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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 leader under an influence of a foreign power, things like that. and if the president or the barr says the mueller report shouldn't be provided to the american people, that is a declaration of war on the america -- on american democracy and i think all of us should fight it, republican and democrat alike h...

Evidence to prosecute them and i did not prosecute anybody else because there was not enough evidence to prosecute anybody else. he could have just done that, you know. one sentence and a list of the indictments he filed. boom. done. a lot of people thought that is what mueller would do in terms of filing his final report. i mean, if he had done that, the bullet points briefing that bill barr says he'll provide as soon as this weekend would more or less be the whole report. he said he prosecuted these people. that's it. apparently, mueller didn't do something that bones, that bare bones. the r...

Investigation began as a counter intelligence investigation, not a criminal investigation. it went to look at the question of whether people were acting as agents of a foreign power. that information needs to be made public and if we need to d declassified information in the interest of transparency and not sacrifice methods, we should do that, too. >> what are you going to do if barr says no? if william barr says this report has been submitted to me, i have the one copy of this report. i believe that the principle conclusion should be briefed and as far as i'm concerned, the principle conclus...

Congress in someway, presumably any on going criminal investigation that was referred to in those large redactions in that scoping memo and those criminal cases get finished and those things get done. if it's an intelligence matter and not a krcriminal matter and this prosecution and we on the intelligence committee get to know everything that has consequences and that's a requirement by law. >> i think he does and there is president, there is a d.c. k circuit president and more than the intelligence committee that says if they send a subpoena or ask for the information, they should be able to...

Given that, given your training in that matter and experience with that, given how seriously you take that, i wonder if there is anything you can imagine might be in this report that can't go especially to the public if there is anything with intelligence matters that relates to intelligence matters that you would be sympathetic to keeping under wraps, either just being briefed to your committee or just being held within the justice department. >> there may very well be things in the report that were acquired minor redactions that might go to a source of information gathered by an intel agency...