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What this order, this directive issued by the white house tonight, does is it strips the power of the cia director, the nsa director, and the director of national intelligence from making decisions about what information should remain classified, which intelligence sources should remain protected, and it gives all of that power over to bill barr. now, the power to declassify, which is what now barr has, is also the power to selectively declassify, to let drips and drabs out there, to bolster the president's political narrative. and i think that power in the hands of a political ally of the pre...

Declassified i guess potentially millions of pages of documents. i don't know what it is. i have no idea. i want to be transparent. everybody wanted me to declassify. i've done it. and you can almost say he's trusted. a highly respected man. our attorney general is in charge. let's see what he finds. but we have -- we have documents now that i have declassified for the purpose of the attorney general. he can then show them to the public, do whatever he wants to do with them. you have to get down to what happened. because what happened is a tremendous blight on our country. what happened, the i...

They will be able to see how this hoax, how the hoax or witch-hunt started and why it started. it was a -- an attempted coup or attempted takedown of the president of the united states. i don't know what it is. i have no idea. but i want to be transparent. everybody wanted me to declassify. i have done it. and you're going to learn a lot. i hope it's going to be nice. but perhaps it won't be. >> bret: president trump on his way to japan talking about declassifying intelligence. actually authorizing the attorney general to declassify whatever he had to in the investigation into the investigator...

Attorney general william barr sweeping new powers to declassify documents from the russia investigation. the move is raising alarm among some mr. and mrs. who worry the president may try to distort intelligence gathered during the probe. let's bring in our legal and political experts for some analysis. the president said he's not even cellul sure, gloria, what he's declassifying. i want you listen to what he said before leaving the white house. >> i guess i declassified potentially millions of pages of documents. i don't know what it is. i have no idea! but i want to be transparent. everybody ...

Investigates the investigators behind the russia probe. let's dig deeper and susan hennessey, here's what the president said today about his decision. listen to this. >> as you know i declassified, i guess, potentially millions of pages of documents. i don't know what it is. i have no idea. but i want to be transparent. everybody wanted me to declassify. i've done it. >> this is a very serious decision on the part of the president. one of the potential consequences of the decision and i ask you as someone who once worked at the national security agency. >> we shouldn't beat around the bush. th...