so again, it it feels really political. and this is a president who would reward his friends. remember, he reduced the sentences for roger stone. made the flynn case go away. pardoned manafort. and then, would weaponize the department against his enemies. so this feels pretty on brand for donald trump. your colleague on the house judiciary committee, chairman jerry nadler, just announced a formal investigation if barr, sessions, rosenstein, are subpoenaed by the committee. is it realistic that they would testify, anytime soon? i mean, couldn t they just resist and have their lawyers try to delay things? of course. and that s right out of the donald trump legal terrorist playbook that we saw during his administration. and sor, i hope our congressionl subpoena style means something. we did get don mcgahn to testify just a couple weeks ago. but also, i hope the public pressure really comes down on these individuals to be held to account. because this isn t going away. and it s not b
and, you know, what s concerning to me is that, you know, presidents. they set a tone for the country. and donald trump, from the very beginning, set a tone for bullying and a phony-tough-guy image. and we see that reflected in everyday life today. whether it s people throwing bot bottles at nba players, assaulting health-care workers, the house floor and campaigns and the ultimate manifestation, of course, being the insurrection at the capitol. and donald trump went even beyond that. he treated the law as a nuisance and weaponized department of justice. so the concern is not just the targeting of his political opponents. but the trickle-down effect. are local-elected officials feeling emboldened by this? and are they targeting their political enemies, locally? and so, we need to find out just how far this went. do you buy that former attorneys general sessions and barr and former-deputy attorney general rosenstein didn t know this activity was happening within the justice department
the ultimate manifestation being the insurrection at the capitol and donald trump went beyond that and treated the law as a nuisance. the concern is not just the targeting of his political opponents but the trickle down effect and are they targeting political enemies. we need to find out how far this goes. do you see sessions and barr and rosenstein didn t know this activity was happening within the justice department because sessions, i mean, i was reading back on this was bragging about the number of leak investigations. is there any realistic scenario in which those three or some of those three would not know that this was going on? no. you re sure of that? yes. my knowledge of how the department works, sensitive matters involving members of
what he promised. the secretary general of nato saying in a very sort of typical skanl way was frequently denigrating nato and president biden making it very clear today that the u.s. s commitment to the northern atlantic treaty was in his words unshakable, rock solid and the mutual defense treaty article five as well is a sacred obligation so a lot of people very pleased to hear that, anderson. also, talk more if you can about what president biden revealed and didn t reveal tonight about how he is approaching this summit with putin. reporter: so, he said that he doesn t want to telegraph to the world media exactly what his strategy is in terms of negotiating with president putin but he did also seem to be sort of laying down the gauntlet or making it clear certain key
to occur, a future-corrupt president may not be so patient to wait for a grand-jury investigation. they may just call for them to be locked up and skip any, intermediary step that would be required. the fact that the the inspector general at the department of justice is investigating. doesn t that allow the justice depa department, now, and merrick garland, the current-attorney general, just to say, look, i can t come on to any of this because it s an ongoing investigation? well, it certainly allows them to interview current officials at the department of justice who may have been involved. but barr, sessions, whittaker, rosenstein, they have left the department. and they can t be compelled to talk to the inspector general. so that s where congress does are an ability to do that. and and whether that s us, working, you know, to make sure we don t compromise the investigation. but still, diligently, doing our job. we have to do that because, again, we can t let a future, more co