Jim Himes

The pressure being placed on the Department of Justice now is outrageous.

Well, it sort of depends on what we're talking about, Anderson. You know, there is no doubt that a number of Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee have been devoting themselves to the defense of the President.

I represent the city of Parkland, Florida, where on Valentine's Day this year a young man walked into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School with an AR15 and killed 17 people in 6 minutes and 20 seconds.

Without truth, there is no real democracy because democracy is about true choices and rational decisions.

Congress and this committee should look hard at Facebook.

I appreciate the conversation on free speech, but I would like to inject another concept into today's debate. That is the concept of morality.

This committee shapes our courts. It oversees the enforcement of our laws. It balances our cherished liberties with our need for security.

When I came to the Congress almost 10 years ago, I was overwhelmed by the privilege of working here...

Well, the exhibit A for that was a merger of the truth-in-lending statement and the real estate settlement statement.

This is completely unacceptable. We're a rule of law country.

I very much worry about this. We've seen this pattern over and over and over again, which is you get the denial right up until the moment it happens.

I would love to just take my time to cycle through the witnesses.

Well, the chairman is just wrong about that. You know, the premise of the Republican memo was that the Steele dossier was essential, that it was absolutely critical, that it was the basis not just of the FISA application made around Carter…

You know, it's really important at the White House and that all of us maintain very strict discipline around security clearances.

We do expect her to come before the committee tomorrow morning, yes.

Again, remember that the Department of Justice and the FBI -- again, their words, said it would be extremely reckless to release the Republican, the Nunes memo, and the White House said, we don't care. We're doing it anywhere -- anyway.

This is very obviously a strategy to time in that we move on to other things.

The White House, the Justice Department and the FBI were very clear that it would be, in their words, extremely reckless to release it.

I quite frankly would have been surprised if the White House had let our memo go out at all.

So, when the president comes to my office and I ask him to release the memo, and he says 100 percent, I'll agree that the process is exactly parallel.

I will be astonished, it may happen, I will be astonished if the Trump administration does something that it's never done before, which is voluntarily allows a fact pattern that is not necessarily conducive to the president's interests out…

Trey Gowdy, who is not exactly thought of on my side of the aisle as, you know, kind of one of the guys who reaches across the aisle, he said this in no way vindicates the president or damages the Mueller investigation in which he has 100…

It's important to the president's supporters to have that uncertainty out there.

Well, you know, it feels like just a week ago, I was standing right here talking about how sad it was that a United States senator would trade his legacy and his dignity, his integrity, for this crazy idea of a secret society, which, of…

These are all faux scandals that are thrown out there for the sole purpose of causing some Americans to say, golly, I wonder whether the FBI is on the up and up because at some point Bob Mueller may come through with some conclusions. And…