off each of the 37 felony counts. trump is facing them over his handling of classified materials. right now, officials in miami and the u.s. secret service are on alert for any threats of violence on tuesday and beyond. what gives me the most pratas is the truly bottomless devotion to trump zone by the nation s most powerful republican lawmakers this weekend men and women who insist that they are beholden to law and order yet they ve already deemed trump innocent of all charges before he s even been arraigned. as usual, they are vocal to the point of zealotry about defending a rich white republican male with a history of subverting the law. at best, they are silent about the death of unarmed black americans killed by police, even civilians, like the women accused of killing aj owens, a mother of four, a week ago in florida. i will go there tomorrow to deliver the eulogy. my thoughts on that later. , plus all the latest developments on the trump indictment. all of that is toni
it that is the weird thing about the american economy. you can look at the macroeconomics but it feels different to be in it. in the broad aggregate sense, it is way better than i feared it would be. we ll take that statement and run with it. thanks for joining us. one of the many revelations to come out of the january 6 committee hearings was bill barr describing how he pushed back against the election fraud claims. he called them complete b.s. despite the heroic headlines generated by barr s testimony, it is a good point to remember that barr did not say anything publicly debunking those same claims of election fraud until december 1, which was nearly a month after the 2020 election. in fact, before his post-trump rehabilitation tour, this was the bill barr we knew. what happened to the president in the 2016 election and throughout the first two years of his administration was abhorrent. it was a grave injustice and it was unprecedented in american history. the la
to trump s former attorney general, bill barr, he went on fox news on sunday to talk about the indictments. this is his selected attorney general. listen. . i was shocked by the degree of sensitivity of these documents. how many there were, frankly. and, so, the government s agenda was to get those and protect those documents. to get them out. it is. perfectly appropriate to do that. it was the right thing to do. . this idea of presenting trump as a victim, here a victim of a witch hunt is ridiculous. this is much different. he s not a victim here. he was totally wrong. in response, trump called mr. barr a, quote, disgruntled former employee. he called the commentary, misinformation.
quote, terrifying attacks in legislation. meanwhile, the north carolina republican party voted on saturday to censor senator tom for his work on respect for marriage act. which recognized same-sex and interracial marriages under federal law. what do you make of the hostility towards lgbtq people being at the foundation of the republican party right now? it s mind-boggling to me. you ve got people that are members of the state central committees who actually think that they had the power to legislate. if they want to legislate the major run for office, rather than just sit underneath the state party title. it is their job strictly to support those that are in office. it is their job to fund-raise. to register voters, to get the vote out. not to tell these legislators how they should and should not vote.
shows that we re not dealing with just mistakes or slo sloppiness. there is something far more troubling here and we ll get to the bottom of it. but i think what happened to him was one of the greatest travesties in american history. that is the bill barr we knew for the years of the trump administration. trump s attorney general spent the vast majority of his time do everything he could to cast doubts on investigations into trump. he argued that the doj and fbi, institutions that he oversaw, were somehow part of a deep state plot to overthrow president trump. barr a pointed john durham, career justice department prosecutor to investigate the origins of the intelligence community s investigation into trump and his 2016 campaign dealings with russia. right before the 2020 election, barr would promote durham to special counsel protecting his work from any future doj s