investigation, the investigation into the roots of the 2016 election inquiry into whether or not russia interfered in our election. so that is something that the president is very happy about because if john durham the prosecutor who was assigned to look into the 2016 election investigations, if he were to find anything that would be helpful to donald trump, we are going into an election season in addition to the impeachment hearing. and information that durham finds that could be exculpatory would help the counter narrative and into the election. and you are bill barr. you get asked to come to the hill. what is your defense, executive privilege? privilege. i would hide behind privilege and i would respectfully decline not to show up. i think what is really important what katie just said as well, the fact that bill barr himself has traveled all over the world already at the behest of donald trump in the search, this
president broke no laws in his july phone call with ukraine s leader. barr ultimately declined to hold that press conference. bill barr is not denying that they had they are not saying anything. let me tell you, i neff asknevem for a press conference. if i asked bill barr to have a press conference, i think he d do it. but i never asked him. the justice department has sought to distance itself from the ukraine scandal despite the ca call s summary. and democrats are pushing for documents related to the president s request. kamala harris, richard blumenthal and sheldon whitehouse sent a request for
campaign finance violations has been committed. katie, tell me why would it matter if barr would say something, would it be more of a political pr move to say, hey, he s okay? because it has no bearing on what is happening on the hill. barr won t touch this one. when we look at the mueller investigation, this had nothing to do with bill barr. he may have done hissed auditio memo, but he won t touch this because his name was mentioned in that july 25th call repeatedly. he said i have not spoken about this. and there is criminality on all of this and that is why the doj will distance themselves. and this is just a political battle. and part of the reason why you don t see barr getting involved is you can t stop this train. barr cannot stop this train.
do they need him? well, ideally you need bill barr, john bolton, you need mick mulvaney. they all seem to be steadfastly refusing or as was mentioned earlier just waiting on judicial ruling that probably will not come in time. so that is essentially a way it avoid testifying. so the democrats really have to go ahead and do what they are going to do assuming that they are not going to get any cooperation here. bill barr can tip toe away and say i m not going to say it was a perfect statement. he is already very well enmeshed in this. his justice department refused to investigate the whistleblower complaint in the first place. he did not recuse himself even though he was named in the complaint and he also was trying to keep it from getting to congress in the first place. so he is very deeply involved. i would be very surprised if he would get anywhere within about a mile of capitol hill. katie r two katies next t
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