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The attorney general about how to respond to this and when to respond to it. the intelligence committees have a legitimate interest from an oversight perspective of knowing about the specifics here. and i think at some point the dni on -- leading the intelligence community should render and will render i'm sure a damage assessment. that is what damage would accrue if the document -- the intelligence documents and emphasized intelligence documents were exposed. and so i think the issue is, though, doing so, the timing of doing so and whether or not that would jeopardize the evidentiary case in ...

Urgency to introduce this right now. this is what he had to say. >> we cannot wait. as we wait, we risk having the blood of somebody on our hands. and it could be a member of congress. >> congressman, i'm not sure if you could hear -- he said the case for doing this is -- he said if we don't, we risk having the blood somebody on our hands and it could be a member of congress. what's your reaction to that? >> look, as i said earlier, mr. green is a friend of mine. i'm a friend of his, someone that i respect immensely. but on this particular resolution, i disagree with the timing. i think that w...

Fbi. their own witness said it. the fact is, only donald trump thinks it's a good idea to keep from your own government the fact that a foreign government may be trying to undermine our election. again, he's rejecting the standard that shouldn't be in question and we all need to stand up for what's obvious and what's right. >> congressman, one other matter i wanted to ask you about. you're on the transportation committee, as well. we've been covering the snowballing series of corruption allegations against elaine chao. it's a sense tich matter, because she's a cabinet minister and because she'...

And we all need to stand up for what's obvious and right. >> there's one other matter i wanted to ask you about briefly. you're on the transportation committee, as well. we've been covering the snowballing series of could corruption allegations against elaine chao. she's married to the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. i wanted to know if you will know of any plans for the transportation committee to hold hearings on any of those allegations if there's anything else happening from an oversight perspective. >> i chair the marine transportation subcommittee. my committee has jurisdiction o...

The mueller report, making it visible to voters. maybe can keep that from coming out before the 2020 election. on the other hand, the first two courts that have looked at subpoena challenges by trump's team where they put forward this very aggressive theory that congress lacks legislative authority to even ask questions from an oversight perspective, the first two judges to look at that have not been impressed and they have moved very quickly it dispose of it and get it kicked up to the higher level. if this is a run out the clock strategy, it may not succeed. >> we saw with don mcgahn that he...