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Blocked from doing so last year. >> graham met with bar today. said this. >> i asked him directly, do you think mr. mueller is on a witch hunt. he said no. do you think he would be fair to the president and the country as a whole? he said yes. >> mark warner the top democrat on the senate intel committee says he is absolutely not reassured by barr saying he would interfere with the mueller investigation. are you? >> no. not whatsoever. i think that the memo he submitted unsolicited last year bet...

And thats important because what gives nocs their currency, what gives them their utility is their ability to disavow any and all connections to the u.s. government. the fact this man served in the armed forces would itself be disqualifying in almost all cases for individuals to be nocs for the u.s. government. and number two, this individual was discharged from the u.s. military with a bad conduct discharge. thats not to impugn his character, but that is to say that this would not be befitting ...

Individual, a businessman who was based in michigan, are implicitly claiming that he was an intelligence official for the u.s. government working under whats known as non-official cover. theyre claiming he was a noc. that is highly implazible if not impossible to my mind for two primary reasons. one, this individual is a veteran. he served in the marines for 15 years. and thats important because what gives nocs their currency, what gives them their utility is their ability to disavow any and all...

Claiming is a spy, does it from a profiling standpoint, does it fit what you might expect to see in a spy? >> the profile here, steve, fits the theory you were articulating before, a quid pro quo for maria butina. and i say that because the russians by arresting this individual, a businessman who was based in michigan, are implicitly claiming that he was an intelligence official for the u.s. government working under whats known as non-official cover. theyre claiming he was a noc. that is highly ...

But do they say that the father told them he made up this diagnosis, that it was a false diagnosis? >> this is what they say. they said that their father -- the sense they always got from their father was there was not really a disqualifying issue here. but did he actually examine donald trump? they dont know that level of specifics. the na they afather has been de years. it was a story they would discuss and talk about. donald trump before he was president was obviously a prom nept businessman,...

No one else wants to do it that way but im looking forward to. >> they talk about the populism on the left and changing things there, you were part of the start of that without bernie sanders campaign. one thing im interested in is even as the 2020 race tickets shape, the bernie sanders of fact as far as not taking money from super pack as small donors instead, that seems to be something that is disqualifying to a democrat candidate if they dont follow that part. you see it that way. >> i do act...

No one else wants to do it that way but im looking forward to. >> they talk about the populism on the left and changing things there, you were part of the start of that without bernie sanders campaign. one thing im interested in is even as the 2020 race tickets shape, the bernie sanders of fact as far as not taking money from super pack as small donors instead, that seems to be something that is disqualifying to a democrat candidate if they dont follow that part. you see it that way. >> i do act...

This job for a year. the number one problem is the mueller investigation. people who publish on the mueller investigation, par has written an unsolicited memo. to nonlawyers like me those things look disqualifying. >> it appears these people are auditioning for the role and a very narrow avenue. they are publishing. i suspect that donald trump is not reading law review articles or looking through the ak de-- ends up being the audition for the job. that may be how he discovered whitaker that said...

>> the president has appointed mr. barr or will nominate, we are told, mr. barr to the attorney general position. senator schumer, the top democrat in the senate said he should pick a nominee. this memo is disqualifying on its -- on substantive grounds because of the arguments made here. do you agree? >> i totally agree. hes making the argument that you cant -- essentially that you cant investigate any president for obstruction of justice, that no president can conduct obstruction of justice as ...

About all of the developments surrounding the newly unearthed memo from the presidents pix to lead the justice department, bill barr, writing nearly 20 pages to justice department official rod rosenstein, who has up until recently led the investigation, managing it day to day. writing in part that the president could not obstruct justice in asking james comey to let go of the investigation of his former national security adviser michael flynn as well as the firing of james comey, barr concluding...