Utah Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz said in a new interview his House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will not be a « cheerleader » for any president, including Donald Trump.
Utah Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz said in a new interview his House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will not be a « cheerleader » for any president, including Donald Trump.
« Our job is not to be a cheerleader for the president, and I think that’s, over the long term, one of the things we’ll be judged by is, did you call balls and strikes that are coming over the plate, to use a baseball metaphor, did you call the same on Democrats as you did on Republicans? » Chaffetz, who chairs the panel, told host Sharyl Attkisson during an interview that will air on Sunday’s « Full Measure. »
The committee, which in the past has investigated former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Secret Service, and other issues, has several items on its plate at the moment.
« Gen. [Michael] Flynn going to Russia, taking money for a speech. He was out of his military service before the Trump administration had started, but you’re still not allowed to do that, » Chaffetz said. « The president in Mar-a-Lago … you still have to deal with classified information in a moment’s notice, and you have questions about how, how he is handling that. Another thing that we have done is when Kellyanne Conway went on national television and touted Ivanka Trump’s brand. »
Something the committee is not investigating, Chaffetz said, are President Donald Trump’s claims that large scale voter fraud occurred in last fall’s election.
« Full Measure » airs Sunday on Sinclair stations nationwide, and is streamed live on Sundays at 9:30 a.m. ET at FullMeasure.news.
