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Representatives will vote on you know 11th to hold william barr in contempt of congress, as you know, and i think our viewers have heard. if this goes forward as expected with the democrats in control, he would be only the second attorney general in american history to be held in contempt. it comes on a day, as you know, that other committees are also bearing down on him and wilbur ross, its part of his new agenda. >> yeah. >> a, walk us through what this news means to you politically that the d...

>> have you -- did you discuss your security clearance with the president? >> im not going to go into security clearance-related issues. what i do know, again, is at that point after two years, ive probably been more vetted than anybody. >> said no. can you say no? >> i have not discussed it with him. >> you havent? >> no. >> categorically? >> no. >> okay. you have never discussed with him. >> what we have somebody unqualified to be in the position he is in. he is only there because he is the ...

Be a criminal act. so there are many ways you can talk about that, invoking that while also acknowledging that it was a terrible idea and how many republicans or their experts said it was bad idea. there is way to do that. thats not the road he took. take a listen. >> my question to you is why didnt you pick up the phone and call the fbi? it was an email that said russia, that said the russian government was trying to help. why didnt you do that? >> jonathan, were in a place now where people are...

Today they are going to have the watergate star witness john dean to testify as one of the experts. he certainly knows hi way around these issues along with former federal prosecutors who say they will conclude what mueller would not, that they have looked at the evidence as prosecutors, and they athink there is criminal obstruction of justice. and there may be some tiny crack in the democratic leadership as well. while pelosi and steny hoyer are not for impeachment, jim clyburn is now all of th...

In office, but he could have reached a decision as to whether it was criminal activity, but he had his reasons for not doing it, which he explained. >> if youre not going to indict someone, then you dont stand up there and there and unload negative information about the person. thats not the way the department of justice does business. >> hmm. walk us through it. >> so i was -- yeah, so, you know, i was looking through all the confirmation hearing testimony and i saw that and i thought, boy, you...

Nadler refers to constitutional remedies, that is an important set of two words, because it doesnt mean legislation. constitutional remedies is a diplomatic reference to, yes, impeachment. it is the constitutions remedy and process other than the criminal justice system that accuses the president of wrongdoing. now if that language sounds a little familiar, did you hear like a little echo? it may be because the former special counsel used that exact language when he gave his resignation address ...

Impeaching president trump? >> i do. i actually co-sponsored an impeach resolution in the last congress. >> so let me ask you this about your party, given that framework for our viewers. if thats a good idea, why are the leaders of the democratic party afraid to call for it? why does visit to be impeachment by another name in your view? >> well, i dont think it will end up being impeachment by another name. i agree totally with jim clyburn that once these investigations have runner course over t...

His wife are on messaging. and one of the key instances where this was particularly true was about the muslim travel ban. jared and ivanka actually agreed with trumps policy on that. he wasnt against it, until it turned into a bad meme involving them on the internet when there was chaos in the airports and so forth. >> as opposed to a meme off the internet. >> as opposed to a meme off the internet. thank you, ari. >> thank you. >> but the other obviously big moment in my book was charlottesville...

William barr talking to cbs news, i started to realize i think actually those two conferences are going to set the tone for the next year and determine what happens. and mueller went on the cameras and said, basically, look, i couldnt indict a sitting president. i was bound by doj opinions, and therefore i also couldnt label trump a criminal, that it would be unfair to label someone a criminal and not give him the legal process to clear his name. so thats mueller. then barr the next day tells cb...

>> i hope that bob mueller will understand as painful as it may be, and as much as it may subject him to further abuse by the white house, he has a final duty here to perform, like any other witness. >> and if he doesnt, subpoena? >> well, it will be my recommendation, yes. >> do you agree? >> i agree totally with adam. we have to have bob mueller testify. we have to have him go through some of the most important points that he made in the report. for instance, on the issue of collusion, he had ...