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>> and to what degree, i guess we dont know this if we dont know whats in it, but what is the white house in your opinion or your understanding able to edit or restrict the release of? >> thats exactly right. thats a great point. theyre not able to edit the content of the mueller report. what they will have a say in, presumably, is what gets sent over to congress because they will be able to claim executive privilege or may make claims of executive privilege on some things, and there will also b...

Basically not be charged with that. what would it mean if hes charged and hillary is not or what means since hillary wasnt charged, he wont either? >> well, i mean, i think theres hypocrisy all over the place in these cases. you look at flynn get being charged for false statements and then you look at mccabe and whether or not he will be charged with false statements and you look at comey who arguably made false statements before congress, so i think that, you know, it gets people very frustrate...

In the ordinary course of business and if they are, they just walk down the hall or across the plaza and they can present it to the white house staff or the president himself at any time. so why all of the cloak house cooperation. >> no timeline? >> im ready to go any time. >> on the weekend, friday? >> im happy to go tomorrow. if theyre ready tomorrow, im ready to go tomorrow. >> do you think over the course of his statements on the matter the chairman has revealed any classified information? a...

The ordinary course of business. if they are, they just walked down the hall or across the plaza and they can present it to the white house staff at any time. why all the cloak and dagger stuff. i hope we get the white house cooperation there. >> so is there a timeline? >> im ready to go any time. >> weekend, friday? >> im happy to go tomorrow. if theyre ready tomorrow, im ready tomorrow. >> do you think that the house ethics committee should be investigating this matter? >> i dont know the answ...

Thats not going to cut much mustard today because the committee leadership on both parties wants to get as much information out in public as possible. two problems for the fbi, one is the classification issue, and the second one is the fbi is in sort of a tough spot here because on the one hand, its doing its own investigation. on the other hand, the committee wants to investigate but the other way it can get information is from the federal agencies that normally dont like to share informing fro...

>> is there any information that the doj could not give to the house intelligence committee? any information that might be above their classification level? >> no, i dont think it would be a classification issue. the only time the justice department normally doesnt give material to congress is if there is a criminal investigation. you sort of see that going on right now with the russian investigation. the justice department traditionally doesnt like to share things with congress because it could...

>> they were released, they were some of the original e-mails that were released during the release of e-mails pertaining to benghazi. what we now know based on some reporting initially by fox news confirmed by sources familiar with the investigation that two of the e-mails raised some eyebrows in the intelligence community, led to a further look at other e-mails which in turn triggered the fbis investigation into the classification issue. now, the clinton campaign says, though, that the narrowi...

She just turned over hillary clinton did, 55,000 pains of e-mails to the state department. this is just about benghazi. theres going to be e-mails about russia, maybe north korea isis lot of other big issues potentially other big e-mails to come in the days ahead. >> you know, ed, cant mills the fact that they state department is spending all this energy and time making sure that our national security was not compromised by the former secretary of state and her private e-mail server at a time wh...