bill barr wasn t sworn in yet. one week before bill barr was sworn in, we brought in mr. whitaker. we threatened him with a subpoena and made public declaration about a subpoena. until we find out the night before sent him a letter saying if you showed up we won t do a subpoena. so, it s a little bit hard for me to hear how this congress, this committee, and then we re not even going to get started on mr. schiff who, again, loves a camera, loves a microphone, loves his own gavel, but doesn t like to have to answer his own questions about his own work and what he s actually done. he like to have to answer questions. him and mr. goldman last week on who ordered the matching of that so that they could unmask ranking member and journalist when they could have just as easily put in if it had been proper member one, congress person one, individual it doesn t matter. they could have used whateverto
yet. they re getting ready to vote for their christmas president. i think the american people next november will remember their christmas president. if we want to talk about the sanctity of subpoenas, why did the majority withdraw from the suit? why did they withdraw from that? they wanted to continue they could have done this. they could have had this charade and stayed in court. don t hand me these high and mighty arguments about process. this is about congress just being petulant and saying we don t want because we wanted it now. i can take you back to february of this year. acting attorney general whitaker. i ll remind some of the folks. they were trying to get acting attorney general whitaker here because they were trying to make political points before as the year got started because there was nothing rolling yet. mueller hadn t happened so they couldn t talk about it except in broad generic terms.
when he said the bush white house appreciated the independence of the justice department and there s a difference between being a governmental lawyer and representing an individual in his personal capacity versus what you do at doj. i m joined by emily. that s from her thorough piece in the new york times entitled who is bill barr in . it looks at how established republicans thought he was one of them and he s not. i think when bill barr was appointed attorney general, we were coming out of sessions and then there was an acting attorney general whitaker. and whitaker was kind of a hack and not able to stand up to trump and maintain the independence of the justice department. you have barr who has george h.w. bush on his resume. that stands for moderate republicans. and i think there was a desire on the part of a lot of people to imagine that he was going to be a really professional
at the justice department yesterday. attorney general william barr, rod rosenstein, former acting attorney general whitaker for a presentation to jeff sessions. the report was not delivered yesterday. those close to the process suggested it was unlikely given the timing of this public event. next steps as you mentioned are guided by federal regulations known at 28cfr600 that state the mueller report is confidential to the attorney general and must outline prosecutions and where no criminal action is taken. listen to this exchange from barr s confirmation hearings where he commits to transparency but appears to stop short of releasing the full mueller findings. will you provide mueller s report to congress, not your rewrite or a summary? the regs do say that mueller is supposed to do a summary
been consistent. the democrats are trying to find out the facts, and my good friends they are my good friends republicans are defending the white house. but i think this is not about either one of us. this is about the american people. and we ve taken an oath to uphold the rule of law and to be able to provide to the american people the accountability that is necessary to uphold the rule of law. it will be our task not to cast judgment, not to immediately decide what has happened between our hearing and the meeting that was just held, but to pursue the facts. and once we pursue the facts and we ll make a determination as to just what happened with former acting attorney general whitaker. thank you, congresswoman. i appreciate your time. thank you so very much, don. it s been good to be with you this evening. you too. beto o rourke is in iowa, and he s telling vanity fair that he is, quote, born to do this. it sure seems like he s about to announce, and he may have dropped