Rep. Schiff: AG William Barr ‘Is the Second Most Dangerous Man in the Country’

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SCHIFF: "But I do want to, before we move on from the subject of Barr and contempt, talk about the most grave concern I have about Bill Barr. And that is, during his Senate testimony he opined that the President could have made the Mueller investigation go away any time he wanted because he thought it was unfair. That's his view of the unitary executive. Under that view, president is truly above the law. Because what president would not think of an investigation against him or her was unfair? It also means that the president can make go away any of the investigations that were farmed out to any of the other elements of the Department of Justice. And because they're stonewalling us on just about everything, it also means that we might not now, unless whistleblower step forward, whether Bill Barr is abusing his authority even beyond fundamental abuse by trying to exonerate the President on obstruction of justice. And so we find ourselves, I think for the first time, with an attorney general who really is the President's defense lawyer and spokesperson, and who is quite good at it and has the veneer of respectability to camouflage what he's doing. He's not the sophist that Giuliani is. He is much more dangerous. And I think he's the second most dangerous man in the country for that reason."