judge reggie walton was a george w. bush appointee. he sits in the same courthouse, the same district as amy berman jackson. judge walton has been assigned the two most high profile cases by first amendment and media groups that are seeking to have mueller's findings released to the public and to the press without redaction. and now at the last minute, right before whatever it is barr's going to try to release tomorrow, judge reggie walton has also now made clear that he thinks he has a role in this part of the process. judge walton is now saying that attorney general william barr alone will not be the sole figure who decides what gets cut out of mueller's findings. according to judge walton, the courts will have a say. he personally will have a say in what the public sees and what we do not. the freedom of information act requires public disclosure of certain government documents, and it's a fascinating area of law. foia is obviously a fundamental tool for government accountability, for journalism, for research. there's a whole rich ve

at the last minute right before whatever it is barr's going to try to release tomorrow, judge reggie walton has made clear that he thinks that he has a role in this part of the process. judge walton is now saying that attorney general william barr alone will not be the sole figure who decides what gets cut out of mueller's findings. according to judge walton the courts will have a say. he personally will have a say in what the public sees and what we do not. the freedom of information act requires public disclosure of certain government documents. it's a fascinating area of law, obviously a fundamental tool for government accountability, for journalism, for research. there's a whole rich vein of litigation and case law around the freedom of information act and what it requires, and what are its limits, in these foia cases ab the mueller report, judge walton is proceeding on the basis of the contention that the mueller report is exactly the type of document that will be subject to public release under the freedom of information act. if a document is liable to release under foye ya, the gover

a federal judge named judge reggie walton he suggested in open court today that whatever william barr redacts from mueller's report, that may be subject to his review as a judge who's considering these requests. that judge today suggested in court he personally may have to look at the entire unredacted mueller report himself to decide if barr's redactions are proper under the freedom of information act or if those things ought to be released to public, too. that's important. important for not only what might happen down the line but important in terms of what william barr might do next. because the bottom line here is that william barr got caught once before not telling the truth about an underlying document he said couldn't be released. he purported to summarize it and put out a purported summary that did not at all match that document he tried to keep secret. well, the mueller report may never be kept secret in the long run either. there are multiple paths in which the full unredacted mueller report may ultimately see the light of day. some of them controlled by congress, some of th

that's from judge reggie walton. demanding access to more findings from robert mueller.g to go to you phil, but we're going to pete buttigieg in iowa. we want to see if he's taking questions. >> your anticipation of the mueller report coming out tomorrow, could you speak to how your administration would be transparent? you faced criticism in terms of issues with the police chief and how would your administration be more transparent. >> one of the things i learned in my administration is the importance of transparency. when information is withheld, people tend to assume the worse. policing is a great example. there's a lot of mistrust, especially relted to race and policing. so we had one of the best online transparency portals where we started pushing information about our policing out to the public. we even have a searchable database where you can see at an incident level how many issues there were with use of force and compliaaints. we realized that the more information out there, the better. even if criticized on something, i would rather be criticized on something re

bush, reggie walton and the district of columbia, seemed to be leaning in that direction. when this issue came up, regarding the mueller report. the reductions that were placed upon it. it is quite possible that a federal judge may indeed side with the judiciary committee chairman, jerry nadler on this particular issue but we are a long way from that and of course, even if a district court judge rules that way, eric, is likely to be challenged. perhaps all the way up to the u.s. supreme court. eric: we could see this in the supreme court. and how all the star, the dossier alleged fisa abuses, the doj, the report due sometime in may. investigated that and the attorney general said he has started or will start a task force on these potential abuses. what else will we see? will there be an investigation on the scope of the mueller report and dealing with those allegations on christopher steele. >> the ig is already looking into this matter to see whether the steele dossier was relied upon for a fisa ward which looked into a campaign aide or the president during the presidenti