PERSON WILL BECOME ACTING
ATTORNEY GENERAL.
HIGHLY RESPECTED RICHARD DONAHUE
WILL TAKE OVER THE DUTIES OF
DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL.
TANK
THANK YOU ALL, EXCLAMATION
POINT.
WE’RE TALKING ABOUT A MAN AND A
MOMENT.
BILL BARR WAS THE MAN AT THE
MOMENT.
HE STEPPED IF TO THAT ROLE AS
THE TOP LAW ENFORCEMENT
OFFICIAL, TOP JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
OFFICIAL THIS COUNTRY HAD AND
QUICKLY MORPHED INTO A BARBER OF
THE ROBERT MUELLER INVESTIGATION
AND ENABLER OF DIFFERENT KIND OF
JUSTICE FOR DONALD TRUMP’S
CLOSEST ALLIES, HE SOUGHT TO
HAVE THE CASE AGAINST MIKE
FLYNN, DONALD TRUMP’S FIRST
NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER
DISMISSED.
HE WAS AT THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
FOR THE RESIGNATION OF MR.
DURHAM WHO WAS INVESTIGATING I
THINK THE FOURTH INVESTIGATION
INTO THE ORIGINS OF THE RUSSIA
INVESTIGATION.
HIS TOP DEPUTY RESIGNED.
IT WAS THOUGHT TO BE AMID A
CLIMATE OF POLITICAL PRESSURE.
HE THEN HAD A REAL CHANGE IN
FORTUNE.
DONALD TRUMP THEN TURNED THE
CIRCULAR FIRING SQUAD ON TO BILL
BARR OVER A SERIES OF EVENTS
THAT DIDN’T MEET DONALD TRUMP’S
EXPECTATIONS FOR CONTINUED
LOYALTY TO DONALD TRUMP.
BUT IF YOU COULD -- WHAT DONALD
TRUMP THINKS BILL BARR SIGNED UP
FOR AND FALLING OUT OF FAVOR
FROM AMONG OTHER THINGS REFUSING
TO PROJECT THE LIE THAT DONALD
TRUMP HAS SOLD TO 126 REPUBLICAN
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AND MILLIONS
OF HIS OWN SUPPORTERS THAT THIS
ELECTION WAS SOMEHOW STOLEN FROM
HIM.
THERE WAS SOME REPORTING IN "THE
NEW YORK TIMES" ABOUT A WEEK AGO
THAT BILL BARR WAS CONSIDERING
LEAVING.
AND THEN EVEN THIS WEEKEND SOME
MORE REPORTING THAT HE MIGHT
WANT TO GO BEFORE THE HOLIDAYS
TO SPEND MORE TIME, I THINK THE
QUOTE WE JUST READ FROM DONALD
TRUMP, CELEBRATING CHRISTMAS IN
A PANDEMIC, I’M NOT SURE WHAT
THAT LOOKS LIKE.
MAYBE HE MAKES THE FAMILY
EGGNOG.
JOHN MEACHAM, MY QUESTION TO
YOU, IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THERE
IS CONDUCT THAT HAS BEEN
PROJECTED IN REPORTING IN AXY
OS, ON THE "THE NEW YORK TIMES"
AN THE WASHINGTON TIME ABOUT
DONALD TRUMP’S ATTEMPT TO PARDON
HIMSELF AND HIS OWN PERSONAL
ATTORNEY RUDY GIULIANI, THAT
BILL BARR JUST DOESN’T WANT TO
BE AROUND FOR?
>> THAT IS CERTAINLY
SPECULATION.
I WOULD SIGN ON FOR.
IF WE’RE TAKING A POOL, I WANT
THAT ENTRY.
THE OTHER THING, I THINK THAT IS
PROBABLY RATTLING AROUND IN THE
PRESIDENT’S HEAD IS IF THE
REPORTING IS PROVEN ACCURATE
THAT GENERAL BARR TRIED TO KEEP
THE POTENTIAL INVESTIGATION OF
HUNTER BIDEN’S TAXES OUT OF THE
PUBLIC SQUARE.
>> RIGHT.
>> I HAVE A FEELING THAT IN THE
MEN’S GRILL AT MAR-A-LAGO FOR
THE NEXT X NUMBER OF YEARS THAT
IS GOING TO BE A BIG TOPIC OF
THE INJUSTICE OF THAT.
THAT IN A WEIRD WAY TRUMP DIDN’T
GET HIS COMEY MOMENT OF LATE
OCTOBER SO I HAVE A FEEL THOSE
TWO THINGS ARE POSSIBLY
AGITATING FORCES BETWEEN THE
PRESIDENT AND THE ATTORNEY
GENERAL AND I THINK IT IS A
FASCINATING QUESTION FOR THE
NEXT 38 DAYS, WHAT TRUMP TRIES
TO DO PARDON POWER AND
WITH THE REMAINING APPARATUS OF
THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH TO PROTECT
HIMSELF, HIS FAMILY, HIS
ASSOCIATES GOING FORWARD BECAUSE
ONE OF THE THINGS WE HAVE NO
DOUBT ABOUT AND THIS IS NOT A
PARTISAN OBSERVATION IS THIS IS
THE MOST FUNDAMENTALLY
TRANSACTIONAL PRESIDENT YOU CAN