and sexual harassment many women in the military face. she is a strong record on that. she s going to differentiate herself from not only gifted women in the race, but if she s going to make this argument about women, he i think she shd i let them more. she is a fantastic record despite having a mixed record. katie: in the meantime, a trio of potential democratic candidates scrutinizing potential edge and sinead general william barr, demanding assurances from barr on protecting the mueller probe. senator amy klobuchar also pressing barr about the government shutdown and the wall. senator kamala harris pushing barr on whether he will recuse himself from the mueller investigation, and then there was this exchange with senator cory booker about improving the disparities that minorities face within the criminal justice system. you literally wrote the book
know what is in the mueller report. with the exception of very real national security concerns, i don t even believe there should be very much redaction. kennedy: that goes for everything, senator feinstein. here s what mr. barr said yesterday. watch. my objective end goal is to get as much as i can of the information to congress and the public. i m going to be talking to rod rosenstein and bob mueller. i m sure they have had discussions about this. there are probably existing thinking in the department as to how to handle this. i m going to get the integration out there consistent with these regulations, and to the extent i have discretion i will exercise that discretion to do that that. kennedy: also yesterday, mr. barr stressing he would allow robert mueller to continue his job and protect it from outside interference. watch. i believe it is vitally
on mass incarceration, or at least this report, the case for more incarceration. you argue that we come as a nation, were incarcerating too few criminals. do you think, yes or no, this system of mass incarceration has disproportionally benefited african-american communities? speak of the heavy drug penalties , especially on crack and other things, have harmed the black community. incarceration rates have harmed the black community. katie: kennedy, we talked about that issue early. do you think yesterday s hearings distinguish any candidates more than in the past? they are obviously using the committee hearing as a platform to get their ideas out ahead of their announcement. kennedy: i know they are trying, and i appreciate that there wasn t as much grandstanding. i agree with cory booker. i think that s an appropriate place to press william barr, because there s a lot to answer for between the departments of justice from the george h.w. bush administration and the donald trump ad
seem to have a habit of forgetting things like that. i would be curious, i would love to be a fly on the wall in trump s office if he was watching those hearings. because he set a number of things that would probably be disconcerting to trump if he is saying is actually true. if his actions match harris: this is minor, but i want to get on the record with it. william barr said he was not asked to be the president s personal attorney, that they had conversations and he offered up the details of the conversations but he said they were not textured quite the way that you present it. but i know it s been reported that way. i wanted to slide that information or to his testimony. kennedy: part of the challenge here for the former and future attorney general, so it appears, is his independence. he said yesterday that he would, in fact, break with the president when necessary. let s watch. one of my concerns, frankly,
at comcast, it s my job to develop, apps and tools that simplify your experience. my name is mike, i m in product development at comcast. we re working to make things simple, easy and awesome. kennedy: this is a fox news alert, controversy bubbling up on day two of the confirmation hearings for attorney general nominee william barr. today panel of character witnesses appearing before the senate judiciary committee, but even before the testimony started, raking democrat senator dianne feinstein raised concerns over whether or not mr. barr would commit to releasing any potential report from the special counsel investigation. here is senator feinstein today. i was concerned, by his equivocation regarding the report. i think it is essential that congress and the american people