the tense confrontations over the president s decision to withdrawal troops from syria, and they are having to instead of pushing a proactive agenda alongside the president and battling the democrats and helping the president battle the house democrats, they have to spend a lot of energy confirming the cabinet nominees, and the first on the batch for the new year s seems to be barr, and his hearings will be held on january 15th and 16th, and those hearings will be important to watch, not only because of the importance of the attorney general in the u.s. government, but also democrats and some republicans will also have a lot of questions about mr. barr s views on the mueller probe. he has written a memo casting a skepticism on the counsel s investigation, and that issue has been so central to the justice department and we can