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He is a highly respected man. i have documents that we declassified for the purpose of the attorney general who can show them to the public or do whatever he wants to do with them. but you have to get down to what happened. because what happened is a tremendous light on our country. what happened, the investigation, they tried to do a takedown. you can't do that. let me tell you this should never ever happen to another president again. >> jason: he is right about that. as president trump works to hold our government accountable, intel chairman adam schiff is apoplectic. in a twitter rant he ca...

And the bottom line is the american people own this information and they have a right to know what's in it. >> tucker: exactly. so that was -- it's funny you anticipated my next question someone who worked inside an intel agency for as long as you did in the federal bureaucracy for as long as you did, do the people who run these agencies remember that they, work on behalf of voters accountable through elected representatives and all out information they gather belongs tout public and not them. do they keep that in mind? >> no, they don't, quite simply. the thing about these intelligence agenci...

And i think it always showed it started because the russians were in contact with at least four members of the trump campaign. let's investigate, get that information on the table and also get the information about tax returns, contact with russia and georgia bank and accounting members, strong-arming congress and losing subpoenas on. we should get as many facts on the table. the different point is these classification decisions at the cia and intelligence agencies, courting them over to the partners of justice because there is a political agenda is what he is objecting to. one other point is ...

He is a highly respected man. i have documents that we declassified for the purpose of the attorney general who can show them to the public or do whatever he wants to do with them. but you have to get down to what happened. because what happened is a tremendous light on our country. what happened, the investigation, they tried to do a takedown. you can't do that. let me tell you this should never ever happen to another president again. >> jason: he is right about that. as president trump works to hold our government accountable, intel chairman adam schiff is apoplectic. in a twitter rant he ca...

Say release it and by the way he has absolute authority to control what is classified and whether a is not classified here he has asked the attorney general to work with the heads of the intelligence community, including the director of national security to look at these documents, redact what needs to be redacted and release what can be released. i see that as a thoughtful approach to the classification issue. so if you are the head of one of these agencies. if you are chris wray for example fbi he is fighting against any declassification effort, that's kind of the classification posture of a...