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process to limit how american tax dollars are spent at the department of justice. i yield back. >> general lady from texas is recognized. >> good morning. you have value the independence of a special counsel. >> i do. >> you asked garland to allow you to continue the investigation saying we want to thank you and your office for permitting our inquiry to proceed with will without interfere answer as you assured the members of the judiciary committee would be the case during the confirmation hearings to become attorney general of the united states. you value your special counsel status...

quote, in the interest of transparency, unquote. team's trump interest in transparency doesn't extend to testifying. lindsey graham is trying to dodge a subpoena to appear before the fulton county special grand jury. a federal judge today refusing to put on hold her own ruling that the senator must appear. he filed an emergency request with the u.s. court of appeals for the 11th circuit asking them to put the subpoena on hold. talk about transparency. a federal appeals court ruling today that the doj has got to make public that internal legal memo that was commissioned by then ag wil...

Joining us this morning, elliott hoenig, cnn analyst. good to see you. so bill barr, this is not his first rodeo. he knows how to assure the senate that he will let bob mueller do his job, allow that report to see light of day. what is the most important question these senate democrats need to press him on? >> so the senators on both sides of the aisle need to focus on obstruction of justice. his memo focuses on the obstruction of justice theory. barr writes that it cannot be obstruction of justice for the president to have fired james comey and to pressure james comey to drop the michael flyn...

It was a public statement. he can't make a judgment about where barr will go but it was interesting from the deputy attorney general laying the ground work for? >> and i think this elevates already bill barr was going to be questioned about his critical views of the mueller probe during the confirmation hearings starting next week. this elevates that even more for democrats on that committee who will press him on those views as he comes in. who knows how long the mueller probe continues. also remember that matt whitaker has been overseeing that for a couple weeks since he took office in an act...

General pick making clear about the special counsel's obstruction justice investigation way before his confirmation hearings even start. in a memo from this past summer bill barr called the obstruction inquiry quote fatally misconceived with disastrous implications for the presidency saying the firing of exfbi director james comey was within the powers of the president. para's memo to ross rosenstein and another senior official was unsolicited but rosenstein said he didn't have lots of the facts. >> lots of people offer opinions to the department of justice but they don't influence our own dec...