Appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the attorney general testified that President Donald Trump cooperated with the special counsel's investigation.
In his first testimony since special counsel Robert Mueller’s redacted Russia report was released, Attorney General William Barr said he did not see “any conflict” in saying that Donald Trump fully cooperated with the investigation even though the president tried to shut it down.
Barr tried to steer the conversation to his no obstruction conclusion. “I don’t think, well obviously since I didn’t find it was obstruction, I felt that the evidence could not support an obstruction,” Barr said. “On June 19, 2017, the president dictated a message for [Corey] Lewandowski to deliver to Sessions. The message said Sessions should publicly announce that…the investigation was very unfair to the president, the president had done nothing wrong,” Leahy read.
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