1. Question posed by Norman Eisen, Democratic Counsel, House Judiciary Committee. "Can you say a little bit more about what the framers concerns were about corruption of elections and betrayal of the national interest involving foreign powers and how they come into play here?" 2. Professor Pamela S. Karlan answers "So the framers were very worried that elections could be corrupted, they could be corrupted in a variety of different ways and they spent alot of time trying to design an election system that wouldn't be subject to that kind of corruption.

Philip Lacovara tells @maddow that "exactly how much should be excluded or redacted as Grand Jury material is up to the discretion of the person who is weilding the scapel, because the rule only prohibits disclosure of matters occurring before the grand jury. 1/ That could be viewed properly as limited just to quotations of testimony, for example. It doesn't necessarily require redacting characterizations of evidence that happen to be derived from the information that was developed during the Grand Jury proceeding. 2/