correct whether they call it an impeachment hearing or not, if they want to continue to investigate i think they can do so and the subpoenas will have teeth. the president tonight made a statement from the white house or a statement was issued by the white house press office, and they released a memorandum in which the intelligence community is directed to quickly and fully cooperate with the attorney general s investigation into surveillance activities during the 2016 presidential election. the attorney general also delegated full and complete authority to declassify information pertaining to this investigation. we assume this is whatever william barr was talking about when he testified before the senate recently. and said that he s looking into the origins of mueller s inquiry. i don t know what this new directive from the white house is meant to signal tonight or if this is a substantive thing. how do you see this. i think it s actually very significant. the idea they should coo
of it. instead president trump has given all of that power to william barr. when i was practicing and handling cases, there were times when i wanted to bring a case, but i was prevented from doing so because someone in the intelligence community made a decision that it would irreparably harm some source or method and that equity was worth more than my little case. and i, you know, accepted they were acting in good faith when they made that decision. if william barr who i think now has given at least the appearance that he is acting in the best interests of president trump as opposed to the best interests of our national security, has that power, i worry that it gives him the power to create a whole lot of mischief within the intelligence community and with the outcome of his investigation. it may also suggest that in this young investigation that he has starteds that he s certainly personally involved in the intelligence community has already been telling him no. he went to the white
of journalistic entities publishing secret stuff. and of course this comes conveniently at a time when this administration, this president personally, is calling the press the enemy of the people. the president this week gleefully saying that his new attorney general is looking at bringing criminal charges, bringing criminal investigations against the president s personal enemies. the president expressing glee the president expressing glee about that this week at a about that this week at a political rally that he likes political rally that he likes his new attorney general for his new attorney general for doing that. doing that. and i am sure this president and i am sur would love to establish a new legal doctrine, a whole new legal lane for the u.s. government that s never existed before, where anyone who publishes stuff the government doesn t want published gets prosecuted by the justice department under the most serious statutes imaginable facing long prison terms for doing it. i m
institutions. again, that statement tonight from the white house. again, that statement tonight from the white house. the white house then released the white house then released this mem this memorandum which is titled memorandum on agency cooperation with the attorney general s review of intelligence activities related to the 2016 presidential campaigns. campaigns, plural. the memo outlines the attorney general s authority to declassify information and intelligence, was sent to the departments of state, treasury, defense, energy, homeland security along with the director of national intelligence and the head of the cia. we are still running down the implications of this. we know that the attorney general, william barr, had said that he wanted to pursue some kind of investigation into the origins of the russia investigation. we had had reporting that that we had had reporting that that involved the u.s. attorney in involved t the state of connecticut and maybe also the director of n
departments of state, treasury, defense, energy, homeland security along with the national intelligence and head of the cia. we are still running down the implications of this. we know that the attorney general, william barr, had said that he wants e that he wanted to pursue some kind of investigation into the origins of the russia investigation. we had had reporting that that involved the u.s. attorney in the state of connecticut and maybe also the director of national intelligence and maybe also the cia director, gina hasp haspel. attorney general barr was said to be personally involved in whatever this inquiry was. this is on top of the inspector general also pursuing an inquiry along these same lines. this memo tonight, we don t exactly know what it means, but it makes like they are somehow trying to clear a path for whatever it is that barr is doing. it s not totally clear what this means yet. i want to tell you, we did get one really interesting response to this news just a mom