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Treatment caucus has voted to support its cofounder, congressm congressman jim jordan, as he faces accusations of turning a blinds eye to sexual abuse over a decade ago. it was alleged jordan knew about the abuse but did nothing about it while he was the assistant wrestling coach. nine others say it s not clear whether jordan knew anything about the abuse. jordan, denying having if i direct knowledge of sexual abuse has not sat down with investigator, but says it s possible he might sit down with them his week. i want to bring in senior political chairman charley dent. and norm, gentlemen, good ....
This country by firing james comey. charley he says he s changing thing up but he s making a bigger mess and putting his own interest above the country s. i have to say i agree with you. he had the right to fire james comey but when he fired him that s what got him a special prosecutor on his back. that was a mistake. as a little matter from my republican colleagues, in the house especially, i got to tell you, they need to exercise serious oversight. if they didn t get that message in the election in western pennsylvania, where the republican candidate says he was going to be trump s wing man. he was trump before trump. in the district where the president won by 20 points and voters wanted somebody to be a little bit of a check on the president and safe trump distance. i have to be telling my colleagues they have to be sure about their article 1 power when there s a democratic and republican president. ....
Side and he s quite worried i suspect, especially about the obstruction of justice charge. he s trying to undermined the mueller investigation, attack the doj and the fbi, i think he has good cause for worry. my concern ultimately, i m concerned that this presidential strategy, which is completely at odds with the rule of law, the constitution and the truth itself, my concern stat strategy may nevertheless will working because it s resonating with this republican base that is willing to protect trump at all cost. so, charley, then, your colleagues or former colleagues, i imagine they re smart people. why are they such enablers, why won t they stand up for this? what is going on? well, i ve had some frustration with some of my colleagues on this matter. i ve said to them repeatedly. ....
Can get it from a crime or not. congressm congressman, mueller is saying he was in contact with him in the months leading up to the collusion and gates knew that this person was an intelligence agent, was a spy. how significant could that be, that he was both in contact with this individual, that he knew this individual to be a russian spy, and that this happened in the months before the election, congressman? well, as richard said, it certainly establishes a tie between the campaign and the russians. question is is this criminal? i simply don t know the answer to that. but i ll tell you it seems that this moves beyond paul manafort business dealings that preceded his time with the campaign. kind of really puts the campaign directly in the cross hairs. and so we still have a lot more to learn from director mueller, but i would be a little nervous right now if i were part of the campaign and part of the trump campaign. it seems to me they have a lot to worry about. i m not saying the ....
He is not going to do that. instead he s going to have a top federal prosecutor from utah look into the allegations but not going ahead with the special investigator, special prosecutor all the way. do you think the president, congressman, will be satisfied with this, especially given the things he said about jeff sessions? probably not. i agree with jeff sessions. if anything, i think inspector general in the department of justice could very easily be looking into how, and i believe they are, looking into how the clinton, how the justice department dealt with the clinton campaign investigation. i this i that would be completely appropriate. i think you are better off with inspector general report first. let s see what that reveals. hand then you can always take it to the next step. but i think jeff sessions made the right call. i think the president would be very disappointed. thank you very three. thank you for your time. next, after this revelation on outfront, doing damage ....