part of the law that you don't have to be anybody as anybody can do it a lot of people put in the foia request file that request and take advantage of this great law that obligates the federal agencies to make this available and also will be patient because some of these requests can take years. >>host: years? how long did you work on code girls? >> guest: three-year start to finish i did get a loss of records declassified but i'm still getting letters that if you are still interested from what you filed two years ago let us know of you are still interested. i am still interested. >> caller: thank you for taking my call thank you for bringing the untold story to light. were there any african-american women doing code breaking? >> guest: thank you so much for asking that question. yes the navy was not willing to admit african-american women they did not until 1945 but they were paranoid about background but the army did there was an african-american unit at the army compound in arlington virginia that was a secret unit that worked as the private sector they decrypted their communication

lou: that's a hope that is often not realized with niece foia requests.ese documents, your family, you have said you couldn't believe the language and the comments made in those emails released this past summer. which was amongst the most upsetting to you. >> here i want justice for my brother. for them to look at me and say we are going to try to get you justice and then call me a nuisance amongst each other, that was upsetting. they were talking about wiretapping. they were saying they need to talk to more intelligence people in the family. lou: a new direction for the country. and new attorney general who we hope and pray for all our sakes, but especially yours, you and your family who deserve justice on this horrific crime. kent terry, we appreciate you being here and wish you all the best. that's it for us tonight. we thank you for being with us. tomorrow night, congressman mark meadows and congressman matt gaetz are among our guests. we thank you for being with us tonight. good night from new york. >> china should not be stealing intellectual proper

. >> when i hear that question, i think foia immediately, i'm an foia hound and makes me crazy when i get a freedom of information act from the food and drug administration and 80 pages are completely blacked out. i'm sorry, we pay their salaries, they're supposed to work for us. the testing and the data and the discussions and the analysis going on within federal agencies about our food seems to me to be information that we have a right to know and to-- if you follow this and you you know, the freedom of information act is over 50 years old now, congress has taken a look at that and looked at how our agencies responds to it and has found that they routinely violate the laws there's an oig investigation, it's not my personal opinion that our agencies violate the law, it's congressional-- yes, do you have a question? [inaudible] [inaudible question] >> can we get the mic? >> you shouldn't have to turn it on. i think they're controlling it back there. >> come up here, come up right here. ladies and gentlemen, i present to you-- >> taylor with george mason university, i'm out here doing

. >> when i hear that question i think foia immediately. i am a foia honda and it makes me crazy when i get freedom of information act request back from the food and drug administration in ed pages are completely blacked out. i'm sorry, we pay their salaries. they are supposed to work for us. the testing in the data and discussions and it's going on within federal agencies about our food seems to be information that we have a right to know. if you follow this freedom of information act over 50 years old now, congress is taking a look at that and looked at our agencies respond to that and found they routinely violate the law in over in an oig investigation. it's not my personal opinion that our agencies violate the law. it is congressional -- yes, dear the question? [inaudible] can we get the ground microphone? >> you shouldn't have to turn it on. i think they are controlling it back there. , appeared. come right here. ladies and gentlemen, i present to you. >> taylor walton -- [inaudible] i also do a little bit of consulting. a comment as a

whether it's through foia, whether it's through getting responses to congressional inquiries, whether it's through what i assume will be, hope will be actual hearings as the date of the actual census approaches, that's where getting an understanding can either help these civil servants do their job by ensuring that the public gets what's happening and trusts it, or whether it can lead to folks like you asking the type of questions you're asking because of a sense that there isn't full insight. >> let me just add a little bit to that, too, i think that maybe sort of asking a different question, but hopefully it helps answer the question that you raised. i -- the census clearly matters a lot to this administration for, it appears, from what we do know for reasons other than trying to count everyone. and what we don't know, exactly, part of what josh was saying, from what we can see from the outside, the deputy director appointment raised concerns that a new head of legislative affairs raises concerns. he was a former aide in congress working on the citizenship question, the proposal fro

just thinking about congress foia et cetera, you probably know better than me.e top fbi official fired by attorney general jeff sessions hours before his planned retirement is now soliciting donations online for his legal defense fund. no word yet on whether clinton donors which supported mccabe's wife during a run for virginia state senate have pitched in as of yet. joining me now, chris farrell. welcome to the show again. good to see you, sir. explain to me how the strzok-page messages going backwards and forwards brings president obama, the obama name into play. go through it for me. >> sure. there's clear evidence in their own language, their own text messages explaining how they were communicating and coordinating with white house officials. for example, there's elisa page text message that we uncovered a few weeks back that says quote, potus wants to know everything that we're doing. that is pretty clear language by anyone ands standard. andy mccabe has meetings on his calendar with lisa monocco, the obama homeland security director. guess who she used to

also want to make it clear that in these documents, right, the documents that were released under foiathat the fbi and mpd said they don't have any evidence that there was foul play here. but, again, the fact that they're claiming that he fell down multiple times alone in a drunken state in his hotel room. >> until he died is hard to -- jason. >> more reporting, obviously. >> jason leopold, senior investigative report were buzzfeed again. congratulations on a heavy lift of a scoop here. >> thank you, rachel. i really appreciate it. >> all right. we'll be right back. stay with us. you might take something for your heart... or joints. but do you take something for your brain. with an ingredient originally found in jellyfish, prevagen is the number one selling brain-health supplement in drug stores nationwide. prevagen. the name to remember. >>> that does it for us tonight. we will see you again tomorrow. now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." good evening, mr. o'donnell. i'm sorry to go to you three seconds early. i screwed up. >> i'm not ready. >> do you want me to h

of transparency, no accountability, happening in secret and the don't release the public record of foia that wee. don't release, period, and the reason we have the public record request is because the university gave it and my lawyers at the university just give us a copy of the public record that day give to law firm and they drag fir feet and final live give us and we don't know if they've give us everything. they you think with such high profile case in the federal courts, the university lawyers would be watching the whole question of compliance at what is going on, but that's what they claim. and this is -- i'm knowing go tonight gun all of the history but this is from at least 2002, the palestinian has been silenced, intimidated. bull idea criminalized, i and smeared at san francisco state both by organizations within and outside the university. so when we talk about a war, of attrition has been declared, we talking about groups outside of the university that are collaborating with groups inside the university. so we don't see the two of them divorces inch 2002, for instance, san f

experience gained in the process and came back to the state department and now is languishing reviewing foia applications which is purchasing georgia tower where they send the career officers to. and on the lower end of the spectrum, those who are trying to come in, they are making it difficult for them to come into the service, reducing the number of classes, the 1-100 class which is the new class that officers have to take, they reduce thed the number of eptember teanses and the pinkering, which was designed to bring in diversity. from top to bottom, there is only what i can believe to be a deliberate effort to hollow out our diplomatic capacity. it's not only for four years but generational and it's a very, very dangerous, delit undermining of our national security capacity. mr. johnson: it is interesting to see who diplomatic or international relations' functions have been delegated rather than some ambassadors. one of the big stories that came out of the olympics was the connection between north korea and south korea and ivanka trump attending the closing ceremonies and the north and so

he has filed a foia request. you can guess how much the trump organization donated.ing $27,000. we will see how much was donated and how this promise holds up. >> he is going to voluntarily donate all profits from foreign government payments made to his hotels to the united states treasury. >>> these more dangerous banks are more likely to crumble and more likely to bring the rest of the economy with them. this is madness. >> senator elizabeth warren took to the floor today to express outrage over a bill republicans are expected to pass with the help of some senate democrats. it would roll back some of the reforms passed a decade ago and senator warren joins me now. why, how does this get 67 votes? you haven't voted on it so far. >> i'm sorry, let me stop you right there, how does this get any votes. next week will be the tenth year anniversary of when layman brothers crashed and signaled that the collapse of 2008 had started. and how it could be that after we got some dodd frank protections in place. after we got ten years, nearly, of trying to rebuild, after the ba

. >> to try and foia that warrant. >> judicial watch. a lot of people. unfortunately, what quaev had so far is some of the most disclosure has happened in other courts where you know, a billionaire russians or multimillionaire russians who are suing buzzfeed are getting a lot more disclosure than even house intelligence committee was able to get for a long time. so you know, i'm pretty excited as more details come out, some of the court battles will start being handled more fairly. >> final question. have you talked to anyone in the white house in the last year. >> not in the last year, no. >> in the first year? >> no. not that i can think of. >> are you sure? >> not that that i can think of, no. again, i mentioned because it was forced out of me in the house intelligence committee with the, you know, in this eight-hour day where i'm just being grilled nonstop that you know, i had a brief conversation with steve bannon and you know things like that. >> he told you not to come on my show. >> it wasn't your show. >> i don't feel as insulted by steve bannon

it's a little hard to read and understand fully, but whether it's through foia or getting response to inquiries or through what i understand will be actual hearings for the date of the actual census, that's were getting understanding can either help them do their job by ensuring the public understands what's happening and trusted or whether it leads to folks like you asking the type of questions you're asking because there isn't full insight. >> out of that a little bit to that. i think maybe asking a different question, but hopefully it helps into the question you raised. the census clearly matters to this administration for reasons other than trying to count everyone. we don't know exactly but from what we can see from the outside the deputy director has concerns that a new head of legislative affairs, there was a former aide in congress working on those questions, there are funding with requests coming from the administration, coming in typically under what even the secretary of health was able to made clear it needs to do what it needs with an increasingly complex society to get t

secretary carson: we get about also.any foia's mr. young: the numbers, they correlate, maybe. let me just pivot to something else. rural housing, i represent a very rural district. it's a very unique district. i got the most populated county in the state of iowa, polk county in my district. secretary carson: i've been there. mr. young: i've seen you. we thought maybe you'd buy a house there. and then we have the least populated county in the state, adams county in southwest iowa. just what are some of the actions h.u.d. is taking to help alleviate some of the lack of rural housing that we need and where are you going with this? what are your challenges? what do you see as solutions? secretary carson: as you probably know, there's multiagency council led by agriculture to deal with the issues of housing, to deal with the issues of communication. because as you know, there's no broadband access in many of hose counties which i think is inhibtory to look at education -- inhibitory to look at education. that obviously is going to continue. as i mentioned before, i believe one of t

accountability from a lot of the stuff is happening in secret and italy released the public record, foia request that we submit. they don't release and the reason we actually have a public record request is because the university gave it to my lawyers as university just give us a a copy of the public record that they give as a drag their feet and if i get and we don't know if they gave us everything. i decline the office of compliance is that in touch with other people? you think with such high profile case in the federal court the university lawyers would be watching whole no question of compliance, what's going on, but that's what they claim. i'm not going to give you all of this, but this is from at least 2002. the palestine has been silence, intimidate, criminalize, sneered at semper cisco state. both by organizations within and outside the university. so when we talk about award, a war of attrition has been to could we talk groups outside university that are collaborate with groups within the university. so we don't see the two of them divorced from each other. in 2002, for instance

part of the law that you don't have to be anybody as anybody can do it a lot of people put in the foia request file that request and take advantage of this great law that obligates the federal agencies to make this available and also will be patient because some of these requests can take years. >>host: years? how long did you work on code girls? >> guest: three-year start to finish i did get a loss of records declassified but i'm still getting letters that if you are still interested from what you filed two years ago let us know of you are still interested. i am still interested. >> caller: thank you for taking my call thank you for bringing the untold story to light. were there any african-american women doing code breaking? >> guest: thank you so much for asking that question. yes the navy was not willing to admit african-american women they did not until 1945 but they were paranoid about background but the army did there was an african-american unit at the army compound in arlington virginia that was a secret unit that worked as the private sector they decrypted their communication

keep in mind there are foia requests. congress, all of this is basically can be uncovered.ery careful. on august 8th he sends her a text mentioning that the fbi director at the james comey was working together with the chief of staff david macdougall -- mcdonough from president obama's administration. so were they working together? was the intel community working with the obama administration? brian: here's what you do. if the next administration tell us. they kept this secret. didn't know what to do. claimed everything was top secret. got very aggressive in december when somebody else won the presidency as opposed to the democrat who won. devin nunes was on with sean hannity last night and he says there is a few things that need to be answered. he is very intrigued by where this whole thing is going. >> i was talking to a few members of congress today. and these are people who, you know, don't follow this closely. they are not on the house intelligence committee. they follow it just by the news. and they were shocked. they were shocked. as a matter of fact, they used a few