the reporter stuck with that story. she filed a freedom of information act request, smartly, not with the white house because you can t foil the white house, but filed the request with the military because her reporting had been that the requests had been floated to the military. the military is susceptible to requests and thanks to her foyer requests, we learned that in fact yes, the trump folks, the trump inaugural planners had been seriously considering adding military vehicles to the inaugural parade. the conversation started as can t you send us some pictures of military vehicles we could add to the parade? the official said to his or her colleague that i explained that it would be out of guidelines and i m reluctant to produce a list of military vehicles that we might be held to. so the trump inaugural s attempt to roll freaking tanks and
happening. they want freaking missile launchers and tanks, you guys. they are seriously trying to do that. when the huffington post asked about these plans to use military equipment in trump s inaugural, a trump aide refused to address the matter on the record, but offered a vehement offer the record denial. we were never considering that. the reporter stuck with that story. she filed a freedom of information act request, smartly, not with the white house because you can t foil the white house, but filed the request with the military because her reporting had been that the requests had been floated to the military. the military is susceptible to requests and thanks to her foyer requests, we learned that in fact yes, the trump folks, the trump inaugural planners had been seriously considering adding military vehicles to the inaugural parade. the conversation started as can t you send us some pictures
nbc news has not confirmed this report that we re basing this discussion on and i know a little bit about what parts of the government are subject to foyer requests and we ve seen in the manafort and gates a gag order from the court barring people involved from talking to the press or anybody outside the court. when it comes to matters of recusal document requests, things like this handled, do we have any right to know? in general, the answer is no. in general, criminal investigations are exempt from requests and general are subject to a subject rule. rule 60 of the federal laws of criminal procedure. the violation which is actually a crime. that having been said, the confa yal confidentiality is on him
later he is accusing her of colluding, and talked about the gag deal when she was in the state department. wanting the e-mails to be released that have not been released. what is the goal of all of this? well, look, if you talk to the people close to the president they say his stated goal is transparency. the question of course becomes is it about hillary clinton? because the issues he seems to be focusing in on seem to be related to hillary clinton. he wants to find out whether she had any involvement in this uranium one deal which she has said she has not. so maybe in informant can shed light on it. he has been asked to testify by chuck grassley, the chairman of the senate judiciary committee. and in so far as the state department and their bag log of foyer requests, they have 13,000
holisticly. i think they have been gluten free. when they say they ve been transparent, nick says this all the time. relative to what? what curve are they grading themselves against? except he s working for a guy who thinks an unspoken thought is a felony. nick, sean spicer did say is they are there from early morning until late at night. they have good attendance. their record attendance is good. they re not giving us information. i know they hate the media. every administration hates the media but we re not having access. i m sure everyone in the white house press office is working hard. it s a hard job. the question is what information from they providing and what information the the government providing to people. the visitor logs have been locked down for months. we have no idea who is going in and out of that white house. that s a huge step back under president obama. they are not handing our responses to foyer requests in a