he could give congress the complete report, summary, or simply tell congress that the mueller investigation has concluded. the clinton administration regulations do not require a full report to congress. however, during his confirmation, attorney general barr said he wants to be transparent with congress and the public consistent with the rules and the law. we have no reason to think attorney general barr would back away from those statements he's made before the senate judiciary committee and, mr. speaker, i believe he's truthful and will be truthful to his word to make it as much possible as he possibly can. the american should not expect another starr report. the clinton justice department made sure another president would not have salacious stories aired before the american people. janet reno herself testified before congress in 1999 that it was a bad idea for independent counsels to publish final reports. many members of the democratic majority in congress today voted against the public release of materials related to the starr report and, mr. speaker, i would ask unanimous consent to

i don't think it's a coincidence the first congress and the early congresses delegated power on these lines to presidents. i don't think it's coincidence the first congress is the one most familiar with the failure of the articles of confederation and the needs of the initial government. they created the first departments, they created the first taxes and other laws and they also recognized they needed to delegate certain amount of discretion to the president to deal with contingencies. i don't think that's a coincidence. i think our constitutional system has a gravitational pull in that direction. of course, it's hard to define in advance what is an emergency. i have been forever working on a law review article in the financial regulation context about systemic risk and trying to create a regulatory structure in advance for dealing with systemic financial harm and i'm very skeptical that you can write these things in advance, you can sort of define in advance what emergencies are. we can -- if we could define in advance so many emergencies, they wouldn't be emergencies. we would have

we the public or the congress. so how and why did the attorney general decide to do what he's been doing now for a week with the mueller report? he's written up these multiple documents about it now including what appears to be half of a sentence about the president not being prosecuted for conspireing with russia. the attorney general has decided we're not allowed to see the other half of that sentence. we've also got the attorney general's own decoloration, he thinks there shouldn't be prosecution on obstruction of justice. that's nothing he was asked for or expected to provide and required to provide but this is what he's doing. he's keeping the mueller report to himself and making these announcements about it. and after he went out on that limb a week ago tonight saying that there shouldn't be obstruction prosecutions and here is what you get to know about the president and russia and half a sentence and says everything is fine. after going out on that limb last sunday, now, tonight, we've got this letter where

the floor of congress. host: are you referring to the speech or debate clause we talked about earlier? caller: yes. i tried to research it, my understanding is you cannot be penalized for anything said on the floor of congress. host: i will read you article 1, section 6 clause 1. for any speech or debate in any house, senators or representatives, shall not be questioned in any other place for that speech. the state ofr as israel goes, israel is an abomination that never should have been created. it was created in our image. for people who walks -- watch fox news and think i am anti-semitic, i cannot be anti-semitic because i support the palestinian people. host: this is sid in upper , maryland.arlboro caller: she should focus on the issues, not express her opinion. she seems to express her opinion more than really focus on what her role is on that committee and we are always going to be a christian nation, we will always stand for israel. we are never going to be an islamic country and we are not going to p

million-dollar congress. it was the first time the house had appropriated a billion dollars in federal moneys. right, theg diplomat, describes speaker read this way, he does what he likes without consulting administration or his followers, whom he despises. he not only broke the minorities long ability to block legislation, he also made the house and active reading agent of change. active leading agent of change. not only did the speaker control the flow of debate on the floor, now unimpeded by minority filibusters, he chaired the rules committee. it's at the very terms of debate, and as if this were not enough, the speaker also made every committee assignment in the house irrespective of party affiliation. inultimately left the house 1903,four years later in uncle joe cannon ascended to the speakership. he was elected to the house in 1872, and cannon was a political conservative who backed big business and believed in small government. and -- intobacco copious amounts and constantly dangled an unlit cigar ou

congress delegated by statute. every conservative should have reported the resolution of disapproval. every member of congress should take this emergency as a signal it is time for congress to take back responsibilities it so casually shed over the years. you will find that op-ed -- editorial in the washington examiner's website if you want to look it up for yourself. freddie is next, democrats line from illinois. hi. caller: good morning.

we the public or the congress. so how and why did the attorney general decide to do what he's been doing now for a week with the mueller report? he's written up these multiple documents about it now including what appears to be half of a sentence about the president not being prosecuted for conspiring with russia. the attorney general has decided we're not allowed to see the other half of that sentence. we've also got the attorney general's own declaration that he doesn't think there should be any prosecution on obstruction of justice. that's nothing he was asked for or expected to provide and required to provide but this is what he's doing. he's keeping the mueller report to himself and making these sequential announcements about it. and after he went out on that limb a week ago tonight saying that there shouldn't be obstruction prosecutions and here is what you get to know about the president and russia and it's half a sentence and says everything is fine, after going out on that limb last sunday, now tonight we'

well, congress did that. bipartisan group delivered compromise legislation rejected the proposed 3w0rder wall -- border wall as ineffective. alternatively it made effective robust investments in border security. congress overwhelmingly passed the legislation. the president agreed to sign it. then he issued a national emergency declaration to raid funds from other departments to secure funding for a border wall. congress has repeatedly voted against. as already said he's made it about drugs. the wall will be ineffective. he's made it about the humanitarian crycy, the wall will be ineffective. how is he going to pay for it? well, he's going to take money that the department of defense was, was going to spend on high priority military construction projects, which will ultimately undermine the training, readiness, and quality of life for our men and women in the armed forces. in 235c9, general robert neller, commandant of the marines, has detailed that the unplanned, unbudgeted shift of funds to deploy troops to

enstar's report to congress was direct -- ken starr's report to congress was direct to congress. the law at the time mandated that can star give his report to congress. starrt can star -- that give his report to congress. nowadays, the report goes to the attorney general, to congress, and to the public. we changed the law because we thought the way that the starr report rolled out was a mistake. in 1999, 2000, 2001, congress looked back at the event and decided in a bipartisan manner that what had reportd with the starr going willy-nilly on to the internet without anybody vetting it was an error. they wanted to put filters in between. those filters are in place, working, and some are saying that i want to go back to the way the starr report came out. that is a fair point. we changed the law on purpose. is thath of the matter neither answer is 100% correct. there are good reasons for wanting filters and there are good reasons for not wanting filters. and where we are today is a reflection of where we were 20 years ago. go back to the other way after this, i think. host: not relate

the president and congress-- runaround congress is unlawful. as public citizens have explained in a lawsuit filed on the president the same day he issued his emergency declaration , my lawyers will argue the legality to the president's actions but the bottom line for me is that the federal government is threatening to take my land to fulfill a campaign promise but without any need. there is no invasion in starr county. no emergency. no need for a wall across the land. i live on a peaceful stretch of property in south texas in the united states of america. no drugs, no gangs, nothing from across my property. there is no need for a wall on our land. we should not have to sacrifice our land to a slogan. we will lose land, privacy, and our way of life. thank you for granting me this opportunity to testify. i'm ready to address any questions you may have. >> we appreciate your attendance and the testimony. mr. jonathan turley, another individual with a louisiana background, although go tigers, the professor of public interest law and the george wash

congress and only congress has the power to declare war. even though the president may call for a declaration of war. and, when the united states is involved in international agreement the senate is all important. for example, the signature of our secretary of state to the united nation's charter had to be approved by a two thirds majority of the senate. a clause in the constitution states that treaties are made by the president but only with the advise and consent of the senate. >> from the capitol, down pennsylvania avenue to look at the white house. that is where the president lives. the white house represents the executive branch of the government. before he got through, i could see why uncle jim said the president has the biggest and toughest job in the world. >> yes. bill, the white house is both the home and office of the president. the president is chosen by the people through the electoral college. some of the president's duties are set by the constitution, other established by laws, treaties and public opinion. the president's mai

that in the congress of the united states, this congress, we had over 100 women members of congress serving at the same time. 100. over 100 members. we had 91 on our side, 15 on the other side but we made a decision, hopefully they will too, that's just talking about the house. now at the -- in the same congress, next year, but in the same congress, we will be observing the 100th anniversary of women having the right to ote. [applause] it's a big steppingstone. again, with all due respect to everyone who has served, our caucus is over 60% women. people of color, lgbtq. 60% of our caucus. that's remarkable, right? different than when ump there. our diversity sour strength. i say to the members as we, shall i say, channel our exuberances. [laughter] our diversity is our strength. but our unity is our power. [applause] david: so in other words, when off freshman member of congress who has a lot of twitter followers and so forth and they get a lot of attention, that doesn't bther you? ms. pelosi: no, actually, i think it's important, especially for women and newcomers to the congress to know, t

and outside the congress. we had a great desire to have him come in voluntarily, not under subpoena. if it were necessary to subpoena him, then there's always the risk that the witness decides not to cooperate, to take the fifth, or not provide information that's very pertinent to the investigation. so that was the extent of my communication with him which was on the phone. now, several republicans, mr. meadows, jordan, the president and others, have pushed out this false narrative that i spent ten hours with mr. cohen. that's simply not true. and they know it's not true but it makes for good fox pundit commentary and so they have pushed out this falsehood. but proffer sessions are done in every credible investigation. i will point out that the sfe l special counsel's office according to mr. cohen's open testimony had seven proffer sessions with michael cohen, undoubtedly far in excess of the duration of the staff proffer sessions that we had, and these are important to be able to make the interviews more effi

this is a clear road map if congress chooses to follow it. to talk about the president's budget proposal, i bring up the acting director of o.m.b. after that i will be back up to take questions. >> good afternoon everyone. happy budget day. today, we have released fiscal year 2020 budget, a budget for a better america, promises kept, taxpayers first. this budget reflects the president's priorities to ensure that all americans can benefit from the nation's historic economic boom and record low unemployment. no president has done more in two years to strengthen our military, restart our economy and reform our government, then president trump, promises he made while running for office. this progress is threatened by our unsustainable national debt which has nearly doubled under the previous administration and now stands at more than $22 trillion. annual deficits are continuing to rise and will exceed one -- $1 trillion per year and it is projected that interest payments on the national debt will exceed military spending by 2024. washington has a

and outsidend of te congress. we had a great desire to have him come in voluntarily not underna subpoena if it were necessary to subpoena him then there's always the risk the witness decides not to cooperate to take the fifth we are not able to provide information pertinent to the investigation so that was the extent my communication i was on the pho phone. several republicans have pushed out a false narrative that i'd d spend infinite is simply not rue and they know it's not true but it makes for good commentary said they'vso they've pushed ous falsehood. but proper sessions are done in every credible investigation. i will point out the special counsel's office according to the open testimony had seven sessions undoubtedly far in excess of the staff that we had into these are important when they are conducted, but a large part involved is reviewing the transcript withs prior testimon. >> jessica stone from chinese television. >> itelevision. >> it may not surprise you i have a question i'm wondering twofold if yo

congress and the american people. the attorney general, william barr, says the principle conclusion of the russia report could be released as early as today. we just saw him leaving his virginia home and shortly after arriving at the department of justice where he continues to review that report. arriving right after him, deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, while details of mueller's report remain a mystery, we do know one major headline. a senior justice official says there will be no further indictments from the special counsel. right now president trump is golfing at his club in west palm beach, florida. he's spending the weekend at marijua mar-a-lago surrounded by members of his key legal team. so far there has been an unusual silence from the president on the mueller report, but the white house is already privately flami framing it as a win for president trump. >>> and in just a few hours house democrats will huddle for a phone call to discuss the latest developments. cnn's team of reporters and analysts have

the first congress in early congress delegated power along these lines to the president. i don't think it's coincidence the first congress is the one most familiar with the failure of articles the federation and the needs of the initial government. they created the first departments, the first taxes and other laws and they also recognized they needed to delegate a certain amount of discretion to the president. i don't think that's a coincidence. i think our constitutional system has a gravitational pull in that direction. it's hard to define in advance with an emergency. working on an article in financial contexts about risk dealing with systemic financial harm. and very skeptical you can write these things in advance that you can define in advance what emergencies are. you can define in advance so many emergencies, then they wouldn't be emergencies. we would've seen them coming. that's why think it's important to leave as we inevitably will, it in the hands of the president. i am wary of congress interposing itself after the emergency has started. i agree, we need to wor

on h.r. 1 in your congress and h.r. 1 in our congress. and all those figures i think are probably lost on the public. what's not lost on the public or the press that's covered it last congress was the most closed congress in history. just as the government being shut down at the beginning of this congress was the first time that happened in history because you didn't get your job done. i will tell the leader, i i understand the rights of the minority. we want to honor the rights of the minority. yes, there is a lot of discussion. but as you know, nothing has been done. i'm sure those discussions will continue. i understand the gentleman's point. we use the motion to recommit. you have used the motion to recommit. there is no proposed change currently under consideration. mr. scalise: i thank the gentleman for clarifying that. i hope that tradition continues on that this motion to recommit stays in order because there are some members that, if the motion to recommit passes, would vote for final passage. so that is one of the tools that's u

the vetoed bill and message are sent back to congress and this ends the matter unless congress can pass the bill over the veto by a 2 thirds vote of both houses. and then it becomes a law without the president's signature. the president can also appear in person before a joint session of congress to explain a veto or to propose new legislation, congress is then free to accept or reject the president's suggestions. and then it starts all over again. the great lawmaking assembly line goes on, creating laws and diversified as the nation size. labor, nationally defense, government departments, regulation of transportation, foreign trade, taxes, bills, bills, bills. and every act informed to the written constitution of the united states which fixes the rules, rules made by the people themselves. acting to represent of the people, rules for the people, rules which govern the great enterprise of democracy that is america. new ár muse new. >>> on sunday, a campaign rally in front of trump hotel. announcing the bid for precedency the week before. live coverage begins on cspan at 12:00 eastern >

it is just sort of the reality of congress and washington. it is hard to get things done whether you are president trump, or president obama. he had plenty of fights with house republicans and he lost a lot of them. now we are in a different era of divided government and so it is going to be interesting to see. we have had sort of a failure to launch as far as having some kind of bipartisan budget deal to kick off the new era. andad 35 days of shutdown no successful resolution. lawmakers,a lot of particularly republican lawmakers who wanted to cut a bigger deal that would deal with spending caps so we would not have this six-month fight over how much we are going to spend on defense and domestic. that we could just deal with that early on and then once you reach the overall structure, the next six months are all about priorities and deals and instead we are facing six months of acrimony with a very difficult backdrop for the president. he has a lot of investigations, the house is sending a lot of subpoenas. you have them all the report coming

and congress. in the senate a debate and vote on the resolution to terminate president trump's emergency declaration on the southern border. senators will also vote on several more of president trump's judicial nominations including naomi ralph to the u.s. -- to be u.s. circuit court of appeals judge. you can watch the senate on c-span2. >> the only thing we have to fear is, fear itself. >> ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. >> and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon. >> c-span's newest book, "the presidents," noted historians rank america's best and worst chief executives, provides insight into the lives of 44 american presidents, through stories and interviews with noted presidential historians. explore the life events that shaped our leaders, challenges they face and the legacies they have left behind. published by public affairs, c-span's "the presidents" listen -- will be on shelves april 23 but you can preorder your

ultimately this is a problem created by congress and it has been allowed to persist by congress. congress has started to make up to the fact that over time it is delegated out too much power. the senator wants a time limit. for more let's go to gillian turner live in the washington newsroom. reporter: hey, eric. i'm pretty president trump issued the first veto of his presidency after congress rejected his national emergency declaration to find a border wall. turns out he poked a sleepy bear at a major fight is raging on capitol hill over the commander-in-chief's constitutional authority to declare a national emergency. more moderate members of the president's own party are pushing back on him. take a listen. >> i think the president came to a different conclusion about the constitution long as it did about three quarters of my republican colleagues to be candid about it. >> i understand the constitutional issue. i am as well. reporter: the national emergencies act of 1976 that up after president nixon's watergate scandal and conceived of a tool to rein in presidential power. fast

over the years, sometimes it seemed that congress is behind technology by a couple of years. is that still the case? >> i think so. i mean, it's hard to keep up. you have people out there that are smart and you know, even if you're trying to defeat the bad guys, you know, we have one issue that our committee dealt with that i'm interested in, too, and i actually have a bill this year with ed markey from massachusetts, it has to do with robo calls and all the robo calls that we get. it seems like every time you come up with, you know, a strategy or a solution that can defeat the current way the bad actors come up with another way around it because technology is constantly changing and people are looking for new ways to defeat us in trying to stop it. i just think government has to do what it can to anticipate what's going to happen next. we are not always going to be right but we need to be thinking, you know, like they do and that's why i think the government has hired more and more of some of these young people who understand and are very adept at cracking and breaking down

you either believe the public and congress should see the report or you don't. it looks like we agree they should. we owe it to our constituents and the american people and to future generations to do the right thing always but i think today to release the report. mr. speaker, i ask for a yes >> andrew desiderio joins us, he covers congress for politico. the house is taking up a resolution on special counsel robert mueller's upcoming report. what's the resolution do? guest: the resolution is nonbinding but puts pressure on the swrussties department to make the full mueller report and its findings public and available to congress. you recall there's some tension when attorney general bill barr during his confirmation here hearings would not fully commit to making the contents of that report public. democrats over the house side were petty alarmed by that. and they've put together different legislative efforts they think could muster their way through congress. this is the one they think has the best chance of passing both chambers. host: the resolution's main aut

it is not up to mueller what he will say to congress. jane: what about the white house saying it has not been briefed about the report? does that surprise you? jonathan:no, that is the appropriatero pss, and it is good to hear that. ldit wouave been highly inappropriate for them to have gotten a peek at this report. this is under law and manner for the attorney general to confidentially and the attorney general controls its release, i whatormation will be released. there are a lot of folks in town his have been waiting for report. it is like special counsel day without the bting. there are a lot of people disappointed on both sides. jane: can the white h sse have someay over what might be covered under executive privilege or what should be redacted? jonathan: well, first of all, it is impossible legally, in my view, for bill barr to do what some have suggested, just make the report republic. under federal laws you cannot release byformation -aw it has to be removed. jane: who decides that? jonathan:ne the attgeneral would have to reject

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decide that he can override congress simply because congress doesn't do what he wants. i know that there are a lot of people in the country who agree with the president and that's why we have congress so we can debate these issues and if there were an emergency in the sense that the president is describing, there would be a lot more consensus. when a house is on fire, nobody is debating whether they should go into save people or whether they should put out the fire. everyone understands that's an emergency. the fac tht that there's a deba going on here, indicates it's not an emergency in the sense the president is describing and he can't go around congress. >> you tweeted, if you think my job is to support the president 100%, be the you don't understand what it means to be a representative in congress. my job is to support the constitution 100%. do you think republicans supporting this national emergency are abdicating their responsibilities to the constitution? >> i think so, yes. i don't think that they are all intending to do that. i think many of them are making arg

when william barr submits his summary report to congress, will congress take a look at it and say, okay, we're satisfied with this, or if it goes the distance to exonerating the president, but only a distance, will they start asking for the entire report? will they then start asking for the source materials? the democrats are being hypocritical. quote, when it doesn't work in their favor, they try to change it. and then when this report, when it comes out, completely exonerates the president, will the democrat haves to go back to the drawing board, recalibrate and figure out what they're going to attack the president on from now until 2020. remember, laura, rod rosenstein in a letter to grassley in june of last year said, when you're writing these reports, it's incumbent upon prosecutors not to talk about misconduct among people who are not being charged. even if the president was found to have committed some sort of misconduct, the fact that he's not being charged may mean that there won't be much about the president in this report. we'll see. laura. >> laura: thanks so much. joining u

congress demands the mueller report by tuesday. the attorney general says not so fast and delivers another new letter. decoding that next. >>> we're closing the border. we'll keep it closed for a long time. i'm not playing games. >> shutdown threat. the potential fallout if the president closes everything between the u.s. and mexico. is it even possible? >>> inside the numbers. what would happen if

he's notifying congress formally. there's never anything the special counsel sought to do that bill barr stopped mueller from doing. and that's fascinating. of course everybody would like to hear that from robert mueller as well as from bill barr but at this point it's only bill barr who is speaking on mueller's behalf. robert mueller is still at this point publicly silent as he has been from the very beginning. although we'll have more on that in a moment. here's more from the letter, though, quote the special counsel has submitted to me today a quote, confidential report explaining the prosecution or declination decisions he has reached as required by the regulations. quote, i am reviewing the report and anticipate that i may be in a position to advise you of the special counsel's principal conclusions as soon as this weekend. so this is the attorney general telling us that he has mueller's report and he is not handing the report over to congress, right? this letter from bill barr is not a cover letter with mueller'

congress. >> yep. joe, president trump's attorney, rudy giuliani told nbc news legal team, rather their legal team is not demanding an early look at the mueller report, it's up to the doj. do you interpret that to mean the president's team is waiting patiently at mar-a-lago to wait to see what happens? do you think that's what's going on? >> i think they should. nobody knows what the report says. they have to read through it, if they are able to see it, that is, and determine what the position is going to be going forward. it's too early for anybody to celebrate. we don't know what the report says. there are ongoing investigations going on on the house side and southern district of new york. >> sam, you were interviewed for mueller's grand jury. are there loose threads they are waiting to chase? >> sure, i'm interested to see when, exactly, the trump tower moscow negotiations started, the 2015 negotiations if it started while i was there, unbeknownst to me and what the presidents or what mueller found

congress. -- questions by the congress. yet, for example, on the issue of security clearances which we have an interest in as well as the oversight committee, the white house tries to hide behind the generic sarah huckabee sanders answer, we don't discuss ecurity clearances as a way of avoiding having to answer the question, did the president overrule the intelligence community and his own advisers and give his daughter and son-in-law clearance that they hould not have received. if we have to fight to get answers to those questions, we will fight to get answers to those questions, but of course, that will only delay our investigative work. but that has been the model for the administration and with the office of special counsel, and that is for the last two years, as the administration has stonewalled the office of special counsel and refused to provide the president for interviews with the special counsel, it has simultaneously attacked the special counsel's office investigation with taking too long, when much of the delay

the initial question for congress is pursuant to congress's and the house of representatives' authority and responsibility to determine whether the president should be impeached, is there any evidence in here that would constitute grounds for impeachment? the second issue, assuming the answer to that is no, the second question would be is there remedial legislation that you would need to address some of the issues that the special counsel did find? and then the third issue is simply one of public exposure and accountability. assuming there is no legislation and don't give anybody, voters know what happened to answer the questions for themselves before they decide whether to re-elect this person. you are told okay, the impeachment process, there is -- the voters have one more say or you wait until the second term. i mean if you look at our last two impeachments in my lifetime, boenl were second term ones. but he might have and resolve this and then we'll think about it. >> so that is certainly correct. but he would also say he would be appalled that congress had a waited for the executiv

he's notifying congress formally. there is never anything the special counsel sought to do that bill barr stopped mueller from doing. and that's fascinating. of course, everybody would like to hear that from robert mueller as well as from bill barr speaking on mueller's behalf and robert mueller is still at this point publicly silent. as he has been from the very beginning although we'll have more on that later. here is more from the letter, though. the special counsel has submitted to me today a quote confidential report explaining the prosecution or declination decision. i'm reviewing the report that i may be in a position to advice you of the principle conclusions as soon as this weekend. so this is the attorney general telling us he has mueller's report and he is not handing the report over to congress. right? this letter from bill bar is not a cover letter with mueller's findings attached. but he plans to give them i guess bullet points and advice ranking members of the special counsel of the principle conclusion

members of congress quit congress to fight in the war. and that was to about the democratic party and the opposition party. the thing about the war was that, everyone was convinced it would be a really short war. that mexico would roll over and we would be done. mexico would give us everything we wanted. texas, california, it would be an easy fight. james k. polk,'s brother wrote him and said, can i get a position as an officer in the war? i'm over in europe, but i will come home. and polk said, don't even bother. the war will be done in three months. little did he know that a year into the war, the u.s. would have won a number of battles comes securing both texas and california, but the mexicans refused to surrender. so, that was the moment really when americans started turning against the war. when reports of casualties started coming back. when a lot of soldiers died. but also, when it did not look like the war would end quickly. i would say the battle took about a year. it was a whole another six-month after that, during which time u.

>> it shifts to the congress. southern district for new york and other federal jurisdictions primarily now it's on congress. this will be like watergate. they wouldn't let the grand jury indict president nixon. the grand jury wanted to do that. he settled for naming as an unindicted co-conspirator but laid out a path saying these are things if you want to look into it, these are things you want too look into and people forget it wasn't until congress had been at it quite awhile that public opinion began to swing against richard nixon. it took longer than most people talking imagined. >> i just think we have to keep site of how many indictments there have been. this has been raining on donald trump and so this is the most scandaled plague administration in american history or at least it's comparable to nixon and hardy. >> up on the screen. >> this is an on going story but a calm in the waters for donald trump that he's not taken out of the game this week. >> thank you, gentlemen. >> thank you, don, always good to

that wasn't a law passed by congress, and congress isn't going to agree with that outcome as you just heard the congresswoman say. so if you're attorney general barr, and you know that this is going to be a long, drawn out battle for the -- not just the mueller report but likely underlying investigative materials, you have a strategic decision. do you provide that information early and claim you're being fully transparent, or do you fight? and if you fight, you risk the chance that you are going to be accused by the democrats on the hill of covering things up and of stone walling, and so there are a lot of, i think, difficult strategic decisions to make about institutional interests and sort of what the political fallout will be. >> mm-hmm. so i've got to ask you, the president aired some of his grievances about robert mueller at the white house yesterday, i want you to listen to this. >> mm-hmm. >> i know that he's conflicted, and i know that his best friend is comey, who's a bad cop. i know that he put 13 highly conflicted and, you know, very angry -- i call them angry democrats in,

unconstrained by previous congresses. in adopting its rules, the senate would proceed according to general parliamentary procedure, which included mechanisms for preventing filibusters. walsh took aim at the idea that the senate was a continuing body, that because two thirds carried over from congress to congress, so did its existing rules. much's proposal was too for most senators and the parties gathered and adopted and amended rule 22. this allowed 16 senators to petition for a vote, to set a limit of 100 hours of further debate on a measure, and required two thirds of senators present and voting to end cloture. the next bill wouldn't be taken until 30 years. cloture was discussed several times between 1917 and 1918 and invoked four ties. southern democrats invoked anti-lynching demonstration and filibustered anti-poll tax and fair employment bills. as the filibuster became associated with anti-civil rights, a growing bipartisan group targeted the cloture rule to make it easier to end debate. unfortunately for them, cl

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