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Was masquerade and they weren't so moderate after all. >> as a former prosecutor, former federal judge with many high positions, you look at a pattern of conduct, right? you can look at specific conduct but a pattern of conduct. a pattern of conduct by this house under the democrats has been to seek and destroy. they have issued scores of subpoenas of the president's private finances, tax returns, his bank records, his past businesses and have had nothing to do with their oversight function. they've issued subpoenas relating to issues that would never be raised for the president of the united ...

Was masquerade and they weren't so moderate after all. >> as a former prosecutor, former federal judge with many high positions, you look at a pattern of conduct, right? you can look at specific conduct but a pattern of conduct. a pattern of conduct by this house under the democrats has been to seek and destroy. they have issued scores of subpoenas of the president's private finances, tax returns, his bank records, his past businesses and have had nothing to do with their oversight function. they've issued subpoenas relating to issues that would never be raised for the president of the united ...

Security, of national security, to stand up and do their jobs. >> you know, jeremy, i don't want to put you on the spot, but i'm going to do it anyway. at the cia and at the pentagon you obviously were in contact with democrats and republicans. those are agencies with a whole lot of bipartisan support for their missions and their funds. what do you think chairman burr thinks when he sees not just -- i mean, what's remarkable here is we've passed pro trump propaganda. we are now trafficking in this country pro-putin propaganda. do you think the chairman feels any responsibility to stand up for ...

Activity. i experienced some of it on the m deic side when i was director of cia and at the white house. and those oversight responsibilities are very, very important and fundamental to the good operation of the government. and if those oversight activities are going to be beset and undermined by partisanship and by political agendas, that really is going to affect our national security at its core. and so i would like to see that maybe this -- what we experienced over the last several years is going to lead to a reevaluation of how we can ensure the appropriate oversight of government and to ...

City of washington that at least the oversight function of those core national security institutions, the fbi, the cia and others is going to be done in a bipartisan manner the way it was intended when it was set up back in the 1980s. >> you reference there partisanship. i think you're referring to the oversight torture report of dianne feinstein now memorialized in a film. the cynical interpretation there, and i think it's been wielded precisely by the president and his allies, right, is that, you know, partisanship is just what the cia doesn't like. right? that partisanship is in the eye of ...