would agree that it doesn t sound very donald trump like to stay out of it. on the other hand, there was no secret what he wanted to happen. i mean, bill barr didn t have to have an explicit conversation with the president to know that he would be in favor of and encouraging of seeking records against his political enemies. you know, maybe it was unspoken, but we all know what donald trump wanted his department of justice to do and it sounds like in this instance, bill barr s department of justice was willing to do that. dana, we just played in the last hour that moment between bill barr and then senator kamala harris where it was at the senate judiciary committee, she asked him, has anybody asked you to open an investigation. he stammered and stumbled and looked like a deer in the headlights throughout the entire answer. never said no. asked her to repeat it. asked what suggested means. now you see it in a totally new light. he couldn t say no to that under
along the border with mexico. he s up for re-election. will sounding president trump like help in texas which as you know has shifting demographics. it will help him in the primary. it will become problematic immediately thereafter, and it will also be a problem to the extent that people try to think this through. it s not as if donald trump didn t try to build a wall on the border. he tried everything he could possibly think of. there s a lot of real issues with trying to do it, whether you re the federal government and certainly if you re a state government. the leading problem, of course, is that the rio grande kind of changes shapes. that s the nature of a natural boundary. the other problem, of course, is there are private landowners on both sides of the boarder who really have to determine whether or not they are going to let anybody, including governor abbott build a fence on their property or a wall so he s right back where he started not to mention the enormous cost of makin
subpoenaed apple in early 2018 for records of more than 100 accounts. among them, chairman adam schiff and congressman eric swalwell, both democrats on the house intel committee, as well as their staffs and their family members, including a minor. prosecutors also obtained a gag order so apple could not disclose this and it was renewed three times before trump left office. apple was only able to notify the people involved in may. this was all part of an effort by president trump to find who was behind the reports of contacts between trump associates in russia and two top senate democrats are calling on trump s former ags, bill barr and jeff sessions. congressman mike quigley just told cnn s manu raju this. i assumed a hostile government would do something like this. i just didn t think it would be our own hostile government. jessica schneider joins us now.
he wiretapped reporters at one point. when it was legal, he had the director of the fbi, j. edgar hoover, tap reporters and white house staff as well, trying to track down leaks. when that became illegal by a ruling of the supreme court, he pulled the taps. so he did stay within the law on that, but he was aggressive in going after leaks, no question. gloria, i know i revisited this a few times, but republicans abandoned nixon, right? we ve got now republicans who are sticking with president trump it. two impeachments and no condemnation from republicans after we re getting this reporting. yeah. not only no condemnation here but no calls for clarification, no calls for further investigation. you have an inspector general now that s going to be looking at this. no republican saying, that s exactly what we need. we need to get to the bottom of
cnn s lauren fox is on capitol hill. so, what s at the center of the debate over this plan? well, look, we have some early details about what this deal actually includes. we know it is $1.2 trillion in infrastructure spending. we also know $579 billion of that money is new money. that was a key sticking point between republican negotiators and the white house that caused the president to walk away from those talks with shelley moore capito earlier this week. one of the question marks we still have is whether or not democrats would be able to rally around a proposal that five of their more moderate members came to a consensus on with republican counterparts. one of the concerns you have heard behind the scenes and publicly from democrats right now is that they are worried that the people who are negotiating this in the middle, people like senator joe manchin, people like cinema of arizona, that those members are not going