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Criminal referrals and make them, to finish their final report and i think that they are still grappling with what exactly this document would look like that has to do with criminal referral, john. >> when a document like that gets to the white house we don't know what it's going to say yet but is there a legal requirement that the justice department has to look at in a certain way or another branch of government which did a very thorough and important investigation sending along its advice and justice department can take it or leave it? >> it's the latter, john. a political statement by congr...
Who really is the enemy of the people, it's the person who is thwarting the process designed to address these problems. >> the person and the people you worked for. you worked in federal government, you worked in that sphere. you had a president who takes orders from him, mitch mcconnell who's the head of the senate who won't touch any rational legislation on guns, all of which are extremely popular. we essentially have a president of the united states. it's the guy who's the president of the nra. we've never had that before, where an outside entity, a lobby is actually the one that rules this...
Is he just placating the president or is he saying, look, we're going to be very open about this to prove maybe that it didn't happen? what is he trying to do here? >> the inspector general's role in the justice department is to investigate waste, fraud and abuse. that's what's in their job description. so they previously had assigned the responsibility to look into the fisa and find out if there were problems, the whole discussion on whether it was based on the steele dossier, what was going on there, this is an expansion of that. and, look, the president is entitled to ask the justice depart...
Forward. the president announced that the bulk collection of telephone metadata will continue, but intelligence officials will now need to obtain specific approval from the fisa court, before they're allowed to tap into all that data, for whatever reason they want to tap into it. they'll no longer have unrestricted access to use that data however they want. we also learned today that president obama plans to move the actual phone records database out of the government's control, and to some sort of outside entity. he gave the attorney general, eric holder, and other intelligence officials, to ...