Page 13 - Roy Kohn News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Kennedy because john kennedy's muscle. he likes the idea that eric holder was barack obama's muscle, the idea of having a roy kohn. and he got it with barr. to this moment as we sit here, the most naked gra tee tuesday and successful act of raw thugs political power in the whole span of the frud was what bill barr did over the mueller report. this was a breath taking thing where he just decided i'm going to -- i have no concern for institutional parameters or restraints, i'm going to act as a political actor to cover my boss and i don't care if anybody likes me, i don't care how much criticism...

Whoever the attorney general is should be his roy kohn. he said i need my roy kohn, he said that is the role that eric holder played for barack obama, he has said that is the role that rfk played for jfk. so it is truly something that he believes. and it is clear from the ukraine transcript that he does believe he has that in bill barr. people around the attorney general say that that is not true, that is the president's perception. but clearly president trump is willing to express that perception to other people. >> pete williams, what is the position of the justice department? >> well, i thi...

Matter what bill war oig thinks of this investigation he just wants to know whether it was lawfully predicated. and it is clear that the president himself sees this very differently, as almost a settling of scores, a way to clear his name and also he believes that bill barr is kind of his guy, almost a personal lawyer as we saw in the ukraine transcript. and that is something that i think the justice department has tried to distance itself from. >> and explain that. you write that this underscores the extent to which mr. trump sees the attorney general as a critical partner to show that it had...

Everything possible to engineer the shifting of this narrative so that's a roy kohn approach. so when you earlier had a guest or you yourself might have said there are 1,000 times where he says no collusion, no obstruction, that's his method, is say it over and over and over again, because if you do, people will start to believe it no matter how preposterous it is. >> what does tweak the complicit mean? >> tweak the complicit is you gin up your base by playing to their emotions and getting them to feel aggrieved the wayia do. we're in this together. they're coming after us. but the complicit, ...

Right here. right now. humira. president trump very much on the defense this morning after reaching a trade deal with mexico on immigration. the president has been trying to explain the reasons he threatened to impose tariffs. >> i spoke with the president of mexico. i get along with limb very well. we made this deal, but this is very -- this is something the u.s. has been trying to get for over 20 years with mexico. they've never been able to do it. as soon as i put tariffs on the table, it was done. it took two days. >> that's not altogether clear. "the new york times" report said a lot of...