. >> mazie hirono and more. all in starts right now. >> america deserves better. you should resign. >>> good evening from new york. 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 attor

mazie hirono from hawaii tore into the torn general. >> mr. barr, now the american people know that you are no different from rudy giuliani oracle know an conway or any people who sacrifice their once decent reputation for the grifter who sits in the oval office. you said the job of attorney general is not the same as representing the president. you know the difference, but you have chosen to be the president's lawyer and side with him over the interest of the american people. you used every advantage of your office to create the impression that the president was cleared of misconduct and selectively quoted from the counsel's report, taking the most important statements out of context and ignoring the rest. you put the power and the authority behind a public relations effort to help donald trump protect himself. >> for his part, president trump was more than thrilled by barr's performance that the attorney general was really, really solid and did a great job. former federal prosecutor and michael schmidt and david corn, mother jones washington

i want to get reaction from a member of the senate judiciary committee, democratic senator mazie hirono joins us now. senator hirono, good evening. >> good evening. >> you hear the president saying he doesn't plan or he doesn't think it likely to let don mcgahn testify before congress. he already let him testify for 30 hours before the special counsel. the whole thing is done. what do you say to that? >> what i say is we should always remember that there are two things that the president cares most about. one is protecting himself. the second is money. so he is in the process of protecting himself. you can explain a lot of what the president does by knowing that he will do anything to protect himself. >> so is there -- what is the option? if he exerts executive privilege, what, it just goes to the courts? >> i think that's one of the modus operandi of trump when he was in business, that he would delay things. he would file lawsuits, or he will file for bankruptcy, leaving everybody holding the bag. he treats the presidency like he is still running a business in the kind of ways that he

while part of the point was to allow people like me like mazie hirono to perform for the cameras. a few years ago, virtually no one outside of hawaii had heard of her. she was considered forgettable even by standards of the u.s. senate. now she's a celebrity on cnn. technically she remains unimpressive, she's never written a single bill that you have heard of. but when the cameras rolling, she will repeat literally anything or staff puts on a card and enhance her no matter how extreme and stupid it might be. here she was today. >> mr. barr, the american people know you are no different than rudy giuliani, kellyanne conway or any of the other people who sacrificed their once decent reputation for the liar who sits in the oval office. he once turned down a job offer from donald trump's concerns were legitimate. you didn't know bob mueller supported your conclusions but you knew that you lied to. i wasn't surprised. you did exactly what i thought you would do which is why i voted against your confirmation. but now we know more about your deep involvement and trying to cover up for do

. >> mazie hirono from the judiciary committee when every elected official is trying to get out of washington. senator, your reaction to an eighth former adviser being indicted? >> i say when you use government resources and access for personal gain, that's a culture of corruption. there is way too much of that in what i call the moral dead zone of the trump white house. >>> you confident now that none of that is happening now? >> of course not. >> the pay for play and you give me a loan and i get you an interview. there is lots of interviews that various people need all the time. contracts and all that stuff. are you confident that none of that is happening now? >> of course not. you have a president that even now there are reports that he wanted the army core of engineers to send a contract to somebody who was a big donor to trump. that's not how things work. as i say, when you use government resources and access for personal gain, that's corruption. i would say with this administration, it starts at the top. >> that story with the north dakota firm with a prominent ceo who is a donor as we

notice that buttigieg has no problem at all with senator mazie hirono of hawaii.ust yesterday, she bragged about brainwashing middle schoolers who support abortion. watch. >> public school in hawaii, and i told them i was coming to a rally in front of the supreme court, and they said why? i said because we have to fight for abortion rights, and they knew all about it. i asked the girls of that group of eighth graders, how many of you girls think that government should be telling us women when and if we want to have a baby's? not a single one of them raised their hands. [applause] and the boys who were there, i said, you know, a girl wouldn't be pregnant -- they got it. how many of you boys think that government should be telling girls and women when and if we are going to have babies? and not a single one of them raised their hands. [applause] >> tucker: imagine saying something like that to someone else's kids. senator cory booker could easily imagine it, like mazie hirono, booker has no children of his own, but he is permanently committed to abortion but still c

[cheers] and hawaii senator mazie hirono bragged about discussing abortion with eighth grade children. >> i asked the girls in that group of eighth graders, how many of you girls think that the government shoulding telling us women when and if we want to have babies? not a single one of them raised their hand. the boys that were there among the 50. you know, it's hard for a women to get pregnant without you guys. how many of you boys think the government should be telling girls and women and when and if we are going to have babies? and not a single one of them raised their hands. [cheers] >> martha: lots to talk about there in just a moment. all of that while behind closed doors. democrats are battling over whether to start impeachment proceedings. nancy pelosi is in the no column. adam schiff says this. >> i think the case gets stronger the more they stonewall the congress. >> martha: in moments congressman matt gaetz and chris hahn. the story begins with fox news senior political analyst on both of these topics tonight brit hume. good to have you with us this evening. >> thanks, mar

i wouldn't have gone as far as mazie hirono.ueller exactly how that conversation went. but the long-term story is, here, are the attempts at obstruction of justice. and the questioning that senator harris did, where she was basically just asking him, did you look at the evidence? and he couldn't say "yes." when senator leahy said, tell me more about members of the trump campaign being receptive to offers of help from the russians, and he acted like he didn't know what that meant. to me, that was pretty shameful. >> and there was actually a lot of praise on the other side of the aisle from senators cruz and lee for attorney general barr. take a listen to them. >> i want to thank you for your civility and for your exposure amidst what has been a needlessly and unfairly hostile environment. your professionalism has been remarkable. >> if you're hiding something, i'll tell you right now, general barr, you're doing a very lousy job of hiding it! because the thing that they're suggesting you hid, you released! >> now, in that last cli

joining us now, mazie hirono of hawaii, a member of both the judiciary and armed services committees. senator, thanks so much for joining us. >> good to see you. >> let's begin with the breaking news. what's your reaction, first of all, to the treasury secretary, steven mnuchin, defying a congressional subpoena to get six years of the president's tax returns? >> i think this kind of defiant study comes straight from the top. this is a committee that is entitled to the tax returns and really, we have to ask, what is the president hiding? now, we know that probably hep didn't make a lot of money. he actually was a terrible businessperson. and that he probably didn't pay taxes and took a lot of losses and write-offs. so, sure, i would think that the president is very interested in having his treasury secretary just stonewall everything. but this kind of stonewalling comes from the top. and that's the president. he's protecting himself. >> richard neal, the chairman of the ways and means committee in the house issued a statement just now, but he concluded by saying, given the treasury sec

barr, the way mazie hirono inappropriately questioned that man. no one should have to appear before congress and be downright insulted. thank you for c-span. >> and reflecting some of mary lou's sentiment a tweet from josh holly, new freshman senator from missouri, former attorney general, on the committee. tweets this. you want to know why the fbi spied on donald trump and launched a multiyear investigation? it's about donald trump voters, unelected progressive elites he says, in our government, have nothing but contempt for them. total complete contempt. and mary lou talked about the southern border. word today the president requesting $4.5 billion in humanitarian aid for efforts on the border. lachey is next in maryland on the others line. >> caller: good afternoon. how are you doing? >> doing fine, thank you. >> caller: good. now, i'm a democrat, but i vote for the best person, when it's time for elections. america is very broken right now. we don't get along. we've got real issues. we have laws that we need to be following. i'm a citizen, if

mazie hirono was an attorney.ory booker served as a nonprofit attorney and senator kamala harris was the san francisco district attorney. independent, new jersey. caller: good morning. what is upsetting with me -- i am old enough to remember the 1974 hearings, republicans on one side, democrats on the others. there was no c-span then, but 24/7 coverage of the hearing. they were americans first. i am so upset, i cannot begin to tell you. think about what barr said. i am handicapped. i watched what the man said. the man was specifically asked, did you talk to mueller? no. did mueller say anything? no. did he have any comments to make? no. you are lying. host: you are talking about the news conference ahead of the release of the report? caller: the point is he spoke to mueller and said he never did. had anymueller never comment. all of a sudden i thought this group of people who kept their mouth shut during the whole 22 hearing, -- all of a sudden he gets the report and all of a sudden the comments come from the grou

and kamala harris with mazie hirono and you have the monsters and quite remarkable.it >> laura: john, you, the idea of someone with experience, the wealth of legal knowledge, the gravitas all those words apply to bill barr. you know him, we've all known him i guess on this panel have known him for a couple of decades, all of us, but the idea of these people one after the other trying to destroy a man's entire legacy based on bob mueller's team being upset about the tone as sol said and not being flushed out in a brief summary of the ultimated conclusions of this report really? that is where today's democrat party stands? >> john: look, they are trying to ambush barr and tie him to the release of this letter from the start of the hearings. but the sad thing, the letter does not matter. everyone can see the report now. they can compare it to barr's letter and see if they agree with the summary. barr's letter doesn't matter anymore. the sad thing, the democrats are so focused on something history will not remember or make a footnote in history because they are ignoring the thing barr did

i'll be in the bar." ( applause ) after lunch, hawaii senator mazie hirono took her whacks at this pinataf perjury. >> mr. barr, now the american people know you are no different from rudy giuliani or kellyanne conway, or any of the other people who sacrifice their once-decent reputation for the grifter and liar who sits in the oval office. ( cheers and applause ) >> jon: cold-blooded! woo-hoo! >> stephen: madame, how dare you imply that kellyanne conway ever had a decent reputation? ( laughter ) wrong! hirono kept tearing into barr. >> being attorney general of the united states is a sacred trust. you have betrayed that trust. america deserves better. you should resign. i have some questions for you. ( laughter ) ( applause ) >> stephen: that was-- that's-- that was a quick pivot. "this dinner in a disgrace "n" this restaurant is one giant health code violation. you should be fired and bulldozed into the ground opinion i would like to see the dessert moneyue. bring the cart around." but the true star of the barr bashin' was california senator kamala harris. she started-- ( cheers and app

let's start with mazie hirono. maisie, girl. >> mr. bar, the maker people know who you are no different, from rudy giuliani and the people who sacrifice, the reputation in the office. >> she called the president a grifter in the lyre. and over to smear the ag and then minnesota senator who brought up michael cohen for some reason. and then got shut down. >> the report found that michael cohen's testimony to the house that the president repeatedly implied the cohen family members have committed crimes. do you consider that evidence to be an attempt to convince a witness to change testimony questioning. >> no. i don't think that could pass muster. those public statements he was making. jamie: he did have senators in his corner also predictably including south carolina judiciary chairman lindsey graham. >> do you expect to change your mind about the bottom-line conclusions of the mueller report? >> no. >> do you know bumbler questioning. >> do you trust him. >> yes. >> thirty years roughly. >> to thinking of the time he needed? >> yes. >>

. >> shannon: there is letter out tonight headed up by senator mazie hirono and it is asking the doj inspector general to launch an investigation into the attorney general and office of professional responsibility. they say that he wasn't impartial in the letter, the press conference, that he hasn't been fair and he's acting as an agent of the white house and the president. >> if that's what they are going to argue, i would love to hear their response about peter strzok, lisa page and the medium the tarmac. i would love to hear answers to a lot of other questions we've had not answered. it's been a thorough investigation. they conclude there was no collusion. now they are losing their minds because they bent relying on the mueller report is this holy grail. they didn't have that and they are frustrated. they want to take it out on barr. we can't let them do that. >> shannon: we will watch tomorrow. i want to ask you about venezuela. today former ambassador bolton has talked about this. several of your counterparts talking about the u.s. and what role we would play. senator rick scott

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. >> senator mazie hirono thank you, senator.now is democratic senator richard blumenthal of connecticut, also a member of the senate judiciary committee. senator blumenthal, your reaction to robert mueller's statement today. >>. >> robert mueller's statement issued a really stunning rebuke to president trump in two ways. number one, his message to donald trump was you would be in handcuffs, criminally charged if you were not a sitting president. and i was one of those more than 800 prosecutors who said as much that he would be literally criminally charged but for that office of legal counsel policy prem dum that said a sitting president can't be charged. second, robert mueller issued a warning, really a plea for action in the face of continuing russian threat to our democracy that has been denied by donald trump inexplicably and unjustifiably denied in the face of his own intelligence community and everyone else of any credibility saying that the russians attacked our democracy, that his campaign welcomed and accepted assistance

to hear what we just heard there from mazie hirono in hawaii, whatever happened to teaching kids responsibilityump to an abortion, let's teach them about the sanctity of life. i wonder if she mentioned to them that not too many years earlier under the democrats' new policies, a lot of them probably wouldn't be here because they are advocating, to your point, for 40 week abortions and infanticide. it is absolutely crazy what we see happening in this country when it comes to this stuff. they have gone so far overboard. the average person in this country, i do not think, supports this kind of thinking, and what they are proposing with these crazy, crazy, late-term abortion laws. it is really sad to see. by the way, as you pointed out, i am pregnant, and in a couple of months, i am going to have a baby. this kind of thing to me is sickening, and i really can't wrap my mind around it at all. >> sean: it really is hard, all of the people that i know are pro-choice, they are shocked. they find this so repugnant. and they make a very distinct difference, even though we might have a difference of when l

klobuchar died 11 other senators in signing mazie hirono's letter calling for barr's conduction.e kamala harris, cory booker and kirsten gillibrand. and saying the house should take action if he does nottest before tomorrow. yasmin, expect that subpoena canon to be loaded. because a barr no show is not an option. these members are making that very clear. >> i want to bring back nbc legal analyst danny cevallos. heidi, obviously, we know that the attorney general is expected to testify today, possibly tomorrow. hopefully throughout the day, we'll get confirmation on his testimony in front of congress tomorrow. how is all of this news going to affect this testimony, and arm really the senators and congress people tomorrow? >> we're watching barr becoming in realtime part of the obstruction case here. so, expect the questions to become much sharper. like you saw senator amy klobuchar say she's updating her questions. i'm hearing already from sources that those questions include why did not barr recuse himself from the very beginning, given that he had written a letter saying that he

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. >> we have that bite -- too, if we could play that, this is senator mazie hirono from hawaii with perhaps the most heated questions. lindsey graham the chairman later said she had slandered the attorney general. here are her questions, part of them, for attorney general bill barr. >> you lied to congress. you told remt -- representative charlie crist you didn't know what robert mueller would object to the so-called summary and you didn't know if bob mueller supported your conclusions but you knew you lied. and now we know. do you think it is okay for a president to ask his white house counsel to lie? >> um, well, i'm willing to talk about what is criminal. >> no, we've already acknowledged that you think it was not a crime. i'm asking whether you think it's okay, even if it is not a crime, do you think it is okay for the president to ask his white house counsel to lie? >> which -- >> look, if your going back to -- you're telling me -- >> now barr has already made it clear that he doesn't think that president trump asked white house counsel don mcgahn to lie. that they just had a different

senator mazie hirono was out saying, this is not something that's going to be seen as a bipartisan call for impeachment. as you know, that has long been nancy pelosi's bar for moving to impeach trump. if there was a bipartisan ground swell of support for this. and frankly, one congressman -- and that congressman being justin amash -- is not going to cut it. he is not somebody who is like a kevin mccarthy-esque or steve scalise-esque figure in the party, someone with his finger on the pulse of where most of the gop caucus is. he is often an outsider vote or an outsider voice. that's some important context to remember here. >> but he's an outsider voice, but as a freedom caucus guy, this move and his views are core to what they've always cared about, right? they don't like the big deficit, they don't like a lot of spending and they don't like government overreach. it's not that amash has jumped the shark. couldn't he look to mick mulvaney and say, nick, you're not standing by what we stand for. >> reporter: but the jumping of the shark has jumped the shark long ago. keep in mind that he i

. >> that was senator kamala harris, another senator mazie hirono minced no words saying barr was just another member of the administration who sacrificed his reputation for this president. >> now, the american people know that you are no different from rudy giuliani or kellyanne conway or any of the other people who sacrificed their once decent reputation for the grifter and liar who sits in the oval office. you know the difference but you've chosen to be the president's lawyer and side with him over the interest of the american people. >> so here's what happens, okay? barr conducts himself with a low key demeanor, mostly. but watch here as the mask slips. >> you know, the letter's a bit snity, and and i think it was written by one of his staff people. >> tidd you make a mem rand up of your conversation? >> no, i didn't make a -- what? >> did anyone, either you or anyone on your staff memorialize your conversation with robert mueller? >> yes. >> who did that? >> there were notes taken of the call. >> may we have those notes? >> no. >> why not? >> why should you have them? >> why shoul

you also had mazie hirono straight up calling him a liar, which was also a remarkable moment, chuck. >> peter baker, bill barr is basically throwing himself in front of the president and the entire republican party and essentially willing to take every arrow, willing to be the person everybody hides behind. like half of america obsessed with "game of thrones," he is like hodor. he's holdings the door as everybody is coming and barr is willing to do it. >> look, he came at this from that point of view to begin with. he sent a memo to the white house last summer when he was not attorney general and had no business other than being a private attorney who happened to agree with the president's position on the question of whether or not a president can commit obstruction of justice. his philosophy of executive power has been consistent even going back to his first stint as attorney general back in the george h.w. bush administration. so he came at this with a point of view. his point of view is even the questions being asked as part of this investigation were not in some ways legitimate b

host: linda referenced mazie hirono, the senator from hawaii's questioning of the attorney general.he started out her time yesterday saying he lied, that he lied to congress. graham, told her -- responded to that and defended the attorney general. what she was referencing was earlier testimony in april by the attorney general before the house and senate appropriations committee. on april 9, the attorney general is being questioned by charlie crist of the florida and here is what he had to say about conversations with robert mueller related to his march 24th letter. [video clip] >> reports have emerged recently that members of the special counsel's team are frustrated with the limited information included in your march 24 letter, that it does not adequately or accurately portray the report costs -- report's findings. do you know what they are referencing with that? >> no, i don't. i suspect they probably wanted more put out. in my view, i was not interested in put it out summaries or trying to summarize because i think any summary, regardless of who prepares it, not only runs the ris

>>> as we go to break, take a listen to this moment from senator mazie hirono. >> you lied to congressu told representative charlie crist that you didn't know what objections mueller's team might have to your march 24th so-called summary. you told senator crist van holland you didn't know if bob mueller supported your conclusions, but you knew you lied and now we know. america deserves better. you should resign. >>> coming up, donald trump celebrates the damning findings in the moulor probe by calling the boss. stay with us. e boss stay with us cookie cutter portfolios. fisher investments tailors portfolios to your goals and needs. some only call when they have something to sell. fisher calls regularly so you stay informed. and while some advisors are happy to earn commissions whether you do well or not. fisher investments fees are structured so we do better when you do better. maybe that's why most of our clients come from other money managers. fisher investments. clearly better money management. we're finally back out in our yard, but so are they. scotts turf builder triple action. i

mazie hirono and a top policy professor taking a look at issues particularly when it comes to drugs likensulin. [video clip] >> if you are familiar with the patents on insulin, are you? >> i am not familiar with each patent on insulin. generally, yes. >> maybe the professor is familiar. i wanted to ask about evergreening. example -- he said it is one example of innovation. i would like to ask with regard to these kinds of drugs, the patents granted on -- granted on insulin over time, whether they truelly represented innovations. >> i think it is important and something to be agreed on is -- cannot carry the same drug. something new is being created. otherwise, they are obvious and invalidatedhould be . these hearings on prescription drugs available to you when you go to our website at c-span.org. type in that search word in the box and it will show you everything we have taken in recently and during the course of our time at c-span. here is more from greta. host 2: an update for our viewers on the back and forth between the house judiciary andittee led by democrats attorney general willi

he was defending william barr after mazie hirono said you need to resign. you lied.ng about. i thought i was hear to talk about. brian: talking about michael cohone saying i will take care of you. it came out of left field. nobody watched. he worked with rod rosenstein during this whole investigation. he joined us a little while ago, says i can't believe what i just saw. >> that was absolutely appalling. bill barr knows more about the law, the department of justice and the job of attorney general than any of the democrats up there grandstanding trying to trip him up. the job of mueller was to collect evidence, review the evidence, come to factual conclusions. did they want barr to ignore factual conclusions come to his own? what would democrats have said at that point. brian: he was referring to the fact that kamala harris said why did you not read underlying documents. a million pages. two million pages of underlying documents that were analyzed course of past 22 months? you want him to do that in matter of weeks in order to come in front of you guys? are you crazy.

rather go back to joe biden in 1994 and have more black men who are incarcerated and never forget mazie hirono'sords when she said all the men in the country need to shut up. don't forget that when you go to the polls in 2020. sanders, ais simone senior advisor for the biden presidential campaign tweeting in response to president trump's comments about the crime bill to watch trump take credit for the first step of many criminal reforms when "other folks did the work for the bill and he is on the record disparaging the central park five." it is exhausting and disingenuous. joe biden was the senate judiciary chairman pushing for the passage of the crime bill, which he helped craft in 1994. [video clip] >> madam president, we have predators on our streets that society has, in fact, in part because of its neglect created. it does not mean because we created them that we somehow forgive them or do not take them out of society to protect your family and mine. they are beyond the pale, many of those people. beyond the pale and it is a sad commentary on society. we have no choice but to take them out o