Dick Durbin said "The president was relentless. As soon as William Barr announced that he found no wholesale fraud in the election results and announced he was leaving, that was when the president of the United States decided to put full-court pressure on the new acting attorney general, Jeffrey Rosen. He was really pushing the Department of Justice to bend to his political will. And I will tell you, I just -- I don`t think I`m overstating the case. We were a half-step away from a full-blown constitutional crisis." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

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The president was relentless. As soon as William Barr announced that he found no wholesale fraud in the election results and announced he was leaving, that was when the president of the United States decided to put full-court pressure on the new acting attorney general, Jeffrey Rosen. He was really pushing the Department of Justice to bend to his political will. And I will tell you, I just -- I don`t think I`m overstating the case. We were a half-step away from a full-blown constitutional crisis.

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Dick Durbin

Democratic · Illinois

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msnbc.com

Editor's note · Context

Senator Durbin discusses the pressure exerted by President Trump on the Department of Justice and the risk of a constitutional crisis.

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