PRETTY TROUBLING T SOME PEOPLE. >> ALL RIGHT.
MICHAEL SCHMIDT, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING ME.
I'M JOINED NOW BY SENATOR ELIZABETH WARREN OF
MASSACHUSETTS. SENATOR, YOUR REACTION TO THE
DISMISSAL OF JAMES COMEY? >> WELL, LET'S PUT IT IN A
LITTLE CONTEXT. REMEMBER, SALLY YATES WAS ACTING
ATTORNEY GENERAL, AND ONE OF THE THINGS SHE TOLD THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION WAS THAT HIS INNER CIRCLE ADVISER FLYNN WAS
COMPROMISED BY THE RUSSIANS, AND SHE GETS FIRED.
PREET BHARARA IS THE U.S. ATTORNEY FOR THE SOUTHERN
DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. HE'S THE ONE WHO HAS
JURISDICTION OVER ANY INVESTIGATION INTO WHAT HAPPENED
AT TRUMP TOWER. AND AFTER DONALD TRUMP
ORIGINALLY EMBRACED HIM AND SAID HE WANTED TO KEEP HIM ON, PREET
GETS FIRED. NOW IT TURNS OUT THAT JAMES
COMEY, WHO SAYS HE HAS AN ACTIVE AND ONGOING INVESTIGATION, WILL
NOT RULE OUT INVESTIGATING DONALD TRUMP DIRECTLY AND THE
CONNECTION WITH THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN AND THE RUSSIANS, AND
NOW JAMES COMEY GETS FIRED. UM, YOU PUT THOSE TOGETHER, AND
IT'S PRETTY CLEAR WHAT'S GOING ON HERE.
DONALD TRUMP DOESN'T WANT ANYONE COMING ANYPLACE CLOSE TO AN
ACTIVE INVESTIGATION INTO THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE
RUSSIANS, THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN,
AND DONALD TRUMP HIMSELF. >> ROD ROSENSTEIN IS NOW THE
DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL, AND WERE THERE TO BE A SPECIAL
PROSECUTOR APPOINTED, IT WOULD BE UNDER HIS POW POWER BECAUSE
SESSIONS, THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, HAS RECUSED HIMSELF.
DO YOU BELIEVE A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR SHOULD BE APPOINTED
BY THE DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL? >> ABSOLUTELY.
WE NEED A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR RIGHT NOW.
I MEAN YES. HE NEEDS TO ANNOUNCE HE'S GOING
TO DO IT THIS EVENING AND FIGURE OUT WHO THE RIGHT PERSON IS AND
THEN HAVE A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR. LOOK, THE ONLY WAY WE GO FORWARD
HERE IS IF WE'VE GOT SOMEONE WHO IS INDEPENDENT, WHO IS GOING TO
CONDUCT A TRANSPARENT INVESTIGATION INTO WHAT'S GOING
ON. WE'VE HAD ENOUGH OF THE
PARTISANSHIP HERE. THIS IS NOW SOMETHING THAT
MATTERS TO EVERY SINGLE AMERICAN.
IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOUR POLITICAL AFFILIATION IS,
WHETHER YOU HAVE NO POLITICAL AFFILIATION AT ALL.
WHAT MATTERS AS AMERICANS IS THAT WE NEED TO GET TO THE
BOTTOM OF THIS QUESTION OF WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN
DONALD TRUMP AND THE RUSSIANS. WE NEED TO KNOW THAT AS
AMERICANS, AND NOW THAT TRUMP HAS FIRED THREE PEOPLE DIRECTLY
AND HIS OWN ATTORNEY GENERAL HAS
RECUSED HIMSELF FROM HAVING ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE
INVESTIGATION BECAUSE HE LIED TO CONGRESS ABOUT HIS OWN
RELATIONSHIP WITH THE RUSSIANS, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WANT US TO
GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS. WE MUST GET TO THE BOTTOM OF
THIS, AND THAT STARTS WITH AN INDEPENDENT PROSECUTOR.
>> SO I WANT TO PRESENT TO YOU THE SUBSTANTIVE CASE THE WHITE
HOUSE IS MAKING HERE AND GET YOUR REACTION TO IT.
SO WHAT THEY ARE SAYING, IF YOU READ THE DEPUTY ATTORNEY
GENERAL'S LETTER, IT IS ACTUALLY A CONDEMNATION OF JAMES COMEY'S
CONDUCT THAT ALIGNS QUITE CLOSELY WITH WHAT I HEARD FROM
DEMOCRATS, PROMINENT AND NOT SO PROMINENT, AND THE CLINTON
CAMPAIGN ABOUT HIS CONDUCT, THE SITUATION TO ARROGATE TO
HIMSELF, TO OFFER JUDGMENTS. THE DIRECTOR WAS WRONG TO USURP
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S AUTHORITY ON JULY 5th, 2016 AND ANNOUNCE
HIS CONCLUSION THAT THE CASE SHOULD BE CLOSED WITHOUT
PROSECUTION. THEY'RE BASICALLY SAYING THIS IS
A SUBSTANTIVE CRITIQUE OF HIM ESSENTIALLY GOING ROGUE DURING
THE CAMPAIGN, AND THAT MEANS THAT HE'S NO LONGER FIT TO SERVE
BECAUSE HE STILL SAYS IT'S THE RIGHT THING TO DO.
AND THE ATTORNEY GENERAL AND THE PRESIDENT AGREE, AND THEY'RE
SAYING, DON'T DEMOCRATSOCRATS A? YOU GUYS HAVE BEEN CALLING FOR
HIS HEAD FOREVER. >> COMEY WAS NOT FIRED BECAUSE
OF HILLARY. COMEY WAS FIRED BECAUSE OF THE
RUSSIANS. THE TIMING MAKES THIS, I THINK,
ENTIRELY CLEAR. THE FACT THAT ALL DURING THE
CAMPAIGN, DONALD TRUMP KEPT CITING COMEY AND USING COMEY.
ONCE HE WAS ELECTED, HE EMBRACED COMEY.
AND NOW TO TURN AROUND MONTHS LATER AND SAY, OH, YEAH, THAT
WAS JUST TERRIBLE, NAH, COME ON. THERE'S NOBODY LEFT IN AMERICA
WHO BELIEVES THAT DONALD TRUMP FIRED JAMES COMEY IN ORDER TO
TRY -- BECAUSE JAMES COMEY WAS MEAN TO HILLARY CLINTON.
THAT'S -- YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT THAT DONALD TRUMP SAYS THAT
MAKES YOU -- >> LET ME ASK YOU THIS.
>> SURE. >> AT ONE LEVEL, THERE'S
PRECEDENT FOR THIS. BILL CLINTON WAS THE LAST
PRESIDENT TO TERMINATE AN FBI DIRECTOR.
IT'S WITHIN THE POWERS OF THE PRESIDENT.
IT'S A TEN-YEAR TERM. THERE'S SOME INDEPENDENCE, BUT
THEY DO SERVE AT THE PLEASURE OF THE PRESIDENT.
THE PRESIDENT CAN FIRE THEM. HOW BIG IS SAY DEAL IS THIS?
>> IT IS A BIG DEAL. IN FACT, I THINK THAT'S THE ONLY
TIME AN FBI DIRECTOR HAS BEEN TERMINATED, AND THAT FBI
DIRECTOR WAS TERMINATED NOT BECAUSE OF ANY ONGOING
INVESTIGATION. HE WAS TERMINATED FOR ETHICS
VIOLATIONS. AND SO TERMINATING SOMEONE
BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEHAVED IN WAYS THAT ARE ETHICS VIOLATIONS,
YES, OF COURSE. BUT THAT'S -- YOU KNOW, IN A
SENSE, THOUGH, THAT REALLY IS THE POINT HERE, ISN'T IT?
NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW. THE DIRECTOR OF THE FBI IS NOT
ABOVE THE LAW. BUT HERE'S THE POINT.
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITE UNIT STATES IS NOT ABOVE THE LAW.
AND IF THERE IS A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TRUMP, HIS CAMPAIGN, AND
THE RUSSIANS, THEN THE AMERICAN PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THAT.
AND IF IT IS NOT LAWFUL OR WAS NOT LAWFUL, THEN WE ALSO NEED TO
KNOW ABOUT THAT. NO ONE IN AMERICA IS ABOVE THE
LAW, AND THAT INCLUDES DONALD TRUMP.
>> IT SEEMS TO ME THAT IN THIS CONTEXT IN TERMS OF HOW THE
CONSTITUTION DEALS WITH POSSIBLE LAWLESSNESS BY THE PRESIDENT --
AND I'M NOT SAYING THAT'S BEEN ESTABLISHED -- THAT THERE'S A
POLITICAL QUESTION AT THE HEART OF THIS, WHICH IS THAT YOU'RE
GOING TO NEED REPUBLICANS TO COME TO THE SAME CONCLUSION THAT
YOU HAVE, WHETHER IT'S IN THE CONFIRMATION OF THE NEXT PERSON
TO LEAD THE FBI, WHETHER IT'S IN THE POSSIBILITY OF SOME SORT OF
LEGISLATION THAT CREATES AN INDEPENDENT PROSECUTOR.
DO YOU THINK THAT'S A POSSIBILITY?
>> YOU KNOW, THERE ARE SOME MOMENTS THAT TRANSCEND POLITICS,
AND I THINK THIS IS ONE OF THEM. THIS IS A MOMENT WHEN ALL OF US
SHOULD CARE WHETHER WE'RE DEMOCRATS OR REPUBLICANS.
AND THIS IS TRUE IN THE HOUSE, IN THE SENATE, AND ALL ACROSS
THIS COUNTRY. WE NEED AN INDEPENDENT
INVESTIGATION INTO DONALD TRUMP'S RELATIONSHIP TO THE
RUSSIANS, AN INVESTIGATION THAT ALL OF US CAN BELIEVE IN, AN
INVESTIGATION THAT IS NOT SHAPED BY ONE POLITICAL POINT OF VIEW
OR ANOTHER, AN INDEPENDENT, TRANSPARENT INVESTIGATION.
EVEN DONALD TRUMP'S MOST ARDENT SUPPORTERS SHOULD WANT THAT.
THERE SHOULD NOT BE A CLOUD HANGING OVER THE WHITE HOUSE
ABOUT HOW DONALD TRUMP IS TANGLED UP WITH RUSSIAN
OLIGARCHS. WHAT WE NEED NOW IS AN
INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION, AND I HOPE THAT ALL OF MY COLLEAGUES
IN CONGRESS WILL CALL ON THE DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL TO
APPOINT A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR RIGHT NOW.
HE SAID DURING HIS CONFIRMATION HEARINGS THAT IF CALLED UPON, IF
THE CIRCUMSTANCES WARRANTED, THAT HE WAS READY TO DO THAT.
HE WAS PREPARED TO DO IT. THAT'S WHAT THE LAW PUTS IN
PLACE FOR HIM TO DO NOW THAT THE ATTORNEY GENERAL HAS BEEN -- HAS
BEEN BLOCKED OUT FROM ANY PART OF THIS PROCESS.
SO LET'S GET IT. LET'S DO IT RIGHT NOW.
LET'S HAVE AN INDEPENDENT SPECIAL PROSECUTOR, SOMEONE WHO
CAN PURSUE THIS ALL THE WAY DOWN AND FIND OUT EXACTLY WHAT THE
RELATIONSHIP IS BETWEEN TRUMP AND THE RUSSIANS.
WE ALL W
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