and bill barr and the doj cannot stop that from happening. your approval on what is happening. i wouldn't touch it if i were him either. >> josh, will the hill ask barr to testify? >> i wouldn't be surprised if they did ask him to testify, but i don't think like other officials that he will be willing to do that. i also want to underscore i think one of the problems is that the white house wanted a full exoneration of the president and the justice department even to this point while they did ask for the narrow statement about the fact that there was no campaign finance law violation here, they have never said that there was no violation of the law whatsoever. and we now know that rudy giuliani is under some sort of criminal investigation and counterintelligence investigation. so it would be an exceedingly unwise thing for barr to do particularly given suspicions about him within the justice department to come out and clear the president am pliidst to be sort of on going investigation into the justice department. >> and dana, there may be highe

attorney general bill barr has remained relatively silent as the impeachment inquiry gains more momentumll, "the washington post" took a look at that and they're saying people familiar with the matter, that they wanted barr to hold a news conference as he had before. you might remember that. they wanted him to say the president broke no laws in his july phone call with ukraine's leader, which triggered the impeachment inquiry to start. now, barr ultimately declined to hold that press conference. >> bill barr and the doj are not denying that they asked him to have a press conference. >> well, they're not saying anything. let me just tell you. listen. i never asked him for a press conference and if i asked bill barr to have a press conference, i think he'd do it. but i never asked him to have a press conference. >> in recent weeks the justice department has sought to distance itself from the ukraine scandal despite the white house call summary which shows the president brought up barr's name multiple times as a point of contact for ukraine. meanwhile, democrats are now pushing for document

he really liked bill barr's press conference before the mueller report. it helped the public reception of it. he thought it helped him politically and he wanted barr to do it again. this time i think bill barr did not feel comfortable doing it. he thought it would be inappropriate. >> we know the president did bring up bill barr's name in that july 25th phone call as he did rudy giuliani's. do we know if bill barr was not involved in the ukraine controversy or wishes he were not involved in the ukraine controversy? >> well, bill barr's aides say he was never involved in that. he had never spoken to any ukrainian officials. had no idea the president was going to bring him up on that call. that he was surprised to see his own name in the transcript. bill barr and his allies have also been frustrated by rudy giuliani and mick mulvaney's comments in recent weeks. there seems to be a clear effort by the justice department to distance itself from some of the more controversial elements of his story while also the ig continues -- ag continues to have a good relat

his tweet, he says bill barr did not decline my request to talk about ukraine. the story was fake "washington post" con job with an anonymous source that doesn't exist. the justice department already ruled that the call was good. we don't have freedom of the press. the degenerate "washington post" made up the story about me asking bill barr to hold a news

bill barr won't defend it even. i mean, if bill barr -- as max said, if bill barr won't defend it, whoa, there's a problem. >> here's the question, why did sondland change his testimony? was there a connection between sondland and the democratic operatives -- [ laughter ] >> that's lindsey. that's lindsey. wow, wow. >> he just wanted to get out of perjury. >> as we say lordy lordy where have we gone to? thank you, gentlemen. >>> public testimony in the impeachment investigation begins next week, and you'll see it all live on tv. so will there be a john dean moment? who better to ask than john dean himself next. it's the sleep number 360 smart bed. on sale now. can it help keep me asleep? yes, it senses your movements and automatically adjusts to keep you effortlessly comfortable. so, you can really promise better sleep? not promise, prove. sleep number. this is not a bed it's proven quality sleep. >>> as the house prepares to hold televised hearings next week in the impeachment inquiry, we're learning tonight that p

it's easy to understand why trump thinks that bill barr will gladly go to the doj briefing room and performor him because it's precisely what it is viewed across the ideological spectrum that he did after the mueller probe. but, i mean, barr isn't special. donald trump wanted jim sessions, jim comey, dni dan coats, rogers and mike pompeo to all proclaim his innocence. if you're not worried about some sort of exposure, why do you want all of your officials announcing publicly that you're innocent, matt? >> right. i think president trump too is very concerned about public perception. that's why sort of a written statement isn't enough. he wants a bit of a show. he is a showman. so he wants bill barr to get out there in front of cameras. and he liked how well that went for him when bill barr did that at the end of the mueller investigation. he liked bill barr out there saying, i think his direct quote was as the president has said there was no collusion. so the president likes when bill barr gets up and does that. but in this instance, bill barr has sought some distance. and it's not just refu

bill barr has been kind to the president in controversial ways many times. why not here? >> look, i think there is a limit to what even bill barr can do for the president, but let's just back up a little bit and point out that the president got almost everything he wanted. he got a statement from the justice department on the day they released the transcript of the ukraine call. he got a public statement from the justice department saying that criminal prosecutors had looked at the transcript of the call and nothing else, pretty much, and decided that there was no crime there, that there was no criminal violation of campaign finance laws. and so everything was done, you know, according to plan that day. and so he didn't get the press conference from bill barr, but he did get a very public statement from the justice department that said there is nothing to see here. obviously, though, since that time, it's been clear that prosecutors in new york had other ideas, that they are looking at rudy giuliani's conduct with regard to ukraine, they have been looking at all of these

the report says he asked bill barr to hold a news conference to publicly clear him of legal wrongdoing, in his call pressuring ukraine to investigate joe biden and his son. "the post" reports barr refused, citing people familiar with the matter. but barr's justice department did send out a memo, declaring there was no campaign finance crime connected to the call. trump advisers told "the post" the president said to aides in recent weeks, he wishes the attorney general had agreed to hold a news conference. late last night, the president slammed "the post" and cnn, for reporting the story, which he called, quote, totally untrue. >>> republicans struggling to come up with a clear and coordinated defense in the impeachment inquiry. they've given up on the no quid pro quo mantra in the face of damaging testimony from several senior diplomats. listen to lindsey graham, a trump ally, trying out the incompetence argument. >> what i can tell you about the trump policy toward the ukraine, it was incoherent. it depends on who you talk to. they seem incapable of forming a quid pro quo. >> senator

bill barr won't defend it even. i mean, if bill barr -- as max said, if bill barr won't defend it, whoa, there's a problem. >> here's the question, why did sondland change his testimony? was there a connection between sondland and the democratic operatives -- [ laughter ] >> that's lindsey. that's lindsey. wow, wow. >> he just wanted to get out of perjury. >> as we say lordy lordy where have we gone to? thank you, gentlemen. >>> public testimony in the impeachment investigation begins next week, and you'll see it all live on tv. so will there be a john dean moment? who better to ask than john dean himself next. geico makes it easy to get help when i need it. with licensed agents available 24-7, it's not just easy. it's having-jerome-bettis- on-your-flag-football-team easy. go get 'em, bus! ohhhh! [laughing] c'mon bus, c'mon! hey, wait, wait, wait! hey man, i got your flag! i got your flag, man! i got your flag! it's geico easy. with licensed agents available 24/7. 49 - nothing! woo! i have one kid in each branch of

and if i asked bill barr to have a press conference i think he would do it. but i never asked him to have a press conference. >> as we've said, the public impeachment hearings get under way next week. they are something trump's republican allies have been clamoring for, transparency, let's get this thing out in the open. >> the minority is shut out of the approve, it's being done in an scif, a classified briefing room behind closed doors when it should be in front of the american people. >> everybody in america should be alarmed that right now, here in congress, there is an impeachment inquiry going on to the president of the united states and the public is not allowed to see it. >> nowhere in america would somebody go to a trial and not be able to have a witness, without being able to cross examine. >> you should be outraged if you're an american. you should be allowed to confront their accusers. >> when the topic of transparency and public hearings came up to the president today, he wasn't having it. >> they shouldn't be having public hearings. this is a ho

it's up to bill barr. bill barr can do whatever he wants to do.n television. and the tape shows that joe biden is a crook. >> let me just say first of all, kudos for you for being persistent. we don't see a lot of that in the white house, people ask a question and he dodges it and goes on and we forget it, your persistency revealed something very significant. >> look, there are two sides of this, right? if the president had actually asked his justice department and the d.o.j. and the fbi to investigate the bidens per se, and that would also be a scandal. right? i mean you're not, and the president has talked about having, you know, in the past, he says well, we will have bill barr look into, that he wanted jeff sessions to do things, he and jeff sessions basically broke up over the president's inability to really control the justice department. so when the president says definitively, he has now said it, he never asked the d.o.j. or bill barr and that's bill barr's prerogative that to me says that the president has some indication that there are s

we haven't gotten a denial from bill barr, which is notable, andrea. now, i did have a chance to ask kellyanne conway about this reporting. and i asked her broadly, look, did anyone here at the white house convey this message to the justice department? she said, i'm not going to speak for everyone at the white house but the bottom line is the president injecrejects this sto. this comes as the white house intensifies its strategy, bringing pam bondi on board, some are wondering if that is a conflict because she is a lobbyist. the white house knows this impeachment inquiry will continue to escalate. this very notion, would the attorney general hold a public news conference, you recall, andrea, when the mueller report was released, in the hours beforehand bill barr held that public news conference and president trump thought that that was a good idea. and so this story fits into that broader sort of way in which the president approaches things here. >> and let's talk, geoff bennett, about some of the witnesses today. we don't have john bolton who is obvio

look, tara, as kristen pointed out, bill barr had no problem coming out after the mueller report, although he was heavily criticized and came out on the wrong end of some fact-checking of that one, what do you make of barr drawing maybe a line in the sand this time? >> well, i think everybody is driving to understand what independence is here. how do you have an independent foreign policy, how do you have an independent judiciary, how do you have some process and national security apparatus and rule of law and i think even barr is beginning to sense that there are lines here that involve american security, american democracy and american freedom. >> so you think he's really at a point where he's saying, maybe we're coming up against a line that i have to draw? >> i think intelligence and national security, as mike will confirm, these are areas where you must draw lines. we're talking about the ability of americans to live freely and securely, to have intelligence, to have systems, to have a process, and you can't have a president who may extort, who may corrupt, who may abuse power and mix

he asked bill barr to tell people it was a perfect call. my colleagues and i learned about this in an interesting way. this request was passed along to the attorney general. we view it as significant for two reasons. the use, tapping an attorney general to be pr, but he ultimately declined to do this and it is a big flag on the play, so to speak. the president has been able to count on bill bar in many instances to argue that what he is doing sentirely legal and entirely proper. not least of which is when bill barr's justice department said there was nothing inappropriate about the call that they knew of. mick mulvaney got on the television screen, the chief of staff told reporters that yes, they held up the aide because of the president's concern about an investigation into interference in the 2016 election. so bill barr is, it seems to me, he is holding his fire and trying to figure out what exactly happened, learn the facts before putting himself out there to say that everything is okay here. >> i want to give you a chance to respond, th

bill barr showing a little independence. maybe thinks some of the things with the white house is too far. you know, that trump wanted barr to hold a news conference and he wouldn't go that far. but, boy, is the president angry about this. he's done four tweets on this article. we put up a graphic. look at all of the things he has said. this is like, you know, jeez, i wonder how true this story is. because he's saying totally untrue, we don't have freedom of the press. actually, that doesn't happen make sense on this one. never happened. sources that don't exist. garbage newspaper. degenerate "washington post." he is so upset about this story. does he think he's lost bill barr? i mean, i'm trying to figure out what has angered him about this story that gets under his skin. >> he doesn't want to look like he's lost bill barr. i don't think he's lost bill barr. i don't think he wants people to think -- >> yeah, he doesn't want people to think it because he needs bill barr for a whole host of things. the major thing he needs bill

it would seem there's a limit to how far bill barr is willin to go to sully his reputation. >> it raisesses questions if there's a line between barr and giuliani. maybe barr won't lift a finger. i want to talk about these public impeachment hearings. the first witness will be ambassador bill taylor. the top diplomat in ukraine. and then the most recent u.s. ambassador to ukraine marie yovanovitch. bill taylor is the witness we are told the white house fears this morning. because he tells a very clear story of what he saw as a shakedown, an american shakedown of ukraine to get an investigation of the bidens. and in his written transcript, he says, that was my clear understanding. security assistance money would not come until the president of ukraine committed to pursue the investigation. and he's going to say that out loud, i guess, next week. will that change things? >> whether it change things? unclear. it's not clear what it's going to take for real change to happen, which is defined by republicans in the senate changing their view on the situation. however, what it will do is put wha

bill barr can do whatever he wants to do. i saw the same tape on television and it shows joe biden is a crook. he is 100% crooked. the fake news which is you and you, you don't want to do anything about it. walked out with millions of dollars from ukraine. millions of dollars from china. he doesn't know anything. he walks away. it is a corrupt deal. it is a corrupt enterprise. if the press did it right, it is a hell of a story. [speaking simultaneously] >> [indiscernible] pres. trump: we will look at it assuming we get it. i never like to talk about things until we have them but it could be iowa or farm country or someplace like that. it will be in our country but it could be someplace like that. i don't think so. we have more of the farm belt. [speaking simultaneously] >> [indiscernible] pres. trump: i won't. i will see how it goes. you have good candidates. alabama is a place where my approval numbers are very good. i think i won by 42 points. i love alabama. i will go watch a good football game on saturday tomorrow with ls

attorney general bill barr traveling the world looking into how the russia investigation got started.ica schneider. >> it's been billed of an investigation of the investigators. attorney general bill barr traveling around the world to open doors for inquiry he launched into the origins of the fbi probe on russian interference in the 2016 election and any trump campaign connection all to determine if the fbi acted improperly when it opened the inquiry in july 2016. the president has blasted the fbi's counterintelligence investigation into whether his campaign conspired the russia, code named cross fire hurricane. >> we can never allow these treasonous acts to happen to another president. >> barr is taking a hands on approach. >> some of the countries that john durham thought might have information or be helpful to his investigation wanted preliminarily to talk to me about the scope of the investigation. >> to see bill barr not just hands on with this case but flying all over the globe, flying to other countries, apparently directly involved in driving this case is extraordinarily unusu

[applause] and attorney general bill barr. thank you, bill. [applause] i want to thank some real friends of mine, too. and warriors. i have to say, warriors. we have a lot of great warriors in our party. and i think it is necessary, frankly, to be a warrior. if you are not, you have a problem. but i want to thank changed -- thanks chairman lindsey graham. thank you very much. great. [applause] pres. trump: a very special man. a man is so popular in his state i don't think they are going to run anyone against him anymore. they have given that up. chuck grassley, right?

that both he and bill barr denied the story.ally yesterday he said we both denied it today so now they haven't actually said anything about it. >> but now reporting from the "new york times" reports that communication might be showing signs of strain. here's their quote. mr. trump angry with his coverage is aggravated with mr. barr for urging him to release a reconstructed transcript of the telephone call with ukraine's president at the center of the impeachment drive. that mr. trump on that call lumped him together with rudy giuliani, the president's private lawyer like interchangeable parts of his personal defense team. our whole team is back here at the table. and aaron blake joins us by satellite for the "post" right now. you make note of this that barr hasn't been shy about sticking his neck out for the president in the past. you'll remember the criticism he got following the mueller investigation for basically misframing the findings of robert mueller's report here. barr has been notably silent this time around and notably

it's up to bill barr. bill barr can do whatever he wants to do. saw the same tape on television and the tape shows that joe biden is a crook, he's 100% crooked. and the fake news, which is you and you, you don't want to do anything about it. his son walked out with millions of dollars from ukraine. millions of dollars from china. he doesn't know anything. he walked away with a stash. it's a corrupt deal, it's a corrupt enterprise, and if the press did it right, it's a hell of a story. [ inaudible question ] >> we're looking -- assuming we get it, and i never like to talk about things until we have them, but it could be iowa or farm country or some place like that. it will be in our country, but it could be some place like that. i think we would go more in the farm belt. [ inaudible question ] >> i'll see how it all goes. you have some very good candidates. alabama is a place where my approval numbers are very good. i think i won by 42 points. i love alabama and i'm going to go watch a very good football game on saturday, which is tomorrow, with ls

and that bill barr declined .ws. once again — this all centres on a phone call between donald trump and the president of ukraine — in which mr trump asks ukraine to investigate joe biden. the call is the focus of the current impeachment inquiry. predictably the president has attacked. saying... and another tweet he named all three reporters on the story, calling them lowlifes, and went on to call the washington post a garbage newspaper. it's worth noting that while the bbc hasn't confirmed the story — the president has a long record of rubbishing stories that turn out to be correct. and the post has a long record of getting it right. well on wednesday night, donald trump held a rally in monroe, louisianna. he returned to some familiar themes. just got off coming off the plane, and they hand me, look at this character. ok, they just and they hand me, look at this character. ok, theyjust hand me the story. who has started, from a whistle—blower‘s attorney said in 2017, you know and that was? that was a long time ago

it is up to bill barr. the john durham investigation is very important. i feel, one of the most important investigations in the history of our country. >> do you have a date or a venue for your meeting? trump: i know they would like to meet, something like that could happen. >> du one house republicans to call for public testimony? the house republicans and the senate republicans have been incredible. i don't think there has ever been unity like we have right now. we had 195 votes, we only had one negative vote. the only negative votes on the whole impeachment scam were the democrats. i think nancy pelosi has lost her mind and i think that she should go back home to san francisco. if you look at what is happening, to her district, her district is going to hell with homeless that they are not taking care of, with needles all over the streets, with tents, with people, with sanitation, with horrible things being washed into the ocean and in the pacific ocean. i think nancy pelosi, her district has probably gone down more than any district personally in the u

we do know, though, in recent weeks, you know, after bill barr won't do this that president trump has complained, is a soft way to put it, to associates, hey, bill barrat -- bill barr wouldn't do this for me and i wanted it. >> he's mad that the attorney general wouldn't entirely publicly stake his face and reputation to the lawfulness of the president's phone call in a nationally televised press conference? >> yeah, so the white house press office now disputes the president is mad. they note that even today he praised bill barr publicly, but we do knowr that the president wanted this to happen and it didn't. so, you know, i'll let viewers decide how they think the president's emotional state is. >> and we know -- has the -- the department of justice, one of the most interesting tributaries in this story is the fact that the general counsel for the cia passed over a possible criminal referral, right, to the department of justice about the call asking the department of justice to t, look into it. the department of justice o essentially declines to furthert that, but have they given pub

they know even today he praised bill barr publicly. we know the president wanted this to happen and it didn't. so let the viewers decide how the president's emotional state is. >> the department of justice, one of the most interesting tributaries in this story is the fact that the general council for the cia passed over a possible criminal referral, right, to the department of justice about the call asking the department of justice to look into it. the department of justice essentially declines to further that, but have they given public rationale or public accounting of that decision in any way, shape or form? >> well, sort of. so we've talked to some justice department officials, and they issued a statement, if you remember, on the day that the transcript came out, and they essentially said, look, we looked at the transcript of the phone call, a rough transcript of the phone call, but we only looked at that, and we only looked for campaign finance violations, and essentially because they would need to determine that the president was

bill barr didn't do it this time. i can't speak to his motivations.re have been several occasions including the partial transcript, as we know, of the phone call between president trump and president zelensky of ukraine, where barr has been invoked, as if he was somehow on the president's feel in this quid pro quo endeavor. barr has said, i know nothing about this, and it does look appropriately, that barr is trying to stay out of this one, unlike the mureller report. >> thanks. we're learning more why john bolton didn't show up to testify before impeachment investigators today and what's happening in roger stone's trial as prosecutors seem to be making it all about president trump. int pn and clearer skin. man 2 vo: proof that i can fight psoriatic arthritis... woman 2 vo: ...with humira. woman 3 vo: humira targets and blocks a specific source of inflammation that contributes to both joint and skin symptoms. it's proven to help relieve pain, stop further irreversible joint damage, and clear skin in many adults. humira is the number one prescribed bio

it's up to bill barr.l barr can do whatever he wants to do. >>. >> reporter: so that is the president saying -- i got the be quiet from the president -- he did not ask the department of justice and it's up to bill barr to do those investigations. where we're left with that is that the president is willing to ask the president of ukraine to look into the bidens, but has a hands-off approach with his own doj. he's dooe denying he asked bill barr to hold a press conference torques report by "the washington post" that nothing was untoward or illegal in the july 25th call. the president said that on several different occasions. he also said bill barr would probably do a press conference if he asked him, but he wasn't going to ask him and he wouldn't ask hip. we heard quite a bit from the president in general. it seems as though he wants to have this conversation just on the call logs, just on the transcripts. other bits of news, a little bit on china. he weighed in on michael bloomberg's potential run for presi

. >> bill barr. talk about the other big headline today. a source, cnn source, confirms president trump asked bill barr to hold this news conference, to clear him of any crimes as it pertains to ukraine, and this phone call. president trump by the way, vehemently denies any of this reporting. bill barr released a statement saying the inspector general was not required to turn over a whistle-blower complaint to congress. either way, to you, do you feel like bill barr has been doing some legal maneuvering on behalf of the president of the united states? >> i think so but went as far as he could here and realized clearing the president's something that the dod didn't want to investigate, wasn't worth investigating isn't something the department of justice does. he felt like, i think, doing what he did, saying the whistle-blower complaint shouldn't have gone over and by saying nothing to investigate on the campaign finance side, that was as far as he could go. that was more -- he would have gotten so much blowback had he taken that final step.

they want to impeach bill barr., ag barr addressed a radical political group and gave one of the most vicious partisan screeds even uttered by a u.s. cabinet officer. b12 says drum should have king like powers. barr is a liar and a fanatic. he should be impeached and stripped of his law licenses." >> the attorney general has the same free speech rights as everyone else. he can only be breach for the same reason that the president can be impeached, treason, bribery, other high crimes and misdemeanors. speaking your mind is hardly an impeachable offense. i disagree with him but i defend what he wants to say. >> martha: he will like that. judge napolitano, thank you very much. coming up next, "the story" exclusive of the state department, as they take the stand in the impeachment inquiry against president trump. >> no defense of your employees? >> i always defend my employees, the greatest tip about a quart in the history of the world. we are proud of them. ♪ these days we're (horn honking) i hear you, sister. that's w

it is up to bill barr. delmar can do whatever he wants to do. tape onw the same television and it shows that joe biden is the crook. he is in present cricket. and the fake news which is you and you and you -- he is 100% crooked. and the fake news which is you and you and you. walks out with millions of dollars from ukraine. millions of dollars from china. he does not know anything. it is a crack deal. as a corrupt enterprise. and if the press dinner right, and is a hell of a story. did itif the press right, it is a hell of a story. neveruming we get it, i like to talk about things until we have them in. it could be iowa or farm country or someplace like that. it will be in our country. it could be someplace like that. i do not think so. isaac moore the farm belt. will go more the farmout. >> jeff sessions. >> i won't, we will see how it all goes alabama is a place where my approval numbers are very good i think i one by 42 points. i love alabama. i'm going to go watch a very good football game on saturday, tomorrow. with lsu and that is going to

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relief with cosentyx. >>> a source confirming to cnn that president trump wanted attorney general bill barrdid nothing wrong in the ukraine scandal, a source saying that the president discussed barr potentially holding a news conference to say that the president broke no laws in his phone call july 25th when he asked ukraine's president zelensky to investigate joe and hunter biden. trump denies this. as we should note the president often tells lies. the news conference he wanted did not happen. barr's justice department did try to shut down an investigation into the president's phone call with ukraine. >> democrats must be accountable for their hoaxes and their crimes. >> reporter: president trump so infuriated by the impeachment inquiry, sources tell cnn he wanted attorney general bill barr to hold a news conference, declaring he did nothing wrong. >> it's all a hoax. it's a scam. >> reporter: trump wanted barr to say publicly he broke no laws when he pushed president zelensky for an investigation into his political rivals. though trump denied the report today saying barr did not decline m

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nbc news has not confirmed the report president trump tweeting bill barr did not decline my request to talk about ukraine. did the president want a public news conference from the attorney general >> the president said he did not make that request. >> reporter: it comes f a fiery rally in louisiana >> it's all a hoax, a scam >> reporter: but democrats pounce on this comment speaker pelosi trying to impeach him. i don't mean any disrespect but it must suck to be that dumb . >> reporter: after a fierce backlash >> childish and nasty smear, far out of bounds. >> reporter: kennedy defending the comments today >> i didn't mean it as disrespectful. this is a partisan impeachment she's going to elevate it to the new normal >> and kristen, on another note, a new york judge i know has ordered president trump to pay $2 million to non-profit groups. what's that about? >> reporter: this is the part of a settle lment alleging president trump ice charity used funds for personal and political reasons during the 2016 campaign in a statement, the trump foundation said it has pleased to donate that mone

b, you have bill barr as attorney general, so that ain't going to happen.t this week reiterated the president can be charged with a crime after he leaves office. whether that would actually happen is another question, but that could be the consequence. but as shimon said, the "i do not recall" does a lot of work there, and he say it was just a failure of memory. >> there's a difference between mueller was federal, is that right? >> yes. >> then is that considered state? >> this is a federal trial. mueller was also federal. now, there's a separate question. could a state prosecutor charge him? this would be a federal crime, though, because he would be lying to federal investigators, fbi agents. >> so the sdny is considered -- >> sdny is federal as well. >> federal as well. okay. that means that -- >> it's all under barr's umbrella. >> okay. gotcha. shimon, the prosecution plans to call on steve bannon, as you mentioned, and rick gates. prosecutors say that in the summer of 2016, while wikileaks started to release the hacked data, stone emailed bannon, writin

i purposely stay out and tell bill barr to handle everything. we have a fisa report coming out.d is it's historic. the highest levels of government they were spying on my campaign. this is my opinion. personally i think it goes all the way. >> i think he means all the way to obama. new evidence expected to be outlined in this new doj watch dog report on december ninth. dana i don't put a lot of stock in the ig. i think the real actions durham in 2020. the "new york times" identified who this guy is who fudged the notes to get the wiretap on the trump campaign. kevin kleinsmith who was fired from the mueller team investigated donald trump. he was on the hillary clinton team on the email server. he has text messages that came out the day after trump won in november 2016. oh, no my gd-name is all over these legal documents that we deserved donald trump's staff with. he questioned papadopoulos too. >> the "new york times" reported it looks like the horowitz ig-report will say yes to tap in at this low level but will say they made no findings of political's biassed actions by comey,

bill barr can do whatever he wants to do. but i saw the same tape on television.s that joe biden is a crook. and the fake news which is you and you, you don't want to do anything about it. >> we reported -- >> his son walked out with millions of dollars from ukraine. millions of dollars from china. he doesn't know anything. he walked away with a stash. it's a corrupt deal, it's a corrupt enterprise. and if the press did it right, it's a hell on of a story. >> have you figured out where you're going to sign the -- >> well, we're looking at different -- assuming we get it. i don't like to talk about things until we have them. but it could be iowa or farm country or somebody else like that. but it will be in our country. >> no, i don't think so. i think more of the farm belt. >> i'll see how it all goes. we have some very good candidates. alabama is a place where my approval numbers are very good. i think i won by 42 points. i love alabama. i'm going to go watch a very good football game on saturday, which is tomorrow, with lsu that is going to be great. we'll see wh

whether bill barr if he actually had made the statement, would it have made a difference, it might have made a difference politically because impeachment as you said is a political process. it is not a criminal law matter. so maybe it would have helped the president with the public who in turn could have put pressure on their members in congress if bill barr had been willing to make a statement saying that it wasn't illegal, backing up the president's view that this was totally fine. so it might have made a difference politically. legally it would not have made a difference and in terms of whether or not this could be deemed an impeachable offense, it also would not have made a difference. >> we talk about a lot of different things, peter baker, in the context of this ongoing investigation and we know that the democrats have been very clear publicly and behind closed doors saying listen, we have to have one clear concise and consistent charge against the president, we have to be able to make this understandable to the american people in a way that the mueller report clearly was not. hav

it's bill barr, secretary of state pompeo -- those are the last three, the inner core. all three of them, we have the question, particularly for pompeo and pence. >> what did they know and when? great reporting, david, about what this has meant for mike pompeo, and what this has meant for the department. kylie, you also had great reporting for that as well on the state department and what this moment means for the secretary of state mike pompeo, how he did not come to the defense the maria yovanovitch, and how they had pushed to get the moan released. >> we have heard from sources that secretary of state mike pompeo was an advocate for releasing the security assistance to ukraine. on the flip side of that, we do not have evidence that secretary pompeo was over at the white house repeatedly knocking on the door and urging for this assistance to be let go. in fact, when we saw bill taylor's testimony, we heard that he specifically sent a first-person cable to secretary pompeo. he was urged to do so by the former national security divorce john bolton. that table documented

attorney general bill barr said it was "a perfect storm of screw ups." gallagher and emily compagno have the full report next. that and much more in the special edition of "hannity" continues. biopharmaceutical researchers. pursuing life-changing cures in a country that fosters innovation here, they find breakthroughs... like a way to fight cancer by arming a patient's own t-cells... because it's not just about the next breakthrough... it's all the ones after that. >> jason: welcome back to the special edition of "hannity." there are still a lot of unanswered questions. fox news' chief correspondent joins us live from our west coast newsroom with the latest. >> good evening. attorney general bill barr said he was very suspicious of jeffrey epstein's death and what was supposed to be a prison with top-notch oversight. but now barr tells the associated press that as the fbi and department of justice continue their investigations into epstein's death, he believes the suicide was the result of "a perfect storm of screw ups." the ag also trying to tamp down c

got out ahead of the mueller probe enough, and he has been very happy with the defense of bill barr when the mueller probe was still a live ball at the beginning of the process. he clearly wanted a little more from barr than barr felt comfortable giving. what barr did do was authorize a statement from the justice department that said some of the same things but it didn't have, did didn't have the value of a public televised appearance that the top law officer of them saying he did nothing wrong. >> before we go to commercial, yesterday i said that republican senator richard burr wants the whistle-blower's identity revealed. he wants the whistle-blower to testify to the intelligence committee behind closed doors, that is not the same. my mistake. coming up, two former twitter employees charged with spying from a foreign government. first, vice president mike pence in new hampshire today. looking at trump's strategy in this key state. rump's strategy n this key state when did you see the sign? when i needed to jumpstart sales. build attendance for an event. help people find their way. fast

bill barr refused to publicly defend the president? something is seriously wrong. at's like nicholas cage turning down a movie role. ( laughter ) this isn't the first time that barr has distanced himself from this scandal. we know from the rough transcript that on trump's call with the ukrainian president, trump offered zelensky the services of barr to aid the investigations of biden and his son, but after the transcript was released, a barr spokeswoman said that barr and trump had never discussed that. you know trump didn't like that. (as trump) "come on, billy, you can't throw me under the bus. first of all, i'm hard to throw. ( laughter ) there's nowhere to grip, and i'm greased up like a prize hog." ( laughter ) of course, there's only one way to make sure a story about trump is true, and that's if he rage-tweets his denial: "bill barr did not decline my request to talk about ukraine. the story was a fake 'washington post' con job with an 'anonymous' source that doesn't exist. just read the transcript. the justice department already ruled that the call was good.