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At the counter intelligence program. reporter: barr is getting a lot of heat from democrats with many suggesting his goal was to cast down on the special counsel's findings in order to protect president trump. the attorney general told bill hammer he is not surprised democrats are targeting him, that he expected it and they're likely doing it because they are worried about his investigations into the origins of the trump russia probe might turn up. >> jon: it's not just democrats going after the attorney general these days though. >> yeah, this afternoon republican congressman went after both ...

The nefarious title of spying. that belief is getting new support from his hand picked attorney william barr. this was trump's message early today and we quote, my campaign for president was conclusively spied on. nothing like this has ever happened in american politics. a really bad situation. treason means long jail sens sentences, and this was treason. >> government power was used to spy on american citizens. barr also talked about his newly launched inquiry into the origins of the russia investigation with fox news saying it is necessary because special counsel mueller's work did not cover...

At the counter intelligence program. >> reporter: attorney general barr all emphasized special counsel mueller issued the predicate for the investigation and its reliability. >> it's a very unusual situation to have opposition research like that. especially one that on face has a number of clear mistakes and an analysis. and to use that to conduct counter intelligence against the american political campaign is a strange -- would be a strange development. i'm not sure what will be in play but that's something we have to look at. >> reporter: it's worth noting that president trump's lawyers aske...

Trump campaign had conspired with the russians. but he was not going back and looking at the counter intelligence program. >> you also said lack in april that you thought there was spying going on in the trump campaign. when do you think that started? >> i'm not going to speculate about when it started. we're going to find out when it started. >> can you say when bob mueller knew there was no collusion with russian? >> no, i couldn't say that. >> you're okay with him testifying? >> absolutely. >> are you comfortable using those words, witch-hunt, hoax? >> i use what words i use and it was an i...

Looking at the counter intelligence program. and we have a number of investigations underway that touch upon it. the main one being the office of inspector general that's looking at the fisa warrants. but as far as i'm aware, no one. >> bill: you came into this job and started asking questions. did you get any answers? >> i thought when i came in from the outside that all the questions that i had and many other people had that would be readily answered once i got in. but i haven't found that to be the case. >> bill: you also said back in april you thought there was spying going on in the trump...