yeah, and they could save you a lot of money. wow, suddenly i feel so relieved. you guys are fired. get to know geico and see how much you could save on renters insurance. william barr got the president s attention with that 19-page memo about the mueller investigation, and now he is the president s nominee for attorney general. back with me matthew rosenberg, juliette kayyem, and michael moore. so michael, on this controversial unsolicited memo that barr shared with president trump s lawyers, it concluded that comey s firing could not cu constitute obstruction. today he clarified that when he wrote it on speculation. he said his goal with writing it was not to get back at the government. does that add up to you? not really. it really doesn t. i don t know why you would circulate to it the legal team for the white house about the time you knew they were looking for another attorney general. i don t know why you would be
president and whether he had been working on behalf of russia. cnn confirmed that he confirmed this to lawmakers last fall. what are we seeing now? is this retaliation? i don t know. i didn t work on that times report so i don t know who the sourcing was on that, to make that clear. i don t know. i don t want to speculate, but at the time it doesn t look great. what do you think, michael? what do you think? do you get do you get the sense that this investigation into baker is retaliation against people involved in investigating the president? i mean, it looks that way. the reason it looks that way is every time that there is some negative information that comes out from somebody who is involved with the investigation
consequences, but nonetheless, feel that their duty and their oath are bigger than satisfying the concerns of jim jordan and mark meadows. and that s annett cal and existential question, but it s just worth raising here because this is what we re facing. the people know things and have deep, deep concerns about the president. i have a very serious question. where is jim jordan s sport coat? [ laughter [ laughter ] either a suit or a sports jacket or something. i m just joking. but it s true. i have often wondered. he never has on a blazer. i think it s the same place where the president s comb is. oh, my gosh! oh, my gosh. all right. we re just having a little fun. thank you, all. i appreciate it. brexit. president trump trashing nato. is vladimir putin checking off every item on his wish list?
manafort, president trump s former campaign chief. but what is not redacted really tells us a lot here. mueller says that he has documented evidence that manafort lied when he denied having contact with trump administration officials. mueller says that in may 2018, after he was indicted, he reached out to the trump administration and then lied about it. manafort began talking with konstantin kilimnik. we ve learned that rick gates, manafort s associate is still cooperating with mueller s team, which means the investigation may be far from over. and also today, at the confirmation hearing of william barr, president trump s nominee to be attorney general, he told the senate judiciary committee that he would not interfere with mueller s investigation, and that he would not be bullied by anyone, including the president. and in a rebuke to the trump administration, 11 senate republicans joined democrats in a move to stop the administration from easing sanctions on russian oligarch
immediately undo these sanctions. in fact, michael flynn, in his very brief tenure as national security adviser, was pushing to lift sanctions against russia unilaterally. let s talk about a little bit more about this, jeffrey. because after the vote this afternoon, this is what you said on twitter. you said it looks like legislative is again having to take on russia policy. trump says that he has been tougher than anyone against russia. what is the reality here? that s simply not true. what you ve seen is the vacuum he s left in his personal role as the head of foreign policy has had to have been taken up by congress. it s congress that passed the countering america s adversaries sanctions act. that s a tough russia act, but that s not something he wanted to do. he didn t want to kick out all of the diplomats after the skripal poisoning. all of the actions he referred to are things he didn t want to do that had to be pushed by