BY PAM KEY
Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) said Thursday on CNN’s “Situation Room” that it was “nuts” for his Republican colleagues to call to defund the Department of Justice and FBI.
Krishnamoorthi said, “In the case of President Trump, he willfully retained the information, and then he’s alleged to have obstructed justice when the government was trying to get those documents back. What goes through my mind is you just don’t see many members of Congress implicated in these types of scandals. The main reason being that with us when we view classified information, it has to be in a secure facility. It’s usually in hard copy only, and guards are actually watching over our shoulders as we view the information. And then we have to return it once we finish.”
He continued, “If we’re able to successfully make sure that 535 members of Congress don’t get implicated in these types of situations, why can’t we do the same with others. And so we have to review the way in which classified information is treated and handled…




