Jim Himes

Steve Bannon and his attorney asserted a remarkably broad definition of executive privilege.

This tweet is kind of the opposite of that.

You have a president who is just tweeting out utter madness. Dangerous madness in the case of encouraging the DOJ to go after his political enemies.

What really troubles me about that, and all of other tweets and now, this latest tweet, we've gotten to a place, a very weird place where it doesn't really matter what the president of the United States says anymore because it is so…

But as everybody who's ever been in a, you know, first grade playground recognizes, it's usually the person who's most aggressively pounding their chest that is, in fact, the weak one on the playground.

You know, Anderson, we're two days into the New Year and Freudians all over the world have already had the best year ever.

Can you imagine if Kim Jong-un, you know, responds to this with carefulness and prudence, how that makes the United States and the American president look?

Congressman Himes, you obviously now heard of this tweet.

I think my interpretation of the president's calm around Mueller, was I think he realized as the drumbeat to fire Mueller accelerated, and as people started to speak up, I think he realized that was a no-go zone politically.

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 treatment of Hillary Clinton, and then admits…

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, sufficiently called into question that Americans…

What is happening today, is happening on Fox News, or Sean Hannity, with Jeanine Pirro, with all sorts of people, they are deliberately trying to do what they did to the media, generally, which is to say, you can't trust anybody.

The president of the United States has slandered this individual and I say this again probably with more knowledge than most Americans, with absolutely zero evidence.

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

I think it's a really important question, Wolf, because I mean, I can't disagree more with what Jason Miller said a little while ago on the program, what we're hearing too much, which is that FBI and law enforcement and DOJ were made…

Shame on Sean Hannity, shame on my colleagues who are implying that Andrew McCabe is not exactly what he is, which is a terrific public servant who has risked his life over a long period of time.

You don't have a democracy unless you have an impartial, de-politicized Department of Justice and FBI.

If Mueller comes out with new indictments, with new information, and the House is clueless on that stuff, how is that going to look?

It is a profoundly damaging thing, not just today, but to the confidence that Americans should have in their presidency and in their government.

Yes, I really do, Anderson. Look, we have at least a two-track effort to make these investigations go away, to make them irrelevant, to make them marginal.

I think it's fair to say the indictments he secured, the guilty pleas he secured in the last week or so, I should say month, were surprises to most of us.

It looks like Michael Flynn is cooperating with Robert Mueller. And the president just injected sort of a get out -- a potential, I should say, a potential 'get out of jail' free card to Michael Flynn.

The American people need to be prepared to respond to the firing of Mueller or to further attacks on the DOJ and the FBI.

You know what, FBI agents having political opinions is not politicizing the FBI.