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Casting a vote on who i think would be best to lead the house of representatives in this next congress. >> im curious what you thought of fact that many people came to the polls and we asked them questions about the mueller probe for instance. and a plurality said they disapproved of it. only 41% approved of it. are you concerned that democrats will do too much investigating of the president or do you think some account aability is necessary? >> i think congress as you well know, they have the r...

Could fall under the recess appointment. if he did, it would only be through january. whatever power he could wield would be temporary. even temporary power can be very impactful, anderson, including the ability to hamstring. however r, the most concern i think i have about matt whitake reaso r, its the nature of his temporary appointment. can he go back and inform the president of the united states about what hes learned after being briefed by mueller and his team? will he be able to be a form ...

No evil coming to this president. and so, instead of calling this out, instead of having, you know, hearings on it, instead of having the republican leadership throw the flag down on comments like this, we hear crickets. it is totally quiet. there is no oversight function. the republican majority wants to undertake in this congress and why the midterm elections are so important. we finally have to restore check and balance on this government. >> you heard my colleague manu raju before speaking a...

Opportunity in november. >> we started this whole show asking who will put country over party, like john mccain did. this, you would imagine people would want to know about. at one time republicans want to know what was in trumps tax returns. >> its basically news clippings, right? every story unearthed by the press the republican majority chose not to do oversight on. second of all, its awfully vanilla. all like super obvious things in a normal oversight function either party would investigate....

Trump as a candidate, who wound release his tax returns, co-mingled his business interests, shown nothing but public scorn, he brags about his scorn for the rules, makes for a very soft target for the oversight function donna just described as an obligation of congress. on the other hand, apart from all of the drama, there is the, of course, issue, and the responsibility that elected officials have to have to their constituents about not making it a 24/7 investigation, even though that as discus...

Hes facing significant jail time. and so im not sure that the u.s. government, the justice department gets much more out of sort of an additional count of conviction. im not sure its worth it. you need to tell congress the truth. they have an important oversight function, but i dont think hell be prosecuted for lying to congress. i would like the congressman noted see michael cohen called babbli back and answer a whole bunch of questions because he has more to tell. >> thank you both for spendin...

President trump is unacceptable. he needs to understand that and he has not been brooiefed on wh happened. many of us are needing to find out a setting. >> we have a oversight function in the congress, and we asked for information. we know there is source material through the interpreter. we are not interesting in violating confidences, but we need to know what happened. we should get that information. >> the american public looks forward to hearing what happened in there as well. senate ben car...

Important meeting? >> its really shocking that the director of national intelligence does not know what happened in helsinki in the meeting between the president and president putin. thats absolutely amazing. he need to have that intelligence information in order to do his job. yet he doesnt know what happened in that room. thats why as an oversight function of the united states senate, its absolutely essential that we have the information about what happened in the meeting between mr. putin and...

A founding partner at f3, public affairs press secretary for house republicans with roy blunt, and antoine c wright, a democratic strategist and the founder of ceo blueprint strategy. great to have you. i will start with you on the latest move, contempt of congress over impeachment. >> i think that if you look at this, if you look at how the legislative process, that can be messy. in the united states that process can be messy. the oversight function can be even more messy. so what you are looki...

Starting in the legislative branch to hit russia where it hurts which is the oil and gas sector. president trump wont do that by himself. we saw what happened in helsinki. republicans can do that working with the democrats and i think its a shot of getting through. >> whats also interesting, amanda, what president trump is doing is so at odds with not only what republicans on capitol hill believe and his own national security advisers want. john bolton is one of the strongest russia hawks throug...