nadler to the judiciary committee. that big long list you see on your screen there, that s a list of 302s that the committee wants to see. a 302 is the number on the form that the fbi uses when they write up official notes from their fbi interviews. so anytime anybody spoke to the mueller investigation, any witness that came in and talked to mueller, the fbi would have had at least one agent in that interview, whether or not prosecutors were there. there would always be somebody from the fbi, and the fbi would write up a 302 about the content of that interview. well, the judiciary commit has already previously explicitly told the justice department they want to see all these 302s. they want to see the fbi official interview notes from all of these people, from steve bannon who did four different interviews of the fbi and has four different 302s. from new jersey governor chris christie who got fired as the head of the trump transition, from michael cohen, the president s now imprisoned
counsel. and again today the committee staff was over at the doj, an initial show of good faith looking at some initial documents. and over the next several days proelt calls would be established for the members to go there and begin our review. and is the justice department deciding on a case by case document basis what you guys are going to see, or are you guys getting all the 302s, all the whole categories of information? it is my understanding all those documents will be provided. obviously we re going to have a vote tomorrow on the civil contempt citation, so that if there is a disagreement about documents not being furnished we ll have the mechanism to go to court and compel them. but save for the grand jury testimony which tomorrow we will authorize the committee chair to initiate civil proceedings to obtain the grand jury proceedings as well. i want to make sure i understand, i was trying to put that into context in the
committee chairman jerry nadler the ability to go straight to a judge to ask for a federal court order allowing that grand jury information to finally be released to his committee. all this time jerry nadler has been asking william bar wrpg, please ask a judge. and the justice department under pileum barr has been giving him the hand, no, we re not going to do any of that. well, jerry nadler as of tomorrow may be empowered by a vote to go to a judge himself to seek the okay from a federal judge for all that grand jury information, all that grand jury testimony, anything subpoenaed by the grand jury to be given to him and his committee. so this is happening now. this is we knew this was all possible, right? but this is happening now. i mean, they had their first hearing in response to the mueller report today. they are starting for the first
whole bunch of times in the mueller report both for his 302s and contemporaneous notes while he was suffering as jeff sessions chief of staff when sessions was attorney general. they also want the memo to file that trump s white house counsel office drafted after sally yates came up from the justice department to warn the less than one week old trump administration that the serving national security advisor they had just installed was compromised by the russian government, and maybe have you ever thought that might be a problem for the country and you should get rid of him? remember they didn t actually get rid of him after that warning from the justice department but apparently somebody in the white house counsel s office wrote a note to file about that warning they got about mike flynn and what they apparently weren t going to do in response to it. well, the judiciary committee wants that memo to file. they also want the draft termination letter for james comey, the one the presiden
lit goods information seeking information from the court to release the grand jury proceedings without the assistance of mr. barr. it would have been nice if the attorney general did it in a collaborative way with the committee but he expressed repeatedly he had no intention of doing that. do you have any sense he s going to actively oppose you on this? will the justice department actually try to block your committee from obtaining this information through litigation? there hasn t been any indication he intends to do that. if he would be the moving party or do it with the committee, but i think the committee has a very strong standing to request and receive the grand jury proceedings. they re essential to our review of the underlying facts of this investigation, and i expect the court will grant that request. congressman, you mentioned judiciary committee staff were over at justice department today looking at these grand jury first materials that have just been made available. is