todd: william barr leaving the department of justice before christmas. president vows to continue his legal challenge. >> reporter: william barr is out next week. the source acknowledged donald trump is irritated with his attorney general. the legal challenges overturn the election results, william barr said the justice department found no widespread fraud. the

william barr was one of donald trump's biggest supporters. must be a particular staying in this one for the president. >> if we are honest, a lot of people were expecting bill barr to be fired in the last couple of hours. he was here on the white house campus for a meeting that was described as routine. he was with the president for an hour and he left. before the election, bill barr was saying voter fraud could be caused by mail-in ballots. now he is saying we have looked at this and there is no widespread evidence of voter fraud. that goes completely against what the president has been saying. he has been tweeting out, more people who are suggesting there is widespread voter fraud and the election was stolen from donald trump. will remember a couple weeks ago the man who was the head of the cybersecurity for the election said this was the most secure election in american history. donald trump said that was because of my administration but it was still stolen from us and by the way, you are fired. that was why it was thought that bill barr w

william barr was in the middle of that too.hat about the fact that governor andrew cuomo is being flooded as the next ag? >> in this country i can't imagine living in a country that would have andrew cuomo as the attorney general, talk about a partisan hack being in an important position, doug jones, sally yates, jay johnson, folks that i wouldn't pick but are much better than andrew cuomo. a disastrous pick and i hope you would not be confirmed. shannon: thanks very much, merry christmas. a quick correction just moments ago, we were talking about former epa director gina mccarthy using a fake email account, it was actually her predecessor who used that. seattle is proposing new legislation that could legalize dozens of crimes we find out why and who is eligible for free pass as business owners make the city not to do it. we will debate next. "you have cancer." how their world stopped and when they found a way to face it. for some, this is where their keytruda story begins. keytruda-a breakthrough immunotherapy that may treat c

william barr is someone their votes. william barr is someone who was their votes.omeone who was a their votes. william barr is someone who was a trump loyalist. he has been very close to donald trump. he was due to leave onjanuary 20, the same time as donald trump, but it was predicted there would be an early exit because william barr had given an interview last week in which he pretty much refused to back donald trump's unsubstantiated claims of election fraud. but i think by saying that he has resigned tonight, i do think that is probably trump's way of trying to get the official biden victory away from the headlines. nomia, thank you very much. the united states has recorded its 300,000th death from coronavirus. the grim statistic was reached just hours after the first vaccine outside of clinical trials was administered to an american citizen. sandra lindsay, an intensive care nurse in new york, got herjab on camera in an effort to help boost public confidence in the vaccine. she said she hoped this was the beginning of the end of a long, painful period. nick br

minnesota.n in margaret and illinois saying william barr is a good man and did an excellent job. aiming itsylvania was attorney general barr that look the other way in the iran contract under reagan and look the other way when the biden crime syndicate. must keep getting pictures of his children and grandchildren in the mail on his desk. waiting for electoral outcome. another saying he was able to temper some of the president's more outlandish ideas. it may have been a lot worse without barr around. ityou wish to communicate, is off of twitter this morning we are learning the health and human services department says the trump administration will purchase an additional 100 million doses of the covid-19 vaccine from pfizer. that is kristin holmes reporting. bill inmichigan -- michigan. independent line. caller: something i have goes back to the reagan-bush era where he was attorney general for a while. following him a little bit between then and now, to me, he has an authoritarian streak to him. he likes to try to give the president more power than what i think the president should

knowing the evidence inside and out, i found it inconceivable that attorney general william barr had ur voluminous discussion of the facts and come away believing that the president had not obstructed justice. barr could not have written what they said, i thought. but when our report would become public, it was obvious that barr had spun our findings for political gain at best and lied for the president at worst. i had seen an analogous dereliction of duty time and time again during my prosecutorial career, most notably in the failure of numerous financial watchdogs to prevent or at least blow the whistle on the corrupt leaders of the enron corporation as they pulled off one of the world's most lucrative and destructive corporate frauds. but barr's complicit was far worse as it struck at america's core democratic architecture. that barr and his wife were personal friends of robert mueller and his family struck an especially painful chord. barr had betrayed both friend and country. as bad as it was, william barr's false public representation of the mueller report was just the start. ba

you might remember the big scandal this summer when william barr tried to sort of quietly nudge out and then force out the u.s. attorney in the southern district of new york. it was carpenito, the new jersey u.s. attorney, who bill barr wanted to install instead as a temporary leader in charge of sdny, when he was trying to fire u.s. attorney jeff berman there. this all fell apart when u.s. attorney jeff berman pushed back on what barr was trying to do, he went public with what barr was trying to do. he wouldn't go quietly. he insisted that it would be his own deputy at sdny who would take charge of that office, not some guy who barr was bringing in from the outside. but again, carpenito's resignation announced tonight, just minutes before we learned that barr is also resigning. it's a little bit -- it may just be a coincidence, but barr is out, as is the guy who barr used in that sort of hit job where he was trying to decapitate sdny. while, it should be noted, sdny was in the middle of, among other things, investigating the president's lawyer, rudy giuliani. i mean, untangling the mes

. >> the allegations and affidavits keep coming and william barr made clear yesterday the department of justice will continue to receive and vigorously pursue allegations of fraud but he put a pin in the president's lens that the election was stolen, telling the associated press, we have not seen fraud that could have affected a different outcome, that drew swift response from the legal team who said with the greatest respect to the attorney general, appeared to be without any knowledge or investigation of the substantial irregularities of systemic fraud. senate minority leader schumer had this reaction. >> in response to william barr, he is next to be fired since he now says there is no fraud, trump seems to fire anyone in that regard. >> this is 3 whistleblowers use saw in the intro of the thomas more society said they witnessed election fraud firsthand. >> i had no ballots on election day, the day after the election, a postal supervisor asked if i had forgotten ballots the night before and i didn't have any, ballots supposedly missing in the state of wisconsin. >> 24 ballots in be

todd: william barr leaving the department of justice before christmas. carley: the president vows to continue his legal challenge. >> reporter: william barr is out next week. the source acknowledged donald trump is irritated with his attorney general. the legal challenges overturn the election results, william barr said the justice department found no widespread fraud. the department also failed to reveal its investigation into joe biden's son hunter in terms of the election, the attorney general praised the president in his resignation letter, the president tweeted, quote, just had a nice meeting with attorney general william barr at the white house. our relationship has been a very good one. he's done an outstanding job. he will be leaving just before christmas to spend the holidays with his family. the president says william barr's deputy jeffrey rosen will become acting attorney general. members of the electoral college met and formally cast their ballots confirming joe biden's victory. the republican electors met in a handful of states to cast unoff

we see the attorney general of the united states william barr has proven he is willing to fight presidentrump's battles saying no evidence of fraud would change the outcome of the presidential election. why is barr sending this message now? he is not only basing it on the department of justice investigation but also citing the department of homeland security which has similarly investigated these allegations. >> maybe at the end of his tenure as attorney general he is taking a look at what has occurred and the president is degrading his very own justice department and the fbi and other people who are public servants and maybe he took a look at what they presented to him and said, to himself, i can no longer do this. i don't know if that is his motive. i don't know barr very well. in the ends u, you know, this i the person who is the president's wing man and who flven intervened in the roger stone sentencing and talked about the mueller investigation and man said federal authorities had spied on the trump campaign. now after all of that, he is seeing a president who is trying to undermine

william barr dice que no ve una razÓn para un eventual fraude y tampoco para investigar a hunter bideniscal general william barr dijo entre otros temas que los rusos estarÍan detrÁs de los masivos ciber ataques que afectaron mÚltiples agencias y empresas del gobierno estadounidense. esta es la misma afirmaciÓn que hizo el secretario de estado, mike pompeo, pese a que el presidente trump sigue culpando a los chinos de esos ciber ataques. vamos a hacer una corta pausa.

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donald trump has announced on twitter the departure of the us attorney general william barr. has issued increasingly hostile comments about mr barr since he declared that the department ofjustice had found no evidence of widespread election fraud. the number of coronavirus fatalities in the united states has passed 300,000 people, as the country begins its mass vaccination campaign. the authorities hope to vaccinate 100 million people by april. an intensive care nurse in new york was the first to receive the injection.

bill us in a bit on william barr. n one of the most loyal of the loyal, this coming from him is really something? yeah, it is. look, barr misinterpreted the mueller report, he was a very close trump ally, there is even a line that bill barr won't cross, it's later than it should have been but late is better than never. and yet mr trump was made legal team are plainly not accepting what the country's attorney general is saying and intend to press on despite losing something like 38 core challenges so far? yeah, well, that's typicalfor trump and his legal team. they are not just trump and his legal team. they are notjust at trump and his legal team. they are not just at war with the justice department, they are at war with reality and they have been at war with reality for weeks and actually years now. this is not a surprise, by the way, this is exactly what you would expect. trump is going out, just as you expected he would, just as he came in, on — it's built on lies. i must say, though, the conspiracy theories themsel

attorney general william barr recently contradicted president trump on his election fraud claims and w it appears barr could lose his job over it. this morning, sources tell abc news attorney general william barr's job is now hanging in the balance. president trump is set to be livid at barr with sources indicating barr could be fired. one official tells "the washington post" several people are trying to persuade trump not to do so. barr spent more than two hours at the white house earlier this week after declaring the justice department has not seen fraud that would change the outcome of the election. sources describe the meeting between trump and barr as intense. on wednesday white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany refusing to say whether trump still has faith in barr. >> the president if he has any person until announcement, you'll be the first to know it. >> reporter: president trump is still denying he lost the election, instead pushing his unfounded claims of voter fraud in a 46-minute post on twitter and facebook. meanwhile, overnight election officials wrapped up a recoun

jillian: attorney general william barr he is leaving the hunter biden investigation as his. >> i seeo appoint a special counsel and have no plan to do so before i leave. todd: a live report as the probe into hunter biden's tax affairs play out. jillian: your holiday pictures, she can still see the magic christmas in her granddaughter's eyes. todd: how her son and his dog get ready, a great shot right there. ♪ i had this hundred thousand dollar student debt. two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars in debt. ah, sofi literally changed my life. it was the easiest application process. sofi made it so there's no tradeoff between my dreams and paying student loans. student loans don't have to take over for the rest of your life. thank you for allowing me to get my money right. ♪ thank you for allowing me to get my money right. [what's this?] oh, are we kicking karly out? we live with at&t. it was a lapse in judgment. at&t, we called this house meeting because you advertise gig-speed internet, but we can't sign up for that here. yeah, but i'm just like warming up to those speeds. you've

william barr making durham special counsel ties their hands.s he's not discussed hunter in his search for ag saying he's not asking questions of this potential nominee and stories about his son were disinformation. is joe biden playing this right? >> in some ways he is and in some ways he isn't. i would say it is very unlikely that he's talked to potential ag nominees about this investigation because he knows the first question that will come up in a confirmation hearing is does did you talk to joe biden about hunter biden? it is more problematic. the fact that he's talking about this information coming out of delaware, lauded by two democratic senators and calling out russian disinformation that seeks to quit this investigation into special counsel territory. it is not said that and said let the investigation run its course. not necessary to appoint a special counsel, there is no big concern for the nation beyond investigation of the president elect's son. when we talk about russian disinformation, it is clear joe biden cannot look at the evid

do you think william barr is going to call congressman nadler? >>, never has no standing to demand explain nations on this or any other matter. we should not forget the prior administration to donald trump set in motion a lot of wheels that were used to investigate him unjustly for a long time. that shouldn't happen again. was we are having here is an attorney general making sure that an existing investigation to existing wrongdoing is completed and even with this appointment it doesn't guarantees that because whoever the next attorney general is if there's a change of attorneys general will ultimately have the authority to do a thumbs-up or thumbs down on whatever is recommended by a special counsel so i think it is a distinction without much of a difference but it does seem to imply some longevity in this overlong investigation. shannon: which were costlys ag william barr was right to appoint john durham to be special counsel on this matter. the nation deserves to know the truth about the egregious abuses of power that took place in 2016 and ju

william barr got the job as america's top law enforcement officer because he was loyal to donald trump no the president might be questioning that loyalty just hours before a routine meeting at the white house the u.s. attorney general told the associated press he couldn't back up the president's claims of widespread voter fraud in 2020 saying we've not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election william barr became attorney general after jeff sessions was sacked donald trump didn't think he was loyal enough during the days of the investigation into alleged russian interference in the 26000 election since he took over bar has often been accused of acting more as trump's top lawyer rather than america's his department of justice got involved in cases involving trump allies it dropped charges against a former national security advisor michael flynn even though he had method lying to f.b.i. agents and it intervened in the sentencing of course trump ally roger steward. attorney general barr also announced the findings of the miller prove into russia in

watch this from chuck shum ore. >> in response to attorney general william barr he's next to be fired since he too says no fraud, trump seems to fire everyone in that regard. >> do you think bill barr will be fired shortly? what do you make of the attorney general appointmenting special counsel to investigate the russian probe. >> good to be with you and the pattern in this administration seems to be anybody who tells the truth gets fired. you talked about chris krebs who pointed out there's no interference in this election, he got fired. attorney general barr is obviously late in stating the obvious here. he obviously fueled a lot of the misinformation early on but his statement i'm sure will not be welcome at the white house. i'm sorry what was your second question? >> the second headline from that interview which is that the attorney general has appointed john durham at the level of special counsel, essentially shielding him, if you will, from any new incoming administration that may want to terminate that investigation. >> right this is clearly an effort just to perpetuate the pre

amy: but first, attorney general william barr has resigned just weeks after angering president trump by saying he had found no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the quarantine report. i'm amy goodman. the u.s. death toll from covid-19 topped 300,000 monday, as the first americans were vaccinated outside of a clinical setting. in queens, new york, the former epicenter of the pandemic, intensive care unit director, critical care nurse sandra lindsay was first in line for an injection of pfizer-biontech's conavirus vaccine. dr. michelle chester administered the inoculation. both women are african american. lindsay said afterwards she hoped to set an example for other african americans who might be skeptical of the vaccine, based on the u.s.'s sordid history of medical experimentation on black people. >> it was an emotional experience. working on the front lines alongside my team, i saw a lot death., hurt, suffering, so i felt a huge sense of relief after i got the vaccine. i was not nervous

but at the end, william barr is to break the l for donald lling trump as local officials, republican officials in michigan or o wisconsinr arizona or georgia. at the end of the day, they understand the consequences, e barr aboveryone else understands the consequences of awnot bending theut breaking the law for the president of the unit states. and undermining american democracy in a way that could have --ould make him criminally liable but most certainly will darkenis name for good in the history books. robert: ayesha, i want you to ust d on that what joe he listed all these states where local officials are speaking out. and wsaw those powerful -- powerful videos from georgia in the opening of this program tonight, gabriel sterling outraged, republican, about the president's handling. are we seeing a divide out there in the states, local and state officials, are willing to speak up, but national republicanso annie's point just see -- they're calculating that it's best to just sit on their hands until december?: ayesou do see a divide there where, you know, as joe said, that ey have --

that'sxactly what william barr wanted to be. and he's followed that through a certain point viously he framed the mueller investigation report in the most w favorab possible to the president. he bought him, you know, several months moving -- moving toward the impeachment. but at the end, william barr is proving to be just as unwilling to break the l for donald trump asocal officials, republican officials in michigan orns wis or arizona or georgia. at the end of the day, they undetand the consequences, barr above everyone else understandshe consequences of not bendinghe law but breaking the law for the president of the united state and undermining american have -- could make him could criminally liable but most certainly will darkenis name for good in the history books. robert: ayesha, i you to build on that what joe just said. he listed all where local officials are speaking out. and we saw those powerful -- powerful videos from georgia in the opening of this program outraged, a repub about g ca the president's handling. are we

. >>> no evidence of fraud, that is the word from william barr today on the 2020 election. meantime president-elect biden and vice president elect harris continue to move forward with their white house transition plans. as skyler henry reports live from wilmington delaware. >> reporter: good evening, the attorney general's words today really echoes what secretaries of state around the country have said all along in that they have not seen any reports, or haven't seen any evidence of widespread voter fraud in terms of the 2020 election, despite what the president has been putting out. that is certainly significant because the attorney general is seen as someone who is typically in lockstep with the president. but as you mentioned, things are moving along, especially here in willington delaware is the president elect and his administration are trying to fill out who will be on his economic team. attorney general william barr is breaking with president trump saying in an interview with the associated press that the justice department has not uncovered any evidence of widesprea

bush lost his re-election campaign in 1992 to bill clinton and william barr stayed on the job then asl right up to the morning of inauguration day on january 20th, 1993. bill barr remained in his job as attorney general until the very last second of the very last minute in 1993, but this time bill barr is leaving the job and i'm being careful here not to use the word, resign, because we don't know if bill barr is resigning or being fired. but bill barr is leaving the job next week. one full month earlier than he left the last time. why? joining us now is someone with decades of experience in the justice department, glenn kirchner. he's a former federal prosecutor and an msnbc legal analyst. glenn, i read william barr's letter yesterday carefully. he doesn't say resign. donald trump didn't say fired in the treat. just leaving. that means donald trump is reserving the right to declare him fired at any point in the future. how do you read the letter? how do you read the situation? why is bill barr bailing out a month earlier than he did last time he was attorney general? >> lawrence, the

attorney general william barr is resigning a bit donald trump's accusations that he hasn't done enough to investigate the president's false claims of election fraud he leave his post just before christmas she had a chance he has more on william barres resignation from wilmington delaware what he didn't do off to the election for donald trump was go out fighting saying wait a 2nd there's been enormous election fraud and the d.o.j. you have to investigate in fact. after a relative period of silence actually there wasn't any evidence of election fraud that you can imagine that kind of gone down terribly well with donald trump and then just in the last few days it was announced in some rather well placed well wall street journal articles which seem to be single source you can decide where they were getting this information from the william barr had in fact. kept quiet the issue of the d.o.j. investigation into hunter biden during the election. the u.s. electoral college has formally validated joe biden's victory in the november presidential election california's electors pushed joe biden o

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william barr apparently advised prosecutors not to make public the fact that joe biden's son hunter biden was being investigated for his international business connections and possible foul play that donald trump was frustrated that that did not become public knowledge during the election he felt that this showed a level of partisanship toward joe biden furthermore we also understand donald trump has been unhappy with barr and his unwillingness to investigate allegations of voter fraud allegations of corruption allegations about the u.s. presidential election itself so amid reports that donald trump is increasingly frustrated with william barr we now see that he will be resigning shortly donald trump announcing that resignation on twitter it's important to note that you know at this point the electoral college has cast their votes and many people may not be aware that the usa does not have a popular vote to elect the president now doesn't really make a difference in this case because joe biden has won the popular vote is in the lead in the popular vote by roughly 7000000 votes but r

attorney general william barr he says the justice department has found no voter fraud certainly on any scale that could change the outcome of last month's presidential election his comments to the associated press contradict president trump's claims that the vote was rigged a vote which joe biden won 53062232 electoral college votes one hour from alan fischer. william barr got the job as america's top law enforcement officer because he was loyal to donald trump no the president might be questioning that loyalty just hours before a routine meeting at the white house the u.s. attorney general told the associated press he couldn't back up the president's claims of widespread voter fraud in 2020 saying we've not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election william barr became attorney general after jeff sessions was sacked donald trump didn't think he was loyal enough during the days of the investigation into alleged russian interference in the 26000 election since he took over bar has often been accused of acting more as trump's top lawyer rather than

the attorney general william barr is standing down.announced in a tweet in the last hour he said just had a very nice meeting with attorney general bar at the white house. our relationship has been a very good run. well news flash, it has not. it started well but became toxic fairly recently not least over bill bars refusal to support donald trumps claims of widespread voter fraud following an investigation by his department, the us justice department. and then the fact that bill barr kept up his sleeve in investigation into joe bidens son hunter's tax affairs. that's something that donald trump believes that for to come up before the election could have helped him win it. so there's been a fractious relationship between the two men. room is at the weekend at donald trump was on the verge of stacking his attorney general. now we have the statement from donald trump and imight add, statement from donald trump and i might add, one from bill barr says any time when the country is so deeply divided its incumbent on all levels of government

top stories, president trump is refusing to say if he still has confidence in attorney general william barrdence of widespread election fraud, the president claimed they didn't look hard enough. as tensions rise, a white house liaison has been banned from entering the justice department. she's accused of trying to pressure the staff for more information on election fraud. >>> authorities are investigating the shooting death of a 1-year-old boy in washington, d.c. police say carmelo duncan was in a car with his father and another child when the vehicle was hit by at least ten bullets. a $60,000 reward is now being offered in that case. >>> the monthly jobs report is out this morning and is expected to show evidence of an economic slowdown last month as the pandemic took another turn for the worse. 11 states have just reported a record number of new infections. support on capitol hill for a $900 billion economic stimulus bill is growing. >>> today's weather, heavy rain in the southeast and along the east coast. that system moves into the northeast tonight. it will be clear across the rest of

william barr resigned as attorney general last week. the justice department in jeffrey rosen taken over as acting attorney general. todd: live in connecticut, merry christmas. with that let's bring in sean duffy and rachel campos duffy, merry christmas to the 2 of you. it is a difficult first word. should there be a special counsel, will there be a special counsel? ladies first? >> i will let the prosecutor go first. >> should there be a special counsel, this case has been handled responsibly. of course under william barr it has been handled responsibly but under a new biden administration will his head of the doj handle this case the way the rest of republicans, probably not. this is a textbook case of positive interest, joe biden's team will come in, i will have no interference but that is what he has to say. this case if it gets through hunter biden where does hunter biden lead, to joe biden. he can't let this case go forward. it will get sandbagged with joe biden doj. when you look at the media they refuse to tell a story, they don'

what william barr has done is completely undermined the president's argument. s looked at this and said there is no widespread evidence of widespread fraud, there is no evidence that voting machines were interfered with, there is no evidence that anything happened that would change the result of the election. now, bill barr has been controversial because he has been perceived to be far too close to the president, done donald trump's bidding far too often, and yet, here he is saying ‘the fbi have looked at it, thejustice department have looked at it, and we've seen nothing there.‘ now, that has brought a furious reaction from donald trump's legal team, who started a statement with the immortal words "with all due respect to the attorney general", and then proceed to show him no respect whatsoever saying he appears to have no knowledge or evidence whatsoever. so, we're in situation with the trump administration ending with donald trump's top lawyers seemingly at war with with donald trump's top law officer. extraordinary. we can now speak to republican strategist,

here as attorney general william barr is resigning of attention with president trumbo over his baseless claims of election fraud. joe biden formally secures a majority as members of the electoral college vote to verify the presidential poll outcome. the whole raman you're watching al-jazeera live my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 30 minutes a massive covert 19 vaccination campaign is underway in the u.s. on the day the death toll surpassed 300000 in the worst affected nation. also saudi arabia says a boat laden with explosives targeted an oil tanker in the port city of jeddah. and thousands of people gather in chile and argentina to witness a rare solar eclipse. welcome to the program we begin with breaking news coming out of the us where the attorney general william barr is resigning amid donald trump psyche's ations that he hasn't done enough to investigate the president's false claims of election fraud well donald trump made the announcement on twitter saying that he had just met with barr and that his relationship with the attorney general had always been a good one

william barr became attorney general after jeff sessions was sacked donald trump didn't think he was loyal enough during the days of the investigation into alleged russian interference in the $26000.00 election since he took over bar has often been accused of acting more as trump's top lawyer rather than america's has the part of justice court involved in cases involving trump allies it dropped charges against former national security adviser michael flynn even though he had method lying to f.b.i. agents and it intervened in the sentencing of course trump roger steward. attorney general barr also announced the findings of the miller prove into russia interference but was accused of misrepresenting the final results to make his boss lose better investment geisha did not establish that members of the trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the russian government in its election interference activities i am sure that all americans share my concern about the efforts of the russian government to interfere in our presidential election a concern aired by robert mueller himself but ther

attorney general william barr disputes donald trump's claims of vote force as anger grows some on election officials of the threats to start. it to stop. this is the watch. this is the backbone of democracy and all of you would not say that day are complicit in this. either and give it all this is there are live from doha also coming up. this team will always be there for you and your family. a promise to fight back against the fallout of the pandemic president elect joe biden introduces his economic team. un's nuclear watchdog appeals to iran to reconsider its plan to halt inspections of sites. and israel's ultimate prime minister says his party is ready to back a move to call another election. donald trump's bid to overturn the u.s. presidential election result has suffered another major blow with the attorney general saying there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud william bar told the associated press that the justice department investigation has in his words not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome president elect joe biden big trial 53062232 votes i

but then the department of justice under william barr with through those charges, he also intervened in the sentencing of roger stone close trump, who was in trouble with the courts as well. and then you'll remember, of course, it was bill barr who stood up and gave his the farce. findings of the miller report into alleged russia interference in the 2016 presidential election. and people said his interpretation of it perhaps made his boss look better. the report actually did something that was supported by bill miller himself, robert mueller himself. what is interesting is that has been a bit of a gap between donald trump and bill barr over the last few months, particularly because william barr did not launch an investigation into joe biden before the election. donald trump was very keen and he thought it would give him an electoral advantage that didn't happen. so there's been a bit of a problem between the 2. this certainly isn't going to endear william barr to donald trump in the final days of his presidency. ok, thanks so much for breaking it down. alan fischer. there live from wh

even as the associated press was publishing their interview with william barr where he said, it's true, there wasn't any substantial fraud in this election, nothing that would overturn the results, even as the ap was publishing that interview with that quote from barr today, barr was trooping up to the white house personally while simultaneously he and his office revealed for the first time that just before the election he secretly promoted the guy he had assigned to investigate robert mueller and to investigate the fbi for having had the temerity to investigate russia's interference in the 2016 election themselves. the fbi investigated it, mueller investigated whether trump's campaign was in on it. barr then assigned this guy, john durham, to investigate the fbi and robert mueller for having looked into those things. well, today as he went up to the white house upon telling the associated press there was no fraud in the election, barr decided that this might be a good time to reveal that two weeks before election day, he secretly wrote a letter giving john durham the title of special

attorney general william barr and the the one under him will not take congress. in fact, we will leave these here and decide whether these are potential crimes by the president, just leave it to us. >> from the moment, temporarily blocked the complaint about trump a behavior from being considered or concerned by the gs. william barr and the justice department very promptly decided that everything trump did, nothing was a kril, everything donald trump did was super cool. that can be the end of it, nobody ever needs to hear about it. it was escaping the justice department's efforts to cover up what the president did and to secretly exonerate the president without even investigating what he did. that is how we got the impeachment of this president last year. and we know from the record that the person who actually led that effort at the justice department to keep this thing under wraps is named jeffrey rosen. when bill barr became attorney general, he insisted he needed to bring on his own hand-picked deputy, the person he hand-picked to be his attorney general was

but look at what else has happened for jeffrey rosen's tenure, since he and william barr has been in office. as reported, quote, mr. rosen has kept a low profile. but with attorney general barr's pending resignation rosen is set to become the nation's top law enforcement official for the delicate final month of mr. trump's presidency. it will be an extraordinary responsibility for a man who has no prosecutorial experience and who has participated in several decisions in which the department took steps that favored the president's friends or punished his perceived enemies. i would add to that steps that benefitted the president directly against serious allegations of criminal behavior. but the litany of things rosen's been involved in is amazing. among other things it was jeffrey rosen who tried to force an indictment of andrew mccabe, who was the acting fbi director who took over the fbi after trump fired comey. mccabe had overseen the important parts of the russia investigation. president trump demanded that mccabe be prosecuted and locked up. it was jeffrey rosen who tried to insist

his own attorney general today william barr dropped a december surprise on him. in an interview with the ap, barr said we have not seen fraud on a scale that would have effected a different outcome in the election. barr also appeared to throw a jab at trump saying there's a tendency with fraud with the justice department to investigate something. . so, bill barr is part of the conspiracy, too. >>> helping donald trump overturn the election, seems to be a bridge too far even for one of the president's most loyal allies. as attorney general william barr breaks with trump with the claims of election fraud. the question, will the president fire him too? >>> plus, new reporting that the president has discussed pardons for his three eldest children, jared kushner and rudy giuliani. the question is if pardons are for those of federal crimes, what potential crimes have been committed. >>> plus, a federal investigation into a bribery scheme involving presidential pardons. the question is who is involved? it's "way too early" for this. >>> good morning. and welcome to "way

william barr said some see the department of justice as a fix it all.nting at the fact that there are people who want the courts to overturn thielection for president trump, and rney general william bar has made it clear he's not going to do that. more tense. getting more and we heard a trump campaign lawyer suggest that christopher kreb, the former head of cybersecurity that president trump fired, should be shot. christopher kreb sd he is looking at legal action, all as a republican official in georgia is saying someone is going to get killed. we need you to lower down this rhetoric. toanother thin note, as all of this is happening, the president has continued to fundraiser for his election defense fund. he h raised at least $150 million.ui he's cont to get supporters toive money for what is a longshot bid win back the election in some way. judy: so disturbing, those threats and loss-of-life.for yamicha, lisa, we thank you both. ♪ while president-elect joe bideno a decisive victory, down ballot democts across the country struggled to hold onto seats th

a bucket of cold water's on president trump's bogus claims of election fraud, attorney general william barr said the justice department found no evidence that would change the results in the race for the white house. barr told the associated press his prosecutors investigated a number of claims but to date we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected the outcome of an election. barr said there would be one assertion that would be systemic fraud and that would be the assertion that the machines were programmed to skew the results. so far we have not seen anything to substantiateiate that. over the weekend the president found frustrated. >> why isn't the fbi all over the place? they are not. it is an incredible thing. they are not. it is an embarrassment to our country. >> reporter: the trump legal team is slamming barr saying with all due respect to the attorney general there hasn't been a semblence of a department of justice investigation. the president continues to tee off on republican governors refusing to join his quest to cling to power. the president said about the upcom