relationships. people get jobs all the time. it s the fact that he s a predator and you re placing him with potential victims and nobody s stepping in to say, wait, hold up, this person, we need to go more research on this person and do a background check. then you see this person for decades. i think that we ve learned a lot in the me too era about enablers. we ve learned a lot about the fact that people are not predatory in isolation, that there are people around that individual that are allowing it to continue, whether it be assistants to jeffrey epstein who are or young women who are going out to recruit additional victims. there is a circle of people that are that all need to be held accountable and not just jeffrey epstein, and i think bill barr s father is in that group and i think donald trump and his associates are in that group. so i m sure donald trump may be nervous today, but i m sheer the people who hang out with donald trump are also nervous today. mimi, we re goin
beyond the four corners of his document. i agree we need to know things from him. and foremost among those things is what he does think of barr s prosecutorial decision. barr felt no compunction in that direction. so what does mueller think of that? does he think that s the way to go? why are there no issues with that on barr s part. i m interesting to see what mueller says on that. the question is what kind of witness will he make if he is as i said a reluctant witness, if he s testifying unwillingly? i mean, i don t think he s going to get a lot of the extras. he s going to stick to the report. you re going to see republicans with an entirely different edifice of facts here trying to prove his point, the investigation started with a
this mystical being. robert mueller is a human being took on the most important investigation we have seen in many years. he had a duty to come into answer questions in front of the american public whether you like it or not. the special counsel is only testifying because he would be in violation of the law. i think so. he made clear that he didn t want to testify or go beyond the four corners of his document. i agree with ali, we need to know things about him. what does he think of barr s decision. mueller did not make a decision because of fairness. what does mueller think of that. does he think that s the way to go? why are there no issues of that on barr s part? i am interested to hear what barr said about that. what kind of witness will he make if reluctant witness if
a conversation today where they say this battle on a higher level is like the musical hamilton. it s a battle between the two branchs of the government and which one has the most power. it is a constitutional clash. the way all of this is resolved, obviously will have ram tpeu kayings that far outlive trump s presidency. i will say this on barr. he s come under criticism, political criticism, legal criticism. he has been very consistent. hef beating the drum on executive power back when it was really unpopular. now scholars are focused on this. back in the first george bush administration, barr was out there saying that you have to respect the power of the executive. that was the advice that was reflected in his memo to the campaign. that is the position he is still taking today. what about on the spying issue though? i remember where i was when that first tweet came out and the president said trump tower was wiretapped. do you think something nefarious from the legal.of view happe
american public. i want to put up another quote. barr did this interview with the wall street journal earlier. government power was used to spy on american citizens. i can t imagine any world where we wouldn t take a look and make sure that was done properly. it feels like it dove tails with your book. yeah, but the world is upside down. i was just going to say, do you see this and feel like you re in a fun house mirror? yes. exactly. the fbi is now being attacked by conservative republicans or whatever, when it was the bulwark of the investigation during the mccarthy era. it s upside down. but there s one huge difference between then and now. many differences but one really big one. joseph mccarthy was a senator. the house un-american activities were congressmen, now we have a