michael brown in ferguson, missouri. nobody was ultimately charged for that killing, but the facts of it, the investigation were all made public in a report. jim gives a second example. there was a team when a senior irs manager was under scrutiny, criminal investigation, for her conduct at the irs, whether or not there had been favorable treatment for some groups over others with respect to designations of charitable organizations. that report, too, even though charges were not brought, was made public. so there are exceptions, and i think if you re going to make an exception, it makes sense in this case where there is great national interest in what bob mueller found and has to say. bill barr said he would be as transparent as possible. i hope we get to see the report. i know i would read it cover to cover eagerly. you and me both, my friend. chuck rosenberg, thank you so much. my pleasure. and democrats are trying to turn a weakness into a strength, zeroing in on climate chang
the white house has issued a letter, a white house lawyer, essentially saying to elijah cummings, you have asked us for all this information about security clearances, which are an inherently executive branch function. you, the congress, have no right to inquire into this. you certainly don t have a right to know what the fbi and cia determined about jared kushner s fitness for a security clearance. and elijah cummings has responded this hour saying, well, in fact, there s plenty of press dependent for congre precedent for congress obtaining informing about fbi background checks. it may be in a normal circumstance we don t have the right to this information, but you, president trump, clearly have abused the security clearance process. you ve abused your authority, and we have every right as congress to oversee and find out whether there s wrongdoing. this is a legal battle that s going to play out over time. it s an example, thoerks ugh, o it s not so easy to get information. it takes
you ve reached a threshold of evidence that justifies that very grave action by the congress. there s a reason it s only happened three times. we don t rush into this, and we don t want to rush into it. let me ask you if you agree with your colleagues. jerry n jerry nadler has said it s already the president obstructed justice. eric swalwell said the same, there s a lot of evidence the president obstructed justice. elijah cummings says it appears he committed a crime when he wrote michael cohen a check for the hush money payments. do you agree with your colleagues? i do. i think a lot of the criminal activity involved in both the trump organization and mr. trump himself has occurred in the full public view. for example, it s not just my opinion or jerry nadler s opinion or elijah cummings opinion that trump university and trump organization violated new york laws. that s the opinion of the attorney general of new york in