getting this government working again. this democracy is under attack unlike any other time in the history of our country, both from without the country of russia, from within from a president who doesn't acknowledge these attacks, and a corruption of our institutions by those who can purchase influence and increasingly outcomes. this campaign doesn't accept pac money, it does not write anybody off or take anybody for granted. this is the answer to more democracy that can come up with the solutions to the challenges we face. >> beto o'rourke, 2020 democratic presidential candidate. thank you for making time tonight. >> thanks for having me on. >> that's "all in" for this evening. rachel maddow starts right now. >> would that be news. >> i believe it was. >> that was very impressive. thank you very much, chris. congratulations, my friend. >> thank you very much. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. happy to have you with us. a lot going on today. it's binary a busy monday and monday night. deputy attorney general rod

rosenstein has just submitted his letter of resignation. he'll be leaving the justice department in two weeks. yet another sign that the embattled deputy attorney general is perhaps more likely to be remembered as a trump administration figure than he will be as a justice department figure. rosenstein's resignation letter today went out of its way to compliment and thanks president trump for the president's demeanor and attitude and courtesy toward rosenstein during their, quote, personal conversations. don't say that part out loud. for basically the entire duration of rod rosenstein's tenure as deputy attorney general, he's been directly overseeing a massive criminal investigation into this president and his campaign. so that means he shouldn't be having personal conversations with the president at all, let alone multiple ones. for him now to be compliment and go thanking the president for how awesome all of their

personal conversations were while he was deputy attorney general overseeing the investigation into the president, it portraits a lack ever concern of even trying to pretend that objecttivity was something rod rosenstein specifically was supposed to do take great care while overseeing that investigation. rosenstein has now resigned and says he'll be out by the end of next week. meanwhile the newly appointed attorney general william barr is balking at the proximate cause of testifying before the democratic judiciary committee in the house. he's supposed to testify before the judiciary committee in the senate. he was supposed to testify for the democratic led house judiciary committee on thursday. he might not do that now. and the terms of the fight between william barr and judiciary chairman jerry nadler, it's interesting already. it's actually been getting more

and more interesting as his thursday testimony date gets closer and closer. but honestly, at home right now, raise your hand if you would rather hear from william barr some more about the mueller report at this point or whether you heard plenty from william barr on the mueller report, and at this point since at least a redacted version of it is out, wouldn't you just rather hear from robert mueller about his report? barr said quite a lot already. mueller said nothing. when mueller's report was submitted, the judiciary committee, jerry nadler told mueller that that committee would like to him from him, mueller personally in testimony before may 23rd. we've since had no real further update whether that testimony is going to happen. we heard from attorney general william barr that he wouldn't object to mueller testifying. we heard chairman nadler today say that he hopes they'll have mueller in sometime before the end of next month.

i mean, now there's all this energy being expended. we'll see how that personally works out. personally i have to say i'm much more interested to hear mueller's testimony about the mueller report. i'm even more interested in learning the details about how that's going to go. is mueller going to testify alongside his investigators and prosecutors? is it going to be mueller alone? what's the format going to be of that hearing? is it going to be on tv? is it going to be behind closed doors? in combination with some other committee? are they going to use committee counsel to ask questions like a professional-led committee might like they did during watergate? i'm really interested in what's going to happen with the mueller testimony. barr may or may not testify this week. we'll see. jordan kelper at comedy central did a gag with bill and hillary clinton in which the premise was there was an online fundraiser to raise money to get hillary clinton to voice the audio book

version of mueller's report. what do i want to hear now? i want to hear from mueller. no. i want to hear from mueller and all his prosecutors and investigators. then after that i want to hear from mueller. after that i think i would want to hear hillary clinton read the robert mueller report as an audio book. the gag's premise was they were helping jordan kelper out trying to figure out what kind of fundraiser he should support and then hillary clinton reading mueller's report out loud. >> the investigation established that the russian government perceived it would benefit from a tump presidency. >> a couple notes. >> yeah. >> like you mean it. >> is the investigation established that the russian government -- >> secretary clinton, feel it. feel it. just imagine, like, you have a history with this. >> okay. the investigation established that the russian government perceived it would benefit from

a trump presidency. and worked to secure that outcome and that the campaign expected it would benefit electorally. the president's slumped back in his chair and said, oh, my god, this is terrible. this is the end of my presidency. i'm [ bleep ]. >> what do you think? i'd listen to that audio book. >> yeah, okay. >> i know that is a joke premise, but honestly, i would pay to hear hillary clinton read the robert mueller report. i would. and i don't think i'm going to get that, but i do have a clinton-related announcement of my own. secretary clinton is going to be here for an interview on wednesday night this week. about what she believes the country's response should be to the mueller report, specifically what congress ought to do in response to the findings of the special counsel's investigation.

hillary clinton will be here herself to talk about that in an interview with me wednesday night. looking forward to that. wednesday, of course, is also going to be the day that attorney general william barr might give testimony to the senate judiciary committee, whether or not he ultimately backs out of his planned testimony to the house the following day. for sure there will be plenty to talk about with hillary clinton. but she's going to be here in studio wednesday night, 9:00 eastern. i'm very excited about that. i also want to update you on something that we covered late on friday night here on the show. it's about the i was the group indivisible that sprung up after trump was elected over clinton in 2016. indivisible is a group we've covered -- it's not really a group as much as an effort. we've covered indivisible stuff a lot here on the show because they're a little bit different in their approach to activism and progressive politics and they've been really effective. indivisible is the group that

dropped this pragmatic approach to trump-era politics in which they train people and equip people and help people organize to communicate effectively with their own senators and their own members of congress, specifically, people who represent you from your district only. this indivisible model, this playbook for how to do activism in this way was cooked up by former congressional staffers who know from personal experience what it takes to move members of congress and get them to do stuff. you don't contact the member of congress who has you mad at that moment. you contact your senator, you focus on the people who have to listen to you. it's been interesting to cover them. there are thousands of indivisible groups all over the country, including every single congressional district in the country, red states, blue states, it doesn't matter. the basic idea is it's your representative you need to communicate with, it's your representative who has to respond to you because you are their constituent.

that's your only real leverage for this type of political activism. here's how we can make it work. we've been watching indivisible for the fast couple of years organizing events, having an impact in congressional districts across the country. now having had success with that model when it comes to legislation in congress and targeting specific members of congress and specific senators and getting them to change their behavior, now this indivisible group is trying to take that same pragmatic ethic and applying it not just to congress but the democratic presidential primary for 2020. we covered this friday night. there is a new we are indivisible pledge that more than 10,000 people have signed up for already. there's two versions of it. one is the grassroots pledge which is just for people who specifically want trump to be defeated for re-election in

2020. the grassroots pledge, the regular people pledge is three parts. number one, make the primary constructive. that's the headline. make the primary election about your hopes for the future and a robust debate of values, vision, and ideas will remain grounded even if we support different candidates. this is people who want trump to be defeated, we will support each other, even when we have differences in opinion as to which democratic candidate is the right one. number two, rally behind the winner. we he or she pledge to support the ultimate democratic nominee, whoever it is, period. no monday morning quarterbacking, no third-party threats. and three, do the work to beat trump. they're asking regular people to sign on to this pledge. in this case, the grassroots pledge is we're the grassroots army that's going to power the nominee to victory. we will show up to make calls, knock doors, and do whatever it takes. it means just don't talk about the stuff. you have to pledge to actually do something.

so those are -- that is an effort targeting regular people to sign the grassroots we are indivisible pledge. but then they are also asking all the democratic presidential candidates to make what is essentially the candidate's version of that pledge. you see the main points match here. it's another three-part pledge. and the headlines are all the say number one, make the primary constructive. and the candidate's pledge say quote i will respect the other candidates and make the primary election about inspiring voters with my vision for the future. i will respect the other candidates. so no tearing them all down, right? no tearing each other down, keep it a constructive primary. number two, same headline from the other pledge, rally blinded winner, and the candidate's version of that says i will support the ultimate democratic nominee, whoever it is, period. no monday morning quarterbacking, no third-party threats, immediately after there is a nominee, i will endorse.

so this is a very specific thing they're asking all the candidates to pledge to. finally, number three, the same headline as other pledge, do the work to deet trump, but for the candidates, this is a different kind of pledge. this is a very specific thing. quote, i will do everything in my power to make the democratic nominee the the next president of the united states as soon as there is a nominee, i will put myself is he disposal of the campaign. so this is not, like, you know, airy fairy aspirational pledge. no offense to airy fairies, or aspirational. this is specific action by all of the democratic candidates. immediately after there is a nominee, i will endorse. as soon as there's a nominee, i will endorse and i will put myself at the disposal of the nominee's campaign. that's a lot, right? candidates often asked to be

positive and then she say sure and do whatever. but they don't ask to you sign on the dotted line that you will endorse by name the nominee as soon as he or she is chosen. i will put myself at the disposal of the campaign immediately after there is a nominee. that's what these candidates are being asked to do here by indivisible. and because this is such a specific request, because this is such a specific testable thing they're asking these candidates to do, i was not sure that indivisible was going to succeed in getting any of the democratic candidates to sign on. it's very interesting to me that they're having tremendous success with this. they unveiled this thing on thursday. on thursday, bingo, they got their first candidate to sign it, bernie sanders. he was first, fascinating, right? still at that point maybe you think, okay, maybe it's only going to be senator sanders. maybe because of leftover feelings from 2016, maybe he alone among all the candidates

feels like he has the most to prove about his ability to bring his supporters over to support an eventual nominee if that eventual nominee is not him since he was the last man standing when hillary clinton got the nomination, maybe that's a hangover from 2016. maybe it's just bernie. no. he was the first to sign on the day the pledge was unveiled on thursday of last week. and then cory booker and then julian castro and then pete buttigieg, elizabeth warren, kamala harris, and then amy klobuchar, today kirsten gillibrand signed and alley-oop alley-o looper. >> they're putting it out on social media letting you know they have made this pledge. which means a majority of the candidates have pledged as soon as there is a nominee, they will endorse immediately. they will completely put themselves at the disposal of the campaign of the nominee, no

matter who it is, full stop. and i fully believe in the timeless adage in the primary, you vote your heart, in the general, you vote your head. it is almost always folly to try to game it out during the primary, to pick a primary candidate who you vote for because it's the candidate who do you think will ultimately be the most electable candidate in the general election at the end of the day, the one with the best chance of unifying the party to make a unified effort. i mean, honestly, you can try that, but i think it is easy to overthink these things, and i think in the primary, you vote your heart, and in the general, you vote your head. but pragmatic as ever, here's indivisible nevertheless taking this concrete effort and has thus far surprisingly effort

effort to put concerns to rest about whether the primary might be divisive, about whether the whole democratic party will end up pulling together in the same direction once a nominee is picked no matter who that nominee is. it's one thing to worry about, it's another to do something about it. again, they've got more than 10,000 regular people signed on to their grassroots version, but the candidates' pledge has 11 of the declared democratic candidates signed on, and counteding. for now that means they have a majority of the declared democratic candidates for president signed on. although that may change with the denominator moves, when inevitably they have more candidates. politico.com reporting this morning that montana democratic governor steve bullock may be gearing up for something. colorado democratic senator

michael bennett may yet get in as well. he has not been shy about talking about his interest in the race, but as yet we have not heard a declaration from senator bennet as to whether or not he's going to run. the former democratic leader from the georgia legislature, stacy abrams, says she will make an announcement about her political future by tomorrow. that is widely expected to be an announcement about whether or not she's running for senate in georgia, but there is also an active betting pool proverbially speaking, as to whether or not that announcement from her might actually be a presidential announcement. so i don't know what number of candidates we will ultimately end up with on the democratic side, but it is getting to the point where it's clear, you know, we're no longer in the pregame, right? the actually competition has started. this thing is under way. just a quick snapshot of what's going on, it's clear this is happening now. it's on.

the fight is joined. this weekend the bernie sanders campaign held nearly 5,000 organizing kickoff parties. they were in all 50 states. that's an average of, like, 100 event per state. joe biden today held the first rally at a union banquet hall in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. now as of today we see him as a candidate and we get to see how he performs on polls and otherwise, not as a special contender. today he we wonder that kamala harris just made a big and potentially important hire for her campaign. she just hired obama's admaker from the 2008 and 2012 campaign, which means that kamala harris has hired him, it means that ad-maker wanted to be working

for the kamala harris campaign at this point in the primary, which itself is interesting. mayor pete buttigieg today was in harlem in new york city talking with reverend al sharpton at the har lell institution of sylvias. we know from intense reporting, some of which took place through tell photo lenses shot through the window that mayor pete had fried chicken and collard greens and macaroni and cheese, while reverend al had dry toast because, oh, my god, the will power. god bless you, reverend al, there's no way i could do that. julian castro was in las vegas for an seiu union event. while coors coors was there, look at this, he toured the storm drain tunnels you find the las vegas strip. this is what he posted online. quote, beneath the massive casino, hundreds of homeless residents find shelter in a network of storm drain tunnels. people live in the storm drain

tunnels underneath the casinos. he says yesterday i toured these tunnels with local organizations working to find them permanent housing and support. we must do more to end homelessness in this countriment on my campaign, housing will not be on the back burner. he knows of what he speaks. massachusetts senator elizabeth warren by all accounts was well received at that seiu event in nevada this weekend. we saw a lot of early kind of beltway punditry about elizabeth warren's campaign saying that voters weren't going to like her focus on policy and having concrete diagnoses and proposals on so many different issues. given how elizabeth warren is performing in the primary at this point and how she is being greeted at big, important events like the she the people in the event houston where she brought the house down and the seiu in the event nevada where she did the same, that punditry about

how people don't want to hear about these plans of hers seems to have been off base. the warren campaign has, in fact, now updated their merchandise to reflect the fact that the people do like that she still a plan for everything. warren has a plan for that. elizabeth warren.com. new jersey democratic senator cory booker turned 50 years old this weekend. he asked people to benefit their community as a birthday present for him. judging by the online reception, seems like lofts people took him up on that this weekend. today both telemundo and univision aired long interviews with senator booker that he conducted in spanish. which is not something people widely know about him that he able to do spanish language media without a translator in a way that's going to be very helpful to his campaign both early on and down the road. that is just a snapshot. that's not even everybody and everything that's going on right

now. this thing is on, right? the fight is joined. this thing has started. other than that indivisible pledge, which i just described with 11 of the declared 20 democratic candidates signs on to this pledge, that locks each of them in to endorsing the eventual nominee as soon as the nominee is chosen, putting themselves at the disposal of the nominee as soon as that nominee is chosen. on top of that, which is fascinating seeing that take off, there's two other things in today's news about the 2020 field and how the election is shaping up that are particularly interesting to me. one of them is actually just data. open secrets just published this fundraising data about what proportion of donations each candidate is raising from women versus from men. again, this is a snapshot. this is not all of the candidates. they just looked at people who had declared in the first

quarter and who had raised a certain threshold of an amount during that quarter. it gives you a snapshot that's really interesting and gives democrats room to grow. there was only one candidate among all of the declared democrats who thus far has raised more money from female donors than from male donors, kirsten gillibrand is the only one. her donors are 48% male, 52% female. other than that, every other candidate in the race skews even slightly more male in terms of the donations they have as he has most voters are women. most democratic voters are women. most democratic voters are women. so this is interesting. in a race where you have a half dozen top-tier female democratic candidates running, all but one of the candidates are raising more money from men than women. and the other end of the spectrum, kirsten gillibrand's doing the best in terms of targeting female donors, but look at other end of the

spectrum, just strikes me as unsustainable. right now both bernie sanders and pete buttigieg are doing great in terms of donations overall and buzz and polls and press. they're doing great. but look at them. both of them are 2 to 1 in the gender balance of their fundraising. both of them are raision twice as much from males as they are from female donors. 66% are your donations are from dudes? dude. bernie sanders had a gender split in his fundraising when he ran in 2016 as well. that split you're seeing for him thus far for his first quarter for 2020 is worse than the gender split he had in 2016. that dynamic, which i think is surprising given the central importance of female voters, donors and activists in the democratic party in particular, that surprising data in terms of

fundraising so far. it relates to the other news that i find absolutely fascinating and underscores why all of these candidates are going to need to turn that around in terms of appealing to women voters. >> women are the majority of americans. >> we are the majority of voters. >> we are the majority of grassroots volunteers and donors. >> our government should look like us. [ speaking spanish ] >> the only way we can make that happen is by standing shoulder to shoulder. >> with women who believe this too. >> maybe you fought for change for decades. >> demanding equality in your home, in your workplace, from your government. >> maybe you're just getting started. >> let's work together because one of us can be dismissed. >> two of us can be ignored, but together we aren't just the majority -- >> we are a super majority. and we are unstoppable. >> this is the announcement video for a new project which

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black people, i love you, i love us, our lives matter. and then there's cecile richards, for 12 years she was at the helm of plant parenthood and trimmed the size of the group to 11 million members by the time she left. there are not have many organizations in this country that boast 11 million members. imagine what these three women might do if she decided they were going to do something together. today these three women launched a new political group together. they're calling it supermajority. in terms of activist talent and experience at the helm, the fire power is overwhelming but what exactly is this new group going to do? join us is cecile richards, the cofounder of supermajority. thank you for being here. >> thanks for having me, rachel. >> you can tell by the way i'm talking about this that i'm impressed that you guys are doing this together because i'm

impressed with you all individually, and you seem like sort of a superhero dream team temple your skills and capacities and experience. that said, i don't really understand what supermajority is going to do. >> so, first, thanks for having me. i spent the day with alicia and eye gen, this is an organization built of organizers. it really came out of other own experience organizing women in various fields, as you described. but a frustration that no matter how much organizing we did that the issues that women care about fundamentally seem to be absent in the political debate by and large, even though women have been -- are the majority of voters, as you mentioned. they've been the majority of activists. they're increasingly donors in the political world and are really the reason why people get elected. and yet the issues that we hear about every day from women, whether it's equal pay, whether

it's access to affordable health care, reproductive rights, being able to take care of their families, getting affordable child care, these are issues that aren't front and center. even in this election. supermajority is founded to actually create organization now a movement of millions of women in this country to demand attic for all women and make sure this is front and center. >> is this going to be a membership organization? >> yeah, we launched today. in fact, we've already had thousands of people join. i think women in this country -- i mean, eye gen and alicia and i, some other great organizers have been traveling the country the last few months. and the most important thing -- the thing i hear consistently across the board is women raising their hand saying i want to do more. women want to do more than resist. they have been leading whether it was the effort to keep planned parenthood open in the country, keep the affordable care act intact, whether it was

going to the border defending families that have been separated, whether it's teachers striking across america, 2/3 of whom are women, women are saying resisting have been fine, but we want to make sure our agenda is acted upon. that's why i think women are eager to work together across issues, across race, across generations. that's the animating idea behind supermajority. based on the experience we've had already today, women are signing up in droves. >> in terms of people signing up and becoming a member, one of the things i've been watching in the trump era is people innovating approaches to activism that seem right for the moment, that seem pragmatic, inspiring in hopefully equal measures, but that gets stuff done in this era at a time when republicans are in control in important ways, but they're also different than they used to be as republicans. when you guys talk about signing

up members and educating and training people and building a movement and trying to achieve the things that you just described, do you have an organizing principle in mind? do you have a trick or tactic or specific way you're planning on doing this that's different than what we've seen from other groups before? >> i don't think it's a trick or a tactic. i actually think the truth is, rachel, and you know this, is that women have been leading all of the efforts to both fight back against the policies of this administration. also, they're the majority of people volunteering on campaigns and with candidates. and yet all of that work is often ignored. and so actually, the first out of the gate, which we started today, will be engaging millions of women across this country in advocating for a new deal for women. one of the things women need to be actually successful in the economy, in government, in our culture and in our society and demanding that that agenda,

wherever two or more are gathered together, at any candidate rally open forum, that women's issues are heard. i spent years fighting for reproductive rights, and that is a central issue and continues to be important. but women are saying other things matter as well. like the fact that women are still paid 80 cents on the dollar. if you're a woman of color, it's much worse. we're the only industrialized country with no mandated national paid family leave, that we have absolutely no child care planned in this country and it's the second highest cost for most families. these are issues women are waking up every morning worried about, and it's time they be part of this agenda, particularly going into this presidential election. >> cecile richards, cofounder of supermajority which launched today. i know i want to keep talking to you about how it works. >> thank you, rachel. >> good to see you. much more to get to tonight. stay with us.

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made national headlines for among other innings, issues subpoenas to president trump's longtime learned, deutsche bank. deutsche bank has reportedly started handing over documents to her. letitia james is going to be a guest on this program here tomorrow night. one of the reasons i'm looking forward to that conversation with the attorney general is because of the most recent investigation that she has announced she's opened as new york state attorney general. it's actually not directly related to president trump. she's announced she's opened an investigation into the national rifle association. the nra spent more than $30 million in support of trump's candidacy in 2016, nearly triple its previous presidential spending. that's never totally been explained. since then, the nra interestingly has been operating in the red and contending with

financial self-dealing. also the nra's bizarre ties to russia, including its relationship with maria butina who was sentenced to prison on friday for her role to infiltrate the nra as an agent of the russian government. letitia james is investigating the tax exempt status of the nra in new york. she has issued subpoenas, sent letters telling the nra and its charitable organizations that they need to preserve their financial records. the announcement of that investigation by letitia james comes at a particularly nutty time at the nra, and i say that with consideration. earlier this month the nra filed a lawsuit against its longtime ad firm saying essentially that nra president overly north has been getting millions of dollars for a no-show fake tv job from them. the nra says its ad firm is paying north millions of dollars

to host a tv series, but they haven't really been producing it. they've just been paying him. late this week the longtime executive vice president of the nra wayne lapierre accused north of attempt to go extort him. lapierre went public saying oliver north was threatening to take the nra's board a bunch of accusations against him including financial mismanagement and sexual harassment at the organization, plus apparently he was going to blow the whistle on wayne lapierre's ostensibly extensive wardrobe budget unless he resigned his post and dropped the lawsuit against the ad firm. if that was, in fact, oliver north's weird gambit, it didn't work. this weekend oliver north was ousted as president of the nra right in the middle of the organization's big annual conference. the nra appears to be falling apart right now. covenant happen to a nicer bunch. but that's before new york's attorney general even really gets started with this new investigation that she has

opened into them. joining us now is national correspondent for "the washington post," kate assess ma. >> thanks for having me. >> the nra story, i feel like if i close one eye and back up a little bit, i can kind of tell what's going on. but this story seems to morph every day into something less and less believable. what do you think is important about what's changing or falling apart at the nra right now? >> this all happened during the nra's meeting indianapolis thursday until today. what is important is they are really facing both internal drama and external pressure. internally they had this power struggle with allegations of extortion, the power struggle between wayne lapierre and oliver north, which lapierre won. he was chosen to stay on as ceo at the board meeting which was behind closed doors. at the same time on friday, letitia james announcing that she is investigating their

nonprofit status. she issued subpoenas and issued letters to the nra, its charitable organization and other affiliates saying you need to preserve your financial records. >> in terms of that investigation and the external pressure that is putting on the groups, why is it that the new york state attorney general has jurisdiction here or why is this something as "a" the a state law level would potentially pose a risk to the nra which is a national organization that i don't associate with new york at all. >> a history lesson. the nra was chartered in new york in 1871. so they are technically within the new york state. they are also a nonprofit and new york has very, very strict rules and laws that guide its nonprofits. and the attorney general has a lot of leeway over that. so they are chartered in new york, even though they're based in virginia, that is where they're registered as a nonprofit, that's why letitia james is able to do what she's

zbloing in terms of the relationship between that external pressure from letitia james and the internal fissures that are breaking open, and oliver north is out now and wayne teeth, with they substantively related to? it seems like part of the fight between lapierre and oliver north is about the group's finances and about serious allegations of financial wrongdoing. i'm guessing that those may ultimately turn up in a new york state investigation about how the group's non-profit status is being evaluated at least by new york state. does it seem to you from your reporting that the substantive fight inside the organization is about the kind of stuff they might get in trouble for with this investigation? >> you know, north said that in a letter that was read as he was resigning he wanted to open up a committee essentially to look into these allegations of financial mismanagement. many of which were reported in the press over the past couple

months. another factor here is that the nra is suing its long-time public relations firm ackerman mcqueen which it paid $40 million to according to the lawsuit. that's another issue happening within the organization right now there's been lots of talk about it. we've spoken with rank and file members who said i would like to know a little bit more what's happening financially. so it does all of these things are coming to a head right now and they happened to come to a head over this meeting this weekend in indianapolis. >> to have it happening while the convention is happening while president trump is giving a blood curdling speech at that convention, while maria butina is being sentenced to federal prison for nra mishigas on behalf of the russian government, it's all things at once. katie, thank you for being with us. stay with us. tie,nk you for bei us stay with us when you rent from. it's kind of like playing your own version of best ball.

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all-around good nature of president trump. for that, mr. barr says he will be there with bes on, no problem. but the next day on thursday, that's when barr is supposed to appear before the judiciary committee in the democratic-controlled house. and that one he is not excited about. that testimony as of now is still on the calendar but attorney general barr is threatening to bail saying he doesn't like the planned format for his testimony as planned in addition to taking questions from members of the committee, he will also have to take some questions from staff lawyers which would allow for more follow-up from interviewers often more skilled than members of congress as "the new york times" delicately puts it. if barr backs out and bail on the committee, chairman jerry nadler says they might issue a subpoena to the attorney general. william barr having this allergic reaction to having been questioned by professional legal staff rather than just members of congress, i mean, he may not want to do it but it's not like

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