Jim Himes actually said...

"The president of the United States does not have the absolute right to do whatever they want with the Justice Department. The president doesn't have the absolute right to do anything."

"Well, clearly, obstruction of justice is a crime. You know, I'm not a lawyer, but when the president fires the head of the FBI, as he fired Jim Comey, says that he did it because of Jim Comey's treatm..."

"This is all a campaign to make sure that if and when that information emerges, that the institutions that would out that information, the FBI and the DOJ, have been sufficiently slandered, sufficientl..."

"The president criticizing the FBI is throwing mud on a storied institution."