the agents in the fbi who hear the president who is at the top of their organizational chart saying the fbi director is wrong, i am willing to commit a crime, how should the fbi and fbi agents react to that? what should they be thinking about in terms of what this president is capable of? so first, i know that christopher wray is a respected leader in internally. i think what we ll probably hear from folks in the rank and file is he will likely send a mess and to the troops. is he might do it as soon as tomorrow. it will be a couple of paragraphs in an all employee e mail that says look, we ve got to do our job and keep our head down. here are the laws and the counter intelligence laws regarding accepting data, a thing of value from a foreign power. no matter who has a different opinion and what level that person is at, our job is to enforce the law and protect the
al, i know you have to work on questions for the debate. this one tonight gives you something to think about to put it mildly. do you even have to ask the democratic candidates, would you guys call the fbi? i have a feeling it s going to come up no matter what you ask at the debate. has norway called? thank you, rachel. well, on the the president of the united states said he would break the law to win re-election. that is the essential headline of the night. the president of the united states is willing to violate the law to win his re-election. and in an interview with abc s george stephanopoulos, president trump was asked if a foreign government offers him information on his opponent, will he accept that help from a foreign government. or a foreign national. will he call the fbi? president trump said you don t call the fbi.
just read the law that makes accepting it illegal as well as it s illegal for the foreign national to offer it. i want to isolate something in particular the president said and this is president of the united states as mob boss talking about his own personal notion of when you call the fbi and why he in his entire life, his entire life, has never called the fbi and let s all remember this is somebody who operated casinos in atlantic city, someone in the commercial real estate business in new york where the fbi has actually had a lot of investigative leads over the years, let s listen to the president talking about why you don t ever call the fbi. i ve seen a lot of things over my life. i don t think in my whole life i ve ever called the fbi in my whole life. you don t call the fbi. what does that sound like to you, frank figliuzzi. sounds like a cop pole in la cosa nostra saying we take care of things in this thing of ours.
democrats have yet to go to court tore enforce subpoenas, requiring anyone to come before the congress or requiring the production of documents of late. it s time for us to act to begin this inquiry and if your member of congress won t act, then the public needs to say why not and to ask their member to reflect their concern that we have a president who is engaged in one criminal act after another who always puts himself first and our nation last. and congressman, we now have a president tonight who is saying he would violate the law. he is willing to do that and so i ve never seen in the impeachment process, there has never been in the impeachment process an issue involving the president s future behavior. you now have it seems possible now to craft an article of impeachment eventually that would say because the president says that he will do this, he
would accept that, he would violate the accept portion of that law. there s no other moment in our historical record of a president saying that he was willing to commit a crime, willing to violate a law. what law would the president have to announce he s willing to violate for the house to start to take action against him? i think that s a better question for your other panelists. the distinguished congressman. . congressman doggett is all ready to go to impeachment. he s not one of the democrats waiting for more. i will say this and this was mentioned on your previous panel. one of the things that the president and his team pointed to when this was first being litigated after 2016 election, was their lack of familiarity with the campaign finance laws and laws in general. that served them well in that capacity i believe mueller referenced that in fact with don