WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump’s attorney general nominee William Barr will pledge at his confirmation hearing to protect Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe and stress his independence from the White House, according to prepared testimony released on Jan. 14.
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Attorney General nominee William Barr arrives at the office Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) for a meeting Jan. 10, 2019 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.
