Bill Barr Calls Bullsh*t

Honestly with Bari Weiss

The Free Press

News, Society & Culture

4.6 • 7.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2022

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Attorney General William Barr is only the second person in American history to lead the Justice Department twice: first under President George HW Bush and then again, three decades later, under arguably the most divisive president we’ve ever had. Today, we talk about . . . all of it. Why he took the job in the first place; his time in the chaotic Trump White House; Russiagate; whether he regrets how he handled the Mueller investigation; and what finally pushed him to break away from the president. We also talk about January 6; the raid on Mar-a-Lago; whether he thinks Trump will be indicted; and what he calls Trump’s “extortion” of the GOP. Later, we discuss the rise in violent crime under his tenure; how he squares his Catholicism and his conservatism with the death penalty; why he sees militant secularism as the biggest threat to freedom; and what makes him optimistic in the face of American decline. A frank conversation you don’t want to miss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.6	tease and sees apply. I'm Barry Weiss. This is honestly. The short form is general, but you can call me
0:37.6	Bill. General? Yeah. Isn't that weird? It's so weird. Well if you want to take a
0:42.3	moment I'll just explain it to it.
0:45.4	So Americans don't understand language.
0:47.7	So the original term attorney general is from the Norman French.
0:51.9	And the word general is an adjective it means the
0:54.0	general attorney and the British carry that over obviously because of the
0:58.2	Normans all the English-speaking countries call the attorney general attorney except the United States
1:05.6	call them general which is the adjective because they think it's some rank.
1:11.2	I'm not you know and I'll go with a flow.
1:16.0	So I won't call you attorney and I will not call you general but I'll just call you
1:20.0	you Bill. I'll call you Bill.
1:21.0	Yeah.
1:22.0	Yeah. And today a conversation with Attorney General
1:28.6	William Barr. William Barr was sworn in on Thursday for his second stint
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