the video footage that bill barr said he watched didn't cover epstein's cell. ne came in or out of the tier barr said. therefore, jeffrey epstein killed himself. let's consider that claim. on the night of august 9th, jeffrey epstein was held in the special housing unit in manhattan. the most secured part of the city's federal lock up. it will be physically impossible for a trainer to get out without an electronic pass and without being seen by countless cameras between the streets. if jeffrey epstein was murdered, he was not murdered by an intruder, he was murdered by someone on his own cell block. obviously. there were seven other cells. if you're looking for a killer, you would figure out who was in those cells. no one seems to have thought of that or done it. the bureau of prisons refused to provide us with a list of the inmates on epstein's tier. it's not clear how many were interviewed by investigators despite that some of them were transferred out of the facility after epstein's death. that's a baffling oversight. instead, attorney general bill barr assure

so what did bill barr do? quote, by summer 2020, it was clear that the hunt for evidence supporting barr's hunch about intelligence abuses had failed. but barr waited until after the 2020 election to publicly concede that there had turned out to be no such sign of foreign government activity and that the cia had stayed in its lane after. i am so pleased to be joined by senior member of robert mueller's special counsel team that investigated the russia interference, the great andrew weissmann. thanks for being here. i had to pick my jaw up off the floor after reading this piece. what was your initial reaction to this? >> well, first i reacted to it in terms of the journalism. this is the a-plus team at the "new york times." if people have not read it, they really need to. it is beautifully sourced and beautifully written. and you know if it is this team, they will have kicked all of the tires. that was my first reaction. i wasn't surprised to read about barr. i in part lived through his actions and we were the v

discovered the next morning at six thirty ,no one entered his tiertherefo, and quote, therefore, bill barr epplained, we can know for sure that jeffrey epstein killed himself. >> in his book, barr ends this section on epstein with the self h congratulatory note. the management changes i madee at the time to the federal prison system were good ones,n and i think the agency is slowly on its wayit back . in other words, everythingle is fine. now, let's movt's movee on .uals this was enough for most journalists in washington, virtually every subsequent news story about jeffrey epstein's death denounced skeptics of as crazy, azy.ory who , for whatever reason, were baseless engaged in, quote, baseles css t conspiracy theories. what's amazing in retrospecte of is that none of theseciated p reporters, veterans at "the washington post", the associated press, nbc news, the new york times, many others, none of them ever thought to revisit bill barr's assessment of epstein's death and measured against the basic tenants of common sense. if you did that, you saw that epst bill , barr said about jeffrey

unfortunately, the doj, bill barr was not helping that held accountable for lying. -- bill barr was not held accountable for lying. who knows? host: are you saying trust in government is your biggest concern? caller: yeah. corruption, the key word. more from an independent standpoint, i feel as though -- the fall out, we knew it was going to happen. it is not backed. too many people have been taken. the christianity movement, i've been catholic all my life. i feel as though even our own religion has been taken hostage. host: we will continue with your calls in just a second. we've been asking what your top problem is, what you think the top problem is facing the united states today. democrats (202) 748-8000, republicans (202) 748-8001, independents (202) 748-8002. go ahead and keep calling in. as you do that, we are going to chat with a health reporter with bloomberg government, a focus on house republicans and various pandemic response probes and legislation expected to be on the floor this week when it comes to the pandemic. good morning to you. guest: good morning. host: we found out

you mentioned bill barr. to me he is a fascinating example of the argument that while donald trump broke with many people and many officials ultimately ended up breaking with donald trump, it's always a complicated story. bill barr gotmp the job as trump second attorney general after trump fired jeff sessions, in part because he wrote a memo saying he thought the mueller investigation was not legitimate use of special counsel power and that it was an overreach. of course that was exactly what donald trump wanted to hear, and trump thought by appointing bill barr as attorney general he would help him to either fire mueller or to contain the damage from the mueller investigation. and ultimately, , many people believe that's exactly what bill barr did in the spring of 2018 come sorry, spring of 2019 when the when the mueller report finally came out, that bill barr's miscalculation of some of its findings help too shape the public perception and donald trump when he said there was no collusion, no collusion, that

bill barr left office.o his own detriment and gave what they said a lot more credibility and our investigation more heft. >> it had tons of heft and you had members. u.s. attorneys and members of congress are two different species, right? is that fair? >> that's a fair -- >> they co-exited in an historically economy tri matter in everything we saw but i wonder if you could take me through how congressional committee came to adapt some of the most effective investigative tools for criminal probes. >> yeah, that's a good question. i haven't done any congressional investigations before this. my understand something that typically staff kind of does the work and they create scripts that the members take and largely read. they're kind of like nicolle wallaces on the dais. our nine members were really engaged. were day to day turning the wheels of the investigation, attending interviews, i briefed them every week as to what we were learning and they had a ton of questions. i typically had ten minutes at our membe

bill barr. that was on bill barr's watch. and you don't see mr.nt rushing out a ton of information, transparency, or claims about that mysterious and controversial death, just because of, quote, speculation. we call bull, mr. barr. now, in this new interview, mr. barr pushes back and mr. barr continues with his spin in defense, how he issued his own purported legal conclusions that had very real consequences and really scooped the mueller report. >> i read he did give you that. >> no, he did not, okay? so when he came in -- by the way, there was no pressure for him to give it on any day. he could have taken his time and redacted it. he came in and they gave us on friday the report unredacted. it was illegal to put it out. i felt that i had to say something to give the bottom line of what he decided, number one, i said, he found there was no collusion. it's like going out and announcing a verdict. i didn't regale the whole trial, but i said, there was no dlurks -- >> well, you framed it as he was innocent and everything else was argued against that

but you mention bill barr. to me he is a fascinatinge example while donald trump broke with many people and many officials ended up breaking with donald trump it's always a complicated story. bill barr got the job as trump's second attorney general after a fire jeff sessions in part because he heard meadow saying he thought the mueller investigation was not legitimate use of special counsel power and it would be overreach. that was exactly what donald trump wanted to hear and trump thought by appointing ferrer as attorney general barrin would hp him to fire mueller or could to contain the damage from the mueller investigation and ultimately many people believe that's exactly what bill barr did in the spring of 2019 when the mueller report finally came out that barr's mischaracterization of some of its findings helped shape the public perception when trump said there was no collusion that barr was the key facilitator of that idea. even for bill barr there was a moment when trump went to barnett was after the 202

that stands in sharp contract with the style of his predecessor bill barr in the trump administration who when he had very politically contentious cases was reaching to fellow trump appointed republican u.s. tones to look at things like allegations that the obama people had improperly unmasked, intelligence reports, certainly taking another look at the russian investigation and cases that spun off of that. all of those were fellow republicans looking at that as opposed to merrick garland who's looking for the other party to handle these matters. >> yeah. and you can read into that something, right? first of all the irony that merrick garland is in some respect extending an olive branch or trying to convince skeptical republicans that the attorney general is fair. matt, do you see a calculation here being made about a potential criminal indictment for mar-a-lago, the fact that merrick garland is making sure everything is treated in an above board fashion on the classified biden documents in preparation for something even more controversial as it pertains to mar-a-lago, or am i getting

then, attorney general william barr, aka bill barr. gave into trump's demand and appointed, john durham, to investigate the investigators. sort of tit-for-tat special counsel if you will. that investigation ended with more of a whimper, that a bang. but at the time, trump got what he wanted. a second investigation to muddy the waters surrounding his own conduct. then, last year. trump once again found himself to be the subject of the special counsel investigation. after mayor garland appointed prosecutor jack smith, to oversee parallel investigations into trump's potential mishandling of classified documents. and his role in stopping the violence on january 6th, and halting the peaceful transfer of power. now, today, merrick garland has appointed yet another special counsel. this time to investigate president biden's potential mishandling of classified documents. once again republicans are seizing the opportunity to muddy the waters around donald trump's potentially criminal conduct. as david rohde writes the new piece of the new yorke

bill barr, another example of such a person.hen it turns out that there are all in on the transmission, the trump project. and they really do believe that he was unjustly persecuted. and the new york times story is studied what instances of durham's former colleagues saying, i don't understand how it came to this. and how we came to believe these things. >> you have accounts, harry, there is behavior here that raises an eyebrow. for instance, barr under i'm traveling together. one can imagine if merrick garland jack smith were riding together shotgun people would be like, low, wait a. second you appointed a special counsel, you're not supposed to do. that even that seems to be crossing a very obvious red line for this sort of thing. >>, yeah i think for many readers little seemed to raise an eyebrow. in fact, some of the studs that, quinta, points out. our jobs backing for the department of justice. from the standpoint of doj culture. what, you just said son of bob hope, being crosby tour of europe. the a. g. and the special cou

durham you'll recall was appointed by then attorney general bill barr in 2019 to look into the theorye investigation into donald trump's 2016 campaign's ties to russia stemmed from a conspiracy by intelligent law enforcement agencies. the "times" reports that after nearly four years durham's work is finally coming to an end and doing so without uncovering anything like the deep state plot alleged by former president trump and suspected by his attorney general bill barr. what the "times" did find after a months' long review was a, quote, strained justification for opening the inquiry in the first place and its role in fueling partisan conspiracy theorys that would never be charged in court. instead the durham probe became roiled by internal dissent and ethical disputes and was unsuccessful even as trump and barr claimed it was making progress. the "times" describes deeper internal fractures on the durham's team than previously known. those include the unexpected resignation in 2020 of durham's long time aide following a series of disputes between them over prosecutorial ethics. specifi

we were debunking bill barr's spin.new york times" working on the real epic story. you print it out, ten pages. it shows why even with the full and combined power of not only the doj but the intelligence agencies, barr failed. fell flat on his face and is under new heat because of this "new york times" reporting. this "new york times" reporting for adults who are undetectable, cabenuva is the only complete, long-acting hiv treatment you can get every other month. cabenuva helps keep me undetectable. it's two injections, given by my healthcare provider, every other month. it's one less thing to think about while traveling. hiv pills aren't on my mind. a quick change in my plans is no big deal. don't receive cabenuva if you're allergic to its ingredients or taking certain medicines, which may interact with cabenuva. serious side effects include allergic reactions post-injection reactions, liver problems, and depression. if you have a rash and other allergic reaction symptoms, stop cabenuva and get medical help right away.

but you mention bill barr. to me he is a fascinating example of the arguments that wilde donald trump broke with many people in many officials ended up breaking with donald trump it is always a complicated story. bill barr got the job as trump's second attorney general after trump fired jeff sessions in part because he wrote a memo saying he thought the mueller investigation was not a legitimate use of special counsel power and it was an overreach. and of course that is exactly what donald trump wanted to hear. trump thought that by a porting bar is attorney general barr would help them to either fire mueller or contain the damage from the mueller investigation and ultimately many people believed that is exactly what bill barr did in the spring of 2019 on the mueller report finally came out barr arc ghibli mischaracterizations of some of its findings help to shape the d public perception and donald trump whene he said there was no collusion, there was no collusion. that bart was a key facilitator of that idea w

john durham, he was handpicked by attorney general bill barr to investigate the investigators of the trump russia probe. he found not much, but we'll tell you about the brand-new reporting later in the program. we're also waiting to see the police body cam video from the horrific attack on paul pelosi, the husband of speaker nancy pelosi last year as well as the audio from the 911 call he made. a judge ordered that evidence to be made public in response to requests from multiple news organizations. that includes nbc news. and we'll bring you that footage as soon as it is released and we're able to turn it around for you. we begin with breaking news, the tragedy out of memphis. criminal charges have just been announced in the case of police brutality that stunned the nation and the world in just the past hour, the shelby county district attorney announced the fire officers involved in the fatal beating of 29-year-old memphis resident tyre nichols have been charged with second degree murder. here is that announcement. >> earlier today, the grand jury returned indictments against five f

but you mention bill barr. to me, he is a fascinating example of the argument while donald trump broke with many people and officials ultimately ended up breaking with donald trump is always a complicated story. bill barr got the job as the second attorney general after trump fired jeff sessions in part because he wrote a memo saying that he thought of the investigation was not and it was he an overreach and of course that was exactly what donald trump wanted to hear and thought that by appointing him as an attorney general, he would help him to either fire mueller or contain the damage from the investigation and ultimately many people believe that is exactly what he did in the spring of 2018 and the report finally came out that he missed of the characterization of the findings and helped to shape the public perception and donald trump when he said there was no collusion but he was the key facilitator cementing the idea with the public and get even for bill barr, there was a moment arthat trump went too far and

bill barr is the one that's been all over fox news. on the mar-a-lago there's nothing to charge trump. what facts do they think is the dispute? when i was in government most of the people were pretty conservative. what is the grand conspiracy in jim jordan's delusional mind? >> so i would say they've been actually pretty vague on the details of what this will be. you know, we asked jim jordan whether it would, you know, potentially extend to, you know, the treatment of january 6th detainees at the jail, and he wouldn't really answer that question. the common theme here is a world view that republicans and conservatives are being discriminated against, that they are the victims, that donald trump's a victim, that rank and file republicans in government are victims and they're going to try to block any investigations into those people. you know, he says he has two dozen whistle blowers who have come forward from the fbi to tell him about bias in the fbi. we have yet to see any of these people or meet them. but this is the information he'

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it's now my ex-wife by the way not that this is our last question ambassador earlier year bill barr spoke to us in a very similar setting listening to you closely tonight, i see many similarities about bright people to help their country and go it bill barr yourself many others what it about donald trump that drove so many of you to leave and is there anyone who would be able to tell him to back if the republican party needed to unite to confront 2024. well your second question first. i hope there is because frankly again, my own view, i supported him, as i said, up january six. i'm not angry with him. i have no amnesty toward him. i wish he had been successful, but i don't believe he can govern if he's elected in 24. i believe will be so saddled with investigations, potential calls for further his family. what i want to see, i think what most republicans want to see is they liked his policies. his policies barely had a chance to take hold. and if you really look at the country at the end of 2019, october, november of 19, the country, whether you're a democrat or republican, was much head

this is someone who, for whatever reason, chose to associate himself with donald trump and bill barr's department of justice at a time when it was not making us proud. i think those are fair questions to ask when we look at this appointment and try to decide, will mr. hur do the job right down the middle, calling it the way he sees it,. without tracking it on and looking for reasons to try to have it hurt joe biden politically? >> charles coleman junior and glenn kirschner, you will both back with us in the next hour. we have much more to talk about. charles, i have a very important question for you when it comes to charles, hur, appointment, and whether or not it will affect the ongoing investigation by special counsel jack smith for trump and mar-a-lago. all of that to come. stick around, to. to viewers at home, stick around for this conversation. and later, coming up, remembering dr. martin luther king, junior, his son, martin luther king the third, will join us to reflect on his father's legacy on the upcoming 40th anniversary of the federal holiday. first, we will continue to this

durham was appointed by then attorney general bill barr back in 2019 to look into the theory that then into donald trump's 2016 campaign ties to russia stemmed from a conspiracy by intelligence and lawmaker agencies. the times reports that after nearly four years, durham's work is coming to an end without uncovering anything like the deep state plot alleged by former president trump, and suspected by bill barr. but "the times" did find after a month's long review was a quote strained justification for the opening of the inquiry and its role in fueling partisan conspiracy theories that would never be charged in court. instead, the durham probe became quote roiled by internal dissent and ethical disputes as it went unsuccessfully down one path after another after trump and barr promoted a misleading narrative of its progress, all significant as we look at the totality of our coverage today, willie. >> and joining us now is the coauthor of the new report, pulitzer prize winning journalist and washington correspondent for the "new york times," charlie savage. good morning, this is an extr

. >> attorney general bill barr told me last month that it would be appropriate for the justice department to indict a former president in the case of a serious crime, and that he believes that it is possible that president trump committed a serious crime and that the department of justice is gathering that evidence. if that were the case, he thinks it would be appropriate. do you agree with him? >> well, i just don't know if it's a crime to take bad advice from lawyers. and i was very much aware -- >> i think this is about the stolen documents. >> i was very aware, margaret, of a cast of legal characters that were allowed to surround the president and tell him, as the bible says, what his itching ears wanted to hear. i would hope the justice department and a special counsel would -- would move very judiciously and very cautiously, understanding that -- that any such action against a former president of the united states would be deeply divisive to the american people, and it would send the wrong message to the world. >> but no one's above the law. >> but no one's above the law. >> i was r

they didn't look at cheney's records or gore's records or then vice president biden's records or bill barr holder, we know about hill clinton and former secretaries of state. they didn't put them under oath, none of that. so none of them have taken any documents, either under the espyion age of act or presidential records act, i don't believe that to this day, last sunday we had chairman of the house oversight committee as our gift, his name is james comer. my last question to him was this. >> let me ask you, the national archives, i'm hoping that you folks will take a look at how they have applied their rules to past presidents, past secretaries of state, part attorneys generals, i don't believe that no past president or vice president or attorney general or secretary of state doesn't have some document at home, i didn't destroy it i do not believe that, is that something you will look into? >> yes. in fact national archives is under our jurisdiction in oversight committee, i believe that raid on mar-a-lago, was triggered by january 6 committee, just doing a fishing expedition to see if t

. >> think it goes to show lawrence, bill barr was a terrible attorney general donald trump is demandinged dislike roger stone and others. he was protecting those that were lying to cannot themselves. we haven't seen the kind of breakdown of the justice department since annexing administration. for all the efforts. investigating the investigators. it's going into trump's russian connections. it is produced almost nothing. the purpose was to give donald trump and argument's reelection. an argument for the american people who somehow the victim. claiming to be against victimhood, he often plays a big spectrum of the country. >> thank you for joining us and i know it is a senate candidate. we are in effect abating the issues. congresswoman katie porter's in the race. very prominent democrats. there may be more. a lot to cover over this campaign from the biggest in the union. thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you i urge you to go to adam schiff.com. i appreciate you having me out st. lawrence. >> thank you very much. >> last night you heard from the political miracle worker of uni

and bill barr was head of justice department that controlled federal prison system or keep explaining do you have an understanding. kennedy: chris, i know you think you sound start right now, you sound mike human nod right now. i well -- blah, blah, blah. >> either he does not know. >> a touchy subject. >> it is. hannah? >> i want to know, how come we didn't know ghislaine maxwell sounded like a 6 a 60-year-old smoker, she so sounds like crew cruella deville. kennedy: i wish i had gone back to banking. ghislaine maxwell, is a piece of human garbage. she is not some innocent flower that was railroaded. he was sexually abusing young women herself while in process of pimping them to the world's most prolific pedophile, cl shame on her there is a special place to in hell for her, she could have named names. >> do you want to say anything to button up the show. >> she should name names, and a voice like, that wonder who was going down her throat all those years,. kennedy: it was probably gin . through a funnel. takings party shots at the pub. so, steven, do you think that michael the world

just like bill barr said it perfectly, we can no longer go after the cartels just based on criminal prosecutioniminal justice system in america, i mean in mexico. they are not going to pick up these major cartel leaders at the rate that we needed to do with it. so we have to do it ourselves may be. and we have the technology. we have the will with our people. we just don't have the leadership. right now, self leadership in north and south of the border. >> carley: quick answer from you here, your estimation how much more money mexican cartels are making out under president biden than they were under former president trump? >> because the migrant smuggling is generating massive amounts of money, plus, they have the chinese helping them to move the money, which is another national security threat not being addressed. >> carley: derek, thank you so much. we appreciate you coming on with us this morning. >> todd: thank you, sir. >> carley: crime out of hand and used them. this as sleeping in their stores to keep criminals out like the one in the surveillance video. we will talk to the owner of this

when bill barr retired and went on the speaking tour, he talks now about how they operate like isis inico. how they should be, you know, taken from the face of the earth and how they can't be treated as criminals because the prosecution system has failed. and for all these american law enforcement agencies that developed the evidence on these really bad guys in mexico, we can't get them arrested. we can't get them apprehended. we can't get them extra died because ammo doesn't want to do it. you question yourself what about the public safety of our kids and our country what is going on here, jesse. something really strange. >> jesse: you could really unite the country if we declared war on cartels. that we'll really unite americans. again, this is just another intelligence community scandal that keeps popping up everywhere. well, listen, thanks so much for coming on, derrick. we always appreciate your up sight. have a great weekend. >> thank you, jesse. >> jesse: what's al sharpton doing to help black people in harlem? we went there to find out. ♪ ♪ charlotte! charl! every day can be ex

president trump got us folks like jeff sessions and bill barr and jim mat 'tis and mark esper. they didn't get us america first policy. >> laura:: you think he's wrong on this. >> i think he's wrong if he supports mccarthy. i'll support president trump if he runs for election in 2024 but i'm not going to back him on this play. >> laura:: are you going to be okay, congressman, would you be okay if there's a deal struck with moderate democrats that give democrats co-control of the committees. you're fine with that? >> absolutely not. that will not happen. there's two potential scenarios here. i'm on the floor. these 212 democrats are going to vote for hakeem jeffries every single time. he's an historic candidate. they're not going to cleave off. if democrats join up to elect a moderate republican, i will resign. >> laura:: okay. okay, steve scalese okay for you? >> well, there's two -- it depends on if he would accept these rules. we would have to have that discussion. so far he has not indicated he would run. i would prefer jim jordan. if kevin mccarthy pulls out of the race. >>

long before that happened, the president's attorney general, bill barr, was investigating all of trump's fraud claims. >> it was a little getting awkward, because obviously he had lost the election. >> reporter: barr said he made it clear to donald trump in a november 23rd meeting that he had lost. >> our role is to investigate fraud. and it's just not meritorious. they're not panning out. >> he was going to win in spite of all the fraud! >> reporter: but spurred on by the most ardent election liars, including many in maga media -- >> clearly the president won this election. >> reporter: -- donald trump would not listen to reason or fact. >> where is the doj and the fbi in all of this, mr. president? >> missing in action. >> this got under my skin, but i also felt it was time for me to say something. so i set up a lunch with the ap reporter, mike bolsamo. and i told him to date we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election. >> reporter: a heated trump/barr meeting followed and barr got another opportunity to debunk the lies. among the clai

and we get an announcement that bill barr is going to release a summary over the weekend and, you know, just prepare for it. it's going to be a summary of the results of the mueller investigation. and i will barge into my boss's office and i say, you got to put me on the air on the weekends. give me any time slot. we don't know when it's going to come out saturday or sunday at some point, but they gave me a few hours in the afternoon on each day and it just so happened that on sunday the the summary came out, we got a warning about it, a 30 minute heads up. and so we tap dance up to up to the news and then we get the summary itself, which is a four page statement out with one half direct quote. the actual report. and as you know, the statement was deeply misleading. it was a political statement, but that's all we had to go on. and so this is me on live television reading the statement without context, again, without any of the underlying the context, obviously, of the investigation that we've been covering, but without the context of the underlying report or the evidence in the underly

that probe remain unknown and special counsel john durham, who was appointed by attorney general bill barr into the origins of the trump-russia investigation, did not uncover any major conspiracies against trump. but barr repeatedly pressured durham to uncover flaws in the russia investigation, and durham relied on questionable information in pursuit of an outcome favorable to trump and his narrative of a "hoax." this included suspicious russian intelligence claims, which were used to gain access to the emails of an executive at george soros' open society foundation. durham obtained the emails even after a federal judge denied his request to subpoena them. john durham is currently working on the final report of the trump-russia investigation. chevron has announced plans to repurchase $75 billion dollars in its own stock, angering consumer advocates who accuse the oil giant of price gouging even as it helps to accelerate the climate crisis. the stock buyback came as chevron reported record profits in 2022, after russia's invasion of ukraine helped drive up the cost of fuel. this week, senat

bill barr freshened up his passport, got on a plane and went to italy with john durham to help him.med u.s. attorney found in two and a half years? nothing. the investigation to the investigators conducted at the highest levels of the federal government with all of the credibility bestowed upon it and respect paid to it by all the people yielded nothing because it's all a lie. that the investigations are rigged and corrupt. there's no evidence of that. >> no and they know that. but this is part of the parlor game they're playing because there's plenty of evidence of how many of these republican congressmen were actively involved in fomenting an insurrection. and we cannot lose sight of that. to david's point. the point of all of this is completely to deflect. they are accusing everyone of what they have actually involved themselves in. they've become everything they claim to despise. it's a slight of hand. it furthers the suspicions of underlining our institutions. part of what makes democracy work is the fact that american people have a certain respect for certain institutions. fro

around connecting the docks and proving a criminal conspiracy and into allowed donald trump and bill barr to say no collusion, of course there was a shared mission. call it whatever you want. but the aha moment that you reported from andrew weissmann, that the quid pro was help in 2016 for help in seizing mariupol. is that right? >> yeah. because the interesting thing that mr. weisman later reveals, that the senate intelligence committee report, kind of went through the report that existed, not speculation and not a criminal case but the emails that were unearthed, the primary documents, and what weisman found was that all along, mr. manafort and others, were avoiding talking about the meeting at the cigar bar i just mentioned. or this idea of mario plan. this was sort of concealed from them, they felt. so, when weisman starts getting some new emails and some new information and he sees things that have been left out of what he has learned so far, from instance from mr. manafort who was speaking at one point with prosecutors as they talked about a possible cooperation deal, he says, okay

well, you know, i think goes to show lawrence that, again i think we have to be reminded of this, bill barr was a terrible attorney general. and he authorized this investigation because donald trump was demanding it. he intervened in criminal cases of people like roger stone and others, mike flynn, to protect those who were lying to cover up for themselves and cover up for donald trump. we have not seen the kind of breakdown of the independent of the justice department since the nixon administration and for all of the efforts that barr and his special counsel made to try to investigate the investigators and discredit the origins of the investigation into trump's russian connections, it has produced almost nothing. but again, the purpose was to give donald trump an argument in his reelection and an argument to the american people that he was somehow the victim for a party, a republican party that claims to be against victimhood. their party leader often plays the biggest victim in the country. >> congressman adam schiff, thank you very much for joining us on your first night as a senate cand

guy the special counsel appointed by trump attorney general bill barr to investigate the investigatorsonald trump's telling, durham was tasked with getting to the root of the investigation of widespread correction in the deep state. and of course, the investigations been an absolute wild goose chase. in, fact the durham investigation has now stretched even longer than mueller's at a cost of at least six point $5 million. although it has succeeded in providing a steady flow of content for fox news. durham has basically been an enormously -- failing to get a conviction in his two most high-profile prosecutions. and that respect, i think there is a comforting reality here. so, sure go ahead and investigate president biden. but the full truth come out. of course, this news brings the situation of donald trump's classified documents into greater focus, it can't not. and as anybody with any tread of good face needs to acknowledge, it's a distinctly different scenario at least as far as we know the facts. because the thing that may trump classified documents story so weird, so strange, in som

country, finally starting to get clear of the mess the president donald trump, and attorney general bill barr made of american law, particularly when it comes to public corruption, these things don't just disappear into the ether, they create precedent, they warm away at the integrity, and the basic core functions of the u.s. justice department, and unless and until their fixture corrected, it just wraps the system. who's the move could be lifted dangle, it has to be tied off. even if federal prosecutors are gonna do it themselves, somebody's gonna have to. and today, new york times reporter william nash bomb, and his policies at the times were forced to report the new york state prosecutors as of today has started private sending evidence to a grand jury related to this case. and this time it is not about michael cohen, this time it is finally about trump. quote, the manhattan district attorney's office today and sending evidence to a grand jury about donald j trump's role, in paying hush money to a porn star to his 2016 presidential campaign, -- against a former president. we can't jury was

bill barr, who bass the attorney general at the time, here is what he had to say quote it talked to every chief in every city where there has been major violence and all identified antifa as the ramrod for that violence t appears, stuart, antifa, because it is a left-wing domestic terror group, many media outlets or members give them a pass or simply engage in the bias of omission. stuart: i can't remember, i may be mistaken, i can't remember the arrest, prosecution and a prison sentence for people conducting this kind of violence. i can't remember that. am i mistaken? >> i'm sure it has happened somewhere. i would have to look it up, but it just seems like it is catch and release. we see over and over again in so many cities where you can commit what is absolutely a crime and then you're out on the street just hours later. you can hire all the police officers you want, stu. you can make all the arrests that you want. but if you don't have attorney generals and prosecutors that really enforce the law and put these folks behind bars when they commit acts like this they will keep doing it o

bill barr got the job as trumps second attorney general after trump fired jeff sessions in part becausete a memo sitting he thought that the mueller investigation was not legitimate use of special counsel power and it was an overreach and of course that was exactly what donald trump wanted to hear trump thought if i want bar as the attorney general bar would help him to either fire mueller or to contain the damage from the mueller investigation and ultimately many people believe that's exactly what bill larded in the spring of 2018, spring of 2019 with the mueller report finally came out that bars arguably mischaracterization of some of the findings helped to shape the public perception and donald trump when he says there was no collusion, no collusion bar was a key facilitator of cementing that idea with the public and yet even for bill are there was a moment trump went too far that moment of course was what he did after 2020 election are in many respects was the most official to break with donald trump. remember when on december 1, 2020 bill barr came out publicly and said there is no

i was told by democrats only president trump and bill barr politicize the justice department.he holy objectivity back to it. and maybe perhaps, it may be in our most honest moments we have done commissions to get to things so in the mud and full of corruption or missing facts or whatever you want to call you we had to do an objective commission so americans could sit back and say what actually happened here. we talk for the 911 commission what truths are there we may never find out. where is the commission we cannot trust at this moment any one policy put in place that created other unintended or intended consequences that were detrimental to our health, our livelihood or mental state. masks being one of them. we have the administration still fighting this fight sometimes, not at the border though, still fighting this fight the most legal person on this panel says probably for politics. >> i hate to tie the 911 commission was one of the most of politicized exercises. >> fair enough. practice remembered now like fiction. because it ain't how it picnics are member is on the plan

country, finally starting to get clear of the mess that president donald trump and attorney general bill barr made of american law particularly where it comes to public corruption. these things don't just disappear into the ether. they create precedent. they worm away at the integrity and the basic core functions of the u.s. justice department and unless and until they are fixed or corrected, it just rots the system. this stuff can't be left to dangle. it has to be tied off. even if federal prosecutors aren't going to do it themselves, somebody is going to have to and today william rash baum and his colleagues at "the times" were forced to report that new york state prosecutors as of today have started presenting evidence to a grand jury related to this case. and this time it is not about michael cohen. this time it is finally about trump. quote, the manhattan district attorney's office today began presenting evidence to a grand jury about donald j. trump's role in paying hush money to a porn star during his 2016 presidential campaign laying the groundwork for potential criminal charges again