The next is a transcript of an interview with Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California that aired Sunday, Nov. 20, 2022, on "Face the Nation."
MARGARET BRENNAN: We flip now to California Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren. She serves on the Judiciary Committee and the Choose Committee investigating January 6. Good morning to you, Congresswoman. I need to get straight to it. Does the refusal of the Vice President and the previous president to conform together with your investigation in any method impede the affect or end result?
REP. ZOE LOFGREN: Properly, we want they'd are available. Actually different Presidents have are available when requested by the Congress, together with Gerald Ford, Teddy Roosevelt, many others. It's virtually Thanksgiving, and the committee turns right into a pumpkin on the finish of December. So we do not have time to litigate this. However I believe they've cheated historical past. And they need to have executed in any other case. We, however, have acquired substantial data from different sources. And we're within the strategy of, as I am positive , writing our report now, and
MARGARET BRENNAN: You are persevering with to assemble data, as I perceive it, talking to 2 Secret Service officers lately. What extra do you want? And are you continue to sharing that data with the Justice Division?
LOFGREN: Properly, we're not sharing data with the Justice Division. We're doing our personal investigation. Nevertheless, we anticipate when our report is launched, to launch the entire proof that now we have assembled so the general public can see it, together with the Division of Justice.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Okay, what do you could have? I perceive the committee has launched paperwork to the Division of Justice, is that not the case?
LOFGREN: Properly, we're not - we're no, we're, we're, we're doing our personal investigation.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Proper.
LOFGREN: And inside a month, they - the general public could have every thing that we have discovered all of the proof. For good or sick. And I believe we have, as we have proven in our hearings, made a compelling presentation, that the previous president was on the middle of the trouble to overturn a duly elected election, assembled the mob, despatched it over to Congress to try to intrude with the peaceable switch of energy. It is fairly stunning.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Properly, as we all know, the Justice Division has its personal investigation. And that is what led us to the Legal professional Basic making information just some days in the past with this particular counsel to take up the occasions surrounding January 6. However what does placing this within the palms of a Particular Counsel accomplish right here? Do you assume it really removes politics? Or does it nonetheless simply maintain it there for the reason that Legal professional Basic will nonetheless have oversight of the particular counsel?
LOFGREN: Properly, I believe from what the Legal professional Basic mentioned he sought to depoliticize this investigation. Clearly, profession professionals are doing it and to have a particular counsel overseeing it. However , the suitable wing by no means fails, up is down and down is up. The trouble to depoliticize they're now criticizing is by some means a political measure. So, , the trouble to say segregated the investigation from the Legal professional Basic himself, is within the eye of the beholder. And naturally, the previous president is saying he will not partake as if , it is a - it is a slice of pizza. I imply, it is less than him. He's being investigated for these offenses, and we'll see what they discover.
MARGARET BRENNAN: You sit on the Judiciary Committee, you simply heard Rod Rosenstein say that he thinks the US Legal professional in Delaware is ample when it comes to having the ability to independently resolve on what to do with Hunter Biden and that case. I ponder in case you agree with that, or in case you assume your Republican colleagues are proper to ask for a particular counsel to take care of the present president's son?
LOFGREN: Properly, I do not know something about that case. Actually, within the case of –
MARGARET BRENNAN: However you do have oversight of the Justice Division?
LOFGREN: Yeah. Sure, however we do not, , I served with Mike Pence on the Judiciary Committee. We do not oversee and intrude with particular person investigations in circumstances. That may be improper when it comes to oversight. You understand, if if the president's son has dedicated offenses, then, , there will be a judgment on whether or not to prosecute or not, and that is the rule of legislation. Simply because the rule of legislation applies to the previous president, individuals on this nation have to stick to the legislation. And, , in case you do not, in case you commit an offense and the info are there, then there will be a prosecution. And that is what it is about dwelling in a rustic the place the rule of legislation, not simply politics, leads us. That is about our democratic republic.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Properly, the problem of what to do with Hunter Biden will come earlier than your committee because the chair - the incoming chair of it has mentioned together with the top of oversight, they need to lead investigations.
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LOFGREN: There's nothing - no position for the legislative physique and a prosecution.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Understood, however are you ready as Democrats for this knife battle?
LOFGREN: Properly, I imply, we'll be there and the incoming Judiciary Committee Chair has a historical past of taking part in quick and free with the reality. We're conscious of that. And we will likely be there as truth-sayers.
MARGARET BRENNAN: We will likely be watching Congresswoman. Thanks.