sigh commit policy committee. lots of criticism now aimed at the attorney general. why did the doj apparently deep six the complaint, why did they not pass it to congress, as required by law, why did the doj decide not to investigate poll campaign finance violations in the call. do you think the attorney general has done anything wrong. it s hard to know here. i don t think there s any offed to suggest the ag did anything wrong here. the question, whether he has to recuse, that s the question of how involved he was in the underlying matter, whether he was materially participating in it. all we know is the president s had a phone call to date we haven t heard anything that barr did anything, that he called or did any actions at all. it s not clear what the ag would have done in terms of asking the ukrainian president to investigate joe biden or his son. so obviously an odd thing raised by the president, with the president of the ukraine, but
the underlying matter, but also his analysis of whether there was a crime here. if in fact the congress goes forward with the impeachment effort, the ag will be likely called to testify because he appears to be a material part of this question. that alone may be a basis for recusal. the last time a an attorney general recused from a matter involved in the president, the president got very upset. we saw the shaming of jeff sessions all over twitter. that i may take effect if the attorney general decides to recuse. eric: the democrats and those in the hill will probably be hearing from him, rather shortly. always good to see you, thank you. appreciate it. eric: we have reaction from a member of congress coming up. we ll interview him about the subpoena of mike pompeo and this
not clear what the ag s role if any was in this matter and the underlying matter at all. eric: the democrats say that the picture s already in, it s clear that he s doing the president s bidding, they accuse him of acting like the president s personal lawyer by the actions the justice department apparently took by not releasing this material, by not sending it to congress and you heard nancy pelosi calling it the coverup of the coverup. of tto you, does that hold any water? there s a very fair debate going on about whether or how the whistleblower complaint should have been delivered to congress. the question is whether this was a matter arising under the intelligence role of the dni. there was apparently a debate within the justice department, whether that was the case, they decided no which is why they advised the dni not to release it. it involved the use of the intelligence system at the white house where they stored the material and whether the underlying discussions came under
voters of that, as some of her 2020 competitors come out in support of it now. i called for an impeachment because i believe it was clear that the president had broken the law and that congress needed to hold him accountable. the way to hold him accountable is to impeach him. i hope we go forward with care and deliberation, but that we do it quickly. reporter: candidates who were slower to support impeachment seem to be changing their minds. they re also making it clear they don t want it to overshadow their campaigns. i think that every moment we are talking about donald trump is a victory for donald trump and that includes when we talk about impeachment. they said the impeachment media spotlight ended up drawing attention away from that vision, i think it s not good for the country. reporter: another 2020 hopeful who has supported impeachment in the past, bay toe
heatherable.arthel: i didn t a. does anything concern you as pertains to the national security of the united states of america or perhaps putting the president of the united states of america in jeopardy by way of potential blackmail? no. i don t. there are things that are listed inside of the whistleblower complaint that congress, whether you re a republican or democrat, regardless of whether you support the president or don t, can ask follow-up questions and i would imagine as we re starting to see there are questions that are going to be asked. unfortunately, credibility, good faith is part of this process as well. and when the committee has the responsibility for example of asking questions to the director of national intelligence and you ryour opening statement is misquoting the president of the united states on many different things that are not in the whistleblower complaint, you start questioning credibility and good faith.