anderson, i'm joined here tonight by william barr, who served as the former president's attorney general, and who told him that his 2020 allegations of election fraud were not true. >> but as now said, he will support the republican ticket. therefore, donald trump, again, mr. attorney general it's great to have you. i want to talk to you about how you're going to vote in 2024 in a moment, but putting the merits aside, i like how you're laughing about that. putting american i'd say no, you don't agree with the merits of the new york hush money case, but you worked for donald trump. you got to know him. what do you think it's like for him to be in court, being treated like any other criminal defendant, and having to be there for days a week i think it's real tough on them. i think a lot of the country's sympathizers with them. so i think the longer the trial goes on, the more supportive gets well, i mean, he has claimed multiple times that this case is being brought essentially by president biden. i mean, you know how this works and how the breakdown in this works. presidents don't have an

and bill barr said he remembered him being irate. he didn't remember that specific call for executing him, but he said that it happened at other times where trump was was really angry, but it would die down on and no one took it seriously simply because it didn't happen. i mean, it's just remarkable to hear a top cabinet aid confirmed that, yes the president of the united states at that time did say things like that, right talks about it more and more than one executing and you could almost see during the interview, him sort of realizing, well clearly you're going to pursue this about like, well, what other cases are there and he clearly is started to kind of step back from that, but it seemed like it happened more than once. i mean, it just speaks to what was happening inside the white house and what that looked like and what became the norm. >> and then and it's it's remarkable feature itself. one thing there's a long list of courageous republicans going back to it, stopping joe mccarthy, going back to bury goal what i'm going to t

that defines where bill barr is coming from. >> and i tweeted about that because that's what bill barr cited, he talked about conservative things like clean energy regulations from the biden administration such as wanting to restrict gas stoves or electric vehicles. don't get me wrong, i don't agree with biden policies. i am a republican but to try to equate those things to something like the end of the constitutional republic, and my eyes, trump is selected, it's absurd. it is partisanship. i think i have said i will put my country over my party. i have never voted for a democrat, but if my choices are donald trump and joe biden, i have no choice but to support biden because i cannot support someone like trump. >> the threats to democracy is bigger than gas stoves taken away. let me ask you, mckay, you've written about this and you wrote a piece in the atlantic about what would happen with these enablers who would be in an administration. there was a quote that stuck out to me where you said, i think there will be a concerted, calculated effort to ensure that the people he puts in his

bill barr. it's very rare i read one of donald trump social media posts but tonight i feel inclined for he wrote wow, form ag bill barr who let a lot of great people down by not investigating voter fraud in our country, has just endorsed me for president despite the fact that i called him weak, slow-moving, lethargic, gutless and lazy. trump is actually right here, okay? he has said and done all those terrible things to bill barr. bill barr knows the danger that donald trump is to this country yet he endorsed him. can you explain to me why? >> i really can't understand it. you know, is he trying to make a buck? is he so insecure that he needs continued relevance? what bill barr came face-to- face with at the conclusion of the trump presidency was trump's authoritarian fascist nature and his absolute disregard for our democratic norms, values, and system, and nonetheless, still turns around and supports him, but forget about bill barr. what matters is all the other bill barr's out there in the re

bill barr knows that. i mean, it's it's frankly disgraceful that he's doing this about face now what you just mentioned there, you posted this last week and said that on an occasion where bill barr was present, you heard donald trump talk about suggesting executing a leaker, who from the white house we i brought that up with bar and this is what he said. but alyssa farah griffin, who was occasions stricter, posted yesterday and said that you are present at a moment when trump suggested executing the person who leaked information that he went to the white house bunker when those george floyd protests were happening outside the white house do you remember that i remember and being very mad about that, i actually don't remember him saying executing, but i wouldn't dispute it i mean, it doesn't sound the president would lose his temper and say things like that. >> taotie would have actually carried it out. i don't you know, but he would say that on other occasions you said the president had a i think people so

when bill barr took over as trump's u.s. attorney in february 2019, six months after cohen's guilty plea, barr not only tried p to kill the ongoin investigations, but incredibly he suggested that michael cohen's conviction on campaign finance charges should be reversed. attorney general barr summoned by deputy, who was overseeing the w cohen case in late februa to challenge the basis of cohen's guilty plea as well as the reason behind pursuing similar campaign finance charges against other individuals. mr. khuzami was told to cease all investigative work ons the campaign finance allegations until main justice determined there was a legal basis for the campaign finance charges to which cohen pled guilty and until barr himself determined there was an sufficient federal interest in pursuing charges against others. the directive attorney general barr gave khuzami, which was amplified that same day was explicit. not a single investigative step could bele taken, not a single document in our possession could be oureviewed. and if m

that was something bill barr cited in that interview. he talked about conservative things like clean energy regulations from the biden administration, such as wanting to restrict gas stoves or electric vehicles, things like that. i don't agree with biden policies on that. i'm a republican. but, at the end of the day, to try to equate those things to something like the end of our constitutional republic, in my eyes, if trump is elected in 2024, it is absurd. it is partisanship. i think that ultimately, i have said that i will put my country over my party. i've never voted for a democrat a date in my life. if my choices are donald trump and joe biden, i have no choice but to support biden because i cannot support someone like trump. >> the threats to democracy a good sunday threat of gas stove being taken away. mckay, you have written a lot about this and he wrote a piece earlier this year in "the atlantic," about what would happen with these enablers in an administration. there was a quote from hogan gately that stood out to me in this pi

bill barr knows all of this. he's decided it is a binary choice because, in his world, in order to stay relevant and viable, he has to put party over country. i mean, literally, when he uses the phrase russian roulette, when he uses the term russian roulette, he knows the danger he poses. he doesn't have to do this. look, you know, what is extraordinary is the contrast between what bill barr is saying and what the former secretary of defense, esper is saying. mike pence is saying, "i'm not going to endorse him." there are exit ramps. you are not required to look at donald trump and say, "okay, because i don't like student loan forgiveness, i'm going to put a man who is clearly unhinged, who clearly tried to overthrow the government, called for terminating the constitution." we could spend the next ten minutes walking through all of the things. "somebody found liable for rape, put them back in the oval office." but i do think it is interesting, the contrast between bill barr and much of the rest of the cabinet. we

bill barr knows all of this. he has decided it's a binary choice, because in his world in order to stay relevant and viable he has to put party over country. literally. when he uses a phrase russian roulette, when he uses the term russian roulette he knows the danger he poses. he doesn't have to do this. look, what is extraordinary is the contrast between what bill barr is saying and what the former secretary of defense mike esper is saying. mike pence is saying i'm not going to endorse him. h there are exit ramps. you are not required to look at donald trump and say, okay, because i don't like student loan forgiveness i'm going to put a man who is clearly unhinged, who clearly try to overthrow the government, we could spend the next 10 minutes walking through all of the things, somebody who has been so found liable for rape, put them back in the low -- the oval office. i do think it's interesting the contrast between bill barr and much of the rest of the cabinet. we need to remind ourselves that never before in

the directive barr gave khuzami was explicit. not a single investigative step could be taken, not a single document could be reviewed. if main justice decided there was no legalst basis for the charges, the attorney general of the united states would direct us to dismiss the campaign finance guilty pleas of michael cohen, the manmi who implicated the attorney general's boss, the president. barr's posture here raises obvious questions. did he think dropping the campaign finance d charges woul bolster trump's defense against impeachment charges? was hehm trying to ensure that other trump associates or employees would be charged with making hush-money payments and perhaps flip on the president? was the goal to ensure that the president could not be charged aftert leaving office? was the goal to ensure that the president could not be charged after leaving office? justice department rules do say, for better or for worse, that presidents can't be criminally charged while they are serving as president. but if federal prosecutors had det

again, i don't see how that applies to bill barr who is not running for anything.ld like to see more reporting on what led him to this decision. >> me too. the policy doesn't exist in the loyalty is nonexistence. okay, bill. thank you for your time, it is great to see you as always. >>> russian state media is saying that marjorie taylor- green believes americans should help vladimir putin. that is a thing that is actually happening. we're going to explain, coming up next. so you can lighten every day the metamucil way. if you're living with hiv, imagine being good to go without daily hiv pills. good to go off the grid. good to go nonstop. with cabenuva, there's no pausing for daily hiv pills. for adults who are undetectable, cabenuva is the only complete, long-acting hiv treatment you can get every other month. it's two injections from a healthcare provider. just 6 times a year. don't receive cabenuva if you're allergic to its ingredients or if you're taking certain medicines which may interact with cabenuva. serious side effects include allergic reactions, post-in

and by the way, if you might recall bill barr. yeah, he's the one who criticize trump's actions on january 6 and even ask the former president does it mocked him on social media earlier this week saying in part, quote, bill barr has just endorsed me for president despite the fact that i called him week slow moving, lethargic got less and lazy based on the fact that i greatly appreciate his wholehearted endorsement. i am removing the word lethargic from my statement listen to what bill barr said the kaitlan collins i'm very disappointed that this country is stuck with this choice between two people. >> i don't think either of them should be president of the united states, but given that binary choice i feel i have to choose trump. >> but he's mocking you it's not about me. you said recently, which was that the conduct that was involved with donald trump, you said trying to subvert and prevent the progress, the execution of probably the most important process we have, which is the peaceful transfer of power after an election. name o

and so barr learned through a chain of a sort of a game of telephone. sam rosenman was a law partner with ralph coughlin, who was on the board at moma and that's how alfred barr heard that the truman's were going to france. and so he decided to set up this meeting between truman and picasso. so and i think it's really one of the one of the best diplomacy, acts of diplomacy that you could ever imagine convincing these two people with very different personalities and political viewpoints and philosophies to get together. how he did it was, pretty simple. he convinced picasso that truman really wanted to meet him, and he convinced truman. picasso really wanted to meet him. and show you here, this is the this is kind of cool this is the letter of introduction that i found actually, i believe it's in the in the papers here. but the letter of introduction that alfred barr wrote for truman to give to picasso, very rarely do i agree to give letters of introduction to you, because i know how distracting visitors can be, yet i believe that you would be very pleas

bill barr, what is stopping you from saying? okay, you know what?t more worried about my bank account here. he can't say it. he can't admit the truth. they'll never tell the truth. those republicans that are so worried about democrat policies that are road the country are actually not worried about the social policies. they are worried about the fiscal because democrats want to give all our money way that's what's been ingrained in the republican mine when i was a young staffer on the hill that was a talking point. democrats want to take your money. they went to erode the american way for generations to come. and there's no reversing it unless you vote for the person within our next or their name. very simple. and that's what i heard right there. so for democrats though, they're working against, if they're, if, their plan as we're going to appeal to the thought that you couldn't possibly both for someone we're going to clutch the pearls, whether it's, whether it's the idea of an access hollywood tape or the idea of now the 88 plus convictions or sor

when bill barr took over of trans attorney general, six months afterwards, barr not only tried to kill in litigations, but incredibly, he's adjusted that michael cohen's conviction on campaign finance charges should be reversed. attorney general barr, summoned by deputy rod pisani overseeing the cohen case in late february, to challenge the basis of cohen's guilty plea, as well as the reason behind pursuing similar campaign-finance charges against other individuals. he was told to cease all investigators work on the campaign-finance allegations, until maine justice determined that there was a legal basis for the campaign-finance charges, to which cohen pled guilty, and until barr himself determined there was a sufficient federal interest in pursuing charges against others. the directive attorney general barr gave, amplified that same day by a follow-up call was explicit. not a single investigators step could be taken, not a single document in our position possession could be reviewed. and of maine justice decided there was no legal basis for the charges? the attorney general of the uni

barr puts out this press release saying berman has resigned. berman puts out a statement saying oh no i haven't. and there was this dramatic 48 hours in which berman twice refused to quit. refused to let his office be taken over by trump's attorney general. and finally, trump fired jeffrey berman. and the victory berman won in fighting so hard and making so much noise is that after he was fired, he made sure that his deputy, a normal prosecutor was promoted to take his place instead of bill barr. but this is a very bad black mark on the record of the u.s. justice department. and the result of all of this was, you know, terrible drama, scary revelations about the justice department under president trump. but it was also crucially a federal criminal investigation diverted and delayed and tampered with. the federal criminal investigation into the crimes for which michael cohen went to prison was stymied and here's a key point. it wasn't just the federal criminal investigation, because while all of this was going on, at the federal level, the inves

bill barr., bill barr, not del mar, bill barr and we went through this basement here on the show. i think he was here twice former attorney general under trump, as conservative as it gets i mean, he's, you know, he's a mel gibson's dad, catholic but he also called him one of a small group who i call the good as it gets, republicans. >> this is what i'm trying to convince my liberal friends at half the country is not going to self-report. we have to learn to live together and people like bill barr, liz cheney, mitt romney mitch mcconnell, mike pence, they all full-throated. lee said biden won that election stop the nonsense. that's as good as it gets in the republican party you know. >> okay? >> however, now bill barr says he's voting for trump he said, i think it's my duty to pick the person i would do would think would do the least harm to the country. >> the real danger to democracy is the progressive agenda trump may be playing russian roulette but a continuation of biden is national suicide.

what do you think, bill barr?> i don't know if they're direct links because frankly this has gotten in the way of the federal governments cases. i don't know what the federal government's posture is towards this as the administration. there are a number of people in the law enforcement community are sympathetic to this case. i think this case is a stain on the criminal justice process. this is a case clearly of going after the man, not a crime. there is no crime here. there is no crime. hush money is not a crime. trying to protect your reputation is not a crime. entering into a non-disclosure agreement is not a crime even, even if you're running for office. there is no crime here. they're trying to manufacturing one, manufacture one and they're trying to hurt, interfere with the election. that is what this is. larry: you don't think, bill, i don't have a lot of time, you don't think this colangelo person from the number three job in the justice department now to being the lead prosecutor in this case, that doesn't

wow, former ag bill barr who led a lot of great people down by not investigating voter fraud. and our country has just endorsed me for president, despite the fact that i call him, called him week slow moving, lethargic, got less and lazy based on the fact that i greatly appreciate his wholehearted endorsement. i am removing the word lethargic from my statement. thank you.

neil: bill barr always enjoy talking to you thank you very much.r attorney general of this great country served in that capacity not once but twice very unusual to put it mildly very patriotic also to put it mildly but patriotic depending of your point of view on the war in israel but a lot more of the protest a lot more planned after this. [chanting] [inaudible conversations] because you know the right way to save. stop! save with drivewise and get a rate based on you. you're in good hands with allstate. mylowe's rewards credit card saves us 5% on the things we need. 5% off. - 5% off. 5% of. and, as loyalty members, we get points toward mylowe's money for the things we want. oh, we want this. the all new mylowe's rewars loyalty program is her. download the app to joi, earn and save toda. ♪[chanting] neil: all right in the u.s. of a we're seeing more of this and institutions known for the most pedigree education and wondering what's next but these anti-israel demonstrations are popping up on the globe over but disproportionate number in the new yor

he would have to ask bill barr why he would say what he has said now but i think it is wrong. jon: i would rather ask you. but thank you. can you please elaborate on how your message has been received outside of washington and the rest of the country? what resonates among ordinary voters who may be less open to your view? >> i spend a lot of time traveling around the country and speaking, i have speak -- spoken on a lot of college campuses and i have been really heartened by the extent to which people are engaged and they are understanding what is at stake and they want to know what they can do to make sure that donald trump does not get anywhere near the oval office again. i think it is interesting, one of the issues that i think is most important is the focus on what he was doing while the attacks was happening. the reason i think that is so important is because someone who would sit and watch that attack on television, who would refuse multiple please by his family and his senior staff to tell them to leave, someone who would be told that the vice president had been evacuat

barr: with that, i yield. mr. burgess: i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. mcgovern: i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. burgess: i would just ask if the gentleman from massachusetts has additional speakers? if not, i'm prepared to close. mr. mcgovern: i'm prepared to close. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. mr. mcgovern: i yield myself the remaining time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, democrats have had to make some tough decisions about how to vote on this rule. and let me tell you why i voted to support it last night. i have disagreements with many aspects of the various pieces of legislation that will come before us. and there are some of these pieces that i will vote against. but again, there will be separate votes and there'll be separate debates. as we learned last night in the rules committee, the alternative that some of my republican friends were pushing

. >>> meanwhile bill barr was pressed on friday about his support for trump in this year's race.s said he will vote for trump despite previously saying that the previous president should be nowhere near the oval office and trump mocking him on social media just last week. here's what barr's told cnn's kaitlan collins friday night. >> what you said recently, which was that, you know, the conduct that was involved with donald trump, you said trying to subvert and prevent the progress, the execution of probably the most important process we have, which is the peaceful transfer of power after an election. name one thing biden has done that's worse than that. >> his whole administration. >> is worse than subverting traipse fehr of power? >> did he succeed? only because mike pence stood in the way. >> look, i was very loud in saying i thought it was -- the whole episode was shameful and i'm very troubled by it. that's why it's not anness decision, but i then when you have a hobson's choice, you have to pick the lesser of two issues. >> you don't see this as a definition of putting part

maria: andy barr in d.c. we'll be right back. ♪ the road to opportunity.n the road overlooked. at enterprise mobility, we guide companies to unique solutions, from our team of mobility experts. because we believe the more ways we all have to move forward the further we all go. maria: welcome back. the mayor of denver making cuts to the city police force to make way for more funding for illegal migrants. cheryl casone with details now. cheryl. >> that is right. denver's democratic mayor mike johnson he defending himself after announcing a $46 million program for migrants while announcing an $8 million budget cut p for the police department. the massive spending plan in addition to another $44 million in spending for migrants in the city in place, 5,000 my grants migrantswere living they the shn january, the number has fallen. he insists it's a sustainable plan for treating newcomers with dignity. the fire department also facing a budget cut. the universities of southern california canceling the commencement speech after online activity. she is accused of pr

alice barr with the details. >> reporter: president biden speaking to benjamin netanyahu, calling the israeli air strike that killed seven world central kitchen aid workers in gaza unacceptable. secretary of state antony blinken saying president biden's request for concrete actions. >> to address harm and humanitarian suffering, and the safety of aid workers. on their next steps. >> if we don't see the changes that we need to see, there will be changes. >> reporter: 33-year-old american canadian who leaves behind a baby boy and a heartbroken family. >> and they lost their only self and there were thousands. >> reporter: parents sharing their grief with the multitudes in gaza who have lost loved ones, and with world central kitchen founder. >> some of the people who died were my friends. >> reporter: calling for an independent investigation about what happened when israeli forces opened fire on a clearly marked aid convoy. >> they were targeted systematically. >> reporter: israel says the vehicles were misidentified in the dark of night, calling it a tragic mistake. the raw emotions su

in a fox news interview yesterday barr was asked about this year's general election choices. here's what he had to say yesterday along with some of his criticism from trump just last year. >> given two bad choices i think it's my duty to pick the person i think would do the least harm to the country and in my mind i will support the republican ticket. i think the real danger to democracy as i say it the progressive agenda. i said trump may be playing russian roulette, but continuation of the biden administration is national suicide, in my opinion. >> it is a horror show, you know, when he's left to his own devices. and so you may want his policies, but trump will not deliver trump policies. he will deliver chaos. he knew the claims of a stolen election were false, and yet he decided he was going to try to stay in office by subverting that process. there was very grave wrongdoing here. and i think it's reasonable to say that it falls within the obstruction of a proceeding. >> our country can't be a therapy session for, you know, a troubled man like this. he is a constant narci

from bill barr, a few minutes ago. >> i'm not happy with the choice. a terrible choice for the country, but it is a choice. at the end of the day, we have to select between two different individuals and i've said all along that i think it's my duty to pick the person i think will do the least harm to the country and i think that to me, that's clearly trump and republican administration. neil: of course, we know all the things he's said about donald trump, that he isn't fit to hold that office again, but obviously he feels that joe biden is even less so. how do you see that? because a number of republicans of his ilk aren't certainly reconciling that, tortured souls dealing with that. invariably to man and woman, not all of them, invariably for trump. >> publicly that's the case. and it's by this dilemma, if you will. millions of voters, i don't like the choice of the party i'm inclined to vote for. i don't like donald trump or i don't like joe biden, but the alternative is worse. this is an election we're not voting primarily for somebody, it's going t

taxpayers billions of dollars former attorney general bill barr testified this week. >> without china's production and export of fentanyl and fentanyl precursors there would be no fentanyl crisis in the united states. the mass slaughter would've effectively stopped. maria: 70% of drug poisoning the u.s. have caused by fentanyl. killing 77000 americans last year alone. 10 billion in taxpayer dollars is going to help combat the acriepidemic. all of that with videos like this coming out of the communist country last week treasury secretary janet yellen and ambassador to china laughing it up and whooping it up drinking beers at a brewery in beijing, joining us michigan congressman john molinari, the incoming chairman of the house select committee, the committee to publish the new report, thank you very much for being here this weekend. >> thank you for having me, good to be with you. maria: tell me more about what your committee has found out in terms of china's complicitous in giving tax breaks to the companies that produce fentanyl so long they keep it out of china. maria: four years that

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in washington, alice barr, nbc new's. speak up watching an investigation into the baltimore bridge collapse. it crashed into the francis scott key bridge class in a matter of seconds. text construction workers fell from the bridge and died. the fbi is investigating what led to the crash and agents boarded the ship with search warrants. close to the investigation says looking at whether the crew left port knowing the ship had mechanical issues. >>> supreme court justice clarence thomas was missing. without an excellent nation. most of the time they log in remotely. thomas didn't attend online either. the court usually gives a reason when justices aren't present. the court simply said thomas couldn't make it to the bench adding he will participate in today's case is by looking at transcript of the arguments. thomas is the longest serving sitting justice and at 75 he is the oldest. >>> still ahead looking at the recounts, poll workers are prepared to start counting again with the congressional race that ended per second. tho

look at capitol hill, president biden director set to testify on fentanyl today as former ag bill barr sounded off yesterday. >> simply put, without china production of fentanyl and fentanyl precursor there would be no crisis of fentanyl in the united states. >> steve: he's right, ditch the anticipate and grab the paddle. pickleball is a new singles hot spot, particularly in the big apple. >> brian: illike your dink. >> steve: or drive. >> ainsley: stay out of the kitchen. final hour of "fox and friends" starts now and remember mornings are better with friends. today president biden is taking his economic tour to pittsburgh. >> steve: potus visit comes one day after joe biden visited scranton claiming former president donald trump wants to bail out billionaires. >> lawrence: jacqui heinrich is live at the white house, good mo morning, jackie. ja >> jacqui: after a major announcement calling on the u.s. trade representatives to triple exists tariff rate on chinese steel, which sits at 7.5%, biden calling to ratchet that up. biden's call will safeguard steel from china's effort to un und

bill barr is doing the same thing.t the immunity argument that donald trump's lawyers are making that anything he does can be considered or a president does can be considered an official act, even if that means assassinating an opponent. let me play a little bit about what bill barr believes donald trump would not do if he were elected again. >> i remember him being very mad about that. i don't remember him saying executing, but i wouldn't dispute it, you know. the president would lose his temper and say things like that. i doubt he would have actually carried it out. that's my feeling having worked for him and seeing him in action. i don't think he would go kill political rivals and things like that. >> he says he would hear donald trump say, you know, have someone executed, more than once in the interview. he doesn't believe he would ever do that. from your experience with donald trump, it's obviously different from his experience, rational? >> what do we care about what bill barr says. what we care about is what the

kwiferringly -- like bill barr. an interview where he's still going to vote for trump and ted cruz, they go after his father that he was involved in jfk -- where is your sense of manhood. and i don't know if it is not political to say and particularly if someone like bill barr, you're not getting another job anyway. don't you want to be on the right side of the history. >> explain it to me. >> i just think that these -- what we didn't realize is that there are a lot of weak people who were drawn to power. here is my psychological -- they're drawn to power, so they're weak, and when it emperor doesn't have any clothes on, you see who these people are. and liz cheney, a woman by the way. and mitt romney. and i don't know how they got to their loved ones, and they all have daughters and granddaughters and son and how they face them as men. i don't know how to put it any other way. just pathetic. >> it is. we do have enough evidence charlie and adam kinzinger said that all of the compelling witnesses in the january 6 in

>> bill barr is right and janet yellen is absolutely wrong. this is why the biden administration, when they call china a pacing challenge or a strategic competitor is so far off base and while we talked about china in terms as our number one threat and sinister, nefarious lethal adversary. in the case of the fentanyl, again, you need to understand, bill and dana, that 97% of the precursor chemicals necessary to produce fentanyl are produced in china. there is no alternative to the pre-cursor elements right now. it only takes place because of china. ask yourself, why are they producing chemicals illegal in china and having the chinese communist party subsidize companies to produce those? it is because they are exporting a destructive product primarily to the united states to their advantage. and so i think bill barr yesterday in his testimony called it mass murder. it is akin to shooting into a random crowd. you don't know who you will kill but you know someone will die. that's what the chinese government, the people's republic of china, is doi

bill barr did a tremendous job explaining how this is a groundbreaking report with new evidence. we need to act on that evidence. i believe this gives the biden administration leverage and it needs to be used. maria: overnight thursday, israel struck iran and a narrow limited attack with a high-stakes vote expected this week and not a foreign aid package for israel as well as separate funding bills for ukraine and the indo pacific. you're on the appropriation committee, what gets done and what are your thoughts on these bills? >> i think it's really important that these are national security bills and we need to support our allies. we cannot allow vladimir putin to win in ukraine. we cannot allow iran to continue to work towards the destruction of israel. we need to bolster our allies like taiwan and others in the region to deter aggression of china, we also have legislation that is forcing a required sale at the best rooster of tiktok from the parent company by dance which is influenced and basically run by the ccp so we have a number of issues and were also going to continue to

in washington, alice barr, nbc news. >> all right, thank you very much, alice. the impeachment of homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas is heating up, although it is facing a delay. house vote toimd peach mayorkas over his handling of the border in february. the house speaker, mike johnson, had planned to send that impeachment to the senate wednesday, but he delayed sending them to give republicans more time to make a case for a full senate trial. democrats outnumber republicans in the senate 51-49, and democrats may have the votes to dismiss the impeachment outright. however, some republican senators have threatened to block all senate business until the chamber holds a full impeachment trial. speaker johnson is now expected to bring those charges to the senate next week. >>> coming up, thieves rush an oakland jewelry store, clearing it out in minutes. the investigation underway and how the community is supporting that business tonight. and more legal trouble for pg&e. the lawsuit survivors of the dixie fire filed and how much the utility could end up

in washington, alice barr, nbc news. >>> the chairman of the federal reserve visited sanford today. jerome powell spoke at a forum .'s visit comes two weeks after federal reserve meeting where it held interest rates steady. he has indicated the central bank is likely to lower interest rates later this year. today he said it is going to take a while for policymakers to evaluate the current state of inflation and that it is unclear when those cuts will actually happen. >>> providing artists with disabilities a place to show their work. the historic purchase by a museum and where you can see it all on display. >>> we are tracking the return of rain as we go through of rain as we go through tomorr diabetes can serve up a lot of questions, like... what is your glucose, and can you have more carbs? before you decide... with the freestyle libre 3 system... know your glucose and where it's headed. no fingersticks needed. now the world's smallest and thinnest sensor... sends your glucose levels directly to your smartphone. manage your diabetes with more confidence, and lower your a1c. the nu

here's alice barr. >> reporter: back on the witness stand in former president trump's criminal trial. the ex-national inquirer publisher, d publisher david pecker testified he worked with michael cohen to bury stories that could have damaged the 2016 trump campaign and to embellish negative stories about mr. trump's political rivals. pecker testified the arrangements stem from a 2015 trump tower meeting with cohen and the former president. the case centers on allegations that mr. trump colluded to illegally influence the 2016 election and falsify business records to cover up an alleged affair, all accusations he denies. >> what's going on is a disgrace. >> reporter: the day started with a contentious hearing over whether mr. trump violated the judge's gag order, barring him from publicly attacking witnesses and jurors, something prosecutors say he's done repeatedly, citing his comments about cohen right outside the courtroom. >> he got caught lying. pure lying. >> reporter: the trump legal team arguing the former president is defending himself as a presidential candidate, not a crimin

nbc's alice barr is in washington with the story. >> reporter: in the gaza strip today tragedy, global outrage, and growing demands for answers after an israeli airstrike killed seven aid workers from the u.s.-based charity world central kitchen as they were leaving a food warehouse in clearly marked vehicles. secretary of state antony blinken honoring the victims who include a dual u.s.- canadian citizen. >> they show the best of what humanity has to offer when the going really gets tough. they have to be protected. >> reporter: israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu acknowledging his country's forces had unintentionally hit innocent people. he's promising a full review. among the dead, british, polish, and palestinian citizens and an experienced australian aid worker who spoke on msnbc last year about world central kitchen's mission. >> we are overcoming every obstacle. >> reporter: world central kitchen founder chef jose andres called the victims angels adding, "the israeli government with needs to stop this indiscriminate killing, stop using food as a weapon," his organization t