Abby Philip: Trump Seemed To Be Trying to Rope Bill Barr Into Effort to Get Dirt on Biden

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PHILLIP: "Yeah, that’s really the question is, why didn’t he do it? Because he has at other times seemed willing to go kind of as far as President Trump wants him to go on this. But what’s been interesting about his involvement in this whole saga is that he’s been trying to say I have nothing to do with this from the beginning. He was mentioned in the transcript multiple times. The president seemed to be roping him into this effort to get dirt on Joe Biden. And then after that was released, the State Department had to — I’m sorry the Justice Department had to put out a statement saying we don’t know anything about this. We are not involved in this in any way. Bill Barr has never investigated Joe Biden or has never been asked to. And then subsequently when Mick Mulvaney claimed this effort was part of some legitimate Justice Department investigation, the department put out a blind statement saying we don’t know what he’s talking about. So there seems to be a line here that Bill Barr doesn't seem to want to cross. And it actually goes to show just how inappropriate some people think this whole saga is. It is clearly not something that is on the up and up, that everybody is perfectly cool and happy with."