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If this information doesn't fall in the jurisdiction of the inspector general, theb it has to full under a different jurisdiction if there was violation of law. and be referred to the appropriate authority. if on the other hand this doesn't fall under the jurisdiction and also not legal, there's no reason to with hold the information from members of congress and the american public. so in this case, what the acting dni needs to be and the justice department needs to answer the rest of the question. who does this belong to? if it belongs to no one and not illegal then why not share the informat...

Release derogatory information about people who aren't going to be indicted. but because the doj has a policy that the president can't be indicted, should that change how this is handled? >> that's an excellent point, don, and i think it very well might. because in a typical situation there is a privacy interest of someone who the doj had a chance to indict and decided not to. as you note, doj has long maintained that the president is constitutionally immune to indictment. he's not immune, of course, to impeachment. and to the extent that is something that if indictment is not on the table the...

As you note the doj has long maintained that the president is constitutionally immune to indictment. he's not immune, of course, to impeachment. and to the extent that is something if indictment is not on the table then impeachment has to be at least theoretically on the table. and therefore there is far more than in the usual situation, a public interest in learning information, derogatory information about someone who even though that person is not going to be indicted by doj. >> garret, for as much as it looks like mueller wrapping things up, roger stone's case looks like it's really just b...

Key, fact witnesses in all this matter, have them testify in public, just like what happened in watergate. just like what happened in iran-contra. just like what happened during whitewater. all the major scandals in recent history, public hearings, public testimony. enough of this beliend clohind doors stuff, in which we're relying on leaks from sources, all who have their own agendas. >> julie, i mean, michael raises a fascinating idea there. given that there's so much concern about any final report that mueller might write up, and who actually will see it, and that's something that, obviousl...

Troll farms and any sort of ideas of wikileaks is on the periphery and the mandate is the russian interference and the election. you have hillary clinton's campaign chairman e-mails leaked and on wikileaks and according to the indictments those were taken by the russians. we have to check that box from the stand point of learning information about it that speaks to robert mueller's mandate so i suspect we'll hear more in the coming weeks and perhaps months as far as who are these guys, what might they have actually known, did anybody tell them about the hacks, that wikileaks had the informatio...