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Barr. now president trump is naming him as his top intelligence official. last week in that hearing with robert mueller, radcliffe made the case that robert mueller should never have written the second volume of the mueller report on obstruction of justice at all. now, that performance got president trump's attention, and even though dan coats' departure has been in the tea leaves for some time now, it seems that this decision was made in the last several days. but the problem is, as you noted, republicans are pretty tepid on radcliffe. a few mentioned him even as they praised dan coats who is...

Attack the investigation by attacking the investigators, that is something that will have real repercussions in the community and will have the effect of making our analysts and our investigators certainly hesitant to move forward. >> i want to ask you to just sort of dive into this theory. it was posited to me by a former senior intelligence official who said that one of the possible motives behind this move by barr is that your former agency, the fbi, was scrubbed, as you said for two and a half years. there was an inspector general report, john huber is investigating it, now the u.s. attorn...

In war. and being a my north him -- a minority himself. arthel: i try to start with one and end with the other. if i did, good. >> you did. arthel: good to talk to you both. we'll see you again. the president giving attorney general william barr sweeping power to declassify documents from the russia probe, why a top intelligence official is offering a promise and a warning to the justice department. a but allstate actually helps you drive safely... with drivewise. it lets you know when you go too fast... ...and brake too hard. with feedback to help you drive safer. giving you the power to actu...

Bit, what mueller is doing is really important. that report matters a lot but that report is not the whole ball game. by the way. when that report is transmitted to bill barr, bill barr has a tough call to make, which is what do i do with this thing? what do i do with all of the stuff in this report that's classified or protected by grand jury secrecy rules or that concern ongoing investigations. i would love to read the mueller report. i'd like to read it tonight. i'd read it this weekend if i had it. but i don't think we're going to have the full thing all that quickly. >> look, we don't hav...

Get away with anything. so the president can't be indicted, that means the justice department has to turn over evidence of presidential misconduct to congress. even if the justice department concludes that the president committed a crime, they're not the arbiter in this standard, congress is by their own admission. they have to give the evidence they found to congress, so congress can decide, criminality is one question. high crimes and misdemeanors are another question with another standard. and that means all of the criminal questions, plus questions of abuse of power, plus questions of whet...