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Accessible records in their possession immediately. >> now, trump made today's announcement after running into several legal road blocks. after he spoke, he asked his attorney general to back him up, which barr did. >> thank you, mr. president. congratulations on today's executive order. the supreme court correctly recognized that it would be entirely appropriate to include citizenship questions on the census. it nevertheless held that the commerce department did not adequately explain its decisions for doing so on the 2020 census. there is no question that a new decision to add the question w...

>> pretty serious concerns raised publicly about career law enforcement officials that work for you without offering any evidence especially since trump's own fbi director doesn't seem to share those concerns. >> do you have any evidence that any illegal surveillance into the campaigns or individuals associated with the campaigns by the fbi occurred? >> i don't think i personally have any evidence of that sort. >> so given the choice between wray's evidence, which relies on evidence and barr's, which barr describes as being based not on any evidence just a feeling, a hunch, president trump tw...

President says, even when that's a space where some other officials say they wouldn't use terms like that. bill barr is exactly the kind of person the president wants to see making comments like that in interviews. >> and it's why democrats also feel that he's working at the behest of the president. it's why kamala harris asked him during his testimony, has anyone in the administration suggested that you open an investigation into the origins of the counterintelligence probe? and why barr had trouble answering her. and she also sent a follow-up letter, which barr has not responded to so far. >...

And hopefully that process will go very quickly and i think it will go very quickly. >> before the president tapped barr to serve as his next ag, he reportedly tried to get him to step into a different role. barr was previously offered a position as trump's defense attorney. the report says the president met privately with barr in the spring of 2017 and asked if he would serve in the position and help defend him against robert mueller's russia probe, which barr has been a critic of. barr reportedly said he had other obligations but added he would think about it. a long time friend tells yahoo ...