Speaker Nancy Pelosi told House Democrats in a private meeting that Attorney General William Barr’s words cannot be taken at face value, CNN reports, arguing Barr got the job by authoring a memo criticizing special counsel Robert Mueller’s obstruction probe.
Pelosi told her caucus that said Barr’s job is to defend the President.
Said Pelosi: “We have to see the report. We cannot make a judgment on the basis of an interpretation by a man who was hired for his job because he believes the President is above the law and he wrote a 19-page memo to demonstrate that.”
