In an interview, Todd Blanche is asked whether Democrats' talk of investigating the administration amounts to a crime. He says "it depends on what's said," even while insisting he welcomes oversight. He objects to an unnamed United States senator warning college students about working for President Trump, and to an incoming chairman telling people to "lawyer up."
The receipt
- Who
- Todd Blanche
- Where
- interview - CNN with Dana Bash
- Original footage
- Forbes Breaking News · watch the full video from this moment
- Length
- 54 seconds, unedited within the cut
- Plays
- 393 on Instagram
Read the transcript
I welcome oversight. Oversight is exactly something they should be doing. So are you saying that you are going to investigate them? And what you just described, is there a crime there? Well, what I just described depends on what's said. So yes, there could be. You have free speech in this country. You are allowed to be critical of President Trump, of me, of this administration. But when the threats become so vile and so dangerous that you are telling people in college that they better be careful if they want to work in the Trump administration because somebody will come after them, at some point you have to draw the line. And I'm not saying that necessarily that every case is going to be prosecuted. But we have a real problem in this country if a young person in college is getting threatened by a United States senator, that if they go to work for President Trump, they're going to be subjected to investigations and lawyers. You have an incoming chairman threatening without, they're not even in charge yet saying lawyer up to anybody in particular.
Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.