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‘Tide has turned’ against Bill Barr as GOP lawmakers increasingly back away from Trump’s hand-picked AG: NBC analyst

NBC News national affairs analyst John Heileman explained how Attorney General Bill Barr is losing the support of Senate Republicans on MSNBC’s “The Last Word” on Thursday.

Host Lawrence O’Donnell showed a tweet by Sen. Chuck Grassley:

ChuckGrassley

@ChuckGrassley

I support release of the Mueller report

24.8K people are talking about this

“He could have easily not put that tweet out today,” O’Donnell noted. “He used to be the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee which would have had direct jurisdiction, he would have been receiving these letters from Barr, so he’s an important voice among Republicans on this kind of issue.”

View the complete April 5 article by Bob Brigham with Salon on the AlterNet website here.

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