proceed. garrett, we continue to cover this split, this cleave, the republicans saying nothing to see here. and cory booker went on this network tonight and straight-up said the fix was in on this fbi report, and there this problem sits. yeah, brian, it s a real problem. the rules around this fbi report are that senators are not supposed to discuss the specifics of its content. and senators in both parties who i spoke to today went about as far as they possibly could go to get up to that line without crossing it. i had a conversation with cory booker about the subject. he said, look, i can t tell you the specifics, but the idea there is not malfeasance, there s not other issues here, there s not other questions, is ludicrous. he s not a professional investigate early. as he read page after page of the 46 pages of interview notes,
crossing it. i had a conversation with cory booker today about this subject too and he essentially said, look, i can t tell you the specifics, but the idea there is not malfeasance, there s not other issues here, there s not other questions, is ludicrous. he s not a professional investigator. as he read page after page of the 46 pages of interview notes, he is presented with questions he as an amateur investigator could have gone back and asked these witnesses. so for democrats, they feel like this is this report, this fbi effort was a sham. it didn t do the job. it provided political cover for republicans. republicans who i talked to coming out of this meeting were almost uniform in saying zero corroboration, no corroboration, that was the sort of the code word from republicans as they were digesting this report. i don t think we re going to know what s in it until or if perhaps house democrats are in the majority in the spring of next year and they subpoena the contents. but everyb
lock her up, lock her up, and that was about the clinton e-mail investigation. there was all this pressure to be more aggressive, to tell the public what they re doing, to disclose documents from that investigation. and the fbi responded to that pressure. in part, with the public statements made about the investigation from fbi director james comey. but also with the fbi deciding that they would take this extremely unusual step of pub c publicly exposing their internal, confidential notes and documents from the investigation. the fbi doesn t typically release stuff like this. they don t release notes from investigatory notes, except when they do. because there was lots of political pressure to do it. then apparently they do it. that is worth remembering tonight, as we await word on the fbi interview notes, these same kind of documents, these 302
interview forms, that this time are related to the back ground investigation of would-be supreme court justice brett kavanaugh. they have been saying that the fbi is all done, all those 302s, all those interview notes from the fbi agents talking to people, interviewing witnesses, those 302s, those interview notes are duing to handed over to the senate any second now. and who know it is that really is true in terms of the timing? lots of things reported about the supposed speed and supposed scope of the fbi back ground investigation into brett kavanaugh have turned out to not be true over the course of this past week of reporting. we really don t know who the fbi has talked to. we don t know when they will be done. we don t though exact think what they re going to be handing over to the senate. but senate republicans have been hyping the fact that it s almost done, and they planted a flag today on the issue of secrecy,
internal, confidential notes and documents from the investigation. i mean, to be clear, the fbi doesn t release stuff like this. they don t release their agent s notes from investigatory notes, except when they do. in the interest of transparency. because there was lots of political pressure for them to do it. then, apparently, they do it. that is worth remembering tonight, as we await word on the fbi interview notes, these same kind of documents, these 302 interview forms, that this time are related to the background investigation of would-be supreme court justice brett kavanaugh. republican senators have been telling reporters basically every five minutes for the last two and a half days that the fbi is definitely all done, their investigation is definitely completed, all those 302s, all those interview notes from the fbi agents talking to people, interviewing witnesses, those 302s, those interview notes are due to be handed over to the