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ran inside the paper at the new york times. mine, the media devote far more coverage and mustered far more outrage over the johnny depp/amber heard trial. this guy told police he traveled from california to kill kavanaugh because he was mad about the leaked roe v. wade draft opinion. even if he did call cops and say he was suicidal, effectively turning himself in. would the tone of the coverage have been slightly different if an armed conservative had been arrested near home of, say, s...

Obviously, it would appeal to the viewers of that network. but leaving aside the live coverage in terms of covering it day the after day, theres been an argument about is this new, why are we not hearing from the other side. i mean, because it seem to you to be a one-sided show trial? and even if it isnt, that doesnt mean they dont have some evidence. >> its latest install. as someone who had to play one of the leading roles in the how they build out false narratives -- howard: they being? >> th...

Garland justice department. what weve seen thats so interesting is that merrick garland, he apologized for this in meetings, private meetings with media companies. weve reported this. you know, according to our sources, he decided to take responsibility for the fact that this persisted under him, that prosecutors did not immediately -- that they were not more responsive to requests, for example, to lift gag orders and the investigations themselves, the requests for reporter records continued und...

Interests. what they dont tell the judge is that these stories were already published and the information has been out in the public for years, so its really difficult to square that kind of argument made to the court in late 2020 with the reality of the fact that the information had not only been in the public and been published and been out there for years but that no harm had yet been demonstrated to the national security. >> i want to get in, katie benner, to what the stories were about, but...

Expected the disclosures of confidential information was coming from congress. a push in bill barrs final days is where we start. katie benner who covers the justice department and whose byline is on this story is with us. shes also an msnbc contributor. clint watts is back, former consultant to the fbi counterterrorism division, now a distinguished research fellow at the foreign policy research institute. lucky for us an msnbc national security analyst. former congressman denver riggleman is ba...

There were serious issues around trust and who could handle sensitive information. they also showed really difficult realities around the united states relationship with russia. you could see why the government would be incentivized to try to figure out who had leaked the information. but again, by the time barr revived these investigations in 2020, we know from our reporting that inside of the u.s. attorneys office in d.c., many people thought they would never get to the bottom of the leak and ...

Information for email records from "the washington post" and from "the new york times" both occurred on december 22nd, bill barrs last day in office was december 23rd. this was literally one of his final acts as attorney general. and of course keep in mind he would have needed to know about this. he would have needed to be briefed and he would have needed to okay the kind of request that was made. typically if youre going to go after the media, the attorney general has to sign off. so this is li...

Wake of the mueller information. earlier this month, a federal judge ordered the full release of the memo arguing that barr was disingenuous about the process behind his decision to clear trump. in court filings the doj released a portion of the memo that signaled it would fight to keep the rest of the document under seal. justice department lawyers wrote this, in retrospect, the government acknowledges that its briefs could have been clearer and deeply regrets the confusion that caused. but the...

Some believe that that should be set aside and the articles of impeachment that get drafted should focus very narrowly on ukraine. nancy pelosi wouldnt answer my question about that this morning. but democrats i talked to on the judiciary committee all want to see the mueller information included. but the specific information about obstruction, they think the presidents obstruction of the mueller investigation establishes a pattern that supports the obstruction they see here on the ukraine inves...

Confidentiality. i recognize this is not my privilege, but i am respects the white houses decision. >> when you refuse to answer these questions, you are obstructing the work of our committee and i will remind you article 3 was based on obstruction of congress. >> reporter: democrats arguing that privilege is not valid. >> i dont think its anyones privilege to waive because i dont think it exists. i think the whole thing is imaginary. its like the tooth fairy. >> my children are watching. thank ...