What could be a contentious confirmation process. It is going to be an interesting day. Good morning. Welcome. Im bill hemmer. Sandra good morning, im sandra smith. We know william barr is expected to tell the committee he intends to let the Mueller Investigation continue without any interference. We can expect democrats to grill him on his views. One thing is clear. It will be mustsee tv. He has been attorney general before. He is certainly capable. I think he is an outstanding choice. I want him to be challenged. I just want him to be respectfully challenged. I would need a Firm Commitment he would not allow any interference with the Mueller Investigation, he will allow it to reach its conclusion and release the report to the public. He said he is going to let it play out. What more assurance can he give to democrats that thats going to be the case. Sandra Catherine Herridge is live. What more can we expect . We expect comments from or win hatch and then to william barr and his prepared remarks released yesterday in advance of the confirmation hearings a short time from now. In those prepared remarks, william barr takes on, square on the issue of the special counsel and an anticipated report and whether it will be made public later this year. It reads, my goal will be to provide as much transparency as i can consistent with the law. I will make those judgments based solely on the law. I will not let personal, political or improper interests influence my decision. We also anticipate democrats will have hard questions for mr. Barr on a memo he wrote to the Deputy Attorney general last summer. He wrote that memo as a private citizen. That was unsolicited on media reports that rob mueller was investigating obstruction of justice over the president s decision to fire fbi director, james comey. Here is senator republican marsha blackburn. We expect the democrats are going to oppose mr. Barr. They are on this obstruct tangent. Everything that they can do to get in the president s way. The senate is there to provide advice and consent. That should be our role. Mr. Barr and his prepared remarks sought to clarify that personal memo he wrote last year saying that he never meant to imply or leave the imminent preg that a present could not be pursued for obstruction of justice. Sandra what are some of the issues civil Rights Groups are concerned about . The aclu put out a statement and said they want senators to press william barr in his role for laying a foundation for mass Data Collection programs within the u. S. Government. Lets listen. They have to vigorously question him about his views on executive power and what he thinks the limits of the president s power is and how he will define the fourth amendment. Of course can the session begins just a half hour from now. You can see it here on fox. We have day two, which will be im sure just as exciting beginning tomorrow. Inside that hearing room on capitol hill as we await the hearing to begin any moment. Bill a lot of people probably dont remember william barr. He served under president george h. W. Bush as attorney general. He is 68 years old today. Grew up in new york city. Worked for the cia for four years before he joined george bush xlis first term. Sandra senator Lindsey Graham will lead off the hearing with a statement before each senator gets approximately ten minutes to question barr. Im going to ask him, do you see any reason to fire mr. Mueller based on what you know now for cause . He does expect barr to be challenged in this hearing. He does hope that he is respectfully challenged. Bill we have seen his remarks. They run about 3. 5 pan poi3. 5 p length. He will say, we live in a time where the country is deeply divided. There are places in government where the rule of law and not politics hold sway. The department of justice must be such a place. Bill he said he was on his way to retirement after a long legal career but his dedication to the department of justice has brought him back to serve. Sandra four priorities he is expected to lay out, fighting Violent Crimes, prosecuting hate crimes and enforcing and improving our immigration laws and protecting the right to vote and the integrity of election. A lot of faces on the screen today. Here is our first one, senator kennedy. What are your questions you want to ask today . I want to get to know bill barr, and get to know, is he smart, is he honest, does he have integrity. I want to judge his authenticity. I want to hear what he has to say about the Mueller Investigation. I happen to believe that some disagree with me, all this business about he needs to recuse himself or withdraw his nomination because he has opinions is a bunch of bovine waste. Anybody with an intellect above a single cell organism has a view. I wouldnt want bill barr if he hadnt thought about things. The issue is not his letter to Rod Rosenstein about the investigation. The issue is, is he dogmatic about it or is he willing to consider other points of view . Is he willing to test his assumptions . Bill our apologies, we still got you. We just dropped out a little bit. Thats okay. Bill you had a chance to meet with him privately and you did not, i dont believe. How come . He didnt ask to. I figured he was busy meeting with the Democratic Senators on the committee. I didnt press the issue. It doesnt hurt my feelings one bit. What i want to know about bill barr is whether he can he is willing to divorce himself from his personal points of view and follow the rule of law. Thats it. Thats the issue here today. Bill immigration will come up. Crime will come up. He seems to be in agreement with you and the president on those issues. Here is a tweet with this new caravan forming in honduras. The president said, a big new caravan heading to the southern border from honduras. Tell nancy and chuck that a drone flying around will not stop them. Only a wall will work. Only a wall or steel barrier will keep our country safe. Stop playing political games and end the shutdown, which brings us to our second point. Where is the shutdown now, senator . There seems to be no movement as of this hour. I was with the president yesterday. He gave a speech in new orleans, in my state and i rode back on his plane with him. He is not budging. I think he understands what most americans understand, that it is ludicrous to think that you can secure a 1900mile border without barriers. Its laughable on its face. He doesnt want to build a wall 1900 miles long. He understands we need technology and drones and more border personnel and more detention beds. He believes, as i happen to, that illegal immigration is illegal, duh. Legal immigration is good for the cun t country. Illegal undermines legal. I dont understand why Speaker Pelosi is not tested more on her assertion that somehow a border wall, which 100 plus countries have, is ineffective and imminent more. How is she going to seal a 1900mile border without using a barrier . Maybe she doesnt want to seal it. Im not saying one way or the other. The way she has been acting, she just doesnt support Border Security. If she doesnt like the law, change it. Bill you had a chance to talk with him about that yesterday. How did he tell you the negotiations how will they negotiate their way out of this . He said he has had no contact from them. I dont believe i dont speak for the president. My impression is that he is not going to enter into any kind of settlement unless there is a border wall, period, end of discussion. He thinks he is right. He thinks that the democrats are wrong on this one. They are being just obstructionists. We are waiting for that hearing to begin in 20 minutes. Well dip in and show our viewers that when it starts. Well wait for your questions as well. There might be a lunch at the white house this afternoon. Well wait to get more information on that. Maybe there is a move forward on this shutdown. I hope so. Bill thank you, senator for your time. Thanks. Sandra it is decision day for uk Prime Minister, Theresa Mays Brexit plan. Yesterday, she made one final plea to win them over with the deal facing widespread opposition. Rather than leave wg no deal, this house blocked brexit, that would be a subversion of our democracy saying to the people we were elected to serve that we were unwilling to do what they had instructed. Sandra Benjamin Hall is live in london ahead of that key vote. Benjamin. Hi, sandra. I have just been down to parliament. They feel this is one of the biggest political moments of a generation. It is make or break for theresa may. It is make or break for brexit. For 2 1 2 years, the uk has been negotiating with the eu in terms of the socalled divorce settlement ahead of the supposed departure from the eu on march 29th. Thats only ten weeks from now. Everything has been discussed, including trade relations and security sharing and Immigration Rights and the 47 billion settlement fee. The deal is disliked by practically everyone in common. Critics that want to leave the eu, say it keeps the eu too closely tied to eu regulations. Those against brexit see an opportunity to reverse it all together and rejoin the eu. This is going to come down to numbers. If she loses by more than 150 votes out of 650, her deal is dead in the water. If she loses by double digits, there is every opportunity to go back to the eu and try and get more concessions and run this bill past parliament. She is admitting this is not a perfect deal herself. For one, it doesnt allow the uk to do a trade deal with other countries like the us. Because of this and the fact that it does not safeguard against a hard border between ireland and northern ireland, it is expected today she is going to lose by a landslide. We expect the vote at 3 00 p. M. Eastern. If she loses, she has three days to come up with a plan b. There is as much chance of a hard brexit as there is of a general election. Sandra Benjamin Hall, thank you. Bill we are watching this story out of nairobi, kenya. There is an Upscale Hotel said to be under siege. Those inside, during a hail of bullets and massive explosion. Witnesses are calling it a terror attack. Sandra back to our top story of the moment. Any moment now, ag nominee, william barr, will be in that hearing room. We have special Team Coverage all morning with a packed lineup. Juan williams and judge Andrew Napolitano will be here with us in new york. Later, bret baier, Jonathan Turley and Shannon Bream round out our coverage from washington, d. C. As americas newsroom continues. S most meaningful to you. A reliable income that lets you retire, without retiring from life. Thats the power of pacific. Ask your financial professional about pacific life today. Bill ohio republican, steve king, reprimanded by his republican colleagues. They are voting to strip him of all assignments after a racially charged remark in the New York Times. Kevin mccarthy saying this type of language will not be tolerated. I watched what steve king said and we took action. I think it is clear across the country about how serious the Republican Party believes that all men and women are created equal. We made a decision tonight that steve king will not be serving on committees in this congress. King is responding saying leader mccarthys decision to remove me from committees is a political decision that ignores the truth. The truth is as follows. One of my quotes in a New York Times story has been completely mischaracterized, end quote, from congressman king. Sandra a live look from inside of that hearing room this morning where william barr will be appearing before the Senate JudiciaryCommittee Just moments from now. He arrived on capitol hill a short time ago. The gop has the vote to confirm barr. That does not mean we wont see some fireworks in that room. Here with us now, juan williams, cohost of the five. And judge Andrew Napolitano, fox senior analyst. We awit this to begin. To you, first, judge, who is william barr . Senator kennedy wanted to know more about him. I like senator kennedy and i have a lot of respect for him. This is not the place to learn about him. I am sure he could have met with bill barr as the former and future attorney general did with many members of the Senate Judiciary committee. He is a mainstream establishment republican whose stewardship of the Justice Department in the george h. W. Bush presidency was standard and unremarkable. We did learn after he left the doj and during the presidency of bill clinton of his involvement in establishing the legal basis for mass warrantless surveillance of americans. That is not the key issue. The key issue is bob mueller. How much of a leash are you going to give bob mueller . How much of his reports that he gives to you pyou are you going give to the congress and the public . Are you going to err on the side of transparency or err on the side of secrecy . Sandra has he said enough to satisfy democrats. He said he believes it is in the best interest of everyone that this matter, Mueller Investigation, be resolved by allowing the special counsel to complete his work. He also wants the findings of that report to be made public and for congress to see all of it. Much of this was said in remarks that were released yesterday, sandra. Sandra got them right here. The reason for this is last june, bill barr, unsolicited, sent a memo, 19 pages, to Rod Rosenstein, the Deputy Attorney general, and to jeff sessions, then the attorney general, saying that the investigation was really illegitimate, it had no basis. Simply the firing of comey was not the baseis for a legitimate special counsel probe. This picks on something that the judge was talking about. Bill barr was a champion of expansive president ial power and authority during his time as attorney general, that should not be questioned, and that the president has the right to make all decisions on everything that takes place in the executive branch, which would essentially make him the nations chief Law Enforcement officer, as opposed to the attorney general. The question then becomes, is he willing sandra this is an example of the concerns we are going to hear in the room. We have to go. Judge, final thoughts . I think that is correct. Thats the second issue they are going to raise. How independent of the white house can the doj be. The department of justices is the only executive branch entity by law and legal ethics must have independence on the white house. Sandra Lindsey Graham, the new chairman will be overseeing the committee today. He hopes there will be challenges but hopes they will be respectful. Bill Lindsey Graham has already said what questions he will ask. Our coverage continues. Bret baier is on deck, Shannon Bream, Jonathan Turley. Stand by. We are not going anywhere. Come on back right after this. Gs means they wont hike your rates over one mistake. See, Liberty Mutual doesnt hold grudges. For drivers with accident forgiveness, Liberty Mutual wont raise their rates because of their first accident. Switch and you could save 782 on home and auto insurance. Call for a free quote today. Liberty mutual insurance. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Ds i am a family man. I am a techie dad. I believe the best technology should feel effortless. 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Remember, there are three potential democratic president ial candidates on this committee, amy klovichar, cory booker and kamala harris. Expect there to be some fireworks when it comes to the Mueller Probe. However, bill barr in his Opening Statement will say that he wants mueller to complete his probe. It is vitally important in his words. He also says it is important that the American Public and Congress Know about that. How he says that in the Opening Statement will be parsed and questioned and saying, well, what kind of release for the Mueller Report.