He denies trump has asked him to intervene in a criminal case and says he wont be bullied or influenced by congress or by the president. Well talk about the breaking news and more with congressman john gert men day and our analysts are standing by. First, lets go to senior justice correspondent evan perez. This is a significant development. The president , i assume, once he sees the coverage of this is going to react very negatively to his attorney general. Wolf, its very rare for this attorney general to not be in line with what the president is saying. So today is definitely one of those days where the attorney general is saying that the president and his tweets are not helpful for the work the recommendation made by those career attorneys. Nose a couple days ago. Hes saying what they did was absolutely beyond the pale. Hes standing by his d reverse the sentencing recommendation for roger stone. Heres the attorney general talking about this. To have public statements and tweets made
You think should be a cnn hero go to cnn heroes. Com. Thats it for us. Thanks for watching. Our coverage continues. Good evening. Attorney general william barr, the nations top Law Enforcement officer, the person you would hope would be fair, rational is fuelling the flames of conspiracy. Hes doubling down without evidence on his comments that there were unauthorized spying on the trump campaign. This on the same week it was revealed barr tapped a connecticut prosecutor to investigate the origins of the russia probe, making it the third investigation into the investigators, something the president has pushed for over and over and over for years. Now maybe the investigators will find something or maybe they wont. But in the meantime, mr. Barr seems to be content with chumming the waters of conspiracy. Heres some of what he told fox news. You also said back in april that you thought there was spying going on in the trump campaign. When do you think that started . Well, im not going to sp
News. You also said back in april that you thought there was spying going on in the trump campaign. When do you think that started . Well, im not going to speculate about when it started. Were going to find out when it started. I have been trying to get answers to questions and i found a lot of the answers have been inadequate. I have also found that some of the explanations i have gotten dont hang together. So in a sense i have more questions today than i did when i first started. Youre not going to speculate, but there was spying. What does that mean that he just said . It could mean everything. It could also mean nothing. Thats the point. The hole there is so big you can back up 1,000 conspiracy trucks and fill them up. Here is more of what he said. I think people have to find out what the government was doing during that period. If were worried about foreign influence for the very same reason, we should be worried about whether government officials abuse their power and put their t