process to limit how american tax dollars are spent at the department of justice. i yield back. general lady from texas is recognized. good morning. you have value the independence of a special counsel. i do. you asked garland to allow you to continue the investigation saying we want to thank you and your office for permitting our inquiry to proceed with will without interfere answer as you assured the members of the judiciary committee would be the case during the confirmation hearings to become attorney general of the united states. you value your special counsel status. it a being a rat that garland let you proceed on your case as you wish. that s true. it was important you have to as special counsel your investigation was supposed to be independent because special counsels and attorneys are supposed to be independent, right? special counsel is. yes. they are supposed to be independent, is that correct? special counsel is independent of the attorney gener
so unlike attorney general garland, attorney general barr was very involved in your investigation, wasn t he? he was not involved when i became a special counsel. prior to that i worked under the supervision of the attorney general. he was very involved. let me bring you to this point. established early on he was interested in your investigation. on june 8, 2018, he sent then deputy attorney general rod rosenstein a memo arguing the mueller investigation should not be able to force the president to sending the memo barr wrote that he feels very deeply about some of the issues taking shape in the mueller matter. how often did you meet with attorney general barr in 2019? before i was special counsel, maybe with him himself, maybe every two weeks, three weeks, something of that sort.
that it was actually transferring from the campaign to the russians. once that happens. you will see no appetite they are not running in 2020. they may be the more vocal protectors. you will have the questions about his views for robert mueller s investigation. june 8, 2018. alex i have it right here. against that investigation. what he think they will try to hammer there.