their request to testify. but if they want to know the answer to this, if we all want to know the answer to this, they have to stand firm, subpoena him and fight it in court to get him in the chair to answer those questions under oath. but can he say these are privileged conversations? you know, i had conversations with the president and i don t need to disclose those? well, he can try. he can try for an executive privilege. remember, he said there weren t any conversations, even though that wasn t under oath. that s going to be hard for him to take that line here. you know, i would expect him to continue the tack he s taken which is they didn t discuss it and try to weez weasel around in which context they did or didn t come up to something similar to that topic. dana, congressional republicans have tried to perpetuate this line of deep sat inside of the department of justice that even former president biden was using the department of justice to go after republicans. after this
really intending to build it at all. we ll see how far that goes. let s go to florida now and the board of education voted to ban critical race they ry in public schools. the rule was originally proposed by governor ron desantis. listen to the governor. it s wrong. it should not be taught in schools, and we need to teach people the truth. we need to teach them about the history of this country, and that includes everything that s happened, but you can t lie and you can t promote your ideology and false narratives. i mean, they will attack cops with this type of ideology in schools and meanwhile they have like 87% of the kids aren t even literate in some of these schools, so it shows you they are not trying to educate. they are trying to indoctrinate. we re not going to let that come to florida. so desantis might be setting himself up for a run for president, but we re seeing this across the country. why is this the issue that the republican party is choosing? the reason they
trump administration. are you surprised we re having this conversation? i am. actually, that norm he s referring to, directly involved me. it was the fact that i had gone to the prosecutors early and talked to them and nixon wanted to know what i had told them and how it affected him as well as his top aides, his chief of staff and his top domestic adviser. and he was pumping the head of the criminal division, brought him over to the white house, sat him down and intimidated him into talking about what i was talking about. that s the basis of the norm. that s a no-nowhere a president becomes directly involved in a case. so i have a special sensitivity to that norm. i m sorry to see it violated as it has been by trump on a number of occasions. and the interesting thing here is that donald trump never made any secret, as you all know, of who he wanted investigated. he wanted adam schiff
he added to politico that trump never encouraged him to zero in on democratic lawmakers who reportedly became targets of trump s push to unmask leakers. also said that the former president trump was not aware of who we were looking at in any of the cases. i never discussed leak cases with trump. he didn t really ask me any of the specifics. so he s trying to distance himself and the former president from what we now know appeared to be unprecedented cases where the justice department went in and got records from these members of congress. it s one thing, of course, for the former attorney general to say that to a news organization. we welcome him to come on this one as well, but as you just heard from jessica, the members of congress who are very upset about this and want to do their oversight want them to come and do it under oath. you worked for an attorney
investigated, he wanted andy mccabe investigated, he he said it publicly that schiff was the leaker, for example. so, barr, who told politico today that he didn t have any direct conversations with the. the about this, didn t have to because the president told everyone or anyone who would listen that this is what he wanted. so what barr did is he took a defunct investigation, it was over under sessions, they never found anything, and he reinvigorated it and then appointed someone to be in charge of it because the president of the united states still was not happy. and, you know, that is just an exploitation of the justice department and i think the congress needs to get to the bottom of it. the question is, once they get to the bottom of it, what can they actually do about it? who does bill barr answer to at this point as a private citizen?