Attorney General William Barr testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee and faces questions for the first time since the release of the Mueller report. Follow live updates:
House Intelligence chair: I think Barr should step down
CNN reported yesterday that special counsel Robert Mueller expressed concerns in a letter to Barr that Barr's four-page memo to Congress summarizing the"principal conclusions" of, according to a source with knowledge of Mueller's letter. to take over the job as attorney general on a permanent basis after his dismissal of Attorney General Jeff Sessions a month earlier.Barr served as Attorney General once before. He was appointed to his first role at the Justice Department — head of the Office of Legal Counsel — after helping the 1988 Bush campaign. He later served as the deputy attorney general, before moving into interim leadership of the Justice Department.
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