requests and see what happens. i think all of it has to be given time. this is the first time lawmakers are back on capitol hill this week after the news broke late thursday. i think that s what s going to happen here on capitol hill. meanwhile, democrats very clear they have some deep concerns about what is alleged to have happened. here s what they said. what has happened here are fingerprints of a dictatorship, not a democracy. what the administration did, justice department leadership as a former president goes beyond even richard nixon. reporter: one thing that pelosi made clear yesterday on cnn, she is not quite sure how it happened that jeff sessions and bill barr have said they have no idea about the dragnet searches. she says that s pretty unbelievable and beyond the pale. lot of questions what they knew
what were thosings ce conversat like? how could bill barr have decided there wasn t a factual basis for the case without looking at the evidence? he may refuse to answer them or evade them, but at least you get the american people thinking about these important questions and it s so powerful just to hear from his mouth what s in the report in a size that people can understand. no one is sitting down with that 400-page report. ellie, do you understand bill barr s decision to decide it was his duty to synthesize the mueller report and conclude whether or not a crime was committed? do you see anything in the law that it was his responsibility? it sounds like, as we have now confirmed, that robert mueller thought it was congress s responsibility. i think it was a political power play by bill barr and a sneaky move. he said in his four-page letter mueller s decision here leaves it to the attorney general.