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Tower in moscow. that is deeply compromising. when that project was discovered, that negotiations went on well after the president said they were, the kremlin tried to participate in the coverup along with the president. if there's other compromising information like that, congress needs to know so it can protect the country. >> how should lawmakers, congressman schiff, respond if bill barr decides to withhold what you would call significant information from congress? >> first of all, we need to point out to the department that it would be establishing a w horrendous double standard. during th...

Deny congress and the american people information or evidence about the president, then it hamstrings congress of doing its i don't see, and if the justice department won't do it, and the congress can't or won't, then the president is above the law, and that's undemocratic and subversive of our form of government. we cannot perform that, and that's why we'll do whatever we have have to that the mueller report is made public. >> i believe you have the tools to do that? >> i believe we have the tools to do that. i believe the fact of the matter is this justice department gave the juju dishary co...

Government. we cannot permit that. we cannot permit and we will do whatever we have to do to make sure the mueller report and the evidence is made public. >> you believe you have the tools to do that even if they decide they would rather keep it? >> i believe we have the tools to do that and the fact is this justice department gave the judiciary committee under republican control last year 880,000 payments of documents which normal ly about people working in the fbi, et cetera, on the hillary clinton investigation, on the beginning of the mueller probe, they gave it to the congress. they are g...

There may be classified portions that need to be redacted, but even there the justice department has declassified information like the fisa opinions, at least portions of them. >> for republicans. >> for republicans. as of june of last year, the justice department turned over 880,000 pages of discovery to the republicans. >> yeah, at the request of the republican congress. >> at the request, and bear in mind that went to an investigation in which no one was indicted, in terms of the clinton e-mail investigation. so when the justice department suggests now, as they are saying anonymously, that,...

And the office was created is because it was important that the chief executive not be allowed to cover up a crime. in the case of hillary clinton, she wasn't the president. there wasn't that danger that she could cover up things because she controlled the justice department. that danger exists here. that's a much more powerful reason for transparency and disclosure than it was when they gave 880,000 pages of discovery in the clinton case to the congress. >> mr. chairman, thank you very much for coming in tonight. we really appreciate your input. invaluable perspective on all of this. thank yo...