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That says you cannot indict a sitting president and also out of fairness because the president cannot be indicted, he can't defend himself. bill barr disagrees with that. take a listen. >> he could have reached a conclusion. the opinion says you cannot indict a president while he's in office, but he could have reached a decision as to whether it was criminal activity. but he had his reasons for not doing it, which he explained. and i'm not going to, you know, argue about those reasons. but when he didn't make a decision, the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein and i felt it was necessary f...

Curious about the policies and i think on criminal justice he's known as a very tough law and order kind of person and obviously with the passage of the new crime bill perhaps there's a shift in thinking about criminal justice and obviously, there will be a lot of questions about bill barrr's view about the mueller investigation, allowing the investigation to go forward as been reported already, he's reassured certain members of congress that he believes the investigation should continue and so there will be a lot of questions about that and also about the scope of presidential power. today we...

Rod rosenstein in front of our committee to answer our questions so that the american people can know exactly what was happening at the highest levels of the justice department in that critical moment. maria: why not? >> i don't know why. we're going to keep pushing. maria: well you got close at the end of last year, and then paul ryan didn't want to do it. they didn't and that's unfortunate. we'll see what happens with the democrats. i hope they bring him in. maria: will barr be forced to recuse himself from the mueller investigation? >> i don't think he should. he's going to be the new attor...

To the white house and then they will have to have a decision made as to whether or not the report is provided to congress and if so, is it redacted will it be a summary so these are the kind of decisions that'll happen but yes, there's an oversight, there should be oversight on every official as a practical member and ideally that oversight is provided by the head of the department of justice. maria: so you'd expect william barr. will william barr be forced to recuse himself in the mueller investigation for any way? i know that has been an argument certainly out on the left. well he obviously...