but he said work with bill barr. it's unfathomable that the president would say that to the president of the ukraine and not also have said to bill barr, i want you to go down the road of this investigation and i'm going to have the ukraine help you. it is why, craig, i've made the case, i think there needs to be a formal impeachment resolution on the floor authorizing this investigation. they're kruntly undergoing in the house, for a specific reason of broadening the scope. named as target of the investigations, the president, the vice president, attorney general, omb director and the secretary of state. that doesn't mean you arrive at impeachment charges on all of them. it is clear from bill barr's behavior from the very beginning, he's obstructing the work of the congress and he may be aiding the president's impeachable behavior. >> why should the vice president also be included? >> because of his proximity to all of this, i think he has to be investigated. i think all those principals have to be investigated, par

not the prosecutors as headed by bill barr, running around looking for crime or looking to undo investigations that have already been done if seems like bill bar wakes up every morning saying to himself what crimes can i clear the president of today? >> there is somebody that is the president's lawyer, democrats have subpoenaed him for documents relating to ukraine. here he is last night on whether or not he will testify. >> i don't know, i'm weighing the alternatives. i'm going through it, i'm getting my evidence together,ly get my charts. i don't know if they will let me use videotapes and tape recordings that i have. i gathered all of this evidence before the mueller probe ended. so it was clearly under my responsibility as the lawyer for the president of the united states. >> okay, i'm going to jump in, back to being a mere mortal, i would think before this moment in time that getting subpoenaed by congress would not be something you would answer with "i'm weighing my options." what is going on here? first i think it was shrewd of congress that will show what kind of communications giulian

i think this was a conviction that bill barr has had. i don't know if it's because he agrees with the president on this or the president has convinced him that there is something more there to the origins of the investigation. but he hinted at this through the past year. and here we are. we know that he's also traveled overseas to italy to investigate and speak to people there about the origins of the investigation. the italians have denied any involvement at all. in fact, the president of the country at least said he had nothing to do with it and the italians had nothing to do with it. if it's about transparency that the republicans are arguing the democrats should be putting forward at this point with regards to the investigation, i think the same could be said and asked of this investigation as well. it's interesting that a lot of these players all were focused on russia and had a russia-specific background. this is somebody the president in an area the president has been targeting for two years. and it's coming at a time when we were

>> we wanted bill barr to come from judiciary committee and he refused to do it when he was going to be questioned by barry burke and or norm eisen. and as we all know, chicken barr didn't show up. >> i vividly remember your kfc appearance. >> and we pointed out the fact that the attorney general was afraid to be questioned by the attorneys who tore lewandowski apart. and barr did chicken out. >> i'm almost out of time. the president's attacks on these whistle-blowers saying that he's searching to try to find out about this whistle-blower, for example. what remedies does congress have, the whistle-blower's attorneys have raised a concern that that person is protected under the law here. so what can congress do? >> i'm not sure exactly what congress's role will be, but there are whistle-blower laws that exist that protect the whistle-blower and he might have to resort to court. i'm not sure what congress can do. i'm sure it's being looked into. what the president is doing to try to ex pose this man in saying that in the old days he would have been shot or hung for treason, is despicabl

italian government and italian intelligence service had been talking about with attorney general bill barr who has twice visited italy over the past several months. the italian prime minister was summoned to parliament to explain what those conversations were about. he later told reporters that what barr had asked him, what barr had asked italian authorities to do was, quote, verify the operations of american agents. that is, barres question was to try to verify what the american intelligence did. in other words, america's top law enforcement official has been traveling around the world going to other countries asking if those other countries can provide him dirt on u.s. intelligence officials. because that will somehow help his boss, the president, undermine his own intelligence agencies, which of course are unanimous in their view that actually it was russia that interfered in the 2016 election. i should mention also in terms of the italy stuff in particular, which we have the most recent information about, that sort of gives us the clearest window into what william barr and john durham

but truly it is bill barr who was there every step of the way. the justice department would argue that he needs to be in part because of this review involves so many high-level foreign officials, and it's bill barr who would appropriately try to get their cooperation. but also i think you could argue that he's truly interested in this. you know, he said before congress earlier this spring that he believes that spying did occur on the campaign. he wants to know whether or not it was unlawful, and he himself personally wants to get to the bottom of this. >> phil rucker, let's talk about our secretary of state, mr. pompeo. >> yeah. >> and and it probably bears repeating. this is not a fly-by-night individual, a guy who graduated number one in his class at west point and went to harvard law school. he knows from what is proper, and he knows better for lack of a better phrase. how damaging is this news he was on that call? >> well, brian, it's a really surprising revelation today that he was on that call, and i think it shows a few things. and in term

and you know, what was bill barr doing in italy? are they making these phone calls to australia? we want more of the details about ukraine. i know seb gorka's probably in europe pitching officially tablets or whatever he's doing now, but these are all of the piece, this flotsam around trump, so many who are involved in this, and i hope they're all tonight pondering second mortgages so they can lawyer up. >> can you imagine what it feels like for the aussies, as a lover and appreciator of history. >> yep. >> there we were, side by side on the beaches of normandy. >> right. >> what do we want from them now? a little information. >> yeah. so, yeah, help us blackmail a competitor in a political election in the u.s. in trying to extort foreign powers by using the awesome majesty of the president's office and the powers of the united states government, trying to extort. it's just, it's the lowest level thug behavior. >> i have a dramatic reading from the twitter account of jonathan martin with "the new york times." it's about politics. an

bill barr is making trips overseas to get that done. now the prosecutor who's running this is john durham out of connecticut and we're told that he's still in the early stages of this investigation. >> is there concern, because you speak to some former intelligence officials and others, concerns of criminal referrals from this? it's early. >> reporter: we don't know yet. look. again, it is still very early but we do know that john durham has a good reputation, thorough. you in your work and me in my work we have talked to a number of people involved this investigation and they tell us that things were done appropriately so if that's correct then i think john durham will find that and come back with that result in a year or so but this is very early in this stages of this investigation. >> before you go, i think it is striking and very telling that the administration is essentially having to fact check itself right now in realtime. the fact that the inspector general appointed by president trump yesterday twice had to put out statements

attorney general bill barr to recuse himself from any justice department review of the ukraine matter. now, the new york city bar with association says if barr doesn't recuse himself, he should resign or be sanctioned because the ag's name keeps coming up in the investigation. according to a white house memo of that now infamous july 25th phone call, president trump references bill barr five times including in this exchange. president trump tells president zelensky that he wants him to look into joe die debiden and h and says whatever you can do with the attorney general would be great. so that same phone call, president trump says that he will have his personal lawyer rudy giuliani give -- sorry, did i skip one? all right. give zelensky a call and i'm also going to have attorney general barr call and we can get to the bottom of it. just last week in this bombshell press conference, mick mulvaney suggesting that it was legitimate to ask ukraine to participate in and ongoing investigation by the justice department. likely a reference to the legitimacy of the origins of the russia inves

now, he's getting it out of bill barr. now, with this criminal investigation, he can go on the campaign trail and say, look, there's some legitimacy to the theories i've been pushing out there and he's got a base who is really willing to receive that. >> matthew, we were having this discussion today. if you were a foreign government right now, this would be a good time to sort of get something out of us because we are -- i don't mean -- because we -- we look -- >> the president of turkey. >> yeah. well, there's that. but we look like we're at war with ourselves. and, you know, this is a time -- because we are. >> we are. we're a highly polarized country. we have these overlapping investigations. we have impeachment inquiry into trump. we have trump opening the investigation into his opponents and critics. >> and that person investigating is being investigated, too, in rudy, right? i mean, it's -- it's -- it's paralyzing for american democracy and the bad news is it's not going to stop anytime soon. >> no. and we may have a

the president said no and he's leaving all of that to bill barr. through.ou: joining us, former acting u.s. attorney general, matthew whitaker. let's start with the house under democratic leadership obviously, launching a partisan attack against the president in the guise of a quote end quote impeachment inquiry. the idea there wouldn't be republican representation, the opportunity for the president to be represented by counsel, for this to be a partisan assault on a president is unpress didn'ted. >> we would expect the house vote to be a partisan vote. this is again the legal traditions of our country. the house is unwilling to make its members record their vote. that's an interesting issue in and of itself. they are unwilling to follow precedent from previous impeachment proceedings. frankly, this waits appears to be, which is a completely unfair and partial proceeding that will conclude with cherry picked facts that make the president look bad which are inconsistent with what happened. we have the evidence. we have seen the mueller report and the call tr

have these interpretive recitations of transcripts in these whistle-blowers. >> laura: do not want bill barr and john durham on this case. i mean, i know john durham just a little bit by reputation, i know barr well. those guys, they do not mess around this is not like some political fantasy. these are serious men with a serious mission. of what happens to people on the left, do you care about corruption and civil liberties and votes being counted properl properly. i used that used to care about stuff like this. >> when i found, when i asked questions, i could not get any answers as to what was the substantiation. what with the predicate for this investigation. how did the president become a criminal target of the investigation. no one can give you the answers and then told the american people get those answers from the department of justice, it's really going to have a credibility challenge there. >> laura: don't you miss? >> especially miss the media. >> laura: exactly, thank you so much freedom for all the obsession with trump's single phone call, with the ukraine, conveniently glossing o

bill barr and main justice decide they're not going to look at it. clearly a crime has been committed here. it appears more than one crime may have been committed here and now that's being pursued as a criminal matter by prosecutors and investigators who are not at main justice where bill barr wouldn't look at it. instead, it's prosecutors and investigators associated with the southern district of new york. lots of talk early on in the mueller investigation, russia investigation, about how independent sdny might be. they like to call themselves the sovereign district of new york. they, in particular, more than any other u.s. attorney's office in the country don't like to take direction from main justice. well, it appears now that they are pursuing this as a criminal and counterintelligence matter, essentially outside of what bill barr is running at main justice. right? so we're going to talk about that tonight because i think this has taken a really interesting turn. all right. let's talk first about the depositions that have been continuing every da

. >> hats off to you, bill barr, i know you're at! i've been there! you know, i didn't get indicted in the end! take heart! and now, look, you guys are giving me a medal! so this was just another remarkable day in the news. ed meese is at the white house getting his medal, while simultaneously this white house was sending a letter to congress insisting that as far as they're concerned, this whole impeachment thing isn't really happening. the letter was signed with an enormous signature from white house counsel pat cipollone today, not so much a legal argument from the white house counsel as a political argument about how presidents don't really need to pay any attention to impeachments. it's a very meesean argument about laws and other forms of accountability just not applying to presidents. i don't know if they timed this specifically to happen on the day that ed meese was in the house, ed meese who claimed that their presidents don't need to follow the law and preserve documents while they're part of ongoing investigations, but this happening while

that's what bill barr said.nt, the full first amendment premises free exercise of religion and that is under assault and i think bill barr, what he outlines, it's not just tax-exempt status, it's trying to suppress anyone with any traditional beliefs and especially through the schools and public institutions to drive them off the public square and he says that that's wrong -- he said that not only is that wron wrong, but it increases the social pathology because there's some things only religion can do. >> martha: when you talk about tolerance and understanding, you have to be tolerant of people who are faithful. that has to be allowed in the united states of america and when you look at this gallup poll, very interesting number here. can religion answer most of today's problems or is it old-fashioned? 55% say can't answer. 34% say it's old-fashioned, 10% have no opinion. >> the attorney general pointed to that. he said one of the ironies of the people who are antireligion, and he's been called a bigot for this

>> bill barr wasn't there when i was doing it. >> martha: what's different from bill barr and your role? >> there was no bill barr when i did it. >> martha: you started before he did, i get it. >> i started the investigation november 2015. >> martha: i understand that. >> i ended the investigation march of 2018. every fact i have because back to that. how could it possibly be to affect the 2020 election. how could i possibly have known that he was going to run and why would i have not investigated him as he was central to the whole story and they gave it to me? i was going to say, no, it's like the biden thing, the american press will attack me if i go after that. i'm very discouraged that everyone re-examines why this wasn't stopped in 2015. >> martha: you are doing it. >> if we had an honest president. >> martha: okay. carson will hurt who also served as an undercover officer for the central intelligence agency response to the rudy giuliani interview coming up next. i wish i could shake your hand. granted. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ my hands ar

that's from her thorough piece in the "new york times" entitled "who is bill barr in". thought he was one of them and he's not. >> i think when bill barr was appointed attorney general, we were coming out of sessions and then there was an acting attorney general whitaker. and whitaker was kind of a hack and not able to stand up to trump and maintain the independence of the justice department. you have barr who has george h.w. bush on his resume. that stands for moderate republicans. and i think there was a desire on the part of a lot of people to imagine that he was going to be a really professional independent attorney general. >> and so you've been doing this reporting. why? why is this who he is? >> well, i did this reporting partly because before barr was chosen, he wrote to me this striking memo. this is july 2018. and he is talking about how, in his view, the president alone is the executive branch. and he was making that quite extraordinary statement in the context of criticizing mueller's investigation. mueller an old and really good friend of his. barr says at

and then there's the attorney general bill barr. a source tells cnn that the president petschle australian prime minister to help the ag into the origins of the russia probe. the inspector general, he is now openly pushing back on the president's claim that the whistle-blower lacked firsthand knowledge of the allegations in the complaint and more. as you can see there's a lot to get to. joining me right now to work through it is shim month problem pe shim shim shim shimon. >> reporter: suggesting that perhaps the state department does not want to comply under the termed laid out in the subpoena. i said to read you parts of the tweet from mike pompeo -- i'm concerned with aspects of the committee's request that can be understood only as an attempt to intimidate distinguished officials of the department of state. and then he goes on to say let me be clear, i will not tolerate such tactics and use all means at my disposal to expose any attempts to intimidate the professionals i am proud to lead and serve beside. he also wrote a her to

don't miss out. >> martha: investigations heating up tonight pitting bill barr against congressman schiffo, gunning for impeachment based on the career meanwhile, barr and durham looking at the other side of this, the intel agencies themselves and whether or not laws were broken at the highest levels in an effort to hurt president trump and his campaign. both men are questioning each other's motives and credibility. >> if these reports are correct and bill barr's justice department is doing a criminal investigation of people who properly looked into russian interference in our election and the fbi or intelligence agencies, it means that bill barr on the president's behalf is weaponizing the justice department to go after the president's enemies. >> that's completely wrong and there is no basis for it. i act on the path of the united states with john durham the u.s. attorney of connecticut in charge of the investigation and i understand he's making great progress. but he is in charge of the investigation. i'm not doing the investigation. he is a buy the book kind of guy. he's thorough and

same thing about bill barr bill barr. doesn't matter if you support or don't support the man being investigated, if the person with an vesta get in is doing it with integrity, the fbi has the best ability to surveillance campaign. for the trump campaign, no result, with their overzealous agents and overzealous people that went too far, we need to know as a country. >> bret: i i have been surprisd by some of the words used, but some tv personalities, chuck todd and the back-and-forth with senator ron johnson called a fox conspiracy. it talking about the investigation of the investigators, there could be a lot here we just don't know yet. >> i have no problem investigating the investigators i've said that a lot. but i have a problem with, one of the reasons i'm on board with saying he he should recuse himself, the attorney general is one, he said basically the fbi responded. it's not like he's being nonbiased, and this is why there are many of my side of the aisle, democrats that feel he is not the people's attorney but rat

himself about this whole question oolee origins of the muel the blow with foreign leaderson bill barr with regto thiswith inquiry. how does that strike you, the position of the attorney general? jonathan: actually, there is nothing irregular about the attorney general calling a head of state or his counterpart too tryt cooperation on an investigation. that happens a lot when you havi an investi that is looking for information that is foreign intelligence or diomatic typ those things are resisted, so it takes a high-ranking foreign official to shake the tree for you.at as happened historically. in this case he was calling on behalf of jos caurham, a respected prosecutor who is looking into problems with the russian investigation. there is nothing particularly irregular there if he was calling to help out jo durham, and it does help t a little bit cause trump was essentially arguing for evidence to be given not only about the bidens, but he made reference to investigation.ing laura: are we about to learn more about the origins of the russia investigation? jonathan: what should worry the

surveillance of the trump campaign members got started in the first place is "concerned" about what bill barro. >> given that barr is now accompanying durham on these things, it really makes me think that the hand of politics and of trump are now being used to massage this ongoing review, quasi-investigation is. so i am concerned. >> martha: so now he is concerned about what bill barr is doing out there in the world. joining me now, jason chaffetz, former chairman of the house oversight committee and a fox news contributor. good to see you tonight, jason. why is john brennan surprised? why is he concerned about bill barr's investigation, which has been very transparent and forthcoming in terms of what the goals of seeking it out is? >> once upon a time, the democrats were deeply concerned about overseas influence. as a trump administration, not under ag sessions, but under ag barr have been able to uncover, there is a lot of evidence, more than smoking guns, there is actual evidence out there. this is attorney general barr doing his job. is president trump doing his job to get to the bottom o

thank you, shannon. >> shannon: you have weighed in on the characterization of what attorney general bill barr is up to and how it is being portrayed in the media. i want to read something from matthew miller. he used to be then attorney general's spokesperson peered one thing about the investigation, barr is flying around the world to personally oversee. what is the predicate? there has never been a single credible allegation that a crime was committed. your response? >> first of all, there was never a credible accusation that there was any crime committed by the trump organization on the trump campaign, and yet the justice department and jim comey began an investigation the trump campaign. there are real issues as to why the fbi, the cia, the dni, were all involved in investigations of the trump campaign when there was no evidence at all. was this abuse of power? was this a coming together of the intelligence and community in the obama administration to have unprecedented investigation of a presidential campaign? you look at carter page, you look at george papadopoulos, when you look at the

at home, democrats turning up the heat on secretary pompeo, rudy giuliani, and attorney general bill barrarr and u.s. attorney durham are after, or they were in italy. who is the obscure academic at the center of the probe? giuliana called him a deep state operative, mueller had a diff

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we'll try again with bill barr.case of ukraine that's unfolding in front of us. i don't think we should get too distracted because this is something that the american people see right now. at the same time you are pointing out very, very important problems with how the trump s are abusing his power. >> always great to talk to you. thank you very much. >> thank you, more "a.m. joy" after the break. "a.m. joy" after the break. ♪ work so hard ♪ give it everything you got ♪ strength of a lioness ♪ tough as a knot ♪ rocking the stage ♪ and we never gonna stop ♪ all strength, no sweat. ♪ just in case you forgot ♪ all strength. ♪ no sweat secret. all strength. no sweat. we're oscar mayer deli fresh your very first sandwich,m... your mammoth masterpiece. and...whatever this was. because we make our meat with the good of the deli and no artificial preservatives. make every sandwich count with oscar mayer deli fresh. i can'twhat? ve it. that our new house is haunted by casper the friendly ghost? hey jill! hey kurt! movies? i'

bill barr is demonstrating he's merely a tool of the president. representative of the american people. trish: our next guest says this has nothing do with political revenge. you will hear ag barr's response you will hear ag barr's response to all this criticism (thud) (crash) (grunting) (whistle) play it cool and escape heartburn fast with tums chewy bites cooling sensation. ♪ tum tu-tu-tum tums strongve is one of a kind cooling sensation. brilliant unbreakable ♪ engagement rings now 20- 40 percent off shop unique bridal styles at zales, the diamond store and my side super soft? be firm? with the sleep number 360 smart bed you can both adjust your comfort with your sleep number setting. so, can it help us fall asleep faster? yes, by gently warming your feet. but can it help keep me asleep? absolutely, it intelligently senses your movements and automatically adjusts to keep you both effortlessly comfortable. will it help me keep up with him? yup. so, i'll wake up ready for anything? oh, we've got your back. so, you can really promise better sleep? n

bill barr has the president's back.iani. jeff sessions understood the law but was totally ineffective. he feels there is friction between him and rudy giuliani. you saw the fact that secretary of state mike pompeo was on that call in the ukraine makes me think they are to a degree somewhat on the same page. what eric holder does and what bill barr does, eric holman weighed in. >> this is almost too much to take. the former attorney general eric holder is arguing it is inappropriate for the attorney general right now who has inspector general reports that identify misconduct that occurred inappropriate for him to follow up to investigate that? i'm afraid he is out of touch with what the american people really want, which is, is the fbi above the law? do they get investigated if they abuse their powers? because that is really what ag barr is looking into. steve: right. in addition eric holder told fox news not only is mr. barr losing his credibility looking into problems during the obama administration regarding the 2016

under bill barr has lost its independence and became a vehicle for trump's political revenge. two questions to you on that to follow up on their criticism of this. is the d.o.j. being used as a tool for political retribution? >> the point of the investigation is to make sure the doj and f.b.i. under the obama administration in 2016 wasn't being used as a tool to influence the elections. i would actually fact check it by taking out trump administration and putting in the last administration. why wouldn't we want to know a year before the next election? don't we have a right to know if people who the taxpayers are funding at the highest levels of our department of justice and f.b.i., if they were or were not subverting justice and trying to interfere with the elections? again, what are they afraid of? if you've done nothing wrong you have nothing to be afraid of. there is conflicting testimony, seen some text messages. glenn simpson has taken the fifth and said very little. what are we afraid of? in the case of adam schiff i have to say anybody who has him on tv or listens or as

this is what bill barr is seeking to do.ng once again that he is merely a tool of the president. the president's hand. host: jeff mordock. mr. mordock: that will be his position going forward. he does not offer any evidence for why he believes this to be politically motivated. he seems to indicate that but does not say it, he should come forward and say why but he does not bring that forward in that interview. host: in this process does bill barr constantly talk to john durham about this or is john durham given the freedom to do what he does as far as looking to it without influence from bill barr? mr. mordock: bill barr keeps saying that john durham is acting independently and that he is not involved in the investigation but john durham went to italy and the united kingdom with bill barr. host: talk about those trips. they factor into the fact that john durham is looking into what countries, if any, interfered with the 2016 election alongside rush hour instead of russia. the justice department has confirmed it looked at ukr

it was really ukraine and not russia that intervened in the election. >> why did trump think that bill barr would do everything he wanted and go after an america that was a huge deal and goes back to ukraine. my point that i will give bill another chance to weigh in, but i think that bill, he may be given too much benefit of the doubt. let me play a little bit of mr. barr testifying about how after he took this job, it was trump's personal lawyer, take a look. >> i had just taken on a big corporate client that was very important to me and i expected a lot of work. so at this point in life, i really didn't want to take on this burden. i didn't want to stick my head into that meat grinder. i said right now i could not do it, my personal and my professional obligations are such that i'm unable to do it. >> i'm going to go michelle and then bill. >> i was in ukraine a few weeks ago to investigate some of these corrupt prosecutors, and one of the things they did, one of the things that made them so corrupt is they refused to investigate actual corruption and use the power of their office to targ

bill barr, go ask other questions you want. there is no connection. who knows what he will find?tching as it all comes out. george papadopoulos, always good to see you. >> thank you. appreciate it. >> martha: to this story get a ton of attention? the nba brace is out one of their own shuttle managers because he stuck up for freedom fighters in hong kong. are they caving, the nba which considers themselves to be very woke for the money they get from china? up next. ♪ performance comes in lots of flavors. there's the amped-up, over-tuned, feeding-frenzy-of sheet-metal-kind. and then there's performance that just leaves you feeling better as a result. that's the kind lincoln's about. ♪ ♪ >> martha: this is quite a story. violence has been raging for 18 weeks in the streets of hong kong, tens of thousands of demonstrators on the streets protesting the new ban on face masks know that so many of them award to these rallies. meanwhile we have the nba getting a lot of heat, some say they are caving to china which is one of their biggest, most lucrative audiences. the houston rockets gm t

before he even took the oath of office, bill barr was asked if he would be president trump's personalney or the attorney general of the united states. still a lot of criticism there from democrats. we asked him that question today and barr insists that he is the attorney general, not president trump's personal attorney. president trump set to take the stage behind me in about an hour here in chicago. sandra. >> sandra: thank you, david. >> it's a good day for the world and a real blow to the isis organization. he was the spiritual leader, their heart and soul. he is dead. the caliphate has been destroyed because president trump changed the rules. >> jon: that's senator lindsey graham on the death of abu bakr al-baghdadi in a u.s.-led raid in northern syria. it comes that the terror group has already named a new leader. benjamin hall is speaking to the kurdish fds forces and getting their reaction. >> we just finished an interview with general abadi the head of the kurdish forces in northern syria. he told us a lot of information about this raid came from the fds. the intelligence knew

i think,donald trump, agreed with your assessment and put his aaron bar bill barr -- his errand boy bill barr smack in the middle of impeachment by mentioning him in a call with the leader of ukraine, when he asked president zelensky to do him a favor, though. what you think we know about donald trump's conduct and foreign policy from the transcript released by the white house? is it enough on its face to impeach him? mr. comey: it might be. the reason i am saying it that way is it certainly is powerful grounds on which to investigate. but tose has no choice pursue and impeachment inquiry -- but to pursue an impeachment inquiry. all that i know are coming from news accounts. [applause] all i know about the facts are coming from news accounts. i had the chance to read a few opening statements that were released publicly. i would like to withhold judgment until we have a chance as a country to see in the public testimony, to get the transparency we deserve. but if the news accounts are accurate, the president engaged in a shocking abuse of power. if the facts that are in the news are accur

attorney general bill barr. >> i do think the attorney general has gone rogue. he has for a long time now. and since he was mentioned in all of this, it's curious that he would be making decisions about how the complaint would be handled. >> you have to appear to be neutral when you are the attorney general of the united states, and i fear that he has crossed a political line. t>> i think the attorney general needs to resign. he is no longer even pretending to be objective. >> laura: and today "the wall street journal" is reporting that barr and trump's personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, are now butting heads. they are like on opposite sides saying the relationship complicatesyi trump's impeachmet defense, and they are struggling to get on the same page! so we thought, to figure this all out, we couldn't get barr to come into the studio, so we found rudy walking the street. rudy giuliani, the president's personal attorney. rudy, is it true there is trouble in paradise with you and barr? you don't text anymore, you're not friends, what's going on? >> it's really ter

durham, i doubt integrity of bill barr and a donald trump right now. we will see what happens and what could happen is good behind closed doors because the grand jury proceeding. the senate and tell and less time i checked, is controlled by the republicans, it came out with a report it proves that russia was attempting to interfere with the election. with the attorney general's turn to do on behalf of his clients, president trump, he supposed to represent the state and that the president is trying to prove conspiracy theories that right wing have been spreading around to the internet for years. when durham comes out with a report, such as a somebody somewhere was some kind of perjury, the right wing is still going to go nuts over it and a president is still going to be in impeached. right now, they're not leaking anything because nothing good is being said about the president. >> shannon: again, -- and they all have said that they have been threatened and their worried about charges being filed against them. >> another not. >> shannon: they say they're

i don't want to describe any haplessness to bill barr.ed like a guy that served in the add manition a lot, checked in a lot of boxes. he was a known entity and known as a, perhaps we thought we into you him as a person that knew his way around the justice department in washington. how much has he surprised in terms of how he's approached this job. >> he is willing to do a president's bidding. question look at the first time around when he got involved in iran-contra and pardon of officials there. this is a vindication exercise by donald trump and a complicit attorney general willing to go along with it. the and what this leads to is the president getting criminal charges against leaders of our intelligence activities who are serving the public by investigating russian interference. that's what the president ultimately wants. he wants hits. he wants people to have criminal charges against them because they brought to light the president's culpability. but very importantly, this also feeds into what is going on in the united states senate f

what do you make of bill barr's role?uld he be doing this when you are supposed to have john durham in charge of this and you already have an ig investigation? >> it was questionable to begin with for this investigation of an investigation. in john durham, at least, we had a seasoned prosecutorly. we had confidence this would carry out in a professional nonpartisan manner. now we know about the attorney general's p. it infuses it with a political taint that raises questions about the credibility of the investigation. >> we know the state department is digging back into hillary clinton's email investigation. they're actually recalling thousands of emails. you're saying years later those emails are actually classified. you were involved in the clin n clinton. it does seem a little. we have justice ubded this many. that is something for the department of state to look into, whether the dip lo mack sfgs is carrying out a notorious mission. >> you would hear this from hillary clinton's supporters, oh, but things were classifie

thanks to attorney general bill barr, what an attorney general, president trump has finally gotten hisish to investigate the investigators. nbc news is reporting that john durham the federal prosecutor tapped by barr to conduct an administrative review into the origins of the russia probe is now pursuing a criminal inquiry of that probe. according to "the new york times" which first broke this story, quote, the move gives the prosecutor running room, the power subpoena for witness testimony and documents to convene a grand jury and to file criminal charges. the move also creates an unusual situation in which the justice department is conducting a criminal investigation into itself. "the new york times" add said the opening of a criminal investigation is likely to raise alarms mr. trump is using the justice department to go after his perceived enemies, you think? it's unclear what crimes have been committed in fact, what crimes are we talking about here? the william barr launched it in may even though the inspector general has been pursuing a similar inquiry. in fact, bill barr who is b

. >> this comes amid new signs that attorney general bill barr's justice department is shielding the president from further inquiry. nbc news reports weeks before the whistle-blower's report was made public, the cia's top lawyer made what she considered a criminal referral and this means that she and other senior officials had concluded a potential crime had been committed raising more questions about why the justice department declined to open an investigation. questions, the referral was made over the phone and relay today the attorney general himself. however, quote, justice department officials now say they didn't consider the phone conversation a formal criminal referral because it was not in written form. and this was the first of two criminal referrals that the doj received. and after the second made by the director of national intelligence himself, the doj said in a statement that no further action was warranted. congressman, this state department led by pompeo, this justice department led by bill barr looks like they're in cahoots with this president politically to the exten

he told reporters months ago that he has tasked his attorney general, bill barr, getting to the bottom of the origins of the russia probe, even if it means looking overseas. listen. >> he can lock, and i hope he looks at the u.k., and i hope he looks at australia, and i hope he looks at ukraine, i hope he looks at everything. because there was a hoax that was perpetrated on our country. >> shannon: fox news senior political analyst brit hume for a little analysis. great to have you with us. >> thank you, shannon. >> shannon: the headlines blaring today that the president has been pressuring foreign leaders to help them dig up dirt or engage in any investigations. he said in may, in front of everyone, that is what he wanted to have happen. >> once again, a big scoop that earns about two -- turns out to be not news. even if it were news, it would not be -- it would be wrong. after the president has an investigation underway by his justice department, a prosecutor there and, as he does come we've all known about this for a long time, and he solicits cooperation with that investigator from