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And if bob decides that he doesn't want to be subject to that, then the department of justice would certainly back him. >> we have ken vogel. ken volg, we played you a clip of the world according to william barr and barr told us he wouldn't mind but nor he would mind if robert mueller didn't testify? isn't some of what he's going to be worried about, those letters he wrote to ag barr about his gross decision torsions of the actual substance and content and spirit of the mueller report? >> yeah, you would have to think that would be a primary target for democrats. republicans on the other hand,...

Trump administration's efforts to add the question were over. that's because the united states supreme court ruled that their reasoning for it was contrived. but despite that, the president pressed on forcing his own justice department to reverse course. the lawyers defending him were not as eager to keep up the fight. "new york times" wrote this, quote, barr acknowledged that the career justice department lawyers who had worked on the census question had little appetite to continue on the case. after mr. trump inserted himself into the process. we're going to reach a new decision and i can un...

Ties with jeffrey epstein dating back over a decade. i haven't had anything to do with him in 15 years. i don't know if that's true. but it does seem that the president is willing and eager to distance himself from jeffrey epstein. so there might be a world in which a condemnation of him and his behavior with not just these young women, but these teenagers and preteens. one of the victims said she was still in braces when this was happening. there is a chance that the white house would scould see that's ar him to issue a strong public condemnation. >> words i never thought i'd utter. the world...

About his dealings with barr and whether they think that barr was -- whether he thinks that barr sort of handled the situation properly. and then republicans want him o to -- get him to talk about the fisa abuse that led to the mueller investigation and why he didn't include exculpatory information about this manafort association and what role this ledger from ukraine of payments that manafort accepted played in the origins of the report or at least origins of the investigation as it pertains to manafort. so we're going to see a real push and pull. it will be interesting to see how mueller nav...

Court could really go by. >> what's supposed to happen here, yuck u chuchuck? >> i'm not much of a lawyer. justice department lawyers have an obligation, if they can, to advance a reasonable argument on behalf of the statute or regulation. and so what must have happened, and it's informed speculation, is that the career lawyers in this case didn't believe they had a reasonable argument left. and that's troubling. now, maybe mr. barr and his team come up with another reasonable argument. we'll see. but the path seems to have ended at the supreme court decision. and the career lawyers appear to ...