who doesn t understand nor care about the national security concerns of the intelligence community. frank, simple question, do you concur with that. i do. pifrpg the heads of our intelligence services nsap cia, fbi. and others are about to be tested more than perhaps they have in progressional careers. they have to make a decision about how their intelligence is used exploited, twisted interpreted for political purposes. intelligence is either done professionally and used professionally or used politically. but it really can t be both. and i fear here in this kind of declassification trap that we re all being asked to fall into that really this is a political exploitation of intelligence. understand when the president says i quote i declassified everything well of course he hasn t declassified everything. and by the way, the attorney general has all the clearances he needs to look at intelligence.
of time. he is going to look at a lot of documents. some he might find interesting, maybe he finds none interesting. but for over a year people have asked me to declassify. so what i ve done is declassified everything. do you feel protected by william barr. no i don t want him to be for me or anybody else. i just want him to be fair. that s what he is. this is all about what happened and when did it happen. because this was an attempted takedown of the president of the united states. barr has opened what he has described as a review of the mueller inquiry with a focus on surveillance activities. you may recall barr drew a lot of attention when he agreed to use the president s preferred and much more nefarious term for surveillance. he deemed it was okay to call it spying when he appeared before a senate hearing last month. i think spying on a political
speaker of the house. and of much greater importance just in the past 24 hours we saw the president hand his attorney general uni lateral authority to declassify any intelligence he deems necessary and related to the origins of the mueller investigation. tonight, the president is on his way to japan for a state visit. the traveling white house made a refueling stop at elmendorf in alaska. before leaching the white house the president expanded attorney general power. why should the attorney be able to select what s declassified. he is one of the most respected people in the country and has been for a long period of time. he is going to look at a lot of documents. some he might find interesting, maybe he finds none interesting. but for over a year people have asked me to declassify. so what i ve done is declassified everything.
has put together these policy ideas. she s got a plan for everything and owns that lane. no other candidate can say they have done more on that. kamala harris has been working various communities across the country, not just in the early states but in the in the midwest as well. and working across racial and ethnic lines. and so what you re seeing now is some of that paying off. i think that s exactly right. gentlemen thank you for coming on this friday night before the holiday weekend. john and ken thomas. thank you. coming up for us yet another eventful week. our next guest says the president is painting himself into a corner he can t tweet out of. rick wilson, waiting in the wings.
to convince a human source i ve got your back. your identity is never going to be disclosed. you need to come on board with team america. having that person look across the table and say your president is declassifying everything. everything is getting exposed you can t guarantee anything. that could lead to people resigning and leaving posts and that s troubling. frank, i hate to go out on that note but we must. thank you for sticking around for this part of the vital conversation. coming up for us, 23 people have thus far lined up on the other side to take him on. but donald trump seems to be concerned with one man in particular in the democratic column. two veteran political journalists break it down for us when the 11th hour comes right back. but i was relentless first. relentless about learning the first song we ever danced to. about teaching him to put others first. about helping her raise her first child. and when i was first diagnosed, my choice was everyday verzenio.