william barr's father, donald barr, hired jeffrey epstein. he hired jeffrey epstein to teach high school students. high school boys and high school girls. before jeffrey epstein became a rich player on wall street, his father hired epstein to be a math teacher at one of new york city's most exclusive private schools on the upper east side and there was something very, very strange about donald barr hiring jeffrey epstein. jeffrey epstein was not even a college graduate and that was and is unthinkable on faculties of elite private schools, but donald barr hired jeffrey epstein anyway and a year later, donald barr resigned from the battle on school after the board of trustees hired what the "new york times" called an outside committee to study the school and to assess its operation under mr. barr and not long after that, jeffrey epstein left the dalton school. he gave up teaching high school boys and high school girls and went to wall street. but he was not finished with high school girls. jeffrey epstein was never accused of a crime while he w

is william barr trying to help barr by giving him -- help mueller by giving him cover?i wouldn't say he's giving him cover. he's letting him know the decision to testify is his decision. decision. mueller said he wants his work to speak for itself. this report has been available to the public for months now. americans don't support impeaching the president and don't want to drag on this investigation through more hearings when we have actual policies to debate with the presidential election coming up. liz: jerry nadler says the mere fact of robert mueller testifying could have a profound impact. is this the democrats trying to keep irrational hope alive? that 2020 clock is ticking. you have to start by september. so this is about dragging the president's approval ratings down. william barr says he's probing the investigation. william barr says he's look toib why a koirn intelligence investigation was opened on the campaign. >> that statement from nadler shows there is actual evidence backing up what barr said. we know what's in that report. more importantly what's not i

hill as the census citizenship question looms and the clock is ticking on a house though donald william barr and wilbur ross in contempt. we are live in washington with what it means for the president's census fight. >> everybody is with me. we don't want to go to the white house. >> soccer star snubbing the white house but she did just except an invite from chuck schumer and nancy pelosi so how do people feel about that. >> line drive off the wall. >> here it is. fires the bat up. your home in derby champion. >> there it is, slugfest. the last pitch, baseball crowning its newest home run derby champion. "fox and friends first" starts right now. ♪ ♪ the world is going to know your name ♪ ♪ >> good morning to you. live shot of new york city, you are watching "fox and friends first" on tuesday morning. thank you as always for starting your day with us. we appreciate it. from new york to dc, new overnight. committal contempt proceedings against william barr and commerce secretary wilbur ross, both men accused of defining subpoenas to documents regarding the citizenship question on the 2020 cens

what is william barr up to? what is he is afraid of?t is the question tonight in the jeffrey epstein case. and as we reported at this hour last night, the attorney general has an even stronger reason to recuse himself than the one he mentioned yesterday. attorney general barr's father hired jeffrey epstein to be a math teacher at the dalton school on the upper east side of manhattan when the attorney general's father was the headmaster of that elite and very expensive private school. william barr's father hired jeffrey epstein to teach high school boys and high school girls even though jeffrey epstein is not even a college graduate. that is now and was then unthinkable in a school like dalton. a year later, william barr's father abruptly resigned from the dalton school after the board of trustees decided to investigate the way william barr's father was running that school. and not long after that, jeffrey epstein left the school and started his new life on wall street. should the attorney general of the united states be supervising a pr

the event began with remarks from attorney general william barr who discussed how the department was focused on the issue. barr: good morning and thank you for joining us at this important summit. i am privileged to have the opportunity to set the table and introduced the attorney general, bill barr. i suspect most of us are aware that attorney general william bar has had a distinct career in private practice and government, including time is the head of the office of legal counsel, and his deputy attorney general. and that he sure -- and that he served as the major -- general counsel of a major corporation. i'm confident that nearly everyone knows that he served previously as the 77th attorney general of united states and now is the 80 fit the attorney general of the united states. what many may not know is that when he was previously attorney general, he was, in may 1992, [-] israel america with its humanitarian of the year award. so his commitment to use the power of the government to ensure the free practice of religion, and to fight those traffic and vile, anti-semitic acts, is

drug earlier today, attorney general william barr delivered opening remarks at the justice departments anti-semitism summit, what they are doing to combat anti-semitism. >>> [ applause ] >> good morning, inc. you for joining us at this important summit, very privileged to have the opportunity to set the table and introduce the attorney general, bill barr, most of us are aware that he has had a distinguished career in private practice in government, including time is the head of legal counsel and deputy attorney general, and general counsel of a major corporation. i am confident that everybody knows that he served previously as the 77th attorney general, and elegant as the 85th attorney general, but what many may not know is that when bill barr was previously attorney general, he was in may 1992 honored by a humanitarian of the year award. his commitment to using the power of the federal government to ensure the free practice of religion and fight those who traffic in anti-semitic acts is not new. indeed, in his confirmation hearings three decades ago, he emphasized that invidious discr

attorney's office in washington, and their boss is william barr. so we won't see any fines levied against william barr or wilbur ross or neither of them being sent to jail which is another penalty that could be carried and when you are holding someone in criminal contempt, but the plan b for democrats was to now be able to go to court and try and enforce the subpoena. it is really about sending that message and saying that we are still here to do legitimate oversight. a lot of the efforts to do so have been stymied to do so by the administration and that is upping the ante, and as you have seen using the committee's vote in the past to hold william barr in contempt, but they did not bring it for the full floor of the house and they did not certainly elevate it to criminal contempt. >> and david, let's talk about what we heard from the president of the united states as he was leaving the white house off to a political rally in north carolina right now. he continued, and he is not backing down at all. he continued the attacks on the four democratic c

but up next, william barr sets the bar even lower. more on that next. e bar even lower more on that next. ew. right? that's why febreze created new small spaces. [clicking sound] press firmly and watch it get to work... [popping sounds] unlike the leading cone, small spaces continuously eliminates odors in the air and on surfaces [popping sounds] so they don't come back for 45 days. now that's one flushin' fresh bathroom. ♪breathe happy febreze... ♪la la la la la. >>> the special counsel found no collusion by any americans. there was no evidence of the trump campaign collusion with the russian government's hacking. after finding no underlying collusion with russia, there was, in fact, no collusion. >> and from that moment, the spin was in. william barr, ostensibly your attorney general, who acts more like donald trump's personal lawyer, kicked off the information campaign declaring no collusion, no obstruction. robert mueller's testimony this week laid waste to that information. mueller was crystal clear in saying that his report found that russia's inte

later today, the house will take up that contempt of congress resolution against attorney general william barr and commerce secretary wilbur ross for failing to comply with subpoenas relating to the 2020 census citizenship question. the house will be back at noon eastern, about half an hour from now. members of the house oversight and reform committee testified about that resolution earlier this week at the rules committee. mr. cummings: i would now like to call up our next panelist to testify on the resolution recommended that the house find william barr and wilbur ross in contempt of congress for refusal to comply with subpoenas. chairman cummings and ranking member jordan, we are delighted that you are here. anything you brought in in writing will without objection be relevant to the record. i now recognize the distinguished chairman from maryland, mr. cummings. mr. cummings: thank you, mr. chairman. to you, ranking member cole and mcgovern. members of the committee, i want to thank you for holding this meeting this afternoon. i support the proposed rule because this resolution to hold atto

congress's plan to move forward with terminal contempt proceedings against william barr and commercery wilbur ross. rob: the controversy over whether there should be a citizenship question number 2020 census. jillian: the vote is expected to come soon. >> reporter: exactly right. now specific date but the house returns from its fourth of july recess today, nancy pelosi suggesting contempt vote will come soon. in a letter to her colleagues pelosi reminded them last 1000 with a committee voted to hold the attorney general and commerce secretary in contempt writing it was for defined the committee's bipartisan subpoenas for documents that will shed light, on the citizenship question, we will be moving forward and the whole town soon. earlier in the - an event in san francisco nancy pelosi suggested democrats will continue to investigate the question as well and said donald trump's renewed pitch to included on the census is disgraceful. >> his hat, make america white again. they want to make sure people, certain people are counted. it is really disgraceful and not what our founders had i

members will consider a resolution to hold attorney general william barr and wilbur ross in contemptcongress for failing to comply with subpoenas related to the 2020 census. on c-span two, the senate is back to vote on a judicial nomination for the court of appeals and begin consideration on a series of tax treaties that would amend existing agreements but spain, switzerland, japan and luxembourg. esper hascretary mark his confirmation hearing before the senate armed services committee. that is followed later in the affairs governmental hearing on preparations for the 2020 census. hosted ace department summit on combating anti-semitism with administration officials and legal experts. it began with remarks from attorney general william barr who discussed how the department was focused on the issue. [applause] and thank youg for joining us at this important . i am privileged to have the opportunity to set the table and introduced the attorney general, bill barr. i expect most of us are aware that attorney general william barr has had a distinguished career in private practice and gover

let's presume no william barr interference.g on in the southern district of new york. how would you explain the closing of the investigation without introducing a concept of some kind of protective element for the president? >> so here's how i would explain that. when you read the judge's order when he was saying i've taken the prosecutor's position under advisement and i'm deciding there no longer is a basis to continue to have these documents under seal because the public has a right to know. all that means is the investigation itself has been run to ground. the prosecutors and the fbi agents working this particular investigation have done everything they need to do. therefore there is no longer a risk of interfering with the investigation if the judge were to unseal the documents. that, i suggest, lawrence, is different from somebody concluding that the southern district of new york doesn't have enough to prosecute. will not prosecute now, will not prosecute ever. i suspect the only thing stopping the southern district of ne

it began with remarks from attorney general william barr who discussed how the department was focused on the issue. [applause] and thank youg for joining us at this important . i am privileged to have the opportunity to set the table and introduced the attorney general, bill barr. i expect most of us are aware that attorney general william barr has had a distinguished career in private practice and government. he served as the general counsel for a major corporation. everyone knows that he served previously as the 77th attorney general of the u.s. and now again is the 85th attorney general of the u.s. what many may not know is that he was previously attorney , he was honored by the good of israel america with the humanitarian of the year award. his commitment to using the power of the federal government to ensure the free practice of religion and to fight those who traffic in vile, anti-semitic acts is not new. confirmation -- in his confirmation hearing nearly three decades ago, he emphasized that in discrimination, it strikes at the very nature and fiber of what the country stands f

the justice department will not prosecute attorney general william barr and wilbur ross.he department saying william barr and wilbur arrested not commit a crime when they defied a congressional subpoena refusing to hand over information about adding a decision should question to the census. we followed that story for you, the doj said they only withheld privileged documents that could not be released. an update for the story as well. a school district changes course and will accept donations after all to pay off student lunch debt. the wyoming valley west district in pennsylvania came under fire for threatening to extend students to foster care over past due bills, several donors offered to pay off the $22,000 owed by parents and they were all rejected. the district changed its decision after a state representative urged it to accept the money. the time is 11 minutes after the top of the hour. robert mueller grilled about fusion gps and the anti-trump dossier but wasn't going to talk about it. >> it is outside my purview. with regard to the steel, that is beyond my purvie

well, it's william barr. and so i could foresee a situation where they bring in not only the individuals that you mentioned, but maybe even some of the women. >> the victims. >> who haven't been heard from. victims. because, look, the horrible insidious thing about this was not just the sentencing that you really can't explain how you get from life in prison to some kind of a work study program, but how the women were hushed up. how they were not even made aware of the nonprosecution agreement such that they were completely silenced in this. and so they have not even had a chance over all these years to tell their story. so if this happens, nicole, i don't have a da fintiefinitive to that, i would look to some of the women being called forward. that's when it's going to put pressure on trump. all those pictures you talked about and the history there will also come out as well. >> where does it happen in the justice department that acosta's conduct will be investigated and scrutinized? what is -- heidi makes a

far the public's perception has largely been shaped by that initial letter from attorney general william barr which was highly misleading. most have not read this report. frankly a lot of members of congress have not read it. this will really mark an opportunity for robert mueller to correct the record. and for the first and only time

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also breaking, attorney general william barr says the decision on how to add a controversial question on citizenship to the 2020 census will be made in the next day or two. we're told the strategy to comply with the president's demand remains up in the air. an executive order is among the options on the table right now. barr also is weighing in on next week's congressional testimony by robert mueller. he's accusing house democrats of force the former special counsel to appear to create, and i'm quoting him now, "some kind of public spectacle." this hour i'll talk with house judiciary committee member steve cohen and our correspondents and analysts are also standing by. first let's go to our senior white house correspondent pamela brown. pamela, there's a lot of hand wringing tonight over how to insert the president's citizenship question into the cens census. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. an administration official telling me today that everything is still up in the air in terms of what the administration will do. but the source says that the administration is still pushing ahead t

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in the house will vote on whether to hold attorney general william barr and commerce secretary wilbur ross in contempt for failing to turn over documents related to the administration's pushed to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census and the move is largely symbolic, as it's unlikely the department of justice run by william barr would pursue the charges. >>> the latest on the crisis at the southern border takes effect today with a controversial new policy for people seeking asylum in the u.s. the trump administration said migrants coming through mexico have to first seek asylum in mexico before arriving at the u.s. border. ktvu has amber lee with more on the changes at the southern border. >> reporter: president donald trump's new plan would require migrants who pass through mexico on their way to the u.s. to first apply for asylum in mexico. this is a reversal of decades of u.s. policy. it is said to go into effect on tuesday. >> it's a shocking development but not totally out of the realm of what's been happening recently. >> reporter: the executive director for lawyers comm

. >> this week, the house considers resolution that would hold william barr and wilbur ross in contempt of congress for failing to comply with subpoenas related to the 2020 census. and the trump administration's efforts to add a citizenship question. the house rules committee met earlier today to consider the rules before debate. -- the rules for debate. this is 45 minutes. >> i would now like to call up our next panelist to testify on the resolution recommended that the house find william barr and wilbur ross in contempt of congress for refusal to comply with subpoenas. chairman cummings and ranking member jordan, we are delighted that you are here. anything you brought in in

this week the house considers a resolution that would hold attorney general william barr and commerce secretary wilbur ross in contempt of congress for failing to comply with subpoenas related to the 2020 census. and the trump administration's efforts to add a citizenship question. the house rules committee met monday to consider the rules before debate. this is 45 minutes. i now recognize the distinguished chairman from maryland, mr. cummings. mr. cummings: thank you, mr. chairman. to you, ranking member cole and mcgovern. thank you for holding this meeting this afternoon. i support the proposal because this resolution to hold attorney general barr and sec. wilbur ross in contempt of congress is necessary to preserve the integrity of this body. and of the united states interests. the constitution mandates we conduct a census every 10 years. a thoughtful, fair and accurate count is critical to ensuring that we properly allocate funding and congressional enforcement. for more than a year the trump administration has stonewalled the oversight committee's investigation into the real reas

it is up to william barr to decide and he said there is no evidence. second the president can't commit obstruction based on those things if he were a normal president because only the president could fire mueller or the attorney general. it's not possible to save this been a regular citizen or non-public official i would have indicted because only the president could carry out the exacts and i don't think the president can be indicted for obstruction for exercising his constitutional authority to fire insubordinate prosecutors. shannon: appreciate your expertise. donald trump suing the house ways and means committee in new york state officials to prevent the release of his state tax returns. the committee suing the administration trying to get hands on the federal tax return so as that has been playing out new york state passed a law that could give democrats access to the president's state returns. a lot of the same information. the attorney general will vigorously defend that new law. the trump attorney jacek yellow amounts to presidential harassment

william barr has been hard at work launching the kinds of investigations that donald trump has waitedor so long for, the kind that are premised on the idea that maybe the investigators of russia's interference in our election and americans accepting that interference, the people who investigated those things, well, maybe they are the real criminals. another thing we know from the mueller report and also from great reporting and from career government officials trying to raise the alarm is that it's not only the justice department that's been under this kind of pressure from the president. donald trump has also been trying very hard ever since taking office to bend the intelligence agencies to his will in the same way. and if trump's repeated efforts to take over the justice department manifested themselves in the constant browbeating of jeff sessions, then his efforts to take over the intelligence community manifested in the awkward pauses of national director of intelligence, dan coats. >> have you talked about this issue with admiral rogers? >> that is something that i would like to

william barr did not go into detail, telling the associated press the administration will take action in the coming days. nancy pelosi says the administration is trying to suppress the hispanic vote? >> this is about keeping -- make america white again. they want to make sure certain people are counted. it is really disgraceful. >> reporter: the attorney general is weighing in on robert mueller's capitol hill testimony scheduled for next week, accusing democrats of playing games. >> i was disappointed to see him subpoenaed. the only reason to do that is to create a public spectacle and if bob decides he doesn't want to be subject to that. >>'s testimony will not go beyond the 448 page report. new york gives democrats a new tool, access to the president's state tax returns but will dc democrats use it? me the democratic state senator who authored the bill and rnc committeewoman in meet dylan. whoa. travis in it made it. it's amazing. oh is that travis's app? it's pretty cool, isn't it? there's two of them. they're multiplying. no, guys, its me. see, i'm real. i'm real! he thinks he's r

. >>> william barr had remarked. he talked about what the agency is doing to combat anti- semitism around the world. this is 20 minutes. >>> good morning and thank you for joining us at this important summit. i am privileged to have the opportunity to set the table and introduce the attorney general. i suspect most of us here today are aware that attorney general barr has had a distinguished career in private practice and government including time as the head of the office of legal counsel and deputy attorney general and that he served as the general counsel of a major corporation. i am confident that nearly everyone knows that he served previously as the 77th attorney general of the united states and now again as the 85th attorney general of the united states. what many may not know is that when bill barr was previously attorney general he was in may 1992 honored by israel of america with his humanitarian of the year award. his commitment to using the power of the federal government to ensure the free practice of re

federal executions will resume in december according to william barr who ordered the bureau of prisonso schedule executions of five men accused of murdering children. they are among the 61 federal inmates on death row according to a report by the naacp. lori lytle, a professor of college of the law worked on capital punishment cases under attorney general janet reno. >> in most cases federal authorities will defer to the state to prosecute a homicide. every homicide is a crime against state law as well as federal law. >> reporter: 29 states have the death penalty, 21 do not. federal death penalty convictions apply nationwide with recent high profile convictions including the south carolina church bomber and the boston marathon bomber. >> in massachusetts does not have a death multi as a state. when the case was prosecuted federally in massachutta multip >> reporter: death penalty sentences should be carried out set a crime victim advocate. >> they have to endure the loss of a loved one but then the criminal justice process. >> reporter: nina is president of the advocacy group crime vic

william barr misrepresented what was in the report. the american people hearfrom him. and also asking mueller about why he declined to reach a conclusion about whether donald trump obstructed justice and whether he thought he could have, if he were allowed to. i think for the sake of the american people, that bob mueller in whatever setting is appropriate should answer congress' questions. they want to look into the beginning into the beginnings of the investigations and see whether it was a deep state conspiracy to disrupt donald trump's presidential campaign. as well as bias within his own investigative team. i think mueller is a true never—trumper. he's someone who dislikes trump. muller hasn't seen that interested in appearing before congress, he has extensive experience testifying before congress and he's unlikely to volunteer any more than the bare minimum. for two years, robert mueller was a washington sphinx, silent and mysterious. in what could be in the final episode of the special counsel investigation, he's unlikely to chan

house voted on the table a resolution on the impeachment of president trump and voted to hold william barr in contempt of congress. the house voted to hole william barr and will bear ross in contempt of congress as part of the investigation into the attempt to add a citizenship question. after lawmakers say they defied subpoenas for documents related to the citizenship question. >> it is about protecting the integrity of the body. >> we're using this as a political tool. >> the vote is intended to embar as president trump. >> it doesn't have a substance of the we produced over 14,000 pages of documents. >> the white house says the vote is ridiculous and another lawless attempt to harass the president and his administration. this came a day after the house condemned tweets from the president described as racist. >> the democratic party is going in a direction nobody thought possible. >> the resolution could have been more harsh. >> you have no idea the provisions people wanted in the resolution. it condemned the words of the president. >> al green took it further, he introduced articles of

he talked about this in the rose garden a moment ago joined by the attorney general william barr and the commerce secretary wilbur ross and he is going to order all departments of the federal governments to hand over to the commerce department everything that they know, all of the data they have on undocumented people here in the united states so that the commerce department can essentially try to cobble together an accurate count of what they say is the undocumented people in the country. that is the president's aim, he is saying in all of this, but the big headline out of all of this is that the president is dropping the quest that he has been on for months now to add the citizenship question to the 2020 census. his administration went to the supreme court and handed a defeat there and then in recent days the people like the attorney general william barr thought they could find another way to approach the question in the census, and have it tested in the court, but all of that was dropped as the president says he will try to gather all of this data on the undocumented by other mean

are people getting off because they want off or is william barr wanting more compliant attorneys?not sure, but mr. garner who you quoted and others are uncomfortable having to present shifting positions to the court. it's one thing if you are a politician making statements for public consumption, but judges have an ongoing relationship with lawyers and they rely on the representations of those who are officers of the court and they have a duty to the court as well as to their clients. we don't know exactly what it was about the case as it is now that has made some of those lawyers uncomfortable, but a few things might think about. they argued that the printing deadline was june 30th and that was the reason they had to expedite the case to get it decided before they left town at the end of last month. if that turns out not to be so, judges might be unhappy and the other side in these cases would say and actually have said filed a motion complaining about this. saying that you manipulated the process. so that is another area that is a part from any of the substance of the issue invo

debate fromow that earlier today about holding william barr and wilbur ross in contempt of congress. the resolution was in response to the two officials failing to comply with this bein subpoenas. this is just one hour. i support this ipartisan resolution to hold attorney general william barr and commerce secretary wilbur ross in contempt of congress because it is necessary to preserve the integrity of this body and of the census. the constitution mandates that we conduct a census every 10 years. and that the census count every erson, a full, fair, and accurate account is critical to ensuring that we properly allocate federal funding and congressional apportionment. i do not take this decision lightly. holding any secretary in criminal contempt of congress is serious and sober matter. one that i have done everything in my power to avoid. but in the case of the attorney general and the secretary, secretary ross, they blatantly obstructed our ability to do congressional oversight into the real reason secretary ross was trying for the first time in 70 a rs, in 70 years to add citizenshi

that drug enforcement agency program that william barr approved relied on subpoena power, their required records being collected are relevant or material to an investigation. but mr. barr didn't bother to consider whether all of the phone records that were collected in bulk, collected in bulk were consistent with the law. he just went ahead and rubber stamped it. now, the inspector general tends to be polite about outright calling government programs illegal, but even the inspector general pointed out that there are multiple court cases, and i quote, clearly suggested potential challenges to the validity of the drug enforcement agency's use of this statutory subpoena power in this expansive , nontargetted manner. finally, the inspector general found that the records collected from the program were used outside the drug enforcement agency for investigations that had nothing to do with drugs, a practice that the inspector general said, and i quote, raised significant legal questions. the inspector general goes on to note the congress was kept almost entirely in the dark, entirely in the da

live now to the house rules committee meeting on a resolution that would find attorney general william barr and wilbur ross in contempt of congress. >> refusing to comply with subpoenas issued by the oversight committee. a consensus is critical. that means counting every american the way it has always been done without turning the census into another tool for the crusade against immigrants. the president has retreated from adding the citizenship question to the census. the rule of law still matters despite this administration's best efforts. the house's work here is not over. we are continuing our constitutional oversight responsibilities. and this administration is stone walling us at every turn. the department of justice and commerce have refused to turn over unredacted copies of key documents requested by the oversight committee after the committee worked to resolve the impasse by narrowing the scope of the request to a small subset of documents. chairman cummings offered to meet personally with mr. ross and he refused. the resolution we are sending to the floor will allow the full house

william barr's handling of the report? did he feel there was a cover-up? most of the american public is interested in the substance of the report and not some of the matters of process. the best bet for democrats is to focus on the ten episodes of potential obstruction of justice that were outlined by a special counsel and his team. and to ask if this were anyone other than the president of the united states would you have indicted. >> right. >> there is gold to be mined even within the four walls of the report itself. for example, the obstruction act. go through them, did you find substantial evidence of these acts, mr. mueller? he has to say yes, he used that term. in the report when mueller's talk about why he did not subpoena trump, controversial decision, he says we already had sufficient evidence to make certain assessments about the president's intent. you say, what was that evidence, and what assessment did you make about his intent. it sounds to me like he's saying we already had enough to know that he had the corrupt criminal intent. but he needs

attorney general william barr recused himself from that investigation, but now the justice department is looking at whether he needs to recuse himself from any other investigation into the case. >> i'm recused from that matter because one of the law firms that represented epstein long ago was a firm that i subsequently joined for a period of time. >> prosecutors calling for other women to step forward. >> the alleged behavior shocks the conscience. they deserve their day in court. we are proud to be standing up for them by bringing this indictment. >> now, we're still awaiting word from the white house but a senior administration official told cnn there was an internal review of acosta's involvement in epstein's case but stopped short of commenting on his standing in the administration. the u.s. attorney's office says it's received calls from more potential victims in this case. john and alisyn. >> brynn gingras, thank you very much. we have yet to hear from secretary acosta this morning on the new calls for him to resign. we have yet to really hear from the white house about all of t

the move reportedly came after attorney general william barr ordered that the case be dropped. u.s. attorney richard donoghue announunced the decision tuesda. >> weekend lightweight officer pantaleo's actions in light of his training and experience, mr. garner size, weight, and actions to resist arrest, and the duration and escalating nature of the interaction. we determined that there was insufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that pantaleo acted in willful violation of federal law. conclude therewe is insufficient evidence to bring a federal cririminal chare against officer pantaleo for his role in the untimely death of mr. garner. amy: earlier this year, a medical examiner testified that it was t the chokehold that triggered an asthma attack that led to garner's death, which was ruled a homicide. the new york police department banned the use of chokeholds in 1993 after it was linked to a rise in deaths. garner family member met with federal officials shortly before the announcement. this is garner's daughter emerald snipes speaking outside the u.s. attorney's of

william barr and wilbur ross for contempt of congress after the administration refused to provide information on adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census. before the house can take up the contempt resolution, it has to go through the rules committee, which will decide the parameters for debate on tuesday. that meeting is this afternoon and you can watch it live beginning at 5:00 p.m. eastern on c-span3, online at cspan.org, or listen live with a free c-span radio app. robert mueller says money before congress, originally set for wednesday -- testimony before congress, originally set for wednesday come has been pushed back a week. he will answer questions on his investigation into russian interference in the 20 16th election. the judiciary hearing will be in about an hour longer than originally planned. you can watch live coverage wednesday, july 24, on c-span3, cspan.org, or listen with a free c-span radio app. announcer: c-span spoke with more than 50 freshman lawmakers of the 116th congress. we recently spoke with representatives in the midwest and northeast region. first up, angie

lou: attorney general william barr cracking down on our broken asylum laws.ion from board of appeals that ruled a mexican man could apply for asylum because his father was targeted by a drug cartel. >> president trump tweeting over the weekend, considering is given to declaring antifa ... would make is easier for police to do their jobs. last month conservative journalist, was assaulted by antifa members in portland, no charges have yet been filed against his attackers, today, said that president trump is correct to consider and designate the group as a terrorist organization. >> provide a framework for local authorities, and special federal authorities to start investigating the criminal cartel, for the street thugs they are, in addition to street hollywoo-- we see over and overn america this movement as a political idea ol. >ideology. >> we would like to hear from you on this issue, be sure to vote in our poll, do you think that president trump should designate antifa as a terrorist organization. my next gif guest represents any ngo. great to have you with

attorney general william barr says he sees a legal way to ask the question about u.s.izenship on the 2020 census. this, after the u.s. supreme court blocked the move last week. but now the attorney general says he expects the doj to finalize its new legal strategy to move forward in the next few days. my next guest has introduced a bill that would had a citizenship question to the census. tell me about the progress of this. will it happen? >> i think it's very important, this question, as part of the senses. it's absurd as a sovereign nation we cannot ask the question, are you a citizen or not, on the census. this goes back to the late 1800s. this was on the census for over 60 years. so i think it's important as a sovereign nation. we know how many u.s. citizens live in this country. >> harris: as you look at the court coming back, the judge said he got to make a more compelling argument if you come take another bite at the apple. this piece of legislation allow the trump administration to do that? >> what my legislation does is give the administration statutory suppor

president spoke about his latest action from the white house rose garden alongside attorney general william barr and commerce secretary wilbur ross. >>> thank you very much, everyone. are you a citizen of the united states of america? oh, gee, i'm sorry, i just can't answer that question, and that's after spending billions and billions of dollars. there used to be a time when you could answer questions like that very easily. there used to be a time when you could proudly declare i am a citizen of the united states. now they're trying to erase the very existence of a very important word and a very important thing, citizenship. they're even coming after the pledge of allegiance in minnesota. i'm proud to be a citizen. you're proud to be a citizen. the only people who are not proud to be citizens are the ones who are fighting us all the way about the word citizen. today i'm here to say we are not backing down on our effort to determine the citizenship status of the united states' population. i stand before you to outline new steps my administration is taking to ensure that citizenship is counted so

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