Trump now has an attorney general, like a human block of granite, who sees few limits on presidential power and is willing to obfuscate and execute blocking movements on his behalf. He's an outstanding legal mind," Trump said of Barr in an interview Wednesday night on the Fox Business network, adding that the attorney general did a "fantastic" job during the hearing. The attorney general objected to Democratic plans to use staff attorneys in addition to often-scattershot lawmakers to pin him down with questions about the Mueller report. In his defiance, Barr proved himself to be exactly the protective bulwark for which Trump pined but never had in characters like former Attorney General Jeff Sessions and former FBI chief James Comey. A CNN/SSRS poll published Wednesday shows that 44% of voters approve of Barr's handling of the Mueller report and 43% are critical -- with a wide partisan gap.

Source: CNN May 02, 2019 04:52 UTC