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Let me go to the other side of the aisle. senate democratic leader chuck schumer of new york. senator, welcome to "meet the press." i hope you're more enthusiastic to be on than senator graham. >> yeah, i didn't see senator graham. i want to join him in wishing all of the moms happy mother's day. in particularly to my mom, who will turn 89 in three weeks. >> well done. >> let me start with the issue of a special prosecutor. why do you believe it needs to be done. senator ben sass indicated that if you do that, it is sending a message you don't trust the intel committee to do their work. and it...

>> that was the most important message to say. >> happy mother's day. >> appreciate it. to the other side of the aisle, senate democratic leader chuck schumer of new york. welcome book "meet the press." i hope you're a little more enthusiastic being on than senator graham was? >> i didn't see senator graham. i just want to join him in wishing all the moms of america, your family, chuck, happy mother's day. particularly to my mom, who god willing will turn 89 in three weeks. >> all right. let me go to the issue of a special prosecutor. why do you believe it needs to be done? as you know, sena...

Be done? as you know, senator ben sass indicated if you do that it is sending a message you don't trust the intel committee to do their work, a vote of no confidence there. shouldn't you let them do their job to see if they can do it without a special prosecutor? >> well, there are two separate lines of activity here. one is the oversight function of the intelligence committee, they're doing their job. mark warner has done a very good job. i had some differences it would senator burr and in the last week, some people tell me he was very upset with comey's firing, and i hope it continues. they ...

Ben rhodes, he is the former taxpayer funded white house fiction writer. that's what his job was to create a narrative of the obama foreign policy to best sell for domestic politics. that was his title then. now he is just a former. ed: i hear you, congressman, ben rhodes would say no it was not fiction. i guess we are trying to figure out we know the past. what's the future? what's this congress? because we have been talking about this for a couple of years, what can you actually do about it. >> so we need the assistance of the administration with a new administration. i mean, congress has a ...

>> congressman zeldin, what is congress's role? it has been left out of the loop on so much for years and years? >> well, a few things. congress has an oversight function. i serve on the house foreign affairs committee. we have the appropriations committee where fund suggest provided for our military. from that standpoint, congress has been involved. when president obama sent the authorization for the use of military force towards the end of his second term, it did result in an interesting debate in the media and the american public and amongst members of congress because it was attempting to ...