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About is the figsa warrant on carter page and that seems anemic for an investigation as serious as this. that cant be true so there must be spying. at the core of barrs public attempts to justify what he is doing which we know trump ordered him to do. thats askally not that there is any smoke or fire there or evidence of wrong-doing, but the absence of it. the fact that peter strzok said hey, this is crazy. we need to investigate aggressively and he lost that battle. peter strzok is the villain ...

Representable as a journalist, hes clearly protecting this the president, he says. >> i wrote an article about parsing bill barrs comments as well. i would say that he was shading the truth so much as that he was -- in explaining why hes putting new scrutiny on the origins of the russia investigation, he was throwing out possibilities of maybe there was wrongdoing, but im not really saying that. im just asking questions and saying hes not getting enough answers yet. and these comments fueled all...

Our viewers know whats going on on the right side of the screen that is the president leaving trump tower in new york, white house north some have called it in his motorcade there. sorry, laura, complete your thought. >> so the inspector general, the watchdog over at the justice department he cant bring charges himself, but what he can do is if he finds any sort of wrongdoing that rises to a criminal level, then he can refer it to a u.s. attorney for prosecution. so thats what we saw in the case...

Potential evidence of legal wrongdoing here that could lead to prosecutions? >> well, its interesting. the case that they have right now, theyre calling it a review, they are not each calling it a full scale investigation thats being led by john durham, a u.s. attorney, obviously somebody who has subpoena power and grand jury power. they are saying this is not actually a criminal investigation, they are just saying its a review. so clearly they want us to take it seriously obviously and this is ...

Final conclusion on obstruction where he expected as a prosecutor he would have sort of made a call on that. what did you think of that? >> well, it kind of following the point that robert mueller had two decisions to make. he could either say president trump was cleared of any wrongdoing and exonerate him in full or not come to a conclusion because the idea of dieting a sitting president of the united states -- how do you move forward in a criminal trial. and basically getting a fair -- an impa...

Finds here, but it appears barr is still concerned about something. he wont really explain the basis of the concern, whats animating it, but he says hes been raising a lot of issues and hes not getting adequate answers. take a listen to what else he said on fox this morning. >> people have to find out what the government was doing during that period, if were worried about foreign influence for the very same reason, we should be worried about whether government officials abuse their power and put...

Guaranteeing and expanding those rights my priority. as president i will codify roe v wade. ill make it clear beyond a shadow of a doubt that women in this country have a guaranteed right to an abortion. >> ukraines top prosecutor says despite allegations from president trumps lawyer and other republicans his office has no evidence of wrongdoing by former vice president joe biden or his son hunter who was once elm employed by a private gas company in the country. despite contradictions in timeli...

For congressional oversight to prevent executive enproechment on powers and alleged instance of administration and arbitering abuse, waste, dishonesty and fraught. w it ignores the counsel opinion on why a president cant be indicted which heads in part, in the event a suspicious of serious wrong-doing by a serious president and the media and congress through its own powers would likely pure sue evidence as well. he also argued that congressional democrats cant just have a do-over since they didn...

Congress was for checks and balances. its not checks and balances over joe citizen, its to make sure that we can root out t wrong-doing and corruption in the executive branch. thats exactly why the congress passed a law way back, saying that congress should be able to review the work of the irs. the irs ultimately comes under the jurisdiction of the president. congress as an independent body should be able to figure it out. >> there is a standoff here. i guess is it your understanding and your c...

Law." this ignores the constitutional role of congress and the congressional oversight manual that lists among the purposes firefighter congressional oversight to prevent executive enproechment on powers and alleged instance of administration and arbitering abuse, waste, dishonesty and fraught. it ignores the counsel opinion on why a president cant be indicted which heads in part, in the event a suspicious of serious wrong-doing by a serious president and the media and congress through its own p...