Himself but still gives kind of aid and comfort to the talking points. that s why i think it is fine to call him a pliant attorney general unless and until proven otherwise. i have a bit to play for you. this is william barr talking about his boss, the president. i didn t know him before. i had only met with him, really, a substantive discussion at the time he decided to make, you know, appoint me attorney general. but i think we have a candid relationship. let s take the other side of this equation. are trump insiders happy they finally got their man at the justice department. well, they often echo what the president feels, and the president is absolutely thrilled. he feels like he finally has the attorney general he s always wanted. what barr said in that clip is true. they didn t know each other. he wasn t trump s first pick to the job.
These days he happens to be the creator of the new podcast called talking feds. michael, i would like to begin with you. with the president talking spying, with the president having found a perfectly pliant, it seems, attorney general on this front, what have you heard about the seriousness of purpose behind this investigation of the investigators? well, that s what we sort of don t know. we reported this week that barr has asked the u.s. attorney in connecticut, duram, to look at this, but he would simply be reviewing the counter intelligence investigation and how it all began. at the heart of this issue is the fact that the president has finally found someone to be his
Having found a perfectly pliant, it seems, attorney general on this front, what have you heard about the seriousness of purpose behind this investigation of the investigators? well, that s what we sort of don t know. we reported this week that barr has asked the u.s. attorney in connecticut, duram, to look at this, but he would simply be reviewing the counter intelligence investigation and how it all began. at the heart of this issue is the fact that the president has finally found someone to be his attorney general that will do the things that he wants. sessions wouldn t do that. rosenstein wouldn t do that. but here you have barr echoing the president s talking points and doing it in an effective way. barr has figured out a way to
That, to speak in plain terms, he was in the tank for the president. and that s continued to be the case since. but in a somewhat kind of clever way that doesn t go all the way on the rhetoric of the president himself but still gives kind of aid and comfort to the talking points. that s why i think it is fine to call him a pliant attorney general unless and until proven otherwise. i have a bit to play for you. this is william barr talking about his boss, the president. i didn t know him before. i had only met with him, really, a substantive discussion at the time he decided to make, you know, appoint me attorney general. but i think we have a candid relationship. let s take the other side of this equation. are trump insiders happy they finally got their man at the justice department. well, they often echo what the president feels, and the
Reserved to congress in article i of the constitution. so if it they were willing to give it to the president here, there is no telling where he could have taken that down the road, but i think yamiche is right, you know, everybody knows that the votes aren t really arent there to overturn the veto and where this ultimately will be decided is in the court system, where i think the president will get a little bit of a lesson on how the constitution works. and, david, i want to read you something from the new york times where it says the mere act of defying mr. trump, speaking of senators, foreshadows potential new difficulty for the president as he seeks to push his agenda through a democrat-controlled house and a less pliant republican-controlled senate. let s apply what new york times wrote to the pliant issue, the larger issue, it s not so important that the president vetoed the bill. lots of presidents gets bills they veto. the issue here is is this a less compliant senate?