the first is, let's go back to what bill barr just said, what you talked about with michael bromwich.id today is the president's tweet s are keepin me from doing my job. there's two possibilities. either his job is to be the independent attorney general we all hypoed he would hoped it would be and stopping him from doing that, or trying to be the president's roy kohn. what struck me about barr's statement b wh statement, what he didn't say, it makes it hard for the department to do its job. hard for the men and women of the department to look like they have the integrity that we all need and makes it hard for bill barr. that's not good enough for me. the second thing that struck me about his statement is that once again, given the opportunity to defend the people who work for him, the career men and women who were my colleagues for so many years, he whiffed. right? >> yeah. >> these four people who resigned, maybe he didn't like their judgment. maybe he disagreed with what they wanted to do. they were great publicer is haven were great publicer is public servants who werehaven d their

and you know, michael bromwich is in a position to know and give that kind of advice having until recently been an inspector general at the justice department. but simultaneous to him giving that advice we've got the news now that one of the people the president is looking to fire right now is the inspector general of the intelligence community because what did he do wrong? well, he got a whistle-blower complaint about malfeasance and indeed what turned out to be illegal actions inside the trump administration including by the president. and that whistle-blower seeing those things and deciding to properly follow channels reported that material to the inspector general, who is legally obligated to protect that person's anonymity. the inspector general treat that had complaint the way the law said he must. he ended up passing it on to congress. he really had no authority to do anything else with it. he followed the law and protected the anonymity of that whistle-blower. that inspector general has his own head on the block as the president rips these systems out by the root, and as republican

former justice department inspector general michael bromwich saying tonight, quote, there is only oneweets make it, quote, impossible for barr to do his job. he should resign. joining us now is someone i'm very happy to have here onset. paul fishman. it's been too long. thank you for coming on. >> thanks for having me back. >> this crisis that we are in right now, first of all i see it as a crisis. i want to know if you do. this is about a u.s. attorney's office being compromised by improper political influence from the white house as carried out through the attorney general. as a u.s. attorney, as somebody who has been in that top role in these big, important jobs, is this unheard of? is this something that seems as scary as someone who has been there as to a layman like me? there there are so many things about this that makes me angry. the first is -- and let's go back to what bill barr said. what bill barr said is the president's tweets are keeping me from doing my job. so there are two possibilities. either his job is to be the independent attorney general we all hoped he would be

west bromwich albion missed their chance to extend their lead in the championship this afternoon. they were held to a 2—2 draw by fellow promotion rivals nottingham forest. michaelcope with tough conditions. west brom have been the best that the season and are closing in on a return to the premier league after two seasons away. forest have been away for two decades, but have been flying high this campaign, thanks largely to their defensive resolve. that was nowhere to be seen as january loan signing callum robinson scored his first goalfor west brom. the home side do normally concede, they did so eight minutes later, kyle ba rtley unable to defend this cross. west brom learned from the error. forest didn't. west brom back in front and seemingly on their way to a vital three points, until a minute into stoppage time, cash did this. a stunning strike and a priceless point rescued. or was it? in the final seconds, west brom thought they'd got a winner, only for the flag to be for offside. points eventually shared, the race for the premier league is farfrom over. second placed leeds beat bristol city 1—0 as they aim for automatic promotion to the pmerie legaue. bott

ever but west bromwich albion missed their chance to extend their lead at the top of the championship— after being held to a 2—2 draw by fellow promotion rivals nottingham forest. michaelest brom have been the best that the season and are closing in on a return to the premier league after two seasons away. forest have been away for two decades, but have been flying high this campaign, thanks largely to their defensive resolve. that was nowhere to be seen as january loan signing callum robinson scored his first goalfor signing callum robinson scored his first goal for west signing callum robinson scored his first goalfor west brom. signing callum robinson scored his first goal for west brom. the signing callum robinson scored his first goalfor west brom. the home side do normally concede, they did so eight minutes later, kyle bartley unable to defend this cross. west brom learned from the error. for didn't. west brom back in front and seemingly on their way to a vital three points, until a minute into stoppage time, cash did this. a stunning strike and a priceless point rescued. or was it? in the final seconds, west brom thought they'd got a winner, only for the flag to