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a.g. barr's decision to drop the case might have come to nonpublic factors. what are they talking about here? >> we have no idea. i think today's decision really puts an end to all of this. it's a really bad day for president trump and a bad day for his justice department. and a bad day for michael flynn. it's ironic that president trump is saying he's going the keep us safe. he couldn't even keep michael flynn safe, and for good reason. flynn was asking to do something extraordinary here. he was asking to interrupt an ongoing criminal proceeding in which he pled guilty. so when you hear barr said the evidence didn't add up or something. flynn himself pled guilty, said i did it. he was the national security adviser. he was represented by all sorts of counsel. that's why the justice department, which i used to work with, always opposes these kinds of motions to interrupt criminal proceedings. otherwise, every criminal defendant will do that. what president trump has done is make the justice department bend to his will and side with people who admitted criminal

know those kind of all american decision making is to come out of an attorney general but while a.g. barr and the politicians questioning him are definitely wearing their political beliefs an agenda on their sleeves it appears that many u.s. citizens are actually rolling up their sleeves and never to hide their political opinions according to the cato institute a new national survey about 2000 u.s. citizens has found that self-censorship is on the rise in the united states and that nearly 2 thirds 62 percent of americans say the political climate these days prevents them from saying things they believe because others might find them offensive. digging deeper into the institute's findings one discovers that these fears may actually cross party lines with 52 percent of democrats 59 percent of independents and a whopping 77 percent of republicans all agreeing that they are afraid to share in public some of their but most basic political opinions in fact according to cato the only political group where a majority feel unafraid to express their beliefs publicly are hardcore major league libera

know those kind of all american decision making is to come out of an attorney general but while a.g. barr on the politicians questioning him are definitely wearing their political beliefs an agenda on their sleeves it appears that many u.s. citizens are actually rolling up their sleeves and never to hide their political opinions according to the cato institute a new national survey about 2000 u.s. citizens has found that self-censorship is on the rise in the united states and that nearly 2 thirds 62 percent of americans say the political climate these days prevents them from saying things they believe because others might find them offensive. digging deeper into the institute's findings one discovers that these fears may actually cross party lines with 52 percent of democrats 59 percent of independents and a whopping 77 percent of republicans all agreeing that they are afraid to share in public some of their but most basic political opinions in fact according to cato the only political group where a majority feel unafraid to express their beliefs publicly are hardcore major league liberal

. >> a.g. barrd have friends across the aisle, politics was part of your life, but it wasn't all-consuming. what's happened is that the left wing has really withdrawn and pulled away from the umbrella of classical liberal values that have undergurted our society since our founding. ted our soci since our founding. ted our socie our founding. eted our society since our founding. rted our soc since our founding. ♪ here's your iced coffee! ♪ america runs on dunkin' ♪ ♪ ♪ the open road is open again. and wherever you're headed, choice hotels is there. book direct at choicehotels.com. ♪ >> bill: balts mo baltimore officials meeting with reporters, the explosion killed one person today, six in the hospital. firefighters say it is not clear if people are trapped inside or not. the cause of the fire is under investigation. that was a mighty boom earlier today. more bottom of the hour headlines, number of covid-19 cases topping five million with 163,000 deaths, by far, the most in the world. also, troubling

a.g. barr told me this opens the floodgates to fraud.y states are you expecting mail-in voting to take place in? >> well, you have california where they're sending out tens of millions of ballots. they have no idea where they're going, or maybe they do. maybe they'll go to everybody but republicans. but they have california, they have many states where you can have -- now, i will say it, we're challenging in court, we're challenging in court. so it's being challenged by, at many different levels. we have many hauts out there. this -- lawsuits out there. this will be the greatest fraud in history. this will be the most fraudulent, this'll be almost as fraudulent as obama spying on my campaign but not quite. this will be the greatest fraud in history. maria: well, i'm going to get to that. and then there's the issue around federal ids. you don't even need an id in some places to actually vote. they don't want people to have identification to show that you are who you say that you are when you go to vote. >> it's called voter id. it's the g

ivanka trump and a.g. barr a special meeting, and yet in that same axios interview, the president doubled down on his comments last month about ghislaine maxwell. when he was at the pressed why he would wish someone wells who was arrested for sex trafficking, on the same day that his daughter is announcing help for people of human trafficking. >> her friend or boyfriend, epstein. >> either killed or committed suicide in jail. she's now in jail. yeah, i we should her well, i would wish you well. good luck. let them prove some been was guilty. >> is that interview clip going to overshadow the white house event that's about to take place which could actually be positive, or at least send some pretty strong mixed messaging? >> it's definitely mixed messaging, and it will likely overshadow what the administration is trying to do when it comes to human trafficking. we have a president who has no problem declaring certain people guilty if they are a political opponent of his or he doesn't like them. he could call for

media, if you do not win in november, we're not going to hear another word about this so should a.g. barrut in a special counsel to ensure that this is -- president trump: they'll probably cancel it out almost definitely, and it's a shame. it's a shame but we caught them. look we caught them. they don't need a special counsel. first of all they have a special counsel working, and they have durham working, so they don't need another special counsel. we've had enough special counsel s, and frankly, everybody knows if you didn't have one bit of evidence from what you already know from reading the newspapers, they're all guilty as hell. maria: but mr. president we know that the fbi lied to the senate in february of 2018. christopher wray was running the fbi, mr. president. is christopher wray hiding all this stuff and protect protecting the fbi. should he step down? president trump: so christopher wray was put there, we have an election coming up, i wish he was more fourth coming he certainly hasn't been, he was put there for good reason. he was chosen by a certain person and i said go ahead,

i think the comments from a.g. barr are insightful and we should explore it deeply. under the haze of looting you have anarchists pushing buttons and taking advantage of things. if singular goal is destruction of america as it stands right now. they are anti-capitalist and the anti-free markets. they don't believe in the constitution. of course, some, you know, like socialism, some like communism. it's under the inar i can anarc. when the chicago mayor lori lightfoot talk about them emboldened that is fascinating. i said all along they are emboldened by the justice system. she is changing the courts and the judges holding up cases. i also say the media has got to be introspective on this. politicians should be introspective on this. i said on this show and anywhere i could framing all of this around the notion of the gun violence rather than the people violence and the responsibility of each individual makes it worse not better. maybe we are getting an epiphany in a hard way in some places but it really is scary. >> harris: kennedy? >> kennedy: what are they waiting

i know a.g. barraid he is not going to do that because it certainly looks likes obama and biden were deeper into this, according government documents and media reporting. i hear what you're saying. sally yates now says she is shocked about the justice department watchdog report showing fbi abuses of fisa court, deceived the fisa court, misled the fisa court, didn't disclose how fully they were using the steele dossier. that democrats paid for it. hillary clinton campaign funded it. hillary clinton campaign was using trump research to contest the 2016 election. stuart evans, office of intelligence at justice department knew there were problems that democrats were funding this. somehow sally yates didn't they any of this. how is the sally yates, when she signed those fbi fisa wiretaps, she is saying comey going rogue? why? the question, how and why did you not know? >> i think when you look at this, they clearly don't like comey because comey seemed to be, i think that is the right description, he did g

o'brien, ambassador o'brien, a.g. barr, fusion cell.d.c., we had a meeting with mr. o'brien and something that's not in the news much is the fact that the trump administration has brought home 50 hostages, 50. ainsley: wow. 50 lives that were possibly saved. that's incredible. i want to hear more about your daughter, marcia. she seemed like an amazing person. at 24 she is helping overseas, people in need. doctors without borders. tell us what her personality was like. >> well, she just had a passion for people and helping people. whoever came god placed in front of her. she just took on this mission to help them wherever they were. that was her gift. from a young age. she was always doing that. and what was extra special about kayla is she made you feel comfortable no matter who you were. and and one of the things we were told by some people overseas is that when they would just say her name, even if kayla wasn't there, if they mentioned kayla's name, the people would smile because they knew when she came to say she was going to help th

a.g. bill barr in the interview talking about power has become a secular religion of the left.e says it began the day trump won in 2016 and from that point forward, there has been the resistance, byron. >> well, those are a couple of different topics. one mark did ask bill barr about antifa's desire to overthrow the trump administration which certainly they do but he said i would think they would want to overthrow any administration. now, they have in a sense exploited some of the opposition to trump that has become radicalized after the election of president trump because, of course, nobody on the left expected that donald trump would be elected president. so you have a political resistance that as barr pointed out has tried to impeach the president from day one, actually from before he took office they were planning on it. and then you have these violent resistance groups that are in a sense exploiting and as barr said swimming among the resistance to president trump to actually go farther and practice violence in some of the nation's cities. >> sandra: on what to do about it

a.g. to the second largest in the united states. she has bachb ieen incredibly s in the senate standing up to kelly, kavanaugh, and bill barr.her know that she is incredibly strong and i think today will be another good opportunity for her to show case that. >> and we talked about people watching, you heard the sound bite we had, our team went to india to sort of get a sense of what the community is saying. what does it mean tonight's moment to black and brown girls of color in this country? >> i can tell you what it means to me. i have been working for this state for a long time and i think that i speak for many women who have been working to elect people like kamala harris to the highest office. this is a real opportunity that we have. and then of course coming up against the heels of an administration like donald trump's who has pain incredibly discriminatory to brown and black people. i think that this couldn't come at a more timely movement. >> emmy ruiz, so great to have you on the show. i know a lot of people will be looking to see what harris has to say. i appreciate you and your cat joining us this hour. >> thank yo