actually president trump i believe speaking on the south lawn. he said that barr was his first choice from day one. well the question everyone wants to know is what does barr make of the russia investigation, because depending on how long his confirmation process goes be with he will likely oversee the end of the probe. all we have to go on are the op-eds he wrote as a pundit including for the "washington post" in which he defended the decision to fire james comey, the former fbi director. including this line. he says by you know i laterally announcing conclusions regarding how the matter should be resolved james comey abrogated the attorney general authority to himself. certainly there are already senators democrat and republican who say they want barr to pledge to protect the mueller probe should he be confirmed, ali. >> let's switch over to heather nauert, an anchor at fox, a spokesperson at the state department. then she became the -- a deputy