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Whether the public sees every bit of that im not totally sure if there were bit players here that maybe came across muellers scope at one point. they might have a privacy argument but if youre a senior white house official, certainly as we saw in hillary clintons case with her aids, those privacy concerns were deemed to not be sufficient to with hold 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 ...

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 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 hasn...

Barr on his own decided not to release the full mueller report. i mean, were dealing with, as your guests have shown tonight, some of the most sensitive questions american democracy faces, you know, is our leader under an influence of a foreign power, things like that. and if the president or the barr says the mueller report shouldnt be provided to the american people, that is a declaration of war on the america -- on american democracy and i think all of us should fight it, republican and democ...

Figure this thing out as a country. whether we the country are ever fully told what robert mueller really figured out about russia messing with our election to elect donald trump president and whether trump and his campaign were in on that. there has never before been a president -- i mean, not since the 1700s has there been a high-ranking government official who was investigated for potentially being in the foreign power. it certainly never happened to a president. are we going to find out what...

Subsequent sort of scoping memo that laid out what he was authorized to investigate. but big portions of that were redacted. what would have to transpire, what would have to be sort of cleared up for us to ever be able to see behind those redactions? now that the special counsels investigation is done, would you expect that well get to know the full terms of exactly what he was scoped to look into? >> i imagine we will one day. im not sure its going to happen as quickly as we all might like. the...

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 shown tonight, some of the most sensitive questions american democracy faces, you know, is our leader under an influence of a foreign power, things like that. and if the president or the barr says the mueller report shouldnt be provided to the american people, that is a declaration of war on the americ...

Evidence to prosecute them and i did not prosecute anybody else because there was not enough evidence to prosecute anybody else. he could have just done that, you know. one sentence and a list of 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 as soon as this weekend would more or less be the whole report. he said he prosecuted ...

Investigation began as a counter intelligence investigation, not a criminal investigation. it went to look at the question of whether people were acting as agents of a foreign power. that information needs to be made public and if we need to d declassified information in the interest of transparency and not sacrifice methods, we should do that, too. >> what are you going to do if barr says no? if william barr says this report has been submitted to me, i have the one copy of this report. i believ...

Congress in someway, presumably any on going criminal investigation that was referred to in those large redactions in that scoping memo and those criminal cases get finished and those things get done. if its an intelligence matter and not a krcriminal matter and this prosecution and 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 president, there is a d.c. k circuit president and more than the intellige...

Given that, given your training in that matter and experience with that, given how seriously you take that, i wonder if there is anything you can imagine might be in this report that cant go especially to the public if there is anything with intelligence matters that relates to intelligence matters that you would be sympathetic to keeping under wraps, either just being briefed to your committee or just being held within the justice department. >> there may very well be things in the report that ...