Experts if americans are at greater risk tonight. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. In this is tthe situation room special report. The condemnation of william barr is reaching a new level tonight. The number of former Justice Department officials calling for his resignation now tops 2,000. They all signed onto a letter accusing barr of doing the president s personal partisan bidding by intervening in cases involving Trump Associates roger stone and Michael Flynn. They served in republican as well as democratic administrations. They know the law. The know the Justice Department and they say they are outraged. This hour, ill talk with a former Deputy Attorney general in the First Bush Administration who has very tough words for barr tonight. Our correspondents and analysts are standing by. Lets go to jim acosta. The president , at least for now, standing by barr as the calls for his resignation grow louder and louder. Reporter that
But empty seats in tulsa this weekend infuriated the president , and theres a lot of debate about the rally plan going forward. We know the president likes to change the subject when he doesnt like the headlines. Todays effort simply a lie. Quote, millions of mailin ballots will be printed by Foreign Countries, the president tweets. There is no evidence to support that claim, none, and no evidence to support the president s claim that mailin voting means massive fraud. Again, none. When we count the votes in November John bolton says his will be a writein for a republican not named trump. The onetime white house insider savages the president in a new book and hopes the Voters Decide four years is more than enough. I hope it will remember him as a oneterm president who didnt plunge the country irretrievably into a downward spiral we cant recover from. We can get over one term. A big coronavirus milestone in florida today. Remember that state opened early and now has a rising are case co
Concerned with the coronavirus or the threat of it at this rally, right, john . Leland, good afternoon to you. It started the last half hour going inside the barricaded off areas so they can get into whats called the outdoor experience, there are bands playing and a lot of people who set up vending outlets and we found some people who have come as far away from oklahoma city, wichita, kansas. They want to be here when the president restarts his campaign and there will be another outside area the president will address the people before going inside the arena. We want to talk to a couple of people here in line. The coronavirus is raging and probably the biggest crowd of people who have gotten together into an enclosed space since the beginning of march. How do you feel about that . Feeling like were taking precautions, i have my mask, im outside now. Ive got my family and i wouldnt have brought them if i didnt feel safe. Theyre giving hand sanitizers and face masks, not mandatory to wea
Thanks, ari. Thank you. And welcome to the beat. I am ari melber. We are tracking several big developments as the week begins. Fallout over the Trump Administrations botched ousting of the top federal prosecutor in new york and fallout from that big rally. We have an interview tonight with the former head of the sdny. But we begin with tulsa, where a man who trieds himself on crowd size found a rally so sparsely attended that the New York Times reported trump looked out on the tiny crowd in horror, reports of a backstage meltdown. The venue, basically a third full. And as youll see in some of the rafters, a color coincidence, where the maga red crowd was sup planted by a sea of blue seats. One trump friendly adviser said this was obviously a major failure. Everyone knows that crowds matter in politics, because supporters show your strength. And donald trump looked weak in that empty hall, and weakness doesnt help your credibility. As shawn carter famously said, we dont believe you, you
Cases that touch on the president s interests that attorney general bill barr has interfered with or intervened in since basically right after he got sworn in as attorney general. Now, i know theres a lot going on in the country right now, but this is remarkable new reporting. I mean, the nature of Prosecutors Offices is that we the public are not supposed to know what theyre working on and what theyre doing until they publicly act until they, you know, indict someone and bring about a criminal trial. When an investigation is ongoing, when a prosecution is potentially in the works that is by necessity secret. We the public dont get to know about that until Prosecutors Office acts out loud. And that secrecy about the prosecutorial process is a pillar of the rule of law. We need that. We dont need people indicted by rumor and whisper and discussion without anybody having to prove their case, right . But that secrecy around Prosecutors Offices also provides insulation. It provides sort of