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Impression president trump just wasn t aware of that because we had these tweets from him over the last week in which he suggested that everything was about to be released and as i said, we only got a very small fraction of the secret documents that we were expecting today. so what happened, you think? what i think, what i think you had a last-minute appeal probably from mike pompeo who because of the national security act is responsible for the protections of sources and methods on the part of the executive branch. philip? i think, actually, you know, think about what was supposed to happen today, it was 25 years in the making. the agency of government, the cc cia and fbi and everybody else had 25 years to think about this under the law that the documents would be released. i think some of them have been thinking about it. i don t know if it was a last-minute appeal. i think there had been frantic appeals for the last couple weeks but at the white house there was chaos. they w ....
and once that tape emerged, that was the nail in the coffin? that not so much for the obstruction. what it did is really caught nixon in the lie. he had said he had no knowledge of a cover up and had been saying that for month after month. he said he didn t know anything about the cover up until i told him march 21st. well, when the supreme court forced him to release the tapes and this tape was in there on june 23rd showing him have the c cia block the fbi, he was directly involved in. what is it like working in a white house with these swirling investigations? as you did. i m not sure it s exactly the same parallel here. but there s got to be lot of employees wondering are they going to be fired or what ser ....
Impeachment territory. i think it has. we re talking about a potential obstruction of justice. the broad outline suggests from impeachment purposes would fall in the parallel of nixon. ysk rr been reading up on this. it was nixon saying on tape that someone in the cia should tell the fbi to end their investigation. is that right? that s exactly what happened. it was holdman talking to the president just days after the arrest and he instructed dave haulman consent to go to the fbi, have the cia go to the fbi and tell them they were interfering or threatening cia operations when that was a stretch. wasn t clear whether it was true or not. they proceeded with that and it was just an effort to block the fbi in the long run. ....
Putin s involvement that, hey, they should go after podesta or it being run up the chain in some memo and is that cool? i mean, we re told this is fairly general, but we re told that he was involved in directing how to use the leaked material, which is fairly specific. that is fascinating. ken dilanian. i m joined by ed mcmullen, a former cia operations officer. there s a crazy subtext that s happening here in terms of the intelligence agencies and the c cia. donald trump s people seem to think that he s anti-donald trump and they have it out for him. what do you say to their people who say that? well, obviously, there s a natural conflict there. people at the cia understand what a threat vladimir putin are to global security and to the united states, to our security, to the integrity of our ....
Because he won t acknowledge the misdeeds and misconduct of the c cia. meanwhile, south carolina senator lindsey graham called the allegations richard nixon stuff adding people should go to jail if it s true. and if true, the legislative branch should declare war on the cia. oregon stan ron widen said i m extremely troubled that the cia leadership has neither responded to specific questions about this search or even acknowledged that it occurred. feinstein s hour-long speech exposed a rift over important issues that date back to the bush administration and those issues are not about spying. as my colleague chris hayes sprained on his show all in last night. it s about torture. it s about the 6,000-page cia torture report that the agency does not want you to see. today feinstein gave us a hint as to why. the interrogations and the ....