did not have the votes. but it appears now that she does. it appears now there are a few republicans and nearly all democrats. bill: a couple things i m wondering about as i m certain you have answers. maybe you do or don t. this whole question that catherine pointed to a moment ago. why would the intelligence community change their rules in early august over what a whistleblower could report or not? why would that happen? again that s a head scratcher. the intelligence community has been adverse to this president since before he was in the white house. the intelligence community was involved in some respect in all the jim comey fisa stuff that happened while donald trump was still a candidate. so there might be some wish on the intelligence community to make it easier for this stuff to come out. but once the president released the transcript, a document that was classified, which he declassified, this issue of is
president obama, he declassified and publicly this is how they act with released the dni report on russian interference, which alluded to this spy s role in onthe kremlin.now, russian intel political enemies. here with fox news contributor sara carter.let s get an update. happened on obama s watch now, didn t it. i think what so stunning iste ity wonder why that important fact didn t make cnn s fake news january 30, 2017, memo is that shortly after on february 14th is when james comey met with president donald trump.after th, headline. remember, this is one of the famous memos, that he went after they called this false. the meeting and basically wrote on the private conversations between he and president trump. former cia director mike pompeo, he weighed in that was specifically referring calling this story material to michael flynn. inaccurate. let s take a look. well, in those conversations, he the reporting is materially never once told president trump inaccurate.you should know
well, that s a lie. that was fake news again. fake news cnn was contradicted by the new york times. the times reporting they said there was no public evidence. other and officials insisted that they were the impetus for the distraction. oh, the media was responsible. reporting from the media. the mob. not donald trump. the media mob all based on leaks from the intel community. that was the reason for the extraction. in fact, in 2016 under obama, the cia first offered to extract this source because of the media s reporting. it doesn t have anything to do with president trump. a gift to the incoming administration. and then, president obama, he
let s bring in dr. rebecca grant, security analyst, president of iris independent research, dr. grant always good to have you. good to be here. dni coats will say intelligence community will provide appropriate info but wants to make sure that standards are shield today protect national security, meanwhile you have president saying that he declassified everything and whatever barr needs for his probe, his probe he can gain access to that, so thus overwriting dni coats, do i have that right? arthel, i m so glad that you read that entire statement because that statement is dni coats saying, okay, we understand the tasking, we are going to comply, arthel, here is some really important background on attorney general barr, people have forgotten that he had worked for cia for 4 years as young man, i have no doubt that he understands enough to protect any sensitive ongoing operations, the fact is
there was for the first two years that devin nunes controlled the house intel committee. he declassified the fisa over the objections of the fbi. it brings into question why on earth we will talk about it more, but why is the attorney general suggesting there haven t been investigations into the russia probe. devin nunes spent two years questioning and trying to undermine the fbi and original russia investigation. yours is one of the best examples, but even the chairman had a back handle to the white house to help on the probes, to slow them down at the most generous reading of that. i think that that is you know, these are questions that will hopefully be answered in weeks to come. it is a story with a lot of tentacles, still sprawling. you re right, the president s affection for flynn is well-known. the theories you have all floated are right i think, but also that flynn was there day after day on the campaign trail,