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Those are about the federal open records law. there are many reasons to deny access, but if they tend to release information, that will show there is less of a cover-up here. >> lisa, you made a very good point earlier in the program that for the victims of this monster over the decades, at least he is no longer a threat to them. but as somebody who is representing some of these victims, would you want such a foyer request to find out how this person was allowed to die however he died and be sil...

The don jr. meeting which the president was involved with. and michael cohen was released with the foyer request. and in terms of im preachment that there was a break-in, if the white house wasnt ininstructing people like don mcgahn -- >> you had your time, you had your investigation. it didnt come to anything. >> thats not true. >> thats where we thought nancy pelosi was until a couple hours ago when she dropped the bomb of cover-up. so my question is, what happened in the meetings with democra...

Cia. he got pushed out of the "l.a. times," ever since then, hes kind of climbed up the ladder, and now he is the star reporter at the msnbc and nbc, where that is all he does, just blindly and mindlessly repeat what the cia tells them to say, gives them anonymity, essentially their puppet and mouthpiece, that is called journalism over at msnbc. >> laura: but hes an expert. i mean, they hold him out as a real expert on brennan, clapper, the whole crowd, and so he speaks with authority, because h...

Foyer request. sought a chick-fil-a franchise for his wife. $43,000 for a soundproof phonebooth first class travel, my favorite asking security detail to go out and ask for a special kind of lotion that he likes. i dont know what to ask you about specifically, but what about people helping him find work for his wife? >> one of the most fend mental prpts of government service is that you take public office to serve the public. and when you use your public office as pruitt has done again and again...

That issue is still out there. it is a worthy subject of investigation, especially since the case failed so spectacularly, the question of why this case was brought at all but as of now, this merger is going to close next week unless the government can persuade the court of appeals to issue a stay and that seems like pretty much of a long shot at this point. >> and as you pointed out, too the judge making it clear he did very smart move. hat would be a when it comes to whether or not the preside...

Have her ashes placed there, which was of course incredibly saddening for our family. so we struggled for a while, trying to figure out what to do. my mother had to submit a foyer request just to gain the memo from former secretary of the army, mchugh, which overturned the previous decision by the assistant secretary of the army to allow w.a.s.p.s to be placed in arlington. >> right. >> we tried to go through the official channels. we asked assistance from my mothers local senator ba bra mccalsk...

That shes seeing to be, you know, sent to others. >> well, thats right. and, jose, its worth knowing that this entire foyer request, there were e-mails brought up that were deleted because theyve been upgraded to their classification status after the fact. the state department said this is a standard operating procedure for requests from the state department and others when youre dealing with things that actually, oh, this is classified. we need to redact the name, we need to x out this so the p...

>> im not familiar with all of the foyer requests made while she was the secretary of state. but whether they were on her private e-mail or her public e-mail or official e-mail, michael, it doesnt really matter because she still has the ability as every other official in the executive branch to make the determinations as to what are official e-mail and private e-mail. so the mere virtue of her using a private e-mail server doesnt change the sub stance of what her response would be to a foyer req...

Her private e-mail or her public e-mail, official e-mail, it doesnt really matter, she still has the ability as every other official in the executive branch to make determinations as to what are official e-mails and what are private e-mails. the virtue of the fact that shes using a private e-mail server doesnt really complaining what the substance of her response would be to a foyer request. >> let me show you something that michael mukasey, former attorney general wrote this week about this mat...

With document production. when that key individual was there at the irs when that scandal was unfolding and we were trying to get documents from lois lerner 422 tapes destroyed and now she is here. judicial watch filled and they have had success and the judge is now demanding these documents within a week. will it happen? >> the courts have been helpful in the foyer request and times we have been trying to get information. it has been an outside group demanding it going to the judge, and the jud...