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>> can you repeat that question? >> i will repeat it. has the president or anyone at the white house ever asked or suggested that you open an investigation of anyone, yes or no, please, sir. >> um, the president or anybody else? >> seems you'd remember something likend be able to tell us. >> yeah, but i'm trying to grapple with the word "suggest." >> reporter: barr told politico that he was, quote, not aware of any congressman's record being sought in a leak case. barr adding i never discussed the leak cases with trump. in the senate the top two democrats want barr to say that under oath, thre...

From trump's push from then senator kamala harris during a hearing in may, 2019. >> attorney general barr, has the president or anyone at the white house ever asked or suggested that you open an investigation of anyone? >> i wouldn't -- >> yes or no. >> could you repeat that question? >> i will repeat it. >> yeah. >> has the president or anyone at the white house ever asked or suggested that you open an investigation of anyone, yes or no, please, sir. >> the president or anybody else. >> seems you would remember something like that and be able to tell us. >> yeah. but i'm trying to grapple wit...

Sought in a leak case and a former senior justice department official tells nbc news that when jeff sessions was a.g., he never approved subpoenas for members of the house intelligence committee in any leak investigation. so, are these recollections or lack thereof, are they plausible for you? how important is it that you hear directly from them? >> well, it's critical, alex. first of all, the subpoenaing of records of members of congress, unless there is very clear criminal activity, and i mean very, like, you know, there's a suitcase full of unmarked hundred dollar bills in my trunk kind of ...

Thought about it, but actually spy and seize the records of opponents from another branch that was investigating that president and his administration. this seems like extraordinarily dangerous and new. again, i'm sort of stammering around this morning, because i just think this is new territory. >> i think you're right. and as we found in our reporting, we could not find a similar example of this in recent memory. now, this could have happened in a leak case that we don't know about. there are lots of leaks that are investigated. and there are lots of tactics that are used in them. so, in ano...

White house asked or suggested that you open an investigation of anyone? >> um, i wouldn't -- >> yes or no? >> could you repeat that question? >> i will repeat it. has the president or anyone at the white house ever asked or suggested that you open an investigation of anyone, yes or no, please, sir? >> um the president or anybody else. >> seems you would remember something like that and be able to tell us. >> yeah. but i'm trying to grapple with the word suggest. >> still, today barr told politico that while he was attorney general beginning in 2019 he was, quote, not aware of any congressman'...