the denial of that request led to a subpoena. that subpoena led to a defiance of the subpoena. that became a threat to hold the attorney general in contempt. that then became a vote on the judiciary committee to hold the attorney general in contempt for defying that subpoena. and that tomorrow was about to be a vote in the full house to hold attorney general barr in contempt. at which point the attorney general went uncle, uncle, uncle, no, no, no i give in. don t hold me in contempt. whatever you do don t hold that contempt vote. okay, i relent. here you can see some of the underlying materials from mueller s report. which as a process is interesting. i mean, now we know that this is apparently how things are going to go. apparently we re going to have to do this in this exact order over and over again in order to get any progress here. i mean, there are things like this in life. first you put on your undies and then you put on your pants and
intelligence committee. we re going to vote to hold you in contempt, and that caused william barr to say uncle, uncle, uncle. i know i ve been saying no for a couple of months without any basis for saying no, but finally here s some of your stuff. don t hold me in contempt. they say no, you subpoena them for it, they defy the subpoena, they say nener, nener, and they okay we re going to vote to hold you untempt, and then they say okay you can have it. that s what we have to do a country to get access to this material. but having gone through this process, having gone through this process, which apparently they re going to make congress do for all of this stuff as of a week or so ago the intelligence committee is finally receiving some of the counter intelligence and foreign intelligence information that was the basis for mueller s report only because they got within an inch of holding barr in contempt, and he finally relented. that s what happened today the intelligence stuff, and now
mueller s report, the intelligence committee including adam schiff, demanded that the justice department hand over that information, hand over the counterintelligence and foreign intelligence information that was produced as part of this investigation because it s not in the report. what happened to that stuff? the intelligence committees are legally entitled to get that type of information. in that case the justice department under attorney general william barr, they initially said no, no, no, you can t have it. so that request for information from the intelligence committees led to a refusal from the justice department that led to a subpoena from the intelligence committee, which led to william barr defying the subpoena. that led to the threat of a contempt vote going scheduled, put on the calendar by the intelligence committee. we re going to vote to hold you in contempt. and that caused william barr to say uncle, uncle, uncle. i know i ve been saying no for a couple months without
got swamped as often happens with all the other news to reverse himself on the declassification of documents and communications including text messages from doj and fbi. what do you know about this? what can you infer about this? some of us who watched this story unfold foresaw a principled patriotic rebellion inside the intelligence community saying mr. president, declassifying our most sensitive secrets for political gain is not how we run things, it s dangerous for national security, and it s not going to happen on our watch. they pushed back and it appears they have won over the president. the president had to back down embarrassingly with his tail between his legs and say uncle. i think the professionals have to be yielded to in this one rare instance. matt miller, i m duty-bound to end with this question to you. if someone breaks glass over the
with all the other news to reverse himself on the declassification of documents and communications including text messages from doj and fbi. what do you know about this? what can you infer about this? some of us who watched this story unfold foresaul a principled patriotic rebellion inside the intelligence community saying mr. president, declassifying our nation s most sensitive secrets for political gain is not the way we run things around here, it s dangerous for national security, and it s not going to happen on our watch. they pushed back and it appears they have won over the president. the president had to back down embarrassingly with his tail between his legs and say uncle. i think the professionals have to be yielded to in this one rare instance. matt miller, i m duty-bound to end with this question to you. if someone breaks glass over the weekend and if rosenstein gets