Reports that AG Barr is encouraging prosecutors to lock up Seattle’s mayor and potentially compromising the upcoming election have caused Democrats to push for an “emergency investigation” into Barr. MSNBC’s Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber is joined by Mueller prosecutor Andrew Weissmann, who argues the issue is not Barr’s power, but “his exercising of his power in ways that are political.” (This interview is from MSNBC’s “The Beat with Ari Melber, a news show covering politics, law and culture airing nightly at 6pm ET on MSNBC. ). Aired on 09/18/2020.
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'Emergency': Mueller Vet Rebukes Trump’s AG For 2020 Meddling | The Beat With Ari Melber | MSNBC
Good…its necessary.
Stfu leftie
@long nose Look over there a boogeyman.
Barr needs to be fired.
Trump 2020! I support Trump at 100% for law and order
You don’t even know what that means
So why does he break the law so much ?
Throw Barr in prison.
It’s about time.
Do Americans use their taxes for wars and bailouts, instead of helping each other ?
Homeless people in UK have better healthcare system than Americans.
Let that sink in, while you find out why….
Give it a break, good grief the same thing everywhere over and over
The most crooked, inept administration in my lifetime and that includes Nixon.
Every republican president has given a recession but this takes the cake 🤕
When will Americans learn ?
Barr going to look in orange
I will bet you Barr will get away with what ever he is doing.
How much did it cost to tax-payers for 271 visits to golf course which Trump took since inauguration?
139 millions!
I did my part, I contacted my Congressmen, Mr. Barr needs to step down or be removed from office.
What’s sad is we have grown accustomed to corruption and them getting away with it. Smh.
Trump has been running country like he did his businesses, into the ground!
Mr Bankruptcy who cheats on every wife he ever had!
GREAT! Bar BARR… Please!
America is
23 in education.
37 in healthcare.
34 in raising family index.
No high-speed train.
Highest number of homeless people.
Highest number of incarcerated people.
78% of people live paycheck to paycheck.
Stock market is not economy of Americans! Where 90% of money belongs to top 10% of the population, it’s wallet for the rich.
Let’s talk like adults, instead of name calling.
I have left the proof on my playlist, if you would like to check!
Let’s make our country better together…..
Do Americans use their taxes for wars and bailouts, instead of helping each other ?
I’m scared, seriously. tRump & all his trumPETS are sooooo out of order, it’s the scariest thing since Hitler ruled Germany
Maria Butina, the Russian agent who sought to infiltrate conservative political circles here in the U.S, could serve as a textbook example of how financial maneuvering on both sides of the Atlantic can facilitate an influence campaign. In March 2015, Butina drafted a proposal for her “diplomatic” work targeting the NRA and the Republican Party in anticipation of the 2016 presidential election. She submitted the proposal to Alexander Torshin of the Central Bank of Russia. She requested a budget of $125,000 to participate in “all upcoming major conferences,” at a time when she was still traveling back and forth between Russia and the U.S. Paul Erickson, who brokered Butina’s introductions to conservative leaders, and with whom Butina was later revealed to have a romantic relationship, was in dire financial straits. Any money to defray her costs would have had to come from Russia.
Since Butina’s arrest and conviction, several potential sources of her funds have been revealed. For instance, she enjoyed patronage from a Russian oligarch, Konstantin Nikolaev, who has financial interests in the U.S. and in Russia’s gun industry. Nikolaev admitted to financing her group, Right to Bear Arms—Butina first built her public profile as a gun rights activist in Russia, a country with very limited gun rights—but has denied any connection to Russia’s political interference efforts.
Analysts probed the nature of the company Butina set up with Erickson in February 2016. Bridges LLC, incorporated in South Dakota, listed both Butina and Erickson as principals. Erickson claimed the company was set up to help pay for Butina’s studies at American University, which is an unusual way to use an LLC.
In reality, Bridges LLC appears to have been used to facilitate suspicious transactions, according to a report describing the $300,000 money trail Butina and Erickson left behind for bank investigators to find. For example, almost $90,000 passed between Erickson’s bank account in the U.S, and Butina’s Alfa Bank account in Russia. Bank officials could determine neither the purpose of the company nor of its transactions, which is often an indicator the company may be a shell, created merely to move money.
Butina’s plea deal contained a nugget illuminating Butina’s strategy: Following the Moscow trip she arranged for the NRA delegation in 2015, Butina wrote to her handler Alexander Torshin: “We should let them express their gratitude now, we will put pressure on them quietly later.”
Fred Frinstone Barr need to be locked up with trump, they our so corrupt