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Declassifying information that could be really harmful to some of the people who were cooperating to help get this information before the american people. >> yeah. it's unbelievable. willie, as -- >> oh boy. >> -- you know we talk about philosophers, aristotle. >> willie, be careful! >> there's no doubt about it. but there's a philosopher who had a great insight that i saw yesterday on television. it was patrick starr who told sponge bob when sponge bob thought that he was ugly and depressed and patrick starr said doesn't worry about being ugly, sponge bob, people will want to be around you be...

The way. he's not just saying i might exposure sources and methods, he's saying he wants to investigate our intelligence partners which could really rupture the relationship, wolf, and this is going to me and i've seen intelligence from them. there will be a lot less crossing the president's desk if our intel partners have even less reason to share with us. >> important point. democrats in congress think that the attorney general could frame the narrative any way he wants and not necessarily be all that objective about it. >> look, i think that argument is a little stronger than generally we s...

Barr's hands is the regulations. those regulations are executive branch regulations. the president has the power to change or rescind those regulations. so if the president truly wants there to be full transparency, he can change those regulations and free barr to release the entire report. similarly, it is the president who has the classification power. to the extent that there are things barr would like to have released but couldn't because of classification, the president can declassify or unclassify this. so there is a lot that the president can do to help barr, help the american people, h...

His attorney general. in this case his attorney general he simply does not want any more. he wants to fire him. he hopes he can possibly maybe push him into resigning because a lot of times the president is talking at jeff sessions through the media. this president continues to gives interviews where he is bashing jeff sessions is not surprising. when i write yesterday's interview with the hill i started in some ways rushing how to cover the story. we heard him say this over and over again. we have all these other things going on including brett kavanaugh. we have to stay focused on that. you'...

Yet, those threats were not mentioned until the 19th paragraph of the "new york times" write-up of this hearing because senators kept trying to hammer president trump about alleged collusion in 2016 as the intel officials warned about the legitimate threat of russia trying to disrupt the 2018 mid terms. though they also noted that china, iran, and north korea are also waging cyber war. watch. >> the president inconveniently continues to deny the threat posed by russia. he didn't increase sanctions on russia when he had a chance to do so. >> my problem is i talk to people in maine who say the w...