Lawmaker: 'Did Bob Mueller support your conclusion' on obstruction of justice? 'I don't know whether Bob Mueller supported my conclusion,' Bill Barr says.
on Wednesday blasted special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation as an “attempted takedown” of a president that failed and praised Attorney General William Barr for saying he is investigating how the probe began -- a move congressional Republicans have long advocated.
Trump said he still has not read the Mueller report and said he’s not interested in the report, beyond the possibility that the Justice Department could look into the origins of the investigation. About the same time, at a Senate hearing at which Democrats grilled Barr over his handling of the Mueller report, the attorney general said that "spying" on a political campaign was a "big deal," that he believes "spying" did occur and that the question that needed to be answered was whether the "spying" was justified.“I think spying did occur. Yes, I think spying did occur," Barr said.
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