lap. and i said, i m not going to be extorted. i think we should do whatever the right penalty is. leave it to the judge. and that s the judge s job, to set the penalty, and lay out the considerations. and the judge ultimately decided on the penalty that i thought was fair, which was about three, three and a half years. no one has ever come up with an explanation why it was bad for me to take a recommendation to be seven to nine and say more, it s more like three, three and a half. the judge came tom conclusion. one other thing i wondered excuse me. i knew i would get crucified form. that s when the president tweeted about it. i said at the end of the day, my job is to do what s right. one of the things that occurred to me when i was reading this, when i was looking at the cases when it happened, if you thought there was
joining us now, bill barr. his new book is one damn thing after another. great title. i know it is not your saying. you write in one of your books, there is the one of the most memorable scenes. you call the president throwing a fit, you call it a tantrum. things in the wake of george floyd s murder. you wrote, the president lost his composure. he swept his indelve circle around the semicircle pointing at all of us. you re all losers, he yelled. reddening. he felt we were responsible for the violence around the country. you re losers. tiny arcs of spit. you re all losers. i was taken a back. i wanted to read it for you. this is not the only time in the
on u.k. soil, allegedly by russia. thank you. coming up, quote, you re all losers. one of the many insults former president trump used against his advisers. bill barr joins us live, next. stay with us. you pour your heart intoto everything you do, which is a lot. so take care of that heart with lipton. because sippin on unsweetened lipton can help support a healthy heart. lipton. stop cggin . start sippin . 80% get genetically meaningful health in from their 23andme dna reports. 80%. that s 8 out of 10 people who can get something enlightening. something empowering. something that could change everything. info that could give you greater control of your own health,
overzealousness with the sentencing, or with the quote, unquote entrapment of mike flynn, don t you think that happens a lot more often than just with wealthy friends of trump? don t you think law enforcement quite often pursues maximum penalty when they don t have to? or does whatever they can to get, to book somebody for a crime? not just with rich friends of the president but poor people, black people, hispanic people? absolutely. that s why my principle was everyone deserves a right of appeal. outside lawyers, they re worried about escalating a matter. they can take it all the way to the attorney general if they want and let that happen. i stressed to the prosecutors from the first day. i don t want head hunting. i don t want people going after headlines for any other that you recall beyond being fair and exacting the penalty that that
suited if a different candidate led the way going forward. you say there s an impressive array of others. if trump runs, would you get involved in the primary fight to defeat him? absolutely. to support one of the other candidates? yes. i think the coming presidential election would be a good opportunity for the republican party. from my standpoint, the progressive left has, is sort of showing sort of a totalitarian temperament and i think the republicans can win a decisive majority. but i don t think we can do it with trump. he s just too divisive a candidate. who are some of the republicans you re looking at? well, there are a whole slew of them and i ll let them run around the track for a whale. but i would definitely support any of those individuals. would you support liz cheney over donald trump? i don t think she could get the nomination. as much as you criticize trump now in the book, you re telling, and you say you re