as the house prepares to hold televised hearings next week in the impeachment inquiry, we re learning tonight that president trump wanted bill barr to publicly say that trump did nothing wrong on this july phone call with ukraine s president, but barr declined. let s bring in john dean. john, good evening. i just want to get your take on the post reporting that barr, you know, he s helped the president a lot by misleading the public on the mueller report. then the doj wouldn t pursue the inspector general s referring on the whistle-blower, so why stop now? you know, i read that story, and the only thing that surprised me about it was that barr didn t do it. you know, it looks like he went a little of the distance with the criminal division turning down any campaign act violation
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acting as the president s personal attorney? yeah, i got to say, he s gone over to maybe not the other size, but trump s personal side. so for something like this, who are you going to call? bill barr, because they ll call on the olc to produce some kind of tenuous opinion that will at least buy time. i do think it s of apiece. normally i wouldn t say normally. universally the doj wouldn t be involved here. probably the white house had something to do with pushing the dni to get the opinion and arm them with something at least plausible they can point to. and yes, sad to say, that basic m.o., go to bill barr s justice department. get something you can say however outrageous about the executive power to at least freeze the linebackers. we ve seen that before, and this doesn t seem different, given that the statutory scheme is so clear here and there is really
they ll call on the olc to produce an opinion that will at least buy time. i think it s of a appease. and universally the doj wouldn t be involved here. probably the white house had something to do with pushing the dni to get the opinion and arm them with something at least plausible they can point to. sad to say, but the basic mo go to bill barr justice department, get something you can say however outrageous about executive power to at least freeze the line backers. we have seen that before. this doesn t seem different. given that the scheme is so clear. and there s no valid defense. nor has there ever been attempt to resist this. i have to run. thank you i appreciate it. justin trudeau. black face. once, twice, three times? maybe more.
trying to get all these documents saying, we didn t start it but provided and we have a text message which the d.o.j. wouldn t provide us up to this point where they say he wouldn t provide it would he and peter struck says no, he s not. we at the fbi will stop him. that is wrong, and this whole thing needs to come to an end. sandra: congressman gates, we have the three of you on the program together this morning because, together, you wrote a letter requesting all the unrevised drafts of the d.o.j. report on the procedures that were used during the investigation of hillary clinton s email use. what, specifically, are you asking for, congressman gates? we d like all the drafts, and ron and i were proud to join andy b ig gs and his leadership on this matter but his point is right on. we ll stop him. that s what peter struck said and the department of justice and the fbi hid that from us. if you have that manipulation of the information, it s entirely
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