barr and your committee.ank you for coming on and hope you come back, chairman nadler. >> thank you for having me. >> thank you, sir. >>> when we come back, watergate prosecutor nick akerman, right after this. n, right after this emiums. learn more at libertymutual.com/covid-19. [ piano playing ] it's velveeta shells & cheese versus the other guys. ♪ clearly, velveeta melts creamier. to deliver your mail and packages and the peace of mind of knowing that essentials like prescriptions are on their way. every day, all across america, we deliver for you. and we always will. ibut nothing makes me feel like pnew always discreet boutique. outside, it's soft like underwear. inside, it turns liquid to gel. for incredible protection, that feels like nothing but my underwear. new always discreet boutique. >>> we've had major news in the mueller case of mike flynn. i'm joined now by former watergate prosecutor nick akerman, an expert for us, and we should note he is actually one of 16 former watergate prosecutors who is

it's bothering barr and trump.national intelligence security aspect that's getting under their skin. they can deal with criminal charges but the notion that the fbi actually had the audacity to view a president and his campaign and staffers as potentially compromised or colluding with a foreign power, that has gotten under their skin and they need it to go away. the men and women of the bower row will continue to do their job. the problem is, the igs have been replaced or they're going to be replaced with cronies of trump. if he replaces directors and heads of agencies, we'll see suppression of this moving forward like we have never seen before. >> it's an unbelievable thing. the fact that the guilty plea that was affirmed as late last year by mike flynn is just thrown out the window by barr because donald trump want it to to be so is unbelievable. honoring are a coronavirus victim with a sharp mind and infectiuos smile. that's next. infectiuos smile that's next. usaa was made for right now. and right now, is a tim

in bill barr the president's found his easy mark and barr is sold very easily.at's probably why he got the job, because he committed to do that when he signed up for this. but moreover, what you've seen is the president increasingly tightening the pressure, insisting that the coverup of flynn's conversations with russia -- and that's what this was, a coverup, flynn's conversations with russia that that was fine with trump. to go back to the initial point, we've never yet been told not just what the lies were or the conditions of the lie but why, why did mike flynn feel a need to mislead the department of justice, the federal bureau of investigation. what was he covering up that donald trump told him to do? i think it's clear as day that donald trump told mike flynn, tell the russians quietry that we're relaxing sanctions as soon as we get into office, and nobody to this day understands why donald trump felt compelled to make that promise to vladimir putin. >> jeremy, let me give you the last word on this because i think having served in government you can explai

attorney general bill barr saying the german corey will get to the bottom of what barr calls an unprecedented injustice perpetrated against president trump. >> it will determine whether there any federal laws broken and if there were, those who broke the laws will be held to account. >> but barr also rolling out any potential prosecution of former president barack obama or former vice president joe biden. >> whatever their level of involvement, based on the information i have today, i don't expect mr. durham's work will lead to a criminal investigation of either man. >> president trump said he would leave the decision to the attorney general, but admitted barr's statement took him by surprise. >> i have no doubt that they

barr set a new precedent after hiring a u.s.to the origins of the russia probe and when he reversed the decisions of his own prosecutors in the roger stone case, because the president tweeted that his sentencing was unfair, roger stone's. all prosecutors on the case withdrew, one of them quit the department of justice. and now the department of justice has changed its position again, as it talks about michael flynn. "the washington post" writes, trump's goal from the start has been to dismantle as much as mueller's work as he can, and he finally found his roy cohn in william barr. barr's actions have brought two separate calls by more than 2,000 former department officials for his resignation, just this year. both of my guests have signed those letters and one writes that the department, quote, has harmed not only its own reputation for integrity, but also public confidence that the law applies equally to everyone, including the president's friends. joining me now is the former federal prosecutor, who signed both letters, callin

attorney general bill barr saying the german corey will get to the bottom of what barr calls an unprecedented injustice perpetrated against president trump. >> it will determine whether there any federal laws broken and if there were, those who broke the laws will be held to account. >> but barr also rolling out any potential prosecution of former president barack obama or former vice president joe biden. >> whatever their level of involvement, based on the information i have today, i don't expect mr. durham's work will lead to a criminal investigation of either man. >> president trump said he would leave the decision to the attorney general, but admitted barr's statement took him by surprise. >> i have no doubt that they were involved in this hoax, one of the worst things ever to befall this country in terms of political scandal. i have absolutely no doubt that obama and biden were involved and as to whether or not it was criminal, i would think it would be very serious. >> president trump did have high praise for the attorney general, calling him an honorable man who will do the honorable t

barr oversees. what a morning. good morning and welcome to "morning joe." it is friday, may 8th. with joe, willie, and me, we have former u.s. senator, now msnbc political analyst, claire mccaskill. great morning to have claire back on, given everything, joe. >> it really is. we're going to get barr proving once and for all that he really is donald trump's clone, he is corrupt and doesn't care the whole world knows he is corrupt. that's been established time and time again. it certainly was established yesterday. >> yup. >> before we do that, let's really quickly, willie, set up where we are right now. news overnight, that the president of the united states, the trump administration, actually, once again, stopped the center for disease control in trying to protect americans. we saw this happen earlier in the week, where the white house tossed out some predictions about how many deaths there might be using trump administration facts. yesterday, the cdc set out guidelines, and they wanted the guidelin

so, yes, the president installed bill barr for a reason. the president was dissatisfied with jeff sessions for a reason. he felt that jeff sessions should have been his roy cohn and he wasn't, but he did get his roy cohn in bill barr. and what that means is when you have an unscrupulous president like this one, an attorney general who is essentially acting as his defense lawyer, as is rudy giuliani, it means the prospect for further corruption malfeasance is that much greater. i do think that bob mueller, as you say, was very careful and properly so. but i would think in some respects too careful. i think that the policy that he adhered to that you can't indict a sitting president was a mistake. and one that i hope in retrospect we come to recognize as a mistake and we change that policy so that no one is above the law, not even a sitting president. >> all very interesting and important reaction here to something that we're going to stay on, because people need the know about it. chairman schiff, thank you for your time tonight. >> thanks,

this problem with barr record. just today the republican controlled dish want to respeed that -- the republican controlled senate still intense committee ruled that the cia assessment that russia intervened in the 2016 election to help donald trump was correct. based on the evidence that they intelligence community collected and all these republican senators saw, they agreed that this wasn't some fake story to discredit donald trump. wasn't some plot by the intelligence community to make up that russia helped trump. russia in fact did help trump and right now, as part of the probe -- that you mentioned bail barr has had a u.s. attorney, john durham, carrying out a probe of those rye cry -- rouge cia analysts-was their assessment correct and the part of the separate investigation of the fbi, a big boost for these intelligence analysts who find it very extraordinary they're being investigated by a u.s. prosecutor for a report they wrote. it was their assessment of what russia did and so one of the most puzzling thing

barr, the attorney general. course is wrong and i'm not the only one calling him out. "the wall street journal" editorial board writing yesterday, without mr. obama -- we doubt mr. vann has even read the department motion to drop the flynn prosecution. if he does ever read it, he'll find disconcerting facts that certainly do raise doubts about whether "our basic understanding of the rule of law is at risk" though not for the reason he claims." joining me now is ken starr, former independent counsel advising berg, former deputy independent counsel in fox news contributor. let's start with you, why is obama wrong here?tys >> the motion to dismiss the general flynn indictment i think is very, very troubling for president obama. it's not only when you read this motion and every american should read this motion. it's very readable. the question emerges not just what did the president know and when did he know it? i'm going to ask the further question. what of the president do and when didm he do it? and did he know t

>> and this is where i think there's more problems with barr's record. so just today the republican-controlled, i want to repeat that, the republican-controlled senate intelligence committee ruled that the cia assessment that russia intervened in the 2016 election to help donald trump was correct. that is -- that's based on the evidence that, you know, the intelligence community collected and that all of these republican senators saw, they agreed this wasn't some fake story to discredit donald trump. it wasn't some plot by the intelligence community, by the cia to make up that russia helped trump. russia in fact did help trump and right now, as part of the probes that you mentioned, bill barr has had a u.s. attorney, john durham carrying out on the analysts, and on the part of the fbi, what they did and we can talk about that separately. but it was a big boost for these intelligence analysts who find it very extraordinary that they're being investigated by a u.s. prosecutor for, you know, a report they wrote. it was their assessment of what russia did an

elizabeth: president trump weighing in on the news from attorney general bill barr.eral barr say do not expect a criminal probe out of trump russia origins. >> as to president obama, vice president biden, whatever their level of involvement, based on the information i have today, i don't expect mr. durham's work will lead to a criminal investigation of either man. our concern over potential criminality is focused on others. >> i have no doubt that they were involved in this hoax, one of the worst things ever to befall this country in terms of political scandal. i have absolutely no doubt that obama and biden were involved and, as to whether or not it was criminal i would think it would be very serious but i'm going to let the attorney general make all of those decisions. elizabeth: your reaction? >> well, just because ag barr says there is not going to be any prosecution or, they're not going to pursue action against president obama, vice president biden, doesn't mean we can't get to the bottom of what president obama knew and vice president biden knew of the investi

. >> you brought up bill barr. peggy noonan, i want you to listen to this bill barr answer to a question about what will history say about this. wait until you hear this answer. take a listen. >> when history looks back on this decision, how do you think it will be written? >> well, history is written by the winners so it largely depends on who's writing the history. >> i was struck, peggy, by the cynicism of the answer. it's a correct answer, but he's

i think we need to be reminded of what william barr said to. this was an investigation launched by the fbi without a legal basis and later used it to sabotage presidency. the following federal criminal statutes would be in play. obstruction of justice, perjury, fraud, conspiracy to commit fraud and deprivation of rights under color of law, otherwise known as abuse of power. they are very serious about holding people accountable because barr said on our air "if people broke the law and we can establish that with the evidence, they will be prosecuted to. i think that also includes people in the obama white house, the intelligence community, john brennan and others. >> sean: let me get to sarah, your all three coming back tomorrow. your take. >> this was a conspiracy not perpetrated just against the fisa court but against the american people and we know it now because we have the transcripts and everyone in the united states can read these transcripts and see what happened here. it was clearly a fraud against the american people and a fraud agains

william barr says he doesn't expect john durham's probe into the fbi's decision-making in the russia probe to lead to criminal investigations of the president's predecessor or the presumptive 2020 democratic nominee. >> based on the information i have today i don't expect mister durham's work will lead to a criminal investigation of either man. our concern over potential criminality is focused on others. >> william barr, an important statement today. as you may have heard, the president has made a very important decision. he has decided to at least temporarily freeze any additional funding for the world health organization. he says they must improve or face a permanent freeze. in a letter to the leader of the who the president reminded him on april 14th he suspended us contributions the world health organization pending an investigation by the administration over the organization's response to the outbreak, he said that review has concluded that they made the proper decision that lacking further improvements and more transparency the funds will continue to be frozen. so recapping, mo

lou: it's unclear when attorney general barr -- what attorney general barr is achieving by taking suchsured, laboredded actions. it is his department of justice, however, that seemingly continues to play cover for the deep state. refusing to prosecute former fbi director james comey for leaking memos with classified information, refusing to charge former fbi deputy director and then-acting director andy mccabe for lying to investigators, and it was barr who praised former deputy attorney general rod rosenstein despite rosenstein helping to launch the mueller witch hunt which was fraudulent from the very beginning. and he also played a role in the sweetheart plea deal for former senate aide james wolf. wolf did serve just two months in prison, leaking the carter page fisa warrants to the left-wing media. president trump, who has said he believes everyone involved in the efforts to overthrow his presidency should be going to jail. he had this reaction to his attorney general's comments just moments ago. >> i think obama and biden knew about it. they were participants. but, so i'm a littl

new calls for attorney general barr to resign. and not just from his critics but from a bipartisan group of 2,000 doj veterans. we have a former federal prosecutor on tonight. he signed the petition and will explain why. >>> and former presidential candidate tom steyer is back and will talk economy. later tonight, an update on a story we've been reporting on. new video from that shooting in georgia. and president obama weighing in on president trump's virus response. these are leaked remarks from a call, very interesting that it's now making news. i'm ari melber. this is "the beat" on msnbc. and private clouds, and hybrid clouds- things can get a bit cloudy for you. but now, there's the dell technologies cloud, powered by vmware. a single hub for a consistent operating experience across all your clouds. that should clear things up. wayfair has way more ways to renovate your home, from inspiration to installation. like way more vanities perfect for you. nice. way more unique fixtures and tiles. pairing. ♪ nice. way more top brands

bill barr is an absolute hero. i can't think of any other attorney general who basically had the guts and the fortitude and the independence to do what he did. they ought to put out a new version of profiles encourage and add a chapter about him to it. >> laura: kamala harris, of course former doj official, she decided to speak out today -- this is what she said. >> the president has his attorney general, the hand of the president doing his political work, his personal bidding. we have to make sure -- hold down the fort in spite of the fact that there is an attorney general of the united states who is disrupting in america. >> laura: she's auditioning for the biden vp slot, right? >> i don't think she's going to get it but the notion that bill barr in repealing this ridiculous claim against the general flynn -- we don't have any indictments yet. what happened here is one of the greatest political travesties in american history and we don't have an indictment yet of any of the folks that were part of this conspiracy

we haven't heard the end of bill barr good work.se everything going on with the durham investigation, i think it will be the next two or three months. >> bret: talking about michael flynn in the case being dropped by the doj. >> on the point about michael flynn, definitely the latest revelation showed the fbi conduct in a less than favorable light. what's interesting, this was still before judge sullivan. he still had a chance and he's the judge who throughout the prosecution of republican senator when he thought that there was prosecutorial abuse. if he thought there was a strong case for allowing them to withdraw the guilty plea he could've waited in but for some reason the attorney general didn't want to wait to elect an independent judge have his say. he decided instead to take heed to himself. democrats are to portray this as more evidence that barr is in the pocket of the white house and i think it's a very interesting choice by the attorney general to go ahead and fall on his sword to save michael flynn when there was still a

obviously, bill barr is happy taking the fire. he seems okay in that position. >> harris: you know, marie harf, it is surprising to somewhat see some silence from democrats on this. i'm sure they'll pipe up at some point. but adam schiff, to have said there was conclusive evidence of collusion between the trump campaign and russia very early on now, he's really in the hot seat. no matter how you look at this, the facts don't hold up to what he was saying. if your adam schiff, what is your friday like? >> marie: well, adam schiff has said quite a bit on twitter over the last 24 hours, both about some of the russia investigation transcripts that i think we'll talk about a little later, but also about the michael flynn case. bill barr has made it clear that he sees his job as one of defending the president. donald trump has made clear that he wants to do everything in his power to discredit to the russia investigation, even though it showed quite a bit of at least conversations between russian officials and trump campaign officials.

i wonder how you can explain to people like what is barr -- what sit about barr is doing that is different you or other attorney generals of both parties have done? >> well, he's injecting himself into cases. we saw that in flynn and in stone. he mischaracterized the mueller report. still don't quite understand he did that, knowing full well we would have a chance to read the report and compare the report to the way he characterized it. he supported the effort to keep documents away from congress. i think that what we have here, at least to date, has been a really good effort on the part of -- by the attorney general to defend, to shield, as you said, various interests, chief interests for him being the president. my concern is that we move from the defensive to the offensive, that they will use the power of the justice department, the power of the criminal justice system, to go after people who are perceived as enemies of this president. that is something that i say reluctantly. but i think based on the record that we have seen, they are up to doing that. to use the system in that way, wh

here was attorney general barr speaking on this.e a look. >> as to president obama and vice president biden, whatever their level of involvement, based on the information i have today, i don't expect mr. durham's work will lead to a criminal investigation of either man. our concern over potential criminality is focused on others. >> let me -- i haven't had a chance to cover this yet. i'm going to tell viewers what i thi think. i think this is the classic lawyerly, legalistic sneaky way of pretending you're doing something by the book, because he's saying we're not going there, while also, with no evidence, no reason, no rati rationality, throwing dirt on biden. donald trump has had several advisers pled guilty, barack obama didn't. so for the attorney general appointed by president trump saying obama is corrupt, hey, if you think obama is corrupt, we're not going to put obama in jail, that strikes to me backwards. i'm curious if you think this statement is on the level or is bill barr doing a political thing? your views on all of th

louis and approved by barr, a political appointee. it is in my many years of reading justice department filings, i cannot remember seeing one in which not a single career prosecutor puts his name to it. so that gives you an idea of how unusual this was. but just to get the larger context here, remember what this case was all about. it was flynn lying about his conversations with the russian ambassador, which were directly after obama had imposed sanctions on russia for its attack on the 2016 election and announced they were -- that the obama administration would be kicking out multiple russian diplomats as punishment. flynn then tells kislyak don't worry about that, don't revisit it, we will respond. what leaps out to me about this is that was the first indication, first real sign that the new trump administration was going to start undoing everything obama had done. it started with that. it continued through the affordable care act, through the climate deal, through the iran nuclear deal, one by one trump was un -- seemed determined

weighing in on news that attorney general william barr earlier in the day, bill barr saying do not expectminal probe of president obama or joe biden to come out of the investigation of the trump-russia probe origin. here is what each said today. >> as to president obama and vice president biden, whatever their level of involvement, based on information i have i did not expect mr. durham's work will lead to a criminal investigation of thurman -- of either, man, our concern is focused on others. >> i have no doubt that they were involved in this hoax, one of the worst things ever to befall this country in terms of political scandal, i have no doubt that obama and biden were involved. and as to whether or not it was criminal, i would coul think itd be serious, but i'll let the attorney general make those decisions. elizabeth: your reaction? >> well, just because a g barr said there will be no prosecution or pursue actions against president obama and biden does not mean we can't get to the bottom of what they knew of the investigation. we know that james comey, had a -- never-trumpers, we kno

he wants the justice department inspector general to investigate barr. barr defended his decision. >> i was concerned people were feeling that there were two standards of justice in the country. >> house transcript revealed witnesses tried to paint their own version of reality on tv. in sharp contrast with the told investigators. former obama director of national intelligence, james clapper, testified he never saw any direct empirical links. the trump campaign conspired with russia. clapper painted a different picture last year. >> do you agree with andrew mccabe that it's possible that the president of the united states, the president, is a russian asset? >> i completely agree with the way that andy characterized it. it's a possibility and i would add to the caveat, witting or unwitting. >> attorney general barr says they could be consequent so for those who pushed the russia collusion narrative too far. >> history is written by the winners are largely depends on his writing history. >> the transcripts and the end of flynn's prosecution undercut the inv

when barr came in, he should have audited mueller immediately.ou can presume everyone that mueller touched was corruptly pursued. everyone should be pardoned; witnesses, targets, everyone. lou: that's an interesting point because, obviously, the fbi was corrupt from the inception preceding the special counsel investigation as well. it is, it is a stunning document, as you say, and it is also gratifying that the attorney general, william barr, appointed a man -- u.s. attorney jensen -- who moved this to a decision in a matter of months instead of what we have become used to, a painful, prolonged procrastination. this was, i think, a timely exercise of a power to stop an abuse of power. >> yeah. and general flynn deserves tens of millions of dollars from the federal government for what they put him through. the next step in justice, in my view, that's required are prosecutions of his persecutors. and you see this in the justice department filing who ought to be targeted, james comey. i mean, if mr. durham doesn't talk to barack obama, that will be

that's being held by the civil rights division, attorney general bill barr put out a statement he is very upset about what he saw in the video. in about an hour or so there will be a protest, supposed to be peaceful out here at the doj headquarters. arthel, i want to talk about what happened a few blocks from me last night. things escalated very quickly, six people were arrested, bricks were thrown at people. some secret service officers were injured, we're told that lafayette park is going to be closed today as a result of that. but back to this investigation that's going on here at doj and really across the street at the fbi headquarters. i want to read part of an internal memo obtained by fox news from fbi director christopher wray to all of the fbi employees around the country. part of it says, i quote, the events this past week in minneapolis clearly illustrate just how quickly that trust can be lost. as law enforcement, we're bound by an oath to serve all members of our community with equal compassion, professionalism, dignity and respect. the american people should expect noth

this aspect of russia investigation, barr, if barr hasn't seen any evidence to link obama and biden toen i would say there's not much evidence and we've already seen that there's not that much evidence behind on obamagate and what others did wrong. howie: that has to play out. i want to turn to joe biden, take a look. >> if you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or trump, than you ain't black. howie: emily's comment which he says was a joke is extremely controversial in the black community. do you think the press is giving biden a pass when it comes to judging him what we can only describe is a serious gaffe? emily: yes i do, i think it's more than a gaffe. the media is giving him a pass and displace the notion that the democratic party has taken for granted communities of color, taking for granted people's votes just because they sit into a certain box that their party puts them into. i think as well the evidence is the fact that after the comments when he talked about the ncaap endorsement profoundly reject bid the existing president and ceo and the media has also sort

that coming from fbi director chris wray who is working very closely with attorney general bill barr. also, jon, going on right now before is to it back to you, expected to be some sort of demonstration outside of the department of justice, the group online says they are peaceful, but they have some serious questions about how this investigation here at doj is being handled. we will continue to follow it, jon. jon: all right, david spunt outside of the department of justice, thank you. civil rights attorney brian claypool, owner and managing partner of claypool law firm. crossing state lines to participate in a violent protest is a federal crime, what do you think the chances are that we see prosecution of any of these people? >> hey, jon, nice to be back with you. what attorney general barr did was effective and from what we learned upwards 70,000 people in minneapolis later today or tonight. a lot of those might be coming from other states, so now that you have a -- an announcement by the attorney general saying we will charge you with a federal

one career prosecutor quit when barr intervened.ow taken the rather extraordinary step by asking for briefs or legal inputs for lawyers not representing the defendant or the justice department. now that's the only develop today. trump's acting director of national intelligence has declassified a list of obama's national security officials involved in pointing out it was flynn who was talking to the russians during the transition. today, grenell passed along the list to trump allies in senate pledging to move forward with investigations. also in the president and his fellons reporting today, paul manafort has been released from prison. he'll serve at least of his sentence in home confinement. to talk us through it all, mike schmitt and chuck rosenberg. mike, take us through judge sullivan's rather unconventional move by taking briefs from other individuals. has he done that before and what was the outcome? >> chuck rosen begg, i think we lost mike, do you want to take that one, judge sullivan has done this once before, is that right?

this comes as barr's move for dropping the flynn case is falling apart. the "times" also reporting, quote, a key former fbi official casts doubt on the justice department's case for dropping a criminal charge against president trump's former national security adviser, michael flynn, during an ha interview with investigators last week, according to people familiar with the investigation. two big potential blows to barr's efforts to do the president's bidding at doj. who better to explain those developments than "new york times" washington correspondent mike schmidt and former senior fbi official chuck rosenberg. chuck, i feel like you've been talking about the options available to judge sullivan who has been the judge that has had the flynn cases for many days. talk about what he did and if that's the sort of extraordinary move you suspected might be in the cards. >> it is extraordinary, nicole, but it makes perfect sense. judges rely on an adversarial process to make decisions. they assume they're going to have one person on each side of an issue. here wh

jon: bill barr, attorney general, saying that peaceful protests is acceptable and even encouraged but the violence that we have seen in minneapolis and so many other cities across this country after the death, unfortunate death of george floyd, those are unacceptable. he says they are being primarily led by antifa-like outside aggregators who in some cases are going across state lines to participate in those protests. let's bring in david spunt, live outside the justice department with more on this, david. david: hey, jon, the attorney general just made announcement in the building behind me. you can think of the department of justice headquarters as the central hub for the investigation of the death of george floyd. there's a criminal element that's going on in minnesota. jon, also there's a civil rights investigation here at the department of justice to see if mr. floyd east civil rights were violated and that's being head by the civil rights division here at the department of justice. they have several divisions. jon, something interesting that the attorney general just said, i did

i know that you do not have rose-colored glasses on when it comes to bill barr.you said barr has won, trump has won, the post-watergate reforms that were attended to stop presidents, attorneys general for political purposes have been obliterated, you have set me back weeks in terms of figuring out how to sleep again. you think this is bad, and it's done. >> i think in terms of, you know, through the election, yes. it was sort of a wake-up call. i, you know, haven't wanted to say that. but, you know, let's look at what's happened in terms of the flynn case being dropped. richard grenell, the acting director of national intelligence sort of leaking this evidence of what he claims is there's improper unmasking, and then his replacement, john ratcliffe, a trump partisan, a member of congress, and you know, next week on tuesday he will be confirmed by the republican-controlled senate intelligence committee. so it's partisans running the intelligence community and the justice department and helping the president politically, it seems, at every turn. >> in the past week

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but when you said barr has won, trump has won.ost-watergate reforms that were intended to stop presidents, attorney generals general for political purposes have been obliterated, you have set me back weeks in terms of trying to figure out how to sleep again. you think this is bad, and it's done. >> i think in terms of, you know, through the election, yes. it was sort of a wake-up call. i, you know, haven't wanted to say that. but, you know, let's look at what's happened in terms of the flynn case being dropped. richard grenell, the acting director of national intelligence, sort of leaking this evidence of what he claims is improper unmasking, and then his replacement, john ratcliffe, who is a trump partisan, a member of congress and, you know, next week on tuesday he will be confirmed by the republican-controlled senate intelligence committee. so it's partisans running the intelligence community and the justice department and helping the president politically, it seems, at every turn. >> in the past week, we have seen bill barr, o

deep into his presidency ag barr has said. this comes as a newly released interview transcripts from the intel committee that the congenital liar schiff was hiding showed obama had unusual interest in the case against lieutenant general flynn. and now by january 4th, remember 2017, only a mere 16 days before the president is inaugurated. the fbi with russian collusion investigation found zero derogatory material on lieutenant general flynn. his case was all but closed until fbi leadership and a panic demanded that they reopen it. on the very next day, january 5, 2017, then president obama held a meeting with all of the top intel and security officials. that would be clapper, brennan, comey, rice, yates, biden and others and after the meeting, in the oval office, he then pulled both fbi director james comey and the deputy attorney general sally yates aside for the purpose of discussing plan. now we know from the testimony at least late last week that sally yates testified she was shocked to learn that obama had complete intimat

abc's alex presha has more. >> reporter: this morning, attorney general william barr is defending the justice department's controversial move dropping its case against michael flynn, president trump's first national security adviser. >> it was not a crime. >> reporter: flynn pleaded guilty more than two years ago to lying to the fbi. his prosecution was one of the biggest brought by special counsel robert mueller's investigation into ties between russia and the trump campaign. the case centered around flynn lying about his contact with then russian ambassador sergei kislyak. even though flynn admitted to lying, the justice department concluded that flynn's prosecution was unjustified and that his statements were not material to any viable counterintelligence investigation concerning the russians. barr says dismissing the charges was an easy decision. >> you know, people sometimes plead to things that turn out not to be crimes. >> reporter: president trump claims he didn't know the justice department would be dropping the case. after the announcement he praised flynn as a hero and dire

>> well, first on bill barr, it's abundantly clear that two things are true about bill barr.e thinks the mueller investigation was wrong, a fiasco, and he's going to try and clean that up in his view, no matter what. and secondly, he doesn't particularly care about the heat he might get from democrats. and there's a basic underlying fact here that's crucial to understanding what's going on and that is that the flynn predicament has turned into sort of a cause on the republican right. president trump is kin delling to that and president trump one way or the other, i think, wants michael flynn set loose and by doing it this way, barr in effect liberates the president from ever having to issue a pardon, which many of us thought would have been inevitable otherwise. the fly in the ointment height be judge emmett sullivan who as you say has been both critical of the justice department's excesses in the past and of general flynn in this case and he does have it i think within his power to refuse this justice department motion to dismiss and in effect force the president to deal wit

bill barr, attorney general bill barr has been very clear that he intends to get to the bottom of this. he intends to clean house not in a partisan way, not because of any sort of allegiance to any political anything but because this is a total miscarriage of justice and an abuse of power at the highest levels of the department of justice. >> sandra: because we just heard from the president all all of this, he was asked about adam schiff, the intel committee chairman, and he shared his strong thoughts on the matter. here's the president just a short time ago. >> adam schiff is a crooked politician, one of the worst i've ever seen. this guy got up there and he lied and lied. i said we could sue him for fraud and then they said no, because he did it in the halls of congress, he's got immunity. guys like that end up going down. there crooked and bad. two months of the american people here that this morning to go back to your point about accountability and responsibility, what ultimately do you see happening with all of this now that the flynn case has been dropped? final thoughts. >> adam