the political donations of the prosecutors on robert mueller s team, saying they are too left leaning. and bar has also refused to judge trump harshly for calling for specific investigations, including ones affecting him and his political opponents. he suggested that was okay for a president as long as the decision was made with respect to the actual evidence at hand and not for political reasons. given his criticisms of the special counsel s team, it should be noted robert mueller actually served as the head of the justice department s criminal division when barr was attorney general. and president trump is expected to announce heather nauert as the next u.n. ambassador to the united nations later today, this according to multiple sources familiar with the decision. nauert is currently the state department spokesperson and under secretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs. she previously worked at fox
let s get insight from our political and legal experts. laura jarrett who covers the justice department for us. you ve been doing some serious reporting on this story. how did william barr all of a sudden emerge as a leading contender to become the next attorney general? reporter: well, really, wolf, this is a dream pick for conservatives, for republicans who look at him as an adult in the room, who look at him as a known quantity. he was at the justice department under bush 41, as we ve been reporting. he was the attorney general, and he was actually bob mueller s boss. when mueller was there as the as leading the justice department s criminal division, so they have quite a storied past. now, he has come out to hasn t shied away talking about the mueller probe. he has expressed confidence in bob mueller saying that this wouldn t be a so-called witch hunt, but, yet, on the other hand, he s also said things that he thought that the fact that mueller had picked democrats who had
trying to backtrack. you could see in ellis comments a general loss of credibility. the trial starts two weeks from today. now, we re going to see actually evidence from mueller where we ve only seen allegations. he definitely begins in the hole because he s lost a measure of credibility by making this effort and then aborting it. everyone stay with me. when we come back, we will talk about president trump s latest doj appointee, a former session staffer who once represented a russian bank and now he will be heading up the justice department s criminal division. it has democrats and others worried. next. ] [ engine revving ] what s that, girl? [ engine revving ] flo needs help?! [ engine revving ] take me to her! coming, flo! why aren t we taking roads?! flo. [ horn honking ] -oh. you made it. do you have change for a dollar? -this was the emergency? [ engine revving ] yes, i was busy! -24-hour roadside assistance. from america s number-one motorcycle insurer. -you know, i think y
now, we re going to see actually evidence from mueller where we ve only seen allegations. he definitely begins in the hole because he s lost a measure of credibility by making this effort and then aborting it. everyone stay with me. when we come back, we will talk about president trump s latest doj appointee, a former session staffer who once represented a russian bank and now he will be heading up the justice department s criminal division. it has democrats and others worried. next. it is such a good time to kiss it is such a good time to dance it is such a good time to
department s criminal division and democrats trying to block this nomination because of his role briefly doing legal work for that russian-linked bank, alpha bank, ties to the russian bank. the democrats had called on the justice department, called on president trump to withdraw this nomination. that is what the republicans resisted and said they pushed forward with the nomination. he was confirmed today by 51-48 vote, all republicans for him. all democrats except for one voted against him. joe manchin of west virginia whose spokesman said he votes for the nominees deferring to the president on that issue but as his confirmation hearing he said he would recuse himself from matters of alpha bank before him and democrats said that s not enough believing it could be a conflict of interest coming to the mueller investigation or any other russia-related investigation ongoing right now at the justice