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Operational planning, i disagree with that. now, our role is in oversight function is to make sure everybody had the right training, tools, that were they getting the right intelligence before the activity. and i think general dunford, yesterday, outlined a number of the questions that the military still has and is looking into this case. and i think this is a perfect example of how thousands of our citizens, our men and women, are putting themselves in harms way every single day to keep us safe...

Reject it. hes preventing us from getting to that consensus. >> as you have an oversight role over how the intelligence agencies function, how are we to be sure that he is not trying to influence the outcome or that they are not editing or self-sensoring themselves about conclusions since he seems to be so disrespectful of a unanimous assessment? >> this is a grave concern. we want to make sure there is never any politicization, and the president has made it clear in various ways that he would l...

Now that james comey has told his side of the story what happens with all of the russia investigation in congress as well as with the special counsel? lets bring back david gregory, chris cillizza and karoun demorijia and laura coates. chris. >> if you listened to the testimony early on, he asked jim comey, do you think the special counsel investigation makes it impossible for us to do our oversight investigation just to get comey on the record. comey of course says no. i think it is uniquely po...

Kig wi . were following breaking news. the fbi now declining the house oversight committees request for documents related to president trumps communications with the fired fbi director james comey. back with jake sullivan. he was vice president bidens national security advisor, former policy adviceor to hillary clinton as well. theyre citing the justice department, the fact that the new special council robert mueller, a former fbi director, has an ongoing investigation. thats why theyre declin...

Looks at as part of its constitutional oversight function and were not there yet. but the larger questions here that also come in the questions you were asking, nicolle, about a potential cover-up, is, you have the underlying counterintel question, what happened during the campaign, then you have questions about the transition period and financial questions. and then now you have this third layer in this layered cake about whether there are attempts to impede or obstruct. so the cover-up would b...

Let me go to the other side of the aisle. senate democratic leader chuck schumer of new york. senator, welcome to "meet the press." i hope youre more enthusiastic to be on than senator graham. >> yeah, i didnt see senator graham. i want to join him in wishing all of the moms happy mothers day. in particularly to my mom, who will turn 89 in three weeks. >> well done. >> let me start with the issue of a special prosecutor. why do you believe it needs to be done. senator ben sass indicated that if ...

>> that was the most important message to say. >> happy mothers day. >> appreciate it. to the other side of the aisle, senate democratic leader chuck schumer of new york. welcome book "meet the press." i hope youre a little more enthusiastic being on than senator graham was? >> i didnt see senator graham. i just want to join him in wishing all the moms of america, your family, chuck, happy mothers day. particularly to my mom, who god willing will turn 89 in three weeks. >> all right. let me go...

Be done? as you know, senator ben sass indicated if you do that it is sending a message you dont trust the intel committee to do their work, a vote of no confidence there. shouldnt you let them do their job to see if they can do it without a special prosecutor? >> well, there are two separate lines of activity here. one is the oversight function of the intelligence committee, theyre doing their job. mark warner has done a very good job. i had some differences it would senator burr and in the las...

Ben rhodes, he is the former taxpayer funded white house fiction writer. thats what his job was to create a narrative of the obama foreign policy to best sell for domestic politics. that was his title then. now he is just a former. ed: i hear you, congressman, ben rhodes would say no it was not fiction. i guess we are trying to figure out we know the past. whats the future? whats this congress? because we have been talking about this for a couple of years, what can you actually do about it. >> s...

>> congressman zeldin, what is congresss role? it has been left out of the loop on so much for years and years? >> well, a few things. congress has an oversight function. i serve on the house foreign affairs committee. we have the appropriations committee where fund suggest provided for our military. from that standpoint, congress has been involved. when president obama sent the authorization for the use of military force towards the end of his second term, it did result in an interesting debate...