i'm chris hayes. william barr has given the president something he wanted since the day he took the oath of office.th an attorney general to protect him and serve the president's interest above all else including the rule of law itself. in his press conference and hsi summary, the mueller report which we know mueller formally wanted to in a letter to and hil testimony this morning. barr has shown himself to be y unfit for the office to which he was confirmed. on top of it all, he refuses to show up to the hearing in the house tomorrow. the attorney general is unlike almost any other role serving ii the executive branch as part of the president's cabinet at the pleasure of the president. of course tasked with administrating the justice department without regard to j politics. that's why, for example, it was a huge scandal when a previous attorney general fired a bunch w of attorneys for reasons by the white house. that's why that attorney general was forced to resign. by publicly misrepresenting mueller's evid

chris buckler has more. >> today we consider a report recommending the house of representatives hold attorney general williamin contempt of congress. chris: even before the committee thered to vote, president trump changed the debate. he now says he is asserting executive privilege and ing his position to stop the full unredacted mueller report from being released, taking thede sion out of the hands of his attorney general. rep. nadler: this is unprecedented. if allowed to go unchecked, this obstruction means the end of congressional oversight. as a coequal branch of government, we should not ahi cannot allowto continue, or we will not be a coequal branch of government. chris: but republicans argued these contempt proceedings are not about holding attorney general william barr to account, but instead about damaging a presidllt. >> this isbout impeaching the president. now, why don't they just say it? why don'they just jump to the impeachment proceedings like the liberal media overg rds are tellem to? chris: this is the latest clash between the house of representatives and the president, and both branches of

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chris: but republicans arguedem these co proceedings are not general william barr to account, but instead damaging a president. >> this is all about impeaching the president. now, why don't ust say it? why don't they just jump to the impeachment proceedings like the liberal media overlords are telling them to? chris: this is the latest clash between thhouse of representatives and the president, and both branches of government seem deteined to flex their muscles. congress want to see the president's tax returns, to hear from former white houscounsel don mcgahn, and be able to question special counsel robert mueller. but the white house believesmo ats are going beyond their powers. sarah: take a minute to let this sink in. chairman nadler is asking the attorney general of the united states to break the law and commit a crime by releasing information it has no legal authority to have. chris: the fallout from the mueller report continues to deepen divisions, and democrats claim it threatens to damage democracy. >> i can only conclude that the president seeks to take a wrecking ball to t const

chris: attorney general william barr telling a senate committee this week he's serious about investigating of russia and the trump campaign. and it's time now for our sunday group. fox news senior political analyst brit hume. welcome back, brit. charles lane from "the washington post," marie hard of, cohost of benson and harf on fox news radio, and gop strategist karl rove. brit, since you're back from a long time away from us, attorney general barr seemed to become a big target this week for a lot of democrats, marley after we learned -- particularly after we learned before his testimony before that committee that robert mueller had sent a letter to him complaining about his after he issued it to congress. to what degree do you think that attacks on barr are really about the fact that he's serious about investigating the origins of the trump-russia investigation? >> i think that barr's the latest target because that's all they got right now, all the critics, the people who were so disastrously and flamingly wrong on trump collaboration with russia in the campaign have now turned their fir

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williams. >> well, chris, tonight the mayor is calling this the most devastating day in the history of virginia beach. the numbers you know, 11 people killed, six people injured. we don't yet know the condition of the people who were taken to two hospitals, five to one, one to another, presumably all with gunshot wounds although authorities haven't said yet what the nature of their injuries is exactly. but this is a person they say who was an employee of this building. in other words, they say he was shooting at people that he knew. entering the building just after 4:00, about 4:30. this is the municipal building. it's in a cluster of city office buildings near the court house, near city hall in virginia beach. then the police chief says he just began indiscriminately opening fire. now, we don't yet know what kind of weapon the gunman was carrying or how heavily armed he was. we do know that the police response was very quick because you've got all these city buildings around. you have this large police presence there anyway. they were in that building very, very quickly. we do know that the gu

coming up, last month, attorney general william barr told senator chris van holland that he didn't know if special counsel mueller supported his conclusion of the mueller report, but now we know that's not true. and a growing list of democratic lawmakers are calling for barr to resign saying barr lied. senator chris van holland joins me after the break. n holland jo me after the break if you have postmenopausal osteoporosis and a high risk for fracture now might not be the best time to ask yourself are my bones strong? life is full of make or break moments. that's why it's so important to help reduce your risk of fracture with prolia®. only prolia® is proven to help strengthen and protect bones from fracture with 1 shot every 6 months. do not take prolia® if you have low blood calcium, are pregnant, are allergic to it or take xgeva® serious allergic reactions, like low blood pressure trouble breathing; throat tightness; face, lip, or tongue swelling rash; itching; or hives have happened. tell your doctor about dental problems as severe jaw bone problems may happen or new or unusual pain

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chris lee meyers. earlier in the week heather w williams reported missing. her mom says she planned on breaking up with meyers. her family later visited the couple's home off jefferson pike and found williams' body. according to court documents williams' mom told police meyers is a heroin addict. ve icials believe meyers d the car to baltimore after the killing. >> the police tried to find ms. williams and ended up putting a ping on her phon trying to find her phone and my understanding is that the phone was located in baltimore within her car. >> police say meyers was in williams' car when arrested on traffic and drug charges. williams' mother says that he had threatened to kill her daughter if she broke up with him. if convicted, meyers faces life in prison. >>> staying in maryland nowo montgomery county where a judge sentenced a teen to ten years in prison for his role in gang activity. cell phone video shows a man waving a machete at a man in the parking lot at the festival shopping center in gaithersburg. police say the teen is a memb of ms-13. another

especially after william barr skipped the houseudiciary hearing. now with the latest from d.c. chris, democrats are now looking to go saight to the source for the mueller report?or >> repr: that's right, they are negotiating directly with the mueller team. all of this because of the confusion that arose as toac exy what mueller found and foundretations of what he and what actions hexpected to take place after submitting his 448-page report. as you orntioned, the attney general being a no showor f questioning yesterday. democrats turning that into a sptacle of looking at an empty chair. one member bringing a bucket of chicken to imply that the attorney general was being chicken. it comes amid signs that thep trum administration will fight any effort of oversight on congress. >> i've had him testifying over 30 s. >> so is the answer -- >> i can't let him and tell everybody else he can't. th've testified for many hours, all of them. >> as far as you are concerned, it is done.an >> say onean. i would say, it is done. >> reporter: the house judiciary chair threatening to holden attorney g

. >> when the attorney general william barr couldn't really answers chris koontz' question about whetheruld bun lawful for a campaign to seek foreign help, it definitely clearly send the green light to the trump campaign that they can send rudy out to find more dirt. what do you make of this attempt to search for dirt on joe biden and ukraine? >> first, i would just like to say on the tax -- that looks better. waitresses, coal miners, people who work in construction, they don't get to avoid taxes through massive tax schemes. but because they think he's so sensitive about being a terrible businessman, he'd rather make the case that he's a tax cheat than the worst businessman in america. and so i'm glad we're going to get his taxes, hopefully soon. but i think what is really deeply concerning, and i know we use these words like concerning and troublesome, but what is happening right now is in real time we are seeing donald trump and his actual campaign apparatus and his personal attorney essentially trying to lure in a foreign country to help his re-election. the fact that he is essentiall

. >> chris, he did make it very clear, william barr, that when he called robert mueller to ask him aboutoncern in that letter, that none of that was concerned about accuracy. the accuracy in william barr's characterization of the mueller report. >> i've got to say, i don't agree with that. i know that is what barr said, but i don't think if you read -- what we got today was we finally got a copy of the letter that mueller sent to barr on march 27th. when he read the letter, there's really a lot in it. first, we find out it wasn't the only letter that he sent barr pretty scent of a letter on march twenty-fifth, another letter, the day after the four page report in which he said that there was no collusion, the bottom line conclusions, there was no collusion, and while it didn't convict him it didn't exonerate him either. it turns out that mueller sends a letter to barr on march 25th, the day after that, in which he specifically talks about, "i would like you to be able to release more information." and he specifically says, "i've got the conclusions and the executive summary and i'm also

our guest of honor, rod rosenstein, jeff sessions, beth williams, director of the fbi, chris wray, robertand deputy attorney general ed o'callaghan. [applause] >> also joining us in the audience, i would like to welcome kellyanne conway, azar,der is our -- senator richard burr, senator tom cotton and congresswoman susan brooks, as well as deputy secretary of state john sullivan. thank you for being here today. thank you for coming. [applause] >> while there are many special guests with us today, none are more important than the family of deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. join me and giving a warm welcome to the wife of the attorney general, daughter julia and allison and parents. welcome. the entire department greatly appreciates the enormous support that you have provided to our deputy attorney general, as he dedicated himself to seeking justice, keeping our country safe and ensuring that the law is enforced equally and fairly for all. one of the great privileges as my career has been to serve under deputy attorney general rosenstein for the past 13 years. from the time he hired me

chris matthews in washington. in an own senate hearing, william barr walked into a mine field set by last night's revelation that he had and undermined the report of robert mueller. perhaps because of it, the attorney general is backing out before the house judiciary committee. barr had been refusing to take questions on the lawyers and now he is refusing to comply with a subpoena for the full mueller report. here's chairman jerry nadler on those developments moments ago. >> attorney general barr informed us that he will not attend tomorrow's hearing. i understand why he wants to avoid that scrutiny, but when push comes to shove, the administration cannot dictate the terms of our hearing in our hearing room. the department of justice told us they will not comply with our subpoena for the full un redacted mueller report, a subpoena that was returnable today. compliance of congressional subpoenas is not optional and if good faith negotiations don't result in a pledge of compliance, the next step is seeking a contempt citation against the attorney general. >> this comes after today's hearing where in case after case b

chris matthews in washington. in an own senate hearing, william barr walked into a mine field set by last night's revelation that heobert mueller. perhaps because of it, the attorney general is

. >> that exchange between senator chris val holland and attorney general william barr is from aprilh. an april 10th hearing about the mueller report. we now know two weeks earlier, march 27th, robert mueller sent a letter to barr expressing frustration and concern with the way barr characterized his report. leaving congressional democrats to draw one obvious conclusion. >> madam speaker, did the attorney general commit a crime? >> he lieds to congress. he lied to congress and anybody else did that it would be considered a crime. nobody is above the law. not the president of the united states, and not the attorney general. being attorney general does not give you a bath to go say whatever you want and it is the fact, because you are the attorney general. it just isn't true. >> should he go to jail for it? >> there's a process involved. >> paul butler back with me. joining me now is david korn of mother jones and natasha of politico. stay with you paul, legal eagle at the table. play one more sound bite that was even more blatant than the one we just played from chris van hollen. that

chris cillizza is digging into the long-shared history of william barr and special counsel robert muellerch other for decades. >> yep. >> but yesterday i don't know, not really how i would imagine a friend of decades would talk about a friend. >> a little frenemy-ish. and i say bill barr and bob mueller, it really gets me a lot. robert mueller and bill barr. they have known each other for frankly quite a long time. since the 1990s. they met at the justice department and both in their 40s. high-rising justice department officials and their wives attended bible study together and evidence of some friendship or they ran in more circles and the muellers did attend weddings of william barr's daughters which makes you think they were more than just acquaintances, right? but -- but, but as you mentioned yesterday in the hearing barr didn't attack -- attack mueller, but he kind of hinted at it. let's play a little bit of that sound. >> bob mueller is the equivalent of a u.s. attorney. his work concluded when he sent his report to the attorney general. at that point it was my baby and it was my de

testimony is in the footnotes, he didn't say remove as attorney general william barr testified before congress. he said fire. and chris christie you would have to hope would testify truthfully. corey lewandowski called him over fourth of july weekend, it's in the footnotes. he wanted to fire him comey style. there are other characters, it may be season two, season three extras, but there are other characters who if compelled to testify before congress could help tell that story as well. >> right. they may not have the creditability or star power that robert mueller would have. >> let's hope not. >> but there are americans that would be interested to hear their stories and what they have to say. even if they're not outlying criminal behavior, the mob one is unseemly, it's politically damaging to the president, they're well aware of that, that's why they've adopted the tactics of say no, it's stonewall up andon down to prevent these things from happening. >> in order to be successful and have all the witnesses speak freely, there has to be a baseline, and this is what nancy pelosi is trying to establish right now, the b

chris vanderveen at the scene, thanks very much. we want to go to our justice correspondent pete williams. pete, what can you tell us about the response to this shooting? >> totally different. this campus is less than ten miles away from columbine high school, but the response to today's shooting is so much different. columbine in 1999 convinced the nation's police that they needed to react to these reports differently, and today was a very vivid demonstration of that, with the first responder saying they could actually hear gunshots inside as they arrived. that's completely different from what used to be the protocol, secure the perimeter and wait for the s.w.a.t. team. and this rapid swarm by police rushing toward the danger undoubtedly saves lives, lester. >> pete williams in washington, thank you. we are following every development of this story. we will bring you any new information as we get it. we also wantge ni tornadoes and damaging hail. al roker joins us now with the latest. >> lester, we have tornado watches up even as we speak through tonight from texas all the way to oklahoma

. >> that was fbi director chris wray a few moments ago breaking with attorney general william barr, last month that spying did occur on the trump campaign in 2016. we'll listen and bring you any new updates as we get it. but i want to turn to robert costa and along with clint watts. clint, as somebody who spent time in that agency a, does it surprise you to hear the director distance himself from the a.g.? >> no, it doesn't. because i think that if he had gone along with the attorney general's terminology, he'd be undermining the investigations across the country because this is court approved electronic surveillance that they are talking about. it is not spying. spying is what foreign intelligence services do. and this was counterintelligence which is defensive by nature. i think what is lost in a lot of this discussion of spying or surveillance is that the fbi knew at that time that large numbers of packs of the herd, they thought russians had done it and they were trying to investigate any lead. and when george papadopoulous had mentioned that foreign intel against had come from

talk about mcconnell, but i want to talk about what chris wray has been talking about on capitol hill at the same time. also joining us is elliot williams. he served as deputy assistant attorney general under president obama. thank you so much for jumping on. let me start with you on what jessica schneider was laying out that chris wray said today. the fbi director, he knew what he was being asked, no question about it. and he's been very careful as we have seen in trying to stay out of politics as much as one can. what do you make of what he said? distancing himself from the attorney general, from that word spying. >> well, it's just a matter of time before he's out, too. because it seems that individuals in the justice department at the highest levels who seem to state the facts and the law as they exist seem to not do well, as we saw with jeff sessions and on down, the white house counsel as well. i served under christopher wray when he was head of the criminal division of the doj. he has a reputation for being a prosecutor. look, attorney general barr ought to have known what he was saying when he used to word spying. >>ia don't bel

chris murphy of connecticut. great to have you on, senator. first, on attorney general william did the attorney general lie to members of the senate and congress and to the american people about what he knew and when he knew it? >> well, this is a big day, and there's no doubt that the attorney general has done more to compromise america's faith in the attorney general's office than any other attorney general in my lifetime. clearly, the special investigator has a belief he misled congress, and he'll have to answer tough questions today. he's become a political actor. he has compromised the independence of the attorney general's office. it, frankly, makes me much more worried about the decisions he made on what to redact from his report. >> senator, did he lie though? senator, he told charlie crist in the house of representatives that he had no information as to whether the special counsel or anybody on the staff were not pleased at his incomplete airing of what they had uncovered. did he not deliberately lie to the house of representatives and then to chris van hollen in the s

william barr is talking here about federal grand jury information. right? that's a higher standard. chrisury information but also information that he is prohibited by law to disclose like sources and methods, individuals or court up, innocently in the investigation. if barr is not using his discretion, he is not permitted. >> thank you so much, come back soon! thank you for having us in your home. thank you for watching. lou dobbs is next. get your information right here on fox business. lou: good evening everybody. despite all evidence to the contrary, despite the special counsel report on russian collusion, the vindicated the president, the resistance of the radical dems to the trump presidency to evident fact and clear reality, all of that persists and the radical resistance remains the center post of democratic operating strategy tonight. the radical dems conspiracy to overthrow the president has been dealt harsh blows but it is not yet a settled matter that the conspiracy is dead and gone. the radical dems

chris hayes. in response to a frontal response, democrats took the unusual step of holding william barr in con tell of congress by a party line vote in the house judiciary committee. he is to turn over an unredacted version of the mueller report. the democrats real target is not the attorney general. it is, instead, the president of the united states, who is now challenging the very foundation of congress's constitutional role. this morning, the president retroactively claimed executive privilege over the entire unredacted mueller report. this despite having waived that privilege when the report first came out. >> the president confirmed that in the interest of transparency and full disclosure to the american people, he would not assert privilege over the special counsel's report. >> okay. house democrats tore into the president for attempting to nullify their oversight powers. >> i can only conclude that the president now seeks to take a wrecking ball to the constitution of the united states of america. >> he says there will be no cooperation with the lawful demands of congress for information. co

. >> sandra: we'll hear more from bret baier and chris wallace in a bit. before william begins a short time from now. we have everybody on deck. what is being decided now, there will be a vote in the house, a committee vote, on whether or not the house judiciary will be allowed to have staff ask questions of william barr at their hearing tomorrow. should that be allowed? >> i don't think it really matters. if there was some conversation about that. i frankly think a lot of the congressmen themselves don't do a very good job of questioning. i mean we've seen this over the years where there is this big build-up in these hearings and then you have people who are not used to cross examining people or getting information flailing about for the cameras trying to get relevant information and questions asked and instead they end up grandstanding. what the american people have to understand this really isn't about the quest for the truth okay? this is about the 2020 election, scoring political points, and trying somehow to tar the reputation of a man who has served with dignity a

chris: i want to leave time for winners and losers. winners first? >> win oref the week, president trump, picking williams the attorney general, america's attorney general, who this week showed himself to be perhaps the only adult on capitol hill. loser of the week, the pointer institute, for creating a list of fake news publications only to pull the list after they discovered their list was full of fake news. >> chris: woops. >> purdue, cornyn, and danes, three republican senators, their strongest democratic challengers, all decided for different reasons not to challenge them. this makes it harder for the democrats to win back the senate in 2020. loser -- the white house briefing room. i was there when it was dedicated with nancy reagan standing there, you know, nice chairs, it's air conditioned, it's got microphones. briefings no longer take place there. today as she has in the past, sarah sanders tends to do it out in the white house driveway. >> and she doesn't do it very often either. >> no. >> chris: i was in that briefing room for six years. sometimes you would make your teeth hurt. but sometimes

chris hayes. we've got breaking news at this hour that one of the chief criticisms of attorney general william barr's summary of the mueller report was made by none other than the special counsel himself, robert mueller. "the washington post" reporting the special counsel complained to the attorney general in a letter on march 27th regarding barr's four-page summary that had been released just three days prior. according to mueller's letter from a copy received by "the washington post," the summary letter the department sent to congress and released to the public late in the afternoon on march 24th did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance of this office's work and conclusions, mueller wrote. there is no public confusion about critical aspects of the

chris clackum, nbc news, charlotte. >> mean while herin our ea, students are back in class at hilton high school in prince william county after a gun went off in a classroom so they have security this morning. >> justin finch was tre eaking to parents about how they felt dropping their kids off one day after this happened? >> reporter: the 16-year-old male student at the center of this will not be in class today. instead he is now facing at leas a charge of having a gunl on sch property. this morning we saw this -- an enhanced policepresence. prince william countries police here on the ground showing themselves here in an effort to calm the nerves of studentsstnd f and parents after an agonizing wait yesterday for answers and the delay dismissal. we saw so many emotional ns reunioesterday after students and parents waited fore hours to hahe students come out and be able to come home. the campus here going into what is called secured status. police searchingn for the w inside that fired inside an art classroom close to noon yesterday. now policing at this time and it appears that gunfire was accidental. that g going off

williams was found inside this trailer. she was face down in a bedroom covered with a blanket. s had severe head trauma. police have charged her live-in boyfriend, 39-year-old chrismeyers, with her murder. the victim's mother toldut arities that her daughter planned to break up with the suspect. when family members didn't hear from her, they became very worried. it was her own father who broke through the front door and found his daughter's body. according to charging documents, the victim's t momld police, meyers is a heroin addict and her daughter had been taking him to a clinic inaltimore toet methadone. authorities believe he drove the victim's car after the killing. he was in her car, they say, when he was arrested there on traffic and drug charges. >> the police tried to find mis. williams they ended up putting a ping on her phone trying to find her phone. my understand spg the phone was te in baltimore within her car. >> reporter: during a search of the victim's ca police say they found several blood stained items, a towel, a man's cam flaunged shirt and a pillow. they recovered the victim's trse and cell phone. william's momld police, meyers had threatene

way the heck back, the thing that's chris carystal is there is a split between the special counsel and the attorney general. robert mueller doesn't like the way william barr handled the release of the mueller report. that's a big deal, especially three hours before we are going to hear from william barr >> you said it before. we know bob mueller is going to testify now. these committees should bring him on first. they are not going to do it in the judiciary committee. but it's more important than ever to not just say what's in the report but give us the bottom line. what were the conclusions you think should have been drawn from this. i think mueller would say with regard to obstruction in the court of congress to figure that out. but what's clear to me this morning is that barr did what he knew the trump team would do all along which was they were going to be in a rush to define how we were all supposed to think about this report. they did it with a lot of maneuvering and some skill to shape the narrative. the problem for barr is now bob mueller is really pushing back saying the way he described this to the american people is not right. >> that was

william barr lie last week? >> straight out? no. there were two questions at issue. one came from chrisher he knew if robert mueller agreed with his conclusion as to obstruction, where barr said but he would not press forward with obstruction, because robert mueller refused to come to a conclusion about obstruction. the truth full answer to that was he did not know and that's what he said. he did not know. he was also asked by chilly christ whether he knew about what was upsetting various members of the mueller team leak ing their displeasure with the statement that barr put out that bill barr put out on march 24 where he stated the conclusions that the top line conclusions that the mueller report reached that there was no collusion, that no criminal agreement between the trump campaign and the russians, and that he reported accurately that although mueller said he couldn't press charges, of obstruction, he said he could not exonerate the president and of course it's not any prosecutor's job to exonerate anybody, but bill barr reported that faithfully so when he was asked whether he kne

chris jansing in for alli velshi. the chairman of the house judiciary committee taking the first steps to hold attorney general william congress. jerry nadler scheduled a vote for 10:00 a.m. wednesday which goes to the full house for final vote at a date to be determined by house speaker nancy pelosi. this escalating feud is after barr defied a subpoena, failing to provide the full 448 page unredacted version of special counsel robert mueller's report,

chris hayes. we've got breaking news at this hour that one of the chief criticisms of attorney general william barr's summary of the mueller report was made by none other than the special counsel himself, robert mueller. "the washington post" reporting the special counsel complained to the attorney general in a letter on march 27th regarding barr's four-page summary that had been released just three days prior. according to mueller's letter from a copy received by "the washington post," the summary letter the department sent to congress and released to the public late in the afternoon on march 24th did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance of this office's work and conclusions, mueller wrote. there is no public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation. this threatens to undermine essential purpose for which the department appointed the special counsel to assure full public confidence in the outcome of the investigations. mueller did not leave it at that. the special counsel requested that barr release the introductions and executive summaries that they prepa

william barr is working with the fbi and has been. attorney general barr is working collaboratively with fbi director chris wray, cia director gina haspel, director of national intelligence dan coats in an effort to look into the origins of the russia probe according to a source familiar with the process. u.s. attorney john durham, who we are talking about today, who has been appointed to do this was asked actually weeks ago to help the attorney general ensure the intelligence collection activities by out u.s. government related to the trump 2016 presidential campaign were lawful and appropriate. that gives us a wider scope look at what william barr is able to do and what he is interested in doing. >> juan: i'm a little confused. what is the wider scope. what everybody says is we are looking for the origin. we know the origin. >> harris: the fact that he is working collaboratively with the leaders of all the other agencies. >> juan: i would expect -- i think we were discussing whether or not people who are still in the employment of either fbi, justice or not hairs -- if they are not there. let me finish this point. the origins are star

chris jansing in for alli velshi. the chairman of the house judiciary committee taking the first steps to hold attorney general william barr in contempt of congress. jerry nadler scheduled a vote for 10:00 a.m. wednesday which goes to the full house for final vote at a date to be determined by house speaker nancy pelosi. this escalating feud is after barr defied a subpoena, failing to provide the full 448 page unredacted version of special counsel robert mueller's report, along with its underlying evidence. democrats say they need that evidence to decide, quote, whether to approve articles of impeachment with respect to the president or any other administration official. chairman nadler says if the justice department acts in good faith to provide access to mueller's full report, he could still postpone contempt proceedings. so far there's been no indication the attorney general will be reversing course. up 'til now, the president has been relentless on twitter, attacking democrats and their investigations, repeating no collusion, no conspiracy, no obstruction. now he's also reversing course on supporting the idea of r

chris free that's it jesse: welcome to watters world, i'm jesse watters. we begin with real news of the week. democrats in the house judiciary committee voting to hold attorney general william barr in contempt of congress for refusing to turn over the full, unredacted mueller report. by the way, they're declaring this a constitutional crisis. listen. >> ever wonder what a constitutional crisis looks like? well, open your eyes. >> we are now in a constitutional crisis. >> president trump appears to be heading toward a constitutional crisis. >> i saw this coming and mentioned the constitutional crisis. >> we're hovering on a constitutional crisis. >> we're in a constitutional conflict that's careening toward a crisis. >> do you agree with congressman nadler that we're in a constitutional crisis? jesse: all presidents refuse to hand things over to congress. democrat, republican. i guess when president trump's president, then it becomes a crisis. 98% of the mueller report has been released. the 2% that hasn't been is grand jury testimony. and it's against the law to release that. so democrats are holding barr in contempt for following the law by the way, the left took a very di

chris. >> for more on the president's weaponization, senior fellow with the ethics and policy institute and former aid in the reagan white house. brennan is a cool tempered individual, generally. william barr until he was appoint appointed that's with the depatched position with the rule of law. he will perform a fair evaluation. he might cherry pick and release things that will be helpful to the president's case. >> you have been around washington and classification battles happen all the time between government. this is the other thing in the slugfest about what can you classify and what can't you? giving someone the that is a huge deal. >> he doesn't just dish it out to go off into the wild blue yonder and decide we will declassify. there is a concern and quiet rumblings about what this potentially means and into the full throated aspects where you have the attorney general putting information out on the street that may be beneficial to the president's overall narrative about no collusion, et cetera, etc. this could be worse than hacking our government. that's a big concern right now. >> i just don't see any incentive for the people that participated in this in 2016. either the tru

response to my colleague, chris van hollen, he said that he didn't know whether bob mueller supported his conclusions. exactly the word that bob mueller used to say that william barr was mischaracterizing his conclusions. so i think there is a really serious question here that at the very least, put aside the legalities, goes to his ethical standing for this position. >> will you go as far as some of your democratic colleagues are already doing and recommending impeachment of the attorney general? >> i think that attorney general william barr ought to recognize that he has an obligation to resign here. i have called it at the very least for him to recuse himself from those 12 to 14 ongoing investigations into the president of the united states, in other jurisdictions. he declined. in fact, he ducked the question entirely, as to whether he has had any conversations with the white house about them. he said he couldn't recall. a response that is very difficult to believe. so i think he should resign. >> let me play this clip and then we'll continue. listen to this. >> i want to ask you whether on those remaining investigations, the 12 to 14 investigations, wheth

chris hayes. the president of the united states has unleashed his trusted attorney general against career law enforcement and intelligence trump sees as his enemies. last night attorney general william barr has been given free reign to investigate the law enforcement officials and intelligence officials who began the russia investigation and to unilaterally declassify intelligence helpful to trump that he might find. we know the president championed the narrative that the investigation into his campaign's intersections with russia was illegitimate from the jump. >> i hope they look at the oranges, the oranges of the investigation. the beginnings of that investigation. you look at the origin of the investigation, where it started, how it started, who started it, whether itmccabe or comey or a lot of them. the mueller report i wish covered the oranges, how it started. the beginnings of the investigation. how it started. >> barr can squeeze that orange. trump has every reason to believe barr will use his powers to aid the president's anti-deep sta propaganda efforts. he told confidants he had my attorney general. barr has been criticized from across the spectrum as a lackey in a positi