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>> senior justice officials said the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, mr. ray, and the nations intelligence chief who was oversight of the 15th agencies, the director of national intelligence dan coats have offered and look forward to briefing congressional leadershipn thursday which of course is passed is newly imposed path deadline. >> harris: thank you very much. from republican chairman jason chaffetz of utah joins now. so a deadline and an expectation. what you make of it? >> i expect everybody on the republican side of the aisle and the democratic side of the aisle to get behind d...

Oversight activity is bipartisan it can serve on check and any effort to exclude one party or the other threatens to undermine the oversight function and sends the wrong signal about the professional nonpolitical manner that must govern intelligence activities. how important is that? >> it's important for the perception standpoint. i don't think it's important legally at all. perception wise it does help. frankly, with this whole investigation, i mean that horse is so far out of the barn in terms of having a perception that this is nonpartisan that i'm not sure there is much we can do about it...

That made a soft approach to those affiliated with the campaign, when i reflect on that, that's the softest possible approach to learn about what was going on and still be able to call it an investigation. and that's what the president seems to have a great deal of concern about. and if i can just expand my concerns a bit more, you've got the issue with this investigation trying to dee legitimatize it. you've got the concern about the security of this particular informant. but frankly, nicolle, although i've kind of given you congress fully currently informed, the committees or the gang of eig...

Show. we've got democrats who are terrified of mentioning the "i" word, impeachment, out on the campaign trail. we know nancy pelosi doesn't want them calling for impeachment. but now we have a series of things, and especially this one, the president potentially lying on financial disclosure forms, something for which he could be prosecuted on. democrats can run against republicans, refusing -- in congress, refusing to perform their oversight function. and that is what they're doing. and that can be a very big campaign issue. and richard painter seems to understand that. and i think everything...

Rosenstein today, he was today reacting what he heard and been reported with the freedom caucus potentially drawing up articles of impeachment against himself. this is what he said. >> they can't even resist leaking their own draft. i just don't have anything to say about documents like that, that nobody has the courage to put their name on and they leak in that way, but i can tell you, the different people who have been making threats, privately and publicly against me for quite sometime, and i think they should understand by now that the department of justice won't be extorted. >> joe? >> we...