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Lobbyist, was approached to be a part of some of these russian lobbying campaigns, and he realized immediately this was not on the up and up. to his credit, he went immediately to the fbi and became a confidential informant for them in 2009 and did that for a number of years. so he wanted to tell his story, he feels the story needs to be told, but he was concerned about the gag order because last year he wanted to litigate some claims against the fbi and the justice department told him, you are ...

Were ready to tackle this. as trace noted, 8 minutes ago, we got some of the documents, and frankly, a lot of the good stuff, maybe all of it, it has been held back. it has been 54 years since the assassination. it has been 25 years to the date since president george h.w. bush signed the law which said you have 25 years to work this out. youd better release it on october 26, 2017, and now it is another six months and there is no guarantee that we will see most of this then. at least the parts we...

Propagated by oliver stones 1991 film "jfk." 90 minutes ago, during a three way conference call, the fbi and cia were able to convince the president cannot release some of the documents with a statement reading "executive department and agencies have proposed to me that certain information should continue to be redacted because of national security law enforcement and foreign affairs concerns. experts say the reactions are likely names of foreigners who worked for or acted as informants for the ...

Been disproven. julie: okay. there were a lot of mess-ups in this investigation, which actually fed all these conspiracy theories. >> yes. julie: one, lee harvey oswald did not act alone, two, there were two gunmen and the list goes on. >> right. julie: 3,000 documents, 30,000 files that make up the jfk files and the cia, the fbi, and the justice department, these documents have all been secret until now. they do not want these documents out. why? >> well, i think its going to be embarrassing fo...

The best simple dinner ever? great tasting, heart-healthy california walnuts. so simple, so good. get the recipes at walnuts.org. julie: welcome back. the public could soon set its sights on a trove of secret documents relating to the assassination of john kennedy. this as president trump says he will not stand in the way of their release. many now hoping the never before seen documents will shed new light on what actually happened in the fall of 1963. >> i really think that, you know, we joke, ...

President when he shot him with the sniper so when the presidents head goes back, you say wait a second there must have been a second shooter but i have -- i applaud the president, about time, i dont know why these files are still classified. julie: bryan llenas is here in our studio with more. why are these documents still classified anyway? >> honestly, the u.s. intelligence agencies and cia probably have a slew of reasons like methods and sources and whatnot, but they have been kept classifie...

To withhold certain documents that could reveal sources and methods used by the intelligence community. now, the white house says the president believes these documents should be made available unless agencies provide a compelling national security reason, otherwise republican representative walter jones and senator charles grassley and others have introduced resolutions calling on trump, julie, to reject any moves to postpone this. so the thought is the president will release these. the questio...

Look how small they are. we are going to win this war is what he was saying. but more importantly he wanted people to understand the global nature of this conflict. and again it is a brilliant piece of political persuasion. but he was also not pretending it wasnt going to be difficult. he wasnt creating a false sense of hope for them. he was saying heres the situation. he was very specific about it and again it was one of those things where at a point of great trepidation in this country, he pro...

That acoustic evidence was wrong. julie: wow. any ground breaking information you think is going to come out of these files? >> i think mostly it will be embarrassing information for some of the agencies involved. i dont think theres going to be any change in the fact that oswald did it alone. julie: all right. >> which was not what oliver stone thought when he made the movie jfk but he was the one in the movie jfk -- got the government to set up this 92 committee that said these documents had t...

The sniper so when the presidents head goes back, you say wait a second there must have been a second shooter but i have -- i applaud the president, about time, i dont know why these files are still classified. julie: bryan llenas is here in our studio with more. why are these documents still classified anyway? >> honestly, the u.s. intelligence agencies and cia probably have a slew of reasons like methods and sources and whatnot, but they have been kept classified but now under the 92 jfk recor...