when i defended the affordable care act and any federal piece of legislation, one group of lawyers i always wanted in my side. the lawyers at federal programs. it s like literally like going into a war without not just your generals, but everyone below that down to the foot soldiers being out of the case. it s just insane and not something anyone responsible would ever do. let me get your reaction to what william barr said today proudly. he has been on the phone constantly every day since the supreme court decision with the president. just your reaction to the ruling on the issue of concern to the president of the united states and the attorney general after that ruling comes out is just constantly on the phone with the president trying to figure out how to get around the supreme court. so i have no problem with the attorney general having discussions with the president about a supreme court loss.
supervisors. one agent who worked at clint told the new york times i can t tell you the number of times i would talk to agents and they would get teary eyed. he said he believes he will find a legal way to get around a supreme court decision that forbids questions about citizenship on the next census. on the most important new case announced today by the justice department, the attorney general recused himself. the attorney general of the united states did not recuse himself from decisions involving the investigation of the president who made him the attorney general of the united states, that would seem to be an obvious conflict of interest from william barr, but it takes a lot for william to recuse himself from anything. but he did recuse himself from the biggest case the justice
photographs of what appear to be underage girls. jeffrey epstein pleaded not guilty today. a former federal prosecutor for the easton and southern districts of new york. a legal analyst. tim o brien is the executive editor of broom berg opinion and msnbc contributor. your reading of this indictment? this is a stunning indictment to say the least. it would be stunning in its own regard because here you have very serious charges being levelled against a powerful person. given the posture though of how this compares to the case that was prosecuted or walked away from in florida, it makes these changes more stunning. quite frankly this is what should have happened in florida. these are the charges that the florida u.s. attorney s office could have brought and probably should have brought. i think this leaves a lot of
open questions about why the federal prosecutors in the southern district of florida walked away from these kinds of charges. why epstein was allowed to plead to a minor state charge in that case and why the victims were intentionally excluded from the process. they are stunning charges for a number of reasons and given the posture, they are more stunning. the attorney answered very few questions, but why is this case being brought by the public corruption unit. does that sound as strange to you as it does to us? the answer is it s hard to tell. jeffrey berman, the u.s. attorney for the southern district. who are is a donald trump appointee. correct. he came out firmly and said please don t read anything into
number one is that he didn t bother tellings his own lawyers. they want to federal court after the supreme court decision and said don t worry. we are going to print the census without this question and the lawyers even the next day had all these presidential tweets said we don t know what s going on. it s a weird thing for barr to say i m in the loop and not let his lawyers know. that s not the way to run a justice department or an organization. the problem is even if they come up with a reason that they invent, they have gone to federal court and the supreme court of the united states and said supreme court, you have to decide this by june 30th. that s our drop dead date. now it s july 8th and they are trying to add the question. it s way too late and calls into question everything this justice department has said not just in this case, but in all the cases. this is an administration that plays fast and loose with the facts and the law and now the american public and the federal cour