterpretation of certain information within the rolling stone which is even more absurd. of course a polit...

Did this play into this. what went on behind trumps decision to fire acting director sally yates and what were discussions like when the president decided he wanted to fire james comey, the fbi director? >> yates, comey, flynn. anything else they want to know? >> steve bannon offers sort of a wealth for muellers team. >> he does. >> he was there during the campaign, during the transition and he went on to the white house. were also expecting him to get questioned about whether the president trie...

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