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Joining us, washington correspondent for the new yorker, ryan lizza. vine a political commentator. maggie, you're a political analyzer. stay inside your lanes. you commentate. you analyze. nothing else. >> i think they are cooking the books on this. people want to know the answers to that. they also want to know, what kind of insurance will those people actually have? >> cooking the books is quite an allegation but even another senator on that show on fox acknowledged that there's a transparency issue. >> we don't know the exact numbers and the important number is not only how many people sign...

Earlier i spoke with tom coburn, who has introduced a similar bill in the senate. >> it's a takeoff of what we did with the transparency, original transparency bill with president obama that we did in the senate. and what we found is you can have -- fa that the quality of the transparency isn't as good. the other thing we know is that there's only one department in the u.s. government that knows all their programs, and that's the department of education. the rest of them don't know. the only way you can imagine that is make them publish all their programs, make them see and list what it costs,...

Passenger may have breached -- that means the investigation would be something different because, again, it is a much broader number of people. chinese government saying we cleared our 130-some-ott passengers and it is not one of them. how do you vet had a information? this is an international investigation. how can you even get at figuring out among the passengers and crew who to look closer at? >> you would have to look at all of them. simply all of them. clean slate and start from the beginning. that's about the only thing you can do at this juncture. >> to do that you need the cooperation ...

I asked last night after the briefing was over. i wrote a story about it i asked the state department, hey, do you -- is there an update? are you going to make this deadline on thursday night? and they said no update for you today but we will keep you posted. so today at about, i would say 2:00 i got a message that they were going to go ahead and give them the information so i talked to the foreign services got the information right now. and basically they are happy about it. they are very very concerned when you have people like a situation in ukraine right now. these people need to be qualif...

The transparency issue. they say they are going to be different than the past previous administrations. well, we have had problems with foia with them. there is an article that they flunked the foia test. then you now you also have the ambassador issue. they say they are going to be different. >> indeed, susan, thank you. >> thanks. okay, let's all go off-the-record for just a minute. on january 21, 2009, the day after president obama took the oath of office for his first term, he signed a memorandum with specific emphasis on enforcement of the freedom of information act. the president directe...