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Holding a news conference that the attorney general was supposed hold to say that the president had not broken any laws. the tweets slamming "the washington post" from the president began just before the story broke last night and have continued today, even as house democrats are questioning a top foreign policy adviser to the vice president, jennifer williams. meanwhile, a no-show today, former national security adviser john bolton. more on that coming up. joining me now, nbc news white house correspondent kristen welker. nbc's geoff bennett on capitol hill. "new york times" white house corre...

William barr's behavior before the mueller report was released by prebutting it and putting out his own inaccurate summary of it. >> absolutely. you could see why the president would think it's okay to cross this ethical line, because bill barr has told him it was okay to do so. bill barr put his own spin on the mueller report, misled the public about what was in the report. we know he's launched this investigation into the origins and has talked to the president about it despite it being an internal doj matter and now a criminal investigation, he's talked to president trump about it and asked...

Too, as we talked about yesterday, house democrats are carefully choreographing the way in which they schedule these public hearings. to insert john bolton who would be the wildest of wild cards into this process without knowing what he would say because they would not have had the chance to depose him publicly, that clearly is not a gamble that house democrats are willing to make. so it appears from this statement that they are prepared to move on. they believe they have everything they need to make the public case on impeachment against president trump, andrea. >> and i want to go back also ...

To sessions he would publicly attack him if he ran, apparently not deterring sessions. sessions has refrained from publicly criticizing the president despite the president's relentless attacks against his former ag's recusal from the russia probe. >> if i had one do-over it would be i would not have appointed jeff sessions to be attorney general. jeff sessions didn't have a clue. the only reason i gave him the job, because i felt loyalty. he took the job and then he said, i'm going to recuse myself. i said, what kind of a man is this? >> joining me now, ruth marcus, deputy editor of "the washi...

The public hearings next week. >> thank you both. that will wrap up this hour of "msnbc live." i'll see you tomorrow morning on "today." right now, though, "andrea mitchell reports." >> thank you, craig melvin. right now on "andrea mitchell reports," barr closed. as damaging impeachment testimony continues to pile up, president trump is vehemently denying reports that he asked his attorney general bill barr to declare him innocent on ukraine. it would be an extraordinary breach of legal protocol. >> he asked bill barr to get out on the screen and tell people that it was a perfect call. we ...