confirmation hearings that this is perhaps going to be someone as unbiased as possible, he s going to do the right thing. but then we saw when he was in the oval office with the president. the praise and worship. idolatry. it was so embarrassing. now, i think, after we all saw that, we all understand, you know what? perhaps we were wrong. it s not legal for him to tell. here s the thng. let me just be the contrarian. i worked for general barr. i don t agree with him. i don t agree with that memo. i don t agree with the way he got the job. he is an institutionalist. i do not believe his loyalty is so blind he would break the doj rules. i don t think he s nearly the evil person that he s been made out to be. i do think he has a respect for the law and the justice department. now, he at some point can share
i see an nc hit show. i m already going to watch the show. cynthia, let s go to the positive here. let s say the report comes out with redactions for the grand jury investigation. it doesn t to be done. i m sure it will be done. it won t be done in the beginning, but we can go to a federal judge who can say this is going to be an exception to the requirement. for the sections on the explain what that is. what happens is when mueller writes this report, i m not prosecuting person a for the following seven reasons. we don t usually release that because that s just not what we do. but in cases of important public interest, the civil rights division in the ferguson case, in the mlk case, there are other exceptions. they have released that information in the public interest, and they can do it again. so when barr says the rules are i can t do that, that isn t
bit, what mueller is doing is really important. that report matters a lot but that report is not the whole ball game. by the way. when that report is transmitted to bill barr, bill barr has a tough call to make, which is what do i do with this thing? what do i do with all of the stuff in this report that s classified or protected by grand jury secrecy rules or that concern ongoing investigations. i would love to read the mueller report. i d like to read it tonight. i d read it this weekend if i had it. but i don t think we re going to have the full thing all that quickly. look, we don t have any russian. can we go through all of that? and it was described to me today by a former senior intelligence official that attorney general barr is about to become the most important man in the country. that more pressure will bear on him and a few things there, this is probably not the person donald trump thought he was when he picked him. he is someone who believes in
then it s the attorney general s turn. barr will notify the house and senate judiciary committees about mueller s conclusions. then he has some discretion about what to include. he can also determine if publicly releasing the report or parts of it is in the public interest. among the factors the attorney general will consider, grand jury secrecy rules, the desire to protect classified sources and methods and the reputations of people interviewed and perhaps investigated but not charged. how much do you get to know and see is a hot topic at his confirmation hearing. i also believe it is very important that the public and congress be informed of the results of the special counsel s work. i m in favor of as much transparency as there can be consistent with the rules and the law. it s really important to let the chips fall where they may and get the information out. my goal is to get as much information out as i can consistent with the regulations. it s consistent with the rules and th
nixon resigned before the impeachment hearings started. the documents are being made public today after lawsuits were filed asking that they be unsealed and released from grand jury secrecy rules. the legal expecrts say they coud serve as a road map for robert mueller. at the time, the evidence against nixon was sent straight to the house judiciary committee. members used the information to draft articles of impeachment. the procedure now will be when robert mueller finishes his report, he has to give his report to the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein,