however i can, to get scotland through covid and into recovery. this trip is designed to show a uk government deeply committed to scotland s future and are deeply involved in this nation put up but the choice of messenger is a controversial. borisjohnson is not necessarily the most popular politician in scotland, to put it mildly, and his visit does risk backfiring and perhaps even stirring up backfiring and perhaps even stirring up more support for independence. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is. a day of mourning and protest in lebanon to mark the first anniversary of the massive warehouse explosion that killed over 200 people. shipping in the gulf of oman is on high alert after two incidents
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he joins the panel and ab white house reporter noah rothman and contributor and editor and author of the new book, unjust. social justice and the unmaking of america. a former clinton campaign adviser. julia, i will start with you. you had this role of being a committee lawyer. you have been on the you were on defense, if you will, when the majority was the republicans and impeachment was bill clinton. looking at yesterday s ask, could it have been and should it have been done as publicly as it was? i think it was brilliant and exactly what the opposite of what the republicans did in 1998. in 1998 the republicans got way out in front of the facts and they were driven by politics. the entire thing was seen as a partisan exercise. they didn t have a strong case. it ended up backfiring on them in the congress and backfired on them legally.
in many different cases and cooperated hoping that there is trust and that they will not be outed. otherwise, we can t count on receiving information in the future. but, you know, the truth is, i ve seen the documents. this president is for declassification. every time he tries to declassify something, it ends up backfiring. i m more concerned about the precedent of a person being investigated, being able to order declassification selectively because he thinks it helps him. that s not how a rule of law country works. we know the president though said listen, this is all about transparency. fit was broader, would that work for you? if it wasn t as selective as you say it in your words? well, the problem with how he views transparency is i think he thinks an on going investigation should have the facts that came forward so far put out in the public. that is not how investigations work. you don t let subjects of investigations dictate the terms of investigations. now let me also just
president has done something like this, it backfires. he hired an attorney general he thought was going to be favorable to him, and then that person recused. he tried to lay on the fbi director and that resulted in the fbi director writing memos that took care the conversations. he fired the fbi director and that led to bob mueller. every time they take a step to obstruct the investigation because he wants it shut down it ends up backfiring. and i think this effort to discredit the special counsel staff is going do end up the exact same way. brian, how much of the sum total of mistakes made thus far by the administration can be chalked up to ignorance? ignorance of how washington works? ignorance of the law? ignorance of all matters integrity-related and even ignorance that the world contains people like robert mueller, who see this as a