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It's unprecedented. I've never heard of it -- a case of it. May have been, I just know about it, but in my 50 years in intelligence, never heard of such a case where the President got personally involved in somebody's clearance.
To his credit, and he walked away from it. And that's, you know, as you eluded, no deal is better than a bad deal.
I don't know whether it's a case of intimidation or gullibility or combination thereof. I don't understand it, this deference, particularly to dictators. And that too is dangerous over time.
If the president tried this or Barr tried this, I actually think it would backfire because a limited Barr report to Congress will just empower Congress to investigate through all of their committees.
Hiding information about presidential wrongdoing, it's not going to work.
The president himself, his lawyers have been saying that he can't be indicted because he's a sitting president. And every scholar who takes that view also says to make sure a president is not above the law, the remedy is impeachment.
It sure seems like the Trump folks are reading the special counsel regulations the way they read the constitution, which is to look for a loophole here and a loophole there. And it's not going work.
This is the heart of the most foundational question the American republic faces, which is how do you investigate the chief executive, the president of the United States.
I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I don't even want to speak to the underlying issue. I want to speak to what it is we are doing here with congressional power. The President signed a bill. He didn't have to. He could have…
It would be better to have one agreed-upon framework for CRA.
We are aware of those concerns, and we will be watching to see whether there is any such effect.
Keeping Stormy Daniels and that kind of information from the electorate in order that the public not know something that might well influence who would become president of the United States.
Well, they really should believe what he says now because he can't afford to dig his grave any deeper, and he's already in for three years.
Oh, that has all the signs of a threat.
I think when you're talking about wrongdoing by the President, potential wrongdoing, more is better than less.
But let's say that Mueller turns the report over to Barr next week. Barr is then going to conduct a review of that report.
It's all, Anderson, speculation at this point. So, we don't actually know that Mueller has turned -- is going to turn in the final report.