thank you. >> thank you, mr. nunez. up next i have art pentoya. >> i'm also a representative of the painters and allied trades over 20 years in the construction field. there's a valid point that's been made. i'm here to support what you've already done which is table this for 90 days but also i'm in support of not terminating or divesting from the pension funds. one of the things that's also done is there's been a history of 180,000-plus jobs that has been developed from this money. 110,000 units of housing, most of it affordable housing. in san francisco alone, 9 projects to date, about 1,660 units of housing. there's more projects in the pipeline with this investment. so i think you have a very difficult decision ahead of you, and i hope that you consider all the working people in san francisco, those who are union, who are not union, living here, and get a benefit from these funds. thank you. >> thank you very much. i do have a couple other names in the stack here, but they don't look like they're related to this ite

>> we have already begun pursuing it and interestingly enough given my relationship with mr. nunez are doing so on a -- did i say that to politically? [laughter] we are doing so in a bipartisan basis which may be the one bipartisan request of the oversight committees which means mr. nunez and i have both demanded the full and unredacted report and the underlying evidence in the counterintelligence findings and we will try to bring in bob mueller and others do as much as this in the open as we can and probably have to advocate our hearings and have open sessioner but i think mr. mueller can fully expand to the country what happened to the counterintelligence investigation and what he can discuss publicly about the results of that and then we can go into closed session for any information that would involve sources and methods. the intelligence committee and just disbarment abdomen traded in the last congress their willingness to share hundreds of thousands of pages of discovery to a republican congress about a mechanic candidate for president and unwilling as yet to share 400 pages

hopefully there are more republicans like mr. nunez and senator burr who want us to perform our constitutional duty to overtight. this is not partisan. this is about whether the president is accountable anybody. in this situation, i think senator bur is right. he needs to get to the bottom of what happened to the conversation with trump, jr. and his father. one issue with regard to counter intelligence. if it is a lie, what don, jr. has been saying with regard to the conversation with his father and the russians know that, that in itself is called information that could be used against don who by the way is the head of the trump organization to get to his father. this is something that is very serious. >> the russians know all about that meeting. natalia was an agent of the essentially the attorney general of russia. she was sent there on a mission to see if the trump team would bite at what they gave them. we still don't know whether they really bit and used it, but maybe senator burr is standing up for the constitution and one step t

i would like to associate myself with the remarks mr. nunez made in the beginning. it is our responsibility to address this surprise billing issue. i would however note that throughout this testimony there has been a general complaint. i hear it all the time. that medicare is a very very artificially low reimbursement rate. i would just caution us in trying to fix this problem not to add too much more government regulation to the fix. that might end up actually exasperating the situation. i have a large medicare population. i'm blessed with a situation where within 30 miles of my district probably 50 different hospitals or clinics. any medicare patient could go to. the situation where medicare patient goes and. for a routine colonoscopy. they find out there is a polyp in the polyp is removed. a few weeks later they get this letter that says amount you may old the provider. that is a dreaded letter. it is the precursor to usually a surprise billing. you might get the surprise billing earlier. should we evolve medicare in this whole discussion about should we be prote

steve: one of the other things, mr. nunez, mr.they made all of us look bad. >> they made them look bad and he made them look bad as well letting them get away with the behavior. ainsley: we played the sound bite that he is confident everyone under him did everything by the book. but in another sound bite he was criticizing struck and page. they should have been disciplined more. were not doing what they were supposed to do, weren't doing by the book. >> there is no question as it relates to the fisa on carter page nothing was done about it book. it was all done very irregular in fact this is the whole idea that you can take clinton campaign dirt and use it. the fact this is the fbi director, he didn't know it was democrats that paid for it. in fact he said it was republicans who had paid for it. so this guy doesn't really -- look i don't think he is telling the truth is the bottom line here. the former fbi director is not a stupid man and he is acting awfully stupid. if you go back, remember when he came before our task force at t

mr. kolman near the belt buckle. >> reporter: did you test this dna against gilberto nunez? >> yes.e a match? >> not -- it was not his. >> reporter: no match? >> no match. >> reporter: where do you go from there? i mean, that is a -- >> that's a show-stopper. nothing moves in this investigation unless we can determine who that is. >> an unknown john doe. and that's a problem for me. >> reporter: holley carnright is the ulster county district attorney. >> i said, "well, we're not going to go forward with any indictment, we're not going to go forward with any arrest until i have the answer to that. investigators collected d-n-a samples from all the first responders to see if they could have accidentally left their d-n-a at the scene. and they considered another possibility that the d-n-a belonged to an accomplice. >> we were also trying to get samples from people we had identified that were close to nunez. that's a little trickier -- because you just can't walk up and ask for the dna. we call it cast-off dna. and you would conduct a surveillance of those individuals and wait for them

mr. trump violated professional confidential relations. but either way, it is unfortunate. >> laura: congressman nunez come i have to get to another point.e had a big piece today, a big push by some in congress and to hold barr into contempt. this was for his refusal to appear in the senate committee. "washington post" wrote the piece and trump administration in contempt of congress. previous administration with overseers but mr. trump just say no approach meaning effective oversight may not come for years down the road. pointing to that and steve mnuchin not wanting to testify, i guess, additionally on tax matters and so forth. >> devin: well, i've got news for them about this, okay? i don't think that they want barr to testify. they did not want him to show up here that is why they did what they did. they knew if they made the requirement so ridiculous, we will not have the attorney general of the united states come to congress and to be questioned by staff. it is ridiculous. the members of congress can do it themselves or barr is not going to come. i think this was all designed just so that they could eat kentucky fried chicken when i

mrs. pelosi won't do that. this is fake impeachment. >> dana: there are other things happening. two things. maryanne, there was a letter from congressman schiff and nuneze chair and ranking on the judiciary committee, or oversight committee, over on the house side. that's a bipartisan letter, asking for more materials and information, saying the department of justice is not complying with the law. and then you had the senate intelligence committee yesterday in a bipartisan way, subpoena don jr. for testimony and coming back up and giving more information. kevin mccarthy tweeting donald trump jr. already spent hours testifying, endless investigations by either party won't change the fact that there was no collusion. it's time to move on, focus on issues and not investigations. i do think that was interesting that you had two different committees, not the nadler committee, issuing letters in a bipartisan way. >> that's right. and that has not happened. when you have devin nunez and richard bird, senator and chairman of the intelligence committee both asking for documents on the former and donald trump jr. to come back and testify again, you can no longer

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