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At law, regulation and the department s long standing practice. it involves information. the department s long standing practices and policies can be read anyway barr wanlts to do i. if it includes decisions of who the special counsel declined to prosecute, which i suspect it will. he can decline any information that is derogatory about individuals close to the president or the president himself. if you are a democrat in congress, you are asking for political reasons, but institutional reasons to see not just the report but the underlying information. the justice department said it is congress, not the justice department that is the arbitor. if it s tru, you have to give us information you have about the president s conduct to exercise ....
Subpoena power. we ve talked about this a lot. subpoena is not a magic bullet. just by sending a subpoena to the white house or to the justice department, that does not guarantee the results you want to get. and when a subpoena doesn t work, the lack of power behind it can be revealed. democrats are going to want to move carefully here to find ways to get this information out of barr, out of mueller, out of the justice department without having to use. if it doesn t work, they re sitting on their hands and will look enfeebled before the public who wants to see what s in this report. to garrett s point, we don t have to go far back in recent history to get more insight into that. a memo came back to the hill saying he s not going to provide, the white house is going to provide what congressmen and women have asked for when it comes to security clearances, for instance. i m just curious about your sense of this road map is important. i go back to this piece that neal wrote in the ne ....
Would be a report transmitted and we would get a word that that is what happened. so there is that. when you look to capitol hill and the response that we ve seen, yes, from those who were running for president but others, how well planned for and projected was that, do you think? i think it s been plenty prepared for because they ve been, you know, waiting for this to happen, right? it was just a matter of when, as we all discussed. i think at this point, again, the preparations were already there. they know this president has been under investigation. and then you have the president saying things like, well, no other president this would happen to because no one else could handle it. i don t even know what that means. you know, it s not encouraged that presidents be under investigation so i don t know why he s proud of this. but this is something that his opponents can take to the campaign trail and say this is a huge issue. regardless of what is in the report, which we ll find out ....
Committed. our constitutional mandate is to look at is to maintain the rule of law, which means examining not only crimes, but other abuses of power and obstructions of justice. felix sader is expected to publicly testify before congress next week to discuss his role in trump tower moscow. i want to bring in nbc s garrett hague now. he s in south carolina s low cut on the shrimp and grits trail with beto o rourke. garrett, let me start with you. i m interested in what beto o rourke has had to say about the transmission of this report, but give us a sense more broadly of what we ve heard from the democratic candidates over the last 18 hours or so. well, david, the democratic candidates have been essentially unanimous in their view that the report needs to be made public, all of it, and as quickly as possible. o rourke told reporters this yesterday afternoon after his last stop here in charleston. ....
Need that much time to review this. he made a commitment and left himself wiggle room. i don t have the language in fronlt of me, but act in the interest of transparency to the extent allowable by law. will he honor that commitment? which direction will he fall down on? i hope, chuck will hope and many of us who care about the justice department hope he will act in the public interest here. i think and hope he will. look, congress voted 420-nothing, a very partisan congress to see the findings of this made public. this is a message of hope for the attorney general. that s where, i think, we are at this morning. this is his chance. you know, to demonstrate faith in the rule of law and the stability of our institutions. chuck, when you look at bob mueller s background, what he has done and prepared, is there ....