Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20180919:17:04:00
It in the senate's lap, danny, but who, in fact, can call for a fbi investigation here? is the president right? >> technically the president can do it but it's important to understand there are a couple of kinds of investigations. on the one side, the fbi is a law enforcement agency. it conducts criminal investigations of federal crimes. so to the extent that this is an alleged crime, this is assault from 30-plus years ago, there's -- it likely no fbi jurisdiction. you might have a kidnapping argument but the statute of limitations is long since expired. a local matter. on the other hand, the ...