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Think that republicans in congress would be outraged. and this is what i'm talking about when i say selectivout rage. so you are not outraged about, you know, trump doing these things and saying these things. but when obama did something as put on a tan suit and go to japan, all of a sudden he was not presidential. he did not represent the country well. he was disrespectful. all of those things that trump does on a daily basis, you have a republican congress that does absolutely nothing. and it is their job to check him and they have failed to do so. and that, i think, is more astonishing, fra...

And we know, ask the governors of the states where they're deployed, all else has not failed. the law enforcement and the national guard are there. everything is find on the border. so it's a big waste of money and it's coming at the same time we just had a report that came out last week from a panel of experts that congress commissioned and they said we're not putting resources into our military in the right places and we don't have enough resources to combat russia and china, to compete with russia and china. so it's a colossal waste. so that's what's happening at the top level. hans was in ...

Borders and present themselves for asylum and lock them in cages. those are things that americans want to see, as well. that is a functioning congress. that is their job, jooversight. >> the president has never fully separated himself from his business interests. it's bled down into his administration. you see it with ryan zinke. you see it with wilber ross and betsy devos. i think this congress and this house has a role to play with exercising what we want out of government. so me, that is about process and good government. and this congress can do a lot to bring facts to the american public ...

Military, comments he made to the press afterward. and he was, dare i say, almost cavalier about this lethal force issue saying we're going to authorize it, hope it doesn't come to that. help us understand the magnitude of allowing that to happen. a lot of people thinking back to what happens in 1997. >> in the 1800s, congress passed a law that basically said that the federal government should not send in federal forces, military forces, to any state, basically, unless the state was unable to maintain order. and the few exceptions where active duty military were deployed to states were in case...

This intermediate phase where the republicans try really hard to muddy the waters. >> how much are you paying attention to this last gasp, as jonathan altar called it, giving what we're seeing with them churning out the path going forward come january? >> i think it's another example of what i think the current members in the house have excelled at, which is selective outrage. where was this committee when donald trump, who is the subject of an investigation, who is the target of an investigation, met with rod rosenstein who was in charge of basically this investigation into russia. where was ...