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Needed to do was start governing and now a president who said he is unwilling to work on any of these initiatives until they stop an investigation. so, that whole other level, it continues to go up. kelly o'donnell and leeann, thank you very much. a tweet from the oval office this one with enormous consequences for the int intelligence community and one that gives the attorney general sweeping authority over intelligence related to the russia investigation. i want to bring back pete williams who joins me with details. also with me jonathan, white house reporter for associated press and katie g...

Cooperate with the review of the fbi and how it started the investigation of the trump campaign in the context of the russia meddling investigation. this is pro forma. i think you're right about that. in a sense, he had the cooperation. the big change or significant change here is that the president has given the attorney general the authority to declassify documents that these agencies may have related to this investigation. normally that classification authority they have themselves. i think the significance here is that presumably people conducting this review already had security clearance...

Someone who has on other occasions proven to be an ally of this president so far. very interesting to see what he does with all this authority. and i think it will also be inest there ei interesting to see how others in the intelligence. >> we know bill barr has even more power but robert mueller, it says like, will testify. he doesn't want to testify necessarily in front of all the tv cameras but according to jerry nadler, we'll get a transcript. if we get a transcript from mueller who does not agree with the spirit of the way barr characterized, what will that do here? >> he finally has his ...

Community jealously guards its ability to keep classification. the rule and the law is that the originator of the document is the person or the agent who decides it's classified and at what level. they're the authority that knows what the sensitive material is. where it came from. when you give that authority to someone else, the concern is you lose that ability to safeguard your sources and methods. now, the executive order does say that the attorney general to the extent that he deems it practicable consult with the head of the originating agency before he does that. we're told, by the way, ...

A russia investigation. so even if 95% of the agenda is being fulfilled in a particular way, the thing that rattles the president is this. none of the rest really seems to matter. >> when we see this all of this coming and we are learning about what will be declassified. these text messages he admits he hasn't read any of this. what's your take on this? there is understandable parkback here. >> so the fact that something is unprecedented doesn't necessarily make it bad. the fact that it's unprecedented, there's a reason people have not done this in quite this way before. that's reason you have...