chuck rosenburg, is that what you want to hear? that s what you want to hear. what bill barr largely testified to today is what the mueller team and what a usa around the country want to hear. you want an attorney general with a mean streak of independence. i once had a professor who said never hire anybody who actually desperately wants the job. hire somebody with the independence to tell you when you are wrong and the ability to walk away. that s what it sounds like bill barr has. the ability to walk away if need be. one thing is, how did he get into the room. why is he there and did the president pick him because he thought it s hard to disconnect the idea that that memo didn t trigger something in the president s mind that said that guy the make his life miserable. as truck said, the memo said
the me too moment. amy holmes political analyst and tiffany cross of the beat d.c. i thought they handled it really well. normally i wouldn t watch the oscars. they don t normally appeal to me. i knew i will be talking about them. i m so glad i did. they were willing to address directly some of the ugliness that happens in that industry. harris, at the very end, that pay off with frances mcdorman mcdormand, her speech, it was so moving so emotional. i literally teared up. did it transcend politics? i felt that it did. i really did. to see her paying tribute to all of those accomplishments what she said was, you better hire somebody. don t just talk to us at the party tonight. i think what she said highlighted another issue in hollywood. when she was speaking, she made
counsel what you should hear in your head the current people we have that we are paying to be federal prosecutors cannot do the job. therefore we need to go hire somebody who is outside the department of justice, outside the u.s. attorney s offices to do this job. it hasn t worked well in the past. the jurisdiction gets expanded. there is a reason. bill: let me cut through it for the sake of our audience. you say the threshold hasn t been met. at what point is it met? what do you need to get there? a conflict of interest where the department of justice and all 94 u.s. attorneys offices are ill suited and the public would not have confidence in an investigation that they ran. look at bob mueller was appointed special counsel. some of your viewers don t have confidence in him. it doesn t automatically make people have confidence in something. the threshold, is there a conflict of interest? and is it in the interest of
hammer. one of them is when you do research on media reports of high status suicides, they are correlated to an increase in suicides, copycats especially among young teens. we talked about the tv show on netflix the kids watched. we know mass shooters are often enamored by the press clippings of previous and they want to beat the score. that s a fact. number two, solutions. identify soft targets and harden them. hire somebody. we used to do earthquake training. you could do something in a couple weeks, teach people how to react, have an escape route, those kinds of things. this is the last one, have a good guy with a gun. mr. williford was a former nra instructor. they are probably all over the community. you pay five bucks an hour, they would probably do it for free. somebody was there too hard and soft targets. there are a lot of retired
he was exhausted. he is the greatest gray. on the weekends when he was doing yard work i was like you should hire somebody to do this and go play golf and do something enjoyable. ed: have more time with your family because you are working a lot. doing the thank you notes late at night when the kids have gone to bed. if you can hire somebody to mow the lawn. that free s up time to spend with the family. steve: here s problem. i actually mow my lawn. ed: i have been to your house. steve: my dad did all those things. my dad didn t have the money to hire somebody to mow. i could hire a guy to do it and hire a guy to paint the house or do things but i know we did hire somebody to do the inside of the house, do some painting because my wife said i m not going to allow you on that high ladder. and so to this day when i walk through the room i see the one part where the guy missed. it s kind of like everything comes with a price. whereas after i paint a room i have such satisfaction to look it