again in the confirmation hearing and seek specific commitment. others i was less encouraged by. eric: that was republican senator graham of south carolina, the democrat of delaware. both weighing in on president trump s nominee for attorney general of the united states, william barr. they both met with mr. barr on capitol hill this week. several democrats are raising concerns over barr s previous criticism of special counsel robert mueller s russia investigation. the senate judiciary committee confirmation hearings for barr will begin this tuesday. what will be in store? let s bring in our political panel, president of the district media group, also a democratic strategist and former deputy assistant secretary of state under president obama and president of the washington strategy group. welcome. thank you. thank you. eric: good to see you. i mean look, he s had the job before. he was attorney general under george h. w. bush, bush 41.
that it was actually transferring from the campaign to the russians. once that happens. you will see no appetite they are not running in 2020. they may be the more vocal protectors. you will have the questions about his views for robert mueller s investigation. june 8, 2018. alex i have it right here. against that investigation. what he think they will try to hammer there.
i fired lying james comey. according to the times, agents and senior fbi officials became suspicious to trump s tie to russia during the campaign but com comey s prompted the inquiry. the personal attorney worked with him during the time this occur, told fox news at no time did special counsel mueller make request of the president or his counsel about these bizarre allegations. arthel? arthel: thank you. eric: let s go to the washington examiner, chief congressional correspondent. you know, susan, the new york times headline says quote the investigation was whether the president was secretly working for russia. basically if the president of the united states was a russian asset. i mean, that sounds like a movie. what do we know that this is based on? or did they just decide, you know, whatever they decided? isn t it incredible? basically saying they were
americans are very much divided on this. eric: do they have anything else that we don t know about yet? that could be a possibility. that s the heart of the issue, eric. best question yet. and you can find the answer to that i think in the tenth paragraph of that new york times story. what does it say if you go and scan down to the bottom of the page? it says no evidence has been found that he s been colluding with the russians. eric: let me read that to you. we showed that a second ago. quote it is unclear whether mr. mueller is still pursuing the counterintelligence matter in some form of officials outside the investigation, have questioned whether agents overstepped in opening it. no evidence has emerged publicly that mr. trump was secretly in contact with or took direction from russian government officials, but now we have all these allegations that others in the campaign, you know, manafort and that meeting with the russian lawyer, i mean, that there were a bevy of apparent cont
president i ask you to judge me by the enemies i have made according to the new york times agents in senior fbi directors. the special counsel robert mueller the times reports took over the investigation when he was appointed and right now it is unclear if mueller and his team are still pursuing this at all. think you so much. the u.s. reaching the longest government shutdown and history. now entering the fourth week with no solution in sight. for the wall. the partial shutdown is affecting the paychecks of over 800,000 federal workers and millions when you add up the domino effect. good afternoon. those workers are really starting to fill distinct from