well. an attorney general is supposed to back up an investigation. you know, if there's evidence or suspicions that you would support looking into an investigation and the conclusion was the conclusion. there was, you know, no evidence that a crime of conspiracy existed. but, you know, he's kind of leap frogging that and forgetting that and now backing up the department by saying adopting the president's words here. and that is really shocking for the attorney general. >> again, if they went off the rails at the beginning and broke rules and broke laws and did things that were unethical or wrong, lay it out. if you want democrats and independents to believe that and you're the attorney general of the united states, don't you have to stop channeling the words of the president of the united states if at the end you want credibility in those findings? >> that is a really good point. and you can see barr what he's saying is leading the coverage exactly down that road. that interview opened up with a question of what he was looking at. and barr explained kind of what you said that he wants to see if