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Top law enforcement in his administration in the closing weeks they were there to try to deal responsibly with this totally unprecedented remarkable situation as president obama tried to separate the law enforcement function from the law enforcement he told them do this by the book. you proceed independently. the president stressed hes not asking about initiating or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective. our law enforcement team needs to proceed as it would by the book. from an...

At chris wray relatively soon after appointing him, and we seem to know that it had something to do with andy mccabe, whom the president really seems to hate. but i think what we learned today, from this axios story, is that at some point -- and my suspicion is that it was a number of weeks ago, but im not sure of that -- at some point, that really came to a head and involved a serious confrontation between the fbi director and the attorney general in which the fbi director was forced to defend ...

These two -- these two departments? after all, he is the head of the country? >> well, its very important that the investigative and law enforcement function be separated from the political function. and the president really represents a good part of the political function, even though hes the head of the executive branch. so you want a certain independence. people have to know when someone is being investigated for a federal crime in this kurngts its above politics. it has nothing to do with po...

Decades across political administrations to protect civil rights. >> now you know a lot of the players from the career people, rod rosenstein, certainly, and james comey. what do you expect on thursday at this extraordinary hearing? >> well, you know, i think that on thursday, the american public is going to have a chance to really assess whether the administtion is deaning the rule of law. it has always been vital important in our system of government that the law enforcement function remain ap...

The president also said, when he was saying that, that he was promising clean air and clean water. hes going to cut the epa. does he not know the connection between protections that are in it, environmental protection agency, and air our children breathe, the water they drink, the safety of the food that they eat? and the protection of their neighborhoods. what is he going to do to the justice function and the law enforcement function in the budget? because all of it will be subjected to cuts, a...

Economic growth. the president also said when he was saying this that he was promising clean air and clean water. hes going to cut the epa. does he not know the connection between protections that are in an environmental protection agency and the air our children breathe, the water they drink, the safety of the food that they eat and the protection of their neighborhoods. what is he going to do to the justice function and the law enforcement function in the budget? because all of it will be subj...

Using all of the resources available to us to defend the constitutional rights of citizens then we must include the department of justice, which provides funding for the law enforcement function by way of resources. so we think they have a role in ensuring that everybody that needs to be a part of the solution is a part of the solution. >> pastor todd yeary, thank you for being with me so appreciate your time. >> good to be with you, jose thank you. >> were going to be keeping a very close watch...

Stretching to capitol hill is another example of how vital the law enforcement function is in the nations capital as well. bill: thank you. we will see whether or not this position changes. sounds strange. martha: federal correctional officers in wisconsin so we are not getting paid, but some prisoners are. >> they get paid with a different funding, trust fund account. however some of the money comes from the federal budget, and again the work they do it institution, they get paid for. martha: u...

Enforcement model where we are treating al-qaeda as sort of a mafia common criminal element rather than enemy combatants. here is what was really stunning. the fbi interviewed the survivors two days after the attack in germany and the cia never called the fbi for weeks wanting the results of the interview before they made their assessments. we are going back to the pre9/11 mentality of where we treat this as a law enforcement function and the fbi and cia never talked to each other which is dange...

Called the local police, who called dispatch and called the fbi and the fbi and local police raided this office. when they raided it they found five people there using high tech surveillance equipment, monitoring peoples conversations. four of the five were new york city police officers and one was a cia agent. this immediately creates a lot of problems, who should arrest whom? should the fbi arrest the new york city cops for using surveillance equipment without a search warrant? should they arr...