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>> the next big drama in washington, wednesday, so many, we understand there are actual talks on the hill right now with robert muellers folks about delaying it a week. so that they can have more time with each of the committees, the judiciary and the intelligence committees. that would certainly be another delay on this much delayed testimony. >> it would make a lot of sense, too, if youre the democrats here. look, youre going to get one shot at mueller and were only going to take two hours? ri...

Select intelligence committees, house and senate, and participated in the mueller report as well. her name is throughout the mueller report. certainly more than 100 times where she is listed. and they are saying, according to what were hearing from members hearing these arguments, that of course the content of the mueller report findings, the information that goes back to her previous testimony, is something that the white house considers to not be an issue of exerting privilege. they see this a...

Combat with the iranian navy. we generally have really strong intelligence when we start threatening activities. the problem is, this administrations level of, how can i put it, their inability to bring facts to light that people can trust. and thats whats missing here right now is that the information thats been shown thus far should not be enough to have a drum beat to war. this was not u.s. ships that were attacked. these were not u.s. interests could be anything. and now theyre starting to m...

Community brief that information to? i mean, you wouldnt go to the perpetrator to say, hey, weve got important information youre the perpetrator? would they go to the dpang of eight or go to congress and not directly to the president if the president turns out to be the bad guy until they figure out what was going on? >> fortunately, thats a dilemma we havent encountered to date. it is be in my estimation to not only brief the appropriate executive branch officials including the presidents cabin...

Has a long established relationship with that gang of eight as well as with the intelligence committees themselves. so i would think it would need at a minimum to brief the gang of eight and possibly more broadly the intelligence committees on both sides. >> but if the president was the one who was working with a foreign power in a way that was, you know, illegal under u.s. law and an intelligence concern for intelligence committees, they would have to brief it to the president. >> its hard to s...

And an intelligence concern for intelligence committees, they would have to brief it to the president. >> its hard to see how they avoid that, unless they refer it through law enforcement channels and, you know, the justice department -- cough. and, you know, the courts are able to do their duty. but its hard to imagine how the executive branch is uninformed at the highest levels about a finding of that sort by the intelligence community. >> wow, even when it implicates the head of the executive...

But it would be in my estimation the obligation of the intelligence community to not only brief the appropriate executive branch officials, including the presidents cabinet, the president and the vice president, but it would also require that they do brief congress. and as you said the gang of eight, which as you know are the four leaders on either side and the leaders of the intelligence committees. and that is the inner seanctum, so to speak, of congressional oversight of the intelligence comm...

The house oversight committee into their own investigation into the u.s. census. >> lauren fox on the hill, thank you very much. like much of what happens with the intelligence committees, todays session is off limits to cameras and the public. >> there is an agreement to cover as many as half a dozen topics, including the trump tower meeting with a russian lawyer back in 2016. also included, attempts to build a trump tower in moscow. we dont know why the panel wanted the presidents eldest son, ...

Then you put on your belt and then you cant do those in any other order. but apparently that is how its going to have to work with obtaining information about the mueller investigation as well. i mean, if you were the relevant committee in congress supposed to have that information, we apparently know thats how youre going to have to do it. undies, then pants, then belt every single time. and we know this because we saw this exact same pattern happen a week or so ago with the intelligence commit...

Investigation as well. if you were the relevant committee in congress thats supposed to have that information, undies, pants, then belt. we know that because we saw this exact same pattern happen a week or so ago with the intelligence committee. by statute the intelligence committees are entitled to counterintelligence information and foreign intelligence information thats turned up by the justice department, including in the course of a special counsel investigation. they get that stuff. thats ...