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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1111587)	1/18/2019 7:41:13 PM
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CNN analyst Phil Mudd: Barr will ‘crush’ Trump administration BY TAL AXELROD - 01/18/19 08:43 AM EST [ I'm not sure about this yet. Barr has tricked Trump into thinking he'll protect him. I don't know if that's him conning him or not yet. Barr has a career and presumably want to end it in prison like Nixon's AG did. ] A former FBI intelligence officer on Friday predicted that William Barr, President Trump’s nominee for attorney general, could “crush” the administration in light of a BuzzFeed News reportpublished Thursday suggesting the president told his former personal attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress. “Barr will be one of the most significant appointments the president has ever made because Barr, I suspect, is going to crush the administration,” Phil Mudd said on CNN Friday. “The president’s going to say, ‘I never saw that one coming,’ ” Mudd, who is a frequent critic of Trump and the administration, added. The comments come after BuzzFeed News published a report saying Trump directed Cohen to lie to Congress about plans to build a Trump Tower in Moscow during the 2016 presidential campaign. The two reportedly met at least 10 times to discuss the tower while Trump maintained to the public that he had no business ties in Russia. Barr, whose confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee was held this week, suggested before the report came out that such behavior could be considered obstruction of justice. “The president persuading a person to commit perjury would be obstruction, is that right?” Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) asked, to which Barr responded, “Yes.” Cohen admitted in November to lying to Congress about Trump’s Moscow property plans. He made the false statements while testifying before two congressional intelligence committees in 2017. He was sentenced in December to three years in prison on a string of charges, including lying to Congress. thehill.com