administration, trump would attack the justice department and you would see people in congress saying, i don t think that s appropriate. even republicans would do it. and they ve changed where they re not being silent. you see republicans joining him and repeating the messages that he s launching. not just from outside the administration but now from inside the justice department as well. this is all true. i can t make you feel better. this is the reality we ve been living through for the last 2 1/2 years. the keyword to the conversation is something he said two weeks ago. he s still out there alone. it s the fact that this is not where his party is, the fact that liz cheney wants to move up the lanranks of leadership is what s driving all of this. behind it are real changes to the administration of justice and intelligence gathering. what s so reckless about what liz cheney is doing, is through
her own career, she knows better. your paper had a piece over the weekend about barr serving as the driving force and securing the power to declassify government secrets. what barr has done is professionalized sort of the debasement of law enforcement. i also part of me does wonder what and it doesn t matter. does wonder what dick cheney thinks of this. but he s an institutional in his own way. he took i don t think that means anything. i don t think it means anything. in the service of trump, they ve forgotten all of that. it doesn t matter because he s not in office anymore and liz cheney is the one who s in office. you do wonder what is said privately. certainly within the intelligence communities. i think it s appropriate that we re talking about liz cheney and bill barr within the same breath.
this nation saying they were going to stop a duly elected president of the united states. that could be treason. that was liz cheney third highest prp in the house, dangerous accusation of a failed coup. only one member of trump s own party has come out publicly against him, congressman amash from michigan. a few weeks ago he said the president engaged in impeachable conduct. today he set his sights on bill barr in a tweet. attorney general barr has deliberately misrepresented key aspects of mueller s report and decisions in the investigation. he ends with this. barr has so far successfully used his position to sell the president s false narrative to the american people. this will continue if those who have read the report did not start pushing back on his misrepresentations and share the truth. joining our conversation, former
chief spokesman department of justice matt miller back from parts unknown. i want to get you on all of that. first of all, liz cheney worked at the state department. she knows a coup. calling fbi and justice department people who engaged in a coup is really dangerous stuff. really dangerous. in some ways liz cheney has always been there way. what s changed is the republican party. when i was at the justice department liz cheney led a campaign attacking public officials at the justice department calling them al qaeda 7 for representing gitmo detainees in prior practice ignoring that s one of the greatest traditions of the american legal practice, everyone deserves representation. eventually lindsey graham stood up and said she ought to knock it off because it s inappropriate. fast forward, there s no lindsey graham anymore. even lindsey graham isn t lindsey graham. while liz cheney is there, the
difference is the rest of the republican party is there. you have an attorney general who from inside the justice department is kind of leading the war on both the intelligence community and the people that work for them. justin amash, there s only attention to him both because he deserves create for being the one and it s such an indictment of the rest of the republican party. liz cheney included, for continues to lie on behalf of donald trump and attorney general barr. do you think the indictment of barr goes anywhere, carries anymore weight coming from a republican? i would like to think so. to believe that, you would have to be ignoring the evidence of the last 2 1/2 years. this isn t new to this, slowly capture the mind share of the entire republican party. and it happened slowly for a while. you had members of congress this kind of thing this treason comments, remember, at the beginning of the beginni