Hillary Clinton with Rachel Maddow

To cap off a tumultuous day wherein AG Barr stonewalled many incisive questions from Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Hillary Clinton paid a visit to Rachel Maddow. Here are a few snippets.

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Here is a synopsis from CNN. (Nice sign that the free media is inter-cooperative.)

Clinton: Barr's argument for the President being able to fire investigators is 'the road to tyranny'

 

By Kate Sullivan, CNN

Updated 0321 GMT (1121 HKT) May 2, 2019

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during an event at Barnard College, January 7, 2019 in New York City.

Washington (CNN)Reacting to Attorney General William Barr's testimony on Wednesday, Hillary Clinton said the notion that the President can fire any prosecutor investigating him if he feels the accusations are false is "the road to tyranny."

Clinton made the comments during an interview with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow on Wednesday evening. During the show, Maddow pointed to something Barr had said in his public testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

 

"The point I was trying to make earlier is that, in the situation of the President, who has constitutional authority to supervise proceedings, if in fact a proceeding was not well founded, if it was a groundless proceeding, if it was based on false allegations, the President does not have to sit there, constitutionally, and allow it to run its course," Barr said during his testimony. "The President could terminate that proceeding, and it would not be a corrupt intent, because he was being falsely accused."

Maddow said Barr was making the argument that "the President can't be investigated if the President doesn't want to be investigated."

 

"And that, that is the road to tyranny," Clinton said. "That is what authoritarians believe and those who service them argue."

 

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