on his country in the 2020 election. that central scheme is one in which the president implicated william barr multiple times in that call and barr knew about it and barr nevertheless didn t recuse himself and allowed his justice department to get involved and say, definitely don t hand this over to congress. and yeah, we ll look at this as a criminal matter. and we think that presidents can t be investigated for criminal matters so file this in the circular file. barr s involvement will be the way he goes down in history. it is just amazing. i was on my way to austin at dawn tomorrow to participate in the texas tribune festival down there. i m going to be here tomorrow night. i m going to get to austin on saturday. i think i d better be here. don t you have that feeling? i mean the news is happening in texas, too, but i feel like i don t think we can do it, if you could pan down and see my desk
imploring this foreign country to help him out with some dirt on his country in the 2020 election. that central scheme is one in which the president implicated william barr multiple times in that call and barr knew about it and barr nevertheless didn t recuse himself and allowed his justice department to get involved and say, definitely don t hand this over to congress. and yeah, we ll look at this as a criminal matter. and we think that presidents can t be investigated for criminal matters so file this in the circular file. barr s involvement will be the way he goes down in history. it is just amazing. i was on my way to austin at dawn tomorrow to participate in the texas tribune festival down there. i m going to be here tomorrow night. i m going to get to austin on saturday. i think i d better be here. don t you have that feeling? i mean the news is happening in texas, too, but i feel like i
arm, lindsey, take the trump i.v. out and stop it. what is this breach? tell me what is the that s deeper than recusing yourself from the mueller probe? what is deeper than that for trump? nothing. there is nothing deeper than that for trump with respect to this attorney general. so this is all about exactly as the question was put to him about how this president was to fire the attorney general simply for that reason. so this idea that, you know, the attorney general has done sessions has done something so horrible, so much worse than that. what is the only thing the president has been talking about for 18 months? how this attorney general didn t recuse himself. he s never inferred, because he can t help himself. if it s something deep, he ll tell us what it is. it might be what he hasn t done with respect to the other side of the coin, which is lots of republicans want the attorney general to launch investigations into hillary clinton, even though it has been investigated.
not necessarily. there s a chance he may have stayed. let me finish. so what s clear is that he acted based on the guidance he was given by the career lawyers, whose job it is to give suggestions in these scenarios. and what has he done despite that sphhe didn t recuse himself but gone about trying to please donald trump. i m sorry, but the spokesperson at the justice department who s denying it, she s been caught denying things that have been proven true in the past. they deny everything. what we do know according to the article mueller is looking at all of this, and everything is a piece in the puzzle as you well know, laura, including that first statement that statement aboard air force one. al wolff rights in the book he thought that statement was it led one of mr. trump s spokesman
campaign and became attorney general. didn t recuse himself from anything. there were no investigations into the obama 2008 campaign. but jake, this investigation goes well beyond just the campaign. sure. i don t think there was a need for him to recuse himself based upon his association with the campaign. now, if he believed that once he gave answers that at best were confusing regarding his interaction with russia, at that point i think, you know, it was much more defensible to recuse. but i want to be clear about what i think needed to be done here. i don t think he needed to recuse over his involvement in the campaign. but i do think that once he gave misleading or confusing answers about russia, that that became more of a problem. what do you think about the way president trump has been treating him, really, it seems like berating him until he quits, although he has not quit. it wouldn t be my style and hasn t been my style as an executive. if i have a problem with a m