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Democrats say they will release interview transcripts at some point. adam schiff revealing more in a letter that went public yesterday. let's talk about that with the senior legal fellow and former justice office official. schiff says we'll do public hearings. he didn't say when and who would be there. what is your read on what he revealed in that letter? start there. >> having public hearings at some point in the future is not adequate. look, they are engaging in one of the most serious undertakings the house can do. schiff doesn't really have a reason or an excuse for why he is barring, for ...

Other people. schiff says, "that said, let me be clear, as the investigation proceeds and at a time that will not jeopardize investigative equities, we will make the interview transcripts public subject to any necessary redactions for classified or sensitive information. we also anticipate at an appropriate point in the investigation, we will be taking witness testimony in public so the full congress and the american people can hear their testimony firsthand." so that's a letter from adam schiff tonight, and that is one consequence of william barr at the justice department having tried to kibo...

Potentially conceal the truth." that, of course, is why grand jury testimony is secret. right? that you don't want witnesses knowing what other witnesses have said, so they can't line up their witness testimony to match other people. schiff says, "that said, let me be clear, as the investigation proceeds and at a time that will not jeopardize investigative equities, we will make the interview transcripts public subject to any necessary redactions for classified or sensitive information. we also anticipate at an appropriate point in the investigation, we will be taking witness testimony in publ...

>> it is well-known that the department of justice has a policy that you cannot indict a sitting president. so it's possible that mueller concluded there was no evidence to justify any legal action against the president or his core advisers who are not indicted. or he could have concluded that there was nothing there that was strong enough to l cal challengt policy. >> reporter: democratic lawmakers say if they're not granted access to all the evidence and all the interview transcripts that the mueller team reviewed, then they're going to ask mueller to break a years long silence and testify o...

Legal battle might play out? how long might it take? >> how long might it take? it could take many months. it could take a year perhaps if it goes all the way to the supreme court. here's the thing, normally speaking the justice department doesn't give internal memoranda like this to congress. they don't tell the congress and the public of people they chose to investigate and decided not to prosecute for obvious reasons, privacy reasons and so forth. the problem for the justice department is that they can never say we never do this, because after the hillary clinton investigation, the fbi dire...