informing. >> i would assure you that those with oversight responsibility over the fbi have an enormously critical role as part of our system and i think it needs to be respected in all the appropriate ways. and i would make every effort, within the chain of command that you referred to, senator, to urge that we be as forthcoming as we legally and appropriately can be with all the right members of the senate. and the house. >> this is obviously a very politicized time in american life and a politicized time in the congress. but i'm filling in right now for a chairman, chuck grassley of iowa who has lots of bipartisan respect around this place because people know that when he does oversight, he's doing it as an article 1 branch of article 2 of the constitution, he's not doing it as a republican of an administration, that he either is or isn't alined with his own party affiliation, this is a constitutional separation of