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Matt schlapp, a conservative commentator and the husband of one of the top communications officials in the white house. he tweeted that tomorrow, meaning today, will be the first day that pump will have a fully operational confirmed attorney general. let that sink in. mueller will be gone soon. barbara, what do you make of that and does that undercut robert mueller at this critical moment? >> i think what he's suggesting is that now that trump has someone who is his hand-picked attorney general in place supervising robert mueller, he can decide whether to fire robert mueller, whether to clip t...

People when he was approached about this job. he didn't want to take it himself. i think it's going to be hard to fluster him. he knows what the points of contention will be and he's a cool customer. >> dana: let's listen in now. we're going to listen to senator kennedy now. >> i understand you know mr. mueller, do you? >> yes, i do. >> is he big enough to take care of himself? >> he's a marine. >> someone had tried to interfere with his investigation, based on your knowledge of mr. mueller, would he have something to say about it, including but not limited to in a court of law? >> yes, senato...

>> no. i mean, i'm not in the department of justice, and i have no, you know, i'm not privy to that information. but i don't know. >> i understand you know mr. mueller. do you? >> yes, i do. >> is he big enough to take care of himself? >> he's a marine. >> yeah. someone had tried to interfere with his investigation, based on your knowledge of mr. mueller, would he have something to say about it including but not limited to in a court of law? >> yes, senator. >> i want to try to cut through some of the innuendo here. did president trump instruct or ask you once you become attorney general to fi...

Any other improper consideration to interfere with this or any other investigation. of course, kate, democrats have raised a lot of skepticism about barr given his previous comments in both op-eds and even in unsolicited memo he submitted to doj that in his view the president could not have obstructed justice to fire fbi director james comey since it was within his authority. but barr now coming out in front of those criticisms releasing four pages worth of his testimony in which he will say the public should be told of the results of mueller's work and he also will say that his goal will be t...

They preplanned to make sure that a political hack wouldn't be put in charge of the department of justice. they both knew that they had to resign, but bourque was prevailed upon to fire archibald cox so they wouldn't put in some hack from the white house -- >> what's so striking, the doomsday scenario we had with the saturday night massacre is what we have with whitaker. don't let nixon just put in some guy to run the department. >> exactly. trump has just gone all around that. he's basically circumvented the whole succession law and he's put in a guy who he thinks is going to get him out of j...