and then bill barr said i didn't know and i never saw the president's tweet. and again i can't disprove that but i very dubious audit so in the mob bosses, donald trump does not have to calling people to say, there's understanding. they get into a flow are instances that there are explicit things between the two. but i think that is close of an analogy that i can make it to the mob world. with that relationship. >> of course, and one of the think so, i want to give away too much in the book so i will stop pulling from too many exurbs. but one of the things in outlook of the big picture here, so part of why i like this book so much is that you see a lot of the real world the curse news cycle and the current world in the time capsule of the bill barr rain as attorney general and during the trump years. in one of the more pertinent new stories that has come out i'm imagining since your this book, as part of the eg carroll saga, she gives president trump rate in the '90s but more pertinent entered defamation in 2019, during his administration. there was a question

i think bill barr viewed donald trump as a tool, a vehicle to an end. he recognized down trump and he shared similar views of how powerful the president should be. he understood he wanted to be all-powerful as president and willing and able to make that ahappen. there is a synergy between bill bars unitarian executive and donald trump who didn't phrase us academically but donald trump said on the president, i have them, i can do what i want. bill barr recognized we are sort of simpatico on this and he could implement a lot of his agenda and personal beliefs to donald trump or thehe donald trp interfering so they both viewed each other as o a means to an e, bill barr had been a mama saying excuse me, i'm going to nearly four mueller and that's all trump cared about and barr viewed trump as maybe s somewhat witting or unwitting leads to his own personal and. >> i think that relationship was apparent when you go back to what was uncovered around ukraine and trump viewed them almost in a similar grouping and i don't know what is this about either trump or b

so the attorney general on the day was jeffrey who had been bill barr's longtime deputy and bill barr left shortly before christmas. and jeffrey rosen was mia that day. i can't really. ellie: what bill barr would've done the day but i think that bill barr, give them enough credit for being rational enough and unwilling, he crossed an awful lot of lines, blinds thati would never thought i would never seen an attorney general crossed but not everyone freedom willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and that he would've done the right thing and certainly not disappeared. i think attorney general has a job and that is to get in touch with the president and tell him like a lot of people are urging him to do, and equipment of all statement to call this thing off. but some of the blame sits on bill barr and the tendency to underwrite bill barr's danger level because unlike some of the obvious rudi's and the brooks and the donald trump tutors out there yelling to the crowds group. even others, very aggressive in your facing bill barr has a soft-spoken manner and he looks the part of the s

i'll connect really and bill barr, no pretty well i see the book of there's no evidence that bill barr actually did that naturally got involved with ukraine but is not a good look for the edgy with the president just casually thinks of you as a rudy in the federal payroll. >> of course and part of that i think into this question as well is that there are a lot of things not just in your book but beyond a lot of situations that are actually involved in and situations that he could've gotten involved in that he did not and i think that this question from tina is when you were writing this book, was bill barr given that book to comment on this book. did you reach out to him and if not, has he reach out to you directly to express his dismay. >> i'm really glad that question was asked for it yes my reached out twice in writing to bill barr and his team and i was forthcoming and i said, look at writing this book and i said it's all hatchet man and is very critical however, i be more than happy to come in and sit down with did attorney general and interview him and hear his perspective and th

bill barr never had that. he never had to stand face-to-face with witnesses,, with defendants orda lawyers, wh judges. as result he approached his job with the lack of humility and you realize the only real thing standing between prosecutors and abuse of power one of the main thinks is the integrity and principles of the people have those jobs. one encouraging sign that i'm seeing from the merrick garland administration is reducing the very strict wall of separation between doj and why does. i think that's absolutely necessary. i'll give an example just recently. maybe a month or so ago and doj did the search warrant on rudy giuliani so that was reporting later the byron white as was ticked off because that night was by w his first joint address of congress. they wanted to be this big moment and get a big chunk of news media was diverted to this sensational raid on rudy. when i saw that story i thought good, good that's exactly what should be. the lasting doj should at least be doing his call to the white hous

bill barr either way is. he puts on this whole i don't really read the papers are during confirmation he put this i don't really want this job, no way there's plenty of evidence out there is very image-conscious. i can't disclose what folks i know whow know him he will talk to the media and he knows about my book and he is not happy, which i take as a good sign. so if l you look at that atlantc article it is so one sided that leaves out the whole six months that bill barth was fanning the flames. as i was reading of the day it came out said this interesting kept scrolling down saying when is he going to come up with a mealymouthed explanation when it said those things are congress i really didn't mean this, i meant only this narrow way. or even maybe for him i said some things that turned out to be wrong when it really is they were wrong i corrected it. i would have been okay with that i would've given given him partial credit foror that. it is nowhere to beno seen in ts article. i did not go to journalism sc

somebody gave it to him. >> told him that he received that jewelry from phil barr, and phil barr tolding girl's home. >> phil barr? he was the owner of the septic repair business that had been at tara's house the day she went missing. but, was pee wee telling the truth? would he ever tell the truth? >> he told multiple different stories. >> what did he say? >> he said a little more each time he was interviewed and he would change his story to where -- to the point where it made him an uncredible witness. he admitted that he had seen the body at some point. it was a little interesting in that -- that particular area, tara's bones were recovered was within a couple hundred yards of one of peewee's favorite fishing spots. >> isn't that your connection? >> that it was a great connection, but mr. saint john was a very incredible witness. >> that story about getting stolen jewelry from phil barr? >> no jewelry from tara's home was found in the possession of phil barr. >> and anyway, barr told investigators, tara was fine when he and his helper left her house that afternoon. but questions we

that's what barr did, that's what barr said. it turns out that was a lie. at least a federal appeals court in washington has just ruled that that was a lie. according to a unanimous ruling from the d.c. circuit court of appeals, a three judge panel, when robert mueller turned in his report to the justice department, attorney general bill barr and the justice department never actually considered, at all, whether or not trump committed crimes, or whether trump should be charged. they literally never even looked at that possibility, despite what they said they were doing publicly. barr lied, according to the appeals court, and told congress and the public the justice department did consider that, and after that careful consideration, they definitely concluded trump committed no crimes and shouldn't be charged. the appeals court says, that barr lied about it. this is from a, again, unanimous three judge ruling from the federal appeals court in washington, d.c.. quote, the departments submissions indicated that the memorandum conveyed advice about whether to cha

and barr made it explicit. even if there wasn't this rule, because you can't charge a sitting president, regardless of that, just based on the evidence, trump still wouldn't face charges for anything. that's how bill barr broke the neck of the mueller investigation in 2019. that's why even after trump left office, and he was just an ex-president and therefore no longer protected by that justice department policy that says you can'tth charge a sitting president, that's why there was no clamor to a charge him then, with any of the gazillion instances of alleged brukz of justice that wereeg described i great detail in mueller's report. because barr said, he signs his name s to it, he said we lookedt everything here, regardless of that ruleer that says you can't charge him, trump definitely committed no crimes. he should not beit charged. barr's letter said quote, the evidence developed during the special counsel's investigation was not sufficient to establish that the president committed an obstruction of justice

president, please come to wilkes-barre, we have a beautiful city". and guess what?e kept his promise and he is here today. [applause] i want to thank the members of the biden-harris administration for making this visit possible. i truly believe president biden's childhood in northeastern pennsylvania was the foundation for his history of leadership and rise to commander-in-chief. the citizens of northeastern pennsylvania are resilient and truly care about their neighbors , much like president joe biden. mr. biden has stood up for the american people throughout the implementation of the american rescue plan, the bipartisan infrastructure law, and the inflation reduction act. these initiatives are investments that make our communities stronger, healthier, and safer. by implementing multiple programs through the american rescue plan funds, my administration was able to financially assist residents, businesses, and nonprofits most impacted by the covid-19 pandemic. with a focus on public safety, we were able to utilize the plan funds to enhance public safety for residen

and that is looks very mayor, -- wilkes-barre mayor, mayor george brown.cheering] [applause] ♪ [applause] mayor brown: folks, have a seat. please. sit down. yes, we are here today and joe biden is here today. joe biden is here for us because he cares about wilkes-barre and missouri county, and all the residents in the state of pennsylvania. as mayor, on behalf of the residents of the city of wilkes-barre, i am honored to welcome president joe biden. i first met president joe biden in his hometown of scranton last october. i said, "mr. president, please come to wilkes-barre, we have a beautiful city". and guess what? he kept his promise and he is here today. [applause] i want to thank the members of the biden-harris administration for making this visit possible. i truly believe president biden's childhood in northeastern pennsylvania was the foundation for his history of leadership and rise to commander-in-chief. the citizens of northeastern pennsylvania are resilient and truly care about their neighbors, much like president joe biden. mr. biden has stood u

barr will tell us that mr. trump's election night claims of fraud were made without regard to the truth, and before it was even possible to look for evidence of fraud. .. it didn't stop him from pushing the false claim and urging his supporters to quote, like hell. to quote, take back their country. after he lost the election various legal challenges will me were made.you'll hear testimony from a renowned republican board who explained the normal process by which candidates challenge an election. rather than rather than accept the results of an election and the decisions of the courts mister trump pursued a different strategy: he tried to convince the american people the election had been stolen. many of his supporters believe him and many still believe him today.the attack on january 6 was a direct and predictable result of mister trump's decision to use false claims of election fraud to overturn the election and claim power. mister chairman, i yieldback . >> thank you very much. i'm now welcome our first witn

trump appointed to run the justice department after attorney general barr resigned. we'll hear from other at this in the other senior justice department officials also. together, these public servants resisted mr. trump's effort to misuse the justice department as part of his plan to hold on to power, and we will show that trump's demands that the department investigate baseless claims of election fraud continued into january 2021. but donald trump didn't just want the justice department to investigate, he wanted the justice department to help legitimize his lies, to basically call the election corrupt, to appoint a special counsel to investigate alleged election fraud, to sent a letter to six state legislatures urging them to consider altering the election results. and when these and other efforts failed, donald trump sought to replace mr. rosen, the acting attorney general, with a lawyer who he believed would inappropriately put the full weight of the justice department behind the effort to overturn the election. let's think about what that means. wherever you live

they write this in the second page of the memo to bill barr.ed to reach a conclusion, we think the department should reach a judgement on this matter. on traditional principles of prosecution the department either brings charges or it does not. because the department brings charges against an individual only the charges beyond a reasonable doubt, any uncertainty concerning the facts and law underlying a proposed prosecution ultimately must be resolved in favor of that individual. the principle does not change simply because the subject of the investigation is the president. that's not what the special counsel found at all and they found all of the evidence and the six acts for the criminal destruction of justice. what robert mueller said if i could say laws had been broken i would. why did they distort the basic fact of volume 2 of the mueller probe report? >> so, you know, robert mueller acted out of principle whether you agreed with it or not and his view because the department of justice had a policy that he was bound to follow that you coul

former presidents attorney bill barr wanted to keep it a secret. the mueller report was released, that the report had all but exonerated the former president. and therefore, there was no reason to charge him.

the court finding barr never considered charging trump, saying in the ruling the memo barr ordered was an academic exercise and a thought experiment. back to the mar-a-lago search here. the biden white house has kept near total silence on the entire thing, at least in public. ron klain telling don this. >> one reason why joe biden got elected president is he promised he would stay out of meddling like his predecessor did, in investigations being conducted by the justice department. that he would not politically interfere in the justice department enforcing our laws. >> cnn is learning that privately, white house officials are concerned about exactly what trump took to mar-a-lago and whether it could potentially put the sources and methods of our intelligence community at risk. there's worry about the potential that some of what's in those documents, classified documents, may cause tension with our allies. remember, the fbi had material about emanuel macron. what's in it we don't know. i want to bring in cnn senior correspondent evan perez, former nixon white house counsel john dean and

amy: barre seid has donated over the years.buting dvd's entitled "obsession," andrew: he was believed to be the donor and the reporter on that story, justin elliott. he was believed to have donated $70 million to this group called the clarion fund that distributed those dvds, a really islam a phobic campaign, during the 2008 campaign. his team always denied that. they have always worked hard to donate money behind the scenes. what we have learned is he has both become exceedingly wealthy. he was earning up to $150 million a year in recent years, mostly from tripp lite. he was also giving behind the scenes a pretty massive amount of money. between 1996 and 2018, we believe he donated $75 million. he claimed that much in charitable deductions, so the number could be higher than that. amy: the washington post reported, george mason university law school changed its name to the antonin scalia law school due to a $10 million donation from the charles koch foundation and a $20 million grant from an anonymous donor and that the name c

the memo essentially lays out barr's defense of that decision. the memo contends, mueller's report did not establish a case to charge trump with obstruction, who failed to establish any underlying crime related to russian election interference. but, as nbc has reported, mueller's report actually did identify ten episodes that could be considered potential obstruction of justice. as one former mueller prosecutor points out, that is just one a couple of high-level justice department officials were worried about. >> two senior staff say to bill barr that the reason he should make the decision is because, if the memo comes out, it might be read to imply that the president committed obstruction. this memo makes it clear that the reason that bill barr did not ask robert mueller to simply come to a conclusion is because, as it says here, that report can be read to find that, indeed, he did commit obstruction. >> as for the ongoing investigations into the former president, tonight the justice department is facing a deadline related to the search warrant

i think the tag line is bill barr lied to us about mueller's investigation, bill barr lied to a courtbout those lies and then merrick garland appealed to try to bail out bill barr and it all collapsed yesterday. we've now seen this internal memo and what bill barr tried to tell a judge was, well, judge, that was a memo with deep legal analysis that i was really studying and relying on when i reached my conclusion that trump had not committed obstruction of justice. the trial judge said basically nonsense. this is a memo that was completed after the fact, it's essentially a cya, a cover your blank memo that you did to just paper the file after the fact. merrick garland appealed that and just yesterday or a couple days ago the court of appeals said, no, this was a cya memo, this was not actually something bill barr was considering, it was a predetermined conclusion that he would let donald trump walk. garland chose not to try to bring that to the supreme court wisely. now we've seen the memo and it is just that, it is trying to paper over the file after the fact to cover up for the fact

, video testimony from president trump's campaign manager and from former attorney general william barr on the president's claims of voter fraud. watch tonight on c-span, or anytime on demand at c-span.org. >> of next, catherine cortez masto speaks at a ribbon-cutting ceremony in las vegas. she focuses on covid-19 stimulus packages and her reelection bid. >> our community, we love for, and she supports our community and we are excited to speak with her again because we need her. [applause] [translating in spanish] >> let me just say i am so pleased to be here for the opening of tacos del gordo. people don't know during the pandemic, so many of our communities were so hard-hit. it was important for me as we thought the pandemic to keep our businesses afloat. crucial to keep businesses open, and because we were able to get the money out there, you have been able to keep businesses thriving and growing in our community, creating jobs and bringing essential services. as a latino who grew up in this community, i will always be here to have the back of their community and our businesses reall

and bill barr cleared president trump in the russia probe. now a federal probe says there was more to this that story. and there's more signs of known for democrats who heading into the midterms they're getting help from a one time adversary. the desantis dogma as he misquotes a bible gets underway on this monday night. good evening i'm alicia menendez in for stephanie ruhle. we have breaking news tonight the may offer new clues as to why the justice department moved so swiftly with a search and seizure that turned up 11 sets of classified documents at mar-a-lago. the new york times reports the government has managed to retrieve hundreds of classified documents from the former president since he left office almost exactly 19 months ago. the times writes quote, the initial batch of documents retrieved by the national archives from former president donald trump in january included more than 150 marked as classified. multiple people briefed on the matter said. in total, the government has recovered more than 300 documents with classified marking

. >> i want to start by asking, about matt morgan, bill barr, and all of that. there is no evidence of election fraud issues. >> yes, i agree with that. >> mr. cipollone also specifically testify that he believed donald trump should have conceded the election. >> did you believe, mr. cipollone, that the president should concede once you office and the doj finisher investigations and found that the president should concede the election a loss at a certain point after the election? >> well, again, i was the white house counsel. some of those decisions are political. so, the extent that, but, if your question is did i believe that he should concede the election at a point in time? yes, i did. i believe later mcconnell said in late summer that the process is done and that would be in line with my thinking on these things. >> as attorney general bill barr testified, december 14th should have been the end of the matter. >> december 14th was the day that the stakes certified their votes and sent them to congress. and my opinion that was the end of the matter. i thought

that is a unique distinction in american history and it says a great deal about william barr's patriotism and commitment to public service. perhaps his two tours of duty as an attorney general under two very different president were the inspiration of this book "one damn thing after another". our guest of honor tonight has had ash very distinguished carer both the public and private sector. he began government service in the up and the stray shower whether president reagan as a member of the white house domestic policy staff from 1982 to 1983. after several years in private practice he returned to government and president george h.w. bush's serving as assistant attorney general of the office of legal counsel and deputy attorney general and the 77th attorney general of the united states from 1991 to 1993. he returned to the private sector where from 1994 to 2017 he enjoyed great success and earned enormous respect has one of the nation's preeminent legal mind and i i'm sure he didn't he to deal with many things in the private sector. then in 2018 when he was undoubtedly enjoying the of the

ight now. >> tonight, a secret memo to former attorney general bill barr is unsealed today.barr's questionable decision not to charge donald trump with obstructing the russian investigation. and the former president says he was surprised the fbi came to get top secret documents at his club. but it turns out the government had been trying since before he left office. then, president

mueller report, and spun the mueller report and, quote, bill barr lacks candor. the fact that they issued this memo as cover for him to do precisely what he did on the same day he did it, sort of tells you the whole thing feels like more public relation an less legal analysis. >> we're going to be watching for developments on all of these fronts as we covered a lot in these first 13 minutes of the show. thank you guys for now. of course, tap me on the virtual shoulder if anything develops in the time between now and the end of show. ken, and javits and glenn and ryan stick around for our next segment. and the other investigation involving the former president trump, this time in atlanta. plus student loan debt forgiveness, who qualifies and what groups are most effective and what borrowers are saying. you're watching msnbc. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (woman) oh. oh! hi there. you're jonathan, right? the 995 plan! ♪ ♪ yes, from colonial penn. your 995 plan fits my budget just right. excuse me? aren't you jonathan from tv, that 995 plan? yes, from colonial penn.

no longer was bill barr theror even a pat sip len toe hello him.ald trump stripping the pows are of the presidency and violating the law because he's in a facility where he's not supposed to have classified documents and people with expertise to keep him from walking into the legal huge troubled waters that he's in right now, and so i think it speaks to what happens when you pull back the veil from the wizard of oz here and it's just donald trump and a handful of funkies at mar-a-lago who are break the law and not following the justice department. >> i want to ask you about carol's paper, "the new york times" did four years of reporting about donald trump's disdain for the intelligence community and disinterest in all of its products namely the pdb. it was consumed by jared kushner and the national security adviser and never voraciously consumed by the ex-president. what do you think he took and why do you think he took it? >> well, what that is the $64,000 question, nicole. in terms of what he took, when this started to come out, the 700 pages of

now we know that bill barr lied about those lies to the court. the focus here is this memo that evan talked about, this nine-page memo. what happened was a group -- a transparency group sued to get this memo. doj under barr went to court and said this is what we call a deliberative memo, this is something the attorney general studied and thought about when he was making his decision not to charge donald trump and to say there's no obstruction. well, the district court looked at that, the district judge and said this is not what this is, this is a cya memo, a cover your blank memo that was completed after the fact. it was already a done deal they were not going to charge trump. yesterday a court of appeals agreed. that's not what this is it, you misled us. we've seen the memo. the reasoning in it is completely thin. the pretext for withholding it by bill bar has been exposed. >> elie hoenig, thank you for breaking it down for us. we appreciate it. >>> the u.s. economy just shrank, but not as bad as expected. jobless claims just dropped. there is s

under the freedom of information act, barr had said this was a deliberative document. they were trying to wrestle with a really thorny problem as to whether to indict donald trump. not true. the federal courts are pretty upset that bill barr wasn't honest with the courts and the american people about what this document was about. legally, it's flawed on a number of fronts. it distorts the standard for obstruction of justice. it demonstrates he had a preconceived idea of how that mueller report was going to come out and that's not accountability for donald trump. the two takeaways. number one, bill barr really did tarnish the reputation of the attorney general's department and that's something merrick garland is trying to reconstruct. the second thing to keep in mind is donald trump is no longer president. my have you on why barr took that position in the memo and did all these cute maneuvers to protect donald trump is because he has belief in the massive power of the presidency. the president is in charge of the justice department so he can't obstruct justice. all of t

this is perry barr, four miles from new street station where the stadium is transformed.ears to prepare, events got in the way. you must stay at home. tougher restrictions have come into force in birmingham to try to stop the spread of the virus. in the lockdown, the country set to host the world would have to adapt. this part of perry barr should have been the athletes' village, but with two years of covid setbacks, plans changed. now the participants are spread across the whole region, and this development becomes housing. the very fact that we are acomodating the athletes and the officials at the university of birmingham, the university of warwick and hotels around the national exhibition centre is a model forfuture generations of the commonwealth games and olympic games, because the construction of a village is very, very expensive, pushes up the cost of hosting these events, and the commonwealth games federation are keen to reduce the cost going forward to make these events more affordable for more cities around the commonwealth. the athletes may live elsewhere, but

barr responded in a statement to kron 4. increase safety for girls and gender, expansive ute. there are not one more girl campaign to end harassment and gender-based violence on transit. and bart has a network of more than 4,000 surveillance cameras throughout the system that are monitored by police in operation staff and real-time in 2 different locations in el serino, gayle ong kron. 4 news. >> a 4 year-old boy is kicked out of a school in the south bay after refusing to wear a mask in class. the schools among a few in the area with a mask mandate because of covid. this happening at the flu or cough elementary school in mountain view. the boy's father who is going by sean recorded the moment when the school's principal tells him to take his son home and is then escorted by a campus cop. the boy's father says that he attempted several days to send his son to school without a mask because his son finds them uncomfortable. the father also saying that his son was inconsolable when it came to trying to get him to wear one. the

bill barr wrote a memo to the white house before he was hired saying there were no crimes here. the fix was in. don't listen to me. two federal judges, one appointed by a democrat, one by a republican, have said that barr's conduct was dishonest and it was. >> norm, let me switch gears here. i know you're all fired up about this memo and there is a lot more to go through here, i encourage people to read it and understand, like, how critical it is even years later, but also important is what we have learned from the national archives and the fact that these emails show that they were really concerned about former president trump keeping all these boxes of documents, 24 boxes, some classified documents in there, they were worried about it and they told the white house they were worried about it while trump was president, while he was in the white house. and apparently pat cipollone, one of trump's lawyers, was also in agreement with nara saying, yeah, the president should give back the documents. and didn't, for a year. then he gives back half of them and the rest are there, and t

in washington, alice barr, nbc news. >> alice, thank you. we will be following the results of liz cheney's race during this newscast. coming up at 6:00, our political analyst larry gerston joins us live to discuss in depth if the race foreshadows what we could see here in november and across the country. >>> all right. well, this november, the nba is taking election day off. the league released its schedule for the upcoming season on november 7th, the night before the election. all 30 teams will be on the hardwood, but on the following day, november 8th, no games will be played. the league says it hopes teams will use that day to encourage fans to get out and vote. >>> well, today the inflation reduction act became law. it takes effect immediately. we just heard alice barr mention president biden sign the bill and shared a moment with senator joe manchin of west virginia as he presented him with the first pen. senator manchin helped draft the bill with majority leader chuck schumer rescuing lower medicare, drug cost and landmark climate prog

today the president was in wilkes-barre, pennsylvania. he laid out the framework for his plan to fund community policing and gun reform. this thursday's speech will be at a symbolic location outside independence hall in philadelphia. the president is expected to focus on how america's rights and freedoms are still under attack. you can see the presidential address right here on nbc bay area thursday evening, the exact time has not yet been announced. >>> truth social, the social media platform founded by president trump remains unavailable on the google play store. that android users who make up 34% of smartphone users can not download it. going. says it lacks systems for generating moderator content which violates terms of service. mr. trump has four million followers on this platform. >>> well, speaking of mr. trump, the deadline is nearing by the end of the day, the department of justice has to respond to former president trump's requests. he wants a special master to review evidence seized during the search of his mar-a-lago estate. n

let me bring in white house correspondent mike memoli who is traveling with the president in wilkes-barre pennsylvania, jonathan allen is with us along with former police chief and msnbc law enforcement analyst carmen best. as we wait for the president to take the stage, which we think will happen in nine minutes, there's interesting timing. the president was supposed to deliver this speech a month ago. he got covid. you know what happened inside that month. this search of mar-a-lago, lawfully executed search by law enforcement, that led some more maga republicans you could call them, allies of donald trump, to slam the fbi even as other republicans said maybe we shouldn't be going after law enforcement given that republicans have tried to position themselves as the party of law and order. there are interesting threads that president biden could pull on here if he chooses to do so. >> that's right. timing is everything in politics. look at the message the president was bringing here a month ago and he will bring again today talking in a defensive way about the ways in which democrats are

when i have been to wilkes-barre it has been raucous for donald trump. so far is he being received? >> well, it's so interesting you say that because when i interviewed then-vice president biden a few weeks after hillary clinton was defeated by donald trump, vice president biden didn't shy from the fact that he saw this coming. when i asked him what was that moment he identified that trump had a chance to win, he said when he saw donald trump in wilkes-barre, pennsylvania, and he saw the crowd and said those should be our voters, democratic voters. we are close to scranton. these are neighbors, people like the ones joe biden grew up with. so this is an opportunity and a designed by the white house for biden to have the opportunity to try to flip the script on republicans ahead of the midterm elections on a key issue, and that is law and order. now, remember this was an event originally scheduled a month ago when the president ended up being diagnosed with covid that day. and the message that the president was going to bring that democrats are the party o

barr did not say anything, in my mind, to undermine that possibility. >> that's right.n get a ruling on executive privilege, vis-a-vis, pat cipollone, and how that might really change things. laura coates, thanks. >>> still ahead, actress anne heche in intensive care after a fiery car crash into a house in los angeles. we'll have the latest on her condition. what we know about what happened next as well. nast traveler. but it is now time for us to work even harder, searching for meaningful expeperiences and new adventures for you to embark u upon. they say when you reach the top, there's only one way to go. we say, that way is onwards. viking. exploring the world in comfort. if you used shipgo this whole thing wouldn't be a thin yeah, dad! i don't want to al with this. oh, you brought your luage to the airport. that's adorable. with shipgo shipping your luggage before you fly you'll never have to wait around here again. like ever. that can't be comfortable though. shipgo.com the smart, fast, easy way to travel. it's 5:00 a.m., and i feel like i can do anything. we've go

this morning, new york congressman shawn patrick maloney and republican congressman of kentucky, andy barr. >>> plus, crisis in the classroom. >> we're seeing so many dedicated teachers leaving the profession. >> the nationwide teacher shortage. >> i was running myself ragged. >> putting children's learning in jeopardy. is there anything the biden administration can do to help? i'll speak to the secretary of education miguel cordova. >> we did not favor. we did not flinch. and we have not given in. instead, we're delivering results for the american people. >> signing his massive tax health care and climate change bill. while donald trump gets a victory of his own. >> i believe that donald trump continues to pose a very grave threat and risk to our republic. >> outspoken in congress. even as multiple investigations among him and his allies heat up. >>> joining me marc caputo. symone sanders townsend and ali vitali and republican strategist brenden buck. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >>> from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is "meet th

the courts have been really critical of the justice department and specifically of bill barr, saying that this memo was really an academic exercise, that it was a thought experiment, because he had already decided that he was not going to charge the former president, then the sitting president, with obstruction of justice. now, mueller cataloged a number of instances where he believed that the president could be charged with obstruction of justice, but he left it up to the attorney general to make that final decision. in the end, what you see in this memo is a discussion of various instances, including this one, if you remember the story of don mcgahn being asked by the president to deny that he ever asked or ordered the firing of robert mueller, the special counsel. >> which was a lie. >> which was not true. you go through this analysis in this memo, which basically kind of comes up with different excuses for why trump didn't really mean what he said. in the end, what you see in this memo is that bill barr and his aides have decided that because there was no evidence enough to bring

he is leaving out who bill barr is. if there is a creature of the swamp it is bill barr. the press paints him as a right-wing republican. he started his public career in the cia. they paid him to go to law school. he was counsel at the cia. he was then the attorney general william ford. host: it was h w bush when he was attorney general. why are you giving us this cv for bill barr? caller: bill barr is a creature of the swamp. host: what is that mean? caller: he was one of many liberal republicans who were installed in the cabinet of mr. trump. mr. trump did not know any better. to give you an idea of mr. barr is, he personally defended the fbi agent in idaho who were attacked by the fbi. host: i think we got the point about bill barr being a creature of the so-called swamp here in washington. can you give us a historical context? guest: what about all the lawsuits if you don't believe barr? there were something like 50 lawsuits that went nowhere. none of the claims have ever panned out. bill barr has had a long career. i don't really have much to say about the claims abo

he is leaving out who bill barr is. if there is a creature of the swamp it is bill barr.he press paints him as a right-wing republican. he started his public career in the cia. they paid him to go to law school. he was counsel at the cia. he was then the attorney general william ford. host: it was h w bush when he was attorney general. why are you giving us this cv for bill barr? caller: bill barr is a creature of the swamp. host: what is that mean? caller: he was one of many liberal republicans who were installed in the cabinet of mr. trump. mr. trump did not know any better. to give you an idea of mr. barr is, he personally defended the fbi agent in idaho who were attacked by the fbi. host: i think we got the point about bill barr being a creature of the so-called swamp here in washington. can you give us a historical context? guest: what about all the lawsuits if you don't believe barr? there were something like 50 lawsuits that went nowhere. none of the claims have ever panned out. bill barr has had a long career. i don't really have much to say about the claims about