he wanted to get pats on the back or see if he could get people in other countries to love him. this is what he talks in america first. the context he looks at what is in the best interests of his country. and sometimes is that is going to anger other countries, like china. and he s not afraid to do that. does he listen to you? i ve never met him in my life. you re a good pitchman. you re a ballyhoo boy for this guy. thank you so much, john brabender, zerlina maxwell, as always. listen to her on sirius radio. thank you. up next, attorney general william barr s justice department accusing congress of trying to create a public spectacle. that s what they say about having robert mueller testify. isn t that why we did a two-year investigation? he comes to congress to say what he discovered. that s a spectacle? i think that s truth-telling. and the democrats say barr is determined to keep the american people in the dark. we ll have more after the break. maria ramirez? hi.
retired officials not to appear. while the former members of mueller s team aaron zebly and james krouse are not obliged to comply it could have a chilling effect once they do show up. it looks like bill barr s latest attempt to conceal the full impact of the mueller report. changed his opinion this week on testimony which is scheduled for next wednesday. barr now objects to mueller appearing before the congress, even though he gave his word in april he had no objection to it. i was disappointed to see him subpoenaed because i don t think that serves any purpose dragging bob mueller up if he in fact is going the stick to the report. it seems to me the only reason for doing that is to create some kind of public spectacle. will you permit him to testify publicly to congress? i have no objection to bob mueller personally testifying. so will the justice
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well, it certainly seems that way. barr was probably banking on mueller not testifying, right? because mueller made it very clear that he did not want to go before congress and reiterate the report, which he had spent two years working on so. i think now the kind of last-ditch effort here is to try to scuttle his deputies from testifying behind closed doors because they re the ones that can really get into the nuts and bolts of this. not only are they going to be testifying privately, which is a more secure setting, obviously, but they have also been two of the people closest to the investigation, two of the people closest to bob mueller. james quarles is the one that dealt with the white house directly on issues of obstruction of justice. and aaron zebly was the liaison with doj, the justice department. these are two people who could really get into the weeds here with members of congress. and it s unclear actually, it seems pretty clear now that barr really doesn t want them to d
about your case with mueller? is he coming next week? he is coming. what about the deputies? well, tomorrow nadler s committee plans to authorize a new round of subpoenas for additional witnesses, including jared kushner, jeff sessions and corey lewandowski, among others. it comes amid politico reports that few members of congress have actually read the mueller report. i m joined by congressman eric swalwell, member of the house judiciary and intelligence committees. it s his first msnbc interview since ending his presidential bid. you re smiling, congressman? are you happy anyway? and natasha bertrand is a national security correspondent. i ll get to you in a minute about the campaign, congressman. i do want to snow some thoughts. let s go to natasha to start this thing out. what is barr up to? is he still doing a rear guard effort to scuttle the whole russia probe by making sure nobody testifies we know what s in the mueller report?