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They are what prevents us from having a tyranny, what makes sure our presidents are accountable under the law, whether it's through processes like impeachment or being held to standards of criminal justice when crimes are committed. it is so important that we have a justice on the supreme court who adheres to these principles, that as a member of a coequal branch -- >> jack, i hear you, and i think that most people in the audience, most rational people would agree. but we know that over the course of the last few years nothing has been normal when it comes to this -- starting with this candida...

Intelligence committee, the senate judiciary committee is looking at this. it is really an effort to help the trump legal team but there are a lot of issues in which the republicans say this is legitimate oversight, a coequal branch and congress can get what it once if it acts in a united way which is why it is important that paul ryan got behind a threat to take action against the justice department. if it was just one committee chairman the justice department would not give them the time of day. >> another key player, the republican congressman saying it looks like they are going to move for...

But there are a lot of issues in which the republicans are saying, this is legitimate oversight. >> shannon: it's a coequal branch. >> and congress can get what it wants if it acts in a united way, which is why it was important that paul ryan, speaker of the house, actually got behind a threat to take action against the justice department. if it was just one committee chairman, the justice department would not give them the time of day. speak >> shannon: and mark meadows is saying it looks like they are going to move forward with a resolution to the floor. there has been a lot of, you know, he...

Of congress is seeking information to do oversight about how the fbi is conducting investigations that is something of a have a right to learn about whether it is the clinton email probe or the trump russia probe. this failure to comply with congressional oversight and subpoenas is a constitutional crisis we are in which a strict obstruction by the front of justice and the fbi. and it is not something they should be doing. >> they are providing things, maybe not the format and timing folks on the hill would like but that leads us to folks in congress say we are a coequal branch. >> they should...

Do cross the line. >> sen. warren is totally wrong, they are not making a constitutional argument for trying to change the law and by changing the law they will create a burdensome paperwork that will do nothing to make the country or the border safer. they have a tough job to do, there are other ways of getting across the border, planes the dropping drugs into the united states, people coming across for a variety of means and to ask in the 100 miles on, within the border zone that is legitimate, what they are doing. >> within 100 miles of the land or sea border that is permitted, another issu...