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House speaker nancy pelosi. >> its a classic example of trump over reacting. >> technically inept, strategically knit with it. >> laura: the only phrase that comes to mind is nanny nanny boo-boo. i like it when jake gets very serious, i like impartiality, both of them are flexing their muscles. thats what the branches of government do, they are all checking each other and trying to exert more power -- thats how its always been. joining me now to answer the question of who was actually winning, b...

Terms of independence and caring about where the department is going to go, caring about the department of justice and the fbis reputation and bringing a certain kind of gravitas and impartiality to that chore. so, yeah, again, theres political fallout no matter he says, but i think the answers reflected a pretty thoughtful approach, a guy whos going to let the special counsel statute dictate where the special counsel investigation goes. and those are good things to hear. >> but harry, what abou...

Attorney, sharing it with all the men and that raises questions about his impartiality he didnt go far enough to address. the tell is with ckamala harris that -- and deputies attorney generals all committed not only to seek the advice of them but he wouldnt commit. >> he certainly said i will make a great deal of deference to ethics officials that made the decision that maybe i should not be involved with it. there would have a be a very compelling reason for me to ignore him. he didnt do that. ...

Thats not an ig legitimate position to have. we dont know if robert mueller will write a report other than the one he has to submit internally. he has never said that publicly. justice department has never said that publicly. absent these questions surrounding him writing memo that by -- by deferring to officials, youre someone who is qualified and said the right things about the departments independence. we trust you to make the right decisions. the one thing that makes me doubt him is the fact...

Trump lawyers in advance. and he did it when he was a private person at a law firm, on his own, uninvited. so it is a strange exercise. and he is pretty aggressive in his attacks on mueller. and he shouldnt be allowed to run away from his own words now and i hope that the senators again republicans and democrats alike dont accept these sort of coached up lawyered up dodges that we see so often. put his own words in front of him from that memo, say do you still stand by what you said here. >> but...

The impartiality of the person who is overseeing the investigation. these are things that obviously are never good in connection with a high profile investigation of this nature. one of the challenges bill barr will have today is to reassure the american public and members of the senate judiciary committee hes impartial, has an open mind and as hell state publicly, pledge to allow the investigation to come to its conclusion. >> you said whether hes prejudged aspects of the case. by definition ha...

Outside attorney, with jared kushners attorney. he basically shared it with everyone on the presidents legal team and those close to the president. i dont know if that was because he was advocating for a job or he was acting as a sort of unofficial member of the trump legal team. but it raised serious questions. the fact he cant give a good answer for why hes breaking with the precedent that was set by eric holder and sally yates and rod rosenstein and jeff sessions to follow the advice of caree...

Determination do i send it to congress. there are legitimate questions about william barrs impartiality. he has a distinguished career. >> he was attorney general. >> 27 years ago. he went on a tour in 2017 and 18 where he attacked robert mueller and his investigation publically as a private citizen. some of the things that barr said and wrote i think are of great concern. among other things, barr said mueller was overzealous, overaggressive and said the obstruction of justice is asinine. there ...

We dont know what his conclusions will be. but you do know theres somewhat a process of what we can expect when that report comes. >> expect a big brawl there. the process is supposed to be mueller hands his report over to the ag. the ag reviews it and if approves sends it to congress. who will be a.g.? both guys have legitimate questions about their impartiality. they have both spoken attacking mueller, i think auditioning for the president, signaling ill take care of you, dont worry. thats com...

Lack of impartiality. it seems to me that he has just continuing torg disregard that. that is really to the detriment of the entire department of justice in my opinion. >> michael jeff sessions confirmed that the doj was looking into this back in march of 2018 and it looks like its still going on. does that tell us anything about these investigations? >> it does. theres a strange fixation i think with the republicans and hillary clinton and they cant get past that. thats odd to me. i think its p...