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political enemies, this afternoon we learned that the attorney general has directed a federal prosecutor to review former national security adviser flynn's criminal case and according to nbc news reporting, the justice department officials pressured to recommend a lighter sentence for the trump ally. this news comes after barr publicly confirmed he intervened in the criminal case involving trump ally roger stone to potentially reduce the prison sentence, as well. four prosecutors resooned from the case in protest, one left the justice department altogether. together the actions with barr would suggest he uses the justice department to protect the president and settle scores against certain federal prosecutors tied to the russia investigation. however, this afternoon we also learned that the justice department will not file charges against one of those investigators, former fbi deputy director andy mccabe who authorized the fbi's 2017 investigation into the president personally. and this all comes as bill barr gave a rare interview to publicly criticize the president's attacks on the

justice department for damaging its reputation for independence. the problem with making sense of any of these headlines is that bill barr's credibility is badly damaged over months to the point where it's near impossible to ascertain whether he is acting to help the president or because the law requires it and barr seemed to acknowledge the credibility problem because of the conduct of the president he serves. he's what he said about the decision to intervene in the stone case which was happening he claims as the president calling it a miscarriage of justice on twitter. >> i don't look at tweets. i don't read tweets unless they're brought to my attention. that sort of ill stratds how disruptive the tweets can be for the department of justice because at that point i had made a decision i thought was fair and reasonable in this particular case and once the tweet occurred the question is, well, now what do i do? and do you go forward with what

you think is the right decision or do you pull back because of the tweet? >> and that summarizes what is the biggest question we have today. now what do we do? joining me now to talk about her new reporting on the flynn inquiry, nbc news correspondent carol lee and tom winter and former fbi senior counsel, and part of the team that investigated the interference of the 2016 election, andrew weissman. carol lee, let me start with you. so, carol, the -- explain what is happening with mike flynn. >> well, in terms of his sentencing or in terms of this investigation? >> investigation and sentencing. is this both at the same time? >> yeah. >> yeah? >> right. so with his sentencing, there was the, you know, he's gotten very -- the relationship between him and the prosecutors that he was cooperating with is contentious. he is asked a judge to withdraw his guilty plea, accused

prosecutors of improperly handling his case. he said that if he was, you know, ambushed into -- in his fbi interviews so all of -- that's all happening an then the prosecutors came back in early january saying perhaps a jail sentence, a short jail sentence isn't such a bad thing and recommend maybe six months in jail and then pressure put on those prosecutors in the next several weeks, the government came back saying, no, probation is fine. what was happening during that time as all of that was unfolding is attorney general barr asked the u.s. attorney for the eastern district of missouri to open an inquiry into flynn's case, specifically looking at the circumstances surrounding his fbi interview which is at the center of flynn's entire case. and the questions that it raises are why, what's the goal? are they looking for some sort of criminal wrongdoing? and it raises questions about,

you know, who -- what this is trying to get at because if you recall the individuals who were involved in that fbi interview are all of the people that president trump has said should be facing criminal charges. it's james comey, andrew mccabe, peter strzok. so is it -- the timing of this and the fact that it involves something that the president's perceived enemies were intimately involved in raises a lot of questions. >> tom winter, so i guess the question is, with this flynn decision, it is -- is this sort of he decided not to prosecute mccabe which he couldn't get a grand your to do it anyway. this was sort of six months in the waiting but is that a shiny metal object orr here while he does the investigation on flynn orr there? >> this review is under way for some time, although a review reported on for the first time

today, not within that was necessarily launched today into the flynn investigation interview et cetera. so i don't know if it's a look over here while doing this. type of scenario as you mention. excuse me. so i'm not sure if that's what we are getting today. what is interesting to me is why is this coming out today because of flynn, because transcripts of sealed hearings were made public today in the flynn case or actually an foia case involving some of the things going on in the andrew mccabe case? what is going on? is mccabe out today is a way to deflect our energy and the reason to talk about it? or, is it a natural flow of things? just doesn't make sense to me. there's no statute of limitations relating to mccabe today and well within five years of any conduct. >> the judge had something to say about this. this is what seemed to have an impact on this.

>> could have because a thing that the judge in this separate unrelated foia case and pointed out is, look, having this delay -- he said this in september. it is not fair to mccabe. you guys are asking for three more months. the facts of this presumably you have. on top of that, getting the messages from the white house. he said explicitly the white house and appointed by george w. bush and said it is an appearance of a banana republic and he literally said that. >> amazing. >> a strong statement for a federal judge to make. why did it take so long, so long to come to a decision today on andrew mccabe and particularly for something that i don't think anybody -- look. what he did was wrong, wrong for him not to have candor with the ag and berate the new york director of the fbi field office here and say why are you leaking this when he leaked it. it doesn't necessarily mean it is a criminal case and most

people don't think so. >> carol lee, is mike flynn going to serve time for not? >> well, it doesn't appear that way. you know? it depends -- i should say it also depends on the judge but then you have right now the government's recommendation saying probation would be an appropriate sentence for mike flynn. the case is finnicy and a strong belief that the president is angling for a pardon for michael flynn and doesn't matter either way. >> andrew weissman, look, some stuff i assume you can't talk about because of your relationship with mueller but i'm going to ask one question. flynn was a cooperating witness and then he wasn't. what is his status? can you at least address that without getting into trouble here? >> i know what you know on that which is that the government submitted something that said that he breached his agreement, that he lied to the federal judge who's going to sentence him, that he was supposed to testify in a case and did not testify in the case.

in any normal case that person does not get cooperation credit. just remember, flynn is just like what happened with stone. there was a completely normal career submission about what should happen to him. that then was changed. where they said, oh, we don't really care he didn't cooperate and lied. just imagine this. someone committed -- a former national security adviser said he will cooperate and then lying to a federal judge an saying i was -- i am still guilty and now not guilty. so, just imagine the position he is in right now saying i want my plea back because even though i told you under oath that i am guilty i am telling you now i am not guilty. >> what is being reviewed? >> that is a great, great point. >> i don't understand because flynn himself has admitted guilt. >> absolutely. >> certain points in this investigation. >> chuck, it is worse than that. not only has flynn actually said that he did this, the judge has

been given all of the facts about the underlying investigation because he wanted to know and the defense was raising that as an an issue, saying he was set up. the judge said there's no issue here. and so, the thing that's really interesting today is i am quite cynical because there was no idea andy mccabe was going to have a successful prosecution. >> couldn't get a grand jury to indict him. >> that's right. >> the old ham sandwich thing. they couldn't indict the ham sandwich. >> shocking if you cannot get a grand jury to indict. took a loser case with respect to mccabe. i respectfully disagree in the sense we don't know whether or not he is guilty or not. maybe he lied. maybe he didn't. >> that's true. >> we don't have the facts of that. there's so little evidence of it they could not get a grand jury to indict and swapped out a

loser case for starting an investigation that is going to be of comey, mccabe, pete strzok -- >> what you are saying is, yes, not investigating comey but investigating comey? >> exactly. and mccabe and pete strzok. >> that's what the u.s. attorney of eastern district of missouri really is doing? >> right. what i would love to know is what the factual predicate that judge sullivan has found nothing there? >> carol lee, have you gotten a sense of how bill barr's rebuke of the president or attempt to publicly rebuke the president on his twitter intervention, how that's playing at doj today? >> well, i think that from -- there's the president obviously didn't listen to the attorney general and tweeted this morning to make clear that he can do in his view whatever he wants. he just has decided not to do that yet. look. the attorney general's comments largely were seen as a little

too late and, you know, he is a year in to his time and at the justice department. a lot of what he said yesterday i think there were people hoping that he would have said that a long time ago. and he didn't and so it rang hollow. i think that was mostly the reaction. >> go ahead, tom. >> he is -- one of the concerns of bill barr to be feeling is he has a real morale issue. line prosecutors, people going in and day out, do the filings in the cases, work the actual trial -- >> the crummy work. >> the grunt work. >> gets to come in for the touchdowns. sentence that, do this. >> big press conferences without having to do all the underlying investigative work. we's got a real potential morale problem if prosecutors feel like they can't bring forward the cases, they can't move forward with the cases. disagreements, fine. another thing blocked and publicly rebuked and slapped in the face. >> it was interesting to hear

barr -- i don't know why the four prosecutors quit the stone case. i think it was -- he seemed to be taken aback. i didn't think it was -- was that -- did you buy that? >> he's the boss. so if there's some miscommunication it is on him. the idea that he did not in any way back them up, he didn't say -- he didn't say anything to excuse what he had done. >> not even with peter thomas here and might have. >> he never said, by the way, it was wrong to reverse the sentencing submission with flynn. he never said it was wrong to do something -- >> backed up the stone conviction saying he was glad he was convicted. >> interesting because i'm not -- interesting to see whether he means that. because i could -- we could all be sitting here in a few days with a pardon. >> what do you sense is morale? you know people inside there. you're in that -- you worked with those people. i think detailed to what you were doing.

>> i think people inside the department and outside the department are heart broken. this is something -- this is institution people adore. you have seen people from the state department express the same sentiment of this is an institution -- >> the two buildings in particular, justice and state, feel like they have just -- >> devastated. >> yeah. >> what you are looking for from the attorney general to actually make a statement an not just say words, he would have said something about the substance which is, you need to understand the attorney general does not review sentencing submissions. that never happens. everybody in the department knows that. to make it sound like he did which is this is kind of a normal thing that i review them, no. he reviewed them in connection with two rich, white men who are connected to the president. that is the only two. i would love to hear from the attorney general who else has he done this for? >> joyce vance said yesterday if he's willing to start reducing sentences for other -- everybody

else in roger stone's situation as a blanket policy then maybe she'll buy what he is doing. >> completely agree with that. >> carol, tom, andrew, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> i think washington is simply paralyzed by what to do. the president can do what he wants and everybody seems to agree that that's what's going to happen. up ahead, president trump's new york state of mind and met with andrew cuomo this week and had demands of those new york investigations. and later, does bloomberg risk coming off the bloomberg rose? he is facing new controversies all of a sudden. ♪ if you have moderate to severe psoriasis,

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as the president faces questions he is trying to get the justice department to target his foes, also appears to be trying to use national security to get new york state to drop some of their investigations

that involve the president n. a tweet seemingly linking his policies involving new york hours before meeting with governor cuomo the president wrote, cuomo must understand national security far exceeds politics. new york must stop all of its unnecessary lawsuits and harassment, start cleaning itself up and lower taxes. mr. kornacki, was it -- are we reading too much into that tweet or is he really trying to go, okay, i've got some pressure now with this global pre-check business to really make new yorkers have a hard time getting in and out of canada. maybe i can use it as leverage. >> talking about an incredibly blue state, though. to the extent of leverage here as trump and thinking about the tsa thing being leverage, you have a governor, one of the most anti-trump states in the

country, overwhelmingly blue state, overwhelmingly democratic state. i don't think cuomo or democratic leaders in new york are sort of shaking in the boots at the prospect of trump holding this over them. i think if you're in standoff with trump it's down to your benefit in new york. >> i understand that politically, peggy, but i don't think this president cares. >> he never seems to be self conscious at the idea that you might think he's muscling someone or trying to muscle them. >> i think he likes the look. >> he thinks it's very effective and he thinks his supporters and fan base in general that they become somewhat excited by his aggression. but of course, it's no way to run a railroad. it is an odd thing to see. it may be a losing way to be operating in this particular case but it's not ultimately helpful. >> it's not but yet, donna, i think he feels so emboldened and

fitting that you're stuck in washington and the rest of us are here in new york because i hope you give the feeling, i feel like washington right now is sort of got a collective -- their jaw's on the floor and like, they're stuck. paralyzed. what are the democrats going to do? impeach? republicans speak out against him? there's a sense that there's paralysis there. >> well, so much for the susan collins lesson learned. the president is doubling down on what he believes is his authority and his ability to just clamp down in any way possible. but let's look at the global entry program. this is a program that's used a lot by the business community that's traveling back and forth internationally. it is not -- every day, you know, sort of travelers and tourists are not really using the global entry system in that kind of way and so, you know, it is amazing that that's the community a lot of his

supporters that he is clamping down on and i think for democrats, i mean, how many tools do you have when republicans in the house and certainly republicans in the senate are not willing to do anything to hold this president to account? and i don't even know what other tactics the president is going to implore to clamp down on his enemies or to try to extract something that's to his own political and personal benefit. >> and, you know, steve, what i don't get is he was on a high last week. >> yeah. >> i feel like he is systemically going i want the approval low to mid-40s. 50s is too easy. that's no -- he literally is snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. >> but this is the story of -- from the morning after the 2016 election on. every moment when you said is this guy going to pivot to just let's try to coast on the economy, let's try not to make

noise here, try to get the approval rating up, it's just not the presidency. not what this presidency is, not what it is going to be and heading towards an election in 2020 where the dynamics are pretty much what they have been for four years. >> he is determined to make sure it doesn't matter who the democrats nominate. it's a polarized, you know -- >> 99% of the people are where they were for the last 4 years. >> tell me your sense of bill barr. i'm very curious. i think we are all trying to figure him out. >> okay. i'll tell you. yesterday when i saw the abc interview and then i read some stories about what barr had said, i took it at complete face value. i thought donald trump absolutely is making it impossible to do his job. i thought, i assumed he had said that privately to the president but i very much supported the idea that he was saying it was publicly, publicly saying that

this isn't helpful. this hurts the entire institution. doesn't just hurt me. hurts the institution, hurts washington, hurts justice, bad thing. when trump responded calmly at first or the white house did and they said, oh well, everybody has the right to their opinion and everything's fine, i thought, wow. trump just took a punch for the first time. naturally within 24 hours he had to turn it grubby and comes out with a tweet saying i haven't meddled yet but i may tomorrow. do you know what i mean? it is almost as if he's a person who hates good news. he's got to turn it bad. the famous example as we all know the mueller report comes out, road runner gets away. the next day he calls the president of ukraine. it is a slightly crazy thing. i am always nervous when things start to look very good for him. because he will make it look

bad. but barr is a guy who -- you know, i just -- not to go too long here but i don't buy the stuff about barr is a mind meld with trump and they're doing secret machinations so you think -- >> they may -- it may just be coincidence that barr believes in a strong executive. >> yes, i believe he's made that clear. >> and he's -- just happens to align with some of the more nefarious that this president would like to use a strong executive. >> well, i think -- what i thought we heard from barr was indignation. i thought between the lines he was saying, i'm a man in my 70s, a professional. i have everything. i don't have to do this. i'm here out of loyalty to the institution, a sense of responsibility. buddy, don't keep doing this. >> donna, how did you read barr? >> wow, not like that. i mean, i'm quite a skeptic of

whether the attorney general really is just sort of publicly distancing himself from the president but, i mean, if you look at what he's done, particularly today, you know, the revelations about investigations of investigations that have been opened up about looking into the flynn guilty plea and indictments, i just think that barr knows what the president wants and he was more comfortable doing that without the president highlighting it on twitter. >> steve, no matter what i think the reason why we have all these different -- the problem is they all -- credibility is institutions and there is just so much skepticism because he hadn't been forthcoming with us and met the press. barr is almost acting as if he's trying to keep something from us. >> you are getting the fundamental dispute and the people way interpret this.

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michael bloomberg's campaign appears to have endless resources but the normer new york city mayor is facing a long list of questions about his record and different things he's said over the years while mayor, after mayor, a republican, an independent, you get the gist. as he was apologizing for his past comments on stop and frisk, opponents attacked him for other remarks of the 2008 financial crisis and this bloomberg apology last night in houston at the launch of the mike for black america campaign. >> there is one aspect, approach i deeply regret, the abuse of police practice called stop and

frisk. i defended it looking back for too long because i didn't understand then the unintended pain it was causing to young black and brown families an their kids. i should have acted sooner and faster to stop it. i didn't and for that i apologized. >> minutes before that mea kulpa elizabeth warren was hammering him on a report that bloomberg made comments about red lining, it is the controversial discriminatory housing practice and claiming that the red lining issue was to blame for the twagtd financi2008 financial crisis. >> just came out yesterday and n which michael bloomberg is saying in effect that the 2008 financial crash was caused because the banks weren't permitted to diskrim nas against black and brown people. i want to be clear about this.

that crisis would not have been averted if the banks had been able to be bigger racists. and anyone who thinks that should not even be -- >> and this morning, it was bernie sanders as many other 2020 democrats have done accused bloomberg once again of trying to buy the election. >> look. a lot of politicians go from the top on down and what bloomberg is about. he's spending hundreds of millions of dollars. fine. we don't have hundreds of millions of dollars. i guess if you're $60 billion you can change the rules. i think that's very, very unfortunate. >> also this morning, "the daily beast" reported that bloomberg said taking from the rich is a bigger problem than income inequality. there's fodder once bloomberg is on the debate stage with the candidates. coming up, if bloomberg is the future of the democratic party, he's going to have to

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mr. mayor, why did you say what you said in that 2015 speech? >> i don't think those words reflect what -- how i led the most diverse city in the nation and i apologized for the practice and the pain that it caused. >> but why did you say it? >> it was five years ago. you know, it is just not the way that i think and it does -- doesn't reflect what i do every day. i led the most populous, largest city in the united states and got re-elected three times, the public seemed to like what i do. >> welcome back.

that was michael bloomberg struggling a bit there on wednesday not willing to apologize for past remarks on why he was in favor of stop and frisk. he was a bit more apologetic last night. with me is reverend al sharpton, host of "politics nation" here on msnbc and as anybody that follows new york city politics is a huge player in new york city politics and mr. bloomberg has to spend time talking with you. you know him well. >> i dealt with him on this issue. >> good, bad and otherwise. >> what he -- let's talk about the quote itself he didn't want to address there. this quote separate from stop and frisk was you just xerox copy 95% of the criminals black and brown criminals age 15 to 25. that was -- said it matter of factually and he didn't -- he didn't seem to apologize for that statement there. what does that tell you? >> i think, one, when we were marching one time we marched tens of thousands down 5th

avenue to his house, led by the naacp and national action network and myself, they said we were being out ray jousz. this statement. xerox it across minorities, 18 to 24, racial profiling if i ever heard it. >> in 2015, i mean, if you had said he said it in 1997 when you might have said, okay, racial profiling was controversial but being debated by law enforcement, by 2015 this was -- >> we had laws against it. >> a practice in the dust bin of history. >> laws in jersey, for example -- >> particularly new jersey with a big problem. >> with the i-95 highway, driving while black. so to say that then and to ignore the statement now is absolutely outrageous. >> let me ask you this. he has a ton of african-american supporters right now.

mainstream supporters, surrogates, members of congress. seems to me that the campaign believes that should help blunt some of this criticism. will it? >> i think there are a lot of blacks that want to see donald trump defeated no matter what. but i think they're underestimating that they're going to just swallow this if he does not deal frontally with the xerox quote, with the red lining quote and he's got to deal with the pain was. i notice the statement yesterday was in houston. he needs to come to new york and deal with some of the people that suffered from stop and frisk, 700,000 people. >> see him apologize in the city? >> not only apologize, hear what was some of the ramifications of what was done. he needed to stand and take that kind of -- expose himself for some of the victims that went through this and let them tell him that and then if he wants to do something, establish a

program on how you repair some of the damage that was done. you can't just say this and walk away. >> do you believe his apology? it came four days before announcing the campaign for president so there's a lot of folks skeptical that it feels like a -- you know, looks like what it is which is a flip to prepare to try to run -- >> when he made the apology at a church in brooklyn he got in the car and called me. i told him one speech is not going to solve this, whether i believe it or not doesn't matter. one speech is not going to solve it. three, four days later he announces. he has to prove it. the only thing that gives him a semblance of credibility is that the other candidates have to deal with their baggage, as well. >> there isn't -- who has clean hands? >> joe biden with the crime bill. you have bernie sanders who voted for the crime bill. you have mayor pete with the problems in south bend. amy klobuchar with a

16-year-old. they need to come clean. the medicine is repent now because everyone needs to be held accountable. >> it is interesting. mayor pete's trying to repent. michael bloomberg is trying to repent. joe biden is trying to repent. how are they doing? >> they have to deal with it with a frontal way. you can't justify the sin. you can't say, might have done wrong but this -- no. i was wrong. i should be forgiven and this is what i'm going to do to make amends. in my church when you repent you come down the aisle and confess. you don't start negotiating with god how it wasn't that sinful. >> how does michael bloomberg win your support? >> i think michael bloomberg has to first deal with the people that were pained, understand it, to set up a situation that he can help in a criminal justice way deal with that because you have people still impacted by being thrown up against a wall. some were charged with things that dealt with the rest of

their lives. he needs to show some sincerity with a real commitment. >> how does he make the case to you to give me the benefit of the doubt? you have these conversations. what's his case to you? >> the case to me is coming to new york and deal and hear with some of the people and try to structure something. whether i win, lose or draw to repair some of the damage and if he's saying to me, al, i didn't realize it, you should have because we were at your door. if you does that, we would feel he's sincere. >> all right. a lot of people trying to figure out where's the african-american vote going, here or here? i think it splintereds the way the white democratic vote is fracturing. what is your sense? >> there won't be a monolith. it is going to split. along certain ways but it's going to split with one general theme. what is in our interest and don't forget, who we feel can

beat donald trump. >> electability is going to matter. >> it is going to matter. >> this is biden/bloomberg then? >> i don't know because he -- it is hard for biden after iowa and new hampshire to sell the electability. he needs to be able to prove that. because, yes, we want a candidate to get black turnout but you have to show us you can get white turnout. we don't want to be the only shoe you have in the race. you're running a one-footed race. >> do bloomberg's billions buy him some -- well, it is not my favorite but he's got all that money, okay, i'm in? does he get -- does that help in the black community? >> some people feel that he has the money to go against them but what is he going to do with all of that? and what is he going to highlight? >> a guy very familiar with the president's thinking was telling me that the president can get double digit african-american support in the general election. he got 8% last time.

george w. bush got up to 14% in '04. what is your sense? >> my sense is that he may get some votes. i don't know that he gets to double digits. but if there is a huge turnout of democrats, he will be in trouble. it does not matter. >> even ten? >> if you have the turnout. but i would say to michael bloomberg and other democrats, to turn people out you have to first turn them on. and you're not turning us on yet. >> rev raeerend sharpton, thank. >> thank you. >> you speak it straight and didn't muddle this. >> i try. up next, the merchant of doubt, sanders distances himself from the conduct of some of his supporters. i have the power to lower my blood sugar and a1c. because i can still make my own insulin. and trulicity activates my body to release it like it's supposed to. trulicity is for people with type 2 diabetes. it's not insulin. i take it once a week. it starts acting in my body from the first dose.

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for comments. it was an interesting tact he took there on one hand condemning it and then going these aren't my people. i think a lot of other campaigns would disputd i think they would dispute that last part. it's brutal out there when it comes to any expression at all that is a critique of the policies which i think are completely legitimate. you have to own what is happening with people who are supposedly following you. he has tried to do that. he could go even further. it was his supporters that departed from the democratic party.

he wasn't strong enough to say i'll support any democrat who gets the nomination. i think he's gone out of his way saying i'll support the nominee. i think he thinks he will win. if this costs him, first or second in nevada, he has to actually deal with it in a way he hasn't dealt with it before. >> i think there's a risk with these things. things seem louder on twitter and they seem more pro announced. and i think there's a conversation that exists for most of the country outside of that. if you try to describe it, they say what are you talking about here? bernie who? and i think the sanders' personality is powering the campaign. it looks the a certain portion of voters. he may be a little more independent from the party because these folks in the party are attacking him. if you look at his favorable, unfavorable score among

democratic voters, he's popular. you're talking about 73/25. they like him personally. the concern has to be can the democrats muster the case that he's not electable? that's what they have to try to do. we'll see if they can. >> what did you make of the rev and michael bloomberg? i thought that his criticism of bloomberg was telling bloomberg essentially, okay, you've made some, a little progress in going forward on issues like stop and frisk and red lining. but i've been talking to people the past 24 hours and more is needed. you're going to have to do more. you have to do it in new york.

so he's telling bloomberg, my friend, i'm telling you what you have to do to get support. support is possible, he said. he said the word yet. they're not there yet. >> what do you make of how bloomberg has handled his, it was a long pause. he did not quite know how to deal with this yet. >> yeah. this question has been out there and he's known it and it was shocking that co-stand in front of a microphone and not really have himself together enough to be responsive to the question. and it is not just that. on these other issues, too. bloomberg has a lot to go. we've got unpack the packaging so we know who we're really getting if we're going to buy this. >> a lot of great marketing was done for new coke. then people tasted the product. we've got to find out, what does the product look like? maybe he'll be on the debate stage next week. thank you. up ahead, a little cabin pressure. knowing you're on the right path isn't always easy.

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that's all we have tonight. we'll be back with more "meet the press daily." we've got a big one this week. i'll be sitting down with joe biden. first time he's been on the show since 2016 and i'll be talking to one of the big wingers out of new hampshire. amy klobuchar. "the beat" starts now. >> i'm actually filling in for ari. he has the night off. >> buster for him. >> funny that he could get a flight off. >> i would like to know who his boss is. >> attorney general barr facing new duels resign exactly one year since he was sworn in. trump makes a stunning confession about giuliani's trip to ukrainian and the 2020 debate over income equality. news today from the self-described democratic socialist. we want to begin with breaking news inside the justice department and another explosive and unusual