we ve done this before with clinton. did he know those sort of been classified at the time? it s possible they looked at that and said it s a toss-up and you could make the argument that they shouldn t be classified. i m not sure we can get a conviction, do we want to go after james comey on this issue as opposed to something down the road when you might not be able to get a convention conviction? tucker: you re saying with andrew mccabe it s not a close call. he lied. he s rationalized it with his new gig and going out there and doing his media circuit. tucker: let me pause and alert our audience, it s paid cnn. he goes out on cnn and he gets prosecuted to say look, one of the reasons why they prosecute me as i m on cnn and the president hate cnn. everything he s doing, i think he s lining up a defense, a political prosecution.
buff this is the ultimate game changer. this stuff most of it shouldn t be classified. there is far too much stuff is that is classified. the only way to kill this investigation without is to get it all out there and let the american people judge for themselves. don t let the u.k. and australia talk you out of it this time, mr. president. tucker: very quickly, how long will it be before the press starts telling us that we have no right to want to see this and we re betraying our country and we are on putin s team if we want to see this. started 15 seconds ago and they will tell you that our friends around the world don t want this stuff out. it should be out. basically, we had a bureaucracy gone rogue. there is exculpatory evidence about people, about american citizens who went to jail because the deep state went rogue on this.
australia and the u.s. but this is the ultimate game changer. this stuff most of it shouldn t be classified. there is far too much stuff is that is classified. the only way to kill this investigation without is to get it all out there and let the american people judge for themselves. don t let the u.k. andnd australia talk you out of it this time, mr. president. tucker: very quickly, how long will it be before the press starts telling us that we have no right to want to see this and we re betraying our country and we are on putin s team if we want to see this. they started 15 seconds ago and they will tell you that our friends around the world don t want this stuff out. it should be out. basically, we had a bureaucracy gone rogue. there is exculpatory. evidence about people, about american citizens who went to jail because the deep state went rogue on this.
the press since becoming secretary of state. mr. secretary, welcome back to meet the press . great to be here. great to host you here. very nice to be here. let me start with the fisa warrant and what the president was asking to get declassified. you seemed to say in an interview on thursday night that a few ally his complained about the potential declassification of these fisa documents that have to do potentially with carter page. what more can you say? i assume it s the five eyes, is it the uk and that group of nations that are trying to keep us from making this stuff public? chuck, i can t add much more to that other than to say this, in my previous role as cia director and now as secretary of state we are committed to making sure that we classify information properly. we try to get information out that shouldn t be classified. it s a historic problem in the united states government and second, we will always make sure that we protect our sources and
were you there when he testified? did you read the transcript of what he said? you bet i was. and the democrats seem to be suggesting you re cherry picking one answer and ignoring other answers. your response. my response is, look, i would love to release a transcript just like i wanted to release this memo and let we re not talking about cia undercover agents in russia. we re talking about christopher steele who put together a political document. i ve argued for month this is shouldn t be classified. i argued for months it shouldn t be done in public so we hold people accountable and you don t have things like this where people say the memo doesn t reflect the reality of the transcript when i know that it does. we are talking about national security. let s get back to the bigger picture for a moment, congressman. do you believe that russia interfered in the u.s.