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Matters that were assigned to him but as you know, rachel, we don't know what was assigned to robert mueller. we know trump russia broadly and an issue related to paul manafort but remember from a few months ago, there say blacked out portion of the memo that designated the scope of mueller's investigation and the public really has never seen that blacked out information about what mueller was assigned at least at one point to investigate nor do we know definitively the matters cast off to various u.s. attorneys' offices. it's difficult to say at this point who is or isn't out of the woods in ...

The house, i don't think you'll see it happening with the republican-led senate but the house has an ability to try to subpoena this information. if he doesn't release the underlying documents to try to get those documents with the argument that this was an invasion of our country's democracy and then of course, unrelated to this special counsel, you have on going prosecutions in the southern and eastern districts of new york as well as the new york attorney general's office. >> senator klobuchar, i know you have been obviously still carrying out the duties of being a senator in minnesota but ...

And maybe the one act of restraint donald trump has had is not doing that yet. if he does that now, i think everyone will know what's up and i think barr's choice will be to resign at that point because if it's done for nefarious reasons, if he wants to sneak peek at the report in order to, you know, try and discredit it in some way, that's a real problem. it also would be a problem if barr on his own decided not to release the full mueller report. i mean, we're dealing with, as your guests have shown tonight, some of the most sensitive questions american democracy faces, you know, is our lead...

Barr decides he doesn't want to do that and decides in his judgement for whatever reason or however he reads the law, the regulations or thinks is relevant justice department president for some unprecedented thing like this, if he decides no i'll brief the principal conclusions which is who got indicted and beyond that none of this should be shared with congress and you have to trust us that's this -- that this is fine, if he decides that people calling for it to be released doesn't persuade him, are there any levers of pow there could be used here in order to pry this thing into the public if...

Intelligence committee, you in particular as chair but you and all of your colleagues on that committee, deal with very sensitive information all the time and there are protocols for those, for that committee that there aren't for any other part of congress because of the sensitivity of material that you're entrusted -- with which you're entrusted. given that, given your training in that matter, given your experience with that, given how seriously you take that, i wonder if there's anything you can imagine might be in this report that really can't go broadly to congress, that can't go especial...