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>> joining me now is nbc news justice and national security correspondent. julia ainsley appear former federal prosecutor and msnbc analyst paul butler. this is extraordinary, julia, the cia and 15 other agencies told to cooperate with barr. what does this new authority permit the attorney general to do. >> first, chris kris the president has the ultimate authority over declassification. using it this way could be incredible dangerous especially for people informants to the cia and fbi if they can't be assured their identities stay private. they are put their lives on the line in many of the c...

Indeed execute this authority. but then does barr have the authority to make what he finds public? that could be problematic because he could pick and choose as we know the president is exerting a lot of executive privilege trying to keep a lot of information that is the underlying evidence in the mueller probe private and barr has been cooperative in that. what does it come down to? what will the attorney general decides needs to be released to the public and held back? we could find ourselves in the exact predicament we've been in trying to get more details on whapds and what robert mueller ...

At work and we know when we see it. nancy pelosi is the mother of five and the grandmother of many more. she knows how to deal with petulant children. >> jackie speier we thank you for coming to us on this friday of a holiday weekend happy memorial day to you. >> thank you you too. >> black women eyeing elected office more than ever. defying party norms to do it. will the democratic establishment help them harness the power they already have? plus in a move to escalate investigations into intelligence agencies, the president hands william barr new powers, as robert mueller says, he will testif...

Boston bar in 2017 but he entered a plea of not guilty. that's going to wrap things up this hour. look who's back. >> thank you. you have yourself a great rest of the afternoon. i declassified everything. that's something the president has said about the order he's given to william barr about the decision to look into the people who investigated him in the investigation into the russian interference into the 2016 election campaign. that's an instruction that the president has given that's alarmed a lot of people about what has been transpiring since the release of the mueller report. we'll b...