in fact, bill barr in the new memo writes it.f you're hearing less about this part of the facts tonight, that means barr knows how to play the media and twitter and getting people salivating over words of fraud and full truth does require more not overreacting to a few reactions. let's go to the memo states the doj that voting impacted the outcome of any election. and he ends the memo with this fair sounding language that some congressional probe biden administration quote this is up to the non-partisan doj staff. not to him great care and judgement. fanciful or farfetched claims should not be a basis for initiating federal inquiries. wow. so that just passes the buck to these prosecutors while discouraging any hyped up voter fraud claims or cases. i mean, when you just look at it, i'm reading the memo to you. do you see that despite the tweets of the headlines it's weaker than weak sauce. this is legally irrelevant. now. viewers of this program know that we sometimes report the news with some choice rap lyrics. i got to tell you

that barr memo will save william barr from getting fire and have no impact on the process of president-electnd president-ele vice president-elect kamala harris from taking office on january 20th. >> today i've announced an advisory board to help our transition team translate the biden covid-19 plan in action to put in place as soon as kamala harris and i are sworn in on january 21. and we'll bring additional important perspectives on public health and expertise throughout the transition. this group will advise on detailed plans built on a bedrock of science and to keep compassion, empathy and care for every american at its core, making rapid testing widely available, more widely available, and building a core of contact tracers who will track and curb this disease while we prioritize getting vaccines first to the most at-risk populations. >> as the coronavirus continues to run rampant through the trump white house and trump campaign, with secretary of state of urban and housing development testing positive and mark meadows already testing positive, the president-elect of the united states of

but william barr got a letter today from 16 assistant u.s. attorneys who were assigned to monitor any irregulars in the election. the letter tells the attorney general that there is no evidence anywhere of any kind of election fraud anywhere in the country. and in the letter, the assistant u.s. attorneys criticized the attorney general for a memo that he issued on monday changing justice department policy for investigating possible election crimes. the assistant u.s. attorney's letter, which was seen by "the washington post" says that william barr's memo, quote, thrusts career prosecutors into partisan politics. so the memo by william barr sent to all federal prosecutors on monday is now being thrown back at him by the very prosecutors who william barr was encouraging to investigate the election. there was an awful lot of worried reporting about that memo on monday. a lot of observers took it as a corrupt attorney general's first move in an ominous attempt to interfere with the outcome of the election. i for one tried to take down the tempera

what is sort of a capacity for damage that barr's move has? >> well, third time hopefully the charm here on pandemic. but i think what we're trying to say here in terms of what barr is doing is that the concern is that over many years in justice department there was this norm that you didn't do election fraud investigations until the results were certified because what would happen is that if you did those investigations and details about them came out it would cast doubt on the result. so here you are having the president's attorney general, someone who has gone to great lengths to do the political things with the justice department that the president has wanted, now going out and basically authorizing the types of investigations that it details come out about them would feed that narrative and if you read the letter from barr that came out last night you'll see that he says i have already authorized some of these investigations. he said that the investigations that he's authorizing are ones that are about substantial allegations so he is say

everything in bill barr's famous memo. actually in addition to outsourcing lawmaking to the executives, congress has outsourced oversight to executives and private causes of action. i think what you just described has happened. whether it happened in an optimal way instead of delegating and lawmaking and oversight to other institutions, congress should be doing it itself. i don't think it is a great outcome overall, but i think what you described has actually happened. not sure i disagree with the consumer product safety commission, which has been referred to, has had its wings clipped a little bit. thatt to remind people congress has given away the basically the judiciary , it iso review a way like jupiter orbiting its own little orbit. and when the head of the group was called to congress, he was asked, how do you justify spending $200 million on a road novation -- renovation of your headquarters, his answer was what does it matter to you? that's not a good situation for the president to be in, so congress has to step up

bill barr from prompting the official in charge of elections to promptly resign. to look at all this toxic nonsense and ignore it like this clark county election official. >> they're stealing it! where were we? what was the last question? >> but we can't entirely ignore this because the president and his minions are trying to overturn election results while crippling confidence in our system. and now many republicans are putting party over country by enabling his insult to the peaceful transfer of power. so when don jr. tweets it's time to clean up this mess and stop looking like a banana republic, it really is just not the way he thinks. and that's "your reality check." >> it's happening. it's happening. and we can all see it. thank you so much for laying it out so clearly. >>> so how many of the trump campaigns legal challenges have been shot down in court? and honestly, even if they won on every single challenge that they've made so far, would it change the outcome of the election? we're going to ask a reporter that's been covering every single one of these cas

now you have this move by barr. what legal options does biden have to force his transition team to get maybe not just funds it needs but really the access, that may be what's key when it comes to nurational security wh it comes to sensitive information and the ability to discuss it and plan. >> completely. first, it is both. on the national security level, i want to mention the 9/11 commission said one of the reasons bush hadn't revved up his national security apparatus soon enough was because of the bush v gore election. there are real costs here in national security. not just that, as you say, the actual ability to be able to go forward with just standard planning, background, investigations of new appointees. this is not a benign move. when mcconnell says oh, it is nothing unusual, it is completely unusual because, and the bottom line shouldn't be forgotten here, there's not a shred, not a shred of evidence of these completely hysterical claims of widespread fraud or irregularities. there's a couple votes here, t

barr -- mr. barr making these statements. he was extremely careful. every word was chiseled out. for me the headline is the 20-year veteran of this under election crimes, mr. pilger, a herk to james moody, resigned. to me that is the real headline. francine: it is a huge deal and we are trying to figure out what this means for the republican party and the strategy possible there. stephanie baker says it could have something to do with the senate election in georgia. we will have plenty more on that. let's get to first word news with ritika gupta. ritika: president trump's attorney general, william barr, will let the justice department investigate potential voting irregularities in the presidential election. but barr has acknowledged there is no conclusive evidence and warned against what he called fast acting claims after he announced a new policy. the head of the department election crimes ranch resigned. the u.s. is set to hit record hospitalizations for the coronavirus this week. cases are soaring in illinois and michigan. the city of el paso in texas has more people hospitali

but it is notjust barr. state after state, somehow overturn the election. sorry to interrupt. do you think this is what william barr is trying to do. he hasn‘t been flavour of the month with trump has he, trump said he might not reappoint him if he won a second term, because he won‘t push an investigation into allegations that 0bama officials were spying on donald trump‘s campaign in 2016. and in this letter to prosecutors he also says william barr that fanciful or far—fetched claims should also says william barr that fanciful orfar—fetched claims should not also says william barr that fanciful or far—fetched claims should not be a basis for investigation, it doesn‘t show the justice department has found any irregularities in the voting. whatever his intent is, is there a possibility by escalating this up to federal level, it could bring an end to all of this?” this up to federal level, it could bring an end to all of this? i am afraid not. barr tries to cover his backside so to speak with that clause. don‘t

at the time barr seemed qualified because he'd been the attorney general before and there hadn't been. so really we just have to get back to -- there was a lot of stuff that's broken with the federal government. the department of justice wasn't one of them. it was above politics until donald trump, bill barr came along. >> so one of the things that i think really stuck out for so many americans this summer was when the president deployed federal agents to clamp down on peaceful protests. speak to how -- first of all, that was unprecedented. and again, what can we do to safeguard from that happening again? >> so again, these were not people who were trained to deal with protesters. the metropolitan police department in the district of columbia has that expertise. they were not involved, especially in what happened in lafayette square, where you literally had the president and his men deputizing prison guards, people from the drug enforcement agency, to do crowd control. and that's where they did illegal unconstitutional things like gassing and firing rubber bullets at those legal prote

bill barr is trying to prop up this narrative of false information for months now. this is just the latest piece of that. if you don't think it matters, look at yesterday's court filing in pennsylvania. they specifically referred to an announcement bill barr made about six weeks about this pennsylvania case involving nine ballots that went missing. turned out to be false number crime involved whatsoever. guess what? it made its way into a court filing yesterday as proof. that is not proof. that is fabrication. yesterday's announcement it took rudy giuliani about an hour to start trusaying it's proof. they're relin reliant on the norms and good people in the good government to do the right thing. i don't think bill barr has shown any ability to do that. >> the prosecutors on the ground are going to be the ones that have to uphold the integrity of the justice department and say can you put out whatever memo you want but we're the ones that bring the cases and we don't see any there there. >> 100%. >> we know there are still good people in government. and good people i

supposed voting irregularities. >> bill barr has lent d.o.j.'s credibility and d.o.j.'s perimeter to this notion of something unfair happened. that i think is the main danger in this policy change. >> reporter: barr's move reversed a longstanding d.o.j. policy dating back decades that prevents law enforcement from taking overt investigative steps before an election outcome is certified. in response, d.o.j.'s legal adviser resigned and saying in an email, quote. >> richard pilger's resignation sends a clear message he objected to the politicization of d.o.j. >> reporter: barr said in hi lers that it should not be based on claims. some barr allies says that shows he is walking a fine line keeping trump happy and making it clear freezing drizzle loess investigations will not be pursued but critics say it was a desperate move to stay in trump's good graces after the president previously left open the door to firing 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

what attorney general william barr is now telling prosecutors and why a justice department official is resigning in protest. >>> deadly dispute. new questions after a husband admits killing his wife. why neighbors say they don't buy his claim of self-defense. >>> plus, diana duped? the new investigation into a famous interview princess diana gave. was she tricked into talking? >>> the new tribble to trebek from "jeopardy" itself and four people who could become the show's next host. >>> later, reaching new heights. the incredible feat that has one rock climber making history. >>> good tuesday morning, everyone. we're following several stories breaking overnight concerning the transition of power in washington. >> attorney general william barr has now given prosecutors the authority to investigate claims of voter fraud. his move has prompted a top official at the justice department to resign. >> the other big story this morning, the future of obamacare at stake as the supreme court takes up a case today affecting millions of americans' health care. >>> it all comes as a new coronavirus

what is the overall significance of william barr's latest move?ed, and he admitted as much in his memo. fraudlarities and investigation are supposed to be conducted by the states and the doj does not get involved until after elections have been certified and confirmed by the states, which has not happened yet. they are not supposed to be conducting overt investigations. it is reassuring that barr asked prosecutors to not investigate what he called fanciful or far-fetched claims and only to pursue claims that if true would impact the outcome of the election, and so far none of those claims that have been advanced would do so. but by doing this, he is undermining the results of the election and adding to questions about election integrity, which is the opposite of what he says he's doing. so as a legal strategy, it doesn't seem to be working. it does seem to be in response demands's claims and that is justice department pursue the whole issue of voter fraud. stephanie, why are republicans backing trump's claims? it is a very curious strategy. it is

but that's not what barr's memo says.t says all you need is some irregularity to open an investigation. >> wow. it's really astonishing. you know, again, i think things are holding, but they're only holding because a lot of people are making the right decisions in the face of people at the top who are making decisions that fundamentally collude with the most evil impulses imaginable. andrew weisman, thank you very much. >> you're welcome. >>> next, the case to strike down the aca went before the supreme court today and two of the conservative justices did not seem like they were buying it. what they said. what it means for the aca after this. odors in the air and on soft surfaces. for 45 days. but when i started seeing things, i didn't know what was happening... so i kept it in. he started believing things that weren't true. i knew something was wrong... but i didn't say a word. during the course of their disease around 50% of people with parkinson's may experience hallucinations or delusions. but now, doctors are prescri

but that's not what barr's memo says. it says all you need is some irregularity to open an investigation. >> wow. it's really astonishing. you know, again, i think things are holding, but they're only holding because a lot of people are making the right decisions in the face of people at the top who are making decisions that fundamentally collude with the most evil impulses imaginable. andrew weisman, thank you very much. >> you're welcome. >>> next, the case to strike down the aca went before the supreme court today and two of the conservative justices did not seem like they were buying it. what they said. what it means for the aca after this. insurance coverage isn't something you want to play games with. hope you got dental. and that's why i love healthmarkets, your insurance marketplace. they guarantee you won't find a lower price anywhere for the plans they offer, so you're not just picking by chance. no copay?... sweet. with health insurance plans constantly changing, having the wrong fit could mean missing benefits

i think it's important aswe look at this memo from barr what it said, i'm quoting, investigations may be conducted if there are clear and apparently credible allegations of irregularities, important word, that if true could potentially impact the outcome of a federal election in an individual state. saying you can investigate any irregularities but does still have to meet the standard of potentially overturning things. is that right? >> that's right. i mean, the interesting thing about this memo is that you don't have to tell prosecutors that they should be looking into vote fraud claims. this is something that is routine, part of their job under every administration. so the interesting thing about sending this memo as it did, it comes after days and days during which the trump campaign and the lawyers were having press conferences, filing some of these frivolous lawsuits claiming that there was widespread massive fraud that cost the president the election, when they have had -- they've presented no proof of that. so what appears to be happening from this memo that bill barr sent yest

and he resigned tonight after bill barr issued a new policy memo. this is written very dense legalese and a lot of us are scratching our head what it means. it turns out bill barr is telling prosecutors around the country that it's okay for them to go over investigators' heads, interviewing witnesses and so on, looking into potential ballot fraud, election irregularities in the period before the states actually certified their election results. what this has the effect of is you could hear in the next couple of weeks, we could hear of prosecutors investigating or even bringing cases against people who are accused of election fraud before states get a chance to certify their results and thereby giving donald trump and his campaign some red meat, something that they've been lacking, something that they don't have right now, which is example, you know, concrete examples of ballot fraud which would try to support what the president has been claiming, that he lost this election, if he did lose this election, he is losing it because of massive fraud, don.

it will not look like attorney general bill barr.dulging the president's bogus fraud claim sending out a memo examining voting irregularities. the treasury secretary steve mnuchin. he refused to comply for trump's returns. betsy devoss, some republicans in the senate would not vote to confirm her so vice president pence had to step into cast a tie. seco and john ratliff, a proponent of the deep state conspiracy comes january is out with isolated rar enablers. that's a fresh start and it will be a lot more diversity than what you saw there. so let's talk about this now. former white house communications director, anthony scarramucci, how are you feeling? >> i feel great. slept and had a lot of champagne, i feel good. how are you feeling? >> i am still a little groggy. i can use another good night's sleep. there is a lot of chaos going on. you campaigned hard for biden. you told me that he would win. how are you feeling of these results and the turnout that we saw on election day? >> oh, well, listen, i feel fine about it. if you are a

>> well, i'm inclined to give the benefit of the doubt to bill barr. i have respected, i worked with him, i respected him. i've been against him in lawsuits and so forth, but i think he's a person of integrity. i think he believes very strongly in the constitutional role of the president. as i read that statement that he made, he said that we should investigate if there's legitimate evidence of wrongdoing. if you read the words that he articulated, they didn't seem outrageous to me. now, i respect david's view about all of this and the actions of the department. but i'm willing to listen and give bill barr a little bit more running room with respect to the department. so i think we ought to wait until the proof is in before we make judgments about that. >> the letter that barr issued, of course, many can agree, very straightforward. but the part that was curious is that it seemed to be replicating and giving cover to the president's political allies who the cynics would say are seeking to undermine confidence in the election. >> well, that's the cynics

lou: bill barr has been absent. broadcast to stand up and to lead the department of justice, to assure electoral integrity. do you know why the department of justice is so reticent when much of their tradition has been to assure fair voting, honest voting in this country, and they are absent? there is no knowledge whatsoever of a single action they've taken or where they've positioned themselves in any one of these jurisdictions. >> i don't know the answer to that either. i mean, we've got documentary evidence of dead people voting in pennsylvania and votes being burned and votes appearing from nowhere. there are all kinds of different abject voter fraud you should shoes that should being investigated and prosecuted quickly by the department of justice. not to mention the civil rights lawyers ought to be out there monitoring everything. lou: sidney powell, thanks for being with us. good to see you. thanks so much. >>> stay with us, we're coming right back. it's quite a, quite a day, huh? quite a period in our histor

attorney general barr -- the barr member prompted the department of justice election crimes branch tomittee might want to be concerned about? no we're going back to the 2016 election for the fifth time instead of asking pertinent and relevant questions about what is happening today. mr. richard pill tear, who resigned from that position noted that barr's memo abrogateed the 40-year-old non-interference policies for elections. end of quote. when general barr came before me in my office i asked him why do you want to be donald trump's attorney general? he said you should have seen the list of other people who he was also being considered. i thought i should step in at that point. secondly he said i want to preserve the reputation of the department of justice. is there anyone on or off this committee who believes that general barr's actions yesterday preserved the integrity of the department of justice? baseless claims are being made about voter fraud. do you know what the litigants' record is in court since the election? protesting the outcome of the election? 0 for 10. they have no evi

attorney general william barr. while critics are suggesting that this is a political move by william barr to shore up the allegations on the phone did allegations being made by president donald trump about white spread voter fraud it's certainly opens him up to criticism that again william barr has been acting as donald trump's personal attorney rather than the attorney general from the united states even though he said in his guidance to prosecutors that it has to be substantial fraud that they can't just be chasing any sort of case it's got to be significant and what's interesting is that some people are using that to defend william barr saying look he's not looking for small cases he's looking for big cases he's told prosecutors that they've got to find this before the results are verified we've heard from the republicans throughout the day including the republican party chairwoman as she has said that the election as far as they're concerned is not over that they have a number of legal cases they're just at the

bill barr clearly is. talk to us a little bit about your view of bill barr and his work on, and the justice department over the last 18 months or so. >> bill barr center role has been to try to erase the evidence, gathered through criminal and counterintelligence investigations of robert mueller and the fbi to exonerate the guilty, to investigate the investigators, to nullify jury verdicts against trump's hinchman like mike flynn and roger stone. and to pervert the administration of justice to protect a deeply corrupt president, and a deeply compromised president. and 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 and the criminal investigations and indictments of the senior bush administration officials up to and including the secretary of the fence on bushes part in desk in christmas of 1992 as is but to leave office, and bush pardoned them all and that

attorney general barr disagreed with the ig's finding. and has since referred to as the bogus russiagate scandal. so, this is the first time i have heard this kind of thing happening. and one witness told the ig that, quote, it would have been a dereliction of duty and responsibility of the highest order not to investigate. do you agree with that? >> i'm sorry, senator. i absolutely agree that it would have been a dereliction of duty for us to not initiate the "crossfire hurricane" investigation and the work that we did. >> as i understand it, it was a counterintelligence investigation into trump campaign ties to russia. you opened a counterintelligence investigation into trump himself after he fired former fbi director comey and linked comey's termination to the russia investigation. i don't know whether that's true or not. i'd like to know. you have said that if the fbi failed to open an investigation into trump under those circumstances, we wouldn't be doing our job. i believe you said that on "60 minutes request t minutes." so i think

matthew says, file sorry for barr. yeah, i said t he's crawling around being abused by trump and the cult. call 9-1-1 he's being abused. the senate democratic leader responded to the majority leader's opening statements yesterday. here's some of what he had to say. >> baseless claims by the president and his supporters that there's been widespread voter fraud and that the election was somehow rigged or stolen from president trump, that kind of rhetoric is extremely dangerous, extremely poisonous to our democracy. as in any campaign, the president has a right to bring legal challenges or request recounts where state law allows. however, there is no legal right to file frivolous claims. lawsuits must have basis in facts and evidence. and make no mistake, there has been no evidence of any significant widespread voter fraud. joe biden won this election fair and square. the margins of his victory are growing by the day. and former president, george w. bush, commendably acknowledged that fact when he congratulated president-

it's a continuation of bill barr's politicization and abuse of doj's power.going to make any difference. the facts just are not there. bill barr can change the rules all he wants he can't generate facts out of nothing. the margins are too big, they would have to flip more than one state, it's just not going to happen. bill barr is trying to let doj and use doj to support this narrative but there's no substance there. >> elie honig thanks for walking us all through it. >> thanks, jim. >>> okay. and we're going to post that fact check from jim on all of those lies regarding the election and the actual facts online so you can see it. >>> meantime, we're going to take you next to tacks to el paso where strained hospitals are now storing bodies in cold trailers as covid cases spike and local morgues fill to capacity. we will speak to the doctor battling it on the ground next. my nunormal: fewer asthma attacks. less oral steroids. taking my treatment at home. nucala is a once-monthly add-on injection for severe eosinophilic asthma. not for sudden breathing problems

so this barr memo has overturned that rule. that means that republican appointed u.s.orneys around the country are now free to issue subpoenas, send fbi agents to interview voters, take open action which will be reported in the press which will further fuel the millions of people who believe what donald trump says without evidence which is that there was widespread fraud and the election was stolen. barr himself does not believe there was widespread fraud but this action will have the effect, many people fear, of creating the impression that there is something to what trump is saying when, in fact, there has been no evidence. >> yeah, i can affirm at least in pennsylvania where i was for more than a week, i heard it time and again from trump supporters that they tlbl belie there is fraud out there that could overturn the election. this is an administration where the rule seems to have been norms are meant to be broken. but what are your sources telling you about reaction from inside the justice department to this? >> that people are deeply disturbed. that the resignati

bill barr clearly is. talk to us a little bit about your view of barr and his work in the justice department over the last 18 months or so. >> bar central role has been to try any race the evidence gathered to the criminal and counterintelligence investigation. to exonerate the guilty, to investigate the investigators, to nullify against trump's like mike flynn. and to avert the administration of justice, to protect a deeply corrupt president. deeply compromised president. and history will not be kind to william barr. lest we forget some 30 years ago william barr was in attorney general two. under president bush the elder. and he managed the criminal convictions in criminal investigations and indictments of the senior bush administration it up including the secretary of defense. on missions pardon desk and christmas 1992 as he was about to leave office and bush pardoned them all. >> that was the final cover-up of the iran-contra investigation. and william barr did that. so he knows what he is doing. we hav

what bill barr is doing is dangerous. it is dangerous. here's why. we have people across this country who are legitimately concerned about whether we will have a peaceful transition of power. i hear it from our viewers, i hear it from friends. you can see it in the questions that were just posed to the president-elect. are we going to have a smooth transition of power? the answer is yes. i mean, joe biden said they will. he's right. our constitutional processes are too strong, our laws are too strong. they will overcome all of this resistance. so we are going to have a smooth transition of power. the other problem they have is they have no evidence whatsoever. i look at these lawsuits, they are flimsier than the paper it's written on. there is no proof of anything. mike pence said one smart thing and oidiotic. he said, we're going to have a transition of power. >> so eventually we'll get hip to the fact that he will be the president and they will be working with him. jackie, i'm just wondering if you think of the mitch mcconnells, you think of the bi

we have seen attorney general barr ignore these rules at every step of the way.al weeks ago he publicly announced an investigation into a handful of ballots in pennsylvania and it was clear that his intervention was designed to put his thumb on the scales in favor of president trump to breathe life in of ofse false, baseless claims widespread vote fraud. this directive issued to prosecutors across our country last night is breathtaking. it is unprecedented and deeply troubling because it is intended --incite prosecutors criminal prosecutors across our country to now go on a fishing expedition, leading nowhere. but what the impact will be is ew will cast out, s confusion and chaos. we want a democracy that is good standing. they're good people across the globe that are watching this fiasco playing out in these united states. we are becoming the laughingstock for the world. so to have any attorney general who should be neutral and independent and fair weighing into this kind of chaotic strategy that is underway by president trump of using litigation to delay the in

so what do you make of barr doing this right now?ll, i'm sure it's going to be widely criticized. he does say in the latter portion of that brief memo that nothing within that memo should be interpreted as him thinking that there are or him saying that there are credible complaints thus far but rather he wants to clarify what the role should be. he says normally -- and item putting this in lay terms, erin. normally it's the states' responsibility but he wants it made clear that with regard to a federal election if there are clear and credible complaints they've got authorization to look into them. that's what he wanted to allow people to do. >> okay. so michael, and i also just want to be clear to put an exclamation point on what i said here as i introduced you and fernita. the trump campaign is only kind of pointing at? places, the places where they're behind to say that they think there's some kind of fraud. not saying anything about arizona, right? where it's getting narrower and narrower and narrower in the president's favor. the

attorney general barr disagreed with the ig's finding. and has since referred to as the bogus russiagate scandal. so, this is the first time i have heard this kind of thing happening. and one witness told the ig that, quote, it would have been a dereliction of duty and responsibility of the highest order not to investigate. do you agree with that? >> i'm sorry, senator. i absolutely agree that it would have been a dereliction of duty for us to not initiate the "crossfire hurricane" investigation and the work that we did. >> as i understand it, it was a counterintelligence investigation into trump campaign ties to russia. you opened a counterintelligence investigation into trump himself after he fired former fbi director comey and linked comey's termination to the russia investigation. i don't know whether that's true or not. i'd like to know. you have said that if the fbi failed to open an investigation into trump under those circumstances, we wouldn't be doing our job. i believe you said that on "60 minutes request t minutes." so i think

so what barr has done is destroy the justice department. out to a point where it's a shell its former self. and now he's going to face a monumental task. an insitation that stood up and helped desegregate the schools and stood up for marriage equality and so many other things. >> modest lawyer, a friend of ours named neil katyal. >>> coming up more on the president's firing of the boss at the pentagon over twitter. why the former supreme allied commander is so concerned tonight. he's standing by to talk with us. d tonight. he's standing by to talk with us wow! a new buick? for me? to james, from james. that's just what i wanted. is this a new buick? i secret santa-ed myself. i shouldn't have. but i have been very good this year. wow! wow! wow! this year, turn black friday into buick friday all month long. now during buick friday, pay no interest for 84 months on most 20-20 buick suv models. >>> well, it's just confirmation that the president is going to continue to keep the country in turmoil. he's not going to leave office gracefully. he's

so is attorney general and jackass-o'-lantern, bill barr.rday, barr broke with decades of justice department policies intended to keep law enforcement from affecting the outcome of an election, when he sent a memo instructing federal prosecutors that they could investigate "specific allegations" of voter fraud before the results of the presidential race are certified. so federal officials are now planning to intervene in our election at the request of their leader. that also has a bit of an international feel, doesn't it? during covid, this is the closest we're getting to a vacation. ( as tourist ) "such a fascinating country! i'm going to drink coffee in little cups, order a croissant, poop standing up, and just enjoy the coup d'etat." barr's move was so egregious, it led the justice department official who oversees investigations of voter fraud, richard pilger, a career prosecutor in the d.o.j.'s public integrity section, to step down from the post within hours. you know it's bad when the guy from the "public integrity section" quit. it's

so what barr has done is destroy the justice department. he has hollowed it out to the point where it's a shell of its former self. and now when biden comes in on january 20th, he's going to face a monumental task of how do you rebuild this glorious institution, institution that's stood up and helped desegregate the schools and stood up for marriage equality and so many other things. >> modest lawyer friend of ours named neal katyal. thank you very much for having us in and taking our questions tonight. >>> coming up, more on the president's firing of the boss at the pentagon over twitter. why the former supreme allied commander is so concerned tonight, he's standing by to talk with us. heart failure causes nearly two hospitalizations every minute. understanding how to talk to your doctor about treatment options is key. today, we are redefining how we do things. we find new ways of speaking, so you're never out of touch. it's seeing someone's face that comforts us, no matter where. when those around us know us, they can show us just how muc

under barr, reversed, counting all four career prosecutors to withdraw from the case in protest. you have served for 21 years at the fbi, in your memory, before president trump, how many times has a president called for the investigation or arrest of political opponents to aid him in his re-election campaign? >> i -- never, not in my experience, i've never seen that before. >> and june 2022 -- testified before the house about how trump political appointees intervened in criminal and exist to advance personal interest of president trump. what do you think it says about the severity of the politicizing of the justice department that two caredoj lawyers came forwar testify about it before congress and all four career prosecutors made the extraordinary move of withdrawing from the roger stone case? >> as i've said, senator, career prosecutors don't walk away from cases that they believe in and cases that they have spent a lot of time and effort trying to move forward. when you have any member of the department of justice who feels compelled to resign from a case or from the departmen

attorney general bill barr -- hi, everyone, by the way. to say look into quote substantial allegations of voting irregularities. steve: that's right it. all comes down as the trump campaign and republicans fight legal battles in the state of pennsylvania and elsewhere, we believe. gillian turner is live in washington, d.c. to give us the very latest. good morning to you. gillian: good morning, brian and steve. you are correct. the attorney general has broken his silence now really for the first time since election day. he has ordered the u.s. attorney to investigate any allegations of voting irregularities that he deems are substantial. as you know, election day is now a week behind us. some states are still tallying up votes after experiencing historic voter turnout. now, let's take a look at what the attorney general actually said in this memo. he directs that investigations should happen if there are clear and apparently credible allegations of irregularities that, if true, could potentially impact the outcome of the federal election in