saying that whatever is handed over from the fbi from this background investigation, and whenever the senate gets it, those material hs be handled with the strictest secrecy. not a single letter of a single word will be made available to the public. why are they insisting on that kind of secrecy with the kavanaugh back ground investigation? well, they insist that s the appropriate treatment we should all expect from fbi interview notes. the public never gets to see those. yeah, normally that would be the case. if the fbi always acted by the book, if the fbi wasn t susceptible to public pressure and political haranguing, theoretically that would be the case. fbi interview notes, they don t become public documents. however, we know from recent history, there are exceptions when the fbi feels like it. ask the hillary clinton
interview notes from an investigation. the public never gets to see those. yeah, normally that would be the case. if the fbi always acted by the book, if the fbi wasn t susceptible as an agency to public pressure and political haranguing. theoretically, that would be the case. fbi interview notes, these 302s, they don t become public documents. however, we know from recent history, there are exceptions when the fbi feels like it. ask the hillary clinton campaign and that nice political kick in the teeth that if fbi gave the clinton campaign as a gift for labor day weekend right before the presidential election. there are two outstanding big problems for the brett kavanaugh supreme court nomination. the one that s got everybody on the edge of their seats tonight, because we don t know when we re going to find out about it, is this expanded fbi background check into the sexual assault allegations against kavanaugh. we really have no transparency
getting in the process of sending them to the senate and white house? that s sort of outside my skating lane here. i don t know what stage the report is in. i talked to three different senators on the judiciary committee over the last hour. some democrats, some republicans. and none of them know exactly the stage that this report is in. they all have their own sources. they re all hearing from different people that they ve gone beyond the fbi has gone beyond talking to those original four witnesses they wanted to. but the question of how far beyond and where they are and putting together a report, remember, the fbi has said and everyone involved in this has said the fbi won t draw a conclusion. they ll present all the evidence that they have. so we don t know if that report is going to be a summary or if the fbi is going to drop 60 pages of interview notes and call it a day. we re entirely de pendeant on te fbi to move it forward. is there any sense the president tainted that inv
to be investigated? any woman that s come forward publicly with her name and allegation should be investigated by the fbi. i don t think it s a thorough investigation unless they re interviewed. and unless mark judge is interviewed. it s telling that he s unwilling to come forward publicly. you know, he is the he has agreed to be interviewed by any law enforcement agency that promises to do so confidentially. that seems to be the one real output of what s different in this fbi investigation or background check than what we had and saw yesterday. that s right. and miss ford did not testify confidentially. she raised her right hand and subjected herself to questions. now i hope that mr. judge means that he will be questioned in private by the fbi, but that eventually those interview notes would be made public and that he s forthcoming with those investigators. you and i talk a lot about the intersection of donald trump s war on the justice department and any effect on politics
and now you have the president demanding an additional 20 or so pages of a fisa application be made public. and that s an application that has already been redacted and made public, so he s actually asking for the redacted portions of these 20 pages to be made public. we ve never seen anything like it. completely unprecedented. for those who believe there s a plot against the president, this certainly seems to be an offshoot of that. sure. and it plays into that conspiratorial view of the federal government. but you asked me before, is this transparency. so let me be a little harsh here in making a judgment. this is a president who will not release his tax returns because they re undergoing a routine audit. allegedly. and now he wants to release a fisa application, interview notes, and the text messages of fbi officers involved in an