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Have i to put that out, but in my experience, congress has always had a deep and hands-on role with whistleblower complaints against the institutions and the agencies that comprise the executive administration, i have not ever seen an objection along the lines of this one. >> congress ain't the fbi, but in what we saw in that hearing today, if they're going to have potential witnesses say, well, the president claims his immunity, his privilege over me, even if they didn't work in the white house, as preposterous as a claim that is to me as a lawyer and there's no law on case that would ever ex...

Basically has. i think that it is painful to watch quite frankly. the whole hearing because not well organized. >> not withstanding the organization and the questions and lewandowski may be acting in good or bad faith or the fact that he is giving donald trump a big hug, let's just talk about the legality of the whole situation about this immunity or this executive privilege that is over corey lewandowski when asked, the deputy press secretary said that mr. lewandowski will testify are regarding matters already made public in the mueller report any communications with the president or senior a...

About the way you have been thrust to the forefront of this debate over the 9/11 first responders? and does the kind of attention that jon stewart has brought to it have an influence on how you will proceed? >> i don't know how many times i can say we've never left the 9/11 victims behind, and we won't again. >> so this bill has bipartisan support. mcconnell says he's going to take care of it. can you help -- i was trying to press schumer on this earlier today, the minority leader. why it is that this is taking so long because i think that there are a lot of americans out there who simply do n...

Deals like this tit-for-tat and it could feel very petty. folks at home, this is not petty. this is very important stuff. congress cannot just say, geez, you gave a press conference and you don't want to come. okay. that is fine with us. who are we? we're just the elected representatives of the nation. >> they have to do their job. >> and they like him. democrats like him. which is why it is such a difficult decision. >> thank you. thank you very much. on more than one occasion robert mueller's statement clearly contradicted the message coming out of white house. but we still have a number of ...

>> it begins in the house. that's what is in the constitution. somebody has to stand up and ripping the bell and say read the mueller report. i don't care if you're a democrat or a republican. read the mueller report on obstruction. as the more than 600 federal prosecutors that, there it is. the criminal indictment is right in front of us. mueller made clear that all the elements are there for obstruction. criminal obstruction. in multiple incidents. congress cannot cover its ears and close its eyes and pretend this isn't happening. this is about what kind of a country we are. we swore not jus...