their partines and with republicans having a 53-47 majority and barr needing a simple majority of pass sajhis prospects look good. but everyone, what does this mean for the mueller probe? to me going into this, barr t saying i wantbe independent, we should allow mueller to do his job, be as transparent as possible. but on other questions, particularly when it came to issues of the border, at immin, and the shutdown, barr was taking a position that s similar t president trump's, kind ofsoontradicting of the independents there. i think that's a big question -- >> is that going to hurt him? >> how independent will he be as attorney general? >> did the answers hurt him? >> no, didn't hurt him, probably helps him with the republican side. but if you want to portray yourself as being independent it probably ds hurt you a little bit too. remember the reasovawe're having ncy as an attorney general is because president trump thought jeff sessions was too independent, shouldn't have recusedue himself from theer probe. >> because he's been down this road before you consider him a shoo-in? what's the