yeah, so first, brian, i don t take any joy in writing that piece. i love the justice department. i ve really respected every attorney general regardless of party in the past, but i do feel like president trump s anti-constitutional rot is infecting now the attorney general, the highest legal officer in the land. and in particular, that clip you just showed, i think, demonstrates the problem. you know, barr said last week to cbs that comey correction that mueller could have reached a judgment, that he thought it was fine that the office of legal counsel opinion that prohibits indicting a sitting president doesn t mean that mueller couldn t have made a decision about obstruction of justice. when i watched that, and brian, actually, you play a role in the sequence of events, actually, because when i watched that i thought, i think i ve discussed this with brian, and i realized that you and i were watching the
cbs that comey correction that mueller could have reached a judgment, that he thought it was fine that the office of legal counsel opinion that prohibits indicting a sitting president doesn t mean that mueller couldn t have made a decision about obstruction of justice. when i watched that, and brian, actually, you play a role in the sequence of events, actually, because when i watched that i thought, i think i ve discussed this with brian, and i realized that you and i were watching the confirmation hearing of one william barr together on your network a few months ago, and barr said exactly the reverse, that actually comey we went o and criticized comey when he didn t indict hillary clinton for then attacking hillary clinton. he said, that isn t what the justice department does. that s not the way it does business. you either indict or be quiet. now he s saying something very different. i think it furthers this underlying perception that we have an attorney general who is willing
democratic party would look like and lead the democratic party into 2020. and then there was another candidate who was here, john hickenlooper who got a different reaction when he talked about warning of socialism in the democratic field. he brought it here and was booed for that. before he talked on stage, i caught up with him and asked him if he would be open to changing the doj guidance about indicting a sitting president. he was open but not enthusiastic about the idea. some of his competitors like elizabeth warren are. ali vitaly and shaquille brewster joining us in san francisco for the state democratic convention. thank you both very much for the time on this saturday. i m going to turn to senator richard blumenthal of connecticut, member of the senate judiciary committee and he joins us now. if we could, senator, i would like to start with gun violence. i don t know if you heard from your colleague, cory booker, calling for major action on gun policy in this country, what hap
seemed to turn in elizabeth warren s favor, whether you look at her polling numbers, bumper stickers, she s wearing that badge. people were trying to shame her but now it seems to be working in her favor. i think that s right. the shaming in the beginning was, oh, she s sort of like tracy flick in some ways. in some ways it s a gender shaming. yeah, she has very much played this to her advantage in a field of 23 people, you need to figure out a way to break out. you need to figure out a way to brand yourself and she has done that and done it to a level that no one has been able to do it. and she in some ways, except maybe with this plan she announced today with the whole, you know, law about indicting a sitting president, she has been setting the pace. it s been people who essentially come behind her on any number of issues, particularly something like breaking up the big banks. she is having the others sort of respond to her plans and that s been very interesting to watch because th
you cannot indict the president, but that does not preclude you from looking in investigating and finding may be coconspirators and other people that you can get on other crimes, but based on the statement there was an agreement very early on that they were on the same page when it came to what the justice department regulations said you could do in terms of indicting a sitting president. but on that note going back to the media, have they not learned their lesson about how they handled these kinds of stories? they are going to get president trump reelected. there is a huge risk for democrats, not only in losing the house to nancy pelosi, but the political globe act, if they drop it off in a primary and general election, it shows that they are not willing to do what they said they were going to do, which is the politicking that everybody is trying to get away from. jesse: all right, juan, you are not here yesterday. i will let you take the floor. juan: i saw today the president goi