justice department and attorney general knew and when. we learned that the national security lawyers were first alerted to the whistle-blowers allegations about one week before there was an actual formal referral. so the doj officials were total they related to the july 25thth phone call with the ukrainian president. we know the doj lawyers went to the white house to review the transcript of this call since the white house, as you mentioned, was also aware of the allegations. those lawyers then alerted officials at doj s criminal division and deputy attorney general s office, that attorney general bill barr was mentioned on this phone call. we know it wasn t until more than a week later that the inspector general officially referred the matter to the doj. the justice department has previously said that the attorney general was informed when the criminal referred was deliver to doj in late august,
let me just say, if i might, i don t subscribe necessarily to your to the way you analyze that, i m not supportive of that analytical charge. thank you. thank you, mr. chairman. mr. mueller, over here. hi. i want to start by thanking you for your service. you joined the marines and led a rifle platoon in vietnam and you earned a purple heart and you led the homicide unit here in d.c., and later northern district of california. assistant attorney general for doj s criminal division and the fbi director. so thank you. i appreciate that. having reviewed your biography it puzzles why you handled your duties in this case the way you did. the report contradicts what you taught young attorneys including to ensure that every defendant is treated fairly or a
i think that was president bush. according to my notes, it was president ronald reagan had the honor to do so. my mistake. under whose administration did you serve as the assistant attorney general in charge of the doj s criminal division? which president? yeah. that would be george bush i. that is correct, george h.w. bush. after that, you took a job at a prestigious law firm and after a couple of years, you did something extraordinary. you left that lucrative position to re-enter public service, prosecuting homicides here in washington, d.c. is that correct? correct. when you were named director of the fbi, which president first appointed you? bush. and the senate confirmed you with a vote of 98-0. correct? surprising. and you were sworn in as director just one week before the september 11th attacks? true.
hope there had been a primary challenge to the president. 41% do not. not exactly a promising sign for an incumbent. it means there can be an opening for strength. one notable combatant has stretched into the breach and formed an exploratory committee. the later u.s. assistant attorney for the doj s criminal division and ran as gary johnson s vice president in the libertarian party ticket. there is something else timely about bill weld s bid, he was once robert mueller s boss. hey, governor, welcome back. what was it like to be mueller s boss? it was terrifying. he is so well informed and thorough you just hesitated to even make any editorial comment. let me ask you something, michael. i think i heard it said on the show a few moments ago, that president trump yesterday expressed the thought. what itself so terrible about this idea of white nationalism
and at the same time, the number four at the doj, department of justice, his own wife was hired by fusion to work on the russian portion. and the only people paying and working with the russians were the democratic party, never conveying that to a judge. now, to me that raises big doubt. that s why when our memo was produced, through all those documents we had three individuals that have dealt with the fisa court before especially when it came to john radcliffe. he s a former u.s. attorney. what you found in this process is we took our document to the fbi and let them look at it and say is there anything you want to redact out of this. democrats all voted no for bringing that forward. when the democrats brought their memo up, all the republicans voted yes. they voted yes for both because we believe in transparency. the democrats never took their document to the fbi. they shifted it down to the president. that needs to make sure those methods of what the fbi uses is