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And hopefully that process will go very quickly and i think it will go very quickly. >> before the president tapped barr to serve as his next ag, he reportedly tried to get him to step into a different role. barr was previously offered a position as trump's defense attorney. the report says the president met privately with barr in the spring of 2017 and asked if he would serve in the position and help defend him against robert mueller's russia probe, which barr has been a critic of. barr reportedly said he had other obligations but added he would think about it. a long time friend tells yahoo ...

Everything in his power to make sure barr is confirmed joining me right now is republican senator from south carolina lindsay graham who sits on the senate judiciary armed services and budget committees and senator always a pleasure to speak with you thanks for joining us. >> thank you. maria: what is the likelihood william barr gets confirmed as the next ag, sir some >> unless there's something really strange , 100%, he's been confirm ed three times he's been the former attorney general for bush 41, the deputy attorney general in charge of the criminal and each time he was confirmed by a vote...

Run the department of justice and with it the mueller investigation. the president today announcing william barr as his next attorney general. and already critics callering for him to recuse himself from the russia probe. that's because of newly surfacing public comments that support some of trump's most extreme positions. some examples. barr has downplayed mueller's central allegations against trump on collusion and obstruction. he's praised trump's decision to fire jim comey. he supported investigating bill and hillary clinton over debunked conspiracy theories like uranium one and supports t...

Do you expect barr to limit the mueller probe, for example, in any way if in fact he becomes the attorney general, if he is confirmed by the u.s. senate? >> a statement like that is going to appeal to trump. rebecca mentioned he also said it was okay to fire james comey. he also said it was okay to fire sally yates. he also said it was okay to look into hillary clinton. so he really does check a lot of the boxes in terms of whether he is going to limit the mueller probe, if if he is nominated, not only republican senators are going to push him on that because they've been pushed to have this m...

Played. i don't think the mueller investigation is going to look at it. if we had an attorney general, they could make sure that was subject of a series investigation. as long as you don't have someone making a priority, it is not going to happen. >> laura: all right. all right. interesting information all together. great conversations. up next my angle on the next ag.