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Is there anyone at the department of justice taken the kind of steps those in the state department were forced into taking, taking contemporaneous notes and raising red flags about inappropriate behavior? those are open questions. we have had a succession of people in the foreign policy apparatus who have testified but no one yet from the justice department. and we do know that william barr has generally viewed his role as attorney general to be that of personally defending and protecting the president politically. remember he spun the mueller report for trump, went out and announced there was...

Let's turn to a different story we're covering. we learned the president wanted bill barr to help defend him in the news scandal by holding a news conference and wanted barr to declare he hadn't broken any laws in the july conversation with the ukrainian president. how does that tell you he views the office of the attorney general? >> it sounds like the president was looking for the kind of support he got from bill barr from when the mueller report came out and mischaracterized the findings more favorable than the findings were. bill barr didn't do it this time. i can't speak to his motivation...

Statement saying -- the -- that was criminal, but barr did not want to appear in public. if you remember correctly, during the call, barr was very frustrated. people around him were frustrated because trump -- zelensky to talk to bar, ar. do you have any sense of the president's reaction? was he upset that barr didn't make that statement? >> well, he certainly mentioned 2 to others, that he wanted barr to have the press conference that he didn't. several officials told me today that barr remains in good graces with the president unlike jeff sessions, his former a.g. i think all things consid...

Recent weeks saying he wished barr would have held that news conference. so, josh, do we know why attorney general barr declined to do this when he has provided the president political cover in the past? >> good morning, alisyn. we don't precisely know why. we know that the president wanted barr and the justice department to publicly say he'd done nothing wrong. right when the transcript of the call with zelensky was released, there was a statement out of the justice department put out saying we've looked into this and thought no laws were broken. but what the president wanted was a full-throa...

Part of the story for us. boris, amid all of this, we're now learning that the president wanted the attorney general of the united states, what, to exonerate him? >> reporter: effectively, wolf. cnn has confirmed reporting in the washington post that president trump wanted bill barr to hold a news conference to declare that president trump did nothing illegal on his phone call with president zelensky of ukraine. president trump is furious at this reporting and he is yet again raging against impeachment. >> thank you, mr. president. >> tonight, president trump pushing back on reports that he as...