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>> TEXAS CONGRESSMAN LOUIE GOHMERT ON THE HOUSE FLOOR
CALLING FOR THE FIRING OF SPECIAL COUNSEL ROBERT MUELLER.
JOINING ME NOW, REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN JIM JORDAN OF OHIO.
YOUR COLLEAGUE, MR. GOHMERT, HAD SOME MORE TO SAY.
I WANT TO PLAY YOU A LITTLE MORE ABOUT WHAT HE HAD TO SAY ABOUT
MUELLER AND GET YOUR REACTION. TAKE A LISTEN.
>> WE KNOW NOW FOR SURE THERE IS NO COLLUSION BETWEEN THIS
ADMINISTRATION AND RUSSIA. LET'S AT LEAST STOP THAT FACADE.
LET'S STOP THAT DISTRACTION. >> LOUIE.
WHAT OF MUELLER? >> HE IS DIRTY.
HE CREATED ALL KINDS OF PROBLEMS.
>> DO YOU THINK BOB MUELLER IS DIRTY?
>> LOOK, CHRIS, THAT'S ONE MEMBER OF CONGRESS.
HERE'S WHAT I DO KNOW. ALL KINDS OF REPUBLICANS, ALL
KINDS OF DEMOCRATS WANTED JAMES COMEY TO GO.
REPUBLICANS DIDN'T LIKE WHAT HE SAID IN JULY OF LAST YEAR.
YOU DEMOCRATS DIDN'T LIKE WHAT HE SAID IN OCTOBER.
I ACTUALLY CRITICIZED BOTH TIMES.
I CRITICIZED HIM IN JULY, AND I TOOK SOME HEAT FOR IT WHEN I DID
THAT IN OCTOBER. I THOUGHT HE MESSED THE WHOLE
INVESTIGATION UP. HE LEAKED INFORMATION TO "THE
NEW YORK TIMES" TO PROTECT HIMSELF.
HE DID. >> WAIT A SECOND.
>> TO CREATE THIS PUSH FOR A SPECIAL COUNSEL, AND IT ACTUALLY
IS NOW WHAT WE HAVE. SO --
>> WAIT. BUT TO GET BACK, THE QUESTION AT
ISSUE IS NOT JAMES COMEY, WHO'S BEEN FIRED.
THERE'S NOTHING ANYONE WITH DO ABOUT THAT.
JAMES COMEY IS GONE. THE PERSON WHO DOES OCCUPY A
POSITION OF AUTHORITY IS ROBERT MUELLER, APPOINTED BY THE DEPUTY
ATTORNEY GENERAL. THERE'S ARE A LOT OF FOLKS
SAYING THAT MUELLER HAS TO GO, THEY TRUST HIM, HE'S DIRTY --
[ OVERLAPPING VOICES ] I'M JUST CURIOUS WHETHER YOU
AGREE. >> I THINK THERE'S BEEN ONE
MEMBER OF CONGRESS CALLED FOR THAT.
THAT'S ONE MEMBER'S VIEW. LOOK, I UNDERSTAND MR. MUELLER'S
REPUTATION. I WILL TELL YOU THIS.
THE ONE INTERACTION I HAD WITH HIM WAS PRETTY DISAPPOINTING,
AND IT HAPPENED FOUR YEARS AGO, FIVE WEEKS AFTER THE TARGETING
AT THE IRS WAS DISCOVERED AND PROVEN TO BE ACTUALLY HAPPENING,
MR. MUELLER WAS IN FRONT OF THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE.
AND I ASKED HIM THREE SIMPLE QUESTIONS.
WHO'S LEAD AGENT ON THE CASE? HOW MANY AGENTS HAVE YOU
ASSIGNED? HAVE YOU TALKED TO ANY OF THE
VICTIMS? HIS ANSWERS WERE I DON'T KNOW, I
DON'T KNOW, I DON'T KNOW. NOT REAL IMPRESSIVE WHEN THAT
WAS THE KEY ISSUE IN THE COUNTRY AT THAT TIME.
SO ALL I KNOW IS MY ONE INTERACTION WITH BOB MUELLER
WASN'T TOO ENCOURAGING. >> THE IRS INVESTIGATION.
>> OF COURSE. HE'S THE FBI DIRECTOR.
IT'S THE NUMBER ONE STORY IN THE COUNTRY.
THE PRESIDENT AND THEN ATTORNEY GENERAL HOLDER SAID THEY'RE
GOING TO DO A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION, AND THE HEAD OF
THE FBI DOESN'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE CASE AFTER IT'S BEEN
THERE FIVE WEEKS? THAT'S WHAT CAUSED PEOPLE TO BE
CONCERNED. >> YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE IRS
CASE AND I KNOW YOU WERE ON THE BENGHAZI COMMITTEE AND THERE
WERE LOTS OF QUESTIONS IN GETTING TO THE BOTTOM OF THAT,
WHICH IS THE CONSTITUTIONAL ROLE OF THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS.
DO YOU THINK THAT YOU, TO YOUR SATISFACTION, UNDER
FUNDAMENTALLY WHAT HAPPENED WITH RUSSIA, WHAT THEY DID, AND WHY
IT'S THE CASE THAT THREE ASSOCIATES OF THE PRESIDENT HAVE
NOT GIVEN TRUTHFUL ANSWERS ABOUT THEIR MEETINGS WITH RUSSIAN
OFFICIALS UNDER PENALTY OF PERJURY?
>> WHAT I KNOW IS WHAT JIM COMEY SAID LAST WEEK, AND HE CONFIRMED
WHAT THE PRESIDENT SAID THREE DIFFERENT TIMES, THAT MR. COMEY
TOLD THE PRESIDENT HE WASN'T UNDER INVESTIGATION.
MR. COMEY CONFIRMED THAT LAST WEEK.
WHAT HE ALSO CONFIRMED LAST WEEK WAS NEVER HAS THE PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED STATES, PRESIDENT TRUMP, BEEN UNDER INVESTIGATION.
BUT SECRETARY CLINTON WAS UNDER INVESTIGATION, AND JAMES
COMEY -- LET ME FINISH. JAMES COMEY MISLED THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE AT THE DIRECTION OF THEN ATTORNEY GENERAL LYNCH.
HE SAID IT'S NOT A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION.
HE WAS TOLD TO SAY IT WAS A MATTER.
SO HE MISLED THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IN THAT INVESTIGATION, THE REAL
INVESTIGATION. AND THEN WITH MR. TRUMP, HE
ALLOWED THE PERCEPTION TO BE THAT THE PRESIDENT WAS UNDER
INVESTIGATION WHEN HE WASN'T. SO HE MISLED THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
TWICE. >> I ASKED YOU A QUESTION.
THERE ARE THREE ASSOCIATES OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES, ONE OF THEM ATTORNEY JEFF SESSIONS.
MICHAEL FLYNN, WHO WAS APPOINTED TO BE NATIONAL SECURITY
ADVISER -- HE APPARENTLY TOLD FBI INVESTIGATORS, WHICH IS A
BIG DEAL, THAT HE HAD NOT HAD CONVERSATIONS ABOUT SANCTIONS
WITH KISLYAK. THAT'S NOT TRUE.
AND JARED KUSHNER SAID ON HIS SECURITY CLEARANCE FORM UNDER
PENALTY OF PERJURY, TO NOT OMIT MEETINGS.
HE OMITTED A SECRET MEETING WITH SERGEY KISLYAK.
DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHY THAT'S THE CASE?
WHY DID THAT HAPPEN? >> MR. SESSIONS HAS CORRECTED
THE RECORD. >> THAT WAS A MISTAKE.
>> MR. FLYNN HAS BEEN FIRED, RIGHT?
>> BUT YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY HE DID THAT?
WHY DID HE TELL THAT DECEPTION? >> WE HAVE AN INVESTIGATION
GOING ON, CHRIS. BUT ALL I KNOW SO FAR WHAT'S
COME OUT HAS PROVEN THAT THE PRESIDENT HAS BEEN RIGHT ALONG
IN THAT HE WASN'T UNDER INVESTIGATION.
WHAT HE SAID HAS BEEN PROVEN TRUE ALL ALONG BASED ON
MR. COMEY'S TESTIMONY LAST WEEK. >> I'M NOT SAYING THE PRESIDENT
IS UNDER INVESTIGATION. FOR THOSE OF US WATCHING THIS --
>> MR. COMEY ALLOWED THE PERCEPTION TO EXIST THAT HE WAS
UNDER INVESTIGATION. >> CONGRESSMAN --
>> WHEN HE WASN'T. >> FOR THOSE OF US WATCHING
THIS -- >> TOLD THE COUNTRY IT WAS A
MATTER WHEN -- >> FOR THOSE OF US TRYING TO
FIGURE THIS OUT, IT DOESN'T STRIKE YOU AS WEIRD AS THREE
PEOPLE CLOSE TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES UNDER PENALTY
OF PERJURY GAVE MISLEADING OR FALSE ANSWERS ABOUT MEETING WITH
RUSSIAN OFFICIALS? DOES THAT SOUND STRANGE TO YOU?
>> WE'LL GET THE ANSWERS TO THAT.
>> BUT THAT DOESN'T PIQUE YOUR -- AS A MAN WHO HAS
OVERSEEN INVESTIGATIONS, WHO SAT ON THE BENGHAZI COMMITTEE, WHO
LOOKED AT FACT PATTERNS AND SAID SOMETHING DOESN'T ADD UP HERE
WHEN BARACK OBAMA WAS PRESIDENT, UB SEE THAT AND YOU SAY TO
YOURSELF, I DON'T KNOW. >> I WANT TO GET THE ANSWERS.
I THINK THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WANT TO GET THE ANSWERS, BUT WE WANT
THE FULL TRUTH. WE WANT THE FULL STORY.
WE WEREN'T GETTING THAT. WE STARTED TO GET SOME OF THAT
LAST WEEK WHEN WE LEARNED ABOUT THE SECRET MEMO -- EXCUSE ME --
ABOUT THE CONVERSATIONS THAT WERE ONLY MEMORIALIZED RELATIVE
TO PRESIDENT TRUMP. NONE OF THOSE IMPORTANT
CONVERSATIONS THAT HAPPENED UNDER MR. COMEY'S TENURE -- THE
DAY THEY MADE THE DECISION TO
GIVE CHERYL MILLS IMMUNITY -- I WANT THE FULL PICTURE.

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