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Accountability. its not just oversight from congressional committees and courts, but theres a form of accountability that comes from within. and often times, whistle blowers can be a very important part of that. >> i appreciate your words. i think if i remember right, whistle-blowers should not be retaliated against. i want to assure you that at least two of your predecessors have told me exactly the same thing. so i think its how you interpret your own words that whistle-blowers shouldnt be ret...

Wray that whistle-blowers will not face retaliation. some of his predecessors have done a poor job of protecting whistle-blowers. at the fbi oversight hearing on may 3, i said that a cloud of doubt hangs over the fbis objectivity. the previous director james comey said that the people of the fbi dont give a rip about politics but mr. comey installed as his deputy director a man whos wife ran for the have a state senate and accepted almost a million dollars from the virginia governor political ma...

Whistleblowers in the fbi and hold retaliators accountable, not just with your words, but with your actions. im sorry to say that your predecessors did a poor job in this respect even though they may have been very effective in running a law enforcement agency and seeing that everybody got the criminals they should get. >> well, mr. chairman, your reputation for looking out for whistleblowers, i think, is maybe unparalleled and certainly i know this topic is very important to you. i would say fi...

This looms big in my mind. >> i recognize and respect the issue. my view is that torture is wrong and unacceptable. both of my predecessors had a policy that the fbi is going to play no part in the use of any torture techniques. thirdly, one of the things we did was investigate and prosecute an cia contractor that

Accountability. not just from congressional committees and courts but a forcform of accountability that comes from within and oftentimes whispblowers can be a very important part of that. >> i appreciate your words. i think if i remember right whist whistleblowers should not be retaliated against. i want to assure you that two of your predecessors have told me exactly the same thing. so, i think its how you, how you interpret your own words that whistleblowers shouldnt be retaliated against. but...

Wrapped up in hamburg, germany, without one news conference from president trump. but his predecessors, both george w. bush and barack obama have held news conferences at every g20 or before that the g8 summits going back to at least 2004. the only time trump took questions from reporters was before the g20 began at a joint news conference in warsaw with the president of poland where he blasted the american medias coverage of his presidency. lets listen. >> they have been fake news for a long ti...

Or mueller or his three predecessors for that job. hes going to have a learning curve ahead of him. i think the hearing itself will be complicated in that there is the russian investigation ongoing by special council mueller, and by the intelligence committees. ray is going to have to assure the congress that he will let these things proceed, not only unincumbered but with his support. i think theres going to be a lot of requests for that promise. >> circumstances -- i was going to say, as well,...

For germany chancellor angela merkel, president trump is making a big chunk out of his predecessors environment legacy. kevin corke tonight tells us about more regulations, biting the political dentist well my stomach just. >> this vast energy well does not belong to the government. it belongs to the people of the united states of america. >> its almost like it never happened. the trip administration are raising an obama era rule that withdrew 100 millions of acres of federally owned land from p...

Talking about the president, we now know that the president will not hold a news conference at the end of the g20, something that his predecessors did after their attendance. we know right now the big meeting today is the meeting with the chinese president, xi jinping, happening right now. you see on the left of your screen, president trump and the u.s. delegation sitting across from president xi and the chinese delegation, north korea at the top of the list. also trade on the list. the islands ...

They attempted to restart the u.s./russia relationship. how does president trumps first meeting measure up to those predecessors? >> well, those predecessors really swooned over putin at first and backed away and realized he was dishonest, he was somebody we couldnt trust or do business with. donald trump hasnt come to their conclusions yet. he still seems to be taken with putin. all of the 2016 presidential election he kept praising putin to holy heaven. he even intimated that he had previously...