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That was given for why the justice department was not going to comply with that order. so it was striking and, of course, this is a judge who has made clear that he expects the parties who were before him to listen to him and abide by his ort e orders. but by the flip side, it's not that surprising the justice department took hthis position because they didn't confirm the existence of the flynn wiretap to begin with, so the idea they would put onto the public docket a full transcript of this wiretap seemed unusual. >> hey, elliot, there was a song in the time of our parents and grandparents ca...

Goes not just for him, but for every attorney general, they're appointed by the president and they're subject to, you know, serve at the pleasure of the president. so he's not the first attorney general to march in step with the president. >> do you concur with this argument just in the last couple of days that mr. mueller is, perhaps, a man out of time and adheres to a set of rules not recognized by the president, and had mueller spoken first, how would the world have changed? >> i don't know that it would have changed. you know, to me, bob mueller represents the best of the tradition of the ...

Justice department -- to be clear for your viewers, a sitting president can't be dwoo indicted, right. >> so if a sitting president couldn't be indicted and mueller didn't make a finding as to the president's criminality, necessarily, the body that would have to adjudicate that would be congress. right? so if -- because assuming that barr accepts the validity of the guidance that his own department put out. you know, it's confusing but he's created a bit of a muddle here and he should have just sent it to congress. that is the body that can adjudicate whether a president has engaged in wrongdo...

Behavior, his loyalty to this man who has just appointed him? >> well, this is the attorney general that president trump wanted from the start and didn't have. and he has now. an attorney general who's willing to make his case. you know, if he thought the mueller investigation was over with robert mueller's announcement that he was stepping down and closing up shop, that is not the case. the mueller investigation is going to be open for some time. democrats who want to explore more thoroughly what they found and also, apparently, by the attorney general who's going to look back at the origins ...

Judge ordered the justice department to make public various materials related to that case. that included transcripts of any audio recordings of flynn including his conversations with kisly kisly kislyak. today, the justice department defied part of that order and refused to hand over flynn's discussion with kislyak. the russian ambassador. prosecutors also failed to release a redacted version of sections of the mueller report related to flynn that the same judge had ordered be made public. justice department did provide one item the judge requested. a transcript of a voicemail left by trump's...