questions about investigative steps or decision making processes that attorney general william barr talked a lot about and has gone out of his way to characterize what mueller did and why. mueller according to the justice department won t be allowed to explain them? you hit on the most remarkable thing. the attorney general has testified three times about this report and held a press conference and talked about it in a number of interviews and talked about his own decision making and mueller s decision making and the president s motivations for why he took the actions that he did and has done so in terms that go far beyond what the report says. it feels like s rerun that bill bar can say anything he wants and why doj made the decisions they did and what s property of appropriate and what s not, but the special counsel shouldn t be allowed to do so. given that not just in the
it and the future justice department ought to look at it. you have seen the democratic candidates expect their attorney general to look at the opinion and issue a new one. i think it s one thing to have an olc opinion that puts the president above criminal law, but when you pair that with a justice department who is unwilling to tell congress what it finds at the end of investigations, you have this system where the president is ultimately above the law. he can not be investigate and changed by the justice department, but where the southern district of new york can end to his conduct as they did earlier this week and the justice department won t say whether the attorney general was involve and won t answer questions to congress. they will have to look at the next attorney general at either one, withdrawing that memo and putting something different in place. or two, making it very clear that if doj will have this policy, they are going to cooperate 100% with congress at
prison for committing a crime that we now know he actively participated in organization straighting. maybe they should look at the memo who said a president is above the law. the congress ought to look at it and the future justice department ought to look at it. you have seen the democratic candidates expect their attorney general to look at the opinion and issue a new one. i think it s one thing to have an olc opinion that puts the president above criminal law, but when you pair that with a justice department who is unwilling to tell congress what it finds at the end of investigations, you have this system where the president is ultimately above the law. he can not be investigate and changed by the justice department, but where the southern district of new york can end to his conduct as they did earlier this week and the justice department won t say whether the attorney general was
about ilhan omar. and house minority leader kevin mccarthy also tried to dismiss things. here s the fact check. mr. president, if i may, when your supporters last night were chant send her back, why didn t you stop them, why didn t you ask them to stop them? i think i did, i started to speak very quickly. it was i disagree with it, by the way. but it was quite a chant. and i i felt a little bit badly about it. but i will say this, i did and i started speaking very quickly but it started up rather fast and you probably know. he said it was a small group off to the side. send her back. send her back. he moved on to make them stop in the process. send her back. send her back. send her back. send her back. but you want to dislike the president so much you re going to accuse him of trying to do
months ago. that was the last time the southern district of new york had contact with the trump organization. that coincides with the swearing in of bill barr as u.s. attorney general. did he put his thumb on the scale, did he put the kibosh on the investigation? these are things that maybe congress needs to investigate. this is something that we said a long time ago that what we were concerned about bill barr lying about mischaracterizing robert mueller s letter, the more frightening aspect of his new position and it seems as a defense lawyer for donald trump and not actually an acting attorney general for the united states of america, would be all the prosecutions he decided not to pursue or all the politically charged prosecutions he decided to pursue for the benefit of the president. yeah. that s right. look, i find it suspicious that the justice department won t answer this question about who made the decision. look earlier this week, doj decided they weren t going to