this is all an effort by attorney general bill barr to re-examine the flynn case. that's why these documents were made public. we are told by officials at the department of justice to expect more documents anytime now. >> dana: thank you. let's bring in karl rove, former deputy white house chief of staff and a fox news contributor. the president said he wants to stay out of it and bill barr is trying to run a process over the justice department. does raise a lot of eyebrows what happened to michael flynn or if there was a mishandling, should the white house wait and see how that goes or should they just press forward here since it looks so damaging? >> i let the process run. the more documents we have, the greater the insight everyone will have and the more the course of the administration ultimately it's going to be accepted. these are remarkable documents. the idea that -- they said

and i'm amused whenever i see you know, barr has intervened in this case or barr has done such and such at the time of the covid crisis. business for the department of justice has to continue. >> laura: john brennan has come out smashing the president's firing of inspector general michael atkinson. let's listen. >> by removing mr. atkinson and also trying to send a signal to others, mr. trump continues to show his insecurity in terms of trying to stop anybody who is going to expose again the lawlessness that i think you not only has allowed to continue, but also that he abets. >> i think the president of the right thing in removing atkinson. from the vantage point of the department of justice he had interpreted his statute -- which is a fairly narrow statute, gave him jurisdiction over wrongdoing by intelligence people and tried to turn it in to a commission to explore anything in the government and immediately report it to congress without letting the executive branch look at it and determine whether there was any problem. he was told this in a letter from the department of justice and

in a sense meryl and barr become alternate moments for harriet and peter. murial with her curly blond hair and are scattershot early and her moves and then grounded intelligence and her ruby cabochon ring exactly like the ring peter gave harriet and the honeymoon. barr was a high school teacher and her students passed a murmur that she had been given that ring by fiance that died in the work that this is probably mixing two things up. r's was killed in 1918. would be reasonable to imagine the ring was a gift from ariel this fiance who is invisible because of her, not her death. the writing was a true collaboration on this 50/50 in muriel's words. back home in essex thela consulted with her solicitor to confirm that the plot was realistic and she was key to conduct an experiment to ensure the murder machine was realistic to and i will get to a spoiler spoiler i promised them by february of 1916 thela had written 4000 words for act i. the pair spend another weekend together at the end of february and march there was a lunch in muriel went to stay for a few da

barr, it's a great interview. >> sean: you sound like a liberal. >> laura: i'm not. believe me, that's one thing no one's ever accused me of but i appreciate that. >> sean: so many developments with this deep state -- wow. it's about to blow wide open. i can't wait to watch. >> laura: we ask about john durham and the firing of the inspector general. the left going nuts on a whole host of non-covid friends. we tackle that with him. it's going to be a two-part interview but i'm looking forward to everyone watching you. a great show as always. >> sean: i'll be watching. thank you. >> laura: i'm laura ingraham and this is the ingraham angle from washington tonight. in moments as we just discussed mike's ghost of interview attorney general bill barr. i ask him about the really important issue of protecting our civil liberties as we balance the interests of health and protecting the vulnerable in our society during this national emergency. and what's being done at the same time to hold china accountable. plus, new questions about how we are classifying deaths of those test

in a moment, my exclusive interview with attorney general bill barr. i asked him about the really important issue of protecting our civil liberties as we balance the intricacies of health and protecting the vulnerable in our society during this national emergency and what's being done at the same time to hold china accountable? plus new questions of how we are classifying deaths of those testing positive for covid-19. a doctor with firsthand knowledge of this joins us later in the hour. and democrats' fake plans with their face masks? can't be. raymond arroyo here and brace it all down in seen and unseen. in a moment, my interview with the attorney general. but first, this is america in shutdown day 23. today we learned that tuesday was the deadliest day of all for our fellow citizens in this covid-19 battle. 779 in new york alone. new york accounts for 44% of all deaths in the united states now. and new york city, wrap your mind around this, has a staggering 73% of all deaths in the state of new york. as heartbreaking as those numbers are, and indeed

i can't thank attorney general barr and mr. jensen and mr. mr. durham enough to have the integrity and fortitude to get to the bottom of this, because that's what it takes. these documents weren't easily discovered. the emailsma have been in the fi the whole time, but the handwritten notes, they may not have been. we still don't know who the author of those is. but devastating evidence of the lengths they were willing to go priorthis regard all protocols, all prior rules, their standard practices in other cases to warn of 1,001 violations, none of that applied to general flynn. they had only special violations of every protocol known or him because they were determined to take him out. >> sean: sidney, when it says, what's our goal, truth, admission, or get him to lie so we can prosecute flynn or get him fired? you know my mom was a prison guard. my dad, i was a failure. the two guys who made it to the fbi, they were dating my family. they were the top. will we get the justice here, that those who did this will be held accountable and how do you

speaking of attorney attorney generals and lawsuits you now have bill barr saying d.o.j. is looking into suing state governors right and this is actually interesting because this is all over the clashes between president donald trump as you mentioned trying to open up the states and the state governors saying no and how kind of to respond to the whole coronavirus most of it you know with most if not all states are on lockdown and both trump and barr say that businesses they need to have more freedom to operate and trump says that some governors have gone just way too far actually even accusing governors of keeping their people on quote house arrest now we have the cd see who is as far as that's who we look to as far as you know seeing this research and one that's going to peak as far as this outbreak but there's new surprising coming out that it's a for a form of national defense scientists at the los alamos lab in new mexico now these scientists they consistently beat the c.d.c. when it comes to forecasting infectious diseases in particular like the bird flu ebola unfort

attorney general bill barr now threatening legal action against state governors who have ordered coronavirus lockdown all right it's time to boost your news i q. tensions are once again heating up in the persian gulf after a brief confrontation on the seas between the u.s. and iran which resulted in president calling for the take down of iranian gunboats that come too close rachel blevins us following the story she's joining us now from the news room with the details to this rachel what's happening there well manella president trump is now arming the u.s. navy with the shoot down a new stronger order after a close encounter with iran has increased fears of escalation in the persian gulf trump took to twitter wednesday morning writing i have instructed the united states navy to shoot down destroy any and all iranian gunboats if they harass our ship. see his warning follows an incident last week in which the us claims 11 vessels from iran's revolutionary guard came within 10 yards of u.s. navy and coast guard ships in the gulf near kuwait while the navy released footage calling the incident da

we've got bill barr.lacing sessions ultimately and -- and in january he came out and said i'm going to appoint a fellow by the name of jeffrey jenson and that's where the documents came from ultimately. explain how this would be part of a bigger picture on how behind the scenes donald trump's department of justice is looking into this with the jenson guy to finally give the american people a picture of what happened in 2017? >> well said. if bill barr is not the attorney general, we don't get the information. that's plain and simple. i hope there's going to be a report. i look forward to that. i hear good things but we will know when that comes out. bottom line is what took place before him, what they did, they did to american citizens, what they did to a 3-star general and what they tried to do to the president of the united states, i keep coming back when the mueller report came out a year ago, he said we would all do well to remember. if they can do it to a president of the united states, imagine what

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attorney general bill barr now threatening legal action against state governors who have ordered a lot of virus lockdowns plus there's an internet boom happening in india facebook already swooping in and spending billions of dollars on that country's telecom giant alliance geo we're going to discuss that all right it's time to boost your views you. tensions are once again rising in the persian gulf after a brief confrontation at sea between the u.s. and iran now that close encounter resulting in president calling for the take down of iranian gunboats quote harassing u.s. warships artie's rachel blevins is following the story she's joining us now from the news room with the details on this rachel well manella president trump is now arming the u.s. navy with a shoot down and destroy order after a close encounter with iran has increased fears of escalation in the persian gulf trump took to twitter wednesday morning writing quote i have instructed the united states navy to shoot down and destroy any and all iranian gunboats if they harass our ships see his warning fall. it was an incident

i can't thank attorney general barr and mr. johnson, mr. durham went off for having the integrity and fortitude to get to the bottom of this because that is what it. these documents weren't easily discovered. of the emails have been in the fbi the whole time, but the handwritten notes may not have been. we still don't know exactly who the author of those is. devastating evidence of the lengths they were willing to go to disregard all protocols, all prior rules, their standard practice and other cases to warn of 1,001 violations. none of that applies to general flynn. they had only special violations, every protocol known for him because they were determined to take him out. >> sean: sidney, when it says, what is our goal? truth? admission? or get him to live so we can prosecute flynn or get him fir fired. you know my mom was a prison guard. my dad was probation and a waiter. my whole family was in law enforcement except to me, i was a failure in medicine. the two guys that made it to the fbi, they were deity and my family. they were the top

and tone general barr -- attorney general barr has got to step up and pull back this prosecution of general he doesn't, the president should order him to do it. lou: it's about time somebody got an order over there, because it's clear the justice department can't seem to manage the wherewithal and capacity to understand the difference -- forget about the law for just a minute, as thaw often do apparently at the justice department and fbi. how about just plain, simple right and wrong? how about just plain, good old american decency and treat people correctly instead of trying the destroy them. >> well, we appreciate these documents came out. the law required they came out, but they're still covering up. we just got a response today about meetings between the fbi top lawyer baker, the one you mentioned, and the clinton campaign team temperature lawyer. you know what the response from the fbi or doj was? we can't con firm or deny it took place. the cover-up continues, lou. and these agency heads, if they're not going to be transparent, then there's no accountability, and they don't respect the

what was one in a rush to hide as bill barr put it underneath our bed. one day when the history of these days are written maybe we'll regret the overbroad nature of much of what we're forced to not do. and amidst this uncertainty, we will select a president. one thing we should all agree on now is the need for a framework that ensures an orderly election. we can ill-afford a national limitation of what we saw in wisconsin last tuesday. people standing in close proximity. some wearing masks are some not, waiting to exercise the franchise. all americans deserve an alternative to showing up in person in the midst of a pandemic. and this is not an issue whose resolution should be guided by whether one party benefits or the other. rather, the objective must be to provide for the greatest number of citizens to safely participate. people have already died. for our right to vote. but nobody in the united states should have to risk death in order to vote. might the violation be to enable mobile voting by cell phone or internet connected computer. my next guess th

he has people in his cabinet like attorney general bill barr who talk about the importance of the executive, who encourage the president's belief in having all of this power. but his political aides are much more cautious than the rhetoric you're hearing from that lectern. >> doctor, as i said, sitting here tonight we don't know how all these tests are going to get done. try as he might, peter baker couldn't get a clear answer on that in the briefing room.

is that statute, danny, as narrow as barr is saying?ou heard the attorney general there basically saying he thinks it was okay or that he supported the president's firing of the inspector general. >> respectfully to general better he's got the law wrong, i believe. the statute speaks of the inspector general of the intelligence community having i guess you would call it jurisdiction over anything that would fall within the purview of the director of national intelligence. perhaps the interpretation is that president cannot be within the director of national intelligence because he's above the director of national intelligence. but the statute speaks very broadly of anything that is within the dni's authority. so the jurisdictional element is satisfied. the second part, generale barr says that the i.c. of the i.g. opened a commission into the president and that's not really accurate. under the statute the inspector general is essentially a robot, like a triage doctor. he receives the complaint, he forwards it. if he disagrees with the di

is that why he depth tiesed barr to go out and say these things? >> we've seen in recent weeks people like senator lindsey graham going to president trump and say if you open the country too quickly you will own the deaths. that's something we put on "the washington post," a powerful anecdote. there are two currents i picked up in my reporting. one, this is a white house that is gripped right now by anecdotal optimism, whether it's hydroxy colloolor keen or about economy or the ability to open up in may. this is a white house that despite the data and reservations among officials and experts is very willing to en grace solutions that have not been approved by the fda or the idea that the economy could remember. you have to remember amid all that optimism, you also have a reserve, a very deep reserve of skepticism and antagonism toward the federal bureaucracy and toward experts in general. this is an outsider president surrounded by many advisors who are telling him to not listen too closely to dr. fauci or dr. birx and trust his own instincts. you

the president defending bill barr's move.he president. >> i think you want to see, like everybody, people get back to work. he doesn't want people to be held up when there is no reason for doing it. in some cases, perhaps it's too strict. he wants to make sure people have their rights and retain their rights, very importantly. >> harris: meanwhile, illinois and pennsylvania are facing legal challenges over their governor's authority and shutting down their local economies. governor pritzker of illinois had this response after a judge ruled part of his order was an overreach. >> frankly, it is insulting, it's dangerous, and people's safety and health has now been put at risk. we certainly are going to act in a swift fashion to try and have this ruling overturned. >> harris: andy mccarthy served as an assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york, and is a fox news contributor. he's going to join us by phone to begin with, here. andy, are you with me? >> i'm here, harris. how are you? >> harris: i'm doing great.

>> yeah, bill barr indicated as much and he gave a memo and awh briefing, a memo that said if you cano to the grocery store and maintain 6 feet of social distance you can certainly go to church and your car and maintain the appropriate distance in this idea that governments are stopping people from attending church particularly on easter sunday is flat out wrong. bill barr defending liberty has also said these protesters, he made statements in support of the people who are tired of what's taking place and simple want to get back to work, want to get our country back on the right track. >> mike: governor jordan and congressman louie gohmert, thank you both. delighted to have you here. >> thanks. >> mike: as we inched closer and closer to the presidential election, the rhetoric from the left is only going to get worse. some of you are thinking, how? r speaking of which, someone might want to check up on joe biden during this nationwide lockdown. he is saying some very strange things. during a recent online fund-raiser, biden pushed a bizarre conspiracy theory. it was that president trum

-- william barr, and there isn't a person i've talked with who for a moment thinks barr should not haveown this entire matter out and brought some sense of decency to a justice department that has lacked it for a very long time. >> well, he appointed mr. jensen from missouri to review the case file, i believe in january, and it's that nobody knew about it. and this is the result of him providing adult supervision to what our former members of the mueller hit squad, i.e. mr. van grack in particular, to produce the actual evidence of what they did. lou: what's the next step? how in the world -- what in the world is this judge doing? the judge himself has the power to end all of this nonsense. he's chosen not to, so i don't know what to make of judge suggesting van. what is the -- sullivan. what is the next episode in federal court with him on the bench, at the bench? >> well, the latest development today is that covington, flynn's former law firm, produced to us an additional 17,500 pages from the flynn file that were not produced back last august when they certified that the entire file

barr is right we need to do a couple of things.ting as many out as we safely can, people who are well. churches should be opening up their doors and houses of worship opening this doors those without a place to go can at least get out of the death trap. we shouldn't be putting more people in for minor, petty stuff and surging in instead medical supplies and help. this is something that nobody's thinking about this right now but i guarantee you something. when you start seeing people dieing by the hundreds and thousands in these prisons and jails, they're going to realize we may have missed and opportunity to really knock this virus back by getting people out of harm's way. >> clearly, people don't have a choice and option of social distancing when, as inmates. so let's talk about some of the latest numbers of people, eight inmates, at federal prisons have died of coronavirus over the last week alone. what needs to happen to ensure that 100% of the incarcerated population along with guards, other people who work at these facilities,

n take a lis what william barr -- attorney general barr just said. >> how do we deal wi these unprecedented burdens on civil liberties, as the attorney general puts it? and do you view th -- do you agree with him that these are unprecedented burdens on our civil liberties? they're unprecedenrdens.t that the question is whether they're justified. look, one of the examples i've used is eminent domaint? the governments at every level have the power to take your private pperty away because there's -- they can come in and say, "we need your house. we need it to build a road," and they can take it from you.w, hey have to pay you, they have to compensate you for it. so we are we are taking people'a freedomsand livelihoods. we are denying them basic rights. we're doing it in the public interest. and to a certain point, government can help compensate you for it lyt not fully and not enti the second point that i would make is, it ties back to what i said a little whil and that is, you are teing people that theyin can't do cerhings. and the american people have responded, in my view, phenomenally. but

william barr is overseeing the investigation into the doj handling of the flynn case. is former doj official had this reaction. >> the fbi already knew the still dossier was based on was discredited so they had no other way into the trump campaign. this is incredibly dishonest, this is an abuse of power. >> the doj is not commenting but sources confirm more document are expected to be released in the coming days. we will see what that is. flynn's attorney says exculpatory evidence exists but she hasn't been able to get them so far. a lot more to the store. rob: the story is going to explode today, thanks so much. >> revelation suggests that investigators were not nearly as concerned about the logan act as they claimed to be. >> chaffetz as it is because this was a larger planet went all the way to the top of the fbi. >> it appears as if this was an ambush, a takedown. donald trump is days into his presidency, the fbi director sends his fbi agents, they preplanned this, wanted to get him fired, prosecute him, do anything they could to take him out. doesn't get any worse

attorney general william barr yes william barr the addon as well as the acting director of national intelligence richard grinnell and other senior officials insisted to a federal judge in the civil case that further disclosures about saudi connections to the $911.00 plot would imperil national security and in case you were hoping to at least know why the contents of these documents would imperil u.s. national security. well you don't get to know that pro publica goes under a point that the administration insisted in court filings that even its justification for that secrecy needed to remain yes secret. not even 19 years plummeting oil prices and a pandemic apparently can break down the walls of u.s. government secrecy that still surround the attacks on september the 11th 2001 which is why we are always watching the hawks. on a city street. see that this is your state . great city this least systemic deception show which. we're going to watch and. and i'm obese across so ms cross while they still play a game of we're not going to let you know anything about 911 not even the victims' families of t

basic liberty and freedom and civil rights in the right to go to church and be able to work and bill barr had a great decision a couple weeks ago, shannon he said if you can go to the grocery store and maintain 6 feet social distance you can go to church in your car and not be harassed by the government for doing so and that's what they're protesting and i think that's part of the tradition of the great country and what makes us a special place and makes us american. >> shannon: were up there with american flags and all kinds of other goodies as they take the h the protests and as things change in ohio very soon and we think we will see how the rollout goes for reopening their economy. congressman, great to have you and thank you. press tonight by the white house and crushing oil prices, president trump sees this as an opportunity. check it out. >> if we can buy for nothing, we will take everything we can get. if only thing i like better than that is when they pay you to take the oil. this is a great time to buy oil. >> shannon: he was asked about scouting oil tankers headed this way full

yesterday we learned that referred to the department of justice as a possible crime and that barr'sm shut it down. barr was also mentioned multiple times in the notes from the phone call and then in the report released today, the whistle-blower said explicitly that attorney general barr appears to be involved as well, which means barr may have been lying during this exchange with senator kamala harris back in may >> has the president or anyone at the white house ever asked or suggested that you open an investigation of anyone? yes or no, please, sir >> um, the president or anybody else - >> seems you'd remember something like that and be able to tell us >> yeah, but i'm trying to grapple with the word "suggest." i mean, there have been discussions of matters out there that -- they have not asked me to open an investigation, but -- >> perhaps they suggested? >> i don't know. i wouldn't say "suggest. >> hinted? >> i don't know. >> inferred? [ laughter ] you don't know okay >> seth: i mean, look at her face she's questioning him the way you ask your son, "do you smoke weed?" when you'v

attorney general william barr is appointing a special prosecutor in michigan to oversee investigations in coronavirus restrictions to fight the spread. matthew schneider from the eastern district of michigan, essentially the detroit area, will help coordinate the justice department's activities as barr is directing federal prosecutors to be on the lookout for state and local directives that could be violating the constitutional rights and civil liberties of citizens. in an interview with conservative radio host hugh hewitt. >> we're looking carefully at a number of those rules that are being put in place. and if one goes too far, we initially try to jawbone the governors into rolling them back and adjusting them and if they're not and people bring lawsuits, we file statement of interest and side with the plaintiffs. joining me is justice correspondent pete williams. on one harnd the federal government puts out one set of guidelines on restrictions they recommend would be put into your state. on the other hand, the federal government deleting law enforcement officers, if you go too far,