correspondent, and dave
leventhal with the center for
public integrity.
good morning.
i want to start with the
attorney general planning to
redact information from the
mueller report that he
determines may damage the
reputation of people peripheral
to the investigation.
michael, is there a national
security argument behind this?
is this mainly a political
question?
>> i think when it comes to the
reputational aspect for certain
figures, peripheral to the
investigation, i don't think
that there's necessarily a
national security element to it.
there's a national security
element to some of the sensitive
intelligence that the attorney
general says has to be redacted.
that was expected.
the parts that were unexpected
are to your point.
the extent to which reputations
are going to be protected, grand
jury information that's going to
be withheld, there is precedent
for that information coming out.
obviously, watergate.
democrats reciting that in their
effort to get barr to issue a
court...