Attorney General Bill Barr, in an exclusive interview with Fox News, revealed that the recently announced review of the origins of the Russia probe will focus in part on a controversial briefing that intelligence officials gave President Trump shortly before he took office in 2017. “That’s one of the things … we need to look at,” Barr said of the briefing. Baker, on an episode of Yahoo News podcast "Skullduggery," said that "analogies" were made to J. Edgar Hoover--the former FBI director who famously abused his power to blackmail individuals. He did, however, believe Trump had to be briefed on the dossier because it was "about to be disclosed to the press." As for the dossier itself, Barr said he is “not sure what role it played,” but it is part of the review.

Source: Fox News May 17, 2019 17:02 UTC