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Criticized in this memo, be given an opportunity to come in and talk to us about these allegations. if that had occurred you would say, golly, weve learned something and maybe we wouldnt -- congress wouldnt spin-off the rails with a bunch of poorly founded allegations. the committee refused to provide an opportunity for the department of justice or the fbi to answer these charges. this is not oversight, anderson. this is a political hit job. >> chairman goodlatte said he doesnt know of any other...

Committee has an incredible vital oversight roll. if theres an investigation of wrongdoing thats incredibly serious, but if there is an investigation why wouldnt one of the first steps before going public be to bring the fbi leadership, including director ray or anybody who may have done something wrong, in front of the committee, the house intelligence committee and grill them? wouldnt that be the next step rather than releasing a memo? >> well, first of all, the director, in my opinion, has no...

Examples where there hasnt been an investigation but intelligence was examined by one group, republicans or democrats on a committee and then decided to release a memo. and they had to get the presidents sign-off to do it? >> i dont any of any example of a memo being released. and frankly, anderson, as i think about the history of this country and the many investigations done in the national security realm, very serious charges, that a work product would be produced without actually talking to t...

Feinstein handled it. but the way the president at the time handled it was very different, and thats a key pivotal difference here. >> i agree. >> because president obama took the memo which was sent to him from the intelligence committee, asked the dni to run a process. which took months and months so it wouldnt put national security at risk. this is being rushed out of the door. i want to make that point. >> look, the precedent were making is theres no precedent exactly for this in terms of ho...

To get the presidents sign-off to do it? >> i dont any of any example of a memo being released. and frankly, anderson, as i think about the history of this country and the many investigations that have been done in the national security realm, i cant think of another example as when something -- very serious charges, that a work-product would be produced without actually talking to the entity being investigatored. that a work-product wouldnt be produced with every attempt to make a bipartisan co...

Wrong doing by the fbi and department of justice, thats incredibly serious. but if there is an investigation why wouldnt one of the first steps before going public be to bring the fbi leadership, including director wray or anybody who may have done something wrong, in front of the committee, the house intelligence committee and grill them? wouldnt that be the next step rather than releasing a memo? >> well, first of all, the director, in my opinion, has not done anything wrong. its not about him...

Hearings, trump never actually asked him about this, that the conversation quickly moved to the flynn investigation and to other matters when the sort of existential threat thats confronting the president is the vulnerability of our democratic system of governance -- >> our country. >> -- and the fbi is looking into that, and trump didnt seem all that interested in discussing it with comey. and it is an existential threat. yes, there is no evidence of votes altered directly by the russians, but ...

We need to do. >> so, is there too much focus, congressman, on social issues in the democratic party and not enough on economic? >> well, those issues are very important, and i dont think we should yield any ground at all on those issues because theyre vital to our society when youre talking about refugees, youre talking about a womans right to choose, when youre talking about voting rights. these are -- immigration reform. these are really important, but when youre going to be a national party,...

Saying even the president himself has called this legislation mean. imagine how effective that is in a district where this bill already is pulling in the 20s. -- polling in the 20s. it seems even with all that, and jay, correct me if im wrong, it seems like this thing is going to pass because of inertia. no one wants to be the one to stop the repeal and replace. they want to pass the buck. the house passed it to the senate. the senate probably wants to get it out of its chamber. is it possible i...

That this will make people think that his election results are not, you know, not accurate, and so he doesnt want to talk about russia because it makes him feel like people are undermining his win. and yet, hes overlooking, hes overlooking the threat to this country. can you talk about the magnitude of how potentially catastrophic it would be if our elections were hacked, were tampered with, if they were successful next time? >> youre exactly right. and i think -- there really seems to be two ex...