The rift between William Barr and Robert Mueller publicly reemerged after Mueller broke his silence this week
“I personally felt he could’ve reached a decision,” he told CBS’s Jan Crawford in an interview set to air Friday. “The opinion says you cannot indict a president while he is in office, but he could’ve reached a decision as to whether it was criminal activity.”
“But when he didn’t make a decision, the deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and I felt it was necessary for us as the heads of the department to reach that decision,” Barr continued. Barr’s antagonizers have pointed to a letter Barr wrote last year, before being nominated for attorney general, in which he outlined his opinions on executive authority as they pertained to the Russia investigation. Barr and Rosenstein's call on obstruction, combined with Barr's defenses of Trump, have prompted a slew of calls for Barr to resign or be impeached by Congress.
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