INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE.
LOU: THANK YOU.
JAMES ROSEN.
TOMORROW PROMISING TO BE AS
FASCINATING AS TODAY.
JOINING US TONIGHT GEORGE
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW
PROFESSOR JONATHAN TURLEY.
>> THANK YOU, LOU.
LOU: WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THIS?
ANOTHER BEHIND CLOSED-DOOR
SESSION WITH HIGH RANGING FBI OR
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL,
I THINK THAT THE POSITIVE THING
HERE IS THAT WE ARE GETTING THIS
TESTIMONY.
FBI TENDS TO BE CLOISTERED AND
SECRETIVE.
IT IS CULTURAL IN SOME CASES,
THEY ARE YIELDING IN PRODUCING
TO THE FUTURE OF THE FBI AND
THESE INDIVIDUALS, THESE ARE
LEGITIMATE CONCERNS.
IF THERE WAS A POLITICAL
INVESTIGATIONS.
IT REQUIRES GREATER TRANSPARENCY
THAN MOST OF THE PHOEB
THAN MOST OF THE FHOEB
THAN MOST OF THE FBIEB
THAN MOST OF THE FBI OFFICIALS
FEEL COME
FEEL COMFORTABLE WITH.
LOU: WE'F
LOU: WE'VE HAD A GREAT NUMBER OF
OFFICIALS.
AND ANSWERS THAT LEADERS, AT THE
VERY TOP OF FBI AND JUSTICE
OVERSIGHT ORGANIZATION, THIS IS
EGREGIOUS CONDUCT IN MY PERSONAL
JUDGMENT.
ON THE PART OF THOSE OFFICIALS,
THEY ARE SAYING, THEY HAVE
REASONS NOT TO PERMIT OUR
CONSTITUTION TO WORK.
>> I TELL YOU, WHERE I AGREE IS
OFFICIAL TO BE IN OPEN CONTEMPT.
THEY HAVE A RIGHT OF OVERSIGHT,
AS IF THE IG'S OFFICE IS
SUPERIOR TO LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
THAT MUSCLE -- FLEXING THAT
I THOUGHT IT WAS THE GOOD WHEN
CHAIRMAN NUNEZ SAID WE'RE
PREPARED TO HOLE PEOPLE IN
CONTEMPT -- HOLD PEOPLE IN
CONTEMPT EVENT IF A REPUBLICAN
ADMINISTRATION, IF THAT IS WHAT
IT TAKES, I THOUGHT THAT WAS A
LOU: I CONCUR.
I WILL GO FURTHER.
TEMPLATE FOR HOW A CHAIRMAN OF
AN OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE SHOULD
OF THE CONSTITUTION.
IN MY OPINION SINCE LAST AUGUST,
HAVE DEMONSTRATED THEMSELVES AND
I AM REFERRING TO 2016, WHEN WE
THEY HAVE BROACHED NEARLY EVERY
TRADITION.
COMMITTEE, THIS IS SOMETHING FOR
AMERICAN PEOPLE TO PUT UP WITH.
>> WHAT CONCERNS ME, WHAT THE
COMMITTEE WAS ASKING FOR WAS
LEGITIMATE.
FACTS ABOUT THAT AS MUCH AS
INVESTIGATORS TISSUE -- IT WAS
THEM NOT FOR TARGETS.
THEY HAVE LARGELY OBSTRUCTED
THIS EFFORT THIS WEEK IS A BIG
MOMENT.
IN TERMS OF GETTING SOME PEOPLE
UNDER OATH.
LOU: UNDER OATH, AND McCABE --
WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ABOUT
CAUGHTS FOR HIM TO BE FIRED.
THE MAN WHO RECUSED HIMSELF 6
DAYS BEFORE THE ELECTION, AS WE
RECALL, HAVING ALREADY MADE NOTE
OF OF DECISIONS THAT -- MOST OF
THE DECISIONS THAT WOULD HAVE
BEEN IN DON BLIX
BEEN IN DON CLIX
BEEN IN DON CONX
BEEN IN DON CONFLICT WITH HIM.
ABOUT McCABE A CONDUCT, THERE
MAY COME A TIME WHEN WE HAVE TO
DO, THAT BUT I THINK AT MOST WE
HAVE A PROBLEMATIC RESPONSE TO
CONFLICTS, SLOW AND IN MY VIEW,
NOT VERY WHAT YOU MIGHT SAY
PROPHYLACTIC.
INSTEAD, A LOT OF THESE
OFFICIALS SEEM COMFORT WITH
THEM, WE STILL HAVE KEY FIGURES
WITH CONFLICTS OF INTEREST IN
THE INVESTIGATION.
LOU: AMONGST THEM STRZOK.
WHO HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN A
NUMBER OF POINTS OF CONTACT IN
CLINTON INVESTIGATION, WHETHER
IT BE E-MAILS, OR THE DECISION
TO MAKE A DECISION TOIC --
EXCULPATE HER, WE HAVE THE SAME
WITH McCABE.
HE IS INVOLVED IN A WIDE SWATH
SEEMS TO WITHOUT QUESTION BE IN
CONFLICT AT LEAST IN APPEARANCE
AND WHY ARE NOT OUR INVESTIGATOR
AGENCIES AND OFFICIALS HELD TO
HIGHEST STANDARD?
>> THEY SHOULD BE HELD TO
HIGHEST STANDARD, WHAT WE LEARN
FROM THIS WEEK COULD FILL IN A
LOT OF THE GAPS.
TERMINATION, THERE MAY BE GROUND
FOR FURTHER SEPARATION FOR
McCABE FOR ANY OTHER
INVOLVEMENT.
I AM SURPRISED BY THE LACK OF
PROFESSIONALISM WHICH HAS LONG
BEEN THE TOUCHDOWN OF THE FBI,
WHICH HAS BEEN COMING OUT.
LOU: PROFESSOR JONATHAN TURLEY,
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING WITH
US, WE WILL BE LET'S TALK
FURTHER, AS WE MOST ASSUREDLY
WILL, AS THESE EVENTS CONTINUE.