Double Header - Congressmen Trey Gowdy and Jim Jordan question Rod Rosenstein

Double Header - Congressmen Trey Gowdy and Jim Jordan question Rod Rosenstein No doubt it is time to remove the biased special counsel Mueller

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there are a lot of issues that I would

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like to ask you about mr. Deputy

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Attorney General we had a terrorist

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incident in New York this week we have

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702 reauthorization that is pending in

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Congress gun violence the opioid

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epidemic criminal justice reform but

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when I go home to South Carolina this

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weekend trust me when I tell you no one

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is going to ask me about any of those

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issues they're gonna ask me what in the

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hell is going on with the Department of

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Justice and the FBI the reason we have

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special counsel this is a very important

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point the written you know it the reason

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we have special counsel is because of a

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conflict of interest the regulation

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itself specifically makes reference to a

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conflict of interest and and we don't

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like conflicts of interest because it

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undercuts people's confidence and both

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the process and the result so so let's

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be really clear why we have special

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counsel there was either a real or

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perceived conflict of interest that we

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were fearful would either impact the

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result or people's confidence in the

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process that's why we have something

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called special counsel and that's why we

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have special counsel in this fact

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pattern and then lo and behold those who

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are supposed to make sure there are no

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conflicts of interest seem to have a few

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of their own there's a senior prosecutor

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who said obsequious emails to a fact

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witness I she can be described as

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nothing other than a fact witness she's

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a really important fact witness if you

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pursue the line of inquiry that my

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Democrat friends want to pursue they got

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off of collusion and now their own

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obstruction of justice she may be the

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most important fact witness in an

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obstruction of justice case and the

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senior prosecutor for this conflict of

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interest free special counsel sent a

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fawning obsequious email to a fact

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witness and then we have prosecutors

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assigned to conduct this investigation

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who donated almost exclusively to one

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candidate over another and then we have

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a prosecutor assigned to this calm

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flicked of interest free team that

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attended what was supposed to be what

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he'd hoped to be a victory party for

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Secretary Clinton and we have a senior

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DOJ official mr. Deputy Attorney General

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with an office it used to be two doors

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now from yours meeting with fusion GPS

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and fusion GPS of course was paying for

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rush and dirt on the very person that

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they're supposed to be objectively

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investigating and then that same senior

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DOJ officials wife the one that met with

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fusion GPS his wife was on the payroll

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of fusion GPS and then we have a senior

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agent assigned to investigate secretary

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Clinton's email helped draft the

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exoneration letter well we changed the

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language from grossly negligent to

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extremely careless interviewed Secretary

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Clinton in an interview I've never seen

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and I doubt you have either in your

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career as a prosecutor interviewed

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Michael Flynn was actively involved in

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the investigation into the trunk

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campaign before the Inspector General

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found his text so this agent in the

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middle of almost everything related to

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Secretary Clinton in President Trump

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sent pro Clinton tax anti-trump texts to

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his paramour in response to being told

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maybe he is where he is to protect the

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country from that menace Donald Trump he

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said I can protect our country at many

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levels and then he said Hillary Clinton

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should win 100 million to nothing I

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think about that mr. Deputy Attorney

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General that's a pretty overwhelming

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victory 100 million to zero and when I

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read that last night what I thought was

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this conflict of interest free senior

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agent and the FBI can't think of a

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single solitary American who would vote

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for Donald Trump that's where the zero

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comes in not a single solitary American

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he can imagine would vote for Donald

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Trump this is the conflict of interest

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free special agent aside and then he

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went on if that

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enough to belittle Trump supporters by

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saying he could smell them at a Walmart

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in Virginia this is the person we needed

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to avoid a conflict of interest and then

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he said this they fully deserve to go

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and demonstrate the absolute bigoted

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nonsense of trunk but he wasn't content

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to just disparage Donald Trump he had to

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disparage Donald Trump's family this is

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what he said mr. Deputy Attorney General

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he said the douche bags are about to

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come out he's talking about our First

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Lady and children this conflict of

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interest free special agent of the FBI

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this is who we were told we needed to

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have an objective impartial fair

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conflict of interest free investigation

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so he's openly pulling for the candidate

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he had a role in clearing and he's

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openly investigating a candidate that he

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has bias against and then if that's not

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enough he says Trump is an effing idiot

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what the f just happened to our country

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this is the same man that said he would

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save our country what happens when

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people who are supposed to cure the

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conflict of interests have even greater

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conflicts of interest than those they

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replace well that's not a rhetorical

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question you nor I nor anyone else

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whatever sit Peter struck on a jury we

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wouldn't have him objectively

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dispassionately investigate anything

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knowing what we know now why didn't we

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know what ahead of time and my last

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question my final question to you and I

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appreciate the Chairman's patience how

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would you help me answer that question

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when I go back to South Carolina this

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weekend

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congressman first of all with regard to

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the special counsel mr. struck was

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already working on the investigation

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when the special counsel was appointed

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the appointment I made was to Robert

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Mullins what I recommend that you tell

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your constituents is that Robert Muller

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and rod Rosen Stein and Chris Rea are

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accountable and that we will ensure that

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no bias is

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selected in any of the actions taken by

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the special counsel or in any matter

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within the jurisdiction the Department

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of Justice when we have evidence of any

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inappropriate conduct we're going to

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take action on it and that's what mr.

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Muller did here as soon as he learned

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about this issue he took action and

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that's what I anticipate that the rest

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of our prosecutors are a new group of US

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attorneys our Justice Department and

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poor entities they understand the rules

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and they understand the responsibility

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to defend the integrity of the

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department if they find evidence of

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improper conduct they're going to take

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action so congressman that's the best

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assurance I can give you but actually

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there's one other point which is you

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should tell your constituents that we

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expose this issue because we're ensuring

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that the Inspector General conducts a

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thorough and effective investigation and

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if there is any evidence of impropriety

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he's going to surface it and report

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about it publicly I'll try