it that is the weird thing about the american economy. you can look at the macroeconomics but it feels different to be in it. in the broad aggregate sense, it is way better than i feared it would be. we ll take that statement and run with it. thanks for joining us. one of the many revelations to come out of the january 6 committee hearings was bill barr describing how he pushed back against the election fraud claims. he called them complete b.s. despite the heroic headlines generated by barr s testimony, it is a good point to remember that barr did not say anything publicly debunking those same claims of election fraud until december 1, which was nearly a month after the 2020 election. in fact, before his post-trump rehabilitation tour, this was the bill barr we knew. what happened to the president in the 2016 election and throughout the first two years of his administration was abhorrent. it was a grave injustice and it was unprecedented in american history. the la
shows that we re not dealing with just mistakes or slo sloppiness. there is something far more troubling here and we ll get to the bottom of it. but i think what happened to him was one of the greatest travesties in american history. that is the bill barr we knew for the years of the trump administration. trump s attorney general spent the vast majority of his time do everything he could to cast doubts on investigations into trump. he argued that the doj and fbi, institutions that he oversaw, were somehow part of a deep state plot to overthrow president trump. barr a pointed john durham, career justice department prosecutor to investigate the origins of the intelligence community s investigation into trump and his 2016 campaign dealings with russia. right before the 2020 election, barr would promote durham to special counsel protecting his work from any future doj s