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Members who have said we might be better with vice president pence. whats your take? >> speaker ryan: im not giving credence to that. im not giving a comment on that. >> reporter: your members are saying that. >> speaker ryan: it theres no point making a comment on that. >> reporter: the point of a special counsel, does that give you some breathing room to work on this agenda question marks before like i said, the appointment of a special counsel helps assure people and the justice department th...

Past few days, some members said, we might be better with vice president pence. >> oh, good grief. >> what is your take? >> we shouldnt even -- im not going to comment on that. >> its your members saying that. there are members saying that. >> im not even -- theres not a point making a comment on that. >> does the appointment of a special counsel, you think, give you some breathing roomir jobs and thoroughly, which is what weve called for all along. so i think it was perfectly appropriate to do ...

>> no. thats not a reason per se. we have the intelligence committees can do the job and i dont see it sfwurng some kind of a media circus. were talking about a lot of speculation here. were talking about different investigation by d.o.d. about general flynn that could take its own course. i would rather see the intel people focus on the intel investigation. they have classified materials and they should evaluate what they mean to us. >> what do you think of the likelihood of joe lieberman being...

General made a good decision and we respect his decision. >> the white house has come out with a very short statement from the president saying this will exonerate him. but this white house has been hit day after day, right at the end of the day, with the comey memos, what does the white house meet to do next, are you sitting there afraid that the presidents going to lash out on twitter? >> no, i am not, and i thought that the statement from the white house was very reasoned and i hope that the ...

Investigation. i have little confidence in the house of representatives process through the intelligence committee. not only does it leak like a sieve but it has been highly political. we need an independent investigatory body outside to do just that. 12 people, three appointed by the leaders of the house and the senate, so we can fully explore, not the criminal activity but fully h explore how we protect our democracy from the kind of medaling we found russia doing. >> but you dont think that d...

Watching wherever you are around the country alive. or if youre in the world somewhere to keep us alive. so you hear sometimes the language of washington is hard to follow. the sensitivity of protecting sources of intelligence is a paramount mission if you are a senior official in the united states government f. youre on the intelligence committees. the white house is right. theres too much leaking of this stuff at times. but the question in this case is did the president of the united states re...

>> exactly. thats in passive voice. hes giving us a sentence that doesnt have a subject. it also speaks i think to a couple of things that we know are characteristic of trump. one of them is he does not have a high regard for expertise. he trusts his own gut. he trusts his own instincts for sort of understanding the person hes talking to and getting to a deal. and you know, there are some situations where youve got to trust the experts. >> i just want to read you a tweet. this is mike gallagher....

Greater risk. given the gravity of the matter, we need to be able to quickly assess whether or not this report is true and what exactly was said. so i am calling on the white house to make the transcript of -- >> we are listening to chuck schumer. pull his audio back up. he calling on the white house, he says -- >> the white house should make the transcript of the meeting available immediately to the congressional intelligence committees. and if the president has nothing to hide, he should direc...

When they elected us and they sent us to accomplish that. lets focus on that and keep moving forward. >> youre a member of the oversight committee. do you think this is your job at this point? do you think you guys should be getting -- you hope there are some trance consistent script o. >> ive said all along in this broader russian issue, let the intel agencies do their work. if we need the judiciary committee, the oversight committee or some special select committee, im open to those at that ti...

Were been keeping extremely close tabs on the active investigations into this matter. so the most high profile investigations are happening in congress. the house and the senate both leading trump-russia investigations in their intelligence committees. there are also subsidiaries which brought us the sally yates testimony last week and the house sight in the oversight committee which brought at us revelation that former national security adviser mike flynn skreeld his framts foreign sources that...