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What kind of release for the mueller report. i will be surprised if you get that much detail from bill barr. thats where i think the question is going to focus most of this marrying. >> sandra: jonathan turly, dick durbin on the sunday shows, democrat from illinois, said he is concerned about what he is going to hear in this room today. he said, bill barr better give us some iron clad insurances in terms of his independence. how can bill barr do that in that room today? >> he has already done it...

With a statement before each senator gets approximately ten minutes to question barr. im going to ask him, do you see any reason to fire mr. mueller based on what you know now for cause? he does expect barr to be challenged in this hearing. he does hope that he is respectfully challenged. >> bill: we have seen his remarks. they run about 3.5 pan poi3.5 p length. he will say, we live in a time where the country is deeply divided. there are places in government where the rule of law and not politi...

>> i cant stay with you, i have to go. >> okay, pete, well go right to you then danny. >> what we know so far, is that the federal government has taken jurisdiction over this, away from the commonwealth of pennsylvania, which is the state of pennsylvania. ordinarily, under federal law, the law presumes that the state will prosecute in cases of hate crimes. there are exceptions, however, if the state asks the federal government to prosecute or if the federal government believes that it is special...

The federal government believes that it is especially suiteded to handle this hate crime, thats an exception to the general rule that states are responsible in the first instance for prosecuting hate crimes such as this. in the federal system, there are a number of different kinds of hate crimes, several of which provide for a potential death penalty depending on the circumstances. of course, pennsylvania also has the death penalty but similar to federal law or the federal system, no ones been p...