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It s the american public. remember, we have separate but co-equal branches of government. for too long, the doj and the fbi has been stonewalling washington, has been stonewall ing congress. congress has a right to oversee it. devon nunes is chairman of the intel committee, so classified information can be sent to the intel committee, not to the entire body. that is the role that they have but for every time they have stonewalled us we ve not given up and when we did get the information, it was very interesting how the information would come forward that people would then start resigning or quitting from these organizations based upon the action that they took place. i think from my point of view is we will not stop because we are separate but co-equal and we will take every process that we have in the power to get the information that we have a right and responsibility to see. maria: there s an op-ed in the journal by kim strassel on friday and she writes the credibility of the house ....
Abuse of power at the fbi and the department of justice. you heard devon nunes earlier call into fox & friends and you basically said we re done, we are ready now, to pursue contempt of congress charges because you re not getting the documents your committee chairman have asked for. how far are you willing to go with this? are you going to pursue contempt and impeachment charges? well first let s actually talk about what we re seeing. it s not just us and it s not just the american people. last friday, a federal judge, t. s. elliott said this to mueller s investigation, that he does not leave a special prosecutor has the power he or she to do anything they want. unfettered power i think the term he actually used. what they re watching today and what he questioned look everybody wanted to get to the bottom was there any collusion with russia. the millions of dollars spent all the investigation, everybody says there was none. it is time for mueller to end that investigation, everybody ....
Between or coordination with the trump campaign and russians. maria: congressman real quick what should we expect from the i g report? this report is forthcoming we re expecting it some time in the month of may. i would expect that what the inspector general is going to find is that former fbi director james comey violated his employment agreement, made multiple unauthorized disclosure s or leaks of information, perhaps classified but at least fbi documents and has made false statements to congress, and perhaps to investigators for the ig, so i will say this. i think that michael horowitz has proven himself to be a fair umpire with respect to calling balls and strikes, he had the courage to make a criminal referral of the deputy director of the fbi. maria: right. andrew mccabe so i think if it s ....
Able to see that scoped memo now that we know that rosenstein actually did expand the mandate for which robert mueller is supposed to pursue? i don t know whether he expanded it or contracted it he in any event defined it and we should see the memo, whether we re going to be able to or not i guess depends on how robust our system is, if it s robust we ll see it. maria: what s your take on where this is going? these are extraordinary times, judge. you ve got the robert mueller investigation that s going all over the place and then you ve got an investigation into the handling of the 2016 election by the fbi and the department of justice on that score we re waiting for this ig report which is forthcoming next couple of weeks. do you think we ll see justice? i hope that what we will see is the justice at the facts justify and that people will stop dealing with things for reasons having nothing to do with the facts the way for example, james comey did because he had some higher loyalty ....
Thought with the initial mandate of russia collusion. yeah, i think that, you know , very clearly, there was a scope for the special counsel to be looking at russian collusion and it has gotten far afield of that. i think the judge in this case interestingly is maybe exercising some oversight that the department of justice hasn t been. i think this can be effectively narrowed down. the special counsel shouldn t be looking at for instance obstruction of justice at this point in time. even setting aside the question of whether or not a president can be charged for something that the constitution authorizes him to do in firing an fbi director, even to the extent you want to look at that james comey through his actions, words and his writing has effectively torpedoed any obstruction of justice charges so the special counsel ought to move on away from that and really look at what the core basis of his appointment was which is whether or not there was any collusion ....