that's not an attack on bill barr. simply saying, that's the way he view the justice department behavior in the trump administration and he has a different set of values, imperatives specifically to the attorney general is not the president's lawyer but the people's lawyer. i didn't think it was anything contrary to the message of healing. the big message about the 25th amendment, i don't think it's appropriate here unless you think, and i don't have any basis, that the president is impaired. i think he's acting the way he's always acted and it's regrettable but the truth. i think it would require that so many of the republicans who have, expressed regret over what happened yesterday, really come together. it would need to be 100-0 vote to help this country, hundred-0 vote in the senate. >> dana: andy mccarthy, you follow the justice department, you know bill barr. and his statements yesterday and today, they were quite condemning president trump directly. what about that point that joe biden made in his speech? bill m

barr, would you like to go first? >> in truth, that's a provision that i'm not as familiar with so i will defer to you, esther luskin. thank you. >> thank you. right now traditional ira's are exempt from r&d. >> what were looking do again one of the biggest consolidation about that is to the point of people are coming into the retirement age is retained as large balances. right now ira's are not required to have an r&d on this roth accounts but plans sponsored and government retirement plans are. what we are simply looking to do is to provide our government participant who work so hard, the benefits that the ira's are providing overlooking to even the field. >> mr. barr, i know how strongly you feel about our m.d.s fester r&d. the slippery provision in the bill that will affect people's like i said gasset this is about peace of mind in retirement and a fake mr. kreps talked about the golden years, people worked hard and in-depth in retirement and oh, my gosh, i'm not living desha outlived my saving i didn't i didn't w

but what barr did is besmirch the office. they took on the case of a president, something the president was alleged to have been done before he was a president. joe biden went on to say that's not going be to gar laland's joo be my lawyer. you're going to be the people's lawyer. >> i think it means the department of justice is and has been independent. i remember when i worked there, i was in the civil rights division. i remember being invited by the white house to come and ride with the president in the motorcade to an event he was going to in washington that involved a constituency that served in the civil rights division. i remember coming up to the white house and heading for the car and being told that the president in fact had decided he needed to make some political calls on his way to the event and therefore i could not be in the car with him because they were that careful about keeping politics and law enforcement separate. that is i think the spirit that merrick garland will bring. i'm glad for former attorney gener

can you believe that was bill barr? bill barr said something like that? the man who totally misconstrued the mueller report so that it could look like the president and the folks around him did nothing, totally shaped it in favor of the president instead of what it actually said. that bill barr, who carried his water, can you believe he's saying that? and do you know those supporters could end up behind bars for ten years if they're charged under the president's executive order protecting american monuments like the capitol. >> you hurt our monuments, you hurt our heroes you go to jail for ten years and everything stopped. you notice that? it stopped. it all stopped. it's like i brought an old law into existence when i saw them going around all over the country knocking down statues, monuments. and we signed, brought it in, updated it, signed it, ten years in prison. and you know, i signed a law that you take down any of our statues, any of our monuments, you go to jail for ten years. >> talk about the irony of all that poetic justice, right? the same ord

you have a theory why barr left. >> my belief is that bill barr was probably asked or in donald trump'sing which was illegal and probably what donald trump is realizing now that he knows another three days he's going to be out of office, that all of the records and all the documents and all the recordings are going to be made available and public if, in fact, that the new attorney general and the new administration seeks to do so. that, of course, being a democratic administration, i think what he did is he probably tried to task bill barr to figure out how to even delete stuff from the server or start shredding documents. i think that's when bill barr said you're sending me down the michael cohen path, which is straight to prison, my friend. i'm not doing it. so i think bill barr had some, you know, he had some convictions there. >> let's talk about the folks who surround donald trump right now. as things are getting tougher, fewer people are around him. he's got giuliani, he's got the foam pillow guy. they're telling him to oppose marshall law and different people in charge of the cia

are also learning today that both white house counsel pat cipollone and former attorney general bill barr have warned the president not to pardon himself. this is what we're getting here at cnn from multiple sources there. barr sent the warning before he resigned last month, and now in the days leading up to joe biden's inauguration, authorities are bracing for the possibility of even more violence as there are further threats proliferating online. while all of this is happening, where is the president? let's begin this hour on capitol hill with manu raju there. manu, what's next? >> yeah. we expect an impeachment vote that will happen on wednesday. democrats are moving at lightning fast speed to impeach president trump, as you said, the only time in american history a president will have been impeached twice, and all indications are that that will happen, the democrats have the votes, potentially some republicans would join on on the charge of inciting an insurrection after he was charged in 2019 for abuse of power, for obstructing congress as part of their investigation in the president

actually, according to bill barr, quote, precipitated the insurrection, jason. >> yeah. and bill barr was one of the people who did an investigation for donald trump and say hey, look, we didn't find any sort of election difficulties, any sort of cheating one way or another. he was not going to participate in the silly process afterwards. what i think is really interesting is again, when we look at the notion of this trial, every single person who is voting is also a witness, which is not what you would have in most trials, right? everyone is yeah, we were in the senate when this actually happened. if this were a "law & order" episode, there would be a special episode. they would bring in mike pence. did you highway, did security tell you that they were chanting "hang mike pence". the senators can try and dance around like bill barr and create word salad, but none of them can say it didn't happen. none can say they weren't afraid. all they can say is at some point they don't hold donald trump responsible. but unlike last year they can say well, it was a perfect phone cal

that's bill barr. donald trump has now lost two cabinet members and more than half a dozen administration officials. education secretary betsy devos was the latest to hand in her resignation which is effective today. elaine chao, transportation secretary and wife of senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, also resigned on thursday. they are two of the longest serving cabinet members of the trump administration. nine other administration officials have resigned since wednesday's attack on the capitol. they come from the justice department, national security and from inside the white house. in is concern among some that more top officials could resign including national security adviser robert o'brien and white house counsel pat cipollone. "the washington post" reports at least four republican senators including utah's mike lee have been privately asking them to stay because there needs to be quote strong leadership at the white house in the 12 days that trump has left in office. >> well, willie, we have

starting on december 14th when the "new york times" said that electors secures joe biden's win and bill barr announced his resignation and that is when trump started prodding the new acting attorney general jeff rosen to file legal briefs to over turn the election and appoint special councils to vest the nonexistent voter fraud and wanted a special council to investigate dominion, the elections equipment company that falsely said changed votes. and he wouldn't do it. and jeffrey clark was secretly meeting with trump and that cascaded to days before that insurrection at the capitol when trump had to be convinced not to fire jeffrey rosen. he didn't. but this is all coming out now about this big plot that trump tried to replace him so he could

including his own former attorney general, bill barr, of course, a trump loyalist in the early days. and he is saying that the president orchestrated this mob and betrayed his office by his actions yesterday. >> all right, kaitlan collins, thanks so much. joining me now to discuss, john bolton, the former national

and then attorney general bill barr bringing up whether or not he could and should pardon himself. it's something he's been interested in, obsessed with, sources say, since the moment he took office and brought it up again in recent weeks. i'm told, though, it's unclear in terms of timing of that, whether it was after the, what we saw the insurrection on january 6th at the capitol building. that, of course, brianna, brought renewed scrutiny on the president, and his role in potentially inciting the violence that we saw. as you know, the d.c. u.s. attorney said nothing is off the table in terms of investigating, and if it means they have to scrutinize government officials they will do so. all happening. we're told bill barr abelieves the self-pardon saying that a president should not be able to pardon himself. both believe in that stance. also we note the president's self-pardon power is untested. even those among the top officials disagreed with the president on this matter. i do not believe he should, but the president still could move ahead and pardon himself, almost certainly me

that's what they feel, congressman barr. nancy pelosi announced the impeachment managers, david sissel lynn, joaquin castro, and eric swalwell among a few others. congressman barr, the included swalwell, who of course was compromised by a chinese spy and he's going to be leading the impeachment effort. can't even make this up. >> you can. it's an opportunity, a lifeline throw to him so he can woefully reintroduce himself to the american people rather than the scoundrel that he is, he's nowal going to be a hero to the left, to lead or participate in the effort against president trump. this is such nonsense, laura, that it's almost beyond belief to impeach a president for this at this time and then to have people, including over in the senate make these ridiculous claims that, well, even if he's impeached and he's already out of office, we can still convict them. it's absolute nonsense. >> laura: they obviously don't understand the constitution. i think we saw alan dershowitz flip that idea away on hannity's show just a few mo

it was something that bill barr had said privately and publicly to the president. jeffrey clark having told them he reads a lot of things on the internet said that he disagreed with them and he continued. >> so this -- okay, you've got -- rosen is the acting ag after barr leaves. clark is the head of the civil rights division, which is in department -- >> head of the civil division. >> my bad. the civil division. >> it defends the administration in court. >> yeah, that's a very -- that's a big part of the department of justice. that is up near the top of the leadership. and he apparently was like introduced to trump by a pennsylvania politician and they start interacting for clark to be trump's guy in the department of justice to oust rosen so they could ride into georgia with the doj to, like, write some letter on doj letter head to say, you, georgia, must overturn your results? >> yes, first mr. clark asked mr. rosen to do it as the acting attorney general. when that didn't work, he had a conversation with mr. trump in which he came away from that conversation th

may be more about bill barr and lindsey graham may be more about lindsey graham.how do you explain a josh hawley. >> they made the decision that they were going to put their own 2024 ambitions over the country, over the constitution. and they are betting that somehow that can be trumpism without trump. and i think we're going to test that. and i think it's very interesting watching the shots being fired by tom cotton who has been very, very close to donald trump over this issue. so, again, it's going to be interesting to see how this plays out over the next few weeks because these guys have been very reluctant to get crosswise with their base. obviously, the situation in the house of representatives is very different than in the united states senate. but, look, this is a party that is moving very rapidly into the post-trump era. >> sarah, the dispatch today did their first editorial calling for the impeachment and removal of donald trump in these last 13 days. you got one republican on board, adam kinzinger at this point. look, we know that's not going to happen,

congresswoman on earlier and we all recall what happened when she was questioning attorney general barr about what happened to you and the assault on your capitol and he said he didn't know anything about it. all the praise he might be trying to get yesterday by condemning what the president did yesterday, he never followed up on that. you had support from the fbi, but not from the attorney general of the united states. that's the level it has to be at. it's not going to be the president. >> that's why i'm grateful to have president-elect joe biden roll out his team and say his fidelity is to the constitution and the people, not an individual office holder. you can't fan the flames of hatred and show up later with a bucket of water and pretend like you've been on the right side the whole time. no one buys it. we have to hold our leaders to a higher standard. that's what we'll see in merrick garland. i know that's what we'll see in the biden administration.

congresswoman on earlier and we all recall what happened when she was questioning attorney general barr about what happened to you and the assault on your capitol

i don't think, in fact, in evidence general barr's opinion is evidence that will be admissible. and so it's helpful but, no, it's not evidence. what we'll look at is the evidence of the case. i do want you to know, jake, we brought 20 such incitement cases in the past. that's a new law relatively brought into effect in 2011. so our prosecutors know exactly how to make these fine distinctions, and that's what they're doing right now. they're going through all of those cases, all reported cases in all jurisdictions with similar laws so we can make the right decision. >> just to remind our viewers, we heard in the previous segment, we heard president trump and his inflammatory language, as you describe it. here are some of the other individuals you just mentioned. >> stand up and fight! stand up and hold your representatives accountable! >> let's have trial by combat. >> today is important in another way. today is the day american patriots start taking down names and kicking ass. >> you've already said that you're investigating those three individuals as well for possible incitemen

people like barr and pence distancing from the plot? it gained momentum. 74% of republicans believe joe biden didn't win the presidency legitimately. everyone went along with the plan until it was too late. now this is the country the biden administration and democratic senate and house are tasked with governing. took 25,000 armed troops to keep the peace inauguration day, where a huge chunk of opposition, super majority wrongly believes they were victims of a coup. john podesta has been a democrat for years, joins me now. start on that note, john. how do you understand the task of governing that the incoming administration is being handed amidst what we have, which is in some ways a crisis as severe and acute as barack obama inherited in 2009, with added poison of the challenge to democracy and democratic rule, and big lie of the election being stolen. >> well, first of all, thanks for having me on, chris. good to see you just 40 hours before we have a change of administration. i think there's no question that donald trump incited an i

those are the things bill barr has not said as yet that the president is, in fact, the conspirator ofhe crime that occurred on january 6th. >> seems like you might have a few questions for him as a witness, no? >> well, let's see what he comes out with in the next couple of days, and, listen, this -- the strategy on what we're going to do and how the trial will be conducted is being discussed right now by all of the managers. i've been blessed and honored to be named as one of them. we are all working as a cohesive group. it's been a phenomenal team and we'll see what happens. >> your fellow impeachment manager ted lu told wolf blitzer he expects the article of impeachment will be delivered this week. i wonder if you can get more specific for us. >> no, i'd be less specific than that even. i think that the speaker will bring the impeachment articles when she and leadership, the senate have made an agreement to receive them. as impeachment managers it's our job to be preparing for the trial. that's the work i'm going to be doing during that time. that's what we're all focused on right

and with help with bill barr to do that because he saw as a threat the same reason he tried to bringthe media and portrayed as an enemy of the people. >> i think about the things that you write about in both of these books, moments when the president did not face consequences. moments when leaders who could've made a difference did not step into the fray, what is our hope for returning to her normalcy in the next presidency or the presidency after that if justice is so easily undermined, if the independent objectivity has so many forces working against it, if donald trump who was not exactly the most organized fact tatian could accomplish this what hope do we have going forward? >> we have hope because we've done in the past, never more clearly than after watergate which i read about in the book when the department of justice has become a tool of nixon's partisan attack on many parts of our democracy, we are reliving the history in a different demographic leader who is poisons the mind of millions of americans with his life but the path is similar internally we need the light and tur

president trump vowed a peaceful transfer of power. >>> former attorney general bill barr

he was so bad that bill barr didn't want to remain. bill barr walked out with some legacy intact.was a bridge too far, but he left his deputy in the department out to dry. there was an insurrection inside the justice department, and i wondering what the state of mind is of the folks that were sort of abandoned by barr in the final days, a coup plotted again thence acting attorney general rosen. it's always some unsuspecting bespectacled guy, and what was the damage down by that act at doj? >> you never want an attorney general who can get the president to listen to you to leave, but i do believe that bill barr's goal there was, i'm not going to have a shouting match with the president through christmas and january about a fraudulent election when none my u.s. attorneys see any fraud. the fraud that might have existed is so de minimis, i'm not going to get into that, i'm going to take my leave. but i also believe that he believed these were the place holders, that maybe they couldn't stand up to donald trump, but they would at least be loyal to his view on the issue of fraud and ho

i mean, what a historic abdication of responsibility by the attorney general bill barr. this guy doesn't deserve to carry a copy of the constitution around for the rest of his life. that is not the way to behave in the face of an unprecedented threat. and the president, if you're the attorney general and the president is trying to do these machinations, you stop them. you don't just leave and leave it to your deputy to try and clean up your mess. >> hmm. neal katyal, thank you as always for your insights. i want to remind everyone, you can go to msnbc.com/openingarguments for this and other highlights of neal's legal analysis, so relevant right now. we also want to show you what we're seeing here in congress as the impeachment article against trump is prepared to be delivered to the senate here within moments. they will make that walk on capitol hill. and we have a former impeachment manager and current member of pelosi's leadership team, congressman jeff rilz, right after this break. right after this break ♪♪ this is what community looks like. ♪♪ caring for each other,

and many of bill barr's former attorney general bill barr's colleagues said that basically his departurefore christmas was because he was sort of tired of the president haranguing him about overturning the election. hats off to katie for breaking this great scoop which, you know, last night my colleagues and i were scurrying to confirm, and i have to say one of the big takeaways from this is not just the president's desperation, but the fact that he is somehow able to always find another person who will enable his nutty scheme and replace the person who is pushing against him. in this case, we learned last night and katie broke most of this, too, but we confirmed that pat sipiloan who tried to help him stay in power and avoid impeachment and a vote impeachment in the senate that he was telling the president this cannot stand. we are not going to overturn the georgia election and remove your acting attorney general weeks, days before the inauguration of joe biden. >> katie, i guess i'm looking for your interpretation on this a little bit because while carol is right there always seemed to

. >> we begin with alice barr reporting from the white house. >> reporter: tonight a celebration forsident joe biden. in the time of covid, a virtual program mixing entertainments with recognition of the solemn challenge facing the new commander-in-chief to unite a country torn apart by a raging pandemic and toxic political divisions. >> america's story depends on not on any one of us, not on some of us but on all of us on, we, the people. >> kamala harris taking her place in history as the first woman and first black and indian american in that role. >> even in dark times, we not only dream, we do. we not only see what has been, we see what can be. >> everybody, everybody in dignity. >> reporter: the new president taken the oath of office and vowing to lead all americans forward, together. >> we must end this uncivil war. >> reporter: tonight a new first family settling into the white house after a day of rituals and symbolism and some bipartisan unity. president biden begins the task of turning his words into action to heal a nation in crisis. former president trump fought this tra

barr, again, could have taken a firmer stand. he could have been public.d have told us what was happening, he could have rung the alarm bell sooner, he could have warned us. he didn't do that. he sat by and let it happened and instead he fit a few weeks early with a letter comically, effusively praising trump on his way out. for vice president mike pence who decided at the last moment not to aid the coup. good on him. only to end up sheltering from a raving mob chanting "hang mike pence" as they stalked the halls of the capitol, looking for him and his family. by the time people like barr or pence were interested in distancing themselves from the plot, it had already gained its own momentum. you see, now new polling from nbc news showing 74% of republicans believe joe biden did not win the presidency legitimately. everyone went along with trump's plan until it was too late, so now this is the country the biden administration and the democratic senate and house are tasked with governing, a country that requires 25,000 armed troops to keep the peace on inaug

/ . -- barr.hink they will wake up every morning not thinking about how to put people out of business. hopefully it goes smoothly. but it's important to know that dodd-frank took care of some things that were at issue like leveraged bank issues. banks have really weathered the covid economy quite well and been there for the american consumer. vonnie: it sounds like you think regulators might want to go easy on business and rollback some of the dodd-frank provisions? or what you see happening in terms of actual regulation? aaron: i think they will come and harder on climate change. don't get me wrong. i do not think the nominee for the sec chair is going to go easy on the regulated folks under his jurisdiction. i think we will see smart regulation come out of the occ if michael barr is at the top of it and secretary yellen as fed chair, she knows what she's doing. we have an experienced team. amanda: aaron cutler, thank you for being with us. we appreciate your time. we have been keeping an eye on

they were always just enough to push joe biden barr barely intoe lead. we were ahead by a lot, and within a number of hours we were losing by a little. in addition, there is a highly troubling matter of dominion voting systems. in one michigan county alone, 6,000 votes were switched from trump to biden, and the same systems are used in the majority of states in our country. senator william ligon, a great gentleman, chairman of georgia senate judiciary subcommittee, senator ligon, highly respected, on election, wrote a letter describing his concerns with dominion in georgia. he wrote, and i quote, "the dominion voting machines employed in fulton county had an astronomical and astounding 93.67% error rate." it's only run 93% of the time. the scanning of ballots requiring a panel to adjudicate. in over 106,000 ballots, out of a total of 113,000. think of it. you go in and you vote, and they tell people who you are supposed to be voting for. they make up whatever they want. nobody has ever even heard -- they adjudicate your vote. they say, "well, we don't th

>> so the pressure on the act acting attorney, jeff rosen, began when barr said he would step down. he had another week to go, but he called jeffrey rosen to the white house and said he needed to talk to him about election fraud. he and his deputy are fighting off demand from the president to open special counsel investigations, to file litigation on behalf of his own legal team, his campaign legal team. while they are doing that, what they do not know is that one of their own colleagues, a top official in the justice department, jeff clark, who runs one of the biggest parts of the department, the civil division, has quietly been communicating with mr. trump. he was introduced by a pennsylvania politician, and basically communicated to the president that he actually truly believes these unfounded theories that the election was stolen. so as the acting attorney general is trying to defend the department from trump, he has no idea within his own department he is facing another growing threat. that sort of comes to the fore through december. >> one of the questions i have about the rep

mark, your reaction to michael barr as comptroller?different industries, a lot of different parties are going to end up getting hurt here. i think one of the biggest things, though, is -- throughout this entire administration, i'm seeing no help whatsoever for small business, no help for the goose that lay t's golden egg, that's obviously small business. so i think that's really the biggest challenge that we're looking at right now. i think what you're going to end up seeing your going to see higher taxes ayou cross the board -- across the board. small business will experience higher taxes. there's less money for growth. all of this will hurt us quite a bit. we're too focused on stimulus. there's a short-term high as relates to stimulus. what do you have to do after that high wears off? you have to deal with the hangover. and that's paying the price for all a this stuff that's going on right now. maria: i mean, on the positive side, michael barr brings crypto experience, so we've been watching crypto, right, you know, be so active with

speaking of personal animosity, congressman barr, very quickly here. what's mitch mcconnell up to?he trying hold together the republican coalition with murkowski, romney, and the other stragglers? is it personal with him and trump? >> i think it's both personal and also he seems to be trying to out-john roberts john roberts by appearing so nice to chuck schumer that may be some crumbs will be thrown his way if, in fact, we proceed with a 50/50 split in the senate. it makes no sense whatsoever, and it makes him look like a complete fool. >> laura: especially after president trump went into help him win reelection. after trump went into help him and campaigned for him, i thought he went double digits in the polls. he really -- she reached out to president trump when he needed him and now for a lot of people shivving him in the back. gentlemen, thank you so much. great to see you. if there was any doubt that biden couldn't give a rip about this concept of unity, well, look at his divisive and destructive executive orders rolled out this week. we're going to explain why the self-procla

is, 45 years ago, i had guillain-barre syndrome. i bet other people are wondering , should we take this vaccine? we can't take the flu vaccine, so we want to know about this vaccine. i am hoping that i can. [laughter] that is my question. host: thank you. other just so the reviewers understand, guyon paralyticrome is a condition. most people recover. understoodrly disease, but it can follow infections, and on rare occasions, influenza vaccine. can people who have experienced guillain-barre receive the covered vaccine? as of now, there is no evidence that guillain-barre follows covid vaccine. so alton, i hope you get the vaccine. host: another tweet, wanting to know if folks should continue to wear masks if all of this is over? , while wethe meantime are getting vaccinated, and for the foreseeable future, masks should be the norm. we need to keep wearing them. once we get to the point of what herd immunity," if we can vaccinate 75 to 80 -- 75% , and thee population transmission is soundly reduced, then i think we can take off our mas

here's nbc's alice barr. >> a celebration for president joe biden. in the time of covid, a virtual program, mixing entertainment with the recognition of the solemn challenge facing the new commander in chief uniting a country torn apart by a raging pane dimmick and toxic political divisions. >> it depends not on every one of us, some of us, but all of u on we the people. >> reporter: vice president kamala harris taking her place in history taking the role as first woman, first black american >> in dark times we not only dream, we do we not only see what has been. we see what can be. >> reporter: president biden wasting no time signing executive orders from climate change to mask wearing, a sweping immigration reform bill, and setting the tone for his administration while swearing in staffers. >> everybody, everybody is entitled to de-senn said andll s forward together. >> we must end this uncivil war that pits red against blue. >> reporter: a new first family, settling into the white house after a day of rituals, symbolism, and even some bipartisan u

barr wants leadership to step up. >> if you ask us, we'll do it again in a heartbeat.r end of the deal, and it's on the va and on the department of defense to hold up theirs. >> reporter: the executive order was in its final stages when the capitol was overrun by rioters last week. the k2 vets group is hopeful it will still get signed by president trump, though they are reaching out to the biden team in case there's no action before the 20th. tony? >> we'll hold up our end of the deal, to continue to shed light on stories like this one. catherine, thank you so much. >>> next, vlad duthiers will be here bringing us "what to watch." the stories you'll likely be talking about. i don't know why we say likely, you will be ohhh... i'm looking for coupon codes. well, capipital one shshoppig instantltly searcheses fofor availablble coupon c cs and d automaticacally applies s them. save me sosome cheddarar! capipital one shshopping. itit's kinda g genius.s. whatat's in yourur wallet? check k out this o one. long hair,r, loves to o hike anand plays frfrisbee... whatat is he, a a

i think attorney-general barr's messan is pl, clear, and unquestionably the truth. was an americangedy.day it is outrageous. it is devaouating. and i add to form attorney-general barr's lards that it was ul, predictable, and encouraged by none other than the president of the united states. and so this is an unprecedented event. let me talk abutthe predictability for a moment. we know that tese hate groups and malitiagr ps -- i'm talking about not the peaceful protestors, but the people who bceroke po lines and assaulted the capitol and left senators and congresswomen and men hueled down on to th ground with their gas masks out and ushereon to underground trains for refuge, th same refuge sought about the vice president of the united states. so this is a tragic day that was predibectable use the social media made it clear as to what was going to occur. and i have to tell you, yamiche is exactly right, and you, too, william, when you bring into contrast the black lives otests.pr you'll remember -- and there are pictures, and i would urge you and your fantastic program

of the pressure that the president was putting on many including his own attorney general william barr to investigate voter fraud and alleged election interference he praised the judiciary for not succumbing to that pressure course bill barr stepped down after declaring that there was no evidence of election fraud all of that to segue into his choice for attorney general the person who would lead the department of justice the law enforcement the highest law enforcement agency in the country merrick garland garland himself is perhaps best known as someone who was nominated for the supreme court by barack obama but failed to win that nomination because republicans led by mitch mcconnell in the senate refused to give him a hearing choosing instead to wait for obama's term to run out so that they could appoint a more conservative judge but the president elect seems here to be sending a message that one that fits with his promises on the campaign trail to reach across the aisle and appoint a centrist someone that can do this job with impartiality and garland has been praised in that regard

what we're talking about now is not the left, we're talking mike pence, bill barr, we're talking abouta — these are all conservatives now on a different side from mr trump. and that's ok, i'm all for a freedom of speech and difference of opinions. but when you want to shut people up and frankly, the supreme court is partly to blame for what happened. the supreme court has a majority of republican—appointed justices. hurray, hurray. crosstalk. james, they didn't want to hear the evidence. martin luther king said riots is the voice of the unheard. they should have heard the evidence, they should have heard the evidence. here's the thing. they chose to rule the way they did. when there's a rule of law, and you know this, when there's a rule of law, it means you accept what the courts are saying. you accept what nine unarmed lawyers tell you. that is the definition of the rule of law, and in the year 2000, nine unarmed lawyers said that al gore lost and they had to accept that. and when nine unarmed lawyers impose the rule of law, why can't that be acceptable? that's great. and hillary cli

also hundreds of affidavits from people who said that there was wrongdoing going on and even bill barrdent trump now, but he did say that there was wrongdoing in this election. on 2 december, he said there was no fraud that changed the outcome of the race. 60 lawsuits, we can go back into this all day. 60 lawsuits were put in place and all knocked down. mr trump is now facing potential impeachment and also perhaps worse for him, potential disbarment from office. that means that he couldn't run again in 202a. look, this is the swamp taking control. the burning of the reichstag was a pretext for hitler to consolidate power and democracy. when we get to those comparisons, we take a bit of a step back. if you talk about the swamp, about scapegoats, there is another way to look at scapegoating. it is simply a different word, accountability. look, there is accountability that should be appreciated from what the left has done as well. for four years, five years, president trump and his supporters were treated like scum. james, they pushed a russian collusion lie on the public, they called him

let's bring in nbc's alice barr, who joins us now at the white house. alice. >> reporter: raj, yeah. in that video that you just played a few clips from, from president trump, it's striking for a few reasons. first of all, it's striking because it was on twitter, and president trump had been locked out of his account for several hours as of earlier today. now, it was a very different tone that we saw in that message than what he presented in front of his supporters yesterday before they marched over to the capitol and of course stormed it. that may well be the closest that we ever get to a concession speech from president trump, though he did not go that far. he did say that he and his team had gone as far as they could to contest the election and essentially said at this point it's time to move forward. growing pressure today to hold president trump accountable for urging on his supporters before an angry mob stormed the capitol and then not condemning them afterwards. top democratic leaders calling for vice president mike pence to assume the oval offi

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with me is republican congressman andy barr of kentucky.thank you for taking time this morning. >> jim, good to be with you. >> you called the president's rhetoric on january 6th, regrettable and irresponsible. biggest picture, general question here, does the president in your view share the blame for what followed his words? >> yeah, the president here is not blameless, but ultimately, i voted against impeachment because, as a legal matter, the supreme court has set the standard for what constitutes criminal incitement in a way that doesn't violate the first amendment. and here, based on the facts, the president's conduct, while unfortunate, did not rise to the level of the legal definition of incitement. but beyond the legal analysis, i think the real point here is that with only seven days left in this president's term, what does impeachment actually accomplish? it looked to me, and every member, republican and democrat had to make their own judgment, but it looked to me more like an act of political vengeance as opposed to trying to uph

barr would be around another week. instead president trump summoned mr.o the oval office very next day after announced barr would leave. the president told rosen he wanted the justice department to file legal bries supporting his allies seeking to overturn an election loss." wanting justice department to side with the president's cockamamie lawyers and lawsuits designed to overturn the election. the president urged jeffrey rose ton apoint special counsels for widespread voter fraud and domainian vote herb machines. the president repeatedly didn't understand why the justice department hadn't found evidence that supported conspiracy theories about the election some of his personal lawyers had espoused with that lack of interest in doing the president's bidding to throw out the election results and keep him installed as president, that's apparently what led president trump to embrace this other lawyer at the justice department. jeffrey clark, who he appointed to run the civil division within doj. by all accounts jeffrey clark was on the same page as the pres