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Democrats authority to investigate the administration as the president gives his attorney general sweeping power to investigate the investigators. Our nbc team is here with this story and all others. We will bring you this hour that matter to you today. I must start with my colleague Kelly Odonnell at the white house and leanne on capitol hill. The president is about to get on a plane to japan. He is leaving the country and there is trouble at home. Yes, typically Speaker Pelosi is very careful not to criticize the president , any president , when he is out of the country. We might be almost t...

Report by the Inspector General on fisa abuse is expected to be detailed, brutal, and devastating in its conclusions. We can tell you, we expect that report to determine that those fisa warrants, the four warrants on carter page, the back door spying on the Trump Campaign, transition, then presidency, where, in fact, illegally obtained. Thats what we are expecting. Remember, comey signed three of the four applications, and the original one, which was october 2016, before the election. But he told before Something Else in january before he became president. Today, they released only a narrow sl...

Against the former president's legal team, a former federal attorney who took the lead in prosecuting trump's first impeachment. congressman dan goldman of new york. so you just heard the house judiciary chairman jim jordan say over and over that trump could declassify any of these documents in question and did. what's your response? >> well, that is true. as president when he's a sitting president he can, he has classification authority and can declassify documents. after he leaves the oval office he cannot do so. so the question then becomes did he know whether or not these documents were cl...

Will come under unprecedented scrutiny. i want to bring in a democrat who has experience going up against the former president's legal team a former federal attorney who took the lead in prosecuting trump's first impeachment. congressman dan goldman of new york. you just heard the house judiciary chairman jim jordan say over and over that trump could declassify any of these documents in question and did. what is your response? >> well, that is true. as president when he is a sitting president he can. he has classification authority and can declassify documents. after he leaves the oval office,...

An expert backgrounder on how, in prosecutions for mishandling classified documents, the Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA) is designed to protect both U.S. national security secrets and defendants' rights.