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Report: Barr asked foreign leaders to help in probe

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Why Barr asking foreign leaders for help in probe of U.S. agencies raises concerns

According to The Washington Post, Attorney General William Barr has been personally visiting with foreign leaders to encourage them to help out with an investigation that President Trump hopes will discredit special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe. William Brangham talks with Devlin Barrett of The Washington Post to untangle the many threads of the story.

10/01/2019

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