i don't know any approached by the doj. last question. reporter: [indiscernible] do you believe the problems are wide enough to overturn the election? that ased to call compound question when i practiced law. the seven states, georgia, pennsylvania, michigan, .isconsin, nevada, arizona six states. i will speak to my state because i know what is going on there. you have 10,400 vote separation joeeen president trump and biden. you have a witness whose testimony was elucidated a way eek ago monday where people not on their rolls allegedly cast ballots. you also had residents in dispute or not properly notarized -- acknowledged. you also had 1.9 million early ballots. the question about those early ballots was, were they properly authenticated? we are requesting in arizona a full forensic audit of not just machines but also the early ballots, and to follow every lead. that would more than compensate. in another event i'm going to go to, we will talk about what happened this week in arizona where a 3% error rate was shown, and a follow-up samp

i don't know of any that have been approached by the doj.last question. >> reporter: can you name the seven states and tell me which of the seven have you seen evidence that you believe the problems are wide enough to overturn the current result in those states? all seven and which of the seven do you have evidence -- >> we used to call that a compound question when i practice law. the seven states, georgia, pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin, nevada, arizona. am i missing one? so it's the six states. i will speak to my state because i know what's going on there. you have a 10,400 vote separation between president trump and joe biden. you have a witness that was -- testimony that was given a week ago monday of 8,000 total votes where people not on ballot -- not on the rolls cast -- allegedly cast ballots. you had residence that in dispute or not properly noterized -- acknowledged. you also had 1.9 million early ballots and the question about those early ballots is, were they properly authenticed, where the affidavits there? that would more th

he said the dhs and the doj have looked into that. so far we haven't seen anything to substantiate that. so what bill barr is telling the ap is, you know, look, we did investigate these claims that are going around by republicans, and we didn't turn anything up. and, brooke, i don't think we should be surprised that trump and his campaign are surprised to see this. they wanted an attorney general that would be sort of like his own personal lawyer, his own personal protector than the attorney general of the united states of america. >> and it seems like eons ago what happened to jeff sessions and bill barr was bill barr. thank you very much. let's go to senior analyst elie hogue is with me. elie, we'll get to the fact that this was attorney general bill barr, but on the substance of this, the nation's top cop, from the doj, no fraud. is this just finally case closed, biden won, it's over? >> reporter: brooke, if you're donald trump and bill barr of all people are telling you it's over, it's over. this is and should be a death blow for

david: in a tweet, president trump, quote: why didn't the fake news media, the doj and the fbi reportmatter before the election? this is a question that many of us have been asking. the daily beast today provided an incredible answer. they wrote that evidence of an investigation into hunter biden was, quote: apparent in the markings on a series of documents that were made public but went largely unnoticed in the days leading up to the november election. the corporate-owned media, of course, was all too willing to allow the hunter biden report to go, quote, largely unnoticed. they said nothing as the story was censored entirely by social media giants facebook and twitter. two companies that still refuse to answer for their role in interfering in the election. then, of course, there were the likes of "the washington post" columnist greg sargent. he called "the new york post" bombshell reports on hunter e biden's laptop, quote, trump's fake new biden scandal. politico published a letter signed by 50 former intel officials who said the report was, quote, russian disinformation. obviously

>> i think it's simply that the standard operating procedure at doj is obviously not try cases in the media and not announce investigations for fear that you would be investigating somebody that ultimately is charged with a crime and they speak through their court filings. this is a unique case and i'm sure a lot of people at the highest levels of doj talked about what would happen if it leaked but also was it worth putting something out that notifies this investigation was going on. remember, while it was covert they were also able to collect a lot of information on behavioral and tax records and bank documents that would aid in this investigation. there's a lot of good reasons to keep it covert. >> laura: sources shared with fox news that law enforcement officers and prosecutors may never select a timing investigative steps or criminal charges for the purpose of effecting any election or giving an advantage or disadvantage to any candidate or political par party. this guidance was written by none other than obama's ag, loretta lynch. >> it's a little hypocritical. i would have to ag

maybe the doj is moving away.f months until january 20. >> yeah. >> professor murray, i want to thank you and all of the guests. to recap it, the reports about pardons range from the hypothetical to the specific. a federal judge unsealing something that dates back to this summer. alleging a pardon bribery scheme. that does it for me. i'm sure we'll have more on this story tonight. i'll be back at 6:00 p.m. eastern. up ahead is the "the reidout." but we didn't stop there. we made a cloud flexible enough to adapt to any size business. no matter what it does, or how it changes. and we kept going. so you only pay for what you use. because at dell technologies, we stop...at nothing. ♪ twto treat acute, non-low back stmuscle and joint pain doctors with topical nsaids first. a formulation they recommend can be found in salonpas. a formulation they recommend can be found in salonpas. salonpas. it's good medicine. hisamitsu. tonight... i'll be eating roasted cauliflower tacos with spicy chipotle sauce. [doorbell chimes] th

worker applicants, doj says they find this hard to believe and are sticking up for u.s. jobs., if companies deny employment opportunities by illegally performing temporary visa holders, the department of justice will hold them accountable hiring americans has been a marquee issue for president trump since the day 1 of his campaign. >> should be used for top highly paid talents to create american jobs, not as inexpensive labor programs to destroy american jobs. >> they been cooperating with the doj and while they dispute the allegations in the complaint, they cannot comment further on pending litigation. at google, a blistering complaint stacking up faster than they can be reported. new case documents reveal google interfering with, restraining, and coercing employees in the exercise of their rights, specifically spying on workers, retaliating against them and even firing them when they attempted to form a union and prevented workers from sharing basic info in emails and calendars. it's important to point out the context, this comes after google recently settled for $310 millio

and look, doj was willing to bend the rules.you don't announce an investigation within 60 days of an election. bill barr said, i may be willing to do this for durham. but guess what? he didn't have anything worth announcing. his top lieutenant resigned because she believed they were under undue pressure. but ultimately it's the same theme really with the election fraud thing and durham. bill barr can twist the truth, twist the fact, distort the law. he's done ploent enty of that, he's not a wizard. >> oh, but they try. tonight we're seeing these court records that show the doj is investigating a potential pardon bribery scheme. it doesn't involve a government official, but what are the legal imp implicati imp imp limply communications here? >> the president tweeted this is fake news. t not fake news. it's no court documents. some person that's not known was trying to engineer a pardon by paying money. we don't know who the recipient was. any number of people would receive a pardon, but there's only one person who can give a poin

doj understands.bribery, obstruction, that should be a crime and doj is treating it as a potential crime. that's a good thing. >> always a pleasure. thank you, sir. >> you, too, don. thanks. >>> the trump campaign seeking to throw out hundreds of thousands of votes in wisconsin. the secretary of state joins me next. new neutrogena® rapid tone repair 20 percent pure vitamin c. a serum so powerful dark spots don't stand a chance. see what i mean? neutrogena® new aveeno® restorative skin therapy. with our highest concentration of prebiotic oat intensely moisturizes over time to improve skin's resilience. aveeno® healthy. it's our nature™. ♪ i got it all from you ♪ i'm always pushing through ♪ i know we'll make it to the finish line ♪ ♪ i know you're waiting on the other side ♪ ♪ i'm like you on-demand glucose monitoring. because they're always on. another life-changing technology from abbott. so you don't wait for life. you live it. >>> so the trump campaign keeping up the court battles in wisconsin seek

doj says they find it hard to believe that are sticking up for us jobs.essage to workers is clear. of companies deny employment opportunities by referring temporary visa holders they will hold them accountable. since day one of the campaign. >> should be used for top highly paid american jobs as inexpensive, labor programs. >> while we dispute the allegations of the complaint we cannot comment further on pending litigation. at google a blistering complaint from the nlrb highlights worker violations stacking up faster than they can be reported. new case document review google interfering with, restraining and coercing employees in the exercise of their rights specifically spying on workers, retaliating against them and even firing them when they attempted to form a union and preventing workers from sharing basic info with one another. it is important to deck out the context that this comes after it was settled for $310 million, they accuse them of mishandling sexual misconduct some of whom had multiple charges from multiple employees. shannon: thank you, t

you said the doj used one standard for hillary and another for trump.nd you can't allow that to happen again. how? if you don't sanction or penalize, of course it's going to happen again. you created the precedent that these cases are not to be prosecuted. so what are we going to do, bill? should we write a nonsensical report on lessons learned? one that nobody reads. but used to bury in your case corruption? another benghazi report with lessons learned that we already learned from the bombing of the u.s.s. cole? you say the russia cleution investigation will not be swept under the rug because you made john durham special counsel. durham was supposed to wrap up last summer and he didn't. why? don't give me -- if biden is president, he will ask every united states attorney to hand in their resignation and that will include john durham. biden can still direct the attorney general to fire durham. how sad it is it was the republicans who wanted to stop president trump from firing special counsel mueller. but i doubt there is any democrat who will try to tel

i'll talk with doj deputy dir t director. to the north lawn we roll from the news from john roberts at this hour. good afternoon. start there. >> good afternoon to you. clearly as you can expect, a difference of opinion between what the the attorney general is saying and what president trump is thinking and his campaign is thinking with the interview with the associated press, william barr said to date we have not seen fraud on a scale that could affect a different outcome in the election. there's two important words, to date, which leaves open the possibility that in the future we could see widespread voter fraud or irregularity that could change the outcome in some states. to show you how much the campaign is on a different page, the attorney general, rudy guliani and jenna ellis, the president's counsel on the vote challenges in a statement saying "with all due respect, to the attorney general, there's been no a semblance of an investigation. we've gathered ample evidence in six states that they have not examined. we have

then doj goes, you know, it wants to sort of pursue investigating this. this gets sealed. that seal has now been taken off. we're learning about this now. in terms of, like, what we know about the details here, jed, like, what can we glean about what the scheme appears to be the department of justice apparently stumbled upon. >> well, first of all, just to confirm what you're saying, the evidence that this is someone currently in custody, i think it's on page 16 of this document, they refer to someone being in custody of bop, that's the bureau of prisons. so this is someone who likely is currently within the prison system. and the other -- and we see -- keep in mind, this document also refers to 50 devices that have been seized. that's a lot of devices. so, you know, even if people have multiple devices, that's a lot of people who seem to be involved in these communications. the other thing i think we're gleaning is from these redactions, it's important to note that pages 4 through 11 of this document are entirely redacted. and there are a lot of redactions throughout, but

instructed attorneys at the doj to investigate substantial fraud. the allegations were mostly localized. they're usually to a particular set of circumstances or actors or conduct. they're not systemic allegations and those have been run down. they're being run down. some have been broad and potentially cover a few thousand votes. they have been followed up on. one other piece of news out of the department of justice this afternoon, the attorney general has appointed john durham to the position of special counsel to continue looking into the origins of the russia investigation in a new administration. that is an indication that durham's work is likely far from over. also may cast a cloud of controversy over the inauguration of president joe biden if biden is in fact elected by the electors december 14 to become the next president of the united states. so john durham will be with us for a while to come even if there's a change of administration, neil. >> neil: so in that event, john, just to get this right, there's nothing that joe biden can do about

you said the doj used one standard for hillary and another for trump.nd you can't allow that to happen again. how? if you don't sanction or penalize, of course it's going to happen again. you created the precedent that these cases are not to be prosecuted. so what are we going to do, bill? should we write a nonsensical report on lessons learned? one that nobody reads. but used to bury in your case corruption? another benghazi report with lessons learned that we already learned from the bombing of the u.s.s. cole? you say the russia cleution investigation will not be swept under the rug because you made john durham special counsel. durham was supposed to wrap up last summer and he didn't. why? don't give me -- if biden is president, he will ask every united states attorney to hand in their resignation and that will include john durham. biden can still direct the attorney general to fire durham. how sad it is it was the republicans who wanted to stop president trump from firing special counsel mueller. but i doubt there is any democrat who will try to tel

you said the doj used one standard for hillary and another for trump.nd you can't allow that to happen again. how? if you don't sanction or penalize, of course it's going to happen again. you created the precedent that these cases are not to be prosecuted. so what are we going to do, bill? should we write a nonsensical report on lessons learned? one that nobody reads. but used to bury in your case corruption? another benghazi report with lessons learned that we already learned from the bombing of the u.s.s. cole? you say the russia cleution investigation will not be swept under the rug because you made john durham special counsel. durham was supposed to wrap up last summer and he didn't. why? don't give me -- if biden is president, he will ask every united states attorney to hand in their resignation and that will include john durham. biden can still direct the attorney general to fire durham. how sad it is it was the republicans who wanted to stop president trump from firing special counsel mueller. but i doubt there is any democrat who will try to tel

the idea that biden is going to get a fire brand in doj is impossible.n agree with dr. dyson that it is the ideas more than the pigment that is important here? >> look, when black folks are asking for representation, we always are thinking about the content of people's character. i don't like when it folks think that -- try to reduce the argument for a black face to an argument about pleer representation. we all learned our lesson with clarence thomas. i was only 10 years old but the country learn its lesson. and i know what biden's orientation is but i thought that american politics was the place where we as voters who put these people in office get to make demands so, yes i believe in pragmatism and if he's going to choose any of the white person, any person on the table with the exception of merrick garland, but i like sally yates and i think doug jones could do a fine job. but black people get to make demands. frederick douglass said power concedes nothing without a demand and it never has and never will and this is the time for us to be bold. our co

the dhs and doj have looked into that and so far we haven't seen anything to substantiate that."here is a growing tendency to use department of justice to fix all and people don't like something they want the department of justice to investigate. most claims of fraud or particular lies to a set of circumstances where actors were conduct but not systemic allegations. those have to be run down. they are being run down. some have been broad and

. >> let's talk about doj if we can, jason johnson. lot of people paying a lot of attention to that. i want to play for you what brittney cooper had to say about joe biden's pick to lead the doj. >> i think joe biden needs to bring a firebrand into the doj. i think that person should absolutely be a person of color. >> the names we keep hearing, merrick garland, doug jones, sally yates obviously not people of color. what is your take on what joe biden should do? and what will his eventual choice say about the justice department that he wants? >> well, look. there are a slew of people that would probably be very, very effective. people whose names we don't know. i'm not saying that to hedge. i'm saying that because with the literally thousands of attorneys that we have around the country right now joe biden has an opportunity to pick a woman, to pick a black person, pick an asian american. he can't. if he wants to do that he could do it. the fact we're hearing merrick garland and doug jones means that is not what joe biden wants to do.

attorney in delaware is a careered doj employee.he first assistant, the first person in a u.s. attorney's office during both the bush and obama administrations. so there is no reason to believe this case is anything other than a normal predicated tax investigation. i think what's most interesting about this so far is hunter biden's very measured statement. he has not alleged that this is a witch hunt or a hoax. he's just said that he takes the allegations seriously and he intends to co-operate and establish his innocence. we'll have to see how this process evolves. >> briefly on the calendar, what if anything, do you glean from hunter biden saying whatever the organi origins are, he reminded us he and his council learned of this yesterday? >> that might be a little bit unusual since the case was opened in 2018. tax cases are always slow moving creatures even if as a united states attorney you get great cooperation from the tax division, it can sometimes be four or five months or even longer before you can get your hands on your subj

it will get sandbagged with joe biden doj.ey refuse to tell a story, they don't ask any questions. they sandbagged the case, the story hasn't been told. this is textbook we should have special counsel and should get to the bottom of what hunter was doing and what joe was doing. todd: will there be? >> know for the same reason, no incentive, if william barr says he doesn't won't appoint when there is no way a new doj under a biden administration to do it. sean is right. the media is the problem. if there was a demand from the public that requires the media to get involved the media to shine a light on it that is not going to happen. it is just peter doocy in the new york post and that is a big tech just covering up the story and doing the bidding of the biden administration. jillian: according to business records by fox news hunter biden still owns a 10% stake in a chinese private equity firm, this was a month until joe biden is set to take office. either of you whoever want to answer this what does that say to you? >> it calls

i think there will not be any kind of rolling back of what the doj has done so far. you know, the case that the doj has brought has not any kind of innovative or foundry pushing case or the clone of u.s. eat microsoft which is still good law so it's not a case that i expect to be curbed in any way by the biden administration. i do think there's increasing pressure on the biden administration to take action and i think the biden administration experienced the dangers of concentrated control over speech we saw every literal decision that facebook made leading up to the election having huge impacts on the campaigns reach in the flow of disinformation and often really benefiting the trunk campaign. there was a study by a markup showing that the trump campaign paid less per ad then the biden campaign did and that was because it's ads performed better which means are more likely to cause people to make a reaction and that is what facebook business model is programmed to do. it gets people to react to contact that causes fear or anger is favored content by facebook business

having covered this throughout the whole period of the trump doj, this is classic barr. it's not unlike the gap between barr's leader that offered a mueller book report and the actual mueller report, which is one of the many misleading and political acts that led so many doj veterans across both parties demand barr resign long before he did this week and in addition to that meddling in the mueller probe, you had meddling regarding trump allies and bar's resignation letter doubles down on this problem. he falsely describing the trump doj's russia probe as an effort to cripple or oust the trump administration with frenzy and baseless accusations of collusion. he adds his solute to trump's quote unprecedented achievements for the american people. i'm joined by a former federal prosecutor who has been a keen observer of the barr justice department johnflannery. good to see you. >> good to see you. >> we have the resent effect. in trial, you want to leave the jury with that last thought in their mind and it's probably going to be more e meffective t what you talked about in t

i've got to say the behavior of the doj and the fbi under barack obama, they politicized it and used it to attack their enemies, and it was disgraceful. i think the american people see that.

but let's talk about biden and harris on pardons, the doj, on covid. they are making it clear their administration is going to respond totally different than president trump. >> yeah, that's a primary focus right now because that is what the president is considering on his way out the door. and of course we've seen what he has been saying about the justice department undercutting his claims about voter fraud. and you saw there, president-elect biden and vice president-elect harris telling our colleague jake that they plan on running a justice department completely differently and that plan on focusing things on the facts and not politics, which of course has been a major factor in donald trump's time in the white house. he has wanted people at the justice department to go after his political opponents. and he's been unhappy when they haven't. for example, this investigation into the origins of the russia investigation. that's been one of the main points that has pitted donald trump against his attorney general right now. and so i thought it was very in

the doj did announce it was looking into this potential bribery-for-briery scheme. it was revealed after a judge unsealed documents. what more do we know and what should we be watching for in the coming sfwheeks. >> the chief judge for the federal court in washington, d.c., barrel howell -- that name may sound familiar to our viewers, involved with special counsel robert mueller and his investigation, the judge made a ruling in this case that had to do with attorney-client privilege. those issues came up in the investigation of michael cohen and those issues come up from time to time. the judge here wanted to put on the record her response and her ruling and her determination about this case. the justice department did not want this to become public in any way and did not want to have this filed even with redactions. almost nine full pages of this were redacted in the documents that you showed as well as the names of any of the individuals involved. those have also been all redacted here. the information that we have going forward is far from complete. there are det

the head of the doj making a big announcement on the 2020 election results.the attorney general told the associated press that the justice department has not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election. as the prest to concede to the president elect. >> an amazing -- we are trying to do another four years. i will see you in four years. >> mr. trump teasing a run in 2024 and telling supporters he still is fighting. it was all caught on video at the white house christmas party. >>> the doj is also looking in to a bribery for pardon scheme where people tried to lobby white house officials for a pardon. last night a federal judge released 20 pages of court documents that pointed to a secret lobbying scheme. the documents redacted so little more is known right now. the doj telling cbs news that no government officials are currently targeted in that investigation. for all the latest developments on the presidential transition, just download the app that gives you easy 24-7 access. >>> taking a live look at san jose, rent price

the last two years alone, the doj has charged in individuals with economic espionage all of which haseir trade secrets. we don't have enough time to detail the amount of charges, prosecutions and convictions the doj has undergone the last two years but believe me, there is a lot. it undergoes from academic institutions to countering former intelligence officials and convicting and conspiring to give trade secrets away. so i think, you know, it does us no good to be sorry rather than safe in this regard. if swalwell is the peon in the middle, then that is what triana targeted him as well. -- china targeted him as well. >> juan: picking up on that, isn't it entirely that he is the victim of a chinese intelligence operation? >> dana: that is what happened the fbi found out about it and approached him and apparently he cooperated with them. okay, so fine. i'm happy to have a briefing. i do think the fbi may let more people know because of china has this operation all across america where they are targeting city council members who then might have the opportunity to move up to higher offic

the doj for many years like our evan perez and other people who have been there for years. this is his last opportunity to try to save whatever is left of his reputation. and no doubt he was prepared for this. this is -- i have watched this attorney general take questions. i think this is probably the first time where he has taken this many questions, certainly in recent times on off topics. >> that's what i was going to ask you. this is not a man, or an attorney general, who is not shy to say i'm not answering that question or not take any off topic questions in the press conference. he stood there and waited for a lot of questions. he knew these questions were coming at him today, too. >> reporter: they could have done this press conference, to give you some inside play of what's going on there, they could have done this virtually, done it and not have reporters present, they have done that throughout this pandemic where they've had reporters not come into the building. today was very different. i think this is what was at play here, the attorney general finally saw an op

attorney does fall under the doj.e a couple of statements from hunter and from the president-elect himself. hunter says "i learned yesterday for the first time that the u.s. attorney's office in delaware advised my legal counsel that they're investigating my tax affairs. i take this matter seriously. i'm confident that i handled my affairs legally and appropriately including with the benefit of professional tax advisers". the president-elect chimed in saying -- >> so that statement coming from the biden-harris transition reflecting the feelings of the president-elect toward his son as he faces this investigation that we're trying to learn more about over the course of the next few hours. it's just broke. we'll continue to dig in to it and get more details for you. back to you. >> neil: you provided quite a few right there, jacqui. jacqui heinrich following that with team biden. meantime, looking at the pfizer vaccine. it's been proven a lot of places for use. not yet in the united states. that's not the issue with my

but the attorney general saying the doj and the dhs have looked into it.bs with saying it is a secure election overall. mollie, how is one to interpret all of this? >> mollie: i think you have to look at what attorney general barr said. he didn't say there was no fraud how people are talking about it now. he said to date, he has not seen evidence of widespread fraud that would overturn the election. i think that is a very reasonable statement to make. he said they were looking into claims that could affect thousands of votes. you have a new york election that came down to 12 votes, congressional election and iowa election down to six votes. so if they are talking about thousands of votes when you have actual elections in 2020 that came down to six or 12 votes, it is important these things be looked into. they do take time to be looked into. you have earrings going on right now. there have been a lot of crazy conspiracy theories out there what happened in this election, but one of them is pretty significant one is there was no fraud in this election. that i

happened in the last several weeks in terms of antitrust action, most recently we got news that the doj'suit against google which you started years ago, it won't be heard until 2023. is that too late will things have changed so much dramatically in terms of technology and market dominance by then? >> well, it's going to be something we're going to have to take a look at i think all policymakers including congress needs to look at our antitrust enforcement actions the best way to address this new sector. i think the antitrust laws are adequate but the process to adjudicating these may take so long i mean, you have an investigation that is started, takes a year, year and a half. you have a trial that might take four years before we have a resolution, then you're going to have appeals process it may be seven, eight years you tell me if technology advances during that period of time i think we have to i that a real look at this >> what are you advocating what do you think about the proposal there should be a separate regulatory agency just vo focused on regulating big tech >> i'm not a big fa

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what are we hearing about discussions within the doj about possibly launching a special counsel? >> jonathan: well, it's interesting, kennedy. if you loo look at the joe biden campaign, it was actually all about ethics. he talked about, without giving a lot of specifics, the soul of the nation needed to be revived. it needed to be restored. the soul of the nation. and so, when you talk about these issues, in the end, it comes down to what is the right thing to do? what we can be sure will not happen, unless the special counsel is appointed now, is once president-elect joe biden takes office, he will not be much of a motivator to allow a special prosecutor to be appointed by his doj. i has attorney general. so, if it happens now, we are not sure. will it happen after? absolutely not. is that the right thing for the soul of the nation? i think the american people can decide. >> kennedy: and katie, what they are deciding is that natural conflict of interest. how is an incoming president supposed to oversee an investigation into his own son, for whom he won't answer questions about?

>> yeah, i think that that is something that whoever is the head of the next doj will have to decide.retty fair and balanced reasonable guy, do you think since we've had special counsels in the trump administration investigating all sorts of things, that this is warranted here? at least to put all doubts to rest, investigate. if there's nothing, there's nothing. >> so i think at this moment the u.s. attorneys office in delaware is fully equipped to look in to this. if there's a reason why the delaware u.s. attorney can't, it's a conversation we can't have. i'm confident in the u.s. attorney for delaware. >> neil: what do you think of that amanda? leave it at that? see what happens? >> i think if there's a doj that is being run by joe biden that has to investigate into his son and potentially into the president himself, joe biden, then you cannot have that be a fair and impartial way to conduct business. to conduct the government's business. the american people would be appalled to think that their government would be doing that, would basically have someone that he puts at the departm

the highest levels of this transition team, the wire circle team folks around the law enforcement and doj and fbi picks and there is a real divide is too strong but there is a tension between what you described and keeping someone like an fbi director because that's what you do. because trump has ocho blib rabo many norms, do you hue to the norm out of the gate and i think that the decision to keep chris wray is a sign of a couple of things. one, that they viewed the tension between chris wray and donald trump as a sign he's properly running the building with integrity and two, that joe biden is going to lean and his impulse will be toward restoring those norms over anything else. >> yeah, and i think you put your finger on it because it is -- you say it matters and yet, we could come up with hypothetical names and viewers could brainstorm some that worked in the trump administration where you'd go wait a minute, keeping them for the next four years or more is a bigger problem and i think we'll see a lot of areas, doj and fbi is probably the first touch stone. i was curious what you thoug

sources are telling fox news the doj investigation focuses on hunter biden's foreign business dealings with countries such as china and links to "potential financial criminal activity." john roberts live outside of the white house with more. >> good afternoon to you, the way you are talking in terms of the attorneys general, ten of the 12 will be here at the white house are involved in that suit at the supreme court. it's possible we may hear from them, we will see. now the hunter biden information, hunter biden was told about this investigation with the doj that has been going on since 2018 on tuesday and a statement to the campaign, hunter biden saying "i learned yesterday for the first time that the u.s. attorney's office in delaware advise my legal counsel yesterday that they are investigating my tax affairs." sources told fox news that the investigation involves tax issues surrounding biden's overseas business dealings, extensively through documents and emails provided by the former biden associate, he insisted back and this was on the day the debate was happening at baylor in nas

he has completely compromised the doj's independence and used doj for political ends. not forget just a few months ago bill barr was out there mimicking, echoing donald trump's baseless theories about massive election fraud. i know bill barr changed his tone a couple weeks ago but that does not undo two years of dishonesty and politicalization of doj. the damage done is long-lasting. >> thanks for being with us. congratulations to the book. two most important words in the literary universe, book party. waiting for the interview. >>> and kidnapping hundreds of schoolchildren in nigeria. the breaking details, next. a live bookkeeper is helping customize quickbooks for me. okay, you're all set up. thanks! that was my business gi, this one's casual. get set up right with a live bookkeeper with intuit quickbooks. try optum perks. it's a new way to save up to 80%. and everyone can do it. it's from optum, a health care company that's trusted by millions of people. you don't have to sign up for anything. just go to optumperks.com. and get a coupon to use at your pharmacy. that

rudy giuliani looking at a pardon saying there isn't semblance of a doj investigation and barr's opinionsn't without knowledge. trump ally and fox news host dobbs questioning barr's mental state. >> for the attorney general of the united states to make that statement, he's either a liar or a fool or both. he may be perhaps compromised. he may be simply unprincipaled or he may be personally distraught or ill. >> again, that was all in response to barr repeating a truth that has been established everywhere including by trump's lawyers under oath in court there is no systemic voter fraud and there is roger stone famously personally helped to a great degree by the documented medaling by bill barr in what barr said was too heavy a jail term for stone. such a big deal four prosecutors resigned in protest but i don't know if the memory is not long or other issues are more important. roger stone turning on barr. >> attorney general bill bar rrk s -- barr determines there is no evidence whatsoever in voting of the 2020 election when in fact, the evidence of voter fraud is both overwhelming and co

this is major corruption and this has to be known about before the election. >> laura: the doj pointso its guidelines to justify not going public, it didn't want to be perceived as putting its finger on the scale during an election year -- given the fact that china is involved, meaning the chinese communist party, it's also reasonable to ask don't the voters deserve to know what the federal prosecutors no? the establishment failed us, they failed us at every turn. the media, congressional leaders, the democratic party. no wonder 74 million americans voted for donald trump and they still don't believe the official outcome of this election. the american people, they deserve answers, better late than never. john and me now is james freeman, assisted editor of "the wall street journal" editorial page in fox news contributor and coauthor of the cost, trump, china, and the american revival. you say that even with a bye the book approach that bill barr pursued, it's going to sit poorly with a lot of people. >> as voters we never got the answer, people in our industry did not press the biden

with that and where the doj stands on all of this. >> the allegations and affidavits keep coming and william barr made clear yesterday the department of justice will continue to receive and vigorously pursue allegations of fraud but he put a pin in the president's lens that the election was stolen, telling the associated press, we have not seen fraud that could have affected a different outcome, that drew swift response from the legal team who said with the greatest respect to the attorney general, appeared to be without any knowledge or investigation of the substantial irregularities of systemic fraud. senate minority leader schumer had this reaction. >> in response to william barr, he is next to be fired since he now says there is no fraud, trump seems to fire anyone in that regard. >> this is 3 whistleblowers use saw in the intro of the thomas more society said they witnessed election fraud firsthand. >> i had no ballots on election day, the day after the election, a postal supervisor asked if i had forgotten ballots the night before and i didn't have any, ballots supposedly missi

his overall time at doj involved primarily advocating on trump's behalf and at time as cording to doj veterans and insiders blatantly politicizing cases to help trump or punish enemies. >> that is certainly the case, ari. this was an attorney general who frequently and unapologetically took the church line on so many issues going back to the mueller report, to the soum summer with the unrest in various cities around the country. to say that doj was politicized under his watch is really an understatement. i don't know that i've ever seen a situation where former members of the department of justice wrote a letter condemning the actions of a sitting attorney general and condemning the way in which the department of justice had been transformed into a political tool of an administration. >> yeah, and so when you look at what he's doing now, nicolle and i were discussing it at the handoff there's also the fact that donald trump is president until the 20th. he has mused openly about a raft of pardon, bill barr, of course, did oversee controversial christmas pardons in a previous administra

tell us what you've learned. >> reporter: i've been down here talking to doj officials today and they it was really the tweets over the weekend where the president started attacking the attorney general over his handling of the hunter biden investigation. he said barr should not have kept details of the investigation quiet going into the election and that basically he said it was a big disadvantage for the republicans at the polls. he's blaming barr for his election results, although he's still not acknowledging these election results, but is he saying barr should have come forward and shared with the american public the details of the hunter biden investigation, which has really only been revealed to us very repeatedly, katy. i'm told bill barr is not jeff sessions. the former attorney general jeff sessions took a beating on twitter from the president, for over a year, for his role and taking himself out of the russia investigation. bill barr, not the same case. he had already been criticized by the president for saying he saw no evidence of election fraud that would change the outco

the head of the doj making a big announcement on the 2020 election results. attorney general told the associated press that the justice department has not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election. that is as the president refuses to concede to the president elect. >> an amazing four years. we are trying to see another four years. otherwise i will see you in four years. >> he already teased a run in 2024 and telling supporter he is is still fighting. you saw that -- at a white house christmas party. >>> the doj is looking in to a bribery for pardon scheme where people tried to lobby white house fishes for a pardon. last night a judge released 20 pages of court documents that point to a secret lobbying scheme but since those document documents redacted we don't know more about exactly what went down there. the doj telling cbs news no government officials are currently targeted in the investigation. new hope for extra help. the deal that could mean more money in your pocket. that is a head. >> and the market just opened