That does it for the beat tonight. You can always find us on facebook at the the beat with ari. Hardball has promised is up next. Finding more, lets play hardball. Good evening, im chris mat use. San francisco, roy moore republican colleagues, a new powerful voice that has weighed in. United states Attorney General and former senior senator from alabama, Jeff Sessions joined a number of his former colleagues in saying he has no reason to doubt the women who have accused u. S. Senate candidate roy moore of Sexual Misconduct allegations moore denies. Heres the Attorney General. I took the liberty of reviewing federal crimes against children, particularly those dealing with sexual or physical abuse. As you well know, lee coughman, wendy miller, debby watson gibson and Beverly Young nelson, these young women have accused this individual, judge moore, who is running for a federal office, the United States senate, of child sexual activity. Do you believe these young women . I am have no reas
i appreciate that you can have your idea. sometime we have to study what the facts are and to evaluate whether it meets the standard that requires a special counsel. as the republicans pushing hard for a special counsel, the attorney general s boss, president trump, he s also on the case. let s watch. you know, the saddest thing is that because i m the president of the united states i am not supposed to be involved with the justice department. i m not supposed to be involved with the fbi. i m not supposed to be doing the kind of things that i would love to be doing and i m very frustrated by it. i m not involved with the justice department. i d like to let it run itself. they should be looking at the democrats and at podesta and all that dishonesty. a lot of people are disappointed in the justice department, including me. i m joining with barbara
mckwad. michael, do you get a sense the attorney general is trying to keep his job here by slow walking this thing and turn it over to the bureaucrats? he certainly appeased the president for now. this is something the president really wants. if he had a special counsel to point to on the other side and say there s a special counsel investigating democrats, it would distract from the problem engulfing his presidency, robert mueller. the russia investigation has intensified in the last couple weeks. there s been charges. this would offset that. barbara, what would you investigate if you were a prosecutor in the federal justice department, investigate this decision by this inner cabinet tasks force, they approved the uranium deal, agreed to it, signed it at the cabinet level. what would be the body of the crime to investigate? it was all done transparently and by the correct procedures.
syncy. he s posted a letter from the office of inspector general at the department of interior. what this is about is apparently interior secretary making calls reportedly threatening federal resources for the state of alaska in order to pressure senator lisa mer cous ski on health care reform. we were just discussing this with barbara mckwad, a u.s. attorney, she was describing this as a example of log rolling, something distasteful but not criminal. it is the sub of a open ethics investigation by the interior department inspector general. that news breaking moments ago. joining us now, recall ter should wash. he was the director of the office of ethics, he s the senior mr. shaw thank you for