in the end, william harrison polk decided, it must have been william, the second son. he must have been the guy that was the father of the william that ended up in north carolina. that is the way he wrote the book. he states that as a fact. it doesn't make any qualifications or caveats. he just says that is the way it was. that is the way the family history has come down for a hundred years. it went into his book and the other book, because she used what was in his. that's what has come down to present day. the problem is, it was just speculation. behindno fax -- facts it, and worsen that, it is wrong. that's what i want to mention now. definitely wrong. i have a couple of statements where william polk made the statements, i don't need to read through them, but i want to mention, you find several places in the book where he just makes these statements. he even relates to another fellow called charles polk, the indian trader, a well-known polk on the maryland frontier. he claimed that fellow was under the same william of somerset. both of those turned out to be incorrec

william barr has a tell. he has a tell when he's cornered. he has a give away, a signal when he is in trouble. it's not in his manner which is always very steady andingly calm. as the in the way he perrys the question that is loadeding with danger for him. the very first thing he always does, you can watch this, the very first thing he does when he's in trouble is he asks for the question to be reaped. he does that every time. he needs that time to think about what to say and then after the question is repeated, he always latches on to one word in the question. and then plays with that word to run away from answering the question. it happened a few times today. let's watch william barr's tell in action when he is asked a very important question that he obviously does not want to answer by senator kamala harris. >> attorney general barr, has the president or anyone at the white house ever asked or suggested that you open an investigation of anyone? >> um, i wouldn't -- i wouldn't -- >> yes or no. >> could you -- could you repeat that question.

. >> larry's father, william, made models of many of them. there's the c.s.s.aines, a wooden side-wheel confederate gunboat built in mobile, alabama. there's the u.s.s. vicksburg and the c.s.s. alabama -- a massive propeller-driven ship built in secrecy in england for the confederacy. all are made precisely to scale. 1 inch here translates to 8 feet on the real vessel. where did this all begin? did dad buy a book on ship building? >> i don't remember anybody ever teaching him how to do this. it's just something you have to be born with. >> william atteridge jr. is born in 1929 in highland park, illinois, a suburb of chicago. from an early age, he's fascinated by the ships he sees on lake michigan and dreams of one day setting sail. in 1951, during the korean war, william joins the navy and travels the pacific on the u.s.s. valley forge. the 22-year-old specializes in cosmetic maintenance, doing the detail work. >> the "45" that you see on the u.s.s. valley forge, he was one of the guys that painted the numbers on the aircraft carrier he was on. >> william is ho

william: no.hink the report at the end of the day came to the conclusion, if you read the analysis, that a reason that omed large there for his termination was his refusal to tell the public which he was privately undergo the president which the president is not under investigation. lindsey: as to how we go forward would you recommend this committee and every other committee of congress do our best to harden our infrastructure against future russian attacks? william: absolutely, yes. lindsey: you think russia is still up to it? william: yes. lindsey: you think other governments would get in our elections by 2020? william: yes. lindsey: would you work with congress to harden our infrastructure? william: yes. lindsey: is that one of the take aways of the mueller report? william: yes. lindsey: do you share my concerns about the facer warrant process and how it was opened and why it was open? william: yes. lindsey: you share my concerns the lack of professionalism in the clinton email investigation is

they found william barr for this gig? >> they googled "cover-up general." >> exactly. who is famous for cover-up as attorney general? right. >> okay, rachel. go home and don't sleep. >> i will do. >> thank you, rachel. >> thanks. >>> senator elizabeth warren is going to join us later in this hour, and it's on a day when she's enjoyed a significant bump in the polls, including one poll where she comes in second behind joe biden, just ahead of bernie sanders in third place. we will get her reaction to what joe biden said today about impeachment. at the end of the hour, we will take a look at what the outlaw trump white house got away with today in the white house driveway. kellyanne conway actually broke the law in the white house driveway, on video in front of a group of reporters who didn't seem to notice that she broke the law, and that might be because there is so much other seemingly bigger potential law breaking going on in and around this president of the united states. first tonight we go to the breaking news about

he just felt william barr should have released more information.d about that letter or the conversations when lawmakers asked him about mueller's opinion on his conclusion? >> he was candid. he was honest about it. it was made clear the real problem mueller had was not with what he said. he said the letter was not inadequate. he was upset the way the media was portraying the report but he got the report out as quickly as he could. the only reason they are sniping at william barr is to set him up and i think the appropriate way to proceed would be to have mueller come forward and testify about his report. >> releasing 19 pages, william barr didn't do it. of all the smoke, that is a fair point. >> he was going to release the entire report, why release the 19 page summary done strictly for the media, and looking at mueller, and his team for criminal leaks they involve. and the letter you are talking about. and allusion to the senate. and there were leaks by the mueller team that -- that has got to be reviewed. we have people on the mueller team contin

. -- named william. inherited the property in 1708 and then he left in 15 years. for partslk left unknown. they said, this looks like it should be the right guy. president polk said, yes, it makes sense to me. it must be our connection with the maryland polks. ,e got together with his cousin bishop polk. they put together a family tree. maybe some of you have seen this family tree. there is a picture of it. this is my personal copy. it is a beautiful piece of draft work. in the main part of the tree at the top is the north carolina and tennessee polks. the little part is the maryland polks. close --ooking at it looking at it closely, you can to the bottom, robert polk, the immigrant from ireland is at the bottom of the tree. the next branch up his job. -- john. off of that is william polk. the connection between the maryland polks and north carolina and tennessee polks. the great-grandfather of the president. see his son is he healed. his son samuel and samuel's son, the president, james k. polk, who was

resignation. 10 mentions of william barr to resign. got 16 minutes and 0 mentions. that is a big topic the attorney general should resign. >> he did nothing for him to have to resign. calling for him to re-sign based on lying, he hasn't lied. that is something the speaker of the house nancy pelosi brought up yesterday. a lot of interesting stunts at the hearing, at the house. congress bringing in a bucket of fried chicken, you had them putting a chicken as a prop in front of it. calling him the chicken when he spent 6 hours testifying the day before. is kind of funny and also if democrats wanted to point to something, they do have a case, asking robert mueller why he didn't decide to move forward with any indictment against the president when it comes to obstruction of justice. even the attorney general said he was surprised robert mueller didn't move forward with some clear decision on that. democrats want to point to anything i think they can look to mueller and ask why he didn't make a decision on that front. carley: every can agree

also in washington we have william binney he is a former technical director at n.s.a. and in miami we cross to alan dershowitz he's a professor emeritus at harvard law school as well as author of the book the case against the democratic house impeaching trump all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate let me go to alan dershowitz first in miami alan dershowitz you and i probably couldn't agree on anything on policies on politics you're a man from the left i am not but you are the only person on the left that came through this unscathed and i would even say enhanced so i appreciate your work and discussing this question first question is here most report donald trump says exonerates him maybe so but it's for me it is a searing indictment of the f.b.i. and how the f.b.i. conducted itself and how we got to having to have such a special report and end up with the results that we did what was the crime it seems like there was a conspiracy without a crime go ahead alan dershowitz in miami. well most f.b.i

he had said that but we get the point ok and the same is the same implication thank you you know william. you're involved in this stalin had said it to stalin ok alan dershowitz backs me up on that. william a year forensic experts here and you in the in the veeps group have done a thorough investigation and research into this i'm sure the miller or other people of people it contacted you and wanted to know what you thought about all of this hacking but they didn't did they go ahead william. no they didn't in fact you know we were prepared to testify in front of the any of the committees also mueller's group none of them wanted to know about the forensics so i don't you know it was very clear to us the forensics prove that the data for from the d.n.c. was downloaded through a storage device and transported for some distance prior to prior to wiki leaks putting it on the web other material that wiki leaks put out didn't show the the transfer of data to sort but the d.n.c. data did show that so it was a very clearly someone who was very close to the data who copied it down to a thumb drive

but i want to start with nbc justice correspondent pete williams. pete, what were you learning about robert mueller's letter and specifically that phone call to the attorney general? when you look at the sound bite from last month and bill barr saying, i don't know, tough to spalio given this information. >> a couple questions. number one, there was a phone call from barr to mueller. he sends the letter and barr says let's talk about it. what the justice department is saying about the sound bite you played, what do you think mueller makes of your conclusion, and barr said i don't know, i think barr there is talking about the attorney general's conclusion that the president didn't commit a crime, which is not the subject of the letter as well understand it. let me read part of the letter to you. it says, "the summary letter department sent to congress and released to the public late afternoon march 24th did not fully capture the context, nature and substance of this office's work and conclusions. there is now public confusion about critical aspects o

william barr apparently does not want to subject himself to that. starting to get a sense of why that might seem like an unfun way to spend a thursday if you're william barr. i will say this news tonight from "the washington post" also puts a much hotter spotlight on the request by a dozen democratic senators today that the inspector general at the justice department should investigate william barr and the way he handled mueller's findings, including whether his letter purporting to summarize mueller's findings and his ridiculous press conference ahead of releasing mueller's report were, quote, misleading. and whether they were consistent with justice department policies and practices. those dozen senators are also asking the justice department inspector general to look at whether barr's handling of the mueller report has been so improper that barr should no longer be allowed to oversee any prosecutions that spring from that report. they want the ig to look at whether barr has, quote, demonstrated sufficient impartiality to continue overseeing the o

william barr is the head of those affirmative justice.the head of the terms of good manners. he's not there to determine whether the president is a nice guy were behaved appropriately. he is there to determine whether there was a conspiracy with the russians in order to interfere with the 2016 election and whether or not the president of the united states attempted to obstruct the investigation. at the end of the day he said this is a binary choice for prosecutors to make after examining the facts and that is what he was there to do, not talk about whether the president on occasion acted in a petulant manner. shannon: what did you think of his mannerisms? >> is a pretty unflappable guy. he has been to this rodeo once before having been attorney general and served in some high-level positions. i would have had a difficult time listening to the haranguing he received from senator hirono of hawaii but william barr is aware, he is a professional and he handled himself quite well. >> he was aware there would be a lot of grandstanding going on

yankees ok go ahead jump in william going ok i'm just saying ok there's also another aspect to this if they can create this rush to get to the point where they can create a new cold war that means trillions of dollars you're absolutely right money is a driver b. and a lot of this ok let me go back to the mental impairment i gree i think there is that both are true but let me go back to alan in miami do you find it really disturbing that you have former heads of the intelligence services talking heads on amnesty on c.n.n. and m s n b c because it seems like a marriage of the intelligence community and the media because it's very obvious to me that they they were getting their talking point where it's actually i don't know where they got their talking much but it's certainly a circular an environment ok where you leak something to the media the media ask you about it and you confirm it i mean again going back to the weapons of mass destruction in two thousand prior to two thousand and three here i find it very unhealthy that the media is actually injected these type of people into the

william randolph hearst is a young, wealthy, newspaper publisher. according to creelman, hearst's message to remington was, please remain, "you furnish the pictures, i'll furnish the war." but remington does not remain in cuba, he returns after six days. then hearst newspaper gives remington's sketches big-time treatment, prominent display, prominent display in hearst's new york journal. it seems unlikely that hearst would have tolerated this kind of insubordination. that he would have tolerated, that he would have put up with what was a clear disregard of his instruction to remain in cuba. the tale is also contradicted by the writings of davis and remington, who in the weeks and months afterward described scenes of violence and a people on cuba. davis in one of his letters home states quite clearly, there is war here, make no mistake. there is war here. remember, according to creelman, remington telegram to hearst said everything is quiet in cuba. but his own contemporary work and that of his traveling companion, richard harding davis, contradicts

well, william barr struggles to keep up and swallows his tongue and says nothing. it was this very quick exchange. that's kind of what you need to move these things forward sometimes. in this case that moved it forward because that gave senator klobuchar an opening, in fact an invitation by the attorney general for her to start communicating directly with robert mueller. rather than going through him or rather than going through the justice department. and so amy klobuchar has now written directly to robert mueller and opened up that line of communication with his office. we shall see. i think now that we know a little bit more about what has been going on in robert mueller's life recently, now that we have seen his letter, which was made public yesterday, which is him memorializing in print and laying out clearly the battle that he has been in with attorney general william barr over barr misrepresenting mueller's findings and trying to submarine mueller's whole investigation and misrepresenting it to the public. i mean, one of the things that does is it puts muell

but it's this area in prince william county including the city of manassas, central prince william county. that is now under a flash flood warning. which means flash flooding is occurring. it's haening very quickly. this is a flood warning in the lighter green here for parts of culpepper intotr cen fauquier and prince william. one to three inches is possible with this flooding but i want to show you the radar.yo can see the areas really getting hammered in this red shading here. zooming in, getting a little bit closer. it's is area of manassas along 24 there just to the south of that we are seeing that flash flooding occurring right now. big picture does show we're not quite done yet. we've got this swath of rain and then more rain moving in overnight, which keeps this flash flood watch in effect through tomorrow. i'm going to time out your sunday rain. i'll walk you through it and let you know which areas are at risk for flooding as we head through the overnight hou erika? >> all right, somara, we'll check back in with y in a few minutes. >>> meanwhile, breaking this evening, there's a s

tom: john williams of the new york fed.nt. but right now, we have to look at the political ramifications of all that we have observed in the last 24 hours. kevin cirilli is our chief washington correspondent. what will the president do today on trade and terrace? this is where the divide is within the republican party. the countdown is on from the june 28 to june 29 summit where president xi jinping and president will come face-to-face. president trump telling reporters he fully intends to meet with president xi at that particular meeting. a deadline is looming on the threat to increase tariffs in the coming weeks. tom: let us go to catherine from the washington post today who i think really lined up the fact that president trump and secretary clinton were both against pacific trade. democrats have been muted or mealymouthed in their criticism. perhaps because when it comes to trade policy, most of them don't have a leg to stand on. democrats have become fiercely free trade. 67% of democrats believe that free trade has been

prince william county, prince gorges county. today on temperatur upper 70s for most but there will be some 80s on the map. a slight chance for showers late in the day today. much like we had yesterday. afternoon highs,he look at range. upper 60s, annapolis, baltimore. low 70s potentially. upper 70s and low 80s as soon as you cross thepotomac. the sooner you see the sun, the more likely you'll get up to 80 degrees. tomorrow guaranteed to be warmer. almost hot tomorrow. a little hint of pre-summer humidity. and higher rain chance. 30% chance of a showerda 40% tomorrow. much hher so we will go from clouds this morning to increa increasinge sunshin and this could graze the northern suburbs between 7 and 10:00. don't bese surpri if you get a couple of showers. much higher rain chances for thursday and friday. way in the 80s for the next few days. a little preview of summertime. melissa mollet, good morning to you. >> good morning, chuck. taking a look, gainesville, 66 at 29. overturned vehicle, chopper 4 has been on the scene since j

he wrote a letter to william barr to express his frustration .ter, we are just learning about it, he accused william barr of creating public confusion that threatened to undermine the purpose of this special counsel. let's go to earlier, 7:00 is when this committee hearing started, now you see the picture, william barr just started speaking about 2 to 3 minutes ago. this hearing started right at 7:00, but first we heard from lindsey graham, his words range from appraising special counsel, robert mueller to being an outstanding attorney, but in his words, he said this report should be over. then we heard from the ranking democrat in the committee, she had obviously a very different take on it and was asking and mentioning this letter. we don't know what william barr is saying, we are going to check on that pretty shortly here, but all of this to give you some background. william barr released the summary before the full report was released to the public. and, in that summary, he said that the president did not collude with russian operatives to in

william barr stug areals to keep up and swallows his tongue and says nothing. that's a quick exchange. that's kind of what you need to move these things forward sometimes and in this case, that moved it forward. that gave senator klobuchar an opening, in fact an invitation, by the attorney general for her to start communicating directly with robert mueller rather than going through him or going through the justice department. amy klobuchar has written to mueller and opened up that line of communication with the office. we shall see. i think now that we know a little bit more about what has been going on in robert mueller's life recently, now that we have seen his letter which was made public yesterday which is him me mothmorializing print and laying out the battle he's been in with william barr or barr ris representing his findings to the public. one of the things that does is puts mueller himself back at the center of this drama. after what we have now seen and heard about the behavior of attorney general william barr when it comes to mueller and mueller's rep

so william barr was actually supervising then an investigation of himself. as i reported on this program recently, "new york times" columnist william sapphire on october 19th, 1992, called attorney general william barr the cover-up general because of the way he handled that investigation. william sapphire was a conservative republican columnist in the "new york times" in those days. he had worked as a speechwriter for richard nixon. even william sapphire was astonished by barr's conduct as attorney general. but if bill sapphire was still with us tonight, ed not be surprised to hear what the speaker of the house said today about attorney general william barr. >> it's deadly serious about it. as the attorney general of the united states of america was not telling the truth to the congress of the united states. that's a crime. >> remarkably after the speaker of the house said that's a crime, the next reporter's question changed can the subject but msnbc's kasie hunt knew a history-making comment by a speaker of the house when she heard one and two minutes later

they will take advice on this from william and catherine know that?ce, but they will follow in their footsteps because it seemed a sensible way. you manage expectations and what the public wa nt expectations and what the public want with what you as a family are co mforta ble want with what you as a family are comfortable with. they're not going to feel comfortable with the paparazzi being english is trying to get pictures of the child playing in frogmore gardens. but pictures are press days at school, that is pretty likely. the images they will see, the photocall. .. it likely. the images they will see, the photocall... it could be longer until we see further images of this baby until we see further images of this ba by after until we see further images of this baby after that? there is some speculation that they might take the baby abroad with them we might get to see more this baby sooner than we thought. there seems to be a lot of open—ended plans in the past at the moment. the future for the sussex is is being discussed and right now it is being

william barr in contempt of congress for not handing over the documents. griff jenkins live as nancy pelosi threatens impeachment. good morning. >> reporter: nancy pelosi shot down talk of impeachment until now. the president weighed in. >> instead of wasting time, energy, taxpayer dollars on partisan stunts and hoaxes and witchhunts, democrats should be focused on building up our country. did you see what just happened? know collusion, no obstruction. know anything. >> this after the house judiciary committee took a step towards holding william barr in contempt sending it to the full house for a vote and prompting the white house executive privilege for the first time, jerry never declaring it a constitutional crisis. >> this is an attack on the essence of our democracy and we must oppose this with every fiber of our being. we talked for a long time about approaching a constitutional crisis. we are now in it. we are now in a constitutional crisis. >> republicans on the committee blasted the move driven by politics. >> i think it is all about trying to des

in fact, mueller wrote a letter to william barr to express his frustration back in march. in that letter, he accused the attorney general of creating public confusion that threatened to undermine the purpose of the special counsel. his summary was that the president did not collude with operatives to influence the election, and there was not enough evidence to charge the president with obstruction of justice. mueller said that characterization was oversimplified and lacked context. william barr said his motivation in releasing that summary was to provide a broad verdict on conclusions of the report. here is what he said.>> announcing after an extended trial with the verdict of the trial, it is pending release of the full transcript, that is what we were trying to do, notify the people as to the bottom line conclusion. we were not trying to summarize the 410 page report. >> the questioning has been predictably partisan, which republicans are more sympathetic, democratics are more combative. they are taking a quick break for lunch but they will resume this afternoon and the

let me tell you about william barr. last week i went to rod rosenstein's farewell in the department of justice. that was held in the great hall. they don't usually hold a farewell ceremony for the deputy ag in the great hall. christopher ray was there, william barr was there, rob rosenstein was there, jeff sessions was there. that sound like somebody who is sliming his own department? a complete lie. william barr has not said one thing since he became attorney general to slime his own department. thanks for the promotion. i was not independent counsel. i was deputy independent counsel. shannon: rarely in washington do people demote themselves. they like extra credit where they can get it but we want to keep it accurate here. we hear from brad, the president's 2020 campaign manager, he things all of this will help them. here is what he said. >> is the russia investigation has fallen apart we are investigating the people who made the lies at the table has turned. the president has seen an increase of democrats supporting

i think it was pete williams or perhaps an analyst used the word that in the view of william barr, these lawyers are pip squeaks. he's the attorney general, why should he allow these lawyers to be able to question him. but on the other hand i think you saw the effectiveness of having questions from seasoned lawyers who know how to conduct this kind of pressured questioning. kamala harris was a great example. i saw her on the program earlier. she is one who used veteran techniques across examination as a former prosecutor to yield new information and put barr on the spot. so that is also kind of a potential risk for the attorney general. but either way, once yesterday they voted to allow this to happen, william barr and his people at the department said no way, we're simply not showing up. so considering how partisan the senate hearing was yesterday, today would have been frankly farther down that line. but again what you will see is posturing here at the top. jerry nadler potentially taking some action. we don't know if he will subpoena or hold in contempt, et cetera. so keep an eye out

but surely william and mary has prepared you for just such a test. indeed, your own thomas jefferson believed that william and mary was the finest school of manners and morals that ever existed in america. as graduates, as graduates you are charged with upholding this legacy of honesty and integrity. today you become the standard-bearers. turning to the importance of public service, or service over self, i can say thatdy not really choose public service, rather i more or less fell into it early on, perhaps not fully appreciating the challenges of such service. one can can can come to understand the importance of service over self in a myriad of ways through volunteerism, through commitment to a particular cause, or perhaps by example. as an undergraduate i had one of the finest role models i could have asked for in an upper classman by the name of david hackett. he was on our 1965 lacrosse team. he was not necessarily the best on the team, but he was a determined and a natural leader. he graduated later that spring and a year later as we were graduat

our plans to consider holding william barr accountable for failure to comply with the subpoena stilltand. my hope is we make concrete progress at tomorrow's meeting toward resolving this dispute. the doj have taken steps to accommodate the request. we will see what comes up today's meeting, senator john kennedy is blasting both sides. >> i think it is juvenile, you can only be young once but you can always be immature. both sides in this are doubling down on stupid. both sides need to sit down and negotiate what the administration can provide and what the house actually needs. >> the house judiciary committee at the center of another massive fight, getting robert mueller to testify himself, donald trump reversed course of the weekend saying mueller should not testify but republicans say they want a chance to question it in public and in private. that wasn't enough. this was the deadline for don mcgann to provide documents the committee-related to jeff sessions's firing, michael flynn, the now famous trump tower meeting. mcgann has been subpoenaed to testify later this month. coming b

democrats threading told william barr in contempt of congress.kipped the house judiciary hearing after being grilled by senators for 5 hours the day before. jerry nadler demanding william barr hand over the unredacted mueller report or risk contempt citation. michael bennett officially joining the packed field of 2020 hopefuls, bennett has served since 2009. there are 21 democrats running for president, their they all are. university of north carolina charlotte now launching an extensive external review in the wake of the shooting, one of those victims being hailed a hero, he took the shooter -- the latest on the suspect's day in court. >> accused schneider has his first appearance, tristan terrel facing a host of offenses including two counts of murder and four count of attempted murder. the dax offices the former unc student waived his right to physically appear in court. >> he was appointed an attorney. is next court date will be may 15th for a bond hearing. >> reporter: police and the community are hailing the heroic actions of one of the dec

you heard what william barr said.in that reporting. very nuanced answer. dan abrams, sounded like it was a split answer there. >> it's a very lawyery answer. this is why i don't think they'll be able to prove that barr, quote unquote, lied. i think there will be an explanation for everyone of barr's comments about the mueller investigation. >> he knew exactly what those questions were going to be. >> exactly. >> i want to bring in mary bruce. not only was it the exchange with senator kris a couple weeks back, there was an exchange with senator bob holland. william barr said i don't know whether bob mule supports my conclusion. you talked to the senator and he said he believes william barr was deliberately misleading the american people. >> the senator said he had no doubt that was a deceptive answer from the attorney general that the attorney general was misleading congress and the american people. democrats i talked to say they believe the impact of barr's comments, barr's previous testimony was misleading. when i as

that william barr would do this.uring this past 24 hours, the thing i keep coming back to is the moment in william barr's confirmation, where he says, i'm 68. i don't really need this job. what that really meant was, apparently, what it really meant was, i don't care about my representation. i have to do this one last service to save what's left of the republican party and to save this administration. republicans are going along with that. it is like the last few hours on the titanic. if they have to push the children out of the way and dress like women to get in the lifeboats, that's what they're going to do. you know, if that's what it takes, and that's what they need to survive -- because barr knows he's not going to be impeached. at worst, he'll have to go through some grilling in congress. the public has more or less made up its mind. i think the one thing barr did that was very savvy is that he said, look, i'm going to put this story out. i'm going to put the top line out. i know that the president's followers

william barr did face questions. this was after the summary was released after william barr received the letter from mueller and had the phone conversation. let's make sure we play both exchanges here. you can see barr being far less than truthful, we think, in his answers. >> did bob mueller support your conclusion? >> i don't know whether bob mueller supported my conclusion. >> reports have emerged that members of the special counsel's team are frustrated at some level with the limited information included in your march 24th letter that it does not adequately or accurately necessarily portray the report's findings. do you know what they are referencing with that? >> no, i don't. >> at this point he had already read the letter from robert mueller and had a phone conversation with robert mueller. so his answer there does not seem true. >> it's the second exchange there that's so crucial. of course he had already received that letter over about a week before from robert mueller detailing his issues with how barr portr

barr of having misled the public regarding the investigation however william barr said that was not the case that that sentence from the letter referred simply to the media not to his own activities i asked him if he was suggesting that the march twenty fourth letter was inaccurate and he said no but that the press reporting had been inaccurate bob miller's report. did not reach any conclusion about whether or not trump had engaged in obstruction of justice bob mahler's report simply. illustrated soup instances in which that could potentially be the case william barr feels that donald trump did not obstruct justice so with clear disagreement on capitol hill the saga of the trump russian investigation even much as longer after its conclusion seems to be continuing the trump russia story persists with more hearings more testimony and possible contempt charges for the u.s. attorney general. and twenty presidential hopeful are the things that the democrats are employing an absurd and losing strategy in their attempts to undermine donald trump but mostly backfiring on democrats right now

>> i'm with william barr.uld have reached a conclusion in this investigation and chose not to. that was left up to him as was stated many times. the attorney general was not going to intercede with the investigation. he was going to let it go. everything was given, all the resources to either conclude there needed to be an indictment to robert mueller and the fact that nothing came from the states this is a giant nothing burger for democrats continuing to pursue this and mischaracterize attorney general william barr. rob: william barr said that mueller wouldn't have charged obstruction even if he could but mueller hasn't said that. that is democrats point. >> you have to look back at what william barr said. he could have reached a conclusion. he had the ability to reach a conclusion and chose not to. there is not enough evidence to charge them with obstruction. 19 after the hour. robert they niro, no friend of the president. >> this idiot is the president. the guy is a [bleep] fool. of course i want to punch h

interesting that prince william is talking to men, to guys.icult to talk about their mental health issues? they don't like to go to the doctor, do they come about health issues? or, well, ithink it's two fold, we find it more difficult to communicate in general, not just to talk about it difficult to communicate in general, notjust to talk about it but difficult to communicate in general, not just to talk about it but we struggle to hear each other when we talk about our emotions too. when i was struggling, if i communicated it to other men, they didn't know how to other men, they didn't know how to react. i don't think... we find it difficult. for a long time there was a perception that as men we were supposed to be strong and rise above it and to be the providers and the protectors and all that kind of stuff, that social construct goes against struggling anyway that people are and the way i can add still do in my life. how did you get through it? for me, i reached the point where i found i didn't want to be here anymore and i made an honest

william la jeunesse joins me live from texas. william?ether it be manpower, bed space, transportation, the border patrol here is overwhelmed. 1400 migrants a day here in south texas alone, which is one reason why the agency today is opening a new facility behind me. it's a tent. some bureaucrats prefer the term "soft-sided facility." it's a classic. it has room for uncovering minors, air condition, showers, kitchen, sleeping mats. they will stay here before being released, either to a relative or another shelter. there is an identical facility being open in el paso for families. >> i need for you guys help me. i don't want to return to my country. >> i come to the united states? >> i'm in ecuador indian and my daughters were suffering. i'm coming with my kids. i want for him to get help. if you want to return me, return you but keep him here. >> not all families who claim to be a family actually are. cbp has begun photographing, fingerprinting, and here in south texas taking a dna sample of those who are suspected of fraud. agents are ask

barr to step down nancy pelosi and adam schiff are among those calling for william barr the u.s. attorney general to leave his post out of outrage about his behavior surrounding the moeller report so it seems like even after the report of special counsel robert mueller saying there was no collusion the trump russia story continues to persist now with democrats determined that they want further answers and that they are unsatisfied with the results of that investigation. artie's killer martin live in new york thanks very much for the updates on the it's ok we now return to our top story the wiki leaks founder julian assange being sentenced in britain to fifty weeks in prison for skipping below in twenty well i'm very pleased to say we can bring in naomi called the director of the courage fund ation which raises legal defense for whistleblowers thanks for holding on the line there naomi some supporters say the sentence is excessive why do you think the judge saw fit to near the maximum punishment. well i think it was quite clear actually from that first hearing julian had after bei

serena williams making waves once again for what she's wearing while she's winning. >>> so serena williams so are we, because look who's back, maggie rulli, everyone. >> stop it. stop. stop. >> back in the seat filling in for janai norman this morning. maggie, it is great to have you. >> it is so good to be back. i gave this man the largest hug. when i saw him because it's been months. >> you guys, she leapt into my arms. >> and he caught me. it felt like the "dirty dancing" scene. >> i've been calling you miss "nightline" because you've been killing it on so many of our platforms. we've been running them right here on "world news now." >> oh, i love it. so it's like i never left you. >> that's true. >> i'm always watching. i'm always watching. >> there's a lot of fun to be had with rulli this morning. we've also got a lot of serious news to get this, breaking news from overnight. >> images are insane. >> we begin with that extreme and dangerous weather in the midwest and great lakes region. >> look right there, we're watching two severe storm systems, one stretches from the rockies into n

william barr would not say if he is talking to the white house about those prosecutions. he said today he will continue to supervise those cases. he refused today to even seek ethics advice on whether he should be involved in overseeing those cases. he's just keeping them. they're his. why he is refusing to answer whether he's talking to the white house about how the white house wants those ongoing prosecutions to be handled. justice department, just so you know, is supposed to be totally independent of political interference in terms of who it prosecutes and who it doesn't and how it conducts prosecutions. but barr today refused to say whether or not he was consulting with the white house about the conduct of the prosecutions that have sprung from mueller's report. barr also today announced, i'm not kidding, that if a president wants to contend that he has been falsely accused of wrongdoing, well, that's all he needs. that's all he needs if he wants to fire a prosecutor investigating that. and i know you think that i'm being hyperbolic. i know you're thinking right now t