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To a pending or contemplating proceeding and done with corrupt intent, each of which under the department's principles of federal prosecution guiding charging decisions would need to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt to establish and obstruction of justice offense. so -- then it goes on to say the letter says, that under the regulations the special counsel's report is confidential. he says i am mindful this is barr speaking again, i am mindful of the public interest in this matter for that reason my goal and intent is to release as much of the special counsel report as i can consistent with ...

Information that will be in there. that's not going to be disclosed. i don't think we're going to see the report in an unredacted form for that. there's rule 6e, grand jury material that unless duplicated is also off-limits by a court order. and then you have executive privilege fight and then good ocean fashioned concern about what i call the ray donovan effect, which is you don't want to get people who get trashed because they can't defend themselves. there's a whole bunch of notions and law that make it unlikely that i think a full scrub will be revealed in this document. >> so john dean, w...

Transcript, what's being said about me would be blown up if people saw the transcript. so you had a very willing witness, whose transcript was being released. and if that's the precedent here, that a willing witness, who wants this transcript released faces the risk that the transcript might get released, that's a very different thing than somebody with whom an understanding has been reached that their testimony won't be kept private. but people who come in and testify in committees, they don't have any right to have the committee never release their testimony. we're not a grand jury under rul...

Start to see leaks coming out of that grand jury, that could very well violate rule 6-e. but the existence of a grand jury -- in fact, it's probably very public information, because they meet at a courthouse which is a public building. i can tell you, 6-e does not say you can't say a grand jury exists. >> i appreciate the shell game, paul, that you're discussing the proceedings, or the fact of the details of something moving along. then yes, it is illegal. >> that's not a violation. it's the testimony. if they say john doe testified that x, y, z happened. >> -- if you're talking about the deta...

Me that this is illegally being leaked out. >> the mere existence of the grand jury doesn't violate 6-e. >> but -- >> excuse me. i let you say something really inaccurate, jason. i want you to let me say something perfectly accurate. information presented to the grand jury must remain secret. it must. you make a great point, if you start to see leaks coming out of that grand jury, that could very well violate rule 6-e. but the existence of a grand jury -- in fact, it's probably very public information, because they meet at a courthouse which is a public building. i can tell you, 6-e does not s...