>> The possibly unprecedented and certainly dangerous relationship between Donald Trump
and William Barr, the current state of the the DOJ, which has been incredibly deferential
to his desires continues to develop.
We found out today that Attorney General William Barr has assigned an outside prosecutor to
scrutinize the criminal case against President Trump's former national security adviser Michael
Flynn, according to people familiar with the matter.
To catch you up in case you don't know about Michael Flynn's legal troubles.
In December 2017, Flynn struck a plea deal with special counsel Robert Muller's team
pleading guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with the Russian ambassador and
agreeing to cooperate.
Now, Flynn was one of multiple people in the administration who just forgot that they had
been talking to a whole bunch of Russian officials.
And, one would think, considering the conversation at the time about what was going on that,
that would matter.
And the right wing has, to their credit, been obsessed with Michael Flynn ever since then,
but in thinking that they had been unfair to him.
That the DOJ was being too harsh to him that they should let him go, and it doesn't matter
that he conveniently left off all of these inconvenient facts.
And so we don't know exactly what the scrutiny is going to produce.
But we do know what the right wing media wants.
They've been very vocal about it throughout the day.
>> So, look, they're lawless.
We've gone over this and so you have the career prosecutors who are still trying to do their
job and they go through the process.
And this is what happens in countries that devolve into chaos and then wind up having
governments that do terrible things.
They then have political correctness come in and go, yeah, you were legally correct,
but we're not interested in that.
We're interested in being politically correct and the dear leader says that he wants his
friend out of jail so he doesn't care that he broke the law.
And by the way, other people that didn't break the law, he wants them in jail and he doesn't
care that they didn't break the law.
And so that's how democracies devolve and we're right in the middle of that right now.
>> It's hard for people to see it sometimes.
I was thinking that the other day, it's hard for people to see exactly what's happening
in the country.
When it's happening, we think, we looked at history like, hey, that happened.
I read that book, that's how it happened.
But when we're in the middle of it, or when someone who happens to be in the opposing
party and not everyone that's in the opposing party is saying this, but when someone says,
hey, pay attention to what this guy is doing.
It's what we've always warned others about, just pay attention, cuz if you don't, it'll
happen to you.
So, if you want to push back and say, how could you say such it is America nothing like
that could ever happen.
That's exactly how it can happen, when you have an attitude like that you don't pay attention
to exactly what's being done.
>> To your point, Jayar, I remember Misha was homeless long time ago here in LA.
And I always wonder, how in the world did Germany slip into what it slipped into in
the 1930s, right?
And then they laid it out.
That's why you go to museums, okay?
And they showed these newspaper articles from back in the day, etc.
And the answer is, gradually.
And they take away a little bit of freedom, they break a law here, no consequences, they
break another law, no consequences, and eventually might makes right.
And then eventually they start coming in with batons and beating people up but there's no
law anymore to enforce.
And all there's left is power.
And it's happening right in front of our eyes, if he wins reelection, now he thinks he's
100% above the law.
>> Yeah, it is right >> So, and right now, that is correct.
>> Yeah, your talking about that process and you need legislative checks, hopefully.
Hopefully the courts can provide a check, maybe the media can provide a check.
And you always sort of wonder what was the media saying in the run up to that?
Well, I don't know, perhaps at the museum, but we do know what some of the media are
saying about the DOJ and about Trump right now.
Yesterday, William Barr had his a little comments about how Trump is making his job hard.
Like that, obviously there's a lot of distance between them.
I mean, he said his job was hard.
And I want you to take a look at even that, that sort of like show of frustration with
Trump from William Barr, who from day one in that position has done nothing but protect
Donald Trump, do his bidding.
That's why he was there, because he wasn't gonna be like Jeff Sessions and recuse himself.
So let's go to Lou Dobbs last night talking about Barr from yesterday.
>> I guess I am so disappointed in Bill Barr, I have to say this.
It's a damn shame when he doesn't get what this president has gone through and what the
American people have gone through and what his charge is as attorney general.
Where the hell is the report?
Where the hell are the indictments?
Where the hell are the charges against the corrupt, the politically corrupt, a deep state
within the Justice Department, the FBI?
And why in the hell are we hearing apologies from someone in that rancid, corrupt department
about what they permitted?
But then to hear this Attorney General complain about this president who's fighting every
one of those damn people to do the right thing and to get this country straightened out.
And it's his mission to do so, not to carp about his boss.
And by the way, I don't wanna hear any crap about an independent Justice Department.
This Justice Department, as does every one, works for the president.
It is part of the executive branch.
>> Lou Dobbs never forced his life has felt that the Justice Department should be the
personal lawyers of the president.
And I guarantee of Trump loses later on this year.
He will not continue to say that they should be working for the president.
But look at that, I don't wanna hear that crap about independent DOJ.
No, because you would have that in a presidential system in a monarchy where you have your king.
No, obviously all of them are supposed to working for him.
But look, we're gonna talk more about that.
He was slamming William Barr there for like a throwaway comment about tweets.
He called him part of the deep state because of that.
And he said, why are you doing this when you should be getting indictments against the
people in the DOJ.
Not like particular people, he's not saying here are people and the crimes they committed.
He's saying, go find people, and bring me indictments.
You should be rooting out the people who are working against our dear lord, Donald Trump.
>> All right, against our political enemies.
>> Yeah.
>> And so, also in the museum you see propaganda and that was a huge part of it.
And you'd think that the Germans, the National Socialist Party when they first came into
power in the 1930s, they were trying to get into power, and then did.
That they came in and said, we're gonna murder everyone.
No, they didn't say that, okay?
They said, we're trying to protect the homeland.
And he's the only one that cares about Germany and the Germans.
And you've gotta give him the power so he can protect you.
So he could protect the homeland, and he can protect Germans outside of the homeland too.
Cuz those are poor minorities that are being exploded in other countries that when we have
to go help them, etc.
And they did propaganda on purpose and then their enemies, their enemies were less than
human and they were the ones causing all the problems and etc., etc.
And if anyone cross the leader, you'd have someone like that go back in the day on in
the newspapers and the leaflets etc., and say, he is now one of our enemies and he has
to be rooted out, rooted out.
Okay, and they would get rid of them.
And then until everybody got the message, you're not allowed to screw with the leader
even a little bit, not even as John pointed out, a show disagreement.
It wasn't a real disagreement.
It was meant to show that he's independent.
While Bill Barr is not actually independent, he did reduce Roger Stone sentence.
He did put someone on the Flynn case to reduce his sentence or maybe let him go.
He did butcher the Mueller report and lie about it.
He's done everything Trump has asked him to do.
And then he just did a little show of like, I am upset about his tweets.
And Lou Dobbs is like, that's it.
He's part of the deep state and it's rancid.
We got to get rid of them because the important thing is not his Bill Barr really on our side
or not.
The important thing is to terrify anyone who might oppose the president, even a little
bit.
>> Justin Amash, Matt Gaetz, Jeff Sessions, these guys get Mitt Romney there, they get
run out for the smallest things.
Matt Gaetz is one of the biggest kneelers in front of the President, but I mean there
was one thing was by the way, just yesterday, the Senate did pass a limitation on presidents
war powers against Iran.
That's what Matt Gaetz was put on punishment for even suggesting before the vote actually
happen.
Of course he's represented so that was a Senate vote yesterday.
But, just because of that he's off of the impeachment trial when he was one of the biggest
mouthpieces.
It doesn't matter, you are now an enemy and until I get rid of all of my enemies and not
only have people like Barr and Trump who now he's toeing that line,-
>> Yeah.
>> Then we're not a complete country yet.
Anytime the interests of the President only matches up to be the interest of the country
that sounds like a dictator to me.
And when you have someone like, who's our boy in impeachment who said, what if the President
thinks it's the national interest for him to get reelected, he can do whatever the hell
he wants?
The old guy- >> Dershowitz.
>> Dershowitz says that, then that becomes the norm.
That's a legal argument he made in front of the Senate.
That's what we're supposed to do now?
>> Yeah