after william barr became attorney general in february 2019, he worked to kill further investigations related to those payoffs and suggested mr. cohen's conviction on campaign finance charges itself be reversed, even though six months had passed since cohen entered a guilty plea. amazingly after cohen was imprisoned for a year and being transferred out of prison to home confinement during covid 19, william barr and the doj intervened to block his transfer because cohen would not accept the condition of his ankle bracelet home confinement, not to engage in first amendment activities, specifically writing and publishing a book about donald trump or saying anything in public on tv or in social media about donald trump. cohen had been home for two weeks when this unconstitutional demand from doj appeared. when he and his attorney dared to ask questions about it, three federal marshals showed up with handcuffs and shackles and he was returned to the otis phil correctional institute where he spent 16 days in solitary confinement before they got the case before federal district judge who fou

in the same way we saw william barr distort the findings of robert mueller and his report, distortion and misleading in the words of a federal judge who read william barr's statements about that -- i'm concerned tha' is what will be contained in john durham's report as well. so i think merrick garland has some responsibility here to make the hard decision, and maybe that decision is to not let this be released into the public domain. maybe that decision is to investigate further and make sure there'sin a factual basis r what he has to say. >> what a tough decision to make at such a fraught time for the doj, barb. i mean we have talked at the beginning of the show about the unbelievable number of investigative walls that seem to be closing in around trump world, and i just want to go to sort of the breaking news we have this evening that the attorney general's office, manhattan prosecutors are trying to basically ratchet up the pressure on a man who's already in jail who has very important information regarding trump organization finances and of course speaking about allen weisselberg.

the conversation goes back and forth, he's very animated and we, being myself, attorney general william barr and mark billy pushing back on this notion about the use of active duty forces and i am talking about the historical precedent, what that would mean, the damage it would do to the institution, the damage it would do to the country and trying to explain to the president if we are going to use the military at all we should use the national guard and use it in the context of supporting law enforcement, that is how the national guard best informs its role. we reached this point in the conversation and the president columns down and leans over and looks forward really at millie and asks - makes the suggestion in the form of a question and says can't we just shoot them in the legs or something? what he is proposing is the military shoot the protesters to the protests. needless to say we were all taken aback by this. i remember documentaries of what happened at kent state, americans killed by the national guard and the tragedies of the vietnam era and all that happened and i didn't live thro

trump and his obliging sink fantic attorney generals like jeff sessions and william barr repeatedly pressured career prosecutors to go hard or go soft in particular cases, always seeking to reward trump's friends or to punish his enemies. if weaponization of the department of justice had any meaning, this is it. >> that is the state of play here, and if this is how it all starts, where does it go from here? joining us now is the staff writer at the atlantic and author of the upcoming book "romney a reckoning," which will be out this october and which we are going to talk about very shortly. thanks for joining me tonight. i want to get right to the numbers here. we have talked a lot about the strange rabbit hole of paranoia that certain factions of the gop have plunged us into, but the american public does not seem to be buying it if you look at the polling. "the washington post" abc poll found that a margin of 56 to 36% of americans think this committee is an attempt to score political points, and only 11% of respondents believe government agencies are biased against liberals. i mean, what do

trump and his obliging sycophantic attorney generals like jeff sessions and william barr repeatedly pressuredr prosecutors to gee hard or soft in particular cases always seeking to reward trump's friends or to punish his enemies. if weaponization of the department of justice has any meaning, this is it. the john durham investigation was trying to find wrongdoing by intelligence or law agencies in the mueller agency. it couldn't find anything of substance to it, but barr and durham kept pressing in abusive ways i hope your subcommittee will investigate. >> of course, jim jordan isn't going to do that, nor will he investigate how trump's weaponization culminated in using the justice department to try to overturn an election. this is nothing more than republicans nursing their own weird incessant self pity and self victimization. their anger that their cultural priorities are not mainstream or that their favorite conspiracies are not believable. it's all designed to turn a government platform into an ax grinding farce. the white house called it out for what it is, there fox news reboot of the ho

followed by williams, cook, barr, kashkari and waller on deck on wednesday. another round of initial jobless claims on thursday. then, the fed speak continues with waller and parker friday. we close out the week with the you missed sentiment survey --mich sentiment survey --umich sentiment survey. time for the rapidfire round, talking three quick questions, three quick answers. marilyn, i'm going start with you. does the fed cut rates in 2023? marilyn: no. katie: krishna? >> no. katie: cliff? >> no. katie: does the u.s. get back to 2% inflation next year? marilyn: 2024? potentially, yes. >> yes. >> no. katie: last question, do we see 3% or 4% first on 10 year treasury yields, marilyn? >> 4%. katie: krishna? >> 4%. katie: cliff? >> 4%. katie: sounds bearish to me. thanks to all, great discussion you guys, appreciate it so much. as we count on to the end of this week, you are looking at 10 year treasury yields sitting around 3.50. maybe we will get to 4% by the end of this year. s&p 500 after initially getting back to positive territory is down to .8%. am new y

many years, or even a sycophantic trump appointee a lifelong republican like attorney general william barr. if these people break from the habits of lying and lawlessness that define life as a camp follower in the coat of donald trump, if the weaponize campaign isn't partisan, it's entirely political. it's got an overriding electoral focus. you know what it is. it's all about restoring donald trump that the, twice impeached former president, to the office he lost by 7 million votes in 2020 and try to steal back in a political coup and violent insurrection against our constitutional order on january six 2021. do you disagree? well, please don't take my word for it. as our chairman would say, listen to what chairman jordan himself had to say six months ago. at the action conference in dallas, where he was predicting gop victory in the 22 elections and promising that oversight of hunter biden's laptop when the claim that the federal government is treating moms and dads like the ones in this room like terrorists would be the centerpiece of the gop's work in the house. relaxing with a friendly

companies knowingly facilitated trump's spread of disinformation or what his own attorney general william barrld come to call bullshit and gave voice to his followers glorification of violence and false record calls for civil war. today will hear from a former twitter employee turned corporate whistleblower and patriotic hero who raised the alarm inside twitter and numerous, about numerous accelerating warning signs that she saw leading up to the violence and catastrophic attack on the capitol on january 6, 2021. she is here today to publicly testify about a senior officials at twitter resisted her efforts to put policies in place or to enforce existing policies to promote public safety and to defend our national security. twitter management however did not want to cross donald trump i don't know precisely how we will solve the problem of private social media platforms being used for the organization of coups and incitement of violent insurrection against the united states or brazil or any other country, but this is a grave problem confronting democracy not just in america but all over the wor

companies knowingly facilitated trump's spread of disinformation or what his own attorney general william barr would come to call bullshit and gave voice to his followers glorification of violence and false record calls for civil war. today will hear from a former twitter employee turned corporate whistleblower and patriotic hero who raised the alarm inside twitter and numerous, about numerous accelerating warning signs that she saw leading up to the violence and catastrophic attack on the capitol on january 6, 2021. she is here today to publicly testify about a senior officials at twitter resisted her efforts to put policies in place or to enforce existing policies to promote public safety and to defend our national security. twitter management however did not want to cross donald trump i don't know precisely how we will solve the problem of private social media platforms being used for the organization of coups and incitement of violent insurrection against the united states or brazil or any other country, but this is a grave problem confronting democracy not just in america but all over the

michael cohen for many years, or even a sycophantic trump cab net appointee like attorney general william barrthese people break from the habits of lying and lawlessness that define life as a camp follower in the cult of donald trump. >> that -- i mean, let's just say this about congressman jamie raskin. he is the man for the moment. calling out the most audacious and dangerous elements of this version of the gop. but i thought of the list of names, i mean, they turned on cassidy hutchinson who was a trusted west wing adviser until the final hours of the trump presidency, general mark milley, when he testified before congress still in his job once president biden was i elected, was smeared viciously by trump and his media allies. mark esper, john kelly, the list goes on and on of the people who follow into that last category of sycophantic trump cabinet appointees and lifelong republicans who break from the habits of lying and lawlessness. >> yeah, first, let me just say, if this was about making a compelling tv show for the american people, chuck grassley and ron johnson are not tv you want t

companies knowingly facilitated trump's spread of disinformation or what his own attorney general william barr would come to call bullshit and gave voice to his followers glorification of violence and false record calls for civil war. today will hear from a former twitter employee turned corporate whistleblower and patriotic hero who raised the alarm inside twitter and numerous, about numerous accelerating warning signs that she saw leading up to the violence and catastrophic attack on the capitol on january 6, 2021. she is here today to publicly testify about a senior officials at twitter resisted her efforts to put policies in place or to enforce existing policies to promote public safety and to defend our national security. twitter management however did not want to cross donald trump i don't know precisely how we will solve the problem of private social media platforms being used for the organization of coups and incitement of violent insurrection against the united states or brazil or any other country, but this is a grave problem confronting democracy not just in america but all over the

recent reports about former attorney general bill barr and special counsel john durham, mr. williams, do you agree congressional oversight works best when it is bipartisan in nature? >> absolutely. >> have you seen example of of that in bipartisan investigations? it is so infrequent now. >> absolutely. great example in 2016 when the house committee on oversight led by republican chairman jason chaffetz and ranking member elijah cummings worked together on an investigation, bipartisan investigation, of the united states secret service and mismanagement and misbehavior their. it lead to bipartisan legislation that made, as i said, and the government work better, a more functional organization. >> what about cooperation between the branches of government? is it necessary for congress to be willing to work with the executive branch in investigations? >> yes and vice versa. the executive branch should be willing to work with congress as well. >> with that first instance trying to come to agreement as when and how documents and information should be given? >> absolutely. the public sees he