On MS NOW, Peter Alexander asks Rep. Brendan Boyle about a White House counsel's office letter to Rep. Robert Garcia, who Alexander says is likely to lead the Oversight Committee, and a senior Justice Department official reportedly telling US attorneys to get on a "wartime footing" or leave. Boyle says Democrats are ready, that nothing Garcia or any Democrat is doing is illegal, that oversight is a constitutional function of Congress, and that the first Trump administration defied subpoenas.
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- Rep. Brendan Boyle (questioned by Peter Alexander)
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- interview, MS NOW
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Can I walk you through the White House Council's office and representative Congressman Robert Garcia, this he's likely to lead the oversight committee. They sent him this letter warning him that some of these democratic investigations that they're anticipating could be criminal as the letter detailed it. New this morning, a senior political official at the Department of Justice warned US attorneys to either get on a wartime footing or to leave. Are Democrats ready for the sort of wartime footing, this fight that looks like it's on its way? Absolutely, but let's be clear, there is nothing inappropriate or illegal that Robert Garcia is doing or that any Democrat member of Congress is doing. Oversight is in the Constitution as a proper function for the legislative branch to conduct over the executive branch. They defied subpoenas before in the first administration, or first Trump administration, if you recall.
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