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Way. but go ahead, investigate the investigators if you must. when those investigations are over, they will find the work was done appropriately and focused only on discerning the truth of very serious allegations. there was no corruption, there was no treason, there was no attempted coup. those are lies and dumb lies at that. joi joining me now is josh campbell. also, james schultz, a former white house lawyer for president trump and a cnn legal commentator. jim, do you believe this was a coup attempt against the president? >> look, i think as american citizens, we all hope there was no coup ...

President trump has repeatedly called the russian investigation treason and a coup. tonight, one of the men he blames for the alleged treason has had enough. former fbi director james comey has tired back in a point by point denunciation in an op-ed just published in "the washington post." he says that the president is a liar and he jokes that keeping the investigation hidden in the campaign makes it the worst deep state conspiracy ever. however, he ends the column this way. but go ahead, investigate the investigators if you must. when those investigations are over, they will find the work was...

Be another report? >> and let's get straight there, there's not a lawyer in his right mind who thinks it's good to release 6-e information publicly. >> so, why does there need to be a second investigation? even after the mueller investigation, we have the inspector general investigation, and now this. >> let's remember, it's the person that -- remember how we talked about usurping power and the fbi director usurping the power of the attorney general? that was also in horowitz's reports. it's the attorney general's job to investigate crimes in this country, investigate what goes on in this coun...

Rational? >> i don't know what the president's rational was for chosing him, but i'll tell you this, he made a good choice in bill barr because he's a good lawyer. i can't get into the president's mind as to why he made the choice he did. but one of the reasons must have been because of the reputation he had. >> barr also said that mueller should not be able, and i'm quoting here, to demand that the president submit to an interrogation about alleged obstruction. as you know, the president multiple times in public said he would be happy to sit down with the special counsel. that has now changed...

Investigation, of course weighing in on such a sensitive issue as obstruction that is still under investigation by the special counsel, who if he is confirmed, barr will supervise him. his opinions on this are a serious matter and democrats are sure to pounce on this, jim, as they were already concerned about some of the things that barr had said publically about the mueller investigation, calling it asinine to the hill in june of 2017. of course, this is only going to raise what was already a contention confirmation battle into something far uglier, jim. >> does it sway the lines of republica...