my exclusive interview with senator charles grassley is next. >> obviously the views of the majority ader are important to consider, but they do not govern what happens here in the judiciary committee. >> that's senate judiciary chairman chuck grassley this week pushing back at majority leader mcconnell's efforts to block the mueller bill. earlier i sat down with senator grassley to discuss that bill and many other critical issues facing the senate. take a look. >> all right. senator grassley, thank you very much for being with us tonight. >> sure. >> i want to start by asking what you think of the fact that several conservative congressmen have asked for jeff sessions to investigate hillary, comey, mccabe, lynch, here we are, almost a year and a half into the trump administration and they are still asking sessions to do what they have been asking him to do for almost a year. >> i wouldn't be surprised that some of that might be happening and we don't know about it because of the tradition within the justice department and the fbi not to talk about ongoing investigations. you hear rum

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here's committee chair charles grassley's announcement this morning during the meeting. >> we also have on the agenda for the first time s 2644, the special counsel independence and integrity act. as i said last week this bill is product of months of work by a bipartisan cosponsors to reconcile the two special counsel bills. they were introduced on the same day last august. there may be members on my side that wonder why we are moving ahead with this. i'm not sure last fall, when i said to the people we aren't going to move this bill, that there would be a bipartisan compromise put together. but there is a bipartisan compromise put together. and so when i make my word to the people if you can get together to have a bill, then that's why it's on the agenda, just in case anybody in the leadership or the republican party of the united states senate or even on this committee, they'll know then why as chairman of this committee i'm moving forward. now, what i just told you , i guess will is no point in reading it again. >> we may be slow. >> okay. well, so then i even reached out to -- well,

constituents sounds like your fellow iowa senior senator from your state, the senate chairman charles grassley a listen to him earlier today. >> i think it would be suicide for the president to fire him. i think the less the president said about this whole thing the better off he will be. and i think that mueller is a person of stature and respected and i respect him. >> do you agree with senator grassley? >> i do. i agree with my senior senator. he is the chair of the judiciary. he is a very reasonable man, well respected by his colleagues and constituents alike. so i again will state that i think the investigation -- let it go where it needs to go. follow the evidence. at some point, though, it does need to come to a conclusion and so we can understand the effects of russia in our process. and we have another election cycle coming up and we need to learn from what happened in the past and make sure it doesn't happen again. >> how concerned are you about president trump firing either mueller or your former colleague jeff sessions, the attorney general or rod rosenstein the deputy attorney gen

here is committee chair charles grassley's announcement this morning during the meeting. >> we also have on the agenda for the first time, s-2644, the special consul of independent and integrity act introduced by graham, kuehn and booker. this bill is a product of months of work by bipartisan corespo s co-sponsors. they were introduced on the same day last august. there maybe members on my side wonder why we are moving ahead of this. i am not sure last fall when i said to the people we are not going to move this bill that there would be a bipartisan compromise put together but there is a bipartisan compromise put together and so when i make my word to the people if you can get together to have a bill. that's why it is on the agenda just in case anybody in the leadership of the republican party of the united states or even on this committee, they'll know why it is chairman of the committee i am moving forward. >> now, what i just told you and i know there is no point of reading it again. >> well, we may be slow, you know? >> okay. well -- so then i everyone reached out -- well, i am not g

remember, republican charles grassley has said at least four of the seven memos that we are looking at tonight have classified information. also these memos coming out, james comey in one of them again, saying the fbi doesn't leak, i don't leak. this is coming out on the same day that comey's number two at the fbi, andrew mccabe, is facing a criminal referral that has just been sent today by the nonpartisan inspector general at the justice department to the u.s. attorney here in washington for criminal charges for andrew mccabe for, yes, leaking information to the media against the wishes of the fbi, number one. number two, more importantly, lying to fbi investigators about that. mccabe today says he will be vindicated, he doesn't think he will face charges. that is an ironic twist. i want to note another quick thing, which is that there is a point in here where comey recaps that january 2017 dinner and he says among other things, thehi president was talking about "the extraordinary luxury of the white house, which he favorably compared to mar-a-lago," of course his estate in palm beac

charles grassley from iowa said this would be suicide.s from north carolina joined a bipartisan bill to protect mueller. you have other republican senators, mitch mcconnell the leader of the republicans in the senate, said mueller should be protected. the democrats have been united in their defensive mueller, and said this is a redline that would end trumps presidency. as to whether he would be impeached or not, that is a difficult question to answer. bear in mind, impeachment does not mean removal from office. we've had two presidents were impeached but stayed in office. impeachment happens in the house /3 majority to 2 remove a president. , milti-assetedha portfolio manager, pinebridge investments is still with us. let's get back to the data. comingot the fed minutes up in a second. in terms of the cpi, what are you expecting? cpi would be nudging higher going forward, and it is part of what we think of a regime shift which takes us away from this unhealthy inflation environment towards what we call reflation. it is not overheating. it

comey leaked some of the memos which republican charles grassley says has classified information. we know there is some classified information because the versions we have are redacted, blacked out because there is sensitive information here. james comey not just put the memos together with classified information but leaked some of them out. here's the key part. in trying to explain the context is comey trying to extend what he thinks he should stay on as fbi director, he and the president discussed over dinner. comey says "i added that i was reliable in one way but not in a way that political people sometimes use the term. i explained he could count on me to always tell him the truth. i said i don't do sneaky things. i don't leak. i don't do weasel moves." that jim comey memo saying i don't leak and the fbi doesn't leak comes on the same day that the justice department inspector general, shannon, has had a criminal referral go to the u.s. attorney here in washington for andrew mccabe, comey's number two at the fbi for leaking information to the press against the rules of the fbi

leader saying was not a fan of this, it stops in its tracks a number of republican colleagues, charles grassleynator from north carolina making sure that won't happen. what do you think? >> i'm glad to talk to but the subject but might not have been dramatic for you and rest of the press heard that and went crazy yesterday, they saw mitch mcconnell i'm not playing this game. i'm not playing that game where we argue all the time about speculation that donald trump is going to fire bob mueller. it is nonsense. the senate has a whole bunch of business to focus on confirming a whole lot of people that have yet to go through the process. the idea that president is going to fire bob mueller. most has been stoked by president's critics. occasionally reporting has mused about how uncomfortable we with mueller. neil: given the fact what you will, i raised this with mitch mcconnell as well, it has gone far afield from the it was supposed to in the beginning. that is not the first time such investigations have, just ask bill clinton. the president, a lot of his people he would be in his right to at least