this point. about justice, the rule of law as it applies to people in the government. finally, this interview gives us a little bit of insight that barr may be the person, finally have an attorney general who is serious about this, looking beyond the one agent who change the fisa warrant to get it passed himne a much broader than that, i was pretty early struck when martha asked him about why if we were worried about the interference during the election, why wasn t candidate and president-elect trump given a defensive briefing about what the nature of what russia was supposed to be doing to this election. he said he was interested in that choice to not give him a briefing that he may have been a target or the russians are trying to do this, which tells you the level of corruption involved in this house of cards that they vels built up. jason: sara, that comes out in spades when you go through and read inspector general c
horowitz s report. but the question martha threw to the inspector general, he does talk about the idea that a defensive briefing is a real question mark. the defensive briefing is so significant that i ve written about this, before i ve written about this over a year ago, if they offer an defensive briefing to hillary clinton, why wouldn t they offer the same type of detailed defensive briefing to presidentou trump? there can only be one answer. if you really think this through, with all the evidence they knew,ll they wanted to spyn members of the trump campaign. if they gave them the detailed defensive briefing, they would not be able to do that. jason: gregg, we talked off-line about this. where is this going? it s on page 76 as he reminded me earlier tonight and reread it again. sally eights, attorney general, as well as obama, and the attorney general loretta lynch all recommended a defensive briefing.
jason: more developments tonight in the quest for equal justice. as attorney general bill barr sat down with our own martha maccallum and made one thing m clear, the boomerang of justice is in full swing. take a look. i think some of them are very hard to square with the ideaer that these were just mistakes and sloppiness. horowitz himself in his testimony i think pretty well summed it up, which is thislf could be on the one hand at the very least grow some confidence. on the other hand, it could be improper motive. he was not in a position to make that call, and that s why we have attorney john durham looking into this. one of the things that i object to is the attack from comey which is to suggest that people criticizing or getting to the bottom of the misconduct are somehow attacking the fbi. i think that s nonsense.