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process to limit how american tax dollars are spent at the department of justice. i yield back. general lady from texas is recognized. good morning. you have value the independence of a special counsel. i do. you asked garland to allow you to continue the investigation saying we want to thank you and your office for permitting our inquiry to proceed with will without interfere answer as you assured the members of the judiciary committee would be the case during the confirmation hearings to become attorney general of the united states. you value your special counsel status. it a being a rat that garland let you proceed on your case as you wish. that s true. it was important you have to as special counsel your investigation was supposed to be independent because special counsels and attorneys are supposed to be independent, right? special counsel is. yes. they are supposed to be independent, is that correct? special counsel is independent of the attorney ....
quote, in the interest of transparency, unquote. team s trump interest in transparency doesn t extend to testifying. lindsey graham is trying to dodge a subpoena to appear before the fulton county special grand jury. a federal judge today refusing to put on hold her own ruling that the senator must appear. he filed an emergency request with the u.s. court of appeals for the 11th circuit asking them to put the subpoena on hold. talk about transparency. a federal appeals court ruling today that the doj has got to make public that internal legal memo that was commissioned by then ag william barr back in 2019. remember the one that he had to analyze whether he should charge then president trump with obstruction of justice related to the russia investigation? the court finding barr never considered charging trump, saying in the ruling the memo barr ordered was an academic exercise and a thought experiment. back to the mar-a-lago search here. the biden white house has kept ne ....
So unlike attorney general garland, attorney general barr was very involved in your investigation, wasn t he? he was not involved when i became a special counsel. prior to that i worked under the supervision of the attorney general. he was very involved. let me bring you to this point. established early on he was interested in your investigation. on june 8, 2018, he sent then deputy attorney general rod rosenstein a memo arguing the mueller investigation should not be able to force the president to sending the memo barr wrote that he feels very deeply about some of the issues taking shape in the mueller matter. how often did you meet with attorney general barr in 2019? before i was special counsel, maybe with him himself, maybe every two weeks, three weeks, something of that sort. ....
Considered charging trump, saying in the ruling the memo barr ordered was an academic exercise and a thought experiment. back to the mar-a-lago search here. the biden white house has kept near total silence on the entire thing, at least in public. ron klain telling don this. one reason why joe biden got elected president is he promised he would stay out of meddling like his predecessor did, in investigations being conducted by the justice department. that he would not politically interfere in the justice department enforcing our laws. cnn is learning that privately, white house officials are concerned about exactly what trump took to mar-a-lago and whether it could potentially put the sources and methods of our intelligence community at risk. there s worry about the potential that some of what s in those documents, classified ....
Joining us this morning, elliott hoenig, cnn analyst. good to see you. so bill barr, this is not his first rodeo. he knows how to assure the senate that he will let bob mueller do his job, allow that report to see light of day. what is the most important question these senate democrats need to press him on? so the senators on both sides of the aisle need to focus on obstruction of justice. his memo focuses on the obstruction of justice theory. barr writes that it cannot be obstruction of justice for the president to have fired james comey and to pressure james comey to drop the michael flynn investigation. in the memo barr calls this theory fatally misconceived and he calls it asinine. so are you saying he is free to fire whoever he wants, is the president free to try to stop an ....