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Needed someone, he needed both to have a confirmed nominee, and someone who had the washington stature, who as you said, is not a bombthrower from the outside, is republican, conservative, but will have the confidence especially of the senate to do the right thing, as far as the institutional prerogatives of department of justice go. so i think it is probably a move that he was sort of forced into. might not be thrilled about. but it was a political imperative. >> so in your op-ed in the "washington post," you write, barr plainly has the stature and the character to stand up for the department...
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