as a counter intelligence inquiry whether individuals associated with the trump campaign were compromised by a hostile foreign nation. by law, the evidence mueller has uncovered on all counter intelligence matters must now be shared with the house intelligence committee whether it resulted in indictment or not. this is him saying barr, you do not have that much leeway when it comes to deciding what to disclose to congress here. any intelligent matters must be disclosed to us. quote, we will insist that the justice department meet its statutory obligations and be transparent with our committee and the public. anything less would be negligent in the service of our national security. so that s the intelligence committee chairman saying, hey, i hear you mr. attorney general, when you say you are deciding what information in the report can be released to congress. but any counter intelligence investigation in the report must by law be released to the intelligence committee, which is, again,
worded memorandum to the trump white house that criticized the special counsel, because of the circumstances under which bill barr was brought on. his predecessor jeff sessions was fired as attorney general. the president said openly because sessions recused himself from overseeing the mueller investigation. well, here comes bill barr who has volunteered to the white house when he was in prievate practice, hey, i ve got tons of criticism of the special counsel, i think he s doing tons of things wrong. then bill barr gets nominated and confirmed as a.g. there s been worries and speculation that the reason bill barr got that job, the reason he was seen as a suitable replacement for jeff sessions and therefore what might be expected of bill barr in that job is that once he got confirmed as attorney general, he d stick his foot out and trip the special counsel, right? he would use his power as attorney general to block mueller from something that mueller was otherwise going to do or someth
counsel s office necessarily means that other indictments might not be coming from other u.s. attorneys. i think it is way too early for mr. corsi and others to be dancing in the end zone, rachel. here s why, it seems to me that a lot of these cases whether it s corsi or carter page, right, or randy credico, or the trump kid or folks associated with the inaugural committee or the trump organization can be charged and prosecuted elsewhere. they don t have to be charged and prosecuted by bob mueller. so mueller may not be indicting anyone else, but i fully expect other indictments in what i am broadly calling this case. mueller s remit was always rather narrow. i disagree with the congressman in one respect. mueller was asked to look at russia interference in the 2016 election. nobody asked mueller to rummage through trump s attic, and so we know the southern district of northern investigation continues.
attorney general. a couple of important things here. number one, obviously bar is saying explicitly i did not block robert mueller from doing anything that he wanted to do. there wasn t anything that he was trying to pursue where i said no as attorney general i m stepping in and blocking you from doing that. interesting, i would like to know more from that. that s the blunt assertion from attorney general william barr. also, barr is going to maybe as soon as this weekend brief mueller s principal conclusions to the leadership of the judiciary committees. we don t know what principal conclusions are. we don t know for sure that it s going to be this weekend, and we don t know how constrained the leadership of those committees will be from sharing that with other people including us the public, but three, separate and apart from that, barr is thinking about what beyond those principal conclusions can go to the congress, and to the public, and you get the sense from the way he wrote this
fbi was given by the justice department just last year to the judiciary committee when the judiciary committee was run by republicans. so they ve set the precedent. if the justice department doesn t release the whole report or tries to keep parts of it secret, we will certainly subpoena the parts of the report, and we will reserve the right to call mueller or to testify before the committee or to subpoena him as several other committees might do. we ll only do that if necessary, obviously. the important thing is that the entire report be made public and the evidence behind it be given to the relevant committees so the american people can be informed. tonight is a landmark moment. i would still be fishing otherwise, but we still have no idea as to what robert mueller has found. you heard the chairman of the judiciary committee talking about the need to disclose this information and plans to get it. we don t know what the