‘A Very Strange Speech’: What AG Barr’s Words Mean | Morning Joe | MSNBC

Attorney General William Barr on Wednesday suggested that nationwide stay-at-home orders to prevent the spread of the coronavirus were the 'greatest intrusion on civil liberties' in history 'other than slavery.' The panel discusses Barr's remarks. Aired on 09/18/2020.
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'A Very Strange Speech': What AG Barr's Words Mean | Morning Joe | MSNBC

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    1. @Judith Benoit I understand that not all whites are racist…it is just that the non racist whites haven’t made a real difference to stop institutional racism altogether. They have softly let it exist all this time.

    2. @Bartleby Jonze You are correct we have been lacking in courage to speak up.That has now changed.People are waking up to the horror the have ignored…..far too long

    1. @Jackson Whitaker a 2020 Derrick following orders of execution whether right or wrong
      But a malice intent by wrong status virtue .

    1. Walt Schmidt, I believe the iceberg has come in the form of the virus. Biden, he’s not my choice either, but we must be delivered from the current wanna be dictator occupant. He is not the right person for all of America. When he won, I held my critic of him, but after the last five years of him being on the public platform and his revolving door of an administration, giving his children positions in the cabinet, calling a serious threat to the health of Americans a HOAX being first to politicize it but lies the democrats did, he speaks with two faces, lying over 20,000 times, childish vindictive behaviors, name calling, insulting, always speaking fear, fear, terror of the border, same old 2016 rhetoric, the divisive bully has failed us.

    2. Walt Schmidt, I believe the iceberg has come in the form of the virus. Biden, he’s not my choice either, but we must be delivered from the current wanna be dictator occupant. He is not the right person for all of America. When he won, I held my critic of him, but after the last five years of him being on the public platform and his revolving door of an administration, giving his children positions in the cabinet, calling a serious threat to the health of Americans a HOAX being first to politicize it but lies the democrats did, he speaks with two faces, lying over 20,000 times, childish vindictive behaviors, name calling, insulting, always speaking fear, fear, terror of the border, same old 2016 rhetoric, the divisive bully has failed us.

    3. The military will follow the orders of their generals, the generals will follow the orders of whoever is paying them off. Americans always waiting for a savior, nobody is coming to save you okay.

  1. Hopefully we won’t have to worry about what he is saying in a couple of months and is under investigation by the same DOJ.

  2. Seriously. Now everyone wants to be surprised by this, he has backed every mean, stupid and outrageous thing 45 has done.

  3. Barr is in a prison of his own intellect. No insane defence when Justice comes calling. Traitors all of Trump lot.

    1. Yes, misspeaking never happens. It’s not as if your candidate claimed on the debate stage that 150 million people died from gun violence in the US since Bernie Sanders voted on some gun bill. It’s not like your candidate has a problem remembering what city/state he’s in, or even what is a city or what is a state.

      But yes. That time when I accidentally referenced a Susan B Anthony speech at a temperance luncheon as having been made in 1949 rather than 1849, that should have been the absolute end of my credibility.

    1. The republicans hold the majority in the Senate so they are not going to do anything. Vote blue and let’s change things

    2. So when AG Eric Holder described himself as Obama’s Wing Man, I assume you were just as upset. And totally just as worried about what they’d get up to.

    1. EXACTLY…the media needs to stop acting like kittens chasing the furry toy and stay focused on the real shyte that is going on! COME ON MEDIA DO BETTER…we ALL know it’s all misdirection….4 years in…tax records…etc etc!

  4. Barr -“Slavery was a different kind of restraint.” Of all Bill’s comments, that one is going in the history books.

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