Trump's Attorney General Nominee didn't know what hit him when Senator Cory Booker nailed him to the wall on his use of racist language, and appalling lack of interest and awareness of facts and statistics surrounding race and incarceration. When Sen. Booker brought up the issue in the first round of questioning at yesterday's hearings, Barr came right out of the gate talking about "violent gangs in the city, killing people, murder and so forth." He emphasized that the easiest way to take gangs off the streets is to bring them up on drug trafficking charges, and that of course, the murders in Chicago, for example (Chicago.