The attorney general labeled the controversy he's found himself enveloped in as 'mind-bendingly bizarre.'
A growing number of Democrats called for William Barr’s resignation on Wednesday following the attorney general’s hours-long testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee about his handling of the Mueller report.
"I believe he should step aside,” said Senator Dick Durbin, Democrat from Illinois. “I don't think he has the objectivity that we should expect for an attorney general who has the authority over these investigations." Senators Chris Coons and Amy Klobuchar stopped short of calling for his resignation, with Coons saying Barr should recuse himself from any of the remaining investigations that spawned from the Mueller probe and Klobuchar reiterating she wants to hear from Mueller himself.
"You lied. And now we know," Hirono told Barr."Being attorney general of the United States is a sacred trust. You have betrayed that trust. America deserves better. You should resign." “There is now public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation,” Mueller told Barr. “This threatens to undermine a central purpose for which the Department appointed the Special Counsel: to assure full public confidence in the outcome of the investigations.”
"My understanding was his concern was not the accuracy of the statement of the findings in my letter, but that he wanted more out there to provide additional context to explain his reasoning and why he didn't reach a decision on obstruction," Barr said of Mueller.
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