Transcripts for CNN Anderson Cooper 360 20190919 00:09:00 :

CNN Anderson Cooper 360 September 19, 2019 00:09:00

we need to make sure the integrity for whistleblowers is there. and by the way, anderson, we watched corey lewandowski yesterday simply refuse to answer the questions of the congress. so there needs to be accountability here. and it is time for the congress of the united states to start asserting its authority, probably through mechanisms like inherent contempt, where we start fining people and making people very, very uncomfortable when they thumb their nose at the elected representatives of the people of the united states of america. so this dni, corey lewandowski, and all of the other people who have come before congress and said, hey, guess what, i'm not answering your questions because donald trump doesn't want to, they need to be held accountable. and look, this is ant democratic anti-trump thing. our country doesn't work if the congress doesn't have the ability to do oversight of the executive branch. and my republican friends need to remember that there will be a democratic president some day and they will rue the day that they supported a republican president in thumbing their nose at the congress of the united states. >> whoever's in power, we have checks and balances for a reason. and clearly, if this is a break -- this seems to be a breakdown, at the very least,

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