I am Shannon Bream in washington. We start with that henry with what he is hearing about why the ag is not going back to capitol hill. Met gates told me gop leaders believe the real reason democratic congressman jerry nadler was bringing in outside lawyers to try to question the attorney general was to set this up as a mini impeachment trial to make this look like watergate or iran Country Style hearing so he said william barr has justification and refusing to go because it would have been what they believe to be a show trial. Just as we saw today with sharp answers at the Senate Judiciary committee where barr said Robert Muellers letter was a little snooty, the ag is facing never down after the house Judiciary Committee voted have lawmakers grill bar and added an additional hour of questioning from staff lawyers. The president rejected that in an exclusive and got some cover from a liberal commentator on cnn who said bar is smart to snub nadler because democrats can do their own homework instead of having staffers do it. Complaints with congressional subpoenas is not optional and if negotiations dont resolve in a pledge of compliance in the next day or 2 the next step is seeking a contempt citation against the attorney general. I guess they want to treat him differently than anybody else. For many years theyve never done it this way, bringing in outside counsel is something, thats not the way. People are supposed to do their own talking. If i were bill barr i would tell jerry nadler to hit the road. Let me give you a couple reasons why. Biggest hearing you might have in your chairmanship, you cant bother, too lazy join the portfolio enough to ask your own questions . Bar has bigger issues to deal with it is not going to back off his recent use of the words buying to describe what the Obama Administration did to the Trump Campaign and the first apartment probing back, he added he is multiple criminal investigations open, probes that could put officials like james comey in the crosshairs. Interesting time for a new oped in the New York Times from comey blaming donald trump for pushing bar and other officials to sacrifice their reputations writing, quote, how could bar right and say things about the report by the special Counsel Robert Mueller so misleading that they prompted written protest from the special counsel himself. A moral leaders have way of revealing the character of those around them. He thinks democrats are overreaching and bar should leave an empty chair at nadlers hearing. Thank you very much. Lets go to Katherine Herridge who was at the hearing all day, has a look at the fireworks. We saw why mueller was concerned. William barr on the letter from robert mueller. This letter was an extraordinary act from a career prosecutor rebuking the attorney general. The political appointee of the department of justice. The letter is a bit snooty. Reporter he said the bottom line conclusion for congress provided days earlier, quote, context and mueller urged him to report the executive summary which barr rejected is piecemeal. And subsequent phone call the attorney general said mueller was frustrated with resulting Media Coverage but did not challenge the accuracy of the letter which mueller declined to review. He said whats with the letter . Pick up the phone and call me if there is an issue. He was clear with me was not suggesting that we had misrepresented his report. In early april bartow questions on the Mueller Report as part of routine budget hearings, democrats said he shouldve volunteered the march letter as well as a phone call. I feel the answer was purposely misleading. Mike holland, they didnt know mueller supported your conclusions but you knew, you lied. Discussions between donald trump and don mcgann on removing special counsel mueller bar so the president s actions did not constitute an obstruction offense. Theres Something Different between firing a special counsel out right which suggests ending the investigation and having special counsel remove for conflict which suggests you have another special counsel. Bar went further saying the Mueller Report did not prove intent beyond reasonable doubt. If the president has been falsely accused which evidence suggests that is not a corrupt motive for replacing an independent counsel. Three democrats fired off questions, two insisting bar should resign. This attorney general lacks all credibility and has compromised the american publics ability to believe he is a purveyor of justice. Reporter republicans defendant bar. Landed this man from top to bottom fu want more of those you are not going to get it. If they focus on what the fbi 2016 russia investigation began. Possible that the federal bureau of investigation improperly spied on the Trump Campaign. The dossier researched by christopher stealing used to secure a surveillance forward for Trump Campaign it is under scrutiny. How do we know the steel that is not itself evidence of russian disinformation . I cant state that with confidence and that is one of the areas im reviewing. Reporter bar said the mueller investigation, time to move on. We have to stop using the criminal justice process as a political weapon. Lindsey graham told reporters as far as he is concerned it is over but, quote, the special counsel consecutive discrepancies between bars testimony and muellers own account. This moment from the hearing is getting a lot of play in washington, the Senate Judiciary chairman. No collusion, no coordination, no conspiracy between the Trump Campaign and the russian Government Regarding the 2016 election. Richard goodstein and former solicitor general of texas to scott keller, great to have you here. You heard what the Senate Chairman said, lindsey graham. This is how the Washington Post reacted. Graham attempts to summarize the Mueller Reports findings is misleading at best. The report did not assess whether there was collusion because collusion is not a legal term. He never explicitly said there was no collusion. Trump, barr, and graham said that. We have been hearing about collusion for so long and now all of us and theres a pivot to we dont want to talk about collusion because at the end of the day the Mueller Report came out and said there were no charges to be brought here and attorney general bar is correct that the judicial process should not be weapon ice for political ends and that is the point senator graham was making. Want to talk about collusion, lets talk about collusion, it is not there. You saw katherines report, the members talked about the origins of this thing and what bar is doing, he said hes working with Christopher Ray to look, the us attorney looking at things, the Inspector General of the doj, barr said hes talking to him as well and senator josh holly who sits on the committee tweeted this. You want to know why the fbi spied, donald trump voters, unelected progressive elites and the government have nothing but contempt for them, to complete contempt. What do democrats do with that . A couple things, first, hats off to the president s supporters, most republicans believe the russians didnt even try to metal let alone succeeded every intelligence indicate. There been polls asking republicans do you believe the russians intervened in the answer on the majority of republicans is no, they dont believe it so congratulations. Shannon the majority dont believe the president im not going to quibble now. I will be happy to send them after the show. As was collusion it is interesting graham who i have a high regard for, as you said, mueller specifically said we are not looking at collusion, thats not a legal term, we are looking at coordination and trump got off on a technicality in this campaign. The reality was the people of the campaign, when he said russia steel Hillary Clintons materials, thats what he said, the Trump Campaign didnt steal from themselves was when they used them, they were complicit in the coordination of the russians didnt do it. They had wikileaks or somebody else do it. So too attenuated to have anybody in the campaign shannon mollison two years and millions of dollars at his assignment essentially was to say whether or not there were crimes committed. William barr said it was a binary choice, yes were going to charge these crimes or not and ultimately he said they werent going to. The other aspect of this. We can go and look at read the Mueller Report. It is out there. It the hearing today was fascinating because everyone kept wanting to talk about this initial letter, the 4page summary letter so now everyone can look at it and see what the report said. As former chief counsel in the Senate Judiciary committee the hearing looked more like debate tryouts for democratic president ial hopefuls the hearing trying to uncover truth. Shannon a lot of people say both sides were grandstanding and showboating a little bit but to my that wont happen because the attorney generals not going to show up. We had a letter from the assistant attorney general to chairman nadler of the Judiciary Committee, the attorney general offered you and other congressional leaders the chance to review the report with redactions only for grand jury information because that before reviewing the less redacted version you served a subpoena instead. Not a single democrat has taken him up on a chance to come view something he said less than 2 of the materials redacted. One article for the subpoena . My guess is nadlers attitude is i feel as chairman im entitled, we have these secure facilities to review things like that so please give me some credit is chairman of the Judiciary Committee. The fact is the explanation why hes not testifying, hes not testifying because somebody advised him you are this close from perjuring yourself. We know what happened in that testimony to the House Committee that congressman chris asked him something where he was deceitful, did he lie, further himself . Did he give an answer that was honest . Know. He absolutely didnt and among other things he decided i have had it. When he couldnt decide what suggestion was, did the white house suggest you investigate your political rivals and he reminded me of bill clinton, whats the definition it is . What is the definition of suggest . Shannon he did say there were a lot of discussions, the entire white house, a smart thing to do if you worry about giving an answer that will get you in trouble. Good to have you both. Supporters of juan guaido are not backing down on the streets of caracas and at the Venezuelan Embassy pro madero protesters sounded off. More on the deepening political crisis. Venezuela Opposition Leader juan guaido gambled and lost with his call for military uprising to oust Nicholas Maduro in the Early Morning hours tuesday, failed to address your officers so juan guaido admitted himself. Difficult days are coming because of pushback, persecution, internal witchhunt by the armed forces. If crowds of venezuelan people many driven to desperation and hunger by the maduro regime continue to follow the 35yearolds call to march. Reporter the country is hours. We need to go to the streets. Juan guaido is the leader in charge, he has a plan, the country is hours, venezuelas. What if we were to go home and let others resolve this situation . It is us who need to be here. Juan guaido has the support of the us and 50 other nations but on the ground in venezuela the balance of power is lopsided. Microphones and banners versus teargas, guns and armored vehicles. 70 demonstrators were hospitalized tuesday. Juan guaido is following to keep the pressure despite the odds. A massive crowd is building here. People have flags wrapped around their bodies. They are on motorcycles, trucks, cars, and people coming out here will be enough to push Nicholas Maduro out of power. Mike pompeo said Nicholas Maduro was prepared to give up power tuesday and fly to cuba. And assertion the 1time bus driver mocked. Translator mike pompeo said maduro has a plane ready to go to cuba to flee, and the russians took him off the plane and for bad him to leave the country. Please, you are not serious. Reporter the venezuelan crisis is more than a dispute between maduro and juan guaido each of whom calls himself president. Russian support for dictatorship in venezuela, mike pompeo told his russian counterpart, could derail us russia relations. Shannon is the situation reaching a Tipping Point . Rick scott was at the venezuelan border and joins us next. Mom hi. Tech so bring it to safelite. We can repair it the same day. Guaranteed. Plus with most insurance, its no cost to you. Mom really . Singers safelite repair, safelite replace. Your control. Like bedhead. Hmmmm. Rubadub ducky. And then. Theres national car rental. At national, im in total control. I can just skip the counter and choose any car in the aisle i like. So i can rent fast without getting a hair out of place. Heeeeey. Hey ah, control. vo go national. Go like a pro. Plants capture co2. What if other kinds of plants captured it too . 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The water was up to their chest, little girls walking by themselves a couple hours to get over there because theres a school they go to and they get into a food kitchen where usaid pays for 500 meals and rice and beans and soup, these moms on the beach, on the street by themselves, really dangerous so we had a lot of aid but they wouldnt let us come across. Your heart goes out to them. This is genocide. What maduro is doing is intentionally killing his citizens so i believe it is time for American Military the military a democracy around the world to say thats enough, take the humanitarian aid. Are you worried about the Tipping Point . A lot of people supporting juan guaido were hopeful there would be more military defections. There have been thousands but what do you think needs to happen and are you advocating us military involvement on the ground beyond humanitarian aid . If he doesnt step aside we can think about what we would like to do but lets look at reality. If he doesnt step aside all the bad actors are there, russia is there, chinese are, iran is there and syria, i will impact colombia, panama, brazil, all the countries in that region and they are 2000 miles from florida, they can come through Central America through mexico into the United States, there are terrorists trying to come across the border. This will make it worse. We can decide we are worried about using our military but if he doesnt step aside we will have something serious. Shannon democrat is congresswoman omar talking about the us getting involved in venezuela in some way and heres what she said. A lot of the policies we have put in place helped lead the devastation in venezuela and we set the stage where we are arriving today, this particular bullying and use of sanctions. Shannon how much is the was to blame for the Current Situation . Maduro made the decision to kill his citizens, to be a murderer, not letting humanitarian aid. He made these decisions and so america is trying to bring democracy and freedom. These little kids he is completely wrong. She out to go down there. A lot of these people are pure socialists, go live in caracas, see these people. No food, no water, no medicine. Shes completely wrong. Shannon let me ask about the foreign influence, russia, cuba and others have seen a lot of things popping up the maduro regime. If they dont get uninvolved with the situation or secretary of state talking with his counterpart in russia, here is russias take on that phone call, they say washingtons interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign state, for against its leadership is a gross violation of international law, russia pointing the finger at us. There is a National Assembly who elected juan guaido under their constitution. Juan guaido is the president. Maduro is not, he did not get elected in a real election. Russia is a bad actor. Cuba is the one that is keeping maduro in power. I support everything the president is doing to hold the regime accountable. All our problems in nicaragua and venezuela are caused by the castro regime. The sanctions should happen against them. Shannon thanks for stopping in, good to see you. Tough quest