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Months ago there's this 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 all 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 terms of the matters that have come across mueller's desk over the past two years. >> and that's a really good point, josh. in terms of that sort of scoping memo and what mueller was actually t...

Republicans. they set the president. if the justice department doesn't release the whole report or keeps part secret, we will certainly subpoena the parts of the report and reserve the right to call mueller or to testify before the committee or subpoena him as several other committees might do but we'll only do that if necessary. the important thing is that the entire report be made public and evidence behind it be given to the relevant committee so the american people can be informed. >> tonight is a landmark moment. i would still be fishing otherwise. but we still have no idea as to what rob...

If he decides no, i'm going to brief the principal conclusions, which is who got indicted, and beyond that i think none of this should be shared with congress and you just have to trust us that this is fine, if he decides that people calling for it to be released doesn't persuade him, are there any levers of power that could be used here in order to pry this thing into the public if barr doesn't want it to be? >> sure. and you've heard this from speaker pelosi. you've heard it from adam schiff. the house, i don't think you'll see it happening with the republican-led senate but the house has ab...

This is him saying barr, you do not have that much leeway when it comes to deciding what is disclosed to congress. any intelligence matters must be disclosed to us. "we will insist the justice department meet its statutory obligations and be transparent with our committee and the public. anything less would be negligent in the service of our national security." so that's the intelligence committee chairman saying i hear you mr. attorney general when you say you're deciding what information in the report can be released to congress but any counterintelligence investigation into the report must ...

Because mueller and rosenstein and bill barr, the attorney general, are all parts of the executive branch and the president of course is the head of the executive branch. so if the president demanded the report, it's entirely plausible that bill barr would give it to him. perhaps after telling him what a bad idea it would be to receive it. but barr ultimately works for the president. and so this is a fraught relationship. and that is specifically why we've been so careful in the past about passing information between the white house and the justice department. >> and chuck, in terms of the new...