"I would have thought that if I were the president, I would say, hey guys, build up my credibility, don't damage it."
"I guess it doesn't shock me in the sense that we know that Sally Yates went to the White House and told the Don McGahn the counsel at the White House that this guy was potentially blackmailable by the..."
"You know, going back to why in God's name did the White House keep this guy on for 18 days after Sally Yates went to the White House and said this guy is a national security risk."
"If that is possible or certainly if that is true, there's no way Congress should grant him immunity."
"The investigated has just fired the investigator and said that the interference appears political."
"An innocent White House that wanted to get beyond this would behave in the exact opposite fashion that this White House is behaving."
"I would really like to thank Ranking Member Waters for assembling this group and for doing this due diligence around a really important and threatening piece of legislation."
"Well, it's concerning because of course, you know, it is almost always true in these things that cooperating and putting all the information that you have out there is the right way to go."
"I think we need to -- we need to have a bias towards this being open."
"This is a fairly complicated process, I mean before you start interviewing witnesses you've got thousands of pages of documents to review."
"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."
"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..."