Trump nominates William Barr to be his next attorney general

Barr, a former attorney general under President George H.W. Bush, has been emerging this week as a consensus candidate to succeed Jeff Sessions as attorney general, two sources familiar with Trump's thinking told CNN on Thursday.

Trump picked Matthew Whitaker to be acting attorney general after Sessions was fired last month.

This story is breaking and will be updated.

CNN's Jim Acosta, Evan Perez and Laura Jarrett contributed to this report.

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