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593 donations to democrats, one to a republican. i don't care what party you're from. how can you with a straight face say that is a nonpartisan independent agency? >> you have to look at what the agency has been doing. it's protecting consumers. issued $12 billion in fines. also 30 million americans have directly benefitted from rip-offs and cheating by big banks and other financial institutions. it's doing exactly what it's supposed to do. the banks have tons of their own regulatory agencies. goldman sachs running the treasury department and the sec. goldman sachs is the comptrol r comptroll...

593 donations to democrats, one to a republican. i don't care what party you're from. how can you with a straight face say that is a nonpartisan independent agency? >> you have to look at what the agency has been doing. it's protecting consumers. issued $12 billion in fines. also 30 million americans have directly benefitted from rip-offs and cheating by big banks and other financial institutions. it's doing exactly what it's supposed to do. the banks have tons of their own regulatory agencies. goldman sachs running the treasury department and the sec. goldman sachs is the comptrol r comptroll...

Said whoa, we are running the place. according to your understanding of the law, who should run the place? >> in my mind there is no doubt that mr. mulvaney is correctly running the agency. actually, the cfpb general counsel agreed. ms. english is suing on her own behalf. steve: okay. to your earlier points about how it's just a wing of the democratic party, somebody dug up the number of political donations that have been made to democrats and to republicans and it turns out, this is laughable, 593 donations to democrats, 1 to a republican and that republican was mitt romney, i understanding. ...

>> what we know for sure is now this agency is here to stay. no more clouds over what it legally is entitled to do. no more attacks that say maybe we'll be able to undercut it in this way or weaken it in that way. we have a full-fledged watch dog. the one we fight dog. he will be there to fight for us. >> laura: i love it. i love watch dogs. the employees of the cfpb are not just bureaucrats, according to stats dug up by the washington examiner, since its founding, the employees have given money to democrats 593 times and only once to a republican. joining us to reaction, sean duffy. he sits o...

Mulvaney. steve: general counsel at this particular bureau said the president is right. he gets to do it. but here's the thing. weave actually had one the lawyers who worked there on the program and he said essentially it is being operated as a wing of the democratic party. in fact, if you look at the political donations made by people at that place. look at this. 593 donations went to democrats, 1 went to a republican by the name of mitt romney. the former attorney joined us live and said this about how political that federal bureau really is. >> a lot of ways it feels like the agency is run ...