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Member see highly classified information 0 eon a daily basis. briefed regularly on operations going on highly classified. to say were withholding this because of sensitivity is not going to fly. again, you look at stare at the law this type of information from a whistle-blower must get where it needs to go. doesnt fly. that excuse. the problem for me and others who stare at this wondering about the last year and a half, two years of this deep state narratives president says a cabal of people out...

Cut the cost of their labor. the big question is how much of the program has tripled in size it will be classified? and just the last decade with a we have seen things in farmworkers coming in this year. washington with page after page blacked out because it is its mostly from mexico. they complain that it is very classified. that would not be very useful for the publics right to know. expensive. they spend about $1500 per what is important here is that back in may, president trump worker on vis...

You looked at the evidence. and you did. i mean, whats the fundamental difference between your view and his. >> we analyzed the law and the facts. and a group of us spent a lot of time doing that. and determined that both as a matter of law many of the instances would not amount to obstruction. we didnt agree with the legal analysis -- a lot of the legal analysis in the report. it did not reflect the views of the department. it was the views of a particular lawyer or lawyers. and so we applied w...

Has granted his request for wide authority to declassify information. barr has testified he believes the trump campaign was spied upon. something most legal professionals know, instead, as federal court-ordered surveillance. today he was asked about that new investigation. >> what have you seen? what evidence? what makes you think i need to take a look at this? >> i had a lot of questions about what was going on. i assumed i would get answers when i went in. i have not gotten answers that are sa...

Know how the intelligence services work, how staffing works. those are the people who are usually giving these type of sort of bizarre explanations that hes not in the intelligence field, but i think hes a smart guy and figure out what he needs to ask as he goes forward. gillian: the attorney general makes a decision during the course of investigations to declassify information, it gets disseminated publicly, and then the director of national intelligence comes in and says, whoa, whoa, whoa, who...

To form a partisan investigation and he is not required, i should add, to heed the advice of the intelligence agency heads here. its totally unilateral, then that is going to set up a showdown. >> a lot to bite and chew here. jill, can the president do this give the ability to have access and declassify information. number two, what does happen if the cia and other heads of these intelligence agencies as being reported there by natasha say, no, not going to let you? >> here id like to talk in tw...

Investigation and they wanted to potentially declassify or release intelligence information theyd work it out with the heads of the nsa and director of national intelligence. clearly there was a disagreement, clearly there was a fight, clearly the heads of the intelligence organizations said were not going to give you the authority to release information about our human sources who risked their lives and our clandestine collection mechanisms because if we do that for a purely political effort, n...

The same time, susan, here is the ironic part, that congress has no access to the supporting intel underlying the mueller report? >> right. so its not exactly clear which investigations are going to be prioritized. bill barr has not explained why he doesnt think that the inspector generals investigation is going to be sufficient. theres something else thats really significant about this latest investigation, both the executive order allowing barr to dee classify information and this new inquiry ...

Information that he believes needs to be made public as part of his investigation of the investigation. let me read a part of what the presidents order said, it says, quote, the attorney general may declassify, downgrade or direct the declassification or down grading of information or intelligence that relates to the attorney generals review. this is a review as you know, poppy, that is directing for the justice department to do to look at how this investigation started. by the way, this is some...

Other agencies. >> right. >> there is a process that exists for interagency to review. the information we are talking about here is the most sensitive form of information. reportedly the attorney general is interested in the cias human assets in russia. thats the kind of information that if disclosed really could have life and death consequences for people. >> because the authority given to the attorney general -- or the direction given to the attorney general here from the president is not only...