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Needed to do was start governing and now a president who said he is unwilling to work on any of these initiatives until they stop an investigation. so, that whole other level, it continues to go up. kelly odonnell and leeann, thank you very much. a tweet from the oval office this one with enormous consequences for the int intelligence community and one that gives the attorney general sweeping authority over intelligence related to the russia investigation. i want to bring back pete williams who ...

Cooperate with the review of the fbi and how it started the investigation of the trump campaign in the context of the russia meddling investigation. this is pro forma. i think youre right about that. in a sense, he had the cooperation. the big change or significant change here is that the president has given the attorney general the authority to declassify documents that these agencies may have related to this investigation. normally that classification authority they have themselves. i think th...

Someone who has on other occasions proven to be an ally of this president so far. very interesting to see what he does with all this authority. and i think it will also be inest there ei interesting to see how others in the intelligence. >> we know bill barr has even more power but robert mueller, it says like, will testify. he doesnt want to testify necessarily in front of all the tv cameras but according to jerry nadler, well get a transcript. if we get a transcript from mueller who does not a...

Community jealously guards its ability to keep classification. the rule and the law is that the originator of the document is the person or the agent who decides its classified and at what level. theyre the authority that knows what the sensitive material is. where it came from. when you give that authority to someone else, the concern is you lose that ability to safeguard your sources and methods. now, the executive order does say that the attorney general to the extent that he deems it practic...

A russia investigation. so even if 95% of the agenda is being fulfilled in a particular way, the thing that rattles the president is this. none of the rest really seems to matter. >> when we see this all of this coming and we are learning about what will be declassified. these text messages he admits he hasnt read any of this. whats your take on this? there is understandable parkback here. >> so the fact that something is unprecedented doesnt necessarily make it bad. the fact that its unpreceden...

Would serve to do it is to get out in to the press some basic evidence that could be used against him, for personal against him in the russia probe. >> whats interesting is this may be another example of the presidents own administration slow walking one of his requests. take a listen to this from ken delaney of nbc news, in response to the justice department announced monday they would begin a declassification review of the material. that struck some intelligence officials as a stalling tactic,...

Should. should the president do this? probably not. can the president do this? he is the ultimate declassification authority. i dont see a lot of avenues for impediment of this. there might be on the privacy side. they could have a claim and im not sure how they stop it. we dont know whats in there. >> thank you very much for that perspective and analysis. joining us now is congressman mike quickly, a democrat on the house intelligence committee. whats your reaction of the presidents order to de...

Blacked out. these texts are expected to shed more light on two tracks, an effort to build obstruction case against the president and so-called insurance policy thats discussed in their text messages two months before the presidential election. a source close to the review process tells fox news that the records are out to the agencies for review right now, they will recommend redactions to shield sources and methods. when reviews are over, the recommendations will go to the white house and pres...

Way, mika oyang. let me put up what sort of things the president is declassifying. 21 pages of fisa warrant documents to surveilled carter page. we know thats been a big talking point among republicans. and almost this, another big talking point, text messages related to all of these individuals in the russia investigation, andrew mccabe, bruce ohr, lisa page, peter strzok and james comey, unredacted text messages. what is the intention here, ken? >> look, clearly the intention is political. it ...

Create a program out of nowhere but another president doesnt have the authority to end it. i certainly hope the administration will win it on appeals. is a 34 year career veteran i do not understand the judges ruling. ed: to those not familiar with that the daca program was set up under an executive order by president obama, not a law endorsed by full congress. that would be something a president couldnt undo but one executive order can be undone by another executive order if it is not endorsed ...