preet bharara was the u.s.ttorney from 2009 to 201 for the eight years of the obama administration. that will position is considered the most important u.s. attorney's office in the united states and is of particular interest to president trump since it has geographic jurisdiction over the trump businesses, the trump company located in midtown manhattan. president trump decided he did not want his new york city businesses subject to any possible investigations. supervised by preet bharara. so the president fired him which means preet bharara is free to join us tonight and his new book is entitled "doing justice, a prosecutor's thoughts on crime, punishment and the rule of law." preet bharara, what would doing justice mean for the attorney general who now has the mueller report in hand. >> the first thing, the most important thing and the thing everyone is waiting for and all your viewers care about is to get access to the actual mueller report. a four-page summary written in 46 or 47 hours after a volume an new

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preet bharara who i referred to has a new book out. it takes us through whether this is a part of breakdown in justice. forget the questions about biden's past. his real question is whether he fits into the presence of the pardon. great debate. let's get after it. >>> the president knows the emergency is kids on the border. not killers. so why didn't everything to the shelters? why didn't he see the kids and families? instead he said this. >> the system is fulfill can't take any more. asylum. i look at some of these asylum people. they're gang members. they're not afraid of anything. and they say, i fear for my life. they're the ones causing fear for life. it's a scam. okay? it's a scam. a hoax. he know about hoaxes. i just went thank you ohio valley. >> it's called selling a fence as a farce. look at the numbers. the bad guys are not what collapses the system. it is the kids and families. so now enstead of using his emergency declaration to harness military and family to help with the flow he'll be leading it in court. the attorney ge

my guest today, preet bharara, was one of america's most powerful federal prosecutors, until mr trump him in 2017. he's written a book about doing justice, but is america consistently falling short? welcome to hardtalk. thanks for having me. you had a long and successful career as a federal prosecutor, so you are in a very good place tojudge prosecutor, so you are in a very good place to judge whether the american people are losing faith in their system of justice. american people are losing faith in their system ofjustice. do you think they are? i think some people are. i think we have a crisis of confidence in the rule of law not just in the united states but in a lot of places. i think you have institutions undertake, i think some of the sabi is coming from the mouth of the sabi is coming from the mouth of the sabi is coming from the mouth of the president of the united states himself. he undermines denigrates his own intelligence organisations, he attacks the free press, he has people around him he say things like their alternative fa cts say things like their alternative facts an

preet bharara, we have to end there but i thank you very much for being on hardtalk.at we saw last weekend it been turning gradually cooler and more unsettled over the past couple of days. that unsettled theme continues for the next two days, too. this amazing picture was taken as the sun set on thursday evening in salford. you can see the big shower clouds, the heavy downpours. a similar picture on friday. there will be some sunshine around, equally heavy showers in the forecast. things will start to feel cold over the next few days. you can see the blue colours, that is a cold air mass building in from the north—west. the warm weather that has been with us is pushing further east across europe. friday morning we have got some clear skies for many eastern areas to start of the day. more cloud in the west for northern ireland, wales, the south—west of england through the morning. they should put eastwards into south of scotland, northern england, before the next bands of showers arrived from the west later in the afternoon. temperatures for the likes of belfast and ca

york federal prosecutor preet bharara gives an inside look at how the judicial process works drawing from personal experiences and case histories in his new book "doing justice". >> when you go to the basic issue of how to resolve a dispute or how to persuade someone to your point of view, what you have i think too much in society is you say you have two problems. one is that when people do engage they yell invective and they say, you know, you're ugly or you're fat or there's what aboutism and there's all sorts of non-logical argument that goes on, and it's very mean spirited and terrible and it affects people's opinions of the whole process. as bad as that is what's even worse in some ways is the other problem. and the other problem is people don't engage with the other side at all. watch this weekend on book tv on c-span2. >>> president trump is in indianapolis today to speak to the nra. as he left the white house this morning, he talked to reporters about a wide range of topics including the mueller report findings, 2020 presidential election, and the most recent economic numbers

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attorney preet bharara calling on giuliani to retract that statement. >> the idea that it is okay, separateminal offense, that we should be telling future candidates in the run-up to an election in 2020 that if a foreign adversary is offering information against a political opponent that it's okay and right and proper and american and patriotic, it seems he's saying, to take that information. that's an extraordinary statement and i hope he would retract it. >> scott, do you agree with preet bharara? >> yeah, look. i agree with mr. gergen, what he said at the top of the show here. i was on after mr. giuliani this morning and stunned he would have said that. look. the trump people got a good thing out of this report which is no evidence to support the idea of collusion or coordination. that's a good thing and no reason now to go out and talk about how it was right and proper when i think the vast amount of americans believe it's not a good idea. i think the wikileaks people, assange, the russians, folk that is tried to hack into and meddle in the democracy need to be held accountable by the g

some perspective now from preet bharara who is the u.s.t of new york and cnn legal analyst jeffrey toobin. the mueller chapter may be closed. the president is facing potential investigations elsewhere in new york and elsewhere. should people be confident that those can be carried out given that most of them report to the attorney general? >> i do. i think the southern district of new york, as mr. bharara can tell you in detail, has this great tradition of independence. there is not going to be political pressure that's really going to work there. i'm much more skeptical that they're going to find anything. that's what i think is the real issue here. i don't think the heavy hand of william barr is going to be the end of this investigation. i think people have exaggerated hopes for what's going to come of these financial investigations. but as far as i'm aware and as far as i believe in the justice department, especially the line prosecutors, i don't think political interference is going to be the death of these investigations. and if it is,

preet bharara who served as attorney of the southern district of new york.keaways here has to do with the discrepancies between what attorney general bill barr said was in the mueller report and what we now read is in the mueller report. what do you take issue with? >> look, the way that bill barr, the attorney general, framed the issue, you know, i think left a misimpression that the basis on which bob mueller decided not to bring an obstruction case or declared there was a crime of obstruction was based on the evidence. and that's not what it looks like when you read the report at all. i think i was actually surprised how explicit bob mueller was. none of that was in the four-page summary bill barr submitted. >> he made it sound like mueller was ambivalent and couldn't make a decision. >> i've been speculating it was such a close factual and legal question and that's why bob mueller decided to leave it alone. he makes it clear in volume 2 that because it's the case that they accept the conclusion of the office of legal counsel, that a sitting president can

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attorney, preet bharara. he's now a cnn senior legal analyst. also the author of the new best seller, "doing justice: a prosecutor's thoughts on crime, punishment, and the rule of law." preet, thanks very much for joining us. >> sure. >> so you just heard two democratic leaders, adam schiff and jerry nadler telling me they won't give the attorney general the benefit of the doubt on his redacted version of the mueller report. and the house judiciary committee chairman jerry nadler tells me he can't make any promises that he won't issue a subpoena for the full report, even before barr puts out his redacted version. what do you make of that? >> look, i think it's committee chairman who have recently come into possession of the gavels. you know, laying down the gauntlet and doing an oversight job that was largely left undone over the prior two years. and it may be that the report is minimally redacted and is to the satisfaction of the general public, members of the media, and those chairman. but i think, you know, it takes a long time to figure out

we're going to talk to preet bharara in just a second. i want to move on to the immigration issue if i can. the stunning reporting overnight by jake tapper and others which has found that the president was asking border agents to break the law. he went to california last week and said to border agents don't listen to the judges. no matter what the judges say, you do what i'm telling you to do. that's on top of reporting that jake and others had that the president just wants to separate families at the border here. and that's on top of reporting that the president ordered the closure of the border at el paso last week and basically his administration said, no, don't do this. there is a lot going on. >> there is a lot going on and i think it's important to try to parse out the legalities of it. the president has the legal right to close the border, i think. he has the legal right to separate families. now, that's putting aside whether it's a good, appropriate or moral idea. >> i thought there were court challenges about whether or not you c

attorney preet bharara joins in the next hour on balance of power. checking u.s. are coming up to the halfway point in the day. the dow is down about .5% on going. -- on boeing. the volatility index under 40. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ kevin: from bloomberg's bureau in downtown washington, i've kevin cirilli. marty: and from bloomberg world headquarters in york by marty schenker. , the president is dealing with another cabinet departure this morning. kevin: secretary nielsen resigning from dhs. this comes after sources say she met privately with president trump. steven miller, the hardliner on immigration, now assuming a more prominent role within the administration and this has been one of the key campaign promises the president has been frustrated with. it comes following weeks of threats to shut down the u.s. mexico border as well as ports of entry. ultimately heading into the 2020 election cycle, this is going to be of fastened -- fascinating to see how the administration reacts to this.

eastern and sit down with preet bharara, former u.s.ney for the southern district of new york 4:00 p.m. eastern. that's our broadcast for tonight. thank you so much for staying up with us and good night from msnbc news headquarters in new york. . >>> bracing for a possible border shutdown. president trump is threatening to close the southern border this week but some top republicans are warning about the impact to the u.s. economy. >>> as he weighs a 2020 presidential run another woman is excusing joe biden of inappropriate contact. >> house democrats are escalating the standoff on the mueller report. they are threatening a subpoena if bill barr doesn't issue the report in full. >>> good morning, everybody. it is

eastern and sit down with preet bharara, former u.s.the southern district of new york 4:00 p.m. eastern. that's our broadcast for tonight. thank you so much for staying up with us and good night from msnbc news headquarters in new york. in new york >>> it has been a busy news day. lots going on. one developing story we're keeping an eye on tonight is that it looks like president trump's latest appointment to the federal reserve board may be falling apart. president trump's nomination of steven moore to the federal reserve board was sort of a difficult choice to go with, but now tonight it is producing ominous headlines like this one at "the wall street journal." do we have that headline? thank you. about how the white house is standing behind the stephen moore nomination. you never have to stand behind something in a headline unless there is a reason to think a nomination like that is in

preet bharara who was ultimately dismissed confirmed that to me in his own separate case.a look. >> we actually considered, and it sounds not as crazy as it did back then, now we know about michael cohen, according to the president, and omarosa. we considered it. and we have competing -- >> you considered what? >> taping the president. >> you considered recording the president, if you had called him back? >> yeah. their what does it tell that you so many sceniced and i should say nonpartisan officials were considering those measures? >> well, it reveals the president was directing people to do things they knew were either unethical, improper or maybe illegal. he was fortunate most of the time they didn't do it and that's how he was saved. the idea that they felt a need to record him says something about what they believed about the president's instructions. that they weren't appropriate. we need people to stand up in those moments and defend the rule of law. defend the independence of the department of justice. if it's true that reporting is incredibly disappointing. >> an

i'll sit down with preet bharara, at 4:00 p.m. eastern right here in this very studio on msnbc. that's our broadcast for tonight. thank you so much for staying up with us and good night from nbc news headquarters in new york. ♪ >>> tonight on "all in" -- >> the trump administration is a walking, talking, living, breathing threat to national security. >> a white house whistle-blower says the trump administration is a threat to national security. >> there were anonymous leaks about there being issues. >> tonight the growing scandal surrounding security clearances inside the white house. at democrats start the process to subpoena the mueller report. >>> then, is the president about to name an anti-immigration zealot as his new immigration czar? >>> plus -- >> i love the saudis, many are in this building. >> why jeff bezos now says the

attorney for the southern district of new york, preet bharara said about thisa topic of exoneration. >> one of the most terrible things for the president in the underlying report we know about is that it explicitly says we do not exonerate the president on obstruction of justice. they felt thee need to sort of anticipate that rhetoric and refute it then of course bill barr comes in and puts his own exoneration gloss on top when i think it was w meant for congre. >>ea it's an interesting topic. the report, anybody can read, can sayan it did not exonerate e president and yet the message that the white house has been sticking with is that it did. >> bob mueller is someone who carefully memorializes his thought process and done that ae fbi director. i've seen him do it. s that how he operates and that's a reason why that got through and the attorney general felt compelled to include that in his summary. there is going to be some tension on this issue which is, again, why we need to see the report. every day that passes that the attorney general doesn't release this report, he looks more

preet bharara who i referred to has a new book out.

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york, a familiar position to viewers because it's been held by rudy giuliani, james comey, and preet bharara, who also says that he was ta contacted, he viewed it inappropriately by the president. thanks for being here, david. >> good to be here. >> i should mention long ago i worked for you when we practiced law today. you're here because you understand how these things work. indeed, some have said you need an underlying crime to prove that there is obstruction of justice. you proved the opposite in the martha stewart case, and you sent her to jail without her being a part of the underlying crime. how does it at a broad level obstruction as documented potentially by mueller work, and do you think he has a strong case against trump if he were a citizen? >> let me put hit the way. as a legal matter, do you need to prove the underlying crime that's being obstructed? the answer is no, not as legal matter. what i think bob mueller did here is very thoughtfully look at all the different factors involved, constitutional issues concerning what a president has a right to do in his executive branch,

. >> preet bharara, thank you very much. appreciate it.viously to come. >> thanks, anderson. >> we expect the mueller report, however much of it to be released, is going to come out next week. i want to check in with chris and see what he's working on for cuomo "prime time" at the top of the hour. >> the intersection of politics and law. it is time for calm. headlines very hysterical because of what the a.g. has said over the last two days. if you notice his comfort in the chair, it's because he's been exactly here before. looking at the a.g.'s past, last time around with the bush administration, predicts exactly where we are right now. we're going to look at his legal ability to play by the book with spying as he calls it. what is right, what is wrong. on taxes with the president, why is the treasury secretary involved? these are questions about the intersection of law and politics. a game is afoot. the real battle between the president and congress has just begun. and we'll take you through it tonight. >> all right, sherlock. the game is

and so, to quote my dear friend, preet bharara, the president was identified as individual one in publicly filed documents in federal court in manhattan, and thank god we live in a country where just about anyone can grow up to be individual one. >> it's a good reminder, ron klain, that so much of the story is still in front of us. i talked to a federal prosecutor this week, a former republican federal prosecutor, out of that southern district of new york, and i said, what do you think sdny is up to? and he said, listen, the michael avenatti case was sitting in a u.s. attorney's office in l.a. for a couple of years. it was at sdny for a much shorter amount of time. he got arrested the minute he walked into boy schiller. what do you think sdny is up to? >> i think they're up to a lot. but i want to disagree with the job that bob mueller did a great job. i think he wimped out here a bit. i think the case against don junior on campaign finance violations that's in the mueller report, i think the analysis of why that wasn't indicted wouldn't be a passing grade in a first year election law case

preet bharara with us, our senior legal analyst, former federal prosecutor, u.s. attorney in the southern district of new york. you have gone through, i assume, a big chunk of this, although you have been busy all day. what do you think? >> i think it's an extraordinary document. the folks who are saying it paints a picture of -- i don't know what word to use other than crazy times at the white house, where people were asked to lie repeatedly, people have lied about the lies, and some people have concluded, and as bob mueller and his team specifically say, very directly say, some of the obstruction was not able to be carried out because some folks in the white house, who by the way, in other circumstances haven't necessarily distinguished themselves honorably, but on many, many occasions, don mcgahn, corey lewandowski, and others have said we're not going to do that. i think that's a big deal. >> if you had been in charge, if you were robert mueller. you're the former district attorney for the southern district of new york, and you were in charge. what would you h

night at 9:00 eastern on afterwards, former southern district november new york federal prosecutor preet bhararaives an inside look at how the judicial process works drawing from personal experiences and case histories in his new book "doing justice". >> when you go to the basic issue of how to resolve a dispute or how to persuade someone to your point of view, what you have i think too much in society is you say you have two problems. one is that when people do engage they yell invective and they say, you know, you're ugly or you're fat or there's what aboutism and there's all sorts of non-logical argument that goes on, and it's very mean spirited and terrible and it affects people's opinions of the whole process. as bad as that is what's even worse in some ways is the other problem. and the other problem is people don't engage with the other side at all. watch this weekend on book tv on c-span2. >>> president trump is in indianapolis today to speak to the nra. as h