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Better than that, putting it legislatively, in concrete, to protect bob mueller. so i think it's to send a signal flare, a warning shot. >> republicans do seem to be slow walking any possible legislation on that. congressman swalwell, thank you for joining us. >> my pleasure. there was one person absent from the tax bill celebration at the white house today, senator susan collins, even though she voted for it. now we're learning about the promises that got her to "yes," promises made and broken. the details, next. ♪shostakovich playing ♪

Environmental policy, in immigration policy. i mean, this is where the executive gets a lot of blow back from people who say accurately you can't win it legislatively, use what power you have that's unchecked to try to chip away at it. i think there's no question. that's what the president is trying to do here, as jeffrey says, when he has to chance to name his own director, he will name somebody that will walk in and say i don't want the core function of this agency to prevail. i think to take this one step further, the bigger problem here is what does the government agree about what governme...

Senator collins from maine voted if are this. it's popular with the american public. the republicans in the senate don't want to vote. since they don't have the votes or even the courage to do this in a legislative way, this is a way to sabotage the agency and put them in there, the budget director who is a nice fellow and opposed to the whole notion of consumer protection and shut it down even though you can't change it legislatively. >> perhaps anticipating this, richard said first he wanted to share that i made this decision to reassign to the deputy director and she accepted and that has b...

Couldn't fire him. to complete that-year term, you have that process go forward. by the way, the key thing is this. mick mull vainy is supposed to be now a little busy. he has a government to fund. we have a government shut down facing us. you take this budget director who hates the agency and has other things to do and put him in charge is a sign of contempt that the trump administration and the anger had itself and the notion we would have shn omeone protect the average citizen. nothing disputes this more than donald trump is the friend of the little guy. >> they can't do it legislatively. t...

Operations and what it should promote in terms of consumer protection. so i do think there's a risk that we are going to see it, as errol said, hollowed out under the trump administration, likely to the point that it would just be obsolete, that it wouldn't be the same agency it was under the obama administration. and then the president could always make the argument that, well, this agency isn't doing anything and we should probably just repeal it legislatively. >> abby, i want to move on with you, here, to the "time" magazine versus president trump, it seems. president trump -- i want to rem...