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  • Barr says he would 'not carry out' president's order to fire Mueller if lacking good cause

    01/15/2019 10:44:20 AM PST · by yesthatjallen · 93 replies
    The Hill ^ | 01/15/19 | Olivia Beavers
    William Barr, President Trump's pick to serve as his next attorney general, said he would not fire special counsel Robert Mueller if President Trump ordered him to do so without good cause. Sen. Chris Coons (D-Conn.), who asked Barr about how he would respond, tied his question to Watergate scandal when the prosecutor investing Watergate resigned instead of following then-President Richard Nixon's order for him to fire the special counsel investigating the matter. "Most famously when directed by president Nixon to fire the special counsel, the prosecutor investigating watergate, Richard Nixon resigned, as we all know. If those directions were...