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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics.

It's Thursday, January 10th. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker.

President Trump is finally rid of the two men he holds responsible for launching the Mueller

investigation. Jeff Sessions was ousted as Attorney General in November, and yesterday, administration officials said the Deputy Attorney General, Rod Rosenstein,

would step down when Sessions' replacement takes office.

Some months ago, Trump's nominee for his new Attorney General, William Barr,

wrote a 19-page memo to Rosenstein that criticized the investigation into possible

obstruction of justice by President Trump as fatally misconceived. Yesterday, Republican Senator

Lindsey Graham, the new chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, assured reporters that Barr

will not hinder the Mueller investigation.

I think the main thing that people want to know is what's his view of the Mueller investigation.

And I can assure you, based on what I heard, that it has a high opinion to Mr. Mueller,

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