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On the record was, you know, i was getting criticized by cabinet members and members of the intelligence community about the department not having done anything on leak cases so i wanted to make sure they were being pursued. >> right. >> okay. but what if the leak case involved the chairman of the house intelligence commit or another member at least of the out intelligence commit. shouldn't the attorney general have had tomorrow information about that, about where they were going on these leak case. publically the president of the united states accused a am schiff of leaking, he know that. he ...

>> 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." there had been suggestion of matters out there that they had not asked me to open an investigation. >> perhaps they suggested, hinted, inferred? you don't know? okay. >> the scandal is big enough that the often evasive barr is actually speaking out about it today. he says he's not aware of any congressman's records being sought in a leak case, and he says he never discussed these cases with trump. well, bill barr is gonna bill bar...

Broad recusal from the russia investigation. because this investigation of the house intelligence committee members or staff or even their family members, this was all related to any possible leaks related to trump aide contacts with russian officials. so, jeff sessions, a source that is familiar with this, says he was recused from this and not involved. but a lot still to uncover as we see from these multiple investigations being announced or even requested from lawmakers. victor and alisyn? >> jessica, thank you so much. let's bring in now jennifer rogers, worth cnn legal analyst, both forme...

Attorney general. a year later. he moved a prusted prosecutor from new jersey with little experience to the main justice department to work on the schiff related case and about half a dozen others. the zeal in the trump administration's efforts to hunt leakers led to the extraordinary step of subpoenaing communications meta data from members of congress. in a phone interview barr say he doesn't recall getting briefed on the congressman's records sought in a leak case. in the wake of calls for an investigation, there will be an inquiry into the probe and secret subpoenas. top democrats in the s...

Response. my phone is on. bill barr told politico that he doesn't recall getting briefed on any congressman's records being sought in a leak case. now, news of this unprecedented probe breaking now thanks to the expiration of a gag order that the justice department secured against apple, and it is prompting a wave of criticism from democrats and a demand for a full accounting of just what happened. top senate democrats today calling for sessions and barr to testify and after speaker pelosi joined adam schiff in calling for a sweeping investigation, the garland doj announced that the inspector ...