struggle with the coming late to protecting democracy, coming late to calling a lie a lie, in bill par s case coming late to calling bs, bs. where does in your case showing grace for those people come from? the better late than never slogan or saying is the optimist s way of looking at it. you know, the piss mist i guess that s the optimistic way of looking at it but the pessimistic way was you should have done it from the beginning. right. and the realist part is where i m at. i m mad at you for not doing it earlier but i m glad you did it. that s how democracy works, you re allowed to have different opinions within the law. oppress people as much as you want within the law but once you cross the borderline of breaking the law that s when you take a stand. i guess you re legally right but morally it s still reprehensible
the events of january 6th. there s a lot of news to get through tonight. so, with the help of our lead off panel, let s get smarter. katie benner joins us, justice department reporter from the new york times. former friend and adviser to melania trump, stephanie winston wolkoff, she wrote the book, melania and me: the rise and fall of my friendship with the first lady. and a former u.s. attorney and former senior fbi official, chuck rosenberg. joins us. katie, jog our memories. bill barr s deposition that we saw today, with significantly different from all the public statements we heard from him as attorney general. can you remind our viewers of the role he played before he started calling bs? sure. so, a lot happened, of course, before the election. and after the election, it s easy to forget. but before the election, we saw, back in april of 2020, donald trump saying if he lost, it was going to be because of fraud. so he was saying that months and months and months before the ele
stephanie winston wolkoff, she wrote the book, melania and me: the rise and fall of my friendship with the first lady. and a former u.s. attorney and former senior fbi official joins us. katie, jog our memories. bill barr s deposition that we saw today, with significantly different from all the public statements we heard from him as attorney general. can you remind our viewers of the role he played before he started calling bs? sure. so, a lot happened, of course, before the election. and after the election, it s easy to forget. but before the election, we saw, back in april of 2020, donald trump saying if he lost, it was going to be because of fraud. so he was saying that months and months and months before the election. and, bill barr, the former attorney general, echoed those sentiments, also before the election, in september, to the media, to cnn, to npr, and to congress, saying that any election that has a lot of mail in the ballots, as 2020 was going to have, will certainly be
didn t do well or knew better and peaced out of the situation so that they wouldn t be caught up in what they thought was either morally or criminally objective. there are a lot of information to sijt size. i know you began with the likes of attorney general bill barr and just the idea of the highest law enforcement officer in the land, at one time, calling bs. you know, he did not abbreviate the term but calling bs which really had me wondering about the idea of how you were trying to piece together the question that a lot of people were asking when january 6th happened, which was what was the president of the united states doing and thinking and saying while we were all watching what was unfolding? are you confident that you will be able to answer that question through various conduits that are credible? and will it stand to be able to withstand those who are already doubting and saying no, no, i never said that. congress manipulate steve perry. i i never asked for a pardon. othe
donald trump s former attorney general bill barr is calling bs on donald trump and making himself look worse in the process, reporting from a new book, barr claims he always new trump s election lies and talk of voter fraud and illegal ballots were from the beginning just, you see it on the screen. family newscast, i don t need to say the word. you see it there. as with so many things that come down to bill barr, this is actually worse than it sounds like. some may rejoice at a trump person calling bs on trump, barr is admitting his own deceit, lying to the american people, using his power to longer and justify things he says, his words all along, bs, indeed, after the election he was parroting all kinds of trump s false claims. i think there s a range of