justice and go after trump s political rivals. also tonight, we have come to know lindsay graham as the most cravenly opportunistic politician in america, and that s saying a lot. and now two months after saying that states should decide on abortion, he is pushing for a federal ban. and giuliani biographer andrew curtsman joins me on rudy s disgraceful dissent. he was once called america s mayor, and now he s a laughing maga stock. trump saw the governmental ageany as his. it s run by the attorney general, but when said attorney general is one william barr, things get murky. which brings us to geoffrey berman, the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york who trump fired in 2020 after he refused barr s request that he resign. a lot has happened since 2020, a lot. but you may recall berman s firing was a big deal. we re talking about an american president strong arming a u.s. attorney general to fire a prosecutor because he refused to obey and to twist his offi
mueller wanted to talk to, and he submitted answered questions in writing. so this president did nothing to stop mueller from finding the truth. sean: if you go back, i mentioned to jay sekulow, the nine and a half minute press conference he did, and boy, the media was so quick, they thought conspiracy theory came back to life. it s serious and significant, though. i watched it, and number one, i knew he had said the opposite, waiting for people to catch up, and number two, when you think about i thought attorney general barr was being very gracious to the special counsel, threw him a lifeline. they released a joint statement basically saying i didn t mean what i said for nine and a half minutes. that ought to be very troublesome robert mueller. right. but i hope people understand what you re talking about, because when mueller came in to tell barr that he could decide, he could make the decision about
so this president did nothing to stop mueller from finding the truth. sean: if you go back, i mentioned to jay sekulow, the nine and a half minute press conference he did, and boy, the media was so quick, they thought conspiracy theory came back to life. it s serious and significant, though. i watched it, and number one, ii knew he had said the opposite, waiting for people to catch up,n and number two, when you think about i thought attorney general barr was being very gracious to the special counsel, threw him a lifeline. they released a joint statement basically saying, i didn t mean what i said for nine and a half minutes. that ought to be very troublesome for robert mueller. right. but i hope people understand what you re talking about,t, because when mueller came in to tell barr that he could decide, he couldn t make the decision about obstruction, he was going to leave it to barr, and barr
i don t mind. frankly, i told the house, if you want let them see it. let it come out. let people see it. well, the president s change in tune may be partly due to the overwhelmingly bipartisan majority of americans who say the public should see the report. that s 87%. sarah westwood joins me live at the white house with more. was this an intentional shift in strategy or was the president caught off guard. reporter: this does seem like a shift in tone from the president who just last week said that are shouldn t even be a mueller report and who has repeatedly gone after this investigation as a witch-hunt, as a other names. now he is calling for transparency and increasingly d the country on the edge of thei sources tell barr will send to