lawmakers, those democrats who flipped those red seats. so far we only see one of them, tom malinowski of new jersey, call for impeachment. while there are over 50 democrats calling for impeachment and that is significant, it is still the minority view in the caucus. but the numbers are growing at least among the public, 41% supporting impeachment, up a little from last month. nick, in your piece in the daily news you say that mueller destroyed trump s lies in his public statement. how so? he destroyed it because basically trump has been saying since barr came out with his so-called summary of the mueller report that he was exonerated and there was no collusion. basically mueller came out and said that the only reason he didn t conclude that trump committed any crimes was because he was hemmed in by the department of justice policy that doesn t allow a sitting president to be indicted. so he basically got up there and
then he says, i m just disappointed in you. don t bring alex witt into this. i love alex. bill barr could tell bob mueller, bob, i m your supervisor, your superior and i am overseeing this probe. i want you to make a decision. bill barr didn t do that. instead, he took the report and then he took advantage of bob mueller s belief that he couldn t render an opinion on obstruction because that s for the congress to do. it really is this sort of political double speak that doesn t withstand scrutiny. what do you make of the back and forth this week where barr claimed that the special counsel could have reached a decision on obstruction? kind of gave many people whiplash. i think that he would have been damned if he did and robert mueller said conclusively i would have indicted president trump but for the fact of the olc opinion saying that i
several months and after jeff sessions was forced out and and barr released the four-page summary, the justice department under bill barr stiffing the courts, the congress in terms of documents asked for and ordered by federal judges. mark warner has been on top of an investigation, the top democrat saying that barr is a personal advocate for the president. not supposed to be doing that. and has very little credibility. adam schiff, you saw him. of course, adam schiff is the chairman of the house intelligence committee and he s very concerned as are many others about the president s granting bill barr the sweeping powers to declassify documents in this search for the investigation of the investigations and the origins of the mueller investigation and other investigations into president trump, possible collusion, possible conspiracy
kevin, kelly fang and legal analyst glen kushner. kevin, what can you tell us about barr s investigation right now? well, i think it s getting a lot of applause from republicans and in terms of how attorney general barr continues to do that, they re looking at polls and talking to republican strategists in particular they say that this has become a politically divisive issue and the republicans standing behind president trump on this particular point and you heard that point in that interview with mark warner. democratses are frustrated at this because they feel it s totally up ended the entire process. the question becomes when lawmakers return from recess tomorrow, just precisely how democrats are going to continue on with their chatter of impeachment because we can get into the weeds and get wonky in terms of whether or not there s impeachment chatter or an investigation into impeachment but at the end of the day folks
whether you hear from constitutional experts as well as fact witnesses if they can testify and make a decision. what about any damaging material that was left on the cutting room floor by robert mueller, a 400 page report is ridiculous. but the point i m making is there s plenty of people who said it s in there. if you want more maybe you re being a bit of a wimp here. the obstacle to impeachment is not these claims of executive privilege the white house is making. it s nancy pelosi because she doesn t want to do it because she thinks the politics are bad and she also agrees with bill barr. bill barr didn t think a real legal jury would convict. justice amash has, yes, criticized him before. here he is. i think that trump presents a kind of threat to our system that is maybe in some ways bigger than what the democrats