representatives will vote on you know 11th to hold william barr in contempt of congress, as you know, and i think our viewers have heard. if this goes forward as expected with the democrats in control, he would be only the second attorney general in american history to be held in contempt. it comes on a day, as you know, that other committees are also bearing down on him and wilbur ross, it s part of his new agenda. yeah. a, walk us through what this news means to you politically that the democrats are still trying to get their pound of flesh from barr, and b, how will you approach mayor pete about it? well, i think it s a surrogate situation. we know that. they re going after him, and he deserves it, of course, for his behavior. but they re going after him. i don t think they re going to go after the president. i don t think impeachment is going to happen this summer. and if it doesn t happen this summer, i don t think it s going to happen. i think delay is a reality but it s ba
have you did you discuss your security clearance with the president? i m not going to go into security clearance-related issues. what i do know, again, is at that point after two years, i ve probably been more vetted than anybody. said no. can you say no? i have not discussed it with him. you haven t? no. categorically? no. okay. you have never discussed with him. what we have somebody unqualified to be in the position he is in. he is only there because he is the president s son-in-law. i put this solely at the feet of the members of congress. they need to subpoena people and punish people for not upholding the constitution. this is a family where they are out for themselves and to make money. we saw this today with the great reporting about chau and mitch mcconnell. we know that so many people are using this opportunity to enrich themselves. jared kushner, though, is equivocating over minor details in the interview. the problem is the president has already fram
be a criminal act. so there are many ways you can talk about that, invoking that while also acknowledging that it was a terrible idea and how many republicans or their experts said it was bad idea. there is way to do that. that s not the road he took. take a listen. my question to you is why didn t you pick up the phone and call the fbi? it was an email that said russia, that said the russian government was trying to help. why didn t you do that? jonathan, we re in a place now where people are playing monday morning quarterback and they re being so self righteous. had there been something that was actually nefarious at the meeting that came up, maybe we would have done something different. but the reality is the meeting was a total waste of time. would you call the fbi if it happened again? i don t know. it s hard to do hypotheticals. the reality is we were not given anything that was salacious. in some corners, people would call someone who behaves like that a traitor, but i
today they are going to have the watergate star witness john dean to testify as one of the experts. he certainly knows hi way around these issues along with former federal prosecutors who say they will conclude what mueller would not, that they have looked at the evidence as prosecutors, and they athink there is criminal obstruction of justice. and there may be some tiny crack in the democratic leadership as well. while pelosi and steny hoyer are not for impeachment, jim clyburn is now all of the sudden he is saying impeachment proceedings will begin at some point. you think that the president will be impeached or at least proceedings will begin in the house at some point, but just not right now? yes, that s exactly what i feel. i think we ve already begun it. that s new. now is that a new plan teeing up an actual road to impeachment proceedings, or is it and you have to always hold out the alternatives when you re dealing with politicians is it some
in office, but he could have reached a decision as to whether it was criminal activity, but he had his reasons for not doing it, which he explained. if you re not going to indict someone, then you don t stand up there and there and unload negative information about the person. that s not the way the department of justice does business. hmm. walk us through it. so i was yeah, so, you know, i was looking through all the confirmation hearing testimony and i saw that and i thought, boy, you know, that is just a flat contradiction. barr three months ago to get his job saying one thing and now saying something absolutely different. it s an attorney general. and, remember, the attorney general is our highest legal officer in the land. the person who is supposed to evince, you know, just the utmost respect for law in principle, and you have an attorney general who is literally careening from position to position whatever suits him on a given day in order to clear his boss, the presiden