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trish: you brought up loretta lynch and eric holder. they were tremendously loyal to president obama, and in some ways that loyalty -- i think we heard james comey actually say they were able to take advantage of certain players they were trying to target because there was no eric holder there initially when the white house term began. >> yeah. trish: a political player there as a guard dog. >> a person who can be politically bent. william barr signals today, he said i will not be bullied into doing something wrong. he named the three powshs. the lead to powers were the media, the congress and the president. he said editorial board, the congress or the president. democrats may want an attorney general who can be corrupt or bent by powerful media pressure and stories for their own purposes. so this is telling me, donald trump is the guy that's going to clean it up and do it right. i wish the democrats when they are in power would appoint people like william bar to run the justice department. we would clean up all of this mess and it woul

i voted for lynch and eric holder because i thought they were qualified and i'm asking more of my democratic colleagues if they can see how a qualified would be a good steward of the law. commit.dn't fully >> nor should he have. the regulation is clear. the reports limited to him by the special counsel is to be -- as ifd a private you're looking at a criminal investigation. those are not given to the public at large. the report will be leaked before he gets it. and that mr. mueller and mr. barr have a long-standing working relationship, and that he is going to respect mr. mueller, work that mr. mueller's work. one thing he's not going to do is bargain away his district that his discretion to attorney general. let the going to president or anybody else take over being attorney general. he's not going to let senators take over the job of being attorney general. you may not like the fact that i'm not going to get my discretion away when it comes to recusal. the bottom line is i thought he i will fall the regulation. here's what i would tell the .ublic it's mr. mueller and mr. barr working toget

about that eric holder so this violates the deferred prosecution because it said it's explicitly that if they were caught committing another crime that they would shut down in america this is just a civil case well they have the well because it's been kicked into the long grass of the civil courts and that's obviously a crime it's quite patently an obviously a crime by any jurisprudence standard so violated their deferred prosecution they're still going to be allowed to operate and america and that's the definition my friend financial terrorism thank you and just basic you have proved it again and so i want to say again in this the thing that's so shocking about this is the prosecutors the people who are prosecuting the civil case said that the banks use chat rooms and other means to share price data and coordinate trading effectively functioning as a single super desk to reduce competition and boost profit and virtually every trade at customers expense rare is an antitrust case like this one where a large volume a smoking gun evidence exists at the pleading stage so it's not rare eve

hoping we can get back to more traditional way of doing business i voted for the retta lynch and eric holder because i thought they were qualified. he may have a different view of the world with politics but still a good steward of the law. >> [inaudible conversations] . >> nor should he have the regulation is clear what is to be considered a product if you look at a criminal investigatio investigation. that is normally not given to the public at large. but this is what i do believe it will be a week before he gets i it. and mister mueller had a long-standing working relationship and he will respect the work product and will share it as much as the law allows. one thing he will not do, he will not let the president or anybody else take over as attorney general or senators take over. to say no i would quit before i did something wrong you may not like the fact to give my discretion away with recusal but the bottom line is i used my best judgment to follow the law and regulation. mister mueller and mister barr are working together that's the best our country can hope for they've known each oth

incidentally, i supported eric holder for his position. >> dana: could someone come along later and say you could do that to help hillary clinton in new york, that's a criminal. when he's exercising his prerogatives, you know, in that situation. you can just see how that could paralyze government. that's my concern. >> you referred to your concerns with the prosecution of senator menendez to weave in that same thought process. >> yes. because in that case, my concern was that they were basically taking activities that were not wrongful acts in themselves. the political contributions were lawful political contributions. the things with -- the travel on -- that was a friend for 25 years. they were taking a trip together. you take those things and couple it with official action and then the prosecutor comes along and says, well, we're going to look into your mind and see what your subjective intent was for performing these two sets of lawful acts and we're going to say, you know, that you're corrupt. so i think that gives too much power to the prosecutor and i think if that kind of -- by t

democratic lawmakers are already seizing on the report former attorney general eric holder tweeted if true, and proof must be examined, congress much begin impeachment proceedings. this raise the stakes for michael cohen's testimony before congress in a couple weeks. let's start with shimon. he is live in washington with all of the breaking details. what have we learned? >> it's explosive reporting and would be the first clear sign if true that the president was involved in a major coverup, that there are obstruction issues that we have not seen the likes before in terms of this white house. buds feed we buzz feed published the story and like you say, they say it's not just michael cohen's words that federal investigators and the mueller team have. they say that there are text messages, e-mails, other documents that federal investigators and the mueller team have which corroborate some of this information. the fact that the president wanted michael cohen to lie to members of congress. the other thing, and this is also usually significant, is that buzz feed says that michael cohen and

the attorney general. >> and matt, you said you've seen this before. >> yeah, i remember well at eric holder's confirmation, which i worked on late in the day. you start these hearings as a witness, somewhat as a supply cant. you're there looking for their votes. as the day goes on, you're reading the room. you saw him push back a little bit in the questioning from senator bloomumenthal and senat hirono. i think senator hirono summed up the dynamic well. bill barr is basically asking the committee to trust him. he has some powerful arguments for why he ought to be trusted. he was the attorney general once before. he said he will air on the side of transparency. he said that he will not follow through on any kind of order from the president he considers unlawful. i think he makes a compelling argument he doesn't need this job. if the president tries to push him around, like we've seen him try to push jeff sessions around, like we've seen him try to push matt whitaker around, he's happy to leave. on the other hand, there's a compelling argument why democrats shouldn't just trust him and why memb

hearing. >> i love eric holder. >> we were worried about persuading the democrats actually. this is not something we took for granted, that the democrats would vote for him. every vote was in play because every senator took their job seriously. but i think what -- >> we're not there. that's not where we are. this is the same committee that thought justice kavanaugh was telling the truth. they're voting party line. it's not right. but it's true. i'm sorry it's true. >> i'm not disagreeing. i'm more of an optimist at the end of the day. >> i love that. i want to be more like you when i grow up. >> let's take this rare moment of agreement and good feeling and ruin it by taking a quick break. our conversation will continue on the other side. you are watching our live coverage of the confirmation hearings of william barr. his second go around as u.s. attorney general. hises cond go around as u.s. attorney general so we improved everything. we used 50% fewer ingredients added one handed pumps and beat the top safety standards the new johnson's® choose gentle you may be learning ab

back with me is msnbc justice and security analyst matt miller, former chief spokesman for eric holder, chuck rosenberg, former u.s. attorney and former senior fbi official, and national security and justice reporter julia ainsley as well. matt miller, you heard roger stone say he will never testify against the president, he's never said anything about the truth, denying any misstatements to the house committee were in any way deliberate lies. >> the most important words you heard in that press conference is "the president is one of my oldest friends, i'm a fervent supporter, and i will not bear false witness against him, i will not testify against him." he could not be making more clear that he will not do what everyone thinks the special counsel wants him to do, which is to come forward and tell the truth about any interactions he had with the united states. i don't know that that's a blatant appeal for a pardon but it certainly looks like it. if you look at the evidence against him in the indictment, it is pretty overwhelming, it's compelling. you played the clip on this show earlie

rid of that which they successfully did in two thousand and fourteen these shelby county versus eric holder i mean so this isn't about expanding voting this is about a republic can be said is majority white people are worried about browning country afraid about electorate of in a lecture and that is increasingly becoming close to it so a party that is going to extremely hostile to them i mean let's be honest our country of laws not a country of men and their opinions you know what is right and it the republican and it one hispanics you know how good the battles in the presidential race played a bit between between mitt romney john mccain and donald trump with this batiks donald trump so many many hispanics like republicans like this dance like what we're saying so let's not make it seem like it's black against like and you could categorize events evil people just as spanish we're talking about asian people we're talking about people from africa and the caribbean and you're talking about florida for instance the one point four million people who just got their voting rights back ok are the m

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i could have given you a hundred examples of where eric holder or loretta lynch had a different idea of a statue than i did. but if you don't expect elections to matter that's a mistake. the policy differences we have are real. to expect trump to win and everything obama did to stay the same is unrealistic. let's look at the qualifications because a democrat will win one day. they will nominate somebody with the completely different policy view than i have. it will be a very simple decision if i can find a difference i'll vote no. the question i'm trying to ask the country is do you expect quality people to be chosen by the other side who has differences with you? if the answer is yes, then mr. barr is as good as it will get. >> will, you know, senator, lots of us thought you'd be nominated as attorney general. >> would you have supported me? >> i know we would have had a discussion and i wouldn't close the door on that. >> well, i appreciate -- i'm not nearly as qualified as mr. barr. i don't think i could hold a candle to me. but the fact you said that i appreciate that and let's s

mark: any attorney general anymore political and eric holder? >> absolutely not.e unprecedented politicalization and weaponization of every federal agency under president obama and the worst ever of the department of justice under the fbi. mark: let us not forget, we talked about happen under obama. loretto lynch, under obama. all these activities russian interference in the election, obama. it's been in the room as pleasure to have you. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa couple of. we'll see you soon. john: i'm john roberts in for chris wallace. the special counsel nets another member of the trump campaign's orbit, and the shutdown fight comes to a temporary halt. ♪ ♪ >> i will sign a bill to open our government for three weeks. john: but without funding for the border wall and with new threats of action. >> if we don't get a fair deal from congress, the government will either shut down, or i will use the powers to address this emergency. john: we'll discuss the political fallout from the shutdown fight with acting white house chief of staff mick mull vain and the path forwar

but if once you have harris and booker, maybe eric holder, another candidate who could jump in, if no one's going to own that black vote, a white candidate is going to say maybe i get a piece of it. and if no one gets it, it doesn't materialize. >> this is going to be absolutely incredible to cover. when you look at obviously what happened in elections past and look ahead for 2020, what do you think the thing will be to spell success for the candidate in 2020. >> it can't be boiled down to a single issue or philosophy. we don't know yet. what i think is going to matter most is who understands the come plebl plexty of the democratic party. not the caricature. who could understand the differences in all these subgroups and piece together the winning coalition. howard schultz said he's not winning the primary because they've moved left. it may be the nominee doesn't wlooef tharks but that's not a certainty. he took a crude analysis of the party and decided he couldn't compete. but michael bloomberg, terry mcauliffe, john hickenlooper from colorado, even joe biden, these folks are not in

take for example former obama eric holder. he has a long history of lying. including some surrounding a blatant coverup, oh, the fast and furious scandal. what about the obama officials who lied to congress about the plan to give iran access to u.s. banks as an incentive to sign off on that horrible nuclear deal. are their houses going to be surrounded? what about lying about the persecution of tea party groups? federal agents going to drag her out in cuffs. john brennan lied before congress on multiple occasions about hillary's bought and paid for dirty dossier. or james clapper about the nsa. where's that pre-dawn raid? we can't forget hillary. she has the biggest slam dunk case of objection of justice violating the espionage act we've ever seen. are they going to have a guns blazing rate for hillary clinton? this is now a two-tiered system of justice. that's what's shocking. it's also dangerous. it should disgust every american to their core because it doesn't matter where you stand politically, it's a clear and present danger to what is our great democra

mark: any attorney general anymore political and eric holder? >> absolutely not.on and weaponization of every federal agency under president obama and the worst ever of the department of justice under the fbi. mark: let us not forget, we talked about happen under obama. loretto lynch, under obama. all these activities russian interference in the election, obama. it's been in the room as pleasure to have you. >> thank you so much, mark. mark: think it's for the work they are doing. ladies and gentlemen, is next line on "life, liberty and levin". ♪ ♪ >> this is the battle at the border, this audience ready? i am brian kilmeade, welcome to beautiful san antonio, texas, the great state of texas, we brought the show on the road. we made the right choice. 130 miles is our southern border, debate over to build the wall there is at center of the conversa

remember eric holder was held in contempt to congress for not going before them. but at the end of the day, it's not like they'll go to prison or something, there's not a huge consequence, it's just public pressure that can force them. >> let's talk -- you have a little news on michael cohen. he said i'm not actually going to testify. through his lawyer he said, i'm not going to testify before the house oversight committee citing fears of donald trump and his lawyer rudy giuliani. but then the senate intel committee, which is the committee we know he lied for sure, they subpoenaed him, so they are going to talk to him presumably behind closed doors. >> that will be behind closed doors is my understanding, yes. >> but you just talked to lanny davis' lawyer. >> he said they are expecting to be subpoenaed by one or more house committees. on the house side, democrats' intelligence and oversight. elijah cummings, it was disappointed that michael pulled out of the testify, so they are very likely to subpoena him and sooner rather than later. once that happens -- >> a pu

. >> we didn't want eric holder and attorney general reno to read about this innewsweek before anythingn detail from us. >> we ran to inform the attorney general of what information had come to us. we did not begin an investigation without clear authorization. >> if the justice department didn't agree to expand our mandate, they would probably have come under heavy criticism for basically trying to sweep this matter under the rug. >> a change in direction would also give critics of the independent counsel more ammunition to say the investigation had gotten out of control. >> it turned out that the most consequential thing the independent counsel discovered was not about whitewater but was, of course, to stumble across the lewinsky scandal. >> we had a special prosecutor for whitewater. now we're looking at vince foster and eventually monica lewinsky. i mean, at what point do you stop? >> this is what special counsels do because they have no limits on what they can look into, and that's why every president hates them. >> we said to the justice department, "what do you want us to do? do y

as general sessions did and as eric holder did. we've testified for a number of the years.er eric holder had a tremendous reputation as a prosecutor in the law enforcement community so i sat at this very table and him.fied for it's all based on the experiences that they had as either u.s. attorney, general judges, or even private practice. hawley: why do you think it's so fortunate police officers that they have a capable, effective, experienced general? >> just the administration of i've heard the complaints about the civil rights division but we know from that a collaborative effort rather than consent real consequences in the cities. for instance, in cincinnati, when the administration entered a collaborative agreement and all parties were at the table, a plan to helph bring that city back together. inthe last election cincinnati, the f.o.p. endorsed a member of the naacp to be a city councilmember. not have happened if they had not got to know each other sitting around a table working together for the betterment of that communi

when eric holder was attorney general under president obama, he made basically a deal with washingtonorado, the first two states to legalize it, that said we won't disturb your policy, but you have to make sure kids don't have access and, you know, other conditions. under sessions the justice department reluctantly followed that policy, but there has to be some resolution soon because, you know, so many states are now legalizing it. you have to wonder when the federal government, when congress is going to say, we are going to allow this to return to the states. >> do we have any idea what william barr the perhaps next attorney what he thinks about marijuana? >> i have no idea. >> neither do i. >> i assume in his confirmation hearings which will be soon in january that's one of the questions he will be asked. >> it's been a great new year already. >> it is. >> getting to spend this time with you. >> happy new year, berman, to you and yours. >> alisyn. >>> thanks, john. the golden globes are less than a week away and oscar nominations will be out in three weeks, so what are the movies t

has been used occasionally in this administration to refer to the way it was conceived of, how eric holder did his job. is there any sense that it's the attorney general's job to protect the president? >> no, that was not included in my description of the role of the attorney general. obviously, as -- in the policy arena, the attorney general is someone who should be sympathetic to the administration. and its policy goals. >> but there are circumstances where those three roles could come into some internal conflict, or you could be asked to do things that don't align with them? and there's probably a list that you have. i would ask you to enumerate here, but there's probably a list of issues that you can imagine needing to resign because of what you are asked to do in the space of so-called "protecting the president?" >> if i was ever asked to do something that i felt was unlawful and directed to do that, i wouldn't do it and i would resign rather than do it. but i think that should be true of every officer who serves anywhere in government. whatever branch. >> i am at a time, but i had a

i have to show you this eric holder shade tweet he says can i hear now from all those who opposed nancyng speaker in lesson learned, never buy into the conservative hype and baseless attacks be strong, damn it are they feeling a little egg on their face >> every month democrat who underestimated nancy pelosi, you know, maybe could owe her an apology for sure but also the truth is this is a good example of having a woman with decades of experience, someone who actually knows how the game is played, who understands the levers of power. a lot of people have shunned experience over the last several years, and she's demonstrated that experience also creates knowledge and wisdom something she deployed every single day against a president who has neither. >> i think it also right now the country of the potential power of the speakership the speaker is a powerful job. we weren't accustomed to people actually using that power. tonight's last word is next. ashd before my eyes. (911 operator) 911, what's your emergency? (overlapping radio calls) if the firemen didn't answer their call, i truthfull

at william barr, i think you see somebody whose going to be a 180 or an exact opposite of what eric holderf course, we expect that the democrats are going to oppose mr. barr and his confirmation, because they have look at how they three of them participated in suing the president to block matthew whitaker from being the acting assistant attorney general and they are on this obstruct tangent. everything that they can do to get in the president's way and the senate is there to provide advice and consent. maria: senator there is an argument being made william bar should recuse himself from the mueller investigation. your reaction? >> i think that mr. mueller should finish his investigation and deliver his report. i will tell you this, tennessee ans when i'm out and about, they are not talking about that. they are not interested in the story of the day. they are interested in the story of their lives. they like the fact that we have seen 2.6 million jobs created since we had the tax cuts and jobs act passed. maria: when would he have to recuse himself? do you think he'll have to recuse himself

democratic lawmakers are seizing on the report with former attorney general eric holder writing, if true and proof must be examined, congress must begin impeachment proceedings. and obviously this raises the stakes for michael cohen's testimony before congress next month. wroining us now, david gregory, nia-malika henderson, phil mudd, asha, thank you all for being with us this morning. we have a lot to discuss. buzz feed says two sources have twold buzz feed the president personally instructed michael cohen to lie. and this isn't just the word of michael cohen a convicted felon and liar. he this is a the special counsel's office learned through interviews with multiple witnesses from the trump organization and internal company e-mails, text messages, and a cache of other documents. >> yes. i mean, i think that this was an implication that was hiding in the shadows when cohen pleaded guilty to lying to congress. you know, we knew then that mueller had the information to back this up and now, you know, i don't think it's really that much of a surprise, though it is shocking to see it in w

we are still talking about eric holder and loretta lynch paid some people still talk about janet renond john ashcroft. this can have quite a legacy if you don't pick the right person for the job. are these senators correctly pressing william barr where they should? >> katie: this question has been answered by everybody and anybody on the mueller thing. they are so obsessed with it. mueller is not going anywhere. lindsey graham is protecting him, the senate has voted out of that committee to protect the mueller probe, the president come if you wanted to fire mueller, would have done so by now. as he's completing the investigation over the next six month or whatever it is. the justice to permit has a big job, they impact people's lives in a very local level, actually. it's one of agencies in washington, d.c., the deals with crime in all these other things. one thing that i think i missed yesterday that could have been discussed for there this idea of bill barr mirroring his policies of the 1990 statute which have worked to ree murder, and coming into this new age of criminal justice ref

i can't tell the difference between jeff sessions and eric holder. they acted exactly the same.rrible, it's horrific. what's frustrating here is that you have whistle-blowers with legitimate claims who come in, spent time with congress, you then turn it over to the department of justice and there is no excuse for them at least to not have an interview with them. >> harris: is there something happening surreptitiously that the public should know about? >> jason: we don't know. >> harris: but you are on the oversight. >> jason: the most important thing is michael horowitz, pfizer abuse, that will take to the beginning of next year. speech he was the other option? if you're giving it to the doj and they're not doing anything, then what? is it about the expected genera general? >> jason: he can go back and find out why they are not doing their job. >> kennedy: let me ask this. obviously, the former attorney general appointed this u.s. attorney in order to investigate. so we don't have to have another special counsel. is it so -- i don't always like to use the term "deep state," alth

he has praised all of what jeff sessions did, which was reversed the efforts of eric holder and the obamanistration to try to reduce the harshness of the criminal justice system. reformposed sentencing that would reduce the harshness of federal criminal sentences. on national security and surveillance, as you indicated in the opening, he introduced what was essentially the blueprint for the bulk collection of americans phone records. that point focused on drug enforcement, but still focused on massive numbers of people with gnosis patient. he argued there is no constitutional objection to doing that. and of course, he has an extraordinarily broad understanding of executive power. so while he says, "i'm not going to improperly interfere with the mueller invnvestigation, i will scrupulously follow the regulatio regulations." the key is when he says executive privilege or executive power has been interfered with by what mueller has done, then he can say, well, i'm not improperly interfering with the investigation, i'm doing it on the basis of my view of executive power. he has an expansive v

msnbc justice and security analyst and former chief spokesman for the justice department under eric holderuch. peter baker, what do we know, what do you know based on the buzzfeed reporting? we have not confirmed it at nbc. >> no, we haven't yet posted a story confirming this. our reporters, my colleagues, are obviously chasing around town trying to figure out what we do know and don't know. it's an exposlosive story. that's why it's always good to be careful as journalists, look for your own sources and your own understanding of a story as big as this. that's what we're trying to do right now. >> matt miller, the implications are very serious, if this were true. as peter said, we have to be very careful because it is such an explosive accusation. >> yeah, that's right. if this story is accurate, and we should note these two reporters have a pretty good track record so far of reporting around the trump tower moscow deal, so they have a track record here. if this story is true, it's about to move from the realm of prosecutors to the realm of congress. since may of 2017 when the president fi