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joining us is democratic congressman jim himes a member of the senate intelligence committee. good morning. >> good morning. >> there's a question about whether or not the president himself is being investigated by bob mueller. do you know the investigation for that? >> i don't, for a couple reasons. number one, the fbi investigation, department of justice investigation is independent of the congressional investigations, as it should be. the second thing is and i marvel about the amount of conversation about whether the president is under investigation or not. we know from jim comey's investigation back in martha there's an investigation into the possibility of -- i use that word advisedly -- the possibility of links or connections, collusion between the russian effort and the trump campaign. >> that's people around him. don't you think there's a difference if the president of the united states is actually being investigated to, random, as he calls them e satellites around him? >> maybe it starts with the people around him. comey told apparently the president three times that

joining me, congress nan jim himes of connecticut. member of the house intelligence committee.t me start with the question of collusion. when people say, oh, well, if it were the case that paul manafort talked to someone at the fsb about releasing damaging information of hillary clinton that had been criminally acquired by russian intelligence, it's no crime there, do you think that's true? >> well, let me say a couple things about that, chris. first of all, that's, of course, a fox news panel, and, you know, trying to evaluate whether a fox news statement is true is like the snipe hunts that we did in cub scouts. you know, they're not going to lead anywhere. i can't help but think this story is here partly because we're in the midst of learning 22 million americans could get thrown off their health care if the senate bill passes. the other thing i would say, of course, of course it would be a crime. i mean, i listened to the fox news statement. you know, conspiracy is a crime. maybe collusion is not, but conspiracy is a crime. meddling in a united states election is a very ser

joining us now, congressman jim himes, democrat from connecticut. member of the house intelligence committee. congressman himes, your reaction to this "washington post" report tonight indicating that there is now and has been actually since early may an investigation of possible obstruction of justice by the president. >> yeah, good evening, lawrence. i have two things to say about it. number one is it's a report in the newspaper. i can't confirm it. if i knew it to be true, i couldn't confirm it either. and here is the important thing. i'm not sure anybody should be particularly surprised. as one of your previous guests said, apparently the president in the oval office with russian there's said part of the reason he fired jim comey is to make the pressure of the investigation go away. that alone raises questions. and then of course the deputy attorney general when he comes before us won't answer questions about why he wrote the memo justifying the firing. and of course the clips you just played of admiral rogers. all of these things point to the po

joining me now is democratic congressman jim himes, and republican congresswoman martha mcsally.s that are familiar with high-profile shooting incidents. congressman and congresswoman, thank you for coming on together. we asked for this and you easily wanted to do this, so thank you. >> absolutely. >> congresswoman, mcsally, i know this is the experience that arizona went through with congresswoman gabby giffords. so this hits home for a lot of folks in arizona as well. your thoughts today? >> it does, chuck. my community knows all too well what it's like to go through acts of violence like this against public officials and their staff while they're engaging in listening to their constituents or engaging in their work and other activities. and before we walked into our briefing, we walked by the gabe zimmerman room, which is named after the first congressional staffer killed in the line of duty. we know all too well what it's like to go through something like this, now is an opportunity just like tucson did in 2011, to show unity like we have not seen before. >> congressman hymes

joining us now is democratic congress member from connecticut jim himes. congress member, thank you for being here. >> good morning, alisyn. >> congress member. if james comey says as reported that he will that president trump asked him to back off the investigation into michael flynn, what will you do? what will congress do with that information? >> well, that would be a serious charge, right? it points in the direction and i really want to use that phrase vi advisedly. it points in the direction of obstruction of justice. you know, this is in the context of the course of the firing itself. we got three stories from the white house and president himself and people about why james comey was fired. as we know, the president told of all people the russian foreign minister he fired him because it lifted a great deal of pressure off him with respect to the russia investigation. we need to get to the details of what the president and president's people said to james comey and what other forms of pressure they may have put on the justice department or fbi. this

one more from congressman jim himes he's a democrat. criticizing the mayor appalling. the president is not qualified to be mayor of this small town is what the congressman wrote. we'll take you through more reactions deign getting your reactions from the president's response. his comments yesterday. caller: good morning thank you for having me on. this is one of the things that i voted for trump over. that is protection of our citizenry. when i listen to the mayor, i just saw the typical ho hum attitude here goes another one. they're more interested in placing crosses alongside the road rather than taking some proactive steps and to preventing this. if i was the mayor of the city that lost so many people i would be outraged by the angry. i will be trying to convince my people that i will take proactive steps to mitigate or to keep this from happening in the future. ty that's -- i think that's what trump meant when he spoke out. i fully support any president, i would even support president obama if he took this position to protect the citizens of this country in the eve

jim himes of connecticut is joining us. he's a member of the house intelligence committee. congressman, thanks for joining us. >> good afternoon. >> you agree with general mcmasters' assessment about this threat from north korea requiring the president now to consider various options including potentially military action? >> well, it's not entirely clear to me what is different now than a year ago or a month ago. you know, for years now north korea has been a rogue state. they have ignored the world community in its demand that they stop their work to develop nuclear weapons and more importantly the ability to deliver those weapons. they keep testing missiles. so i don't know why today is so important. north korea is a very, very serious threat, but i got to tell you, though, the martial drumbeat here makes me very nervous for a bunch of reasons. number one, we've got an awful lot of troops on the ground in korea. there are hundreds of thousands of americans in korea and of course there are millions of south koreans in the greater seoul area. so this is a very complicated g

let's bring in democratic congressman jim himes of connecticut, a member of the house intel committeeto take on these issues. let's start with health care. we hear we're going to get a reckoning of the senate bill. what do you know about it, what are you expecting? >> good morning, chris. the word around here is that republican senators will meet in a couple of hours this morning to get a look for the first time at a bill that is supposedly a little bit like the house bill, but in some ways -- in some materials ways different. i think we democrats will probably see it afterwards, the world will see it afterwards which points the one of our main concerns which is you can't do anything quite as big as health care in terms of effecting individuals all over this country and almost 20% of our economy. i remember in '09 we got accused of rushing the process. our process took months, it was open, there was debate and hearings. this bill has not seen by anybody. health care is complicated, chris, but from what we hear, this is a bill that takes a lot of money from the medicaid program for peo

let's go to capitol hill, jim himes joins me now. thanks for coming in. >> good morning, kate. >> what shimon was talking about, the wall street reporting, what's detailed, is that part of the investigation right now? >> kate, i don't want to get into what is subject of the investigation, specifically. certainly "the wall street journal" story was news to me. >> okay. >> you know, as your reporter pointed out, there's a lot of possibilities and allegations and connections there. you know, obviously the reference to michael flynn is interesting to me. michael flynn is an individual whose name keeps coming up in a variety of contexts and a variety of questionable ways. personally, i'll be interested in knowing if there's any there there. we are dealing with a story that is challenging because the individual passed away. you can count on the house investigation, the senate and fbi to follow up on whatever leads appear. >> michael flynn's name combs up, as you point out. what came up is michael flynn's son, michael flynn jr. came up in t

joining me now is congressman jim himes and former congressman pete hoekstra, a republican who is a former chairman of the intelligence committee. good evening to both of you. thank you both for coming on. what's your reaction, first, congressman himes to the former fbi direct or's testimony today? >> when you have a situation where jim comey is saying one thing and the president is saying, no, he's lying, you've got a really profound he said/she said. you've got a president where the conversation has shifted away from what happened with russia to is he liable to being charged with obstruction of justice? that's a pretty bad place to be. >> based on what you heard, do you think it's obstruction of justice? >> it's too early to say. there's a lot of evidence pointing in that direction. obviously as comey said today, that's something for robert mueller to do. we're not going to hear a lot about mueller's investigation. the politics of this -- and that's the other piece of this. you know, today a big win for the republicans is if you believed two things. number one, you celebrate the fact tha

joining us is congressman jim himes. the fact president trump will not exercise his executive privilege to prevent comey from testifying, does that surprise you? politically, the optics would not have looked good. >> yeah. it doesn't surprise me. the people i know, lawyers who know the ins and outs of executive privilege tell me it would be strange to exert it against somebody who is a private citizen. u as you point out, had the white house said that it would have looked very bad. it was interesting. this is the first time i've been involved in this investigation for a while now and had is the first time i can remember the white house actually taking what seems to me to be the right approach, which is let's -- if there's nothing to hide, let's get all the information out. let's not stop anybody from testifying. let's not criticize the people doing the investigation. i'm glad that this has taken the turn it has. of course, getting the specifics of what the president said to jim comey, whether jim comey said he wasn't und

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joining us is a member of the house committee, jim himes of connecticut. based on what you heard from the opening, what you read in the opening statement, is there obstruction of justice? >> well, you know, this is ultimately a complicated question that's going to center for all the noise you're going to hear and hear a lot of noise seeing an effort being ramped up right now to damage the credibility of jim comey, this all boils down and i'm probably not the right person on the panel to make this definitive judgment, this thing boils down to the question of whether the president intended to influence this -- to influence this investigation. it doesn't matter what comey felt at the time. you know, the comments we got out of the senate today where the dni and other says i didn't -- it matters if the president intended to influence the investigation and we have to hear the answers tomorrow from jim comey. the remarkable document, the's a lot of stuff between the lines that as we speak there are a lot of smart senate staffers who are coming up with the questio

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. >> congressman jim himes, we're getting you out in five minutes. thank you for jumping in. susan, thank you for being so patient. i want to talk to you about the new reporting from politico about nato. let me read a quote from it. the president appears to have deleted it himself, talking about article 5. according to one version making the rounds inside the government, reflecting his personal skepticism about nato and insistence on lecturing nato allies about spending more on defense rather than offering reassurances of any sort. we're talking about the speech that he gave to nato allies last week. it was widely expected that he would reconfirm america's commitment to article 5, to the mutual defense of nato countries. he did not do that. his national security council had believed he was going to do it. it was in the speech that they saw, according to this politico article. but then somehow it was gone. susan, what do you make of that? >> well, you know, so what my reporting found was not only were they expecting it, but, in fact, the national security adviser to president

joining us from capitol hill, a member of the select committee on intelligence democratic congressman jim himes talk to you. you've had jim comey as we showed from the clip sitting in a room. if you were in that hearing tomorrow, what would be the first question you'd want to know from jim comey. >> really the core of the testimony has to be what were the circumstances leading up to your being fired? there have been allegations the president in several private conversations has asked jim comey to first of all pledge loyalty. you heard the clapper quote, beyond imaginable, loyalty, second, put pressure on to stop or slow the investigation. of course there are allegations that jim comey kept contemporaneous memos. we're going to need to see those memos and get those questions answered so we know whether the president put undue pressure on the fbi director prior to firing him associated with trying to stymie an investigation. >> congressman, as you just pointed out, we just heard a clip from jim clapper. fifty year in the intelligence business speaking in australia saying quote, unquote, watergate

congressman jim himes, thank you very much for coming on the show this morning. >> thank you. >> by the tweet that donald trump actually -- >> he is a good dancer. >> donald trump retweeted this. the swamp out today. president trump has a copy. get yours here. the swamp. >> donald trump has been tweeting all morning. retweeting fox and friends. >> he is running the social media efforts for "fox and friends." four are auto five retweets. >> is your new social media director? >> it appears so. >> i'm glad he has a day job that keeps him busy. >> eric may run for senate in 2020 in the state of new jersey. >> come on now. >> still ahead, much more on the president seemingly drawing the red line on syria's use of chemical weapons. where have we heard that before? the white house is warning that apparently it caught many in the intel community caught on guard. >> now that they appear to be votes short of even bringing their health care overhaul plan to the senate floor, what do republicans think? we have our 8:00 a.m. our straight ahead. take the zantac it challenge! pill works fast? zantac w