. >> some have been critical of democrats, like steve cohen, who brought a plastic chicken and a bucket of fried chicken into the hearing on thursday, essentially calling bar before a chicken because he was a no-show. do these stunts take away from the seriousness of the issue? >> there's a lot of members of congress that are very frustrated. we want to do our job, and i think mr. cohen was frustrated. i didn't bring in chicken. i didn't eat chicken. what i'm trying to do is get to the bottom of this. the american people need to know the truth. the american people need to know how much did the russians interfere in 2016, and more importantly, how do we stop the russians from affecting our elections in 2020? that's what we need to find out. >> president trump has been very clear -- his strategy is to stonewall all requests, from refusing to turn over documents to suing to stop banks from disclosing material, and he is even refusing to allow former white house counsel don mcgahn to testify.

chicken, seemingly a shot at attorney general bill barr for not appearing before the community. olivia beavers also tweeting, cohen put barr's name and the chicken near the empty chair he'd be sitting at had he come in. let's go to karen from oakville, illinois, on the republican line. >> you hear me? >> we do. >> caller: you know, it's just unfortunate how ridiculous some of these people are acting. i mean, you just said it. they bring a chicken out. i mean, and set it on the desk. people are taking pictures of this to turn around and spread it throughout the rest of the news and whatever news you're watching. it just seems ridiculous. we wonder if we're watching a little class in kindergarten or whatever. i'm not going to spend much more time on this, but this whole thing is really just getting -- and i talked to a lot of people. i'm retired now and it is just ridiculous. >> losing you there. after five hours of testimony before the committee yesterday, the attorney general not testifying before the house committee today. the main point of disagreement, two points really, the r

i do want to note that a congressman from tennessee brought a chicken and a bucket of kentucky fried ken and put it in front of the seat where barr would have been sitting. >> like a dolph a chicken. >> ceramic or plastic. it sat there on the desk. a lot of people taking that opportunity to take pictures of that as well. photo-op and a statement. that is trending on twitter now. tensions are high. >>> pg&e proposing to a plan to place $105 million into a special fund to help victims of the campfire. filing in bankruptcy court the utility said the fund would cover housing and other immediate needs for victims of the fires. they will consider at a may 22nd hearing. >>> the national interagency fire center says the wet winter is producing heavy vegetation in california which will eventually wildfires. higher elevations this year will see a later fire season because of the record setting snowpack. >>> 6:38 now. in the south bay a former santa clara councilman has filed a lawsuit against the city's school district. our media partner "the mercury news" says dominick caserta says his reputat

congress bringing in a bucket of fried chicken, you had them putting a chicken as a prop in front of the chicken when he spent 6 hours testifying the day before. is kind of funny and also if democrats wanted to point to something, they do have a case, asking robert mueller why he didn't decide to move forward with any indictment against the president when it comes to obstruction of justice. even the attorney general said he was surprised robert mueller didn't move forward with some clear decision on that. democrats want to point to anything i think they can look to mueller and ask why he didn't make a decision on that front. carley: every can agree it is never too early to eat fried chicken. >> was that chicken bought the day before or the morning of? fried chicken at 9:00 am, i am not sure. carley: trying to find the one kfc open at 9:00 in the morning. kentucky derby is this weekend, janice dean is out of the gate. rob: checking out this derby museum. check out the hat. carley: it is raining cats and dogs and horses. after the break, wayne lucas, one of the winningest derby winners

yes this is politics as usual, there a chick confiden chicken , are they 5? ally, are they 5. >> house judiciary committee wanted to bring in lawyers to question the attorney general. because they fough thought his s were so serious it require a new level of inquiry, and they wanted to make this appear more formal, if you are going that serious and formal, should you really be doing a kfc stunt. >> this is bad politics. there no requested when republicans 'had power they did thing like this, they "show boated," a little depressed about people who represent us, you hear them ask questions and you realize how many of them are incompetent. but this really seem like bad politics, going to 2020, do you think that even most democrats are will vote in primaries care about bill barr? this just makes no sense as a strategy going to 2020. kennedy: you know what i want, some people see their wages rising some, see fewer taxes taken out of every paycheck, they want more. they want more for their kids, they want a better way of being able to afford things, they want a way

, a ceramic chicken and a bucket of kfc. only 9:00 in the morning when tennessee congressman steve cohn chowed down on chicken purchased the night before. a better breakfast choice would have been -- >> kentucky fried chicken and waffles are back. >> reporter: but the tennessee democrat was making a show of the no show attorney general, placing the statue atop the chicken bucket and proclaiming. >> chicken barr should have shown up today and answered questions. >> we're normally at the point i would introduce the witness. >> reporter: instead there was split screen shots of his empty seat. the hearing was gavelled to a close despite republican protests. >> mr. chairman, i -- >> reporter: the mic was cut off. >> the procedures -- >> reporter: and congressman cohen transported the chicken to the witness table and placed it in front of the honorable william p. barr's placard as photographers rushed in to capture the 1950s vintage statue made by a staffer's uncle. cohen even tweeted this image of a feathered attorney general. wa

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a lot of people. everyone, just chill the hell out and eat some tasty chicken. also a fan of ben & jerry's ice cream. some flavors are delicious, i indulge from time to time, but i cannot stand the politics of those guys at all. >> laura: may neither. >> but i'm not sitting here to say it -- i choosing to buy their products, let's shut down locations on campus. >> laura: i'm going to show you, this is a list of groups chick-fil-a has donated to. these are the ones that are so objectionable. all right, look. fellowship of christian athletes, salvation army, what's this? what's the problem here? >> there are some issues with the salvation army of transgender folks.sa i think we have come a lot from their support of conversion therapy that we saw in 2011 2012. >> laura: obama was for traditional marriage and most of the democrat party. >> but we are talking about conversion therapy, which is really bad for lgbt youth in this country, which we can agree on. >> laura: i think, again instead of more speech and more debate, they want to demonize people with whom they d

a ceramic chicken and some kfc to eat, all designed to take a jab at attorney general for declining to come to their hearing today. this is what major matters of fate are reduced too? stunts like that, political theater, come on, this our congress. these are people we're relying on to geffen and secure our country. you heard me wonder out loud, whether the patterson ship in -- partisanship in washington made us as a nation ungovern able. and democrats are doing their best to make sure that we are. ungovernable. president in an be collusive interview -- exclusive interview tells me there was a reason that attorney general was not keen on attending today's hearing. >> fox learned attorney barr is not going to house judiciary committee tomorrow, how come? >> i guess they want treat him differently than anyone else. for many years they have never done it this way, where they bring in outside counsel or something, that is not the way you elect people, they are supposed to be able to do their own talking. he did a fantastic job today, i am told, i saw some of it. trish: you know they should

the visual democrats left the world with today was a bucket of chicken. at the end of the day, that's it. we're in a visual industry. that's it. are they about to blow out of proportion an appearance by robert mueller, who measures each word like a carpenter and put the turn in taciturn? >> well, you know, it's a good question. time will tell, but there was a lot of second guessing and handwringing after the report, the mueller report came out that the democrats had been waiting for this and were hoping that robert mueller and his team would find chargeable offenses. and at the same time people were warning, you know, robert mueller is an employee of the justice department in this instance and justice department policy explicitly precludes indicting a sitting president. and we saw in the report that mueller hued to that line, and so democrats were disappointed. i think having been tempered in what came out of the report itself that democrats would go into hearings with mueller with, you know, less inflated hopes of -- i mean, nobody's going to expect rober

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a war. this is chicken hawks in the administration. i mean, if you saw a definition of chicken hawks in the dictionary, it would be john bolton and donald trump. and by the way, i think we all know who is the hawk and who is the chicken.

a. chicken bar should have shown up today and answered quite. a group is not here but it's. still in the circus continues over the. world press freedom day the u.k. foreign secretary accuses this travel of being a weapon of this information and weighs in on he thinks should be trusted. rights activists in the bahamas as wild pigs become the latest tourist sensation on the our blog a local business is quick to profit. from moscow you want to know r.t. international just content i am here i'm daniel hawkins review are for joining us. now seems in the u.s. congress starts off the man who controversially redacted the report into alleged collusion between trump on russia failed to show up for a grilling attorney general william bastone of the hearing saying he'd already told senators all he has to say about his version of the report and democrat lawmakers who want to see the document in full theatrically placed bars name card in front of an empty chair congressman steve cohen then put a ceramic chicken on it as a symbol of the attorney general's alleged cowardice and tucks into s

which congressman brought a toy chicken today? im in my mind's eye. >> tucker: he represents the state of tennessee. he represents the western part of tennessee. he represents the city of memphis. >> i'm not a capitol hill correspondent. i don't know why you're looking at me. >> tucker: some people think is related to michael cohen but he is not. he has the same last name. >> that would be cohen. [laughs] >> representative cohen! [laughs] >> tucker: you are on it there there. he first name. >> who knows the first name? >> he should have shown up today to answer questions. the attorney general was picked for his ability could not be fearful with attorneys questioning him for 30 minutes. >> tucker: are treacherous, we have no choice but to give it to you >> no! i object. >> tucker: the weirdest one. that is the weirdest segment we have done. you will be back. >> i object. >> tucker: i'm carrying out the orders of new york. you get the coveted coffee mug. will you pass that to the professor? thank you. that is it for this week's final

order to illustrate the argument that that he was that william barr was chicken or cowardly for not attending furthermore they made a point of looking under the desk to make sure that william barr was not hiding under the desk in fear chicken bar should have shown up today and answered questions of why. socks look clean compared to this team it's a sad day in a bear democrats are considering contempt of congress charges against barr but republicans are saying he did the right thing and that this is simply a politically motivated investigation intended to undermine the u.s. president the trump russia story persists with more hearings more testimony and possible contempt charges for the u.s. attorney general a congress in its capacity here is not really investigating malfeasance by the attorney general which is their job is oversight they're actually having some perry mason like. miller to investigation which will gain them nothing and the bar i think just basically said look six hours of this is enough and done they didn't want him to show up they made it impossible for him to come so that they could have the theater

one democrat brought in a chicken figurine as a bucket of fried chicken to mock barr for being afraid to take questions from staff lawyers. >> as the attorney general of the united states was not telling the truth to the congress of the united states, that's a crime. >> a justice department spokesperson quickly fired back saying the baseless attack on the attorney general is reckless, irresponsible and false. instagram is now barring far-right media personalities. it is owned by facebook. alex jones saw his facebook pages pulled last year, but he remained active on instagram until now. my low yiannopoulos is also banned, so is louis farrakhan, who's been criticized for anti-semitism. >>> new details on the bay area murder rampage we told you about last week. stepan jefferson will remain behind bars and will not be extradited to the man is suspected of killing three people all in in nevada. one deputy was shot in the hand. jefferson could be charged in the shootings as early as next week. >>> a san jose man could go to prison for more than 50 years for for randomly shooting at cars. th

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>> the message is that bill barr is a chicken. was chicken to come to the house judiciary committee and he does not deserve respect. he has lowered the bar formi lawyers and the attorney general. >> tucker: he deserves no respect!or he has lowered the bar, says the guy who brought a bucket of fried chicken onto the house floor. how long does this work is continue and by the way, why is it still in progress? why hasn't it left town yet? glenn greenwald has followed the russian stories since the very first day, and we are very happy to have them in the studio tonight. glenn, thank you for coming on. if you think about it it is strange that this is continuing. the mueller report is out and the president will not likely be impeached, what is the point of continuing the story? >> the point is everything you just said, namely that for three years, almost three years, it started in 2016. the democrats have put all their eggs in one basket which is that they have insisted the central theme of the trump presidency is that he was a russian

one person brought in a chicken figurine in and a bucket of kentucky fried chicken. >> the attorney general of the united states is not telling the truth to the congress of the united states. that's a crime. >> that's nancy pelosi saying the baseless attack on the attorney general is reckless, irresponsible, and false. >>> instagram is making changes. they're banning farpeonalities. this is all they're breaking th policies for hate and violence. facebook pulled alex jones from its sight. he active until now. louis farrakhan has been criticized for anti-semitism. >>> we're back in 60 seconds. promising new treatment for people battling one of the deadliest forms of cancer. >>> one former member of the 49ers. >>> and i'm jeff ranieri. a storm system in the pacific. it might be may but we have some rain chances coming our way. full details coming up in about nine minutes. breakthrough on tha los altos company says it )s developed a one-of-a-kind treatment for pancreatic cancer. a lot of people would >>> there could be a cancer break through on the peninsula. a one of a kind treatment for pancr

tennessee democrat steve cohen then placed a chicken statue and a bucket of kfc in front of the emptyir, poking fun at barr's refus to appear. >> chicken barr should have shown up today and answer questions. [ laughter ] >> we are looking at images of you at that committee hearing, today, wh what appears to be a bucket of fried chicken. [ laughter ] and -- oh, there it is. , you brought props, i seewith you here. what is the message you're trying to send? m >> thesage is that bill barr is a chicken. [ laughter and applause ] >> seth: oh. is that e message? i'm -- [ light laughter ] i'm not sure we got it, pal. [ laughter ] also, dude, if you want kfc, just order kfc. it's fine. you don't need to tie it into the hearing. [ light laughter ] "and he's probably not here. hibecause he knew we'd be ing him with a mcflurry of questions." [ laughter ] [ applause ] so barr decided not to show up and yet republicans on the committee still wanted time to mplain. not about barr, but about the democrats. like congressman matt gaetz. gaetz tried to interrupt the committee chairman as he was wrappin

one democrat taunted barr with a prop chicken and k.f.c. y cordes has more. >> he lied to congress. and if anybody else did that, it would be considered a crime. >> reporter: the house speaker's accusation ricocheted across washington today-- the justice department calling it "reckless, irresponsible, and false"-- as the man in question skipped out on a house hearing after a dispute over the format. >> attorney general barr has informed us that he will not appear today. >> reporter: one democrat mocked barr's absence by feasting from a bucket of k.f.c. >> chicken barr should have shown up today and answered questions. >> reporter: republicans argued barr was right to steer clear. >> we go back to a circus political stunt to say we want it to look like an impeachment hearing, because they won't bring impeachment proceedings. >> reporter: speaker pelosi argues, the nation's top law enforcement official broke the law last month when he feigned ignorance about reports that members of the special counsel's team were unhappy with barr's initial fo

. >>> donkeys versus elephants with a chicken in the middle. >> right. it's one way to sum up what was supposed to be today's congressional hearings of attorney general william barr. you'll get a chance to make your opinion known on this. that's next. >>> no taxes on texting. state legislators are voting on a bill t >>> live where you live, this is abc7 news. >> forget about the elephant in the room. this time it's a chicken taking the place of attorney general william barr at a congressional hearing over the barr declined to show up for what would have been a second day of testimony on capitol hill before the house judiciary committee. >> so that committee's chairman put a plastic chicken at barr's place, and we want to know what you think of the gimmick. we have a live poll running right now at abc7news.com/vote. >> get out the emoji that best represents the way you feel. some people say they love it. others say it's a good idea and some say it's awful. we'll leave voting open as serena marshall explains how that hearing went. >> house speaker nancy pel

sheriff newton johnson and his deputies 65 miles from the nearest big city to a rundown mobile home on a chicken farm. the home of a couple calling themselves richard and samantha deal. >> if you wanted to hide, is this a good place to do it? >> well, if a person keeps a very low profile, a person could stay out of circulation for a while, yes. >> but the deals had been farmhands here for years until the law descended on their home. what did he say? >> i knew you were coming, i just didn't know when. >> agents found mrs. deal working on another farm just down the road. what shape did she seem to be in? >> fine. >> the men were placed in handcuffs, a routine arrest. it turned out the rest of the story was anything but. that's because richard and samantha deal were not husband and wife at all but instead the oddest of odd couples. his real name was randolph dial, an escaped convict and self-confessed hitman, claimed to have mob connections, and who also happened to be a talented artist and a relentless schemer. >> the whole idea after you get it is one way or another do your best to get out. >> th

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congressman steve cohen decided to mock him by putting a glass chicken in barr's place and bringing outucket of kfc. and then he brought out the chicken statue again, during an interview after the hearing, to really hit the point home. >> rep. steve cohen of tennessee started eating a bucket of kentucky fried chicken this morning while lawmakers and the press waited to see if barr would show up. >> tennessee democrat steve cohen then placed a chicken statue and a bucket of kfc in front of the empty chair, poking fun at barr's refusal to appear. >> chicken barr should have shown up today and answer questions. [ laughter ] >> we are looking at images of you at that committee hearing, today, with what appears to be a bucket of fried chicken. [ laughter ] and -- oh, there it is. you brought props, i see, with you here. what is the message you're trying to send? >> the message is that bill barr is a chicken. [ laughter and applause ] >> seth: oh. is that the message? i'm -- [ light laughter ] i'm not sure we got it, pal. [ laughter ] also, dude, if you want kfc, just order kfc. it's fine. yo

congressman, a chicken in an empty chair this morning. no william barr. was it a good idea for him not to show? >> i think he's absolutely righ right. the precedent-shattering notion that elected members of congress can hide behind it counsel asking questions or making statements, i think, is rightly deployable. we are elected and accountable to the people that we represent. that's my only elected members of the house become the floor. that's why only elected members of the house ask questions and committees. because we are accountable for those questions. we are accountable for the words that we speak. for the democrats to try and hide behind their general counsel, that's just plain silly. but there's been a lot of that going on recently. >> harris: it's interesting, i did a little drill down to look at how many members of congress, the house, and senate are lawyers. you got a lot. 53% in the senate, 36, almost 37% have a law degree. they may not be practicing today. we look at who should be on the floor asking questions, you got a lot of options there. >

. >> an empty chair, a bucket of the kernels of finest and a ceramic chicken. at the scene at the house judiciary today as democrats marked his no-show and a slam to president trump. >> to render congress entered as a separate but equal cobranch of government peer to the challenge we face, if we don't stand up together, we risk forever to lose the power to stand up to any president in the future. >> but he accused him of turning the committee to a spectacle. >> we go back to a circus political stunt, to say we want it to look like an impeachment hearing. because they won't bring impeachment proceedings. >> and her weekly news conference, house speaker nancy pelosi took a shot at bill barr for telling the house committee back on april 9th that he knew nothing about complaints from the mueller team about his summary of the mueller report's findings. mueller had sent a letter to barr outlining his concerns. >> he lied to congress. he lied to congress. if anyone else did that, it would be considered a crime. >> barr insisted he was answering a a question about muell

later during a press conference congressman stephen cohen used a prop chicken to taunt the attorney general. >> the "late show" now presents representative stephen cohen's press conference in its entirety. >> chicken barr should have showed up today and answered questions. chicken barr really laid an egg during his testimony. this smacks so much of watergate. barr is clearly afraid to face the house jew-dish-iary. and we may be forced to issue him a sub-peanut. and that's my time. it's a sad day in america. >> announcer: it's "the late show" with stephen colbert. tonight, national em-barr- assment.

. >>> house democrats bringing a chicken to a hearing. i am lauren blanchard in washington with more on why democrats did when william barr was a no-show. that story coming up. >>> a homeowner in an upscale neighborhood here in the east bay opens up his home for the homeless. here how it all happened. >>> closed captioning brought to you mancini sleep role. where celebrating our 50th anniversary. coming to celebrate with us. checked the at 10, a story of generosity in the past? a homeowner who lives in piedmont has opened his home to a couple who lived on the street. he says he has a passion for helping the homeless. amberley is live in piedmont with reaction from neighbors. >> reporter: the homeowner has lived here for 23 years. he doesn't want the attention on himself. what he has done has attracted the attention of neighbors who piedmont is home to multimillion dollar homes. symbols of affluence. three months ago, this couple who have been homeless for almost 10 years moved into the inlet unit of this home invited by the owner terry mc

an empty chair, zero answers, and a bucket of fried chicken? attorney general barr a no-show at his house hearing today. all of the details of a truly kentucky fried day on capitol hill that was even absurd by today's standards. head to head, brand new polls show how president trump might fair against the top 2020 democrats how many have a bona fide chance to beat him if you believe the polls. plus measles at the movies and measles at sea, hundreds more people possibly exposed to a disease that had once been eliminated in the u.s. thanks anti-vaxxers. welcome to "the lead." we begin with the politics lead. nancy pelosi accused attorney general bill barr today of breaking the law. >> he lied to congress. he lied to congress. if everybody else did that, it would be considered a crime. nobody is above the law. >> now, the attorney general disputes that and the department of justice said this afternoon that the attack was baseless. barr also added fuel to the fire today when he refused to testify before the house judiciary committee objecting to the

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a show. featuring an empty chair and bucket of chicken. tonight democrats want to hold barr in contempt. >>> under cover operative, a blockbuster new report from the "new york times" reveals the fbi was so concerned that the trump campaign had been infiltrated by the russians that seasoned investigator undercover to question george papadopoulous. will the revelations help or hurt the president? >>> and moore is less. a second trump pick for the federal reserve board was just forced to back out. and he blames the unrelenting attacks on my character. were both democrats and republicans right to call moore unqualified for the job? i'm wolf blitzer. you are in the situation room. we're following multiple breaks stories in the battle between house democrats and president trump's attorney general william barr. cnn has obtained a white house letter to the attorney general accusing robert mueller's team of playing politics with the russia investigation. the letter also describes the mueller report, and i'm quoting, as a prosecutorial curiosity and

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things even escalated to another level of being almost the act recall one representative had a bucket of fried chicken another representative made a point of looking under the desk let's let's look at how people attempted to be humorous and things really got to really another level of of of theatrical. chicken bar should have shown up today and answered questions but black socks looked clean compared to this it's a sad day in america. now it's important to note that yesterday there was testimony by william barr for roughly six hours he was before the committee and he answered a number of questions and it was quite a grilling now the focus seems to have been on a phrase in the bob butler report referring to quote public confusion about critical aspects of the investigation and how democrats argued that this showed that million bar had misled the public regarding the conclusions of the bob muller report however william barr said that it was the media that had misled the public and that he had spoken with bob mueller and bob mueller did not feel that he had misrepresented his report he said that he had w

theatrically a place to bars name caught in front of an empty chair congressman steve cohen then put a ceramic chicken on the desk as a symbol of the attorney general's cowardice and talking to some k.f.c. . do democrats want bars had to roll they're now mining charges of contempt of congress on. he's a little put in has the details. well a very short hearing on capitol hill as william barr the u.s. attorney general did not attend he did not show up for the hearing before the house judiciary committee that he was subpoenaed to testify before now representative gnabry who is the chair of the committee is now at this point considering bringing charges of contempt of congress against him for failing to testify when subpoenaed however republican legislators had a different opinion and argued that his testimony yesterday in the grilling he received from democrats was basically a circus and a charade and that he should not be obligated to continue going through that yes failed the men and women of the department of justice by placing the needs of the president over the ferry administration of justice and ye

a. chicken bar should have shown up today and answered questions think yesterday proves not terrified to sit before anybody still in the circus continues over the. wiki leaks co-founder joined us on she attends a court hearing in the u.k. on whether he should be extradited to the u.s. . and hundreds of people are injured in two days of unrest in venezuela after what appears to have been a failed coup we debate what is really happening in the country. doesn't get him in power nice by the national committee six million people voted for nicolas maduro last may in a free and fair election that i observe you know how many people voted for won by. broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is r g international on trying tom certainly glad to have you with us. right now the u.s. attorney general has refused to appear before the house judiciary committee to testify on his handling of the muller report into alleged to trump russia collusion some are now saying william barr should be held in contempt of congress. it's failed the men and women of the department of justice by placing t

when barr failed to appear at the house judiciary hearing yesterday democrats put a chicken next to his empty chair accusing the attorney general of being scared to answer questions about the summary of robert mueller's russian interference investigations. >> if he does not provide the committee with the information it demands and the respect it deserves mr. barr's moment of accountability will come soon enough. >> my question is not what bill barr is scared of but what are the democrats scared of. >> democrats are pressing the department of justice to provide them with a full unredacted copy of the mueller report. >>> sentencing is expected this summer for five pharmaceutical executives convicted in the fentanyl bribery case. after deliberating for 15 days a jury in boston returned a guilty verdict against executives at insus therapeutics, accused of giving kickbacks to doctors for giving large addictive amounts of the fen nil spray for patients that did not need the painkiller. >>> a man is suspected of killing two people and injuring four others, 22-year-old trystan terrell, who waiv

>> the message is that bill barr is a chicken. as chicken to comejudiciary face 30 minutes from counsel that would have been difficult for him to respond to, because he stands on shaky ground. his legal premises are questionable. his facts are false. he lies. he tries to defend the president at all cost. he did not want to go as did he before the senate and be exposed as a liar and fixer and a coverup for donald trump. >> as you know, my day job is at the white house covering that for nbc news. i was speaking with officials there yesterday who say that democrats are not treating the attorney general with the respect that they think he deserves. do you think your chicken problprop plays into that? >> the attorney general deserves no respect. people who abuse the constitution, people who flaunt the law and take their position to use it for politics and trample on our constitution and facilitate and forget about the russian interference in our election and people who call bob mueller basically not a career prosecutor, somebody who wou

i think it's a lot for them to troll out a chicken today. i'm serious. tic. whatever it was, they called william barr chicken for not showing up in all that sort of really icky theater. it was just bizarre. the head of what this man who sat for hours might do post this date. he said he didn't want to talk to all the staff attorneys. it doesn't mean he will come back to the hill. we don't know what will happen or what he will bring back. in front of those subpoenas, they haven't happened yet. it just seems a little early for all this theater for a man who really does get it, andy, in terms of what it ought to look like. >> andy: harris, it's not early for it if you believe as i believe that they don't really want it. >> harris: o. >> andy: i think they want the issue. they have immense information about the mueller report. >> harris: we all do. >> andy: the thing is, it's not going to get any better. >> melissa: can i get you some current breaking news on this? and dagen i will get a reaction. the president is tweeting. "steve moore, a great economist, a t