he wanted attorney general bill barr to come out in public and basically do a repeat of what he did with the mueller report. he came out and said everything was totally fine. the president did nothing wrong, et cetera. now, barr didn t do it and, hopefully, we ll hopefully learn in the coming days why. but let s be crystal clear. they put out a statement, a written statement, that said, there wasn t even enough evidence for an investigation, let alone any sort of charges. so, they gave the president that political cover and a really strong defense point. but apparently, attorney general barr wasn t willing to do it in front of a camera. all right. it will play out in front of a camera on wednesday. public hearings begin. marshall cohen, good to see you, my friend. thank you. steve bannon, president trump s former chief strategist is expected to testify agains roger stone in his trial for lying to congress. bannon was a key witness in the mueller investigation.
media, only that he had given it to his lawyers. that is a violation. but it s a technical violation. i think barr made a wise decision. barr wasn t going to prosecute trump on obstruction of justice. he didn t prosecute comey for leak and disobeying fbi rules which is not a criminal violation anyway. chris: up next, the president imposes tariffs on $112 billion in chinese goods starting today. we ll discuss the fallout with the head of the afl houston cio. that s next.
media, only that he had given it to his lawyers. that is a violation. but it s a technical violation. i think barr made a wise decision. barr wasn t going to prosecute trump on obstruction of justice. he didn t prosecute comey for leak and disobeying fbi rules which is not a criminal violation anyway. chris: up next, the president imposes tariffs on $112 billion in chinese goods starting today. we ll discuss the fallout with the head of the afl houston cio. that s next. val, vern. i m off to college and i m not gonna be around. i m worried about my parents retirement. oh, don t worry. voya helps them to and through retirement. .dealing with today s expenses. .like college.
general of maryland and d.c. say they will appeal. what do they appeal? this is a three-judge panel, they can go to the full-court of appeals. they re stuck with the fourth. why aren t they in the d.c. circuit? because the suit was filed in maryland. i don t know why. whether they thought they would do better there or not. there are other emoluments cases pending. there s one filed by members of congress. they say the constitution says the president can t fake an emolument without permission of congress and he s not asking our permission. there are other cases like the onified by krew on appeal, as well. the record so far on these cases is they have flown well. robert, i brought new before to explain the emoluments case a few times. i struggled to see how d.c. had standing. i kind of understood maryland.
but there was evidence that there were other girls who did want to come forward and that they had something in the number of 30 of them including an entire racket there of schedulers and other accomplices who were in on this. james, the hardest part of this story is that there s acosta didn t act alone here in this decision-making process. this is the part of this that i m just we re putting it all on him. it s like do we think a u.s. attorney made all of these decisions on his own? in a billionaire case that they re doing like this? no. and i think that s one of the reasons people have to fear congressional oversight is because some of those people are on the other side of the negotiating table with someone from bill barr s law firm who was negotiating the deal with acosta. barr wasn t involved in the case but he s recused himself from looking back at that decision that was made, not the current case. so i think there are a lot of people, separate from epstein s