individuals had information and just concluding they needed to be investigated? or did they have something more particular about these individuals specifically? i think that's an important question that has yet to be answered. >> that started when jeff sessions was attorney general, continued when bill barr became attorney general. i want to play a clip. i interviewed bill barr last fall and i asked him about the public pressure that then-president trump was putting on him to investigate these, quote, leaks. listen to this. >> is it appropriate for the president of the united states to be putting pressure on you in the way he clearly did? >> i don't feel any pressure from that. >> you don't think he's trying to pressure you into going forward with indictments and criminal charges and stuff like that? >> no. you know, when we talk in private, he doesn't talk like that, so. >> he doesn't talk like that in private, but publicly he -- but is it appropriate for a president of the united states to be speaking like that