Carol jenkins discusses efforts to ratify the equal rights amendment. And at 845 a. M. , brandon judd from the immigration and Border Control to discuss the administrations approach to border host in a network news interview last night, william barr was sharply critical of President Trumps comments, tweets regarding the roger stone case, the prosecutors involved, and the judge as well. 2020. Friday, february 14, we will show you some of that interview in a moment and ask in theut your confidence attorney general and do you agree or disagree of his criticism with President Trump. Here is how to call in. Republicans use 2027488001. Democrat, 2027488000. For independents, that line, 2027488002. Send us a text if you would like. Sure you003 and make include your name and where you are texting from. On twitter, we are cspanwj and our Facebook Page is facebook. Com cspan. Just a quick recap on the roger stone case, he was convicted of a number of federal crimes including lying to congress scheduled to be sentenced next thursday. The prosecutors involved in that earlier this week made sentencing recommendations to the judge in the case and shortly they act thereafter, the Justice Department revised downward those recommendations. President trump was critical of prosecutors earlier in the week about sentencing guidelines and then the reduction in sentencing recommendations came out and the prosecutors resigned late tuesday and President Trump continued to criticize the case including the judge involved via twitter. The interview was done yesterday by pierre thomas, the chief justice correspondent for abc news and this is the front of their wet pipe their website. Abcnews. Go. It on com. William barr said the president is making his job harder. [video clip] i made a decision i thought was fair and reasonable in this case and when the tweet occurred, the question is now what do i do . Do you go forward with what you think is the right decision or pullback because of the tweet and that illustrates how disruptive they can be. You are saying you have a problem with the tweets. Ofi have a problem with some the tweets. To have public statements and tweets made about the department , about people in the department, our men and women about cases pending in the department, and judges about whom we have cases make it impossible for me to do my job to assure the courts and the prosecutors and the department that we are doing our work with integrity. Host we are going to show you several more pieces from that interview from abc last night in a bit. The white house commented stephanie grisham, the president was not bothered by the comments at all and has the right like any american citizen to publicly offer his opinions. He has full faith and confidence in the attorney general to do his job and uphold the law. What is your confidence in attorney general william barr. 2027488001 for republicans. 2027488000 for democrats. And independents and others, that is, 2027488002. We welcome your comments on. Witter as well cspanwj jeremy says i have no confidence in barr at all. The attorney general is not supposed to be the president s errand boy. I like bill barr, he stands up to his critics. I am waiting for indictments of democrats, it will be beautiful. Independent. And i have confidence in him. Rebecca says donald j. Trump is making it impossible to do his job. Our democrats line in new york, good morning. Caller good morning, cspan. I have no confidence in barr. I think he is nothing but a puppet to trump. Bsolutely zero confidence host republican line, good morning. Caller i disagree with your characterization of the dispute between barr and trump because i am telling you it is just a disagreement between the ag and the president and the president. And i have a lot of confidence in ag barr because i think he will do something about the situation that brought on the impeachment of the president. Host do you think in terms of his efforts to do that in the department of justice he comes out with critical statements to declare more independent so he can get those things done . Stopr he says the tweets him from doing his job, but i think he is doing that to ask the president to lay back a little bit, let me do my job and you will see i am independent of anybody. The guy that worked for president obama that was caught deal, i cannot remember his name, but he was the president s wing man. That is as close as you can get to the president and nobody saw that as a bad situation. I think this is a good ag. He will do the right thing and criticizing to quit the president for having an opinion of the ag asking the president to back off a little bit. Host one of the things the ag was criticized by is there was an influence in the decision to revise sentencing guidelines that the prosecutors, the ones who later resigned recommended. Attorney general general william barr defendant himself last night with that interview with pierre thomas. [video clip] did you talk to the president at all regarding your recommendations . Never. Did anybody from the white house try to call to influence you . No. I have not discussed the roger stone case at the white house. Host this is the lead editorial at the wall street journal, reflecting what our republican caller said. Trumps worst enemy, he needs to stop tweeting about such cases. If the president dislikes the sentence, he has pardon power. Meanwhile, knock it off. He perhaps does not care all of this hurts mr. Barr, who he can ill afford to use. He will give mr. Trump his candid advice on the law, which is more than most of his advisors do. Mr. Barr spoke up in frustration about this thursday telling abc outbursts weres making it impossible to do my job. The president should listen because he needs mr. Barr more than mr. Barr needs to be ag. The danger is mr. Barr will resign because he is tired of having his credibility undermined by a president who cannot control his political id. In the nations capital, democrats line, good morning. Caller i think it is important to be realistic about this, the wants to ask the question weather trump has spoken directly to william barr or not. He wants to protect his friends and punish his opponents. All barr is saying is keep it quiet and i will do what you want. Independents, independence, he is telling everyone including the president that it would be easier if trump lets him go ahead and do what he already knows trump wants him to do. Host wisconsin, next up, republican line. This is randy. Caller good morning, cspan. Those callers, democrat and republican but took the words out of my mouth. Barr is not in President Trumps pocket. I am a one hundred percent backer of the president we have got. He loves a tweet. I think the president should hold off on anything on the law side. The president has been treated terrible by the news media and the news media tricks him into some of these questions he answers and the president , i hope he can see through that a not answerand maybe those questions or get himself involved. Barr is not in his back pocket. Attorney general doing what he is supposed to do. I think i do like President Trumps tweets. I read them all the time. This is one of them i wish he would have held off on. In terms of the tweets criticizing the case . Caller he was asked about it at the briefing yesterday and he the, that isaid his job and he takes care of it as he sees. Host lets hear from james next, manhattan, kansas. Good morning. Caller hello. How are you . Host fine, thank you. Caller i was going to say it is so obvious barr is trumps lapdog. He does everything trump wants even though trump is a criminal and a narcissist. Have a nice day. Host alan on the republican line in connecticut. Good morning. Ler host mute your volume. Go ahead with your comment. Caller trump is doing a good stocksause he fixed the and the stocks were going down. He should get another four years because everybody saying trump is corrupt, he is not. He is a businessman. He does not take any handouts. He does not take bribery, panhandle, none of that stuff. He was already rich when he got in office. He knows about stocks, that is the reason why that is what makes America Great again because he knows how to run it. Host here is the roll call reporting, mcconnell thinks from should listen to barr and not tweet about pending doj business. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell said thursday he thinks the president should follow the suggestion of william the president remained a great choice when he picked bill barr to be the attorney general and i think the president should listen to his advice. I think if the attorney general is not getting in the way of doing his job, the president should listen to the attorney general. The republican leader in the house weighed in on the that have guidelines come down from the department of justice from the attorney general and his comments came before the abc news interview. [video clip] if you listen to the department of justice, they made the decision before the tweet went out. Attorney general barr is coming before the committee as well, but there is no issue. It is like Everything Else the democrats went to play. All they have is a mission to impeach and this is all they continue to drive. When the rest of america would like to move on and lets work on issues america cares the most about. Host when asked about the comments, is criticism the attorney general and his criticism of President Trump, to decatur, georgia. Caller my point is if it wasnt so serious, this would make a inat sitcom what is going on our white house. I have more respect for the Houston Astros. Have impeachedld him. At least they are getting rid of the bad actors. The Houston Astros have more integrity than the white house. Thank you. Hi, thereblican line,. Kid. R barr is not a young he has been doing that stuff for years and years. Himself atimes does disservice. Guy. Could pardon the host roger stone. Caller right. He could pardon him and not have to explain it to anybody. No matter what he does, democrats are going to jump up and down. If i had been there to talk to the president , i would have said. O and pardon the guy he should have been telling those other people who worked to get him in and the department of justice they have a lot of them locked up. The other thing trump i dont think he understood like going back to that impeachment thing trump could have moved all those people out when he became president. That is what president do. Now ifow would it look the president pardons roger stone whether it is next week, next year, how does it look . Caller it doesnt matter. Look at how they reacted when he just said a citizen is on the high end of the guidelines. It doesnt really matter it doesnt really matter. And some pardon stone of those other people. The democrats went after everybody who worked for trump during the election. When they found out they were working for trump, the department of justice under comey and the rest of them went after all of those people like the guy on the screen now. It doesnt matter. People are not going to hold that against him because he pardons stone. Everybody knows what the deal is and stone running his mouth all thosens want people locked up. We will talk to rick next on the democrats line. Caller thanks for taking my call, good morning. I think people continue to president. Te this this president knew the democrats were on to him and that is why he has the second call in i did not use quid pro quo because he knows they were on to him and he is covering his tracks. Anybody who has spoken out against the president has not lasted long. All the president did was give bill barr the green light to go ahead and publicly put some words of disagreement on the president policy so it will take the light off of him so when he is going back and doing the , everybody bidding is not saying bill barr is not impartial. It is a smokescreen. Nobody lifts a finger without the president s knowledge. He gave him the green light to sohe is against tweeting people can get off the trail so he can continue to do his bidding. Host in that interview with pierre thomas, the attorney general was asked about being able to do his job beyond this case and potential future influence from the white house. Here is a look. We will show that to you in a sec. We will go to natalie in pennsylvania. You are on the air. Thank you for accepting my call. Hello . Host you are on the air, go ahead. Caller sorry. I think what the president is doing now really just helps to make it clear other actions of attention. Et as much he released his budget for this cal year and a proposed the International Affairs budget, which affects all lives in america such as National Security and health care and our economy yet it does not get as as wheneveron Something Like this thing with bill barr comes out because it gets overshadowed and i think it is a shame everything the Trump Administration does gets overshadowed by things like this. Segment at least one segment on the budget release, more to come. In that interview, we are talking about with pierre thomas, the attorney general said he would continue to make the decisions he thinks are right. [indiscernible] [video clip] the president does not like to be told what to do. He may not like what you are saying. Are you prepared for the ramifications . Of course, but i am most responsible for the decisions brought to me and i will make those decisions based on what i think is the right thing to do and i will not be bullied or influenced by anybody and i cannot do my job at the department with a constant background commentary that undercuts me. You we have showed segments of that interview. Your. Go. Gov thoughts on whether you agree or disagree with his president his view. Doug on Facebook Says this, his confidence is high, his he hasion is solid and set things contrary to trump, so i feel he is independentminded. Into some of the unsavory things i have heard going on in recent years. Vicki says i have great confidence in attorney general barr. President trump has a hard time holding back when he sees such an injustice. No confidence whatsoever, he is beholden to trump and does not work on behalf of the American People. Al,arren, ohio, this is republican line. Caller another failed subject we dont need to be talking about. Bernie is going to destroy the. Emocratic party host we will hear from greg next. Caller i have a lot of confidence in esther barr, i think he is doing a great job. Barr is sayingr. About donald trump, everybodys favorite target for a lot of your callers with what eric holder did for barack obama when he called him his wing man. I think you should ask callers criticizing barr about that. Did they feel the same way about eric holder. I have called the comment line a lot about the crossexamination that seems to be done by some of the host and not all of them. You either crossexamine everybody or nobody. A lot of stupid things are being said and i dont hear any pushback from you today in particular. Ask these people who have no confidence what is going to happen when the doj files, if aftero, criminal charges the callers that. Please. Host appreciate your input. Our job is not necessarily to crossexamine people who call, it is a forum for you to call and express your opinions. If we ask a question, it is based on something you may say. We try to give as much time as possible for you to have your say unless time for us to speak, frankly. Chris on the independent line. Caller good morning, cspan. What bill barr said was technically true, but broadly speaking, it was a lie. President trump is very smart and he is not going to invite bill barr to the white house to discuss the roger stone case and he will not send a tweet and expect something to happen. He is going to use surrogates. It is the same playbook as putin, plausible deniability. Who i really fault is not trump or barr, but the interviewer and the media and not for not pressing this and asking these questions more reasonably. It was a terrible interview. I could have done a better job. Host chris in scottsdale, thanks for that. William next in kentucky, republican line. Caller i believe the president t to stay out of mr. Barrs isnt is. I am upset with him doing this. Two weeks he is back in trouble again and needs to stay out of it. I have lost all report all respect for the president. Barr says attacks from impossible. Ork his attacks on the Justice Department made it impossible for me to do my job and i am not going to be bullied or influenced by anybody. Mr. Barr has been among the loyal allies. St he publicly challenged mr. Trump in a way that no sitting cabinet member has. Mr. Barrs remarks were aimed at rogerning the fallout stone convicted of 7 felonies in a bid to obstruct a congressional investigation that threatened the president. After they recommended a sentence of seven to nine years, mr. Trump spent days attacking them. The fallout from the stone episode threatened to spin out of control after the prosecutors on the case withdrew from it and mr. Trump widened attacks on law. Nforcement career prosecutors began to express worry their work could be used to settle political scores and doubts they could protect them from political interference. Inhear next from randy maryland, democrats line. Host hello. I am getting tired of these republicans taking up for president. Is if anybody believes he is not crooked, there is something the matter with them. It is only common sense to see what is going on. He is so crooked, it is not funny and i had to put my two cents into it. Some of these republicans are so stupid the way they sound, it is unbelievable. Host glad you got through. To detroit, this is linda. Caller good morning. I hope you have a nice weekend. Host thank you. Caller i think barr needs to stop start working on rudy. Fox news used to have rudy on all the time. I am quite sure they are running taken cause rudy has this president is pitiful. I wish you would quit speaking of obama. Obama is no longer the president. This is what you are stuck with now and it is not looking well for any of them. Thank you and have a nice weekend. Host you as well headed into the president s day weekend. The president and the first lady headed to maralago and he will be in daytona for the start of the race. They feelericans say better off after the first three years of trump, encouraging news and his battle for reelections. No other incumbent president has enjoyed such a High Percentage of people saying they feel better about th