Ted Deutch: ‘Of Course’ Trump’s ‘Threatening’ the Rule of Law By Attacking Sessions over Indictments of Collins, Hunter

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DEUTCH: "Well, of course it’s threatening the rule of law. It’s outrageous. And anybody, anybody should be outraged by the President inserting himself into the operation of the Justice Department in criminal proceedings. I think it’s important, Jim, that we take a step back. This is outrageous. But why is the President tweeting about this out of nowhere? Well, it’s because this is the same weekend when two things happened. One, the Papadopoulous news that you have already been discussing, which suggests that the President, then-candidate Donald Trump, thought it was a good idea to meet with Putin to talk about how to win the election. That’s a big story. That would be one reason that the President chose to tweet today. The one other that we’re not even talking about is the timing of this tweet to divert attention from the fact that the Administration decided that they are going to withhold 100,000 documents from the Senate and from the public just ahead of the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings. That’s big news. This is a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court. The Trump Administration simply said, nope, 100,000 documents that have to do likely with the time that Kavanaugh was working in the White House are off limits. That’s outrageous. That is what really infuriates me. I know it should be so upsetting to my colleagues in the House, especially those who work in the Senate, are about to start these hearings, and to the American people."