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That's the DSR network.com slash buy and code eclipse. Thank you very much for your support. This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.

I'm your host, Greg Sargent.

Over the weekend, a CNN interview with former Attorney General Bill Barr went viral,

because in it, Barr performed one of the most spectacular capitulations

to Donald Trump that we've seen from any Republican.

Barr admitted that Trump probably talked privately about executing rivals as president,

but shrugged it off and meekly said nothing, as CNN's Caitlin Collins, quoted from a rant

from Trump that belittled Barr in mercilessly

humiliating terms. One person who immediately saw the larger importance of this is Amanda Carpenter,

the prominent never-trumper and an editor of Protect Democracy, who tweeted that it perfectly

captures some essential truths about this fall's election.

So we invited Carpenter on the show to discuss what this saga says about the GOP and its broader capitulation to MAGA.

Welcome, Amanda.

Hey, Greg, thanks for having me.

So to set the scene here, Bill Barr recently endorsed Trump, and then Trump responded with an insane rant on truth social, blasting Barr as weak, gutless, and lazy.

Then on CNN, Caitlin Collins asked Barr to respond to Trump's attack, and Barr meekly stood by his endorsement.

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