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(1 May 2019) Attorney General William Barr defended his handling of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia report on Wednesday amid new revelations that Mueller expressed frustration to Barr about how the attorney general was portraying the investigation's findings.
Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Barr said he was surprised that special counsel Robert Mueller and his team did not reach a conclusion on whether or not President Donald Trump obstructed justice.
A Justice Department legal opinion says sitting presidents cannot be indicted. Barr says Mueller told him he wouldn't have recommended indicting the president even without that opinion from the Office of Legal Counsel.
Barr says Mueller told him that there may come a time when the Justice Department should consider revisiting that opinion but that this is not that case.
The Attorney General said it is the responsibility of the special counsel using a grand jury to "determine whether or not there has been criminal conduct."
"We don't conduct criminal investigations just to collect information and put it out to the public. We do so to make a decision," Barr said.
Mueller has written a letter says that Barr's summary of his Russia report created "public confusion about critical aspects of the results."
Barr testified that Mueller told him in a phone call that Barr didn't "misrepresent" Mueller's Russia report in a letter summarizing the probe's principal conclusions.
Barr said Mueller told him press reports were reading too much into Barr's letter and Mueller wanted the public to see more of his reasoning for not answering the question of whether President Donald Trump committed obstruction of justice.

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