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Face-to-face. he gets all second hand information. he takes that dossier. they help launch an investigation. and then when it wasnt moving, he shows up in america and starts giving the information to press people like corn and isikoff. and russian roulette in such detail you wonder i know they are good reporters but no one is this good this quick who knew that much information now there its being unwound and pushing back in every way. trey gowdy new a lot when he was questioning brennan last yea...

Actually truth as you know. michael, great to see you tonight. thank you for come on. >> thanks. >> tucker: back in may ofno 2017, john brennan insisted that the steele dossier had no bearing on the behavior during the 2016 election. >> do you know who commissioned this steeles dossier? >> i dont. >> did the cia rely on it? >> no. >> why not? >> because we didnt. it wasnt part of the corpus of intelligence information that we had. it was not in any way used as a basis for the intelligence commun...

Argument but if youre a senior white house official, certainly as we saw in hillary clintons case with her aides, those privacy concerns were deemed to not be sufficient to withhold that kind of information from congress and i assume that the justice department would have to make the same judgements. i think that barr looks at that 420-0 vote on releasing the report that we got from the house of representatives the other day and he may not be the most political guy around but he does know when a...

That scoping memo. eventually those criminal cases get finished. eventually those things get done. if its an intelligence matter and not a criminal matter does adam schiff tonight have a when he says regardless of prosecution we on the intelligence committee get to know everything that has consequences and thats a requirement by law. >> i think he does and there is precedent, theres a d.c. circuit precedent from the watergate era that say if they send a subpoena ask for the information, they sho...

The law for being able to access this information sort of despite attorney general william barrs discretion and now tonight, there is this statement from chairman jerry nadler, the democratic chairman of judiciary in the house. >> the important thing to say is the mueller report must be made public in the entirety. the american people deserve to know what was going on and the evidence against people or lack of evidence against people and we are going to insist that the attorney general make publ...

I wouldnt be surprised frankly if bob mueller left those specific source references out of the report. they wouldnt be necessary to the report. but those redactions could be made. its also fair to point out that the justice department has declassified information when it application material in the current mueller investigation even while that investigation was on going. so yes, there could be very small things but i think the most important point is this investigation began as a counter intelli...

But theres also good reasons in some cases not to do that, or at least not to do that yet. the other types of information, rachel, that we may not see, at least not immediately, are information related to ongoing investigations. again, all of those redactions and public filings speak to the fact that other stuff is going on and that prosecutors and agents are continuing their work. we eventually get to see almost everything. it took 40 years to see some of mr. jaworskis work in the watergate inv...

One sentence and a list of all the indictments he filed. boom. done. a lot of people thought that is what mueller would do in terms of filing his final report. i mean, if he had done that, the bullet points briefing that bill barr says hell provide to congress as soon as this weekend would more or less be the whole report. he said he prosecuted these people. thats it. apparently, mueller didnt do something that bones, that bare bones. the report is apparently more comprehensive than just that so...

Relationship. and that is specifically why weve been so careful in the past about passing information between the white house and the justice department. >> and chuck, in terms of the news we got from nbc tonight that the special counsels office will not make any more indictments, that i think is being greeted in some quarters as a sign that there will be no more indictments, period, that anybody who hasnt been -- who hasnt been charged yet in any relation to this investigation or anything that ...

Potentially being in the thrall of a foreign power. it certainly never happened to a president. are we going to find out what robert mueller found out when he investigated that core issue? well, depends on what william barr thinks about long-standing practices and policies in the justice department and how those can be applied to this question. but i think its also worth noting that bill barr says there is some other information in the mueller report. remember all that the special counsel regula...