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Too long, do you undercut your arguments in court that you need expeditious resolution of these other subpoenas that are being defied. what does it mean to you as a student of interbranch relations that barr's sort of defiance, contempt, anger, whatever you call it, he has been pretty rough with the congress is being met this way tonight? >> because barr has already presented himself as one who works for the executive branch, and that is not what his job is. when the framers put together the equilateral branches of government, and keep in mind, they put congress first. article i of the constit...

Hello, everyone. i'm kate bolduan. thank you for joining me. attorney general bill barr speaking out in his first round of interviews since taking over as attorney general. he says this morning that he was surprised that bob mueller did not make a recommendation one way or the other on obstruction of justice. now, remember what mueller wrote in his report about obstruction. he wrote this, if we had confidence after a thuroy investigation of the facts that the president clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state. based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, howev...

Manafort, stone, others who were indicted, so they need somebody who has a record of, you know, exonerating the gop, which barr does. he exonerated people from iran-contra. so barr's ideal unfortunately for this role. >> i think that's why there's distrust. there was something they didn't anticipate. it neuterizes them. half of it's done because half are in the part but the other half have been unfailingly loyal. how do you have confidence this won't be a positive spin coming out of donald trump's hand picked attorney general. >> well, it was joe scarborough last year who wrote a really good, ...

The justice department now says that special counsel robert mueller will nothanding over his russia report this week, but it didn't mean there is nothing happening. over the past 48 hours, democrats have been ramping up the pressure on attorney general william barr to release the whole thing. if that doesn't happen, house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff said sunday that he will bring mueller into testify and subpoena his findings. >> i think that there will be immense pressure not only on the department but on the attorney general to be forthcoming. >> are you prepared to take the ...

Deputy attorney on what he can or cannot do. >> barr that has an expansive view of executive power. that's something developing on the right over the past couple decades. what trump is doing is stacking the deck in his favor. we saw with at kavanaugh appointment. kavanaugh has the perspective the president has virtually unlimited power. so barr has made explicit that trump can do pretty much all the things trump would want to do to underp undercut this investigation. he can interfere without consequence and pardon and offer a pardon to folks that mueller otherwise might be able to flip or to w...