Fox’s Chris Wallace: Barr was acting more as Trump’s defense lawyer than the attorney general

On Thursday, Attorney General William Barr held a press conference ahead of the release of the Mueller report. Barr quickly faced criticism that he'd been too generous to the president.

Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace observed that Democrats on the Hill are not going to be very happy with Barr's assessment of the report. "When it came to the obstruction case, there were 10 instances that the special counsel raised that could be considered potential obstruction, then you got into this very curious area where the attorney general seemed almost to be acting as the counselor for the defense, the counselor for the president rather than the attorney general -- talking about his motives, talking about his anger, his feeling this was unfair and there were leaks."

"And really, as I say, making a case for the president. I suspect the Democrats' heads on Capitol Hill were exploding and they are going to come down very sharply about the way that Bill Barr today laid this out... this is the first look in a sense that everybody has gotten today at the Mueller report and this was as good a case as the president and the president's lawyers could make that there is nothing to see here, let's move on," Wallace said.

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