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Also the president singled out democrats, notably maxine waters who openly called for his impeachment. are the democrats going to take action if they sweep mid terms? >> what adam schiff who is ranking member of select committee on intelligence indicated is that if there is a change in the majority, and should he become chair of the intelligence committee that some of the unattended and nonpursued avenues of the investigation would be taken up again. i think that's appropriate. >> very quickly, i want to get back to firing of the house chaplain, patrick conroy. not only democrats like yourself...

There is outrage on capitol hill over the mysterious ouster of the house chaplain. father patrick conroy spent nearly seven years on the job before announcing last week he would be involuntarily stepping down. his last day will be may 24th. house speaker paul ryan asked for his resignation. according to house republicans at a closed meeting this morning. ryan told the caucus his decision was not tied to political pressure or even a prayer the catholic priest gave on the house floor last fall. instead ryan said there were complaints father conroy wasn't doing enough pastoral care on capitol hil...

By all americans." do you read that prayer as being political at all? >> no. no, i think that's just kind of classic standard spiritual guidance. and very consistent with catholic social justice doctrine, i might add. in fact, it's almost laughable, except it's not, that invoking fairness and remembering those less fortunate apparently is now a firing offense here in the house of representatives. i mean, with that logic i'm surprised paul ryan didn't attempt to fire pope francis when he came to town. because believe me, he not only believes that, would say that, he'd go further. >> well, the s...

No official reason at all. he didn't give a reason to father conroy, he didn't give a reason to leader pelosi. apparently in his caucus this morning he indicated vaguely that there was some members of his caucus who were told they had not been properly responded to in terms of ministerial needs. other republicans spoke up saying that was too vague and they didn't accept that explanation. certainly on the democratic side, we don't accept that. we've never had a complaint about father conroy in seven years. >> the chaplan thinks that part of the reason he was fired was a prayer he gave on the ho...

Chaplain he'll bring new sensitivity to the job. >> good to know that, i didn't know that dialogue had happened. >> it's to his credit as a gentleman. >> the resolution call for investigation into why the chaplain was fired was voted down. any further recourse at this point that could help get father conroy back? any other repercussions? >> i think for one thing, i just closed a letter today with my republican friends, walter jones, 150 signatures on it, it's going to speaker ryan, asking for a detailed explanation and justification for this action. we look forward to speaker ryan's response. ...