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We heard president trump before he left for france tell reporters that the democrats better not investigate him or he'll investigate them right back. i talked to eliot engel, the incoming chairman of the house foreign affairs committee, and he is not scared of president trump's threats. and he intends to investigate not only what's going on in u.s. foreign policy right now but what's been going on in u.s. foreign policy for the past years. basically, not only president trump but secretary of state pompeo, secretary of defense mattis, all these leaders have gone without what we would consider b...

Miffed. why is this acceptable? why is it acceptable to hold back documents that are relevant? >> it shouldn't be and there's a bipartisan standard as joan just pointed out that this violates. when elena kagan was put forward, the obama administration didn't exert executive privilege. the bush library tried to say, look, be as transparent as possible. it's apparently the trump team that dialed that back. the reason -- let's just look at last night's document dump. okay? questions about warrantless wiretapping, water boarding, the selection of two supreme court justices that came up under his w...

Every day to think about one thing, how to protect consumers. >> that's getting at the crux of my worry, it's not just that the fed didn't have the authority in some cases and you see it, because the fed has done some things post-crash, pre-new rules that it could have done before. no statute has changed. it decided to exert pressure it didn't exert before. that makes me worry about the overall mindset of the fed. it is one thing to be a supervising agency of big banks. who you get along very well with and they're your board, all those things. >> the fed was tougher on banks. >> than to be a r...

Early. the chairman of the fed has said that. i agree. that is why we propose to take that authority away from the fed and give it to an agency and give it to people who wake up every day thinking how to protect consumers. >> the crux of it is not that the fed didn't have the authority in some cases and you see it because the fed has seen post crash prenew rules it could have done before. no statute has changed. it decided to exert pressure it didn't exert before. that makes me worry about the overall mindset of the fed. it is one thing to be a supervising agency of big banks. >> the fed was t...