and doj is informing us. we will not receive the report until after 11:00, 12:00 tomorrow afternoon. after barr's press conference, this is wrong. let me explain this. this is news in real-time. this is the cheryl of the house judiciary committee. not just stating a view, he is saying that doj is informing us we won't receive it until tomorrow. a second version, an oral version of the now infamous four-page summary letter. don't call it a summary. now chairman nadler saying the doj has informed him. an on the record report. i bring back the panel. we'll have according to chairman nadler's description, and again, feeding into the view of this being a controversy, paul butler, the doj trying to drive the mood. they're being told, it won't really be out and everyone will be living off maybe the revenge of the summaries. >> this is highly irregular. the department of justice likes to let its actions and its documents speak for itself. presumably, relosing the report and allowing that would be fine. >> a lot of pe

the doj estimates there are 10,000 ms 13 members in the united states. rob: house democrats grow the attorney general on the mueller report as top republicans say more criminal referrals against the doj and fbi could be coming. shannon: todd pyro with what to expect in the capitol hill hearing. >> reporter: supposed to be a run-of-the-mill budget hearing is expected to be an interrogation of william barr about his handling of the mueller report. despite the fact that he's likely to release a public version of the report in the next week or so democrats plan to attack his decision-making process and crafting his 4-page summer which many say exonerates the president but congressman doug collins says it is bob mueller the public needs to her from writing and part that it is a special counsel who was, quote, best position to testify regarding the underlying facts and material. then there's this. republicans fighting back against abuse at the highest level of the nation's law enforcement with mark meadows teasing more criminal referrals against doj and fbi of

the doj has got to start policing itself. i think it's a wake-up signal to his politically that the doj is a law unto itself and needs to have its wings clipped and controlled constitutional. lou: disease the first attorney general i've seen in decades -- he is the first attorney general i've seen in decades that has the integrity to clean up this mess, the fbi and department of justice. it is -- i can't tell you how optimistic i am about what this man can achieve and what he has already done for this president and the country. and i'm so proud of you and judicial watch for all that you have done and contributed to seeing justice prevail. tom fitton, thank you for being with us. >> thank you pierce lane the radical dimms and a complete historical meltdown after the complete vindication of president trump. >> attorney general barr appears to have shown an unsettling willingness to undermine his department -- quickly misrepresented significant parts of the mueller report. >> president trump isa candidate , he set himself up for

in response the census bureau a programmatic review process to consider meeting doj's request. had discussions with external and holders -- stakeholders including chairman pelosi and chairman cummings, both of whom oppose the idea. we evaluated thousands of pages of analysis including written submissions by other members of this committee. our list of dissenting all census questions the march 31, 2018 statutory deadline. doj'sing receipt of letter and during our review the census bureau officials datanized that current acs did not meet doj's request for census block level data. analysis alsoeau showed that when noncitizens respond to the acs question on citizenship they respond incorrectly approximately 30% of the time. memo iarch 26 decision described more details of the decision-making process in the alternatives we considered to reinstating the citizenship question. aspects of, certain this issue are in litigation before the supreme court and other courts. to answering as many of your questions as i can. that weo be clear intended to count as many people as possible. i will

is that a list of names in doj right now? >> i think there has to be from the proof standpoint of anything mueller looked at, he's got to give to barr. the idea that it would just sit in a file cabinet somewhere for no one to ever see again is very unlikely. when we're dealing with someone like mueller who by all accounts is one of the most experienced, careful prosecutors around. >> in the spirit of the new series we're doing with you, i want to go big and into history and look at nbc's report 1974 when you had another case resolve just how much the executive can hold back. many people see it obviously as a high point for a nonpartisan constitutional ruling forcing the release of the nixon tapes. let's take a look. >> good morning. the supreme court has just ruleded on the tape controversy and here is the ruling. >> it is the unanimous on, doug, 8-0. justice rehnquist took no part in the decision, ordering the president of the united states to turn over the tapes. >> do you expect anything to go to the supreme court where yo

i'm going to ask a former doj senior official next. when you rent from national... it's kind of like playing your own version of best ball. because here, you can choose any car in the aisle, even if it's a better car class than the one you reserved. so no matter what, you're guaranteed to have a perfect drive. [laughter] (vo) go national. go like a pro. see what i did there? now kayak and opentable let you earn travel rewards every time you dine. with just one reservation on opentable, you can start saving money on hotels with kayak. get started at kayak.com/diningrewards. >>> we're back with breaking news, "the new york times" reporting tonight that members of the special counsel's team believe that the mueller report is more damaging to the president than the attorney general william barr has revealed. this as a battle between congress and the doj is really heating up right now with the house judiciary committee authorizing a subpoena for the full report, no redactions, the full report. let's bring in now matt axelrod. thank you for

>> to the doj with ag bar running and doing these referrals, there would be another investigation of the investigators. shannon: which has been called for. ned ryan joining us, we will see what happens. thank you. the time is 15 until the top of the are, the establishment versus the far left, nancy pelosi took a major shot at alexandria ocasio cortez. >> i had a great health exam. 185 pounds. shannon: is this just a dress rehearsal? alec baldwin thinks he could be president in real life. carly shimkus with reaction flooding social media. ♪ shannon: nancy pelosi taking on alexandria ocasio cortez, the house speaker taking a jab at the freshman socialist lawmaker over her use of social media. carly shimkus with serious xm 115 with the online reaction to the viral snub. >> without mentioning her by name nancy pelosi downplayed, telling usa today there are people who have a large number of twitter followers what is important is we have large numbers of votes on the floor of the house. nancy pelosi is tasked with bringing more progressive and moderate democrats together, a job alexandri

can be made between the doj staff and leadership. the staff is very concerned. we understand there was a meeting earlier this month where sprint and t-mobile representatives presented to the doj staff and they had some questions about the deal. they wanted to know more about the cost cuts they talked about. they wanted to know more about competition and what would happen to competition post this deal getting done. the companies came away with that understanding the concerns, but also realizing they could probably do something else. they have always been open to partially restructuring this deal. there has been talk of asset sales, potential asset sales that they could sort of do to get the deal through the leadership of the doj. it is not a big surprise. it is a matter of time now. i will say the companies have said they will look to close this deal by the end of the first half, june or july of this year, and they are still sticking to that timeline. emily: we just spoke with the former ceo of sprint last week , who is very optimisti

we also know as they went into much of this that as they started to focus on this, falsehoods told doj officials. so i fully believe inspector general quarrel wits and his team will look at that . and out of that, look at criminal referrals that may be consistence with devin nunes has mentioned that he is referring to the doj as well. the bottom line, sean, your viewers, the american people want people held accountable. they want to make sure this never happens again to any future president. >> sean: you note john solomon, we note that hillary's investigation was right. and interesting as these closed door hearing testimonies are coming out, we know that they were given orders from attorney general, oh, miss tarmac and a matter of an investigation lynch. that raises question what did she know? we need to get to the bottom of that but we know she violated espionage act. james baker thought she should be indicted and also a crime, intent when she deleted subpoena emails, cleaned her devices up. in the pfizer case, bought and paid for by her. they never verified it but they committed frau

doj needs to be, have its wings clipped and controlled constitutionally. lou: i have to say he's the first attorney general i've seen in decades who i believe has the whatsesty and the talent -- the capacity and the talent and the integrity to do precisely that, which is clean up this mess that is the leadership of the fbi and the department of justice. it is, i can't tell you how optimisticic i am about what ths man can achieve and what he has already done for this president and for the country. and i am so proud of you and judicial the watch, tom, for all that you have done and contributed to seeing justice prevail. tom fitton, thanks for being with us, we appreciate it. >> you're welcome, lou. thank you for the good work. lou: up next, the rad cam dems in complete hysterical meltdown after the complete vindication of president trump. >> attorney general barr a appears to have shown an unsettling willingness to undermine his own department in order to protect president trump. >> the attorney general did a great disservice to the country by misrepresentin

but the doj believes they contain sensitive information. so speak a little bit more about this. do you think that congress should have these summaries? >> absolutely. we have the highest level of classification of security classifications, top secret. we see documents every day that deal with life and death and war and peace. we have very strict procedures. we have to sign a document when we review classified documents that we will not release them. since i've been here in the united states congress i've seen members of congress be held to a penalty for what they believe was released. >> congresswoman, can i ask you something? >> yes. >> you see information, you see congress people see sources and methods before, right? >> absolutely. >> okay. >> and we see it every day. and so for that to be a reason, don, is why today we proceeded with the authority to issue subpoenas because the narrative was completely conflicted by general barr's summary and as well now with this breaking news, knowing that other summaries that could have been utilized were not added to his. >> the white ho

tonight the doj is showing that was bull, not true. or the doj is breaking with what was the republican position. a kind of a claimed bravery in the face of the mueller report. they've seen some of it. apparently they don't want everyone to see all of it. this trump administration strategy as you know by now has been to undercut the mueller road map by falsely suggesting it is all up to barr to decide what happens with these findings. tonight, what we're seeing is chairman nadler saying, no, congress itself will consider the quote full scope, according to nadler, of what is released here including what he calls donald trump's misconduct. i'll tell you something else. america has been doing this. maybe we've been doing it together. i've been reading this thing. it takes more than a day for the 400-page findings of the 22-month investigation to be clearly and fairly and accurately processed. i mean regardless of what you think is in here or what you want to be in here. it takes more than a day or two for this to set in. you can't debate

we are in the waiting period between doj getting that report. that happened. and the doj deciding how to share it or some of it with congress and potentially the public. on substance, these few weeks may look like the blink of an eye. whether it is two weeks or four or six, the rules always provided for this time. this gap period between mueller finishing and barr dealing with congress. then you have this d.c. messaging. the attorney general has decided to seize this very waiting period as his time to strike out in public. to release a series of letters. to release parts of the mueller findings and credit to him for admitting it, barr using this waiting period to go well beyond what he says mueller found and announce his own views in public, whipping up reactions across the nation. as we've reported on this show from the very day mueller finished, those reactions are mainly to barr and how the probe ended. not to mueller's report which no one outside the doj which no one has of course, seen. when you take it all together, there waiting period, it makes it more

phillip, there is no crying at the doj. >> all the rules are out the window these days. we'll forgive him. all right, danny cevallos thank you so much for your insight this morning. >>> why the president's high stakes battle over subpoenas is only getting started. >>> and with beto o'rourke struggling in the polls, jimmy fallon offers him a little bit of advice in this morning's laugh lines. >> beto, do some interviews. do a town hall. mayor pete is coming in hot and right now you're just a dude that supports legal marijuana, wears the same thirst every day and rides alone in a van. you're shaggy from "scooby doo." oh! oh! oh! ♪ ozempic®! ♪ (announcer) people with type 2 diabetes are excited about the potential of once-weekly ozempic®. in a study with ozempic®, a majority of adults lowered their blood sugar and reached an a1c of less than seven and maintained it. oh! under seven? and you may lose weight. in the same one-year study, adults lost on average up to 12 pounds. oh! up to 12 pounds? a two-year study showed that ozempic® does not increase the risk of majo

does the doj under the trump administration consider enforcement of the voting rights act a priority? chief roberts himself has stated that voting discrimination still exists. no one doubts that. >> yes, we do. we consider voting rights a priority. >> has the doj, the civil rights division, brought any cases under the trump administration to enforce section 2 of the vra? >> no. but i would point out that during the first four years of the obama administration, one case was brought. >> well, according to your website, the department of justice under obama, both president bushes and president clinton, had brought at least over 30 cases and enforcement of section 2 of the voting rights act. secretary ross credits the department of justice's need to enforce section 2 of the voting rights act for the reason why a citizenship question is needed on the census. the doj has been enforcing the voting rights act for over 50 years without the need for a citizenship question. is there -- what are your thoughts on that? >> my thoughts are that it's being litigated right now and i think oral argumen

and doj has real arguments there. so i think this is more of a public stance to set up a negotiation. but he's got a fairly weak hand to play, does nadler, and even though subpoena sounds like a big deal, it is what happens next that matters and it is by no means clear that they have the power that they assert. >> and just following you, hang on, if this does go to court, do you think that a judge would decide on a partial redaction? what would that even look like? >> yeah, so the two things we've been talking about, national security stuff really should go to the intelligence leaders of the committee but the big ticket item is the grand jury information and the fight in court will be about whether there is some inherent authority for the judge to turn it over because in the text of the rule, it doesn't really provide for that. so it is going to come down to whether a judge will be a little looser and say the water gate precedent, et cetera, but doj will fight them on that and they're in a rough court to win that batt

full of massive examples of upper echelon fbi doj abuse of power. and just breaking moments ago, multiple outlets including "the wall street journal" reporting greg craig, the white house counsel for barack obama expects to be indicted over his work in ukraine, we will have more on that in a moment. also we begin with the "hannity truth watch" with a question. how did all of this happen? how did it begin? we have to get to the bottom of this or we will not have equal justice and equal application of our laws. future elections, and yes, potential presidential deep state who will occur. the attorney general delivered a bombshell argument during his testimony before the senate appropriations committee, exactly what we have been telling you, over two years is true. take a look. >> yes, i think that's fine did occur. >> well, let me -- >> the question is whether it was predicated, adequately predicated parade i'm not suggesting that it wasn't adequately predicated. but i need to explore that. it is my obligation, congress it's usually very concerned abou

and whether over time, the doj is a place that looks more like 2.0. one was trying to defend the president's firing, which he later admitted was false. rod 2.0 was appointing mueller. then rod 3.0 was saying we're not going to be extorted. we're up to 4 or 5.0. unlike apple products, rod's later iterations get worse, not better. what does barr look like with a president who thinks he's getting away with these things? thank you for being on "the beat" this friday evening. >> thank you. >>> appreciate it. now, let me tell what you we have coming up. we speak live to a member of the judiciary and landing the plane as well as what happens if donald trump's aides continue to defy congress. and then i hope you'll stay with me, chambers, six members on beat beat talking about the wu-tang klan. openturning 50 opens theuard. door to a lot of new things... like now your doctor may be talking to you about screening for colon cancer. luckily there's me, cologuard. the noninvasive test you use at home. it all starts when your doctor orders me. then it's as easy as

his role as president had nothing to do with the doj's decision not to charge them. keep in mind, the attorney general came to that conclusion and consultation. here he is with the deputyre attorney general, the guy that hired mueller, rod rosenstein. along with several other nonpartisan department of justice officials, including those in the legal counsel's office. they concluded there was no underlying crime. how do youo obstruct a car and that didn't happen? it's a impossible. if there is nothing to obstruct, which is by president trump let the mueller and investigation go out. he didn't fire rod rosenstein. he never interfered her interbeing to help general flynn, that we now know was set up by both comey and mccabe. he did not get in the way of the witch hunt from proceeding. it all went through. as james comey said in terms of his firing, the fbi director can be fired for any reason or no reason at all. they serve at the pleasure of the president. when the media mob on thursday begins obsessing over phantom of obstruction of justice charges in the coming days,

this case has been kicking around in doj since the obama administration. the facts are old, the prosecutors are committed. i think we may see a surprise out of the eastern district of virginia. >> let me bring back reporting from your colleagues to how this ties back to what john was talking about and covered roger stone and trump and the hacking and the leaking. you reported in january that a senior trump campaign official was directed to contact roger stone about any additional releases and damaging information organization one had regarding the clinton campaign, referring to to wikileaks in october 2016, mr. stone exchanged e-mails with steve bannon. and when exchanged stone wrote that more wikileaks disclosures were forthcoming, a load every week going forward according to the indictment. it seems the questions are still relevant as we head into another presidential cycle with the looming question about whether this administration has done enough to keep russians, russian hackers and actors out of the american election process. >> it does. here's the h

they also need fcc approval but the doj antitrust is the highest approval. they are, as of recent meetings, okay, they are telling me they are cautiously optimistic about this deal getting through. they believe the deal is, if it gets through, it will get through with some structural remedies meaning you will have to divest some stuff. they also tell me that doj officials are continuing to look at the economics of the deal. they have not told them one way or the other whether they are going to approve it or not, but based on what -- based on the tenor of those meetings, they are giving their chances not as like 90/10 no, they are giving their chances, which is what some of the press has been saying, more like a 50/50. now, obviously i'm getting a lot of my information here from the company, companies can say whatever they want, but a little tell here is this. if the doj antitrust really hated this deal, i think we would probably know. i think the head of the doj antitrust division would be out there saying something. i think we would get something out there

shannon: live in the doj with what we can expect. shannon: american taliban fighter john walker linda just weeks form walking free. >> there's nothing stopping him from moving back to america. shannon: time is on brett kavanaugh's item people are not happy, the growing outrage after the magazines is a supreme court justice and his accuser on the same list. rob: "fox and friends first" starts right now. ♪ ♪ rob: not really fun unless you -- got to go out and not have fun without anybody. shannon: unless you have a credit card. rob: the nightlife system is based on that. good morning, you are watching "fox and friends first" on thursday morning. study with a migraine. jillian: thanks for starting the day with us. we have a lot to get to. >> the release of the bob mueller report, battle brewing on capitol hill over how the probe is unveiled. jillian: griff jenkins has more on what we can expect later this morning, a couple hours from now. >> reporter: 5 hours and counting to be exact. the entire country will get to find out. congres

the trump campaign issuing a post mueller warning to obama era doj and fbi officials as 2020 democrats a their calls for mueller to testify and other things as well. we look at how this for years in. >> reporter: no sooner had the mueller a port appeared than the trump campaign rolled out the theme of turning the tables on the democrats including a video reminder of what prominent democrats had been insisting for two years. watch. >> evidence is pretty clear that there was collusion between the trump campaign and the russians. >> cold, hard evidence, plenty of evidence of collusion and conspiracy in plane site. >> now the trump campaign wants to investigate the liars meaning obama era doj and fbi or as donald trump tweeted today the greatest political hoax of all time. crimes were committed by quick and dirty cops and the dnc, the democrats. attorney general william barr has said publicly he believes the trump campaign was spied on. he doesn't know if it was legal or illegal but wants to find out. same goes for the chair of the senate judiciary committee lindsey graham and the doj insp

and in fact, you know, at this point since the doj under no circumstances is the doj rule. since the doj will not indict a sitting president, all that really matters from the standpoint of constitutional order is how congress reacts to the fact pattern in this report. which is why lightly redacted is good. we need to know what that fact pattern is. there is a whole other conversation here about whether there is anything conceivable in this report that would cause congress to act -- to demand accountability of this president. that's a whole other political question. >> the impeachment question, nancy pelosi sidestepped that for a long time since during the midterms. we understand why. he's over 90% in the party. that's a popularity contest. it's about votes, impeachment. as president ford said, a high crime or misdemeanor is what you guys say it is. >> that's exactly right. all this very technical legal question about whether it was obstruction. it doesn't matter. if the doj won't indict a sitting president, which they will not under current procedures, all that matters is w

we should point out that doj antitrust, does not have to accept the recommendation of the staff. liz: of the lower staff who may not like it. >> even if they raise concerns. what we're hearing now is that these reports were overblown, again, comes back to this, will this deal definitely happen? i can't give you a definite. i give you based on all my reporting as it was two weeks ago it is now, it's 50/50. the argument both companies have put forth that a combined company will be very good for 5g technology and basically creating a 5g counterweight to what's going on in china right now with huawei. that argument is accepted. the people inside the trump administration on the economic and national security side like that argument. there is an antitrust concern here. you're getting rid of one of the major carriers, and sprint and t-mobile are going to have to prove that this is not going to lead to massive price increases. liz: if i'm t-mobile, i'm thinking -- they have tried to do multiple different mergers. they have been smacked down every time. why are they held to a different st

did not -- was not interpreted as reflecting well on him. >> i don't know enough about -- i'm not a doj reporter. i don't know enough about what the guidelines allow for in a case like this or the special counsel regulations. we don't know what's in the report. we don't know whether names are mentioned. just like all these white house officials and whoever, campaign officials who spoke to the special counsel, they don't know how they're going to be presented either, so i'm loathe to criticize without knowing that. thatting having been said, the a concern based on things that barr has done and said so far among critics, among some of the media, about how this will be handled tomorrow. >> maggie, stay with us. i want to bring in investigative reporter and author carl bernstein. he's also a cnn political analyst, gloria borger, jeffrey toobin is here and kirsten powers with us as well. mike shields. jeff, does the attorney general need to have a press conference before the report which he has been in charge of redacting is actually released? >> he certainly doesn't. in fact the tradition a

if you can answer yes or no just in the interest of time, does the doj under the trump administration consider enforcement of the voting rights act a priority? chief roberts himself has stated that voting discrimination still exists. no one doubts that. >> yes, we do. we consider voting rights a priority. >> has the doj, the civil rights division brought any cases under the trump administration to enforce section two of the vra? >> no. but i would point out that during the first four years of the obama administration, one case was brought. so -- >> according to your website, the department of justice under obama, both president bushes and president clinton had brought at least over 30 cases in enforcement of section 2 of the voting rights act. secretary ross credits the department of justice's need to enforce section 2 of the voting rights act for the reason why a citizenship question is needed on the seine sucensus. the doj has been enforcing the voting rights act for over 50 years without the need for a citizenship question. what are your thoughts on that? >> my thoughts are that it

and the doj policy, department of justice policy is you can't indict a sitting president. if then -- if the only recourse or accountability for a president then is impeachment, then how is the house supposed to make its judgement if it doesn't have this information? it's kind of a conundrum. the special counsel regulations that were set up that robert mueller is operating under doesn't really contemplate that, doesn't sort of give an obvious answer to how he is supposed to give information to the public or the house that may be of interest or relevant to the public discourse, and yet is something short of a criminal indictment. we don't know. that's one of the things that i think has, you know, been a real issue for this prosecution all along. >> and it seems, michael, also there is a big moment shaping up for barr just in that he put his name on that four-page letter. >> yeah. >> obviously put his name on that summary of it. and, again, if this full report does come out, everybody gets to inspect it. his summary will then be held up against what the whole world can see. >

the doj on defense amidst leaks from the special counsel's office. is there more to what mueller found about obstruction than barr let on? >>> the president does an about-face on his border shutdown threat while battling pressure from democrats to release his tax returns next week. >>> and joe biden today spotted in his hometown of scranton. was he shooting his first campaign ad? "the 11th hour" on a thursday night starts right now. >>> good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. i'm steve kornacki in for brian williams. day 805 of the trump administration. the president is now facing new challenges after a rough 36 hours, including stepped up investigations from democrats in congress and new questions about the attorney general's handling of the mueller report. house democrats have now formally demanded six years of trump's tax returns. trump's accounting firm says it plans to respond to any forthcoming subpoenas for financial records. lawmakers now want to talk to trump's top inauguration organizer. he has walked back h

no word yet, though, from the doj on that. but the president is weighing in on twitter, writing a ninth circuit judge ruled mexico is too dangerous for migrants. so unfair to the u.s., out of control. the ruling comes as secretary nielsen speaks out for the first time since her resignation sunday. >> i just want to a thank the president again for the

does the doj under the trump administration consider enforcement of the voting rights act a priority? chief roberts himself has stated that voting discrimination still exists. no one doubts that. >> yes, we to. we consider voting rights a priority. >> has the doj, the civil rights division brought any cases under the trump administration to enforce section 2? >> no. but i would point out that during the first four years of the obama administration, one case was brought. >> according to your website, the department of justice under obama, both president bushes and president clinton had brought at least over 30 cases in enforcement of section two of the voting rights act. secretary ross credits the department of justice's need to enforce section two of the voting rights act for why a citizenship question is needed on the census. the doj has been enforcing the voting rights act for over 50 years without the need for a citizenship question. is there -- what are your thoughts on that? >> my thoughts are that it's being litigated right now and i think oral argument is on april 23rd. so i'm

here is how they will go down, 9:30 at the doj. it will be william barr flanked by deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. they will the press conference, then between 11:00 and noon members of congress will get a copy of the redacted version of the report. sometime thereafter the rest of america around lunchtime will get to see it, possibly posted online to the special counsel's report, the big question is how much of it will be redacted i can't we don't have any idea but we have heard because democrats demanded the unredacted version that in the case of the roger stone case, the government wrote this, they say once the rejected version of the report has been released to the public, the justice department plans to make available for review by a limited number of members of congress and staff a copy of the special counsel's report without certain reductions which speaking of the redacted version would be color-coded and broken into four categories of redaction, the grand jury information like witnesses and search warrants, classifi

plus "the ingraham angle" is a first media outlet to get its hands on a brand-new report from the doj. i love this. how many illegal aliens are in our federal prisons? why didn't we know this before? how did they get there? exclusive details ahead. they will shock you. muslim reformist doctor has written a piece on congresswoman ilhan omar that is ripping up the internet. her can't miss message to the freshman congresswoman enrollments. but first, unapologetically american. that's the focus of tonight's angle. as democrats tiptoe through the minefield of controversy brought on by their most outspoken new stars, we are reminded again of one of the main reasons trump won and is still looking pretty good for 2020. unabashed and americanism. >> america is the greatest fighting force for peace, justice and freedom. in the history of the world. we are not going to apologize for america. we are going to stand up for america. no more apologies. >> laura: no more apologies, no more groveling, no more self large letting ourselves on the world stage as a certain previous administration had done.

it is worth noting that neither the academy nor the doj actually mentions netflix by name, but this is about the rise of netflix and the ability to shatter the established months long window between films theatrical and at home releases. insulating the movie going experience now, netflix won three oscars for "roma," in theaters for three weeks before it started streaming online so the question is whether mandating a certain type of theatrical release to qualify for oscars would hurt netflix's chance to compete. but the doj's concerns may be less about gold statuettes and more about who controls the movie industry back over to you. >> i wonder, i don't know if this is reading into it too much, but does it reflect some broader concerns the government level, the department of justice, about traditional tv and movie industries, blocking these upstarts like netflix to compete? i wonder if it goes back to the time warner trying to block that deal before from the doj if there say common theme here and we can try to figure out what is next and where the government is. >> yes, look, i think the

what was comey on the doj doing? they were handing out immunity agreements. this guy, brandon pedley otto, running the operation interacting with platte river networks, they handed him an immunity agreement, and when he got that agreement, there was no agreement he had to cooperate with the federal government. it was an absolute ridiculous sham, and i'm so glad that attorney general barr is there, because under attorney general barr, going nowhere fast. >> sean: where's michael horowitz? he's got 700 people working for him. how long does it take -- we know everything, we have everything on the fisa abuse. they were warned in august that hillary paid for it, that it is not verified, that steele hated trump, and still was used as the bulk of information for the fisa applications. congressman? >> you have the attorney general saying it's probably in the may /june time frame, you want it to be fast, it's never fast enough, but i think it will be the most explosive and most consequential thing to come out of it. >> we are not waiting for the ig, sean, we are doing

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but here is the point about that around the way doj. if one of the areas of redaction we see heavily redacted is counterintelligence material, which i think we may see that. national security becomes a predominant color we have five countries that alerted us to the fact that trump aides had been heavily in contact with russia and were concerned. we have the issue of whatever ongoing counterintelligent investigation mace be going on which we will not find out about. the reason we need to know as much as we possibly can is there is a fundamental question that the evidence that is public tells us, which is whether or not we have a president who is operating in the best interests of the country. >> right. and we do know from what little barr has released is there were requests for information, 11 requests for foreign government information, which raise as lot of questions about, again, the leads that were pursued in good faith or with evidence of those questions. sam, i think by friday, the question will be why is this night different from

haz what doj is now told. >> is that a problem in america that part of our prison problem is we don't resource it probably in maybe that's because we have too many prisoners everyone. >> that's absolutely the case. it's not even across the country. many states have engaged in sort of forward-looking justice reinvestment programs that have reduced prison population reports. alabama has taken step down that path. but clearly not gone far enough. jaketown took over that investigation. how do you rate how he's hand it? >> i know you've heard me and many of my colleagues this is a big win for north alabama and all of the alabama officers who worked together with the civil rights division. this is doj at its best protecting the rights of some of our most vulnerable citizens. >> i think it's important to know that you referred to people as some of our most vulnerable citizens. that is a very enlightened way to look at it. joyce, good to have you on twice. a great treat for us. >> yes. >> thank you, joyce. >>> up next, after threatening to close the southern border all week, president trump r

when doj, department of justice wanted to meet with them to discuss the impact on the voting rights act, he refused to meet. we believe, we argued today that any citizenship question would clearly undermine the state of new york and other states that have a significant amount of immigrants in hispanic communities. >> why don't you encourage people who are in this country illegally to go ahead and sign the census if you want an accurate count? what do you have to fear? question,or asked the do you believe that latinos and others who may be undocumented, do they have a fear for filling this out and showing they are undocumented? they raise a real fear among people. -- there is a real fear among people. we need to take that fear away. if there is a legality in using the census for nefarious purposes. >> she asked that. you ask an undocumented in your neighborhood why they fear. i am for following the law. everyone should fill it out. >> if i could address that question. everyone should fill out the senses. there is a legal obligation to do so. the bureau has for decades opposed adding this