JOINING OUR CONVERSATION IS
FORMER FBI GENERAL COUNCIL AND
LEGAL ANALYST ANDREW WEISSMANN.
I WABBED TO TALK TO YOU AND THIS
BROKE WHILE I WAS ON THE AIR AND
I WANTED TO TALK TO YOU FOR 24
HOURS NOW.
I’M SO GLAD YOU’RE HERE.
FIRST, WAS THIS A FIRING OR A
RESIGNATION?
>> NO ONE KNOWS.
NO ONE KNOWS WHETHER THIS IS
BARR BEING SEMLYESSENTIALLY GETT
AHEAD OF BEING FIRED OR WHETHER
IT IS BARR BASICALLY DOING STAGE
ONE OF A REHABILITATION CAMPAIGN
WHERE HE NOW IS SORT OF
DISTANCING HIMSELF FROM THE
PERSON WHO BROUGHT HIM TO THE
DANCE IN A SORT OF LAST ACT OF,
YOU KNOW, DISLOYALTY TO THE
PRESIDENT.
SO, YOU KNOW, I DON’T KNOW THE
ANSWER TO THAT.
AND YOU KNOW WHAT, I DON’T
ACTUALLY CARE THAT MUCH BECAUSE
I REALLY THINK THAT THE BIG
PICTURE IS WHAT IS THE ATTORNEY
GENERAL’S LEGACY.
BUT THAT IS SO HORRIFIC IN TERMS
OF WHAT HE’S DONE TO THE
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.
WHETHER HE HAS BETRAYED
PRESIDENT TRUMP NOW OR WHETHER
PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS, YOU KNOW,
AXING HIM IS REALLY, I THINK,
WELL IT IS INTERESTING, I THINK
IT IS SECONDARY TO WHAT EXACTLY
IS HAPPENING TO THE DEPARTMENT
OF JUSTICE UNDER THIS ATTORNEY
GENERAL.
>> WELL, I DO WANT TO TALK TO
YOU ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS NEXT BUT
LET’S NOT SKIP OVER THE LEGACY.
BECAUSE FIRST OF ALL, HIS
AUDATION FOR THE JOB THAT HE
HAPPENED TO PEN A 19-PAGE MEMO
ABOUT HOW A PRESIDENT, DONALD
TRUMP, COULDN’T COMMIT THE CRIME
OF OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE AND
JUST HAPPENED TO GET HIRED AS
THE NEXT ATTORNEY GENERAL.
BUT HIS FIRST OFFICIAL ACT AS
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL WAS TO LIE
ABOUT THE INVESTIGATION YOU WERE
PART OF, THE MUELLER
INVESTIGATION.
TAKE US THROUGH WHAT IN YOUR
VIEW IS THE BARR LEGACY?
>> ABSOLUTELY.
SO I THINK THAT BARR LEGACY
STARTS WITH A SO-CALLED
FOUR-PAGE SUMMARY LETTER THAT IS
THE ISSUED ON MARCH 24th, 2019,
OBVIOUSLY IT IS A DAY ETCHED IN
MY BRAIN BECAUSE THAT LETTER WAS
COMPLETELY MISLEADING, IF NOT
WORSE, ABOUT WHAT IT IS THAT OUR
REPORT FOUND.
JUST TO GIVE YOU THE VIEWERS AN
EXAMPLE OF THAT, THE ATTORNEY
GENERAL SAID THAT PRESIDENT
TRUMP HAD FULLY COOPERATED WITH
OUR INVESTIGATION.
NOTHING COULD BE FURTHER FROM
THE TRUTH.
HE NEVER CAME IN AND SAT DOWN
FOR AN INTERVIEW.
HE WOULDN’T EEP
HE WOULDN’T EVEN ANSWER ALL OF
THE QUESTIONS THAT WE HAD.
SO THAT WAS SORT OF STAGE ONE.
BUT IF YOU LOOK AT OTHER THINGS,
HE FILED A MOTION TO DISMISS THE
CASE, THE CRIMINAL CASE AGAINST
MICHAEL FLYNN AND MADE ARGUMENTS
THAT THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
HAS REJECTED IN EVERY OTHER
CASE.
THAT LED TO PEOPLE RESIGNING.
CAREER PEOPLE RESIGNING.
IN THE STONE CASE, AGAIN, HE
SOUGHT A LOWER SENTENCE, MAKING
ARGUMENTS THAT ARE NOT MADE FOR
ANY OTHER DEFENDANT.
WHAT HAPPENED?
CAREER PEOPLE RESIGNED.
INE IN THE JOHN DURHAM
INVESTIGATION, WHERE YOU HAD THE
ATTORNEY GENERAL INVESTIGATING
THE INVESTIGATORS, THE NUMBER
TWO RESIGNED AND PRESUMABLY THAT
IS BECAUSE OF UNDUE PRESSURE
BEING BROUGHT BY MAIN JUSTICE.
AND THEN FINALLY JUST IN THE
LAST COUPLE OF MONTHS, YOU HAD
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL CHANGING
THE ELECTION POLICIES OF THE
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE SO THAT
THE DEPARTMENT COULD ACT QUICKLY
IN INTERFERING WITH ELECTIONS.
AND YOU HAD CAREER OFFICIALS,
AGAIN, RESIGNING.
AND NICOLLE, AS YOU AND I KNOW,
WHETHER IT IS A REPUBLICAN
ADMINISTRATION OR A DEMOCRATIC
ADMINISTRATION, THIS IS NOT
NORMAL.
THIS IS NOTHING TO DO WITH
NORMAL PARTY POLITICS.
I HAVE SERVED UNDER REPUBLICANS
AND DEMOCRATS AND THAT IS JUST
NOT HOW PEOPLE IN THE DEPARTMENT
ARE TRAINED.
AND SO THIS IS -- THIS IS THE