Jim Himes

I continue to be puzzled by Chairman Nunes' behavior with respect to this White House information.

I completely concur with Adam's conclusion, which is that there's nothing there that for either one of us jumped off the page to say this has to be handled in some, you know, unusual fashion.

I can tell you, it was anything but routine and having now had the opportunity to review those documents myself, I would concur with ranking member Adam Schiff when he said that there is nothing there that would warrant anything as…

I do think that Mike Conaway, assuming that the control of this investigation, is a good thing. I have a lot of faith in Congressman Conaway.

There's absolutely nothing unusual about unmasking. We get all kinds of intelligence intercepts all the time.

We just need to remember that so far, there's absolutely no allegation of wrongdoing, even by the chairman.

I mean I don't want to over speculate here, but one approach would be if Michael Flynn felt he was in any form of legal jeopardy for any of the activities he's undertaken in the last couple of months, he might say, hey I'll tell my whole…

I certainly hope we are. You know the Democrats all back together and one of the weird things about last week was that the committee didn't have any of its regular meetings, they were all canceled.

Well, I'm skeptical, look, I think you need to know two things before you grant immunity whether you're law enforcement or Congress, which of course does have the power to grant immunity against any prosecution.

Yes, yes. The pre-Volcker--none of us want to go back to 2008, right? Where I would argue you had a surplus of liquidity, so again--

I was a banker for a long time. And oftentimes when the market forces have been most active, there has been too much liquidity and catastrophe that followed.

Is more liquidity always good? Is there some optimal level of liquidity above which the system becomes risky, below which capital markets aren't functioning well?

I think we went through long term and short term, and I didn't sense a lot of enthusiasm for that or for investment in hedge fund vehicles.

The burden is on the industry to come up with constructive ways, if there are more constructive ways, of determining a legitimate inventory

No, I understand that, and of course there is a pretty dramatic difference between my Toyota dealer and the bank...

But you, in your derogatory treatment of the government, would at least acknowledge that those three banks would have a hard time being with us today had it not been for a government program?

I know, but you are pointing at the Government. What does it mean, 'a concept only the Government could devise?'

The investigation certainly has ground to a halt.

A midnight run to the White House that puzzles Republicans and Democrats alike by our chairman, who then does not turn around and give us answers, that's not a Democrat or Republican thing to do.

There are at least a half dozen people very close to this campaign who had a bizarrely intense set of ties with the Russians.

I mean, it's no coincidence that private meeting was scheduled precisely for the time that the open hearing was supposed to happen.

You can surmise that the deputy attorney general was a particularly painful potential witness. She was apparently at the center of the whole Michael Flynn thing.

Director Comey confirms that there is an FBI investigation into his words, links and coordination between the Trump campaign and possible links and coordination between the campaign and Russia.

Of course, it was canceled. It was scheduled. The witnesses were there to testify. A room was reserved. We were all set to go. We had our questions and it didn't happen.

Well, look, at this point, there's really one thing that needs to happen to rescue this investigation and that is that Chairman Nunes needs to recuse himself.