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general William Barr for taking

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control of this out-of-control

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case, as he explains it.

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How unusual is it for an

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attorney general to intervene on

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behalf of a president in what

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looks like a personal matter and

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at the most a politically

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motivated situation here?

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>> It is absolutely

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unprecedented, in my experience.

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And that goes back over 20 years

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in the FBI.

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And obviously working closely

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with the department.

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It's not strange for prosecutors

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to have disagreements over

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things like sentencing

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guidelines and how to apply them

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to a particular case and what a

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recommendation on a particular

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sentence should be, those

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disagreements happen every day.

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But typically those

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disagreements are left to the

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people in the field, the

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prosecutors who build the case

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and the director supervisors in

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the office.

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To see an attorney general weigh

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in on a decision like that is

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strange and unprecedented.

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For the attorney general to

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weigh in on a matter that

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directly implicates the

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president and one of his closest

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advisers in a matter in which

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the president has demanded a

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different recommendation than

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the one originally given is

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very, very troubling, and it