the idea of him going closed door is not final. the idea of him testifying at all is not final. niece are ongoing negotiations. they are taking longer than we expected but i think it s because of those two things, the incredibly hostile political nature that is surrounding this investigation and of course the white house and whether or not they want to assert executive privilege over how much of this information all of that remains to be seen, breyen thank you for that reporting julia. our thanks if to our big three for bringing the a game on this friday night before the memorial holiday weekend. julia assign chuck rosenberg. frank figliuzdi here. and how the president order to investigate the investigators could put allies at risk. and later a war of words wab, a fake video a call for prayers and intervention for a man insisting on his stability and genius. a look back at a rougher than usual week in our nation s capitol now in its final hour.
counterintelligence who also worked with robert mueller. good evening and welcome to you all. julia, i d like to begin with you. we re 24 hours now into knowing about the president s action where the attorney general is concerned. now on a friday night, the question for you is what is the take away for our viewers on the weight of the president s action here? the take away i think we can read into the president s comments today to pretty clearly decipher in, is that the president wants to use his power, which he does have of declaskts classification in a very specific way as a tool in order to get out the information he wants. he wants to be able to allow his attorney general william barr to declassify information as part of his investigation into the origins of the mueller probe. at the heart of this brian, if we can zoom out is the fisa warrants signed off on in order to open surveillance on carter
attorney general joined at the hip with the president trying to convince the public that the foundation and the of the special counselor inquire is flawed that s where it s going. kmuk i ve asked you this 500 times. let s make it 501. the charge is people including but not limited to carter page were spied on by our country. carter page an american working for a russian concern living for a time in russia. how hard or easy is it to get a fisa warrant to surveil an american? hard. it s a lengthy process. it s multilayered. many lawyers look it at the fbi and department of justice. by the way, brian as we discussed this is court authorized surveillance. words matter. it s not spying. may i add one thing to what frank and julia said, because i think julia s idea of zooming out a bit is important. here is one other way to think
authorized surveillance. words matter. it s not spying. may i add one thing to what frank and julia said, because i think julia s idea of zooming out a bit is important. here is one other way to think about it. we have 17 agencies within the u.s. intelligence community, some quite large. frank mentioned them. dia, c. i. opinion nsa, fbi. some quite small all very good. when we declassify something and by the way the fbi is the one most likely to declassify it because i want to use it publicly in a criminal case. we run the declassification case through the entire intelligence community. we have the dni to oversee it so we only declassify things that are properly declassified. we never want to give in trort authority uni laterally to a attorney general. even if it was a really good attorney general and roint i fear we don t have that. the process matters. process sounds like a boring word but it really truly
as counselor to robert mueller, now the host of a new msnbc podcast called the oath this week s edition features a discussion with doj james baker. former fbi director for counterintelligence who also worked with robert mueller. good evening and welcome to you all. julia, i d like to begin with you. we re 24 hours now into knowing about the president s action where the attorney general is concerned. now on a friday night, the question for you is what is the take away for our viewers on the weight of the president s action here? the take away i think we can read into the president s comments today to pretty clearly decipher in, is that the president wants to use his power, which he does have of declaskts classification in a very specific way as a tool in order to get out the information he wants. he wants to be able to allow his attorney general william barr to