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Be able to see on like a trial where we wouldn't be able to see every interview. >> david, what kind of political risk might come with criminal referrals? could they help donald trump rally republicans around him? do you think it will be the final straw to inspire the gop to move past him? >> i don't know that it allows donald trump to rally people around him. the committee does not have a prosecutorial function. it could galvanize people into recalling the amounts of january six. i think susan is right, it can be a hard question. but i am in the camp that this committee needs to issue finding...

>> our role in the senate select committee was to make disclosures through televised hearings. we had the power of subpoena, the power to put people under oath. >> but congress does not have a prosecutorial function. it's only to investigate, to legislate, and to inform. >> by march of 1973, you had the senate select committee pushing for hearings. >> but nixon by and large did not want his aides to testify. >> people were very interested in the senate hearings and whether nixon was going claim executive privilege to keep his top aides from testifying. >> a president can't use executive privil...

We had the power to put people under oath, but, congress does not have a prosecutorial function. it is only to investigate, to legislate and to inform. >> by march, 1973, you have the senate select committee pushing for hearings. >> nixon by and large did not want to testify. >> people were very interested in the senate hearings and whether nixon was going to claim executive privilege to keep his top aides from testifying. >> a president can't use executive privilege to shield his own criminal conduct. >> nixon was under pressure of republicans and many voters who voted for him and 72 to coope...

Election fraud lie. bill barr was one of the perpetrators of that lie and many times in between that have got enforgotten in the midst of these scandals. >> you criticize barr for using the doj to promote a political agenda. can it be okay for an attorney general to consider politics and what made barr different from other ags before him? obviously people talk about eric holder. when he was barack obama's attorney general referred to himself as the shield for barack obama. this is not robert -- kennedy was the attorney general for his brother the president. this is not unheard of. >> two disti...

This is about a cover-up potential and protection of the attorney general's boss, the president of the united states. let's track back in time. robert mueller wrote a letter, no one should think this is about protecting the andrew wisemans or any of those who prosecuted the probe. this is about bill barr saying, no obstruction, no collusion, which let donald trump throw a victory lap that he was not entitled to. this is about distorting what the mueller probe found. who wrote -- who authored -- what kind of person and what kind of job wrote this memo to bill barr? it's not the mueller prosec...