ins gait the appointments a independent counsel for a scandal in the late period of the bush administration. >> one of the areas of your expertise, executive power, something expanding in the white house for some time, obviously the attorney general is key to that idea, that the president can do things particularly that congress doesn't want him to do now the president is facing a democratically controlled congress. do we know what barr thinks about that? >> barr is a long-standing proposant of an extremely sweeping vision of unfettered executive power. when he was brought into the george h. w. bush administration in 1989 he initially led the office of legal counsel which decides what the law means for the executive branch. and he wrote memos in that capacity, calling for much more pushback against what he saw as congressional encroachment on executive power after watergate and after the iran contrascandal. he is clearly skeptical of