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“I’m landing the plane right now,” Barr says to Sen. Coons, by way of explaining why he is again refusing to answer the question of whether the White House has seen or been briefed on the report.
AG Barr on “landing the plane.”
"I'm landing the plane right now" situates a political appointee at the controls directing the end of a process that was nominally independent. Arguably, that's consistent with @neal_katyal's regulations, but it is the opposite of "let justice be done though the heavens fall."
