tells barr to do it. barr does it. barr leans on geoffrey berman at sdny and geoffrey berman says no. as he argued, quote, the suggestion that the justice department would offer turkish officials protection from criminal charges even without their agreement to assist in the investigation is unacceptable and unethical. justice department policy specifically says criminal conduct by individuals doesn't get resolved when a company admits wrongdoing. berman told barr, quote, this is not how we do things in the southern district. adding that he would not agree to such a move and that his office would not be part of it. as "the times" reports, the administration's bitterness over geoffrey berman's unwillingness to go along with barr's proposal would linger and would ultimately contribute to his dismissal as u.s. attorney in the southern district of new york. that turkish bank, it was eventually charged by sdny prosecutors after they were given permission to do so by bill barr, not because of any change in evidence or circums

this is really insane and i think what you see with bill barr, bill barr has done every single thingdent has asked. he served up the mueller report in his own way so that he could sabotage it. and he has done everything that the president wants. and here it is, he hasn't done this one little thing, which is to conclude a politically motivated investigation for the president, and bill barr is now writing his path to becoming the jeff sessions of 2020. >> i mean, bill barr makes me miss jeff sessions. heidi, let me read you some axios reporting that donald trump responded to in an interview on rush limbaugh that went so long. rush limbaugh actually ended it. so axios reported that bill barr is telling republicans that the durham probe won't yield a report before the election. here is donald trump reacting to this on rush limbaugh today. >> if that's the case, i'm very disappointed. i think it is a terrible thing. and i'll say it to his face. this is a disgrace. if that just came out, and you know, i purposely tried to stay away from it because they all say it's better if i'm not involv

barr on c-span. c-span is a microcosm of how the media treats conservatives and is indicative and illustrated by who spouted lie after lie and you didn't ask any follow-ups. mr. barr talked about how the allowingsupporting and these violent protests and you asked him for proof. he talked about chinatown, chicago -- chi-town, chicago, but what about the summer of love? c-span, to me the biggest law enforcement issue right now is the premier law enforcement and intelligence agencies that conspired with the hillary clinton campaign to unseat a duly elected president. when is c-span going to do that story some justice? host: willie, appreciate the feedback. we are doing something right if we have a guest you agree with and a guest that you don't agree with. we try to find balance and let people call in and ask their own questions, but we appreciate the feedback will stop and you want to weigh in? we can go to the next caller. guest: i would like to go back to what the caller said in regard to the mayor i

. >> host: bob barr, our guest. it served eight years in congress as a republican from georgia and currently president and ceo of the law-enforcement education foundation. phone line if you want to join the conversation is support the trump pens ticket, (202)748-8000, biden and harris, (202)748-8001, as folks continue to call and congressman what is the law-enforcement education foundation and what do you do next? >> guest: the law-enforcement foundation is law etf which i have the honor of heading up we issue articles and pull together a media and we aggregate media stories that are important for law enforcement and important for americans to know about law enforcement and we also provide some small grants to law enforcement departments across the country. for example, if a department needs additional protective vests but does not have the funds through their local government to obtain them we are able to help out sometimes as well. >> what is most important, law and order, police said viewers should know about. >>

barr is why don't democrats condemn antifa? and what can the democratic party do to stop the violence and hatred? antifa is very much in the news these days. there's an argument over whether antifa exists or means anything whether it's organized or highly organized or poorly organized. but the fact of the matter is, it does exist. it's out there. we have seen its advocates throwing trash cans full of fire , looting buildings and so forth. they're helping to organize these peaceful demonstrations which then turned into riots with looting and burning. and yet for some reason on the caller poses a good question. it would seem to me to be a no-brainer for vice president biden and senator kamala harris and other democrat leaders at the national level in particular to say we condemn antifa. we might not know everything about it, we might not know how it's organized, but we see it, we see what it's doing, and we condemn it. it would go a long way towards differencebridge the , the gulf between democrat and republican tickets online or

and barr pressuring other people to find certain things. we're all hearing it. anyone that worked with the justice department are getting the calls from careered officials and john bash who was tasked with this unmasking report, he's a u.s. attorney in texas suddenly resigned last week and then issued this finding that there was no problem with unmasking. we'll find out the story there. i actually argued a case with john bash at the supreme court. he was an enormously talented by all accounts conscious lawyer. i'm not surprised to see him reaching this result. the problem i've had is thatt unfortunately so many officials have been taking the trump line and doing his bidding and that is a really cka ro ka row sieve >> important for someone in the arena at the top of the game. thank you. remind viewers, we have this and other segments up at ms nbc.com/opening arguments. still ahead, dodges and non-answers as democrats put more pressure on trump's supreme court pick. we have a breakdown, highlights and cream if you will but first, trump inside

when he's hoping for some sort of a last-minute october surprise from bill barr that not even bill barr is willing to give him. when he's also then relying on russian disinformation laundered through the "new york post," you get a sense of somebody who is just -- who has lost -- who has lost his instinct, who has lost the narrative. and you had an interesting phrase earlier where you said that the campaign seems to be about sort of self-comforting. and i think that that's right. it's like, make him feel good. keep him in the bubble. let him have that dopamine hit. it's almost as if they put donald trump's campaign in hospice care. let's just keep him feeling good although you know how it's going to end pup billion the freak out among republicans that i talk to is very real. but here's the problem. because they know that these voters are coming out and there's going to be down ballot blood, you know, a bloodbath, but it is way too late for them now to separate themselves from donald trump and sort of the horror is dawning on them that, in fact, you know, this decision they made to link t

barr who has completely, you know, prostituted himself. i didn't know him before, but he's completely unrecognizable to the people who claim to have known what he was like before. it's remarkable to me that people would have loyalty to someone who is so clearly -- lindsey graham, for instance, you know, said the president was saying racist things before. you know, i know he wants to get elected and stuff, but at a certain point -- yeah. >> you know, anderson? >> yeah? >> of all things that have shocked me over the last four years, it's really that, what you're talking about. senators i believe maybe about $175,000 a year. and they get free parking at national airport in washington, d.c. the way people have allowed themselves to be debased, the way they've debased themselves for $175,000 and free parking at national airport, never thought i'd see that. >> tom friedman, appreciate it. thank you. >> you bet. >>> coming up next, more breaking news. new reporting in "the washington post" on rudy giuliani. election misinformation and the russian

and trump started denouncing barr.gry when he heard there will be no charges as a result of this unmasking probe which, trump and his allies have been calling the crime of the century. now he's saying he's not committing to keeping william barr in the event that he wins a second term. when you think about it is so remarkable because nobody has done more to carry donald trump's political water than william barr. barr has ruined his reputation among half the country for the ways in which he's used his power at the justice department to do things the president wanted. which raises the question for voters, stephanie. who could donald trump find more compliant than bill barr and what would that mean for american justice? >> or does it raise the question for attorney general bill barr? how do they not see this coming? ken, thank you so much. >>> coming up next, joe biden is holding on to a double-digit lead in several polls but the campaign manager is warning the race sis a whole lot closer. it's still warm. ♪ thanks, alice

. >>> attorney general william barr reportedly says u.s.orney john durham's report on the origins of obamagate -- which he propsed, remember? -- promised, remember? he promised all of us. it won't be ready by election day. not the report, not the charges, not the indictments. barr also telling republicans not to expect any new indictments from durham before november 3rd. president trump, as you might expect, more interested in the public's right to know, was not pleased. here is his reaction to today's news from the attorney general. >> if that's the case, i'm very disappointed. i think it's a terrible thing, and i'll say it to his face. see, this is what i mean with the republicans, they don't play the tough game. if this were the other side, you would have had 25 people in jail for the rest of their lives with what we found. >> have you declassified everything about this yet? >> it's -- i fully declassified everything. everything's been declassified. lou: well, the attorney general told fox news that, quote: developments were likely in th

, which barr has not done. then just a few days ago, president trump had this to say about him. >> bill barr, will he be around in a second term? >> i have no comment. can't comment on that. it's too early. >> too early. >> i'm not happy with all the evidence i had. i can tell you that. i'm not happy. >> how would you, sir, or how should the public interpret this? barr resisting pressure from the president or do you have any faith that he can hold out? how do you explain that, that he's not going with the president's wishes to politically prosecute some of his opponents? >> let me make it clear. bill barr in the past has been a loyal servant in our democracy. he served on raably in the past as attorney general, and he's had other posts. i think every single person has his breaking point. the president demands to indict barack obama, the vice president, joe biden, and before that hillary clinton. these are simply beyond the pale for anybody. we've had to put up with this quixotic pursuit by john dunn ham, and th

bill barr h bill barr has been very pliable to this president ceding things like lower sentences forn for michael flynn. so far he's not ceded to the president in opening up an investigation on joe biden in the final days of a campaign. imagine if you had an even more plieb pliable attorney general who would. the president does control the executive branch and has the authority and power over the justice department. he has apparently very -- if not unlimited, at least very expansive ability to use the justice department in ways that we once thought were out of bounds. and so the question is how do you try to rein that in? the two lawyers are jack goldsmith who served as the assistant attorney general for george w bush and bob bauer who served as the white house counsel for barack obama. mr. bauer is advising a senior adviser to the biden campaign, so i think this book could read blueprint if biden were to win the election. but the most important thing is to see what do about accountability in the justice department. the special counsel would be not to report necessarily just to a bil

why is barr been so absent? >> you make a great point here.lear to everybody that i don't run the department of justice. i firmly believe that the attorney general should decide what he needs to speak out on. but justice has to be blindfolded. it has to be evenhanded, so the question is really what disturbing everything that i speak to, why does he choose to speak out guess black lives matter protesters in portland? why does he authorize tear gas in lafayette park against american citizens, yet stand idly by when armed militia storm the michigan state capital? that is a problem. not only does he do that, he doubles down. when the president tweets about it, he goes on tv and tells people that the governor's public health orders are the greatest danger to the united states since slavery. this is abhorrent. this should be abhorrent to every american citizen. >> what do you think, if the president is to lose this election, what happens in the final two months of his presidency? what are you concerned could happen? whether it's pardons, or there ar

barr lied alleges about the mueller report. he didn't. i encourage your viewers to barr's reportead and read the documents judicial watch is getting. bruce or, an official working with the clinton campaign, and gpswife working with fusion and having easy access to the justice department and fbi. everybody,elling these guys have it in for trump. you should know that. looking at the federal court rulings highlighting the illegal warrants being used to spy on the trump team through carter page -- florida, whereo democratic vice presidential candidate kamala harris is holding a campaign event with voters in florida. sen. harris: you are going to have an impact on people you may never meet, but because you in florida voted with your voice, you will very likely determine the outcome of this election. i am here on behalf of joe biden and myself to say thank you. [honking] i don't have to tell everybody here. there is so much at stake in this election. who watched the debates? [cheers] two.ve actually had i really meant that townhall. did you see

after all,barr has never after all, barr has never actually investigated, charged or tried a case.ined bureaucrat but has no actual experience as a prosecutor. and that's the man who's making these judgments overruling the prosecutors like yourself with the experience. >> well, that's true. and i want to make it clear that this is a sad day for me when i feel it's necessary to speak out against the attorney general of the united states. as you've noted i've spent almost my entire life in the department. i loved representing the people of the united states, and it was something that i was proud of every day i worked there. and it's there troubling when i see a bureaucrat basically supporting an autocrat. and that's sad. >> i want to listen to something that joe biden said tonight about the justice department, the way it's being run now. and he makes a reference just to help guide the audience, to the case brought by e. gene carol in new york where she's suing donald trump because she has accused him of rape. let's listen to what joe biden said about that and the justice department m

he seems to be an expecting an october surprise from william barr. >> yeah.t gasp of a desperate, failing man. to back up the justice department for decades has been a crown jewel of our democracy with which law enforcement doled out in a non-partisan way. i saw even in the clinton administration one of ken sta starr's officials, he thought about it and didn't. don't just use the prosecution power to exact revenge. presidents do not interfere with prosecutions. now you have this president calling for obama to be indicted and his chief political rival in an election in 26 days to be indicted. a part of the trump statements you didn't play over the last 24 hours he said attorney general barr will go down as a greatest attorney general or a sad, sad situation if he does not make the indictments. that is not the way that presidents behave. i don't know about presidents of russia or something like that. i will say that trumps had more bites at this than anyone. jeff sessions, the inspector general. the house intelligence committee, the senate intelligence committe

william barr clearly is. talk to us about your view of william barr and his work in the justice department in the last 18 months or so. >> guest: bar's central role has been to erase the evidence gathered through the commitment intelligence investigations of robert mueller and the fbi to exonerate the guilty, investigate the investigators, to nullify trump's henchmen like michael flynn and roger stone. and to pervert the administration of justice to protect a deeply corrupt president, a deeply compromised president. history will not be kind to william barr. lest we forget, some 30 years ago william barr was the attorney general too under president bush the elder and he managed to get the criminal convictions, criminal investigations and indictments up to and including the secretary of defense on bush's pardon desk in christmas 1992, as he was about to leave office, bush pardoned them all and that was the final cover above the iran contra investigation and william barr did that. he knows what he is doing. >> h

i hear bill barr is turning dissidents into mcnuggets.s no proof that wide scale election fraud ever happens. it's so rare that even trump's voter fraud commission couldn't find evidence. but that hasn't stopped trump from already filing lawsuits in north carolina, pennsylvania and elsewhere to restrict voting by mail. it's all part of his public service campaign: "(bleep) the vote." and during the debate, trump urged his followers to intimidate other voters by being a so-called "poll watcher." and now don jr.'s saying, "i'm helping, dad!" >> the radical left are laying the groundwork to steal this election from my father, president donald trump. we cannot let that happen. we need every able bodied man, woman, to join army for trump's election security operation. >> stephen: yes, every able bodied man and woman, which does not include donald trump jr. because he is clearly hammered. (as drunk donald trump jr) "the rackal left is tryn to steal the election, but i'm not gonna let 'em! 'cause i will fight the rackal left-- like i fought the

he and bill barr are trying to build a narrative that the election will be rife with voter fraud. people will throw their hands in the air and say, i'm just not going to go vote, especially about covid, if the election isn't fair. the reality is nothing could be furtheren from the truth. in 2016, one in four voted by may. yet despite all of the searching trump and biden are doing to dig up voter fraud. they evenle not found so. it's nothing more than lies, lies, and more lies. barr changed the long-standing doj policy that's served us well that keept the same p they anouchsed there had been voterle fraud. this is the sort of narrative that they're creating. and as barb says, it's corruption. >> i'm going to end with you. your pin is the scales of justice in balance. the narrative that joyce is talking about is, you know, how the justice department and president trump is knocking those scales out of balance. how worry ready you that the scales can't come back into balance? >> i believe they can come back into balance, and my pin is actually a little bit off-kilter because that's wh

he's really not happy with bill barr, as we know.t of pressure does that put on an attorney general with less than three weeks to go until election day? >> that's a good question. you asked bill barr directly that question a few weeks ago. i keep thinking about the interview you had with him. and when you asked him the question, you know, what does it feel like to have that pressure, what do you think about the president putting that kind of pressure on you, he said "i don't feel the pressure." now, you'd like to believe he doesn't no matter what the president says. but the track record seems to belie that. the attorney general time and time again, including with the unmasking, has looked like he's been trying to push those investigations forward because the president wants. it looks like he tried to minimize the effect of the mueller report with a misleading summary because the president wants. bill barr's also said, and i think he made this clear in the interview with you, that he would not rule out some significant law enforcement

i encourage your viewers to read barr's analysis of it and read the molar report. read the documents that judicial watch is getting where for instance a justice department official working with the clinton campaign's fusion gps, his wife nelly working with fusion gps and having easyaccess to the justice department and fbi , bruce ort telling everybody what these guys have it in for trump. but here's the informationbut you should know that . looking at the federal court ruling in the fisa court highlighting the illegal fisa warrants through carter page. all these are government documents and were going to look back on this and see what i think president trump correctly terms as the most, the biggest corruption scandal in american history and i fear what's going to happen next if this gang that pursuit trump so illegally abused the power entrusted to them by the american people are able to get away with. i think it will just get worse. >> host: this is brian, republican line. >> caller: :tom, i'd like to commend you on the work you do and i know sometimes you get dis

and attorney general william barr will decide what action to take.h that as the backdrop is william barr going to move on anything in the next 13 days prior to the november 3rd election? >> it is overdue. sounds like the fbi had this information for a long time. it is a matter that the attorney general needs to announce or give some reassurance the department of justice is taking this seriously and is investigating it. they are not going to get to any results or conclusions in the next 13 days lose they can indicate they are concerned, they are investigating it and it is a matter they are treating as a criminal investigation. what is at stake here is selling access to the white house for money through the son of the vice president where it appears the highest officials in the white house as well as other departments, homeland security for example, knew about the conflict of interest and potential disaster involving hunter biden. jillian: interesting to follow this to the outcome. let's talk about this, big tech battle begins, the doj filing a landmar

rant, as you mentioned, on fox calling kamala harris a monster, berating his attorney general, bill barr, for not having prosecuted his political opponents, reversing himself on whether or not he was still going to negotiate with democrats on economic stimulus as we got more bad economic news this morning, and also saying that even though he has the coronavirus, he intends to resume having his political rallies perhaps even as early as today. >> i think i'm better to a point where i'd love to do a rally tonight. i wanted to do one last night, but i think i'm better. no, i don't think i'm contagious, but we still have to wait -- >> how are you going to be at a rally? >> whether i was contagious or not, i still stand far away from people. i wouldn't go to a rally if i was contagious. >> you heard that raspy voice of the president. he said he hasn't been tested yet so he hasn't had a negative test. fu the further along he is in the course of the illness, the greater the chance that he's not infectious, but according to the white house he discovered he had symptoms middle of last week, which

against barr and other. >> i think the president is right the way attorney general barr will look atn history whether his allegiance is to the united states whether he is supposed to have pledged allegiance to the constitution of the united states. one thing the dossier did tell us russia you'll that was, now we know still is interfering with our election. howie: president made a little news with maria bartiromo moments ago. he wants a bigger package or stimulus bill that republicans or democrats are proposing. republicans want to do it, but some in the republican party think the cost is too high. let me get a break. we'll get sean spicer's take on coverage ever the president's illness. mike pence versus kamala harris, how the media are scoring the vp debate. manage cash flow, and run payroll. and now i'm back on top... with koala kai. save over 30 hours a month with intuit quickbooks. >> tech: every customer has their own safelite story. this couple was on a camping trip... ...when their windshield got a chip. they drove to safelite for a same-day repair. and with their insurance, i

bill barr knew the jeff sessions model wouldn't work. he determined to be different.nt in ways that are deeply troubling to us, like lying about the mueller report, any of the statements he's made supporting the president. what he can't do is force judges or investigators to see facts that don't exist. so guess what? when the president emerges from his fantasy land of deep state coups and getting inspector generals investigating the absurdity of the president's beliefs and they turn out not to be true, it's an uncomfortable place for bill barr to be. >> you share a home state with john durham. he was tasked to do the probe into the russia investigation. no nora dennehy was a long time departmeuty to him. do you think her departure jolted this investigation on to a more just track and -- i think most people believe that was the original sin that got trump to turn against bar and durham wasn't going to turn out an october surprise? >> i don't know durham. by all accounts he's a serious h is to find the truth for an attorney general who doesn't care much about the truth

i do not know what william barr is doing. i cannot speak to him. he has always been an example of a highly ethical really terrific lawyer and attorney general. i have to say, the fbi sitting on this seven or eight months is a travesty of justice. including some of the issues endangerment of children. disgraceful, actually. lou: we have just a few days to go until the election. do you think that there is a chance in hell that we will see any, any of the documents and the conclusions emerge from all of this before election day? >> i do not think you will see all of it emerge. ii think you will see a few more getting out w this painful way where you have to do it all day long with local stations because nbc, cbs, abc, cnn, all the democrat surrogates will not print it. i cannot see any justification for not printing this and not letting the american people know, at least know the words of hunter biden when he says for 30 years giving my father half of what i pull in. he is clearly a bagman. it is disgraceful what he did to a son. his son is a drug add

bill barr, choosing not to quarantine. he tested negative for coronavirus. he was an attende at the rose garden, seen here chatting with kelly ann conway, who tested positive. he is shaking hands, touching his nose. there is no social distancing, there are no masks, and if only we could read the words out of her words out of her mouth that would be part of the story. we can't. bringing in former u.s. attorney, i am trying to do the math. the nomination ceremony was last saturday. eight days away. >> if that was the super spreader, in which a lot of folks got the coronavirus, that would put us eight days away, bill barr, 11 to 14 days, still test positive and have the coronavirus. what is your reaction in his refusal to self quarantine? >> it seems extraordinarily reckless. the attorney general is walking around without a mask, going to public events in prifts, close indoor spaces and still circulating in public. it is clear the negative tests are meaningless. he could be spreading the virus, not yet testing positive. the science is well established, that is

trump refused to say if bill barr will be around. >> will bill barr be around the second term?appy. >> reporter: it is a sudden end to the investigation, republicans relying onto prove wrong doing by the obama administration. >> if we were involve in a covid-19 crisis, this would be the scandal of the biggest thing of watergate. >> reporter: so much for that. the president created a conspiracy accusing his predecessor of treason and involving the unmasking of michael flynn. flynn was swept up at foreign intelligence gatherings when he spoke with officials. typically american names are kept secret but several officials unredacted or unmasked. >> this was all obama. this was all biden. these people were corrupt. the whole thing were corrupt. we caught them. >> reporter: unmasking is not illegal. senior officials had the ability to ask for names in certain circumstances. >> to turn this into some sort of conspiracy to support the president's political narrative and for the justice department to pursue the investigation on no grounds? it is disgusting. it is absolutely horrible. >>

you have to take bill barr at his word.self because he attended the superspreader event at the white house. he been on a media tour around the country and one of the points that he hit over and over again was to make the same attacks on election that the president has been making, attacks that were so false at times the department has had to come out and retract them after he made them because they were based on nothing at all. so when you see the president attacking the integrity of the election and you see that the attorney general attacking the integrity of the election and see the department withdraw a policy that existed for decades, to prevent the public from losing confidence in the election, it is, i think it is clear because the policy the athe top of the department has changed. no matter what chris wray or the election security officials say, the policy at the top of the department is to erode confidence just as the president wants to do. >> mike schmidt david clanger wrote he took a step even richard nixon avoide

even barr himself from the very beginning suggested even before these inquiries were actually launched that there was wrongdoing that he was trying to find. he seemed to already believe that people in the obama administration had done something wrong and so far there's been very little if not -- pretty much no evidence of that. i think it bears repeating that this is something that not just president trump wanted, but barr wanted and i thought at the beginning when he said, okay, let's get an investigation going, you know, ultimately that might have been the right call because look at where we are today. there is nothing to show for all of this, you know, banging on the table about unmasking and i think that that's important for the american public to know but i do think that you're right, barr should be the one out here saying, do you know what, we looked into it and nothing has been found. instead he's been absent, i think, because president trump has made it very clear that if he doesn't deliver the goods, he's going to be pretty upset. the president wants these results, you know, i

, it's barr.s frustrating when nearly four years in, nobody bess on prosecuted or gone to jail. when i'm home in texas i hear all the time people go what in the heck is wrong that nobody's paying the price for it? i share that frustration, and i hope that doj moves and moves quickly to hold accountable everyone who broke the law, everyone who abused power and, sadly, it sure seems like there were a lot of them. lou: if he doesn't move forward before this election and bring this evidence that he does have to the american people, i will tell you, senator, i'm going to urge as hard as i can this administration declassify all of that, because i want to know the sources and methods are -- >> yeah. lou: -- for the trash and the garbage and the filth that this department of justice and this fbi spewed out for the american people on behalf of hillary clinton. i want to congratulate you on your number one book. give us your thoughts, as we approach confirmation of a new u.s. justice. >> well, we're obvious

william barr has not commented on this.g president trump has said publicly other than to condemn governor whitmer for her remarks criticizing him wondering why he had not been thanked. our miles taylor and chief of staff in the trump administration and cnn's analyst, andy, i want to start with you. the attorney general barr traveled up and down the country and to appear in public for any event that had to do with condemning and cracking down the left violence. three things he appeared in urban violence as well but not only did he not travel toll michigan to be on camera here, he has not briefed the public at all, has not said anything in public about a plot that kidnapped a sitting governor, what does it tell you? >> thanks for having me. it is really puzzling. i can tell you from having the experience overseeing these sorts of investigations for years and having to breathe on this, there are no way the attorney general was not briefed on this investigation as it went forward. the fbi worked the case which the governor was

your thoughts about barr.l to honor the people's right to know? is the president being too harsh in insisting that the people have the information with which to make a judgment before they go and cast their ballot? my god, the arrogance and the ignorance of the elites in this country whether republican or democrat is suffocating. >> yeah. trust the experts at the justice department. the president can't be president. that seems to be the suggestion, and it's from both the left and the right. they get nervous when the president makes the mistake of thinking, oh, my gosh, i was put into office here to be president, maybe i should exercise the powers entrusted to me by the american people and not defer to nameless bureaucrats or people who supposedly work for me but who ignore the public interest. you know, this president came to town to clean up the swamp and drain the swamp. and they targeted him and tried to destroy him ever since. and there's been few people out there within his own administration, within cong

. >> bill barr will he be around in a second term? >> i have no comment. can't comment. it's too early. i'm not happy with all the

november 3rd election date as reason that barr should not delay taking action. trump's pressuring of barr comes as national and battleground polls show him facing an increasingly narrow path to re-election. trump has yet to specify what crime he believes biden has committed. but that has not stopped him from going so far as suggesting to voters that biden belongs in jail. the justice department did not respond to requests for comment on the president's call for an investigation into biden. trump is trying to use all the levers of power as he struggles to gain ground on biden. he's expressed increasing anger over the resistance to the justice department to some of these appeals. it was not that long ago that if we found out something like that was happening in another country, we would be, like, sanctioning that other country, right? we would be leading an international coalition to pressure this poor country, obviously slipping into a authoritarianism, that they should change course. they should commit to the rule of law. literally we would be leading sanctions

so that is ag barr's position. >> i agree with that.the fbi is a very bad thing and you shouldn't do it and so a hard-nosed prosecutor may say, you know, i will go after it anyway, perhaps get an indictment but that was not this case. we're not talking about general flynn somehow not sharing the fact, which he knew there were in fact conversations with the russian ambassador. so it just again proves that the problem and it was a fundamental moral problem as well as a lack of professionalism problem in jim comey's fbi beginning with jim comey and his senior leadership, i were concluding of course peter strzok whose hands are over so many very diabolical things at the fbi leadership did during the transition, during the campaign and so forth. so i wish, here's wish. i wish director wray would give a blockbuster speech condemning the jim comey fbi once and for all but we may not get it but here is what we do have, the horowitz inspector general report determining that very bad things were done about it fbi and this is just another affirmat

barr. the president upset that barr hasn't been able to bring indictments against his political rivals, including joe biden and barack obama. >> see, this is what i mean with the republicans. they don't play the tough game. they don't play the tough game. if this were the other side, you would have had 25 people in jail for the rest of their lives with what we've found. >> so joining me is his former personal attorney, michael cohen. he's the author of this book, by the way, "disloyal, a memoir: the true story of the former personal attorney to president donald j. trump." good evening, sir, how are you doing? >> good evening, don, how are you? >> i'm well, thank you. what is going on with him? why is he ranting and raving? >> because he's like a trapped animal right now. he knows he's losing in the election. he knows that every time he opens his mouth, the world sees that it's -- you know, there's that old joke, how do you know that trump is lying? his mouth is moving. everybody's beginning

i mean, that's exactly what he told bill barr to do. the case is michael cohen versus bill barr.retaliatory, as the judge put it. for god sakes. why -- everybody needs to listen up and when i went before elijah cummings, before the house oversight committee. i told you donald trump was a racist and i was right. i told you that there would never be a peaceful transition of power in this country, again. now, everybody's using my words. i told you he was a con man. i told you he was a fraud. and i was right, on both of those. well, here's the last part, so i could be five for five. he's a liar. nothing that comes out of donald trump's mouth should be listened to, and none of it should be accepted. it's just plain and simple. >> he -- >> we have a president that doesn't know how to tell the truth. and that's a very scary thing. >> but he is obsessed with barack obama. and braqarack obama's no longere president. joe biden is not the president now. but he's obsessed with, somehow, doing -- jailing them. it's really unbelievable. i want to get to this interview, though. and you write ab