we see the president specifically tweet about sally gaetz. when she revealed and how information.t this any response as to why the president is doing this? >> such a white house has said the real story is about who -- the leaks and so forth. security the national , but copterslynn -- intercepted by u.s. authorities, those intercepts would be classified. you are not supposed to discuss them in public and so the white house has a point that some of the information reaching the is classified were would appear to be. what trump -- whether what trump said is true, whether sally gaetz no how newspapers got the information, we will see. i imagine it is one of the questions that will be asked. republicans in congress are not defensive on this issue and eager to take up the defense in the white house, perhaps as white house officials themselves or the president, the chairman of the subcommittee of the senate judiciary committee meeting on the issue again -- the issue today, and interest in getting to the bottom of the russian interference in the 2016

when sally gaetz gathered information about michael flynn ties to russia, trump fired her. when the top federal prosecutor in manhattan was reportedly looking into shady stock trades made by one of trump's cabinet officials, trump fired him. each move hacks away at the very foundations of accountability. now is the time to remind donald trump that our government is not or ace to make them richer servant to do his bidding. now is the time to remind him our intelligence secrets are not gossip and that his personal desire to impress his russian theies does not outweigh safety, security and lives of americans and our allies. [applause] time toren: now is the remind him that in this country, no one is above the law, including the president of the united states. [applause] it is time to resist. it is time to fight back, and it is time to be clear about what we believe in. powerieve that no foreign , and especially not russia, gets to watch -- launch an assault on our democracy without any investigation or consequences and we are ready to fight for it. [applause] sen. warren: we b

but the former director of national intelligence jim clapper and former deputy attorney general sally gaetz in their hearings on capitol hill made very clear they think that russia is coming back for us in 2018 and 2020. i think that there is one part of this that we need bob mueller out there leading his investigation looking backwards trying to figure out what , happened last year. another step of this which is just as important and the thing i'm surprised there is not more energy on capitol hill is we don't russia will come back and try to do this to us again. why is there no one in government taking a leadership role in trying to ensure the -- that russia is not going to be successful if they come back next year during the congressional midterms or three years from now with the presidential election. host: garrett graff, thank you for your time and your insight this morning. guest: my pleasure. ♪ >> c-span's washington journal, live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up monday morning, daniel allen and jordan allen this gus their new reporting project, "transa

we see the president specifically tweet about sally gaetz. when she revealed and how information.t this any response as to why the president is doing this? >> such a white house has said the real story is about who -- the leaks and so forth. security the national , but copterslynn -- intercepted by u.s. authorities, those intercepts would be classified. you are not supposed to discuss them in public and so the white house has a point that some of the information reaching the is classified were would appear to be. what trump -- whether what trump said is true, whether sally gaetz no how newspapers got the information, we will see. i imagine it is one of the questions that will be asked. republicans in congress are not defensive on this issue and eager to take up the defense in the white house, perhaps as white house officials themselves or the president, the chairman of the subcommittee of the senate judiciary committee meeting on the issue again -- the issue today, and interest in getting to the bottom of the russian interference in the 2016

they fired sally gaetz. they fired creek aurora. now they fired directly -- director call me, the very man leading the investigation. this does not seem to be a coincidence. this investigation must be run as far away as possible from this white house and from anyone that president trump has appointed. given the way the president -- director call me, any person he appoints to lead the investigation would be concerned that he or she would directorsame fate as comey if they run afoul of the administration. the american people need to update that an investigation as serious as this one is being conducted impartially and without a shred of bias. peopley way the american can have faith in this investigation is for it to be led by a fearless, independent prosecutor. generaly attorney rosenstein does not appoint and independent special prosecutor, every american will rightly suspect that the decision to fire director comey was part of a cover-up. i will take one or two questions. >> did you convey to president trump that a special press mut