Barr says Justice Department and Mueller sparred over 'legal analysis' in Russia report

In an exclusive interview with "CBS This Morning," Attorney General William Barr says special counsel Robert Mueller could have said whether he believes President Trump committed a crime. CBS News chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford traveled with Barr to Alaska, where he is listening to the unique concerns of native Alaskans. She pressed the attorney general on issues ranging from obstruction of the Russia investigation, to his review of how that probe began in 2016.

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[RedRoverZ]

Would've been nice to hear the whole interview, not CBS's spin on it.

[dpeatebc]

Former AG Mukasey said it best: "Barr is not a man easily deterred."

[orion]

Heard the whole interview earlier ... CBS sliced and diced all the good parts out. SMH

[JEANEREANO]

If you CBS won't release the whole interview don't bother piece- mealing it to we the public.

[michaeldavidson]

CBS, sounds like a reasonable interview with Barr. That's something I'd like to see more of. No vitriol, drama, extreme partisanship. Actual real questions and answers, without rude interruptions. Interesting development. Not perfect but better than what we usually get from liberal media.

[mename]

AG William Barr is an excellent Attorney General and after watching this I'm convinced he did the right thing.

[shaunellis]

Thank God we have a real AG with a backbone unlike Sen. Sessions who I like but he wasn't the right person for AG. At all .

[escommentss]

Gee Jeff Sessions, this is how you run the Justice Department! You don't let it run you!

[pennyadams]

Barr has the backbone rarely found in DC.

[rustyshackleford]

You edited the video to cut him off midsentence after the word “jiving”.

That makes this a DISTORTED VIDEO.

I’m sure Nancy Pelosi will be calling for its take down.

[craigbanks]

'A particular lawyer or lawyers' - He is referring to Weissmann. That is clear from from he said.

[edwardkaggwa]

If the glove dont fit you aquit, period.
This stuff is not mean girls, but Muller had to fulfill the insurance policy. Dirty up the POTUS.

[PatriotsTribe]

This is looking great! Let’s get it all out there!

[jamesbenn]

Spying is a perfectly good English word and i will also continue to use it.

[Cleaner]

Barr is a honorable man even though Muller threw him under the bus he still wont bash the guy

[dawnwools]

Wow ...I'm thinking this is the first I've seen CBS try to be a little bit more balanced actually watched the whole clipping

[joycethomas]

Barr needs to do a big housecleaning in all of Justice... there must be some good people left there????

[gustavbabic]

Apparently Barr's interview didn't go exactly the way CBS management thought that it would, so now they aren't giving us the complete interview, and are only giving out broken up segments interspersed with commentary from CBS staff.

[SLR]

Show the WHOLE 48 minutes.. quit cherry picking a narrative.. 😡

[danchimere]

Straightforward answers. No Bulls. I wouldn't want this guy on my case. Good luck.