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We have to look at this together with a series of incidents, including recently. the president's decision to authorize to the attorney general declassification authority, allowing him to essentially declassify anything he sees fit vis-a-vis the start of the russia investigation. we've all heard the news reports that informants in russia may have been key to the start of that investigation. all of these steps send a chill down the spine of the brave men and women who want to help us and who we and this president, i should say, are essentially turning away, turning away in droves, tying our hand...

>> i don't think so. i think that the attorney general is going to be able to work with the intelligence committee, i'm sorry, the intelligence community. let's keep in mind that it's only -- declassification authority only applies to the investigation regarding the 2016 election and the declassification authority is staying particularly with this attorney general, it does not get inherited by the next attorney general, so it's only a temporary authority for this specific purpose, it's not as if the authorities guarding this kind of information are being permanently altered or transmuted in so...

They are trying to redo the mueller report, they are trying to make up other stuff and at the end of the day it would be political suicide for them to impeach. >> sam, your thoughts on this battle between the president and house democrats. >> well, i think that at the end to have day in role of head of executive branch the president has interest in transparency. the attorney general also believes in transparency which is why he transmitted as much as the mueller report as possibly could to the hill. so in terms of the president, remember, you have to keep one thing in mind. over the last 2, 3 ...

View is giving this authority to attorney general william barr? r -- >> well something that's important development in the intelligence community and the relationship to the department of justice, however, we need to keep in mind that the attorney general not only was prior the attorney general, this is the second stint in the position but also have record of working in terms of legal policy, working as a lawyer in dc and very well-respected, he's very well-respected figure. individual that has tremendous respect for national security information and so while it is an important development, it...

The ladder, although i don't have -- based on the history thus far, i'm not real confident in that. to me, anderson, the bigger issue here, of which i'm unclear of is what exactly is the scope of this declassification authority? if it, in fact, means the entire russia investigation, meaning the intelligence work done on the interference, which goes back year, or is it more narrowly focused on the origins of the counterintelligence investigation? and from the media reporting, it's not clear which it is. if you listen to the president, he's kind of all over the map on this. on one hand, he says ...