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There is a former staffer on the senate intelligence committee. >> wolf will make his first court appearance, we will hear more about the new york times saying this is the first known instance, records under donald trump. >> the inspector general's report into the hillary clinton report gets a release date, the senate judiciary committee will be out june 14th, which happens to be the pres.'s birthday. the doj and fbi handled the investigation. horwitz agreed to testify on june 18th. >> donald trump demanding a next democratic aide accused of bankruptcy not get a plea deal, the justice departme...

Somebody that is on perhaps the most sensitive committee in washington. >> yeah. a lot of tough questions here. mentioned -- only disturbs us as journalists deal. it happened in the obama administration and now the trump administration. is it justified? you're hoping there was a lot of material justifying the search. we do notice the democrat and republican heads of the senate intelligence committee have cooperated. they're not pushing back on this. they're not casting it as some kind of intrusion into their committee's work. so the suggestion from them seems to be this is a legitimate case. >...

Justice department launched this investigation into unauthorized leaks of classified information at some point in 2017. it was in october that they first approached mr. wolf about him being a target here and then in december, they interviewed mr. wolf. it was a voluntary interview. it was at that point that he's alleged to have made these multiple false statements to special agents of the fbi. >> two things. why did they suspect him? >> it's interesting, because when we had this unusual vote in the senate on wednesday night, which was the trigger to this action last night, a lot of the people ...

Included escorting every witness, including michael cohen, seen right here, who testified before the committee in connection with the russia investigation. nbc's mike memely joins me now. and matt miller, former chief spokesperson for the justice department. mike, i got to go to you first. what exactly is wolf accused of doing? >> yes, stephanie. this really is an incredible story. important to say despite what we heard from the president this morn, the charges at this point do not involve the mishandling of classified information. wolf, as you said, the veteran, three decades as the director ...

Headaches. the fact this is an individual who was charged with protecting the secrets, the classified and sensitive information of the committee, is the one who may have been responsible for leaking it is really casting a shadow on the committee. >> want you to listen to what congressman schiff had to say about this ordeal. >> leaks are a problem. attacks are a problem with this administration. i have to hope with the extraordinary use of their national security letter or subpoena or whatever device the justice department used to seize the reporter's records, that they followed all the proper ...