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Based on your understanding of the responsibilities of the fbi to congressional oversight, if the intelligence committee in the house or the intelligence committee in the senate wants a full briefing on the status of that investigation in particular, whether its resolved or whether its open are they entitled to that? >> in my experience, rachel, we were very careful to keep the intelligence committees in the house and senate up to speed on the most significant investigations we were pursuing. th...

The mueller report, i think is fairly obvious. they were not. director mueller in the end of the day determined that his jurisdiction as it were was fairly narrow to the specific question about coordination between the campaign and the russian government. will we ever see a resolution to those questions? i dont know. well have to see. well have to wait and see what investigative actions the fbi takes. if, in fact, any of the actions are shared with the public. >> and aside from the public, based...

Are shared with the public. >> and aside from the public, based on your understanding of the responsibilities of the fbi to congressional oversight, if the intelligence committee in the house or the intelligence committee in the senate wants a full briefing on the status of that investigation in particular, whether its resolved or whether its open are they entitled to that? >> well, in my experience, rachel, we were very careful to keep the intelligence committees in the house and the senate up ...

A sword to protect its turf and keep committees of oversight away from them, to fight intramural battles for supremacy within the government and maybe its good to give someone the power to get in there and override that. >> well, the women and men of the intelligence communities do their utmost to keep their fellow citizens safe and secure, and they do their utmost to keep the capabilities whether they be technical or whether they be human sources safe from harm. so to say that someone else shou...

Supremacy within the government and maybe its good to give someone the power to get in there and override that. >> well, the women and men of the communities do their utmost to keep their fellow citizens and secure and to keep the capabilities whether they be technical or whether they be human sources safe from harm. so to say that someone else should release things willie nilly i think is a reckless, reckless initiative. i do believe the intelligence committees in the congress are the appropria...

Our attempts to hold him accountable. and i think you saw the speaker do that today and you saw the president clearly stung by that. >> and one thing that did happen, is that somehow politicously adam schiff and his house intelligence committee got access to the counterintelligence records or at least some of them from the mueller probe that hes been demanding. they have a mandate, the intelligence committees, to get access. that is written in stone. so that was going to happen. he was confident...

National security grounds and faced heavy bipartisan opposition as well. joining us from washington senior writer at roll call. neil, good to talk to you this morning. lets talk iran first. the trump administration is contending there are credible threats. however lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have not been informed as to what these threats are. we heard from lindsey graham a little bit earlier talking about the fact they could get behind the plan for iran but they dont know what they w...

Place a couple of floors above the skiff here on capitol hill where the gang of eight will be getting their briefing. that includes the leaders of both chambers, youll have nancy pelosi and mitch mcconnell. youll have the heads of the intelligence committees. and they are always read into the most sensitive things in isi

And to stop weeds before they start, also try roundup landscape weed preventer. roundup brand. trusted for over 40 years. welcome back. moments ago we got a preview of the political battle were sure to see over muellers report. listen to the top house democrats on the judiciary and the house intelligence committees. >> if youre not indicting something because you cant as a matter of law then you cant hold the president accountable. the only other institution that can is congress and you should...

Counsel that pertain to criminal law, hes saying if there are counter intelligence findings from muellers investigation, counter intelligence findings about, say, foreign intelligence operations targeting or compromising u.s. persons in national politics and government, those counter intelligence findings by law, according to adam schiff must be briefed to the intelligence committees in the house, even if barr doesnt want to release the rest of the stuff to the rest of congress. heres the statem...