the justice department oversees the federal government's compliance with foya. so i hope you would agree that foya is an important tool for holding government accountable and if confirmed, would you make sure it's a top priority to make foya and the faithful and timely implementation of the 2016 amendments a top priority? >> yes, we'll work hard on that. >> you know what really happens in the bowels of the bureaucracy. it takes them forever. maybe something will embarrass them so they don't want it out in the public. so you get all sorts of excuses. we have to do away with those excuses. one way to make it work better is by reducing the number of requests. this will be my last question. one way to make foya work better is by reducing the number of requests that have to be made in the first place. that's why i'm a strong advocate for improved proactive disclosure. if confirmed, will you commit to help advocate for more proactive disclosure of directors? that's not just by the justice department but because your department's top dog in this particular area, in the

he is known as a foya guy. he foya's documents. he digs through documents. he is able to get incredible information. in the past, he has acknowledged he had a checkered past. he had instances of plagiarism. people accused him of making up stories. this was 15 years ago. this was a long time ago. those details did come up today. republican national company tried to use that against him today. buzzfeed was clear. they said, we stand by our story. we stand by our journalists. we have absolute confidence in our journalists. at the moment, that statement still stands. >> they're not saying in their >> that was that. >> that was that. >> they are not saying we have confidence in this story. they are essentially saying -- >> they will re-report the story. i stand by it. >> put it back up. >> we remain confident in the accuracy of our report and you say they have added "stay tuned". >> it's incredibly unusual for a big news outlet to be in this situation. to be out there on a limb with a story nobody else could match for almost 24 hours. now to have that story knock

look at federal foya. everybody knows what it is, but everybody state has a different foya law. with cyber security we have all different sorts of state laws but we have to share market successes. it was a hard sell. theding to a second term to get it through. if you share with state police, under state foya you can get that information. under federal foya you on the could. there is exemptions. as the threats evolve, it has to continue at the state level, continue at the federal level and we have all got to keep talking policy back and forth as it see involves and try to stay in sync. >> i will add the state attorney generals have to get involved. they are part of our cyber security commission. the other thing is we are pushing to get m to, as and mous in place as well as non-disclosure agreements. that's going to be the key moving forward to trust. >> yeah. absolutely. i had every councilmember do an nda? like you are interesting? okay. and do a vetting. it is cyber. you can't have everybody at table. they have to have the expertise and this has to be an element of trust from t

we need to brainstorm to figure out how we can foya this -- foia this kind of information or create some website or database that has a list of white house staffers, how much they're getting paid and how long they stay in their jobs. transparency in our government is really important. we should do whatever we can to promote that. on the issue of diversity, i'm not sure the white house has much of an h.r. human resources office within it. i'm not sure that they have any deliberate efforts to achieve diversity. if so, they're not really publicly available or transparent. i know that when president clinton became president, he said he wanted to create a cabinet that looked like america. so he had one of the most diverse cabinets back in 1993. and i think successor presidents have tried to follow suit more or less. trump took a little bit of a different tact. but i think one thing that's interesting, as i told you before, this whole issue of presidential staff didn't start until f.d.r. generally speaking, congress has been hands-off about the staff. they send out their budget about how much

ago for reporting on a series of assassinations in russia, who is one -- the leading practitioner of foya in the united states and revealed hillary clinton's e-mails. i think it's ludicrous to go back and dredge around stuff -- stories from 15 years ago that are real and that he wrote about back then. >> people wonder sometimes if in this partisan age of anti-trump bias, reporters opinions creep into the coverage. you might hear something from a source and you want it to be true. did that happen in this case? >> no, absolutely not. the last time jason was being accused of things like this, it was when his reporting revealed hillary clinton's e-mails. >> jeff toobin here. is it unnerving to you that so many other reporters are chasing this story and no one has come up with anything like what you have come up with? >> i think i don't -- i'm not sure i know that to be true. everybody is chasing this. everybody is chasing it carefully and trying to confirm it. we will see over the next couple of days, i assume, where our reporting and where everybody else's reporting advances it. >> we love t