>>> BILL BARR IS OUT AS ATTORNEY
GENERAL RESIGNING WITH A
FAREWELL LETTER TO COLLEAGUES
SAYING IT WAS A GREAT HONOR TO
SERVE AND ENFORCE THE RULE OF
LAW AND ADDING HE HAS DEEP
RESPECT FOR THEM BUT MANY INSIDE
THE DOJ WON’T BE SHEDDING ANY
TEARS.
PROSECUTORS QUIT IN PROTEST
AFTER BARR MEDDLED IN THE FLYNN
AND STONE CASES.
FORMER DOJ INSIDERS CALLED FOR
HIS RESIGNATION SAYING HE ACTS
LIKE TRUMP’S PERSONAL LAWYER AND
NOT AS AN IMPARTIAL ATTORNEY
GENERAL.
HE DEPARTS AS THE MOST
CONTROVERSIAL A.G. SINCE THE
NIXON ERA.
>> YOUR DECOLORATION, OF AN
EMERGENCY ON THE SOUTHERN BORDER
WAS CLEARLY AUTHORIZED UNDER THE
LAW.
THE EVIDENCE DEVELOPED BY THE
SPECIAL COUNSEL IS NOT
SUFFICIENT TO ESTABLISH THAT THE
PRESIDENT COMMITTED AN
OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE OFFENSE.
I THINK THE PRESIDENT HAS EVERY
RIGHT TO BE MAD BECAUSE WHAT
HAPPENED TO HIM IS ONE OF THE
GREATEST TRAVESTIES. >> THE ELECTIONS HELD WITH MAIL
>> THE ELECTIONS HELD WITH MAIL
HAVE FOUND SUBSTANTIAL FRAUD AND
CO-
CO-HORGS.
>> MULTIPLE ADMINISTRATION
OFFICIALS SAYING HOSE HAS THE
WORST JOB IN WASHINGTON WITH NO
IDEA THE INSANITY HE IS IN FOR
AND THE NEXT MONTH WILL BE THE
LONGEST OF HIS LIFE.
ROSEN COMES IN WITH TRUMP ON
FIRE ERRATIC AND STILL PUSHING
BASELESS CONSPIRACY THEORIES AND
THEN THERE IS THE WAVE OF
PARDONS HE MIGHT HAVE TO DEAL
WITH.
ROSEN HAS BEEN OUT OF THE
SPOTLIGHT BUT HAS BACKED TRUMP
IN A NUMBER OF CASES DETERMINING
NO GROUNDS FOR A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION INTO TRUMP OVER
INVESTIGATION INTO TRUMP OVER
THE UKRAINE QU DIRKS PROQUO AND
PUNISHED PERCEIVED ENEMIES.
BACK IN APRIL OF LAST YEAR AT
HIS CONFIRMATION HEARING, ROSEN
WAS PRESSED BY WHETHER HE’D PUSH
BACK ON TRUMP’S DEMANDS.
>> I’M GOING TO DO THE RIGHT
THING IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW
AND THE RULES AND THE ETHICAL
REQUIREMENTS AT EVERY JUNCTION
TOUR
-- JUNCTURE.
>> WILL YOU IN FACT, SAY NO TO
THE WHITE HOUSE?
>> IF THE APPROPRIATE ANSWER IS
TO SAY NO TO SOMEBODY, THEN I
WILL SAY NO.
>> JOINING ME IS FORMER ACTING
SOLICITOR GENERAL FOR THE OBAMA
ADMINISTRATION.
WE’LL GET TO ROSE IN A SECOND,
NEAL, BUT WHAT IS YOUR TAKE ON
BARR’S LEGACY HERE?
>> I SAID LAST WEEK ON OUR
NETWORK, ONE WORD AND IT WAS
DISGRACE.
I THINK THAT’S THE RIGHT WORD.
HE WILL GO DOWN AS THE WORST
ATTORNEY GENERAL IN OUR
LIFETIMES AND PERHAPS EVER, THE
MOST SACRED DUTY YOU HAVE AS
ATTORNEY GENERAL IS TO APPLY THE
LAW EVEN HANDEDLY.
WHEN I WALK INTO THE SUPREME
COURT, THOSE WORDS ABOUT THE
SUPREME COURT ARE EQUAL JUSTICE
UNDER LAW.
THAT’S THE MOST FOUNDATIONAL
AMERICAN PRINCIPLE THERE IS AND
BARR GOES DOWN AS AN ATTORNEY
GENERAL THAT WEAPONIZED THE
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TO HELP
TRUMP’S FRIENDS AND LEAK
RECOMMENDED LEANNIENCY FOR PAULS
AND BEHIND TEAR GASSING AT THE
WHITE HOUSE AND IGNORED CAREER
WOMEN AND MEN OF THE JUSTICE
DEPARTMENT AND BY THE WAY, THE
CRITICISM HERE DOESN’T JUST COME
FROM DEMOCRATS LIKE ME, IT’S
EQUALLY SHARED AMONG
REPUBLICANS.
YOU CAN LOOK AT PAUL ROSEN OR
THE DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR
PRESIDENT BUSH, SOME OF THE MOST
RESPECTED REPUBLICAN LAWYERS IN
THE COUNTRY ARE SAYING THE SAME
THING AND THAT’S WHY TODAY, I’VE
BEEN GETTING CALL AFTER CALL
FROM CAREER JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
PEOPLE LIKE THANK GOD IT’S OVER.
>> LET ME PLAY FOR YOU HOW
WILLIAM BARR DESCRIBED HIS OWN
LEGACY.
WATCH THIS.
>> EVERYONE DIES AND I’M NOT --
YOU KNOW, I DON’T BELIEVE IN THE
IDEA THAT I’M MORTALMMORTALITY H
SOMETHING OVER YOU OVER THE
CENTURIES.
>> WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THAT?
WHAT’S YOUR REACTION TO THAT?
>> IF I DID THE THINGS BILL BARR
DID, I’D SAY I DON’T CARE ABOUT
MY LEGACY, EITHER.
I SUPPOSE ANDREW JACKSON SAID
THE SAME THING.
IT’S NOT ABOUT WHAT BILL BARR
SAID TO HIMSELF BUT WHAT DID HE
DO TO THE PROUD TRADITIONS OF
THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT AND
CAREER MEN AND WOMEN THERE AND
PARTICULARLY AT A TIME LIKE
RIGHT NOW WHEN THERE IS AN
EPIDEMIC OF POLICE BRUTALITY
ACROSS THIS COUNTRY AND WHEN SO
MANY AMERICANS ARE SO UPSET
ABOUT LAW ENRS FOR A MOMENTFORCE
THIS GUY DO TO HEAL US?
NOTHING, INSTEAD, HE POURED
KEROSENE ON IT.
>> THE NEXT ATTORNEY GENERAL
UNDER THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION,
HOW MUCH OF CORRECTING BARR’S
MISTAKES AND THE DAMAGE HE’S
DONE IS GOING TO COME DOWN TO
PERSONALITY AND HOW MUCH FROM
YOUR LEGAL EXPERTISE IS IT RULE
OF LAW AND CERTAIN LAWS THAT
HAVE TO BE PASSED TO SURE UP
SOME OF THE INSTITUTIONS SO THAT
REGARDLESS OF WHATEVER COMES IN
THE POSITIONS AGAIN CANNOT
REPEAT AS YOU’RE DESCRIBING THE
DAMAGE THAT ATTORNEY GENERAL
BILL BARR HAS DONE?
>> IT’S NOT ACTUALLY HARD.
I MEAN, I THINK A NEW ATTORNEY
GENERAL HAS TO LOOK WHAT BARR
DID LIKE THE QUESTION WHAT WOULD
JESUS DO, DO WHAT BILL BARR
DIDN’T AND YOU’LL BE RIGHT.
THERE ARE LONG STANDING
PRECEDENTS OF HOW TO DO THINGS
AND ALL A NEW ATTORNEY GENERAL
HAS TO DO IS TAKE THAT RULE BOOK
AND FOLLOW IT.
IT DOESN’T REQUIRE LEGISLATION.
SURE, YOU HAVE TO WORRY FOR SOME
ATTORNEY GENERAL MAY COME ALONG
ONE DAY SO YOU MAY WANT
LEGISLATION FOR SOME THINGS BUT
I THINK 90% OF THE STUFF IS
REALLY EASY TO DO AND IT JUST
MEANS FOLLOWING THE DEPARTMENT’S
TRADITIONS.
>> LET’S TALK ABOUT THE INCOMING
ATTORNEY GENERAL TEMPORARILY AT
LEAST.
WILL THE NEW ATTORNEY GENERAL
JEFF ROSEN PUSH BACK AGAINST
TRUMP?
HOW DOES THIS PLAY OUT?
WHAT DO YOU THINK WILL HAPPEN IN
THE NEXT 28 DAYS.
>> MR. ROSEN IS AN EMPTY SUIT.
NOBODY KNOWS.
HE WAS AN BASHESTABLISHED LAWYER
THE QUESTION WILL BE WHETHER HE