new york times. but something important happened after the justice department did under eric holder who the is attorney general. president department recognized that they had gone too far and put in place a series of regulations that are supposed to prevent this from happening without the justice department going to the media organization and trying to negotiate some sort of a accommodation in advance. and it is obvious that didn t happen in this case. what s supposed to happen under the new regulations is that the justice department before it subpoenas a reporter as information because this is important. this is different from subpoenaing a reporter s testimony. the reporter doesn t know if you ve gotten the emails or gone and gotten phone records. they have no ability to go to court to block it. roo it. the justice department under holder put in new regulation that is would allow for some kind of negotiation between the media the outlet and the justice department and give the
protected him. when you look at the things that they did and holder protected the president, i ll be honest, i have great respect for that, i ll be honest. do we know specifically what the president believes eric holder protected president obama from? i talked to officials at the justice department under holder and the obama administration, and they pointed to a number of times where the attorney general did not come to the protection of the president. at times he actually went against him. one of the first instances was when eric holder appointed u.s. attorney john durham to do an investigation into torture, to make sure the cia was following guidelines that were set up under the bush administration that defined what torture was and to make sure they didn t go into that territory. rahm emanuel, the chief of staff of obama at that time, came on tv and said he hoped that eric holder would not do that. and he did. another time we know the justice
remotely hack into computers that control surveillance of outdoor video cameras, and there are about 123 cameras. that s 65% of all of the cameras that the metropolitan police department uses in d.c. so the two big concerns that jump out here are, a, that you re able to remotely hack into computers like this from a foreign country, and b, that they were able to get these outside cameras, in other words, showing footage of a place like the national mall just days before presidential inauguration. but the good news is, of course, that they stopped it before the inauguration. bad news is it s the vulnerability that this shows. obviously you think the vulnerability not just of d.c. but any city and for all sorts of possibilities there. let s talk more here, move back to this interview that president trump gave, some of the comments he made about the doj, about jeff sessions, about the state of this investigation, the mueller investigation into russia and the 2016 campaign.