u.s. assistant attorney for the southern district of new york and now an msnbc legal analyst. it just seems to me there are really basic questions that william barr needs to answer one way or the other through his own mouth in front of reporters about what role he played or did not play in this whole thing. >> he needs to, but he doesn't want to, and i think he won't unless he's really dragged in. you're right. i mean, this would be flagrantly improper for him to have gotten involved even without it being a nefarious criminal conspiracy. just for him to be in this kind of, you know, foreign policy led by rudy giuliani. but we know that he really, as you say, has been willing to be -- to push the envelope, shred the envelope in terms of what he did with the mueller report. so is this just a bridge too far for him? it seemed to me interestingly, chris, that trump didn't have