senate and he is also a leader on the judiciary committee as well. tor, thanks so much for joining us. let's get right to the substance of this huge uproar that has developed overnight. on april 10th your democratic colleague senator oath this que bob mueller support your conclusion? barr's answer was, and i'm quoting him now, i don't know. we now know mueller stated his concerns to barr on march 27th, a letter. did barr lie to congress? >> and if you go the day before on april the 9th congressman chris of florida asked virtually the same question and, again, attorney general barr said, no, he wasn't aware of any concerns by the mueller investigative team about his earlier statement. let's follow from start to finish, wolf. this started off as a matter of grave national importance, russian interference in a presidential campaign, then we had a recusal of a sitting attorney general jeff sessions because of his involvement in the same campaign and undisclosed context with the russians. third, we appointed a special counsel bob mueller, we gave him $25 m

>> a little over five hours of testimony from attorney general william barr before the senate judiciary committee with more tomorrow before the house judiciary committee. >> [ inaudible question ]. >> william barr did nothing to reassure me that he's telling the truth to the american people. i'm going to be talking to my colleagues. but i think that he really owes the american people a better explanation. we need to subpoena the notes that were taken of the conversation between mueller and barr. they are the key to whether or not there's any credible explanation. and we also need to hear from robert mueller. >> but you're not -- but should he resign, yes or no? >> i think he probably has exhausted his credibility. i thought he was unfit to serve when he was appointed. i opposed his nomination. i think he probably should resign. >> the chairman has not been calling robert mueller for the committee. is that -- are you in full understanding of this case? >> mueller will come before a committee of the united states congress and the notes of that conversation within the justice department should be su

serves onsh hawley the senate judiciary committee. ll be asking ag barr what has been going on at the fbi, who was spying on the president and why? it is time we got answers. 12 republicans and 10 democrats on the committee. when it comes to republicans, those who are lawyers and have law degrees, here is the rundown. senator lindsey graham and his law degree from the university of south carolina. ted cruz went to harvard. mike lee went to brigham young. going on with republicans in the committee, josh hawley got his law degree from yale and senator john kennedy of louisiana got degree from louisiana state. pat lahey and dick durbin and mazie hirono getting law degrees from georgetown. chris coons and richard blumenthal got degrees from yale and continuing on the democrat side, cory booker also got his law degree from yale. sheldon whitehouse from the university of virginia. amy klobuchar got her degree from the university of chicago law school and kamala harris from uc hastings college of law in california. host: mike in spring hill,

senate judiciary committee is giving special counsel robert mueller an opportunity to refute william barr's testimony this week. >> reporter: senator graham writing to robert mueller today asking him if he wants to provide testimony to his committee, but testimony only on one singular issue, an issue that came up during attorney general barr's testimony up here on capitol hill on wednesday. barr told the committee on wednesday that he talked about this phone call that he had with robert mueller, and barr says during that phone call, that mueller said he did not think the four-page summary was inaccurate, and barr said that mueller said he was unhappy with the media coverage of the barr summary. that, of course is a quite different tone and different substance than what we've heard of mueller's complaints, of course, that were documented in that letter he, himself, sent to barr. so senator graham today basically giving mueller an opportunity to go ahead, refute what barr says. he says, quote, in this letter, attorney general barr testified that you believe media coverage of your invest

attorney general william bar is set to testify before the senate judiciary committee in just a few minutes time the hearings coming amid revelations that special counsel robert mueller complained about how his report into russian meddling in the twenty sixteen elections been portrayed the justice department official says molo wrote to william barr after he said there was no evidence that president obstructed justice when his letter said that didn't fully capture the context nature and substance of the investigations conclusions were lungfish is joining me now live from capitol hill allan the timing of this revelation about this letter from robert mueller is significant given the fact that william barr is about to go into that hearing. exactly no coincidence that it was elise the night before bill barr was due to go in front of the senate judiciary committee that would give the democrats even more ammunition they want to ask bill why did you see what you said. before anyone had the chance to read the report where you just softening the groan where you take not as the lawyer for the united s

eastern, william barr will testify before the senate judiciary committee on the molar report -- the mueller report. thursday he will testify before the house judiciary committee and on c-span3, c-span.org, listen on the free c-span radio app. house speaker nancy pelosi and senate minority leader chuck schumer met with president trump at the white house earlier today to discuss infrastructure needs and to -- and a potential plan both sides could agree on. afterwards the leaders spoke to reporters about the process moving forward. speaker pelosi: i guess it is afternoon. good afternoon, everyone. good afternoon, everyone. we just had a very productive meeting with the president of the united states. we came to this meeting with the aderstanding that there is great need for rebuilding our infrastructure. it is a public health issue. we are very excited about the conversation we had. we did come to one agreement that the agreements would be big and bold. our distinguished leader from the senate will announce how big and how bold. senator schumer: thanks. [laughter] speaker pelosi: and what rema

barr testifies in front of the senate judiciary committee just hours from now. cratic senator chris coons is on that committee, foreign relations and appropriations also. you were part of the last hearing as well. let me start with that. did the attorney general lie to you in that answer? >> well, john, that's one of the things we should explore today. he certainly wasn't fully forthcoming. he did know that robert mueller had reached out to him, first in a letter and second in a phone call to convey he was upset or disappointed that william barr's four-page summary to congress was creating, as he called it, public confusion, and didn't fully reflect the context, substance, nature of the important work of the special counsel. one of the first questions i want to get to this morning, john, is whether or not it was that letter from special counsel mueller that propelled attorney general barr to release much of the report and to commit to testifying in front of congress. one of my thoughts is that the timing of the release of this letter is quite telling. it was rele

this all coming in the senate judiciary committee as we are still waiting to see whether or not bill barr will appear before the house judiciary committee tomorrow. >> thank you very much for that preview. even technology is getting hotter, obviously, and melting down in some ways. let's bring in kaitlan collins, phillip mudd and elie honig a cnn legal analyst and former federal prosecutor. phil, you worked for robert mueller. the idea that he felt compelled to write this letter to his boss, bill barr, you say is stunning. what do you see in this letter? >> pretty simple, i see the psychology of robert mueller in a way that i didn't anticipate. look, when i used to travel with him domestically, the fbi offices and sometimes to fbi personnel overseas, sometimes he would get a question from an fbi officer, what would you tell a kid to get into your position, director? mueller would always say the same thing, the most important thing in his history, personal history, was being a u.s. marine, duty, honor, country. part of duty i saw in maybe 2,000 meetings with the guy is you stay in your

and lying. >> we're going to lead off our discussion tonight with some veterans of the senate judiciary committee who i am sure have never seen anything like a chairman lindsey graham in that committee before. william yeomans spent 26 years at the justice department and was the former chief counsel on the senate judiciary committee. he's now a senior fellow at the alliance for justice. also with us, ron klain, former senior aide to vice president joe biden. and jason johnson's with us, he's the politics editor at theroot.com and a professor of politics and media at morgan state university. he is also an msnbc contributor. and jason, i want to start with you because the explanation of lindsey graham is not necessarily based on experience working at the senate judiciary committee because -- >> right. >> -- none of us have ever seen anything like it. is this just what it takes for him to get re-elected on a free ride with no republican challenger in south carolina? >> well, i think this is what it takes for him to sort of maintain his brand, lawrence. like, you know, he clearly made a decision about

our discussion now, democratic senator maze i hire reason know of hawaii, a member of the senate judiciary committeere reason know, has -- deserve robert mueller's public speaking today change the direction of congress on these issues? >>> i think it moves congress to -- toward in my view opening an impeachment inquiry because there's nothing like hearing from the investigator himself. there aren't very many people who are going to read his report but to hear him focus the fact on very critical parts of the report i think also focuses our minds and our efforts and that is why today i called for the house to open an impeachment inquiry. i know, lawrence, that out of this whole report that mueller focused on three things. one, very clearly the russians interfered with our elections abour democracy big-time on behalf of donald trump. two, the office of legal counsel's memorandum memo prohibited a sitting president from being indicted or even charged. he made that very clear in spite of the fact when barr talked about his report, he totally gave the impression that the olc memo had very little part to d

putting himself above the law. >> it's pretty extraordinary, because the chairman of the senate judiciary committee, and you're on the senate judiciary committee, lindsey graham, he's a republican, as well. he's suggesting that donald trump jr. simply ignore the subpoena from the republican-led senate intelligence committee. if witnesses, though, do ignore these kinds of subpoenas, as senator lindsey graham, the chairman of your committee, the judiciary committee suggesting, what else should congress do? >> i disagree with chairman lindsey graham, i was in the judiciary committee when donald trump jr. came to the committee. and i believe his answers, seemingly were misleading and deceptive on exactly the point the senate intelligence committee now wants to question him. the trump tower meeting with russian agents, the negotiations on the moscow trump tower, the welcoming of dirt on hillary clinton, his messaging with wikileaks on the hacked russian e-mails, the senate intelligence committee has a responsibility to protect our nation against continuing russian attacks. >> do you think senator lindse

and tonight barr has released his written statement pour the record for the senate judiciary committee hearing, a hearing that is set to begin in a matter of hours. a statement that reads in part. when i appeared before the committee just a few months ago for my confirmation hearings, senators asked for two commitments concerning the special counsel's investigation. first, that i would allow the special counsel to finish his investigation without interference, and second, that i would release his report to congress and to the american public. i believe that the record speaks for itself. the special counsel completed his investigation as he saw fit. as i informed congress on march 22, 2019, at no point did i or anyone at the department of justice overrule the special counsel on any proposed action. in addition, immediately upon receiving his confidential report to me, we began working with the special counsel to prepare it for public release and on april 18, 2019, i released a public version subject only to limited redactions that were necessary to comply with the law and to protect imp

what will you be listening for when the attorney general testifies tomorrow before the senate judiciary committee and possibly we hear from don mcghan or robert mueller? host: the first question for is why did you get an incomplete? why did he not decide to make a to obstructionas of justice? why did he only do half the job? that is the hardest to obstructn of question robert mueller has to answer. is concerned, he has answer why he came to the conclusion that there is insufficient evidence for obstruction of justice. n will be asked didn't he feel he had a responsibility to protect some of the confidences while he was counsel to the white house. there will be discussion about the episode where he and the president apparently had a disagreement and people will have to make a decision about who is more accurate. was he told specifically to fire mueller? the president had complete authority to fire mueller, just like nixon had complete authority to fire archie. it was totally lawful. the president under the terry executive has the authority to fire anybody. that was decided by the supreme court aft

he said i had quote no problem hearing testimony from mueller before the senate judiciary committee. said i would like to know what he is unhappy about. this is different than what the senate judiciary committee chairman has been saying, lindsey graham, who said essentially this is over after today and bill barr will have the final word before his committee has no plans. he said i don't care about hearing from mueller in a public setting and tried to ask graham if he changed his view on that. he said he will not comment on this until after today's hearing, no indications that he will. democrats here in the hallway are seizing on the testimony from this morning, not going as far as saying that he committed perjury, but that he deliberately misled this committee during past testimony by the conversations and concerns that he apparently heard from bob mueller that he did not reveal in his testimony before the house and senate panels. i caught up with the democratic senator doug jones who was one of three democrats who actually voted to confirm bill barr. i said do you regret your vote f

he showed up for the senate judiciary committee run by republicans, why can't he show up for the house judiciary committee which has equal oversight of the department of justice run by democrats? whose fault is that? >> obviously as nadler said at the end and he is right it is the attorney general who decided not to show up, therefore, the blame should go to him for not appearing, but as you know he was trying to negotiate the rules here and as laura coates was just saying attorney general barr would be more than well-equipped to handle sustained questioning from staffers. my question back, jim, is what were we going to learn from this hearing after watching him in the senate judiciary committee hearing yesterday, what are we missing out on by not having him here before the house judiciary committee? i don't know the answer to that. >> and i think congressman nadler's point in having an attorney or expert to ask some of those follow-up questions was perhaps to address that, david, things that they think they might miss, but, again, he is a lawyer, there are a lot of good lawyers on tha

democratic congressman ted lieu sits on the house judiciary committee and as we watch the senate judiciarym load up, we will talk to the congressman right now. congressman, what do you think is going to happen tomorrow? if you're a betting man, do you think you'll eventually hear from the attorney general? >> thank you, brian, for your question. yes, i believe we will m attorney general bill barr. i hope it's tomorrow. if it's not, we will subpoena here. look, bill barr can choose to be a lying partisan hack. it just means he needs to go work for the trump campaign but he can't be attorney general. that's a position that requires independence, integrity and oath to the constitution. he's supposed to be america's attorney, not donald trump's personal lawyer, and i really hope he gets that. otherwise he should resign. >> can he really object to being questioned by counsel with a straight face as opposed to or in conjunction with members? >> not at all. america should be asking, well, what is bill barr scared of? last term under republican control of the judiciary committee, i was in multiple

and tonight barr has released his written statement pour the record for the senate judiciary committee

attorney general william barr testified in the senate judiciary committee.ve been there -- i have been trying to watch it on tv. it is pretty partisan, the questioning of the attorney general. an outlier ofbeen high drama on the capital and the senate, where attorney general william barr is testifying before the republican-controlled senate judiciary committee. graham,lindsey republican from south carolina, delivering a blistering critique against democrats for what the politicalization is, he says, of the mueller report. democrats they not so fast. they want to know a host -- answers to a host of different questions, especially when they will get an unredacted version of the mullen. attorney general

join willing us now a member of the house senate judiciary committee democratic senator richard blumenthal of connecticut. thank you very much for joining us tonight. what for you were the most important moments in that hearing? >> that moment was a profoundly important one, lawrence, because not only was the attorney general deeply dismissive and demeaning about one of the great prosecutors and law enforcement officials in the country but he was deliberately obfuscating and deceiving about that letter. there's no mention in that letter of the press misinterpreting the barr four-page summary. the letter says that william barr was misleading and deceptive about the nature, context, and be conclusions of the mueller report. and it is doing damage to public confidence in the credibility of that investigation. regardless of who wrote the letter, it has bob mueller written all the way around it, and that's why enraged and i think also scared william barr. >> i want to take a look at an exchange that's going to take us a minute, like a full minute to run it where i believe what i was watching wa

now where attorney general william barr is testifying before the senate judiciary committee. he is being questioned about his role in the release of special counsel robert mueller's report. nikole killion is on capitol hill. >> reporter: attorney general william barr told a senate judiciary committee this morning that he was surprised kenaial counsel robert mueller out whether ot to charge president trump with obstruction of justice. >> we did not understand exactly why the special counsel was not reaching a decision. >> reporter: barr testified that ultimately he made the decision based on the evidence mueller laid out. >> the evidence developed during the special counsel's investigation, was not sufficient to establish that the president committed an obstruction of justice offense. >> reporter: the testimony comes hours after news broke that mueller told barr he was frustrated with barr's original ary of report. in a stmonth mu told barr his message to congress, quote, did not fully capture the context, nature and substance of mueller's views on obstruction of juevious denie

as member of the senate judiciary committee and someone running for president, is this hearing that you're hearing more about in the trail lately? >> i wouldn't say that. more questions about health care, about the environment, more questions about the urgent need to support public school teacher, i get more questions like policy that i have for dealing with gun violence. we have a mueller report that's serious. it is a tale of lies of trying to cover things up. instances where with see obstruction of justice, what we do is continue the investigation. we need to make sure we get unredacted mueller report and have a chance to have hearings with mueller himself before we come to conclusions and that's senate judiciary committee. >> what do you think of discussion, 68% of voters would choose a candidate that they may not agree with? >> i think time and time again that beating trump is a must but as we look to the future, we should expect more than just beating donald trump. let's make sure we have a candidate that beat donald trump , issues of injustice, if we just become what we are against,

donald trump committed abstraction of justice buys you to testify on the report before the senate judiciary committee on wednesday israel's new parliament has been sworn in three weeks after the general election the knesset is made up of one hundred twenty members a third of whom will be holding their seats for the first time the minister benjamin that's now is now leading negotiations with coalition partners to form the next governments one hour from harry fossett in west. ceremonials began with the arrival of the israeli president reagan rivlin he inspected an honor guard outside the knesset building before coming into the hall to preside over the swearing in of one hundred twenty members of this twenty first israeli knesset now all of this serving as the backdrop to the real political business at hand which remains the finalizing of benjamin it knows new coalition government he and his likud party along with its coalition partners have a majority sixty five to fifty five within the knesset but one of his prospective partners the israel that a new party which is a secularist right wing party led by

i would take him up on it, but i asked him point blank on the record on thursday in the senate judiciary committeee we going to have bob mueller before this committee, and he said no, as far as he was concerned it was over. if he's opened the door the bring in bob mueller, good. i believe he should testify, not only about the first volume on russian interference, but clearly about his conclusions or lack of conclusions on obstruction of justice. >> brennan: you wrote an op-ed recently challenging the attorney general and saying he should recuse himself from a number of the related investigations that have sponge off the special counsel's probe itself. are you suggesting that the attorney general would meddle in ongoing investigations regarding the president? >> i am not going to suggest, that but i will tell you this, for the sake of justice and in light of what we have seen in the rollout of bob barr or bill barr's rollout of this mueller report, he should recuse himself. 14 different matters are being investigated because the mueller inquiry, the mueller investigation, and mr. barr should not be

but the republican chairman of the senate judiciary committee is telling cnn he's open to having mueller testify in public. democratic congressman gerald connelly of virginia, a member of the house oversight committee, he's standing by to take our questions. and our correspondents and analysts, they will have full coverage of the day's top stories. let's begin with our congressional correspondent, phil mattingly up on capitol hill. phil, the democrats' threat to hold attorney general william barr in contempt prompted a new offer from the justice department. tell us more. >> that's exactly right. house democrats in the judiciary committee making clear earlier today, they have lost patience and they are moving head long down the track towards a contempt vote. the justice department trying a last-ditch effort to diffuse that action. offering in a letter today, hours after they missed the deadline, the latest deadline, to turn over the unredacted mueller report and all of the underlying evidence that went along with it that they would be willing to hold negotiations at the staff level, at th

testify eduled to before the senate judiciary committee, who is sure to have plenty of questions after breaking news overnight. robert mueller himself was reportedly frustrated with barr's brief summary of the special counsel's finngs. mueller reportedly wrote a letter to barr in late march, objecting to how his team's work was portrayed, saying that itd dit capture the context and substance of the full report. nbc's tracie potts joins us with the latest from d.c. tracie, barr's four-page memo here led to prident trump as we all know claiming tot exoneration. >> reporter: exactly,nc fra, which wasn't because there was this question about obstruction of justice that was laid out by the mueller team, but then barr decided not to pursue it, and that is part ofhi what testimony before the senate judiciary committee will be about. explaining why he decided not to rsue it. but this breaking news overnight is significant because it shows that therewas concern by mueller and his team before barr came to testify a couple wee later here on capitol hill. an now democrats are claiming that he comm

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to again back on capitol hill we have attorney general bill barr testifying before the senate judiciary committee right now we've got california senator dianne feinstein the ranking member of the judiciary committee delivering her opening statements, let's listen in. >>however the report outlined substantial evidence that the trump campaign welcomed encouraged and expected to benefit electorally from russia's interference in the election. the mueller report also details how time and time again. the trump campaign took steps to gain advantage from russia's unlawful interference for example. president trump's campaign manager paul manafort past internal campaign polling data messaging and strategy update to constantine kill him and kalanick a russian national with ties to russian intelligence. the mueller report explains how paul manafort brief kalanick in early august of 2016 on and i quote the state of the trump campaign and manafort plan to win the election and quote including the campaign's focus on the battleground states of michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania, and minnesota. next the mueller re

the senate judiciary committee is taking a break after and taking testimony from bill barr the attorney general and what you're saying there are all of the photographers that are jumping in to try to get pictures of him before he leaves the room he has again been answering questions from both parties republican and democratic senators on the senate judiciary committee he was actually scheduled to have this testimony today the timing though it says this is just twenty four hours after a a letter that the special counsel bob mueller sent to bob barr expressing concerns about what he had released from the report. word of that letter was reported in the washington post also in the new york times and senator the attorney general rather has been answering questions about what bob mueller said in that letter so we've actually all seen the letter now this is a letter that was sent on march twenty fourth this is a key part of the letter the attorney general these partly the special counsel special counsel robert mueller said that he felt that the summary from bob barr did not fully capture the c

attorney general william barr testified in the senate judiciary committee. kevin, you have been there -- i have been trying to watch it on tv. it is pretty partisan, the questioning of the attorney general. an outlier ofbeen high drama on the capital and the senate, where attorney general william barr is testifying before the republican-controlled senate judiciary committee. graham,lindsey republican from south carolina, delivering a blistering critique against democrats for what the politicalization is, he says, of the mueller report. democrats they not so fast. they want to know a host -- answers to a host of different questions, especially when they will get an unredacted version of the mullen. attorney general barr -- the mueller report. says 95%general barr of the mueller report had been released, about 10% redacted. they asked if he would object to attorney general robert mueller -- special counsel robert mueller testifying. he says he would not object. then there is the back and forth about the release of the four page summary of the mueller report th

just hours before the attorney general william barr is set to testify before the senate judiciary committeeells cnn that the special counsel robert mueller sent a letter to barr, a letter expressing concerns that his four-page letter didn't fully capture the intent of mueller's report. let's discuss now. congressman ted liu of california. we have a lot to talk about so if you could gi ve me some quic answers here. first, you heard carrie cardero, saying, i'm frustrated. the congress should just get rid of him and bring mueller in. what do you say about that? >> i wouldn't give bob mueller the opportunity to perjure himself. we also want to hear from bob mueller. but from what i know, william barr needs to resign. he's supposed to be america's attorney, not trump's stoog,sto. and because he misused his position, he's got to go. >> people say democrats appear to have no spine. when are you going to start taking some action? when are you going to jail people? what are you going to do with people that defy subpoenas and when are you going to follow the constitution? when? >> we do need some of

. >> mister president yesterday was a historic hearing with the senate judiciary committee that i have been on four and a half years. theca attorney general, mister barr came before the committee tout answer questions about the special counsel investigation. in investigation that took 675 days to cause more than $25 million, 34 people indicted including russian nationals. 2800 subpoenas, 500 witnesses. 500 search warrants. 230 orders for communication

and senator amy klobuchar who sits on the judiciary committee in the senate tweeted barr will have tois at our hearing, updating my questions. klobuchar died 11 other senators in signing mazie hirono's letter calling for barr's conduction. others include 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 alre

saying it didn't fully capture their context nature or substance bar will appear before the senate judiciary committee later today two members of the russian protest collective pussy riot have reportedly been granted asylum in sweden swedish public television s.p.t. says the court overturned an earlier ruling rejecting the pair's application seen a genuine and alexi commit. had cited death threats as grounds for asylum facebook says it will restructure its platform to be more private at the tech giant's annual conference c.e.o. mark zuckerberg announced the end to end encryption for its messaging services and the ability to hide likes and other user reactions to content. even. a new imperial era has begun in japan after the abdication of emperor akihito his eldest son not a veto has ascended the chrysanthemum throne in his first public address as emperor he pledged to follow his father's example and devoting himself to peace and staying close to his people. in the final minutes of his say the era of outgoing emperor akihito. and the beginning of rewind the era of naruhito thousands gathered in the str

she sits on the senate judiciary committee and is a canndidate fr president in 2020. you are calling now for his resignation. what was it that broke you on that conclusion? >> well, it's a culmination of things, chris. from the beginning, i was part of the judiciary committee hearings to decide whether or not he should be attorney general. the confirmation hearings. i vote the against him because i thought he was less of a candidate. since then we have seen an attorney general who after a comprehensive extensive two-year investigation by bob mueller and an extraordinary team of lawyers and prosecutors, after two years of around the clock work, he in 2 days, submits a four-page summary of the investigation that clearly was intended to mislead the american public about the contents of the report and does a press conference reinforcing his biased and it's clear he is biased biased interpretation of not only the evidence that now we know he did not review, but his interpretation of the meaning of what had been gathered in the report. his biased view of the intent of the a

attorney general william barr later today when he testifies on the motor report before the senate judiciary committee bar says that report exonerates the president of any collusion with russia to influence the twenty sixteen election but the senate hearings today are expected to focus on a letter to bar from robert mueller in west he takes issue with this characterization of his investigation here's a look at some of the options democrats have moving forward with the moeller report . page after page after page them on a report on veils unflattering material about president trump's conduct trump himself has his own summary we have no no no no. however democrats in the house of representatives still believe the president obstructed justice and are demanding the release of the full report including redirected material. this is perhaps the best kept secret in washington what's behind these we and what they deliver any incriminating evidence against president trump and that's what the democratic led house of representatives vows to find out by subpoenaing the report itself and having everyone testify who

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called to testify before the senate watergate committee during pat gray's confirmation to become the director of the fbi. he was the acting director at the time. the senate judiciary hostage unless i agreed to come up and testify, and i was perfectly willing to go, but the president said absolutely not. there are two privileges involved, executive privilege and attorney/client. so i knew his thinking on this pretty well. but i -- that was not in -- that was very much in my mind when i totally broke rank with the white house and i realized there is no way unless they go to court and get a court order can they stop me testifying. and then you raise the issue of whether there is an exception because of the so-called crime fraud exception. in other words, if we were discussing criminal matters, which i believed we were, you know, that would not give any privilege at all. so i don't think any president wants to raise that. i think that comes right around into the mcgahn situation. >> but what's so different about the mcgahn situation, at least as far as we can tell, especially given what happened today, mcgahn basically turned the whole thing over to the white house. h

justice this is some of what we heard from william barr when he did testify before the senate judiciary committee yesterday. to me she was suggesting that the march twenty fourth letter was inaccurate and he said no but that the press reporting had been inaccurate now at this point somewhere expecting that if william barr went before the senate and answered questions this would be the end of it but now of basically with that yesterday in the questions he being asked being referred to as a circus with republicans feeling this is simply an effort to undermine the president with democrats on the other hand arguing that this is a legitimate investigation into a possible obstruction of justice leading potentially to the impeachment of donald trump there seems to be a pretty solid disagreement but very short hearing today william barr did not attend there is the possibility of a charge of contempt of congress for refusing to appear when subpoenaed but there's pretty clear disagreements and washed. in d.c. regarding this investigation and whether or not is it is legitimate or simply politically motivate

attorney general did indeed appear for questions before the senate judiciary committee. if he was suggesting that the march twenty fourth letter was inaccurate and he said no but that the press reporting had been inaccurate feels like the seeds of a cover up are here there are still many questions tonight for instance why president trump and so many people in his orbit lied about their contacts with russia i don't need the report to know he's a traitor i have the t.v. so there are clear seems to be a pretty clear disagreement about the nature of these hearings while the democrats view this as a legitimate investigation into possible obstruction of justice by donald trump leading potentially to impeachment republicans view this as a very political effort to undermine the president and almost a circus so the question remains whether or not the u.s. attorney general will be charged but he did not show up this morning for the house judiciary committee and its hearing in which he would have answered questions before the committee are to scale up in reporting live from new yor

she's a member of the senate judiciary committee and will be questioning attorney general william barr tomorrow. senator hirono, thank you very much for joining us tonight. >> good evening, lawrence. >> part of our reporting should include that you have now tonight sent a letter along with some of your colleagues, about 11 fellow senators have signed it, to the justice department inspector general asking that the inspector general of the justice department on the basis of what you've learned tonight and other issues investigate william barr's handling of the mueller report. what are you hoping to hear from the inspector general about that? >> well, let me clarify that i sent the letter before this bombshell was dropped tonight about the letter that mueller sent to barr about his concerns about -- of what barr said in his four-page letter. so it just lends even more concerns to the request that we sent to the i.g. so what i hope to get is for the i.g. to take on the investigation and to tell us one way or the other whether or not this attorney general is acting impartially as the people

she serves on the senate judiciary committee. e's also running for president in the democratic primary this year. senator, thanks for sticking around. >> thank you, rachel. >> you wrote a letter to robert mueller after the hearing in the senate judiciary committee where you questioned attorney general barr pretty sharply, including about this very discreet issue of whether or not mueller looked at president trump's financial history and taxes as part of his investigation. he responded and said i don't know. you asked if he could follow up wealth a written question. >> it was worse than that. he said, well, i don't know. >> that's true. that's a better impression. >> and then i said, well, but you don't know? i was surprised. i thought he might know that they looked at the president's financial documents. he's the attorney general, highest law enforcement officer in the country. >> he oversees that investigation. >> yes. and then he said, well, you'll have to ask bob mueller when he comes. i go, oh, okay, that's what i'll do that.

>> first of all, democrats in the senate judiciary committee cannot call bob mueller without the involvement and consent of senator lindsey graham, who's not going give it. but the house judiciary committee, which is controlled by democrats, can and will. eventually they're going to get it. and they can also call don mcgahn. now, that's a fight that they're going to have to have, but i think it's a fight that they win. and they can go after the substance of what happened and they can also hear the other side of this story from mueller about how he regards barr's presentation of his material. >> well, i'm going to leave it there. this is the legal conversation, and of course there's the political conversation, which is a whole other story that the democrats have to deal with. for now, kasie, peter, barbara, ben, thanks for breaking it down. what a day with mr. barr, we'll have more later. >>> coming up we'll get reaction from mr. barr's testimony. plus up ahead i'll speak with one of the lawmakers who questioned barr today. first, that letter mueller sent to barr expressing concerns about how

we had in front of the senate judiciary committee a number of witnesses, including donald trump, jr. i, of course, don't know, specifically, what this subpoena from the senate intelligence committee is about. this has just broken in the press when i think the last hour or two. but as you're suggesting in your question, chuck, it's entirely possible that it was the judiciary committee questioning of donald trump, jr. and the difference that was revealed in the mueller report transcript that led to this subpoena. it's entirely possible that there were other aspects of the trump tower meeting or of the trump tower project in moscow that led to this subpoena. i'll close, chuck, by saying one of the things i find encouraging about this is that it's a reminder in the senate, in our intelligence committee, there continues to be real bipartisanship in the pursuit of ultimately the truth in some of these important matters that were raised but have not yet been resolved. >> do you think the house was correct, the house judiciary committee was correct to hold the attorney general in contempt or

the republican chairman of the senate judiciary committee. graham asked whether mueller wants to refute attorney general william barr's sworn testimony about his reaction to the four-page summary of the russia probe that barr released in march. we'll discuss all the day's breaking news with ben cardin of maryland. he's on the foreign relations and small business committees. and our correspondents and analysts are also standing by with full coverage of the day's top stories. let's start with cnn's white house correspondent, kaitlan collins. kaitlan, tell us more about the president's phone call with vladimir putin. >> reporter: well, wolf, that phone call lasted for over an hour today, but one of the most critical aspects of robert mueller's investigation did not come up. the special counsel's report reveals in detail how russia interfered in the u.s. election in sweeping fashion, but when president trump spoke to the man who u.s. intelligence says is behind it all, the topic didn't come up. >> i had a very good talk with president putin. and

judiciary committee tomorrow. today he spent several hours answering senate judiciary committee questions about the mueller report on russian influence in the 2016 election. here's a portion of that hearing. >> the firsted or over business is to try to cool the room down, we'll see if we can do that. the attorney general will be testifying here in a bit about the mueller report. i want to thank him for coming to the committee and giving us an explanation as to the action he is took and why he took them regarding the mueller report. here's the good news. mr. graham: here's the mueller report. you can read it for yourself, it's about 400 and something pages. can't say i've read it all but i've read most of it. there's an unredakotaed version over in the classified section of the senate. a room where you can go and look and e unredakotaed version i did that and i found it not to change anything in terms of an outcome. but a bit about the mueller report. who is mueller? for those who may not know, i don't know where you've been but you may not know, bob mueller has a reputation in this town and throughout the country