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🗓️ 8 May 2019
⏱️ 18 minutes
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0:00.0 | Okay, so Congress, they have a lot of reasons to be mad at Bill Barr right now. |
0:10.6 | That they do. |
0:11.9 | Noah Feldman is a constitutional scholar at Harvard. |
0:15.6 | He's been studying Congress like a chess board, piling up the lists of grievances the Democrats |
0:21.3 | have against Attorney General William Barr. |
0:24.6 | There's the distortion in his report to Congress. |
0:27.7 | There's the potential stonewalling or even misstatements in his testimony. |
0:33.0 | There's a refusal to hand over the entirety of the Mueller report. |
0:36.4 | It's that last move. |
0:38.6 | Barr's refusal to hand over the unredacted Mueller report. |
0:42.3 | Even after a subpoena that's left the House Judiciary Committee looking to put William |
0:46.6 | Barr in check. |
0:48.4 | It's why they've scheduled a vote to hold him in contempt of Congress this morning. |
0:54.4 | What do you think is going to happen when all these Congress people walk into the room? |
0:57.8 | Well, the first thing to remember is that we're talking about a committee vote on contempt. |
1:02.7 | This is a first step. |
1:04.0 | This is a recommendation or a would-be a past, a recommendation by the committee to tell |
1:09.8 | Congress we think all of you should hold him in contempt. |
1:14.5 | The last time I talked to Noah about the Attorney General, Bill Barr was still interviewing |
1:18.8 | for his job. |
1:20.1 | Some Democrats were cautiously optimistic about him. |
1:23.3 | Noah was, too. |
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