that is, of course, bob bauer. it, too, says that as expected from the start as special counsel concluded that no criminal charges were warranted. but then it is a pretty fiery statement, if you take a look at this part. it says the special counsel could not refrain from investigative excess, perhaps unsurprising given the intense pressure of the current political environment. whatever the impact of those pressures on the final report, it flouts department regulations and norms. bob bauer goes on to say that this is a report that could have been presented basically in the form of a summary final report, but instead it says the special counsel turned over stone after stone and produced 379 pages. earlier on in the statement, it talks about the length to which the special counsel's office went to conduct this investigation, as we've been talking about a 15 month inquiry involving 173 interviews of one out of 47 witnesses, more than 77 million documents, using millions of dollars of taxpayer dollars, essentially, is w

it's a spspecial counsel's responsibility. >> bob bauer, thank you.ht along class before you joined us. so, i appreciate you making the time for us tonight. >> it was a pleasure, thank you so much. >> donald trump doubled down today with. attacking our nato ally, is i'm. not that is not hyperbole. he worked to pat -- anyone leaving nato. and now he is once again sounding the alarm. the senator joins me after a very innoquick break. quick br e from rsv in people 60 years and older. arexvy does not protect everyone and is not for those with severe allergic reactions to its ingredients. those with weakened immune systems may have a lower response to the vaccine. the most common side effects are injection site pain, fatigue, muscle pain, headache, and joint pain. i chose arexvy. rsv? make it arexvy. >> in the summer of 2020, walkaway are, zaghar traveled with president biden in the first trip overseas. there are lots of big line head grabbing parts of this. chipped a meeting with queen elizabeth, a summit with russian president vladimir putin. that is a d

business winner, world winner, business week winner, powerful old man, rightly said the lawyer, bob bauern public speeches, the president confused the leaders of france and germany and called egypt mexico. does the president have memory problems? he doesn't have any. but what do you want me to say? because this week. syrsky changes the essence of the kiev regime , more and more questions, well, purely military-technical, military-tactical, strategic, this does not change anything, now i want to specifically dwell on this minute twenty-minute excursion into history that you promised, which putin uttered. did this surprise, why, why did he take so long here , we can discuss this a lot, but this is... a person is considered to have five senses, smell, touch, servants, sight, taste, in reality there is still a sense of time, some are always late, others always do everything on time, and there is also a sense of great time, or you can also call it a sense of history, a sense of history, i understand that it is completely incomprehensible to americans, some person can tell: the egyptian pharaoh

we expect to hear from the white house counsel, the president's own personal attorney, bob bauer in short order. we did hear from them already today in a significant way. there was a privilege review. that's an option to the white house to go through this report to potentially mark items in the report that they believe should be withheld because of executive privilege. the white house saying that out of the president's long standing commitment to transparency here, that they choose not to invoke privilege over any of this, and so i think that is ultimately also going to be an important part of this discussion, which is that the biden team is going to be underscoring, wait in which they cooperated at every step of the way with this investigation, versus what we have seen from former president donald trump. but as we look through the initial findings of this, there are certainly some easily weaponized political opportunities here for the president's opponents. >> yeah, and i remember a lot of what donald trump is facing, he's facing because he didn't hand over the documents. the national ar

it's a special counsel's responsibility. >> bob bauer, thank you.now you taught along class before you joined us. so, i appreciate you making the time for us tonight. >> it was a pleasure, thank you so much. >> donald trump doubled down today with. attacking our nato ally, is i'm. not that is not hyperbole. he worked to pat -- anyone leaving nato. and now he is once again sounding the alarm. the senator joins me after a very quick break. >>> as early as 2 days. some achieved dramatic skin clearance as early as 2 weeks. and many taking rinvoq saw clear or almost-clear skin. rinvoq can lower your ability to fight infections, including tb. serious infections and blood clots, some fatal, cancers, including lymphoma and skin; heart attack, stroke, and gi tears occurred. people 50 and older with a heart disease risk factor have an increased risk of death. serious allergic reactions can occur. tell your doctor if you are or may become pregnant. help heal your painful skin— disrupt the itch & rash of eczema. talk to your doctor about rinvoq. learn how abbvi

bob bauer and mr.r at one point a trump appointee as to the specific role was appointed by biden's attorney general merrick garland presumably he was vetted and there was no indicia of ideological or partisan agenda and his background, they are upset about his conclusion in the fact that he laid out but the facts of the facts. stuart: one more on this. listen to the response when asked about releasing transcripts of classified document interviews. this is important. watch this. >> do you favor releasing them. >> it's a decision has to take place within the government classified document. on the president's personal counsel. >> would you recommend these be made public if they backup your personal record. >> is a process underway and i'm not a specialist in that process i have to defer to those who work through the issues. stuart: the doctor to release the transcripts of interviews that could vindicate the president if the president is telling the truth about the interviews. >> italic the trend to have i

yesterday his personal attorney, bob bauer, told cbs' margaret brennan the report went off the rails.> i didn't come away from the special counsel's failure to ask precise questions and think to myself he has mental acuity problems. i thought he was asking bad questions. >> bauer said that he went to the special counsel and the attorney general to express concerns about what he said were unnecessary digs at the president's memory. >>> well, the senate moved forward with a $95 billion age -- aid package for ukraine, israel, and other countries. in a rare sunday session the democratic-led senate voted 67-27 with 18 republicans backing the legislation. it faces opposition from former president trump and the republican-controlled house. the revised package comes after similar legislation was coupled with an overhaul of u.s. immigration policy collapsed last week. >>> and turning now to the weather. snow trekking across the ohio valley today will strengthen to a major nor'easter tonight. winter storm alerts are in effect from central pennsylvania to boston. for areas expecting more than ha

the surrogates said robert hur is incompetent including bob bauer who was in the room.e said, that is not how i remember it. maybe we should hear the tape and make our decision. he said, that is not my call. you are his attorney, what do you recommend? you can't call robert hur incompetent and know tapes are out there and hold them back. it will not fly. they should worry about what they are into. >> kayleigh: they should. kellyanne, they have defenders in liberal press. take a listen, doth protest too much. take a watch. president biden, who i have been around numerous times is sharp and focused and bright. he is sharp, intensely probing and focused. he is sharp, on top of his game. he is smart and on his game. >> i was in almost every meeting and the president was on top of it all, coordinating and directing leaders who are in charge of america's national security and our allies around the globe. >> kayleigh: coordinating. >> kellyanne: all have sound bites, sharp focus. i used to think kamala harris was the most ridiculous person and i wrote in the "new york times" l

american citizens are concerned about the president's competence, bob bauer gives a comprehensive answers not remember when he was vice president, when he ceased to be so, and has been showing for several years that he does not remember exactly when his son died. this past week, the president... publicly confused the leaders of france and germany, and also called egypt mexico. does he have memory problems? no, there aren't any. not long ago, an interview with vladimir putin conducted by tucker carlson shot out like thunder in the midst of american silence. there for us in general, there was nothing new, but for the western audience there were a lot of revelations. and then the other day there was another blow: an american journalist had a most interesting dialogue with a former gazdep official, mike bence. it's almost snowden at minimum wage. he talks about how the us government is brainwashing people. not only to citizens of other countries, spitting from the capitalist hill on human rights, but to their own citizens, considering them as an object of manipulation, as the phrase russian

take a look at the statement from the president's personal attorney, bob bauer. he says, special counsel cannot retain from investigative access, perhaps unsurprising given the intense pressures of the current political environment. whatever the impact of those pressures on the final report clouds department regulations. basically they are saying, a 15 month investigation, 173 interviews, 147 witnesses, all of that to ultimately not bring charges against the president, again, as the white house has said all along, they believed would be the conclusion that i could guarantee you, it does not matter to republicans, the former president, donald trump, critics of the president who are going to seize on this whether or not charges were brought, they will be seizing on the detailed regions of the memory issue of the special counsel's report, alleges the president has to make the point that this is somebody who is too old to be president and has mental cognitive issues. that is something the white house will be pretty serious about. >>> thank you so much. this is a damn

plus, joe biden's personal attorney, bob bauer, will join us to give his take on robert hur's report. where you are. there is much more news coming up on msnbc. more news coming up on msnbc. >> it is a remarkable article inside president biden's five hour face-off with the special counsel. why the president's attorneys thought the interviews went well, only to be stunned by robert hers disparagement of biden's memory. we'll have the best guys to talk about this. former press secretary, curr

i want this sound bite on the president's attorney bob bauer slamming the special prosecutor's report>> we're looking at this particular performance by this particular special counsel in this particular case. as legal experts around the country are saying, it goes off the rails. it's a shabby piece of work. he arrived at the right legal conclusions and then misstatements of facts and totally inappropriate comments. >> trace: he said it was right. it was the correct thing to do to bring charges but it was wrong to explain why you're not bringing the charges. so it's good not to bring charges. wrong to explain why you're not bringing charges. >> trace, thanks for having me on. i'll tell you what really stands out about that report. this is the first clue that the case is actually strong against joe biden. the evidence is there. it's sufficient to present to a grand jury. but under rules that govern the department of justice, this special prosecutor had to be able to give a very clear reason for why they wouldn't present it to a grand jury. that reasoning is that they do not believe that

. >> that was the president's personal attorney and adviser, bob bauer. ian sams a spokesman at the white house said it's possible that there would be some release there. robert hur under fire from democrats for including information about the president's cognitive abilities that critics say was below the belt. hur was appointed by then. donald trump. we're told to expect robert hur to testify on camera in public al some point in the coming weeks and months. attorney general merrick garland has said with all special counsels, he wants them to testify in public free from any interference for anyone to hear. back to you. >> sandra: thanks, david. should the biden transcripts be released? that's the big question at this hour. john yoo joins us now. great to see you. if they're so confident in what the president said in that room, why not release the transcript? >> exactly, sandra. i think we were one of the first people on this show to call for the release of the transcripts in respond to president biden and his lawyers attacking the integrity of the special

i think, you know, we saw bob bauer say over the weekend that, you know, they tried to push to get those usually, the norms with the justice department is that you don't put out prejudicial information about someone who is not being charged. but this is one of those cases where it's going to be rough politically for the president to push back against these things because there's just this perception out there that's widely viewed among the public, that he's slowed down. you know, he doesn't have the mental capacity to be president. i think, really, at this point, the white house is just trying to move forward, get him out there, you know, have him do events that pushes back against that sentiment. >> yeah. certainly, we saw them be aggressive in recent days. they joined tiktok, the campaign did last night. an ad also focusing on donald trump's comments about nato. white house reporter for "the wall street journal," ken thomas, thank you, as always, for joining us this morning. we appreciate it. >>> thanks to all of you for getting up "way too early" with us on this monday morning. jam-pa

>> brian: bob bauer spent the weekend eviscerating robert hur's report saying i was in the room giving testimony that's not how i remember it. even margaret brennan said okay should we hear the tapes and my my own decision? >> steve: make it easy. >> brian: i don't see a reason forever that you got yourself in trouble there the fractures a little different. if you are going to impugn robert hur, then you are going to have to answer the question can you get the tapes? i have seen a lot of donald trump deposition tapes. they are everywhere. you can get them for a certain dollar figure and maybe even on donald trump's website. just a quick thing on the tony bobulinski situation. even rob walker said if joe biden forgot, that joe biden met with the cefc chinese executive energy in 2017, so even rob walker was not cooperative is going to say what tony bobulinski is going to confirm today. >> ainsley: even merrick garland's former professor, did you all read this was saying -- he was complaining about merrick garland keeping robert hur on after donald trump. because he is now investigating j

yesterday, his attorney, bob bauer, attacke d the special counsel's report. he was on cbs face the nation, n but then waffled on whether or not he wanted the full interview. whe the transcripts to be released. >> take a look.e re so along with the legal conclusion comes this flood of characterized actions,char factual mistakes and pejorative comments about theactualesident president that are inconsistent incoy and norms. t 48 and that, as you see over the last 48 hours, have been widely bee criticized by legallx experts. this is not what prosecutors do. itperts. is work product.ecom >> would you recommend that these be made public if they indeemendy back ud up your again, there's a process under way. i'm not a specialist in that process. >> and so i really have tohave defer to those who have to work through those issues. . >> this would not be something you have to defer to anybody. nr on if what you're saying is true, then let's see the transcripts of that videotap the. soons see that, too. soon. these transcripts may soon. be released to congress. and frank

plus, joe biden's personal attorney, bob bauer, will join us to give his take on robert hur's report. for, now stay right where you are. there is much more news coming up on msnbc. more news coming up on msnbc. >> it is a remarkable article inside president biden's five hour face-off with the special counsel. why the president's attorneys thought the interviews went well, only to be stunned by robert hers disparagement of biden's memory. we'll have the best guys to talk about this. former press secretary, current and sbc host, jen psaki. that interview coming up in minutes. and a very good day to all of you from nbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome to alex witt reports. we begin with the breaking news, right, now the senate is holding a sunday session as lawmakers scramble to lockdown a last-minute deal on funding for both ukraine and israel. this comes after republican scrapped a bipartisan border deal that would have finalized that budget for wartime. we have a live report ahead for you. of course, that wartime aid, in the meantime. a second vote on -- all hundred mayork

as bob bauer would put it in a statement today, he had committed investigative excess because of concern with they the way house republicans would ultimately treat this investigation and the oversight that they were going to be providing to it. what's interesting is that three days ago the white house advisers lawyers sent a letter to mr. hur. your concern changed from this investigative access to the judgment about age. in a long memo responding to what during what's known as a privilege review, they really questioned why hur was making these judgments about the presidents memory in a way that he was not doing for any of the other witnesses that testified and also had memory lapses. so they were clearly concerned about this. as to why we see the president tonight it's because this is how you fight back. it was notable when they announced this news conference tonight, the white house and one adviser said let's f go. we know what the f stands. for that's the unscripted biden that we always felt worked well politically. you heard that humor, saying his memory obviously laps because he forg