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senate confirmed directors, and those directors all have a few things in common. they are all white men. they all favor a clean cut look, and each and every one of them, every senate confirmed director since the dawn of the fbi has been a republican. that includes current fbi director christopher wray, who was appointed by donald trump. but you would not get that impression, given the way director wrays fellow republicans attacked him in his agency during a hearing today on capitol hil...

was part of some operation orchestrated by fbi agents is ludicrous. your job is to review what they do. your job is to protect the american people from a tyrannical fbi storming the home of a american family. >> i could not agree more with your description of the fbi being tyrannical. >> you preside over the fbi that has the lowest level of trust in the fbis history. people trusted the fbi more when j. ed gar hoover was running the place. >> respectfully, congressman, in your home stat...

the fbi has had only eight senate confirmed directors. those directors all have a few things in common. they are all white men. they all favor a clean cut look, and each and every one of them, every senate confirmed director since the dawn of the fbi has been a republican. that includes current fbi director, christopher wray, who was appointed by donald trump. and you would not get that impression, given the way the director wrays fellow republicans attacked him and his agency during a...

Those institution of governance, power full organization, and the laws of this country, which he is so manipulated and distorted in order to advance his own personal agenda. when i think about what donald trump has done to the tenants of this great democracy, this great country of ours, it really just demonstrates the depth to which he will go in order to do anything to hurt, harm, and i think put a great risk to those who have the audacity to speak out against him. >> i love if you could talk m...

Weaponizing of the federal government in this case, for example, the irs or doj and its hiring and firing practices, because of john kelly and his testimony under oath. i wonder the degree to which you think those guardrails hold if trump was reelected another four years. he is, of course, running for president. you intimated just now that you are concerned about it. institutionally speaking, can the center hold? >> its a good question. john kelly, who is a very close former colleague of mine, i...

Who have earned their positions. >> now, i brought up the so-called rooney rule which i know the lead 20 years ago introduced purportedly to address address the lack of top coaches of color. i thought about that as i read one of the articles from this black and future. how nfl teams use black coaches to clean up their messes. the idea being that, when a white head coaches fired during an underperforming season, owners and teams will often look to black coaches in the interim, only for them not t...

Have quit long ago out of sheer frustration. i admire his fortitude. but you know, at end of the day, whether you think he has done a good job or a bad job, general shinseki cares about our wounded veterans. he is a wounded veteran. >> i understand that. i understand that and we respect his service greatly. and i hear what you are saying about the levels and the depth of ther rogues and decay and bureaucracy that no doubt exists in this organization and many others. i guess the problem is, you k...

Budgets. its painful for stating budgets. but raising taxes is ultimately not the solution. and we know, we really know what works in education. and we know what would reform state budgets. reforming hiring and firing practices. reforming tenure, reforming tenure programs. all of these if you thinks we know will work without substantially raising taxes. >> dan, youre a proponent of raising income taxes to offset the teacher layoffs. were really caught at a rock and hard place here. revenues have...