Bill Barr is Trump's Roy Cohn...The Damage Barr Has Done
The Bill Press Pod
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4.7 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Bill talks to Ed Chung, the vice president for Criminal Justice Reform at The Center for American Progress. He follows the Barr Justice Department. What he finds is not good. To say the least.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends and welcome back to the Bill Press Pod. You know, when Bill Barr was first |
| 0:11.8 | nominated by Donald Trump to be Attorney General of the United States, establishment Republicans |
| 0:17.3 | breathed a sigh of relief. Bar was no crazy right-wing zealot, they thought. |
| 0:24.2 | He was an experienced, respected, reasonable Republican who'd already served as Attorney General |
| 0:29.6 | under President George Bush. He was a guy who would stand up to Donald Trump and rebuild |
| 0:35.1 | the tattered reputation of the Justice Department. |
| 0:38.8 | Ha ha, how wrong they were. |
| 0:41.3 | Bill Barr's turned out to be a total toady for Donald Trump and caused many in the legal profession, |
| 0:48.3 | both Democrats and Republicans, to worry that the Justice Department has forever lost its reputation as the nation's |
| 0:57.0 | top independent law enforcement agency, which serves all the people of the United States, |
| 1:03.0 | not just its president. |
| 1:06.0 | Ed Chung tracks Justice Department issues in his position as Vice President for Criminal Justice |
| 1:13.1 | Reform at the Great Center for American Progress. |
| 1:17.2 | On the day the Justice Department released its long-awaited report on the beginnings of the FBI |
| 1:22.6 | investigation into Donald Trump, I sat down with Ed Chung in his office at Cap. |
| 1:29.3 | Ed, it's good to see you. |
| 1:30.3 | Good to see you as well. Thanks for having me on. |
| 1:31.7 | So let's start with some breaking news. |
| 1:33.4 | The Department of Justice about to release could be as early as today. |
| 1:37.5 | The report, official report, on the investigation done by their inspector general into the |
| 1:43.2 | beginnings of the FBI investigation, |
| 1:45.5 | which Donald Trump has claimed, was a witch done from the beginning, and was triggered by |
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