doj didn t answer. health and human services. one government lawyer has threatened to resign over this, not put his name on the clays. on the case. an attorney said 9/11 families might not of god is much as we are going to give to these families. harris: might? emily. emily: it is par for the course of what the of administration does. they throw your money on the problems result because they are not fixing the problem. they are ignoring the push factors from central and south america, ignoring cartels, ignoring smugglers, ignoring border security on our southern border, the relationship of president obrador. only to throw money to people once they get here illegally. how about you adding background checks for employees that volunteer at the emergency shelters? how about you stop wetting kids getting how about you do
instance, ohio doif the doj ref play under this attorney, what happens? so in order for a criminal citation of contempt to be enforced, typically the step would be to pass it on to doj and ask doj to enforce it. but because attorney general barr appears to be involved in some of the events here, there is a question of whether he might be conflicted out, there might be a question of whether they would, you know, a fairly consid consider so congress may not feel that doj is not a very good partner there. i think that the other thing that congress might do is just try to civilly enforce the subpoena. but the risk there of course is they have already tried that in a number of other investigations. and that has taken quite a number of months so far with not a lot of things to show for it.
fact patterns. there are others who are allegedly complicit. senior white house officials trying to lock down evidence of the call. putting the transcript on a separate server to store classified information. meaning using the levers of security power to cover up this potential alleged crime. former white house official anthony scaramucci said work for a criminal on this, you become one. and bill barr was not investigating when it first came into the doj. the whistleblower may give context to why alleging that barr appears to be involved as well. meanwhile today, acting dni chief mcguire talked about how that campaign got the to doj. i have consulted with the white house counsel and eventually, we also consulted with the department of justice, office of legal counsel. do you think it s appropriate that you go to a department run
they believe that he was targeted for prosecution. they think the grand jury met. they ve been asking the doj to confirm or deny whether their attempt. and today saying whistleblowers not only could be illegally fired, which is why there is a whistleblower protection act, but maybe in the old days it was better when much things happened to them. let me go to john and mike and back to you john. the president is cracking under a strain a little bit. i think the next chapter which is going to drive him even crazier, it is cheer from the whistleblower s complaint that we all got to read today that there was tremendous consternation among white house staffers and the national security area. where the whistleblower heard about all this. and they literally had to create a new secret file to put the notes of the phone call into. they know the president broke the law and violated his oath of
worth investigating, why are you asking a corrupt, in the words of donald trump, a corrupt foreign government to do it? well, this is a new administration that was elected on a platform of getting rid of the corruption. so what i think you heard in that transcript, read in that transcript was the president of the united states talking about making sure they stick with their investigations into corruption. why not handle it in america? this is something a lot of people are wondering. if it is so important, why not han in it america? the corruption, the corruption and the medding in the 2016 election, which ukraine did, happen in ukraine. but america, the president has a justice department. why not order it here? i ll give you one reason. i ll let you give us your view. one reason is that donald trump has learned, if he asked people at the doj to do that, that itself would be illegal. i think what we have to do is get to the bottom. not only of the ukrainian influence in the 20