he forgets which number we're up to. by the president, that interview, let's take a listen. >> attorney general barr is going to be giving a press conference. maybe i'll do one after that, we'll see. but he's been a fantastic attorney general. he's grabbed it by the horn. what's happened, you've been watching yourself. what's happened is unthinkable with strzok and page and comey and mccabe and all of these characters, and brennan and clapper and, you know, you look at what comey did as the director of the fbi, it's a disgrace. it's a disgrace to our country. and i think that i'm going to maybe -- i hope i'm going to be able to put this down as one of

support of the maduro regime. it's also a little 2020 politics perhaps here. i spoke to john bolton this morning and asked him if the policy shift would still have been made if not for the white house's pressure campaign on maduro and venezuela. >> i think so. if you go back to the 2016 campaign, if you go back to the president's speech in the summer of 2017 where he indicated there were going to be substantial changes in u.s. policy toward cuba, changes from the obama administration, i think the decision today to eliminate the waivers of helms burton title iii is perfectly consistent with what the president has said before. >> so this isn't so much about venezuela as it is a disagreement with how the previous administration handled cuba policy? >> well, i think it's about justice for americans whose property was stolen from them by the castro regime. long overdue for them to be able to get a chance to get recompense. >> this policy of isolation on cuba was the law of the land for the...

>> and what the heck happens next, leigh ann, because politically it changes nothing. it just hardens views. look, i think it makes barr an ineffective attorney general going forward on other issues. i just -- you know, if you don't have the confidence -- >> ineffective for whom, though? >> well, yeah, you're right. >> ineffective for whom? >> the president should be happy, but everybody else. >> ineffective for the country. it matters that the american people have faith that prosecutorial investigative decisions are made oar. >> help us with history. the republican congress had real problems with the last attorney general because he thought he was too cozy with the other president. >> yeah, they did. but there was never one big case where they were questioning whether eric holder made a decision because he was trying to do a political favor. >> no, my point is the republican thought barack obama and eric holder were too close. >> yes, of course. >> and this is like, you know,