David Gergen: Bill Barr ‘Gets a Tiny Amount of Credit’ for Telling the Truth about ‘the Big Lie’

‘We could have avoided this circus, we have could have avoided damage to the democracy had Barr spoken up earlier and had McConnell spoken up earlier’

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HARLOW: "You know, this comes from a former Attorney General Bill Barr who went along with Trump’s big lie in many respects in that interview with Wolf Blitzer, pointing to unfounded claims of fraudulent ballots coming from other countries, et cetera. And then we saw what happened on January 6, the insurrection. Should -- should he get credit now for saying what the truth is?"
GERGEN: "He gets a tiny amount of credit. But he also gets a scorching amount of criticism. After all, what we now know is that Bill Barr as the attorney general, one of the most important figures in the administration, along with Senator McConnell, the minority leader on the Hill, both of them knew this was BS to start with and they did not go public with it until early December.” 

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