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Matters that were assigned to him but as you know, rachel, we dont know what was assigned to robert mueller. we know trump russia broadly and an issue related to paul manafort but remember from a few months ago, there say blacked out portion of the memo that designated the scope of muellers investigation and the public really has never seen that blacked out information about what mueller was assigned at least at one point to investigate nor do we know definitively the matters cast off to various...

The house, i dont think youll see it happening with the republican-led senate but the house has an ability to try to subpoena this information. if he doesnt release the underlying documents to try to get those documents with the argument that this was an invasion of our countrys democracy and then of course, unrelated to this special counsel, you have on going prosecutions in the southern and eastern districts of new york as well as the new york attorney generals office. >> senator klobuchar, i ...

And maybe the one act of restraint donald trump has had is not doing that yet. if he does that now, i think everyone will know whats up and i think barrs choice will be to resign at that point because if its done for nefarious reasons, if he wants to sneak peek at the report in order to, you know, try and discredit it in some way, thats a real problem. it also would be a problem if barr on his own decided not to release the full mueller report. i mean, were dealing with, as your guests have show...

Barr decides he doesnt want to do that and decides in his judgement for whatever reason or however he reads the law, the regulations or thinks is relevant justice department president for some unprecedented thing like this, if he decides no ill brief the principal conclusions which is who got indicted and beyond that none of this should be shared with congress and you have to trust us thats this -- that this is fine, if he decides that people calling for it to be released doesnt persuade him, ar...

Intelligence committee, you in particular as chair but you and all of your colleagues on that committee, deal with very sensitive information all the time and there are protocols for those, for that committee that there arent for any other part of congress because of the sensitivity of material that youre entrusted -- with which youre entrusted. given that, given your training in that matter, given your experience with that, given how seriously you take that, i wonder if theres anything you can ...

Months ago theres this blacked-out portion of the memo that designated the scope of muellers investigation and the public really has never seen that blacked-out information about what mueller was assigned, at least at one point to investigate. nor do we know definitively all the matters cast off to various u.s. attorneys offices. its difficult to say at this point who is or isnt out of the woods in terms of the matters that have come across muellers desk over the past two years. >> and thats a r...

Republicans. they set the president. if the justice department doesnt release the whole report or keeps part secret, we will certainly subpoena the parts of the report and reserve the right to call mueller or to testify before the committee or subpoena him as several other committees might do but well only do that if necessary. the important thing is that the entire report be made public and evidence behind it be given to the relevant committee so the american people can be informed. >> tonight ...

If he decides no, im going to brief the principal conclusions, which is who got indicted, and beyond that i think none of this should be shared with congress and you just have to trust us that this is fine, if he decides that people calling for it to be released doesnt persuade him, are there any levers of power that could be used here in order to pry this thing into the public if barr doesnt want it to be? >> sure. and youve heard this from speaker pelosi. youve heard it from adam schiff. the h...

This is him saying barr, you do not have that much leeway when it comes to deciding what is disclosed to congress. any intelligence matters must be disclosed to us. "we will insist the justice department meet its statutory obligations and be transparent with our committee and the public. anything less would be negligent in the service of our national security." so thats the intelligence committee chairman saying i hear you mr. attorney general when you say youre deciding what information in the ...

Because mueller and rosenstein and bill barr, the attorney general, are all parts of the executive branch and the president of course is the head of the executive branch. so if the president demanded the report, its entirely plausible that bill barr would give it to him. perhaps after telling him what a bad idea it would be to receive it. but barr ultimately works for the president. and so this is a fraught relationship. and that is specifically why weve been so careful in the past about passing...