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Think that you have democratic members now at every, on every issue with every cabinet level, with every cabinet saying, i want to look at this. i've been ignored for two years. now i've got my chance. >> so i'm reminded of something that rahm emanuel told david axelrod in an interview a couple of weeks ago on cnn. he said democrats should leave trump to mueller and they should focus on all the ethics violations. do you think that democrats are taking that advice? >> i mean, i think they'll walk and chew gun at the same time. >> they'll do it all. >> i think we've already heard that adam shiff...

Corrupt. it's unprecedented. the number of ethics violations we're seeing in one administration in the first two years of the first term, so there is something going on in there, and i put the blame squarely at the feet of republicans in congress. now democrats are coming in to do their job. >> do democrats have to be careful about getting involved in too many investigations? >> i don't think so. i don't see any down side. they have a duty, a constitutional responsibility to provide oversight. you can't overinvestigate thanks to investigate. the problem i think is that the

Thousands of dollars defending myself and my family against false allegations. zinke's resignation comes weeks after house democrats set to gain control of the house committee on natural resources. in charge of oversight of the interior. not an ideal situation for a cabinet secretary who's been the subject of at least 15 investigations during his tenure. here's the deal. this is what they call in hollywood foreshadowing. zinke may have used taxpayer dollars to fund expensive charter flights around the country but ain't dumb. can see the writing on the wall. democrats are coming for all the eth...

Instead they should first focus on possible ethics violations in other departments like epa, interior, take your pick. i assume, like you just said, you think democrats' first priority should be legislating. but do you agree with rahm also that the focus should be on probing these other areas of ethics violations and sort of leaving trump to mueller? >> no question, no question. again, there's two things we must do. one is actually make progress for the american people. that's why they gave us the majority in places we never expected to get votes in oklahoma, kansas, south carolina. the other ...

Does that mean holding donald trump and his administration accountable for ethics violations, for the russia investigation, et cetera? >> i have no idea why those two would be mutually exclusive. i think you do both of those. we have to do the oversight that the american people elected us to do. but, we have to work with this administration to try to develop legislation that we can pass in the house, senate hopefully will concur and the president will sign into law. we aren't going to do that by eternally battling over every issue that may pop up in the morning news. what we'd rather do is wor...