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republic. a federal judge tonight with witherring commentary about the department of justice judge saying i don't like the fact you've got somebody at the top basically trying to dictate whether somebody should be prosecuted. i think it's a banana republic when we go down that road. now, this federal judge, judge walton, by the way, is a republican nominated senior judge. clearly slamming the president of the united states in this particular case over trump's insistence that the department of justice investigate andrew mccabe. now, tonight the department of justice is dropping that probe, but bill barr is giving trump yet another huge present. an official telling cnn barr is ordering reexamination of high profile cases including the one against michael flynn. flynn is awaiting sentencing for lying to the fbi. this reexamination is surely

muse to music to the boss's ears. >> they ought to be ashamed of themselves, what they did to general flynn. what they did to general flynn is unfair in my opinion. look at flynn, it's a shame. >> now here we are. for the second time in basically as many days, barr appears to be caving to trump's bidding. and the fact is that barr's move to order the case reexamined is highly unusual, and it comes on the heels of his attempt to overrule career doj prosecutors for pushing for another trump crony, roger stone. this is the sort of thing that happens in a banana pub rick which is may be why judge walton added the damning and sobering thought about the president of the united states, the integrity of the process is being dually undermined by inappropriate comments and actions by the people at the top of the government. i think it's very unfortunate, and i think as a government and as a society we're going to pay

a price. boris sanchez is out front live outside the white house tonight. boris, you have this federal judge with witherring commentary about trump when he's talking about a banana public. this as the department of justice drops that probe into mccabe. what was the president's reaction to that today? >> erin, we're told my sources inside the white house that president trump did not know this news was coming and that he was furious. attorneys apparently having to try to calm the president down, trying to asway him with the rational about why charges weren't being brought. the president tried to force the issue with them, that he was adamant that mccabe should face charges. of course he's been targeting andrew mccabe for a long time now, for years, and repeatedly suggested he should be locked up, calling him a deep state operator and such. the timing is interesting with

the news coming from the department of justice that attorney general william barr is going to reexamine these cases including michael flynn's case. s that likely music to the president's ears as you said, erin. he has repeatedly suggested that flynn was ambushed by investigators even though he pled guilty to lying to the fbi. this could be seen as a consolation prize coming from attorney general william barr to the president not going after one of his political targets, one of his perceived opponents, but offering him some consolation with michael flynn. >> thank you very much, boris. out front now, someone who worked with bill barr, donald err. he served in the administration where he was senior to bill barr at the time. i appreciate your time. judge walton, you know, worries about a banana republic. it was sobering commentary. he talks about inappropriate actions at the top of the government. what's your reaction to what judge walton said? >> well, i agree with what judge walton said and i guess i'm at a

point myself of thinking we really have to look at the bigger picture here of what's been going on for a long time. and i really think when you do that, you come to the conclusion that it's time for bill barr to resign as attorney general. >> so, it's a serious thing to say. you know him. you've worked with him. you know the good. you see what he is doing now. we obviously have him right now looking into another case involving a trump loyalist regarding reexamining the case, in this case sentencing and the other, obviously i'm referring to trump's friends, loyalist michael flynn and roger stone. so, how do you get to resign. it's not a small thing -- >> no, it's not. and i think the bottom line reason is that it's clear from many things he's done since he took over but also from many things he said that he doesn't believe in our system of government in which no one is above the law. and you can go through the record of his performance.

we're looking at it right now. and these events intervening on behalf of the president, but there's a whole series of events that goes back over the whole term of service for the last year. and a whole lot of things he said that show that he really doesn't believe that the president is not above the law. i would be glad to talk about some of those things if you want me to. >> what are some of them because obviously now he's saying he does this interview where he gives trump what trump wants, right? he defends trying to overrule the sentencing for roger stone. but he said stop tweeting about it. you're making my job impossible. and some people interpret that as he's actually standing up to the president. does not sound like that's how you see it. >> no. i think what you have to do is look at what we do, not what we say. and, you know, there's a long series of events. in most peoples' minds they start with bill barr's whitewashing of the mueller report back in march and april of this year. many people will remember in

october, you know -- i'm sorry in december -- you had the ig's report who had done a long inquiry into the fbi investigation of russian interference. and the headline finding of that report was that there were problems in the fbi but the predication, the factual basis for the report was entirely proper and there was no bias found or indicated among the people overseeing the investigation. attorney general barr immediately said that he didn't agree with that. he didn't think that was correct and he actually got his u.s. attorney durham to say the same thing. you've got barr behaving very unprofessionally in the context of that investigation before it was over when he goes out and he said it lately as well that the fbi was spying on the campaign. you have the attorney general misstating the conclusions of the mueller report when he talks about in the president's words no collusion.

they didn't find no collusion. they found no conspiracy, no agreement with the russians to interfere, but plenty of collusion. lots of people having meetings with russians and that sort of thing. >> encouraging. what do you think happened? what i -- look, i'm impressed with the fact that you're willing to m coout and say something boldly and without fear and you think he should resign. but you've known him for a long time. you've known of him for a long time. you've known of his reputation. he's a guy who respected executive power. he was known for that. by most accounts he seems to have gone way farther than anybody expected. what do you think happened to bill barr? >> i don't think anything happened. i think all you have to do is read what he has believed for apparently most of his life. and he really believes -- i believe he believes -- that the president should be essentially above the law. he wrote a memo which a lot of people -- you probably talked about it on this show -- in june

when he was hoping to be attorney general. the memo came out with amazingly broad sense of the president's power. among other things he said the president is the executive branch. he went on to say very specifically that the president had the power, indeed he had the obligation to be in charge of and make decisions if need be in investigations including having the right to decide in an investigation of himself what ought to happen. well, that's the definition of the president being above the law. and that's bill barr's conception of the president's powers. lots of other things he's done have carried through on trying to prevent meaningful interference or prevention of his exercise of powers. there's whole series of ways in which barr's justice department has supported preventing the effective role of checks and balances in our government. you know, he's litigating the case involving the emergency

declaration where the president couldn't get congress to appropriate money for the border wall. so, the president made an emergency declaration and said i'm going to use that even though he said it's not an emergency and i just want to move faster. i'm going to use that declaration to divert money from something else. bill barr's justice department is litigating his right to do that which is indefensible. bill barr's justice department has pushed the whole concept of absolute executive privilege. multiple opinions of the office of legal counsel preventing congress from playing its traditional role of having effective oversight. >> well, i think -- i appreciate you giving all this and taking the stand you're taking. you believe he should resign. i appreciate your time. donald ayers. ev evan perez is out front now. evan, you've been talking to

sources in the department of justice. you have people referring to banana republic about the president's role and department of justice in some senses. you have former attorney general calling for barr's resignation. what is the mood inside the department? >> i think there's a lot of unease about what has happened this past week, erin. i think a lot of the things that the attorney general has been saying, some of the rhetoric that he has adopted from the president was already uncomfortable for a lot of people. but until this week, we hadn't seen any of the actions so publicly done where you had the attorney general publicly essentially disavowing the work of career prosecutors who were simply following the guidelines that this administration has set forth. so, that's one of the things that is now giving people unease inside the department about exactly what is happening. maybe these accusations that the attorney general is simply too politically involved, you know,

carrying out the bidding of the president. maybe those things are true. i think a lot of people are very, very nervous about it. i think the attorney general doi doing the interview where he pushed back on the president's tweets, i think he needed to do that to quell the unease inside the department. >> and of course the next day doing again what the president wants in part. evan, thank you very much. next, president trump trying to get the last word via tweet after barr asked him to stop tweeting. plus a volunteer in charge of several precincts in nevada raising serious concerns on this program tonight about the upcoming caucus there. could it be an iowa repeat? i'll talk to him. and amy klobuchar stepping up her attacks on bernie sanders. >> i don't think that is where our party is and i certainly don't think that is where our country is. >> is she right?

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president, the legal right to do so. i do, but i have so far chosen not to. i guess he's referring to the criminal case intervention. former director of the nixon library tim naf telly. the president responds in a tweet to something really important that bill barr said, yeah, i could if i want. >> it's very in line with what we have seen this president say in a number of situations. it was the same with robert mueller and whether he had the right to get rid of him. it's been the same with ambassadors and whether he had the right to get rid of him, whether he the right to remove lieutenant colonel vindman from the white house. the question is whether he should be doing it and whether he is crossing lines that other presidents have not or when they have they have come into trouble. the president was according to all my reporting not pleased with what bill barr said. we have not seen him react the

way he typically does because we have seen with him that when his back is against the wall and he has to be disciplined for a short period of time, he can be. and i think he has been warned by people. look, we saw it in the final week before the election that he actually simmered down. but when it was pointed out to him that he had not been using his twitter feed as much in the final week of the election, he got angry that that was noticed and started tweeting to make a point. that's exactly what you saw him do with barr today. i don't know that it means a change for their relationship going forward. barr has a lot of latitude with this president. but sometimes the president gets an idea about somebody and it's luke a germ that burrows in his brain. we have to see how it plays out. >> you're talking about bill barr, we heard the former attorney general calling for his resignation. is there a part of bill barr that goes i have that view but i've got this person, that when he does an interview but then

does what maggie is talking about today, does bill barr blanch? >> i think bill barr has his own agenda. i think bill barr went back into government to achieve some things. and i think that he views trump as his enabler as much as he enables trump. i don't think they always agree on how to use the power. look what bill barr is doing right now. bill barr is investigating the way in which the intelligence community does its assessments of russia. that is hugely important and could have a big chilling effect on our intelligence community. bill barr has just launched an investigation of the flynn prosecution. i think bill barr was saying to the president i've got things to do. you're making it hard for me to do those things. and those things, by the way, are not good for the country. they're not good for the rule of law, but they're bill barr's agenda as much as the presidents. >> a republican nominee judge would agree with what you're saying. to your point when the president

says -- when someone tells you -- i was short of chuckling when you used the word "disciplined." when he gets told he can't do something, he likes to prove that he's doing it. so, i want to give a few examples of the i have the oh i can do it if i want. here are three times he did it, to your point. >> i never told don mcgahn to fire mueller. if i wanted to fire mueller, i would have done it myself. it's very simple. i had the right to. >> [ inaudible question ] >> well, i don't even want to mention it, but certainly i'd have every right to. i put no pressure on them whatsoever. i could have. i think it probably would have been okay if i did, but i didn't. >> you know, it's funny in the context of mueller which is the first example like that that i mentioned where he said he didn't want mueller fired but he had the right to do that, actually it was shown in the mueller report that he did want mueller fired. >> and by the way, it's not just

that he said he had the right to, this was a lie. he did tell don mcgahn to fire, so there's the dishonesty, plus the -- >> exactly. i think when he says these things that i never did that but i have the right to, you have to bear that in mind. one thing i was struck listening to barr, i think barr has his own interest that he's tending to. but when barr was saying i never -- the president's never ordered me to do this, i'm not sure the president has to. if you think about one of the most important things that michael cohen said in his testimony, the president's former lawyer before the house was basically he doesn't have to give you a directive, that you know what he wants and you follow along with that. is anybody who's reading the president's twitter feed unclear on what he wants? i think it's really all right out there to be seen. >> it's true. in a sense bill barr didn't need -- just take the specific example of the roger stone sentencing. bill barr knew what trump wanted. everybody knows what trump wanted. >> i also think it's important for us to make clear that it is

a crime to intervene in a criminal matter the way the president is doing. he actually does not have the right to do this. his role as president means that saying those things infect as pressure. maybe if we said this on television it might be interesting. but we're not in a position to put pressure on the justice department. he is. i think he's exiting a crime. he doesn't have the right to say this. >> maggie, you hear this all the time i'm sure. people say trump does it in a more, whatever, brazen or childish or offensive way, but other people did it before. this is what they do, meaning presidents in this case. people say that. but it's not true. >> i don't know what the comparable -- i don't even know what the comparison basis is for a lot of the cases we have seen under this president when you have had so many former advisers to this particular president who have come under investigation or

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with just eight days until the nevada caucuses, growing questions tonight about whether this is any risk of an iowa debacle repeat. some campaigns and volunteers in nevada are concerned about

putting calculators and ipads handed out to them used for the results. i spoke about the training he received. >> we are going to be using an online tool throughout the process, and we have never been seen or trained on that tool. they told us that the night or two before the caucuses we would pick up the ipads and all our other materials. but there is no provision that has been shared to my knowledge to do the detailed training. >> so, how do you feel about this? >> and there are many -- you know, i am concerned. >> well, okay. nevada was supposed to originally use the same app as iowa before the disaster there, so that's part of the reason they had to scramble and put something new in. seth said he was trained on that app. so, before iowa, they were going to train on that app and here's

what happened. >> we had a large day-long training where they were supposed to show us the app but they ended up spending the whole day trying to download the app. and most people in the room could not. so, we left that day knowing clearly that there were problems. >> out front now, tom perez, the chairman of the democratic national committee. chairman perez, i just spoke with seth mooreson. he's going to be in charge of multiple precincts for the caucuses there. he says they're going to be given ipads but not until the night or two before the caucuses. he hasn't seen the software tool they're going to be using. and he's concerned. what's your reaction? >> well, listen, the nevada democratic party, i have great confidence in. our team is out there as well. and they're not going to be using an app. let me be clear. the app that was in place in

iowa, they're not using it. our goal is to have a caucus that is as low-tech as humanly possible while preserving efficiency. so, what does that mean, erin? well, tomorrow when early voting starts, people are going to use a paper ballots and use paper ballots for the next four days. in the meantime, one of the lessons we take from iowa is talking relentless relentlessly volunteers. we're doing that day in and day out. they had to make adjustments after iowa but the good news is they always had a back up plan. so, they're not starting from scratch by any stretch. >> you're not concerned when seth says he's not getting any training and not anticipating getting any. >> no. >> he said he did on the other app that they were going to use. he's worried they're not being trained but you're saying that is misplaced. >> look -- yeah. i am saying training is

critically important and we understand that. and by the way, i'm very appreciative for seth and all of the volunteers in nevada. people have stepped up in remarkable ways. and they're going to be at the 80 plus caucus sites tomorrow. and then a week from tomorrow and all of the caucus sites across the state. so, these volunteers are the life blood of this effort. but we also have at the same time the nevada democratic party aided by an army of people elsewhere including from the dnc. and our goal -- and we will implement this goal -- is to make sure that everybody walks in all of our volunteers, all of the people who are running the caucus walk in saturday morning of next week when we do have the actual caucus, understanding what their role is with a person to call. they don't have to use their own technology. they don't have to use an app. in iowa people were using some of their own technology. and we made sure, no, that is

not the case. >> but you're saying people like seth, he will get the training that he seems to feel he will get more comfortable getting since he hasn't got any. >> absolutely. without a doubt he will get it and everybody else who needs to be trained will be trained and there will be people in caucus sites or readily available on a phone. if you have a question, you will feel free to call those people. again, i have great confidence in the leadership team in nevada, in senator reed and senator cortez masto, and senator rosen and the team in the nevada democratic party. >> so, we have obtained a document, chairman perez, which shows dnc officials played extensive roles in the development of the app used in iowa. the contract said the company had to provide the dnc with access to the software for testing, work together with ongoing basis. this is all from the contract to develop the software. you've looked at this whole

situation. how much responsibility do you take for what happened in iowa, chairman? >> listen, our partnership with the state parties, the iowa democratic party, while they run the caucus and they administer the caucus, everything we do with the states is a partnership. we all succeed together. we all fall short together. and the language you're referring to is language that we have put in place in contracts to make sure that we are paying attention to cyber security. now, the contract that was entered into with shadow which was the company that fell short with the app, that contract was entered into between the iowa democratic party and shadow. but the language that you're referring to is something we include because we care about cyber security. we have learned a lot of lessons the hard way about cyber security. and here's the thing about iowa. >> did you test the software? did this provide you with access to software for testing.

did you test it for security but not for efficacy? >> absolutely. these cyber -- iowa's failures were not a cyber security failure. the language you're referring to was language we include in these contracts so that we are cyber ready. and again, our rules and bylaws committ committee inquired whether it had been pressure tested -- put aside cyber security -- whether it had been pressure tested to work at scale and we were assured it could. with hindsight, we together with the democratic party should have tested it more. >> you and i have talked about the criticism you're taking about adjusting the criteria to make the cut. who's on the stage, it's an incredible power to make that call. you've made the case for changing the roles for polls and not just donors which gives michael bloomberg who was funding it in.

what do you say to those dismissing bloomberg and saying he's the guy rigging it. he's buying his way on to the stage. that's not legitimate. >> first of all, i would say to people take a step back. look at what we did as a party when i became chair almost three years ago. we engaged in a very inclusive process of reform. we did remarkable reforms. we reformed the super delegate laws. this was supporters of secretary clinton, senator sanders, others working together. there was no delegate, super delegate counter in the run up to iowa unlike four years ago because we reformed the super delegate role. so, we returned power to the voters. those who say, well, someone like michael bloomberg can buy his way on to the debate stage, i say the following: number one, we need to reform citizens -- we need to overturn citizens united, reform campaign finance laws. that's going to be part of the

platform. and number two, you do have a remedy fu remedy fubl if you believe someone like michael bloomberg shouldn't be able to self-fund to raise. get out there and vote. make your voice heard. get out there on super tuesday -- >> do you have an issue with someone self-funding. it's a circular question. i understand that. but if someone's willing to put their own money in, is that a bad thing? >> well, again, that's going to be up for the voters, erin, to decide. i read recently in the last couple of days there have been stories written about statements that mayor bloomberg has made about stop and frisk. well, one of the best ways to -- and i -- full disclosure, i was at the justice department when we filed a brief opposing stop and frisk. and a number of people want to know what's his position. one of the best ways to answer that question is to have him, if

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tonight, who's afraid of bernie sanders? well, apparently his fellow democrats. amy klobuchar warning he is not only out of step with the party but she says with the country. >> i was the only one on that stage that raised my hand and said that i didn't think we should have a socialist leading the democratic ticket. i don't think that is where our party is and i certainly don't think that is where our country is.

>> keyung wa is out front. she's the only one who did raise her hand on that stage in new hampshire saying she had a problem with a socialist at the top of the ticket. what are the other candidates saying now? >> it's the other moderates who are joining her in this belief. it is getting a bit more forceful, more direct, and expected to get more propounced in the state of nevada. why? because the culinary union is told that a vote for bernie sanders would equal the elimination of their union health care. and they are talking about medicare for all. listen to pete buttigieg and what he said about bernie sanders when it comes to health care. >> this is just one example of an issue where we have this my way or the highway politics that suggest to people that if you're not with me, you must be against

me. if you're not for the revolution, you must be for the status quo. >> we don't need a revolution, we need evolution and a nominee who can deliver it. >> and that of course mike bloomberg taking the same argument pete buttigieg and expanding it to say bernie sanders can't win the general election against trump. >> you're in nevada. he's not actually in south carolina which is the state after nevada. he is looking ahead to super tuesday and trying to expand the map, stopping in north carolina and texas today. >> a delegate-rich texas. and here's why. take a look at this poll. this is a poll that just came out today. and look who sits at the top of that poll. it is bernie sanders. he is at 24. biden at 22. warren 15, bloomberg 10, pete buttigieg 7. and a reminder, pete buttigieg

was the one who was the top of the heap in iowa. erin. >> all right. thank you very much. obviously a wide open race it seems like right now. things change so quickly right now. thank you. out front next, what is it about michael bloomberg that has trump so obsessed. plus a poll to up to an exclusive story we brought you. andrew yang's wife says she was sexually assaulted by her doctor while she was pregnant. thanks to her coming out and her bravery, 37 more women have come forward with allegations about the same doctor. >> he raped/molested all these women and nothing's been done.

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prison. prosecuto prosecutors cut him a plea deal in 2016. now as more and more accusers emerge, the district attorney in new york is being pressured to file new charges. drew griffin is out front. >> reporter: an attorney representing dozens of former patients says this man could be one of the most prolific sexual predators in new york city, all the more stunning he never spent a day behind bars. >> he's retired. he raped/molested all these women and nothing's been done. and that makes me furious. how can that be. >> amelia said she trusted him, even believed he was doing her a favor squeezing her in to being the last patient of the day back in 2012. she was told to completely undress and while naked on an

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tonight, trump's obsession with his rivals and what he sees as a particular shortcoming. here's jeanne. >> reporter: there's nothing mini about the height war. >> little michael will fail. >> reporter: in a matter of minutes, president trump called michael bloomberg mini mike,

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little marco. don't worry about it, little marco. >> reporter: but when he called senator joe manchin, munchkin. >> i guess he's confused than that, i am a little bigger than him. he's got me by about 30 pounds with him. >> michael bloomberg? >> very little. >> reporter: partisans on both sides have been churning out memes, shrinking the other guy or his hands. "the washington post" noted since 1952, when the age of television began, 12 of the 17 presidential contests have been won by the taller person. >> there is nobody i would rather run against than little michael. >> reporter: but as one anchor noted -- >> mike bloomberg, same height as vladimir putin. >> reporter: and you don't hear president trump calling him little vlad. >> reporter: jeanne moos, cnn -- >> little michael. >> we measure your height from your neck up. >> reporter: -- new york. >> and coming up this weekend on cnn, we have a brand-new series

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