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Fiona hill relayed that bolton told her, quote, i am not part of whatever drug deal ambassador sondland and mick mulvaney are cooking up, adding, rudy giuliani is a hand grenade who is going to blow everybody up. still with us here tonight, maya wiley and bill kristol. maya, what does bolton get you if he goes all the way, and is sondland in a heap of trouble anyway? >> so let's start with sondland because that's easy. sondland is in a heap of trouble because if -- i mean we don't know his literal testimony, but it appears that he made statements under oath. that we have heard from lieutenant ...

Would ever do anything that gave rise to good cause. >> the two men are friends. more on that in a minute. let's bring in our lead-off panel for a tuesday night. peter baker, correspondent for the "new york times," myra wiley, former u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york, now with the new school here in new york.th and chuck rosenberg, former u.s. attorney, former senior fbi u. official. and chuck, i'd like to begin with you. did barr say enough? did he do enough to convince you that the mueller investigation would be sealed, protected, walled off under his good care? >> yes, he ...

>> maya wylie, let me take the other side of the argument and that is for a republican aging nominee of donald trump, this man today really did try to stake his claim to independence, and he went out of his way to say the right things regarding the integrity of the investigation. r if you're donald trump, who has wistfully spoken of where is my roy kohn, might this be a case of watch what you wish for. you're nodding. >> i keep going back to why does william barr want this job, and i think he's getting those questions today. it's an incredibly powerful and important position, and who wouldn't ...

Of the investigation specifically that wasn't a witch hunt which, of course, we know as well that he would do what he could to protect it, that mueller would not be removed except for good cause as the regulations require, and that he, bill barr, couldn't imagine mueller doing anything that would rise to the level of good cause. those types of statements give me great comfort, and i think bill barr undoubtedly will be confirmed to the job. >> maya, as i tried to point out, we're all assuming there will be a nicely bound 400-page report that will be easy for america to understand. what is this ...

Had sent and put it on twitter so everybody could judge exactly what he said word for word, and people can determine for themselves what they believe he meant. what the democrats are seeing from this is, well, look, he's buying into what the fox news people say about hillary clinton and minimizing the possibility that there is a collusion, you know, predicate for this investigation that bob mueller is running in this e-mail. he's saying, no, that's overruling what i was saying. i was just making an argument that there are lots of things out there and a lot of things the justice did not can and...