is there anyone at the department of justice taken the kind of steps those in the state department were forced into taking, taking contemporaneous notes and raising red flags about inappropriate behavior? those are open questions. we have had a succession of people in the foreign policy apparatus who have testified but no one yet from the justice department. and we do know that william barr has generally viewed his role as attorney general to be that of personally defending and protecting the president politically. remember he spun the mueller report for trump, went out and announced there was no obstruction despite evidence to the contrary. his own doj shut down the criminal analysis of the ukraine call notes and refused to look at any of the other surrounding contextual evidence. they put out a statement to defend the president, but there is one thing attorney general william barr would not do and that is go out in public in front of the tv cameras and defend trump. "the washington post" reporting last night in the middle of our show that trump wanted barr to hold news conference saying the president broke no laws on the call with the president of ukraine and barr refused.