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Interjected and said you are here voluntarily and dont have to answer anything you want. thats no way to run an investigation. we will seek to look at the unexplored avenues of investigation, things that could threaten the national security of the united states. issues like money laundering if they were laundering money through the trump organization and theres serious allegation is a long these lines, that would be a powerful point of leverage of a foreign adversary over the president of the un...

Crossed the red line and they are outside of the scope of their investigation, and essentially they are on a fishing expedition, which is very dangerous to the republic. >> jeremy, come back to you for this. that is basically like not just -- not trump friendly. doesnt echo trump. almost as if scripted by trump. talking points, things that trump has said to "the new york times" and others. does that not make it feel very much like those comments were an audition for this job? >> yeah, they were ...

Congress needs answerers, did he make commitments to the president about recusal. is he pledged to confidentiality about information he learns. we need the answers to those questions. >> do you envision that will be one of the first orders of business of congress in the new year? >> i dont know we can wait until the new year. we need to press for answers right now and resume our efforts to pass bipartisan legislation either as a stand alone bill or government funding measure, that would protect ...

Don junior and roger stone another. will you call back witnesses who have come before the committee for further follow-up? >> its certainly very possible to bring back witnesses who refused to answer relevant. questions and people who made completely erroneous claims of privilege where there was no privilege to apply or others who said, i dont want to answer that question when others interjected and said you are here voluntarily and dont have to answer anything you want. thats no way to run an i...

Certainly, we want to send the message right now this new acting attorney general and any actions taken at the top by him or others will be scrutinized. people have to expect we will make sure the ethical standards of the department are adhered to and no interference in this investigation, indeed no one, including the president, is above the law. >> what leverage do you have at this moment. theres a bizarre gap, two months, a months and a half until you take the gavel and real vested power. a lo...

And thats where he starts to enter criminal possible liability of obstruction of justice especially after refusing any counsel of recusal. >> there were some who ended up serving jail time because they used and abused their power of a doj to protect a president. rick ross has talked about walking in a courtroom sipping on a beverage, i know a judge that got a lot of leverage, thats a gangster attitude that says youre above the law because you have people that will corrupt the law. and so it is v...

>> what i have said from the very beginning and what i believe regardless of what the rnc has to say is we need to look at who is running and talk to them and hear what their ideas are for how they will lead the caucus. i want to get some commitments from them on what we can get for north texas. i have some leverage in this position that im in. i think thats a good thing for my area and i want to use ma ta. >> what if shes the only candidate? >> if shes the only candidate, then thats a different...

Liability of obstruction of justice especially after refusing any counsel of recusal. >> there were some who ended up serving jail time because they used and abused their power of a doj to protect a president. rick ross has talked about walking in a courtroom sipping on a beverage, i know a judge that got a lot of leverage, thats a gangster attitude that says youre above the law because you have people that will corrupt the law. and so it is very real tonight that we have public evidence that do...

Interest in recusing himself. its not even clear if he is going to raise this question at all with ethics officials. and were also told he has already expressed in different venues at different times a real disagreement with the very notion that the president should be issued a subpoena. thats important because the threat of the subpoena is the thing that has been hovering over those negotiations all this month. and if you take away that threat of a subpoena, you would then have a situation wher...

Its been almost nonexistent. the thing that im thinking about right now is when cnn had a cnn citizen event a couple weeks ago and nancy pelosi said not only would they have subpoena power, she could use it as leverage for other issues. remember that. >> everybody stand by. democrats are moving closer and closer into winning control of the house of representatives as voting is about to end in five more states out west. california potentially could seal the deal for the democrats. well take a qui...