Who is William Barr? Trump's attorney general pick on key issues
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William Barr, 68, served as attorney general under president George HW Bush in the early 1990s. The US Senate has confirmed William Barr as attorney general, putting the longtime lawyer atop the Justice Department and putting him in charge of overseeing Special Counsel Robert Mueller's long-running probe of whether President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign colluded with Russia.
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