Reuters
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday accused Attorney General William Barr of lying to Congress about his handling of the Mueller report.
‘He lied to Congress — if anybody else did that it would be considered a crime. Nobody is above the law — not the president of the United States and not the attorney general.’
Pelosi’s remarks during a news conference came after the California Democrat reportedly made the same accusation behind closed doors. Politico said Pelosi told Florida Rep. Charlie Crist that Barr committed a crime when he told Crist he wasn’t aware of concerns Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team expressed about the four-page summary of Mueller’s findings.
That response appeared to contradict Mueller’s letter to Barr saying he was worried Barr’s summary “threatens to undermine…public confidence” in the Russia probe.
Barr himself defended his response after being questioned by Sen. Richard Durbin, an Illinois Democrat. ““I talked directly to Bob, and Bob told me he did not have objections to the accuracy.”
Durbin in his questioning brought up comments Barr made to Crist during a House Appropriations Committee. Barr said during that hearing he didn’t know if the special counsel’s team was “frustrated” but suspected that “they probably wanted more put out.”
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