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Barr this morning is defending his actions in a new interview. the attorney general says the justice department sparred with robert mueller over the legal analysis in his final report. listen to this. >> we annualized the law and the facts and a group of us spent a lot of time doing that and determined that both as a matter of law many of the instances would not amount to obstruction. >> as a matter of law? >> as a matter of law. we didn't agree with the legal analysis, a lot of the legal analysis, in the report. it did not reflect the views of the department. it was the views of a particular ...

As for mueller's final warning that russia systematically interfered in the 2016 election barr said, quote, there is an increasingly robust program, end quote, in place to prevent it from happening again in 2020. laura jarrett is live in washington with more on this very revealing interview. >> the attorney general once again this morning trying to explain why he felt the need to issue that four-page memo laying out what he believed were the special counsel's principal conclusions ahead of actually releasing the report. a move that barr has taken on a lot of heat for in recent weeks. take a li...

Fundamental thinking behind the mueller report and its conclusions. it's a very different place and he's been forced into this corner i think by mueller's public statements. >> you're exactly right. i think in some ways he himself, barr, forced mueller's hand to really, i think, come out and sort of clarify what those 400 pages went, what the sort of interpretation was, why mueller acted the way he acted. bill barr along with the president and the president's allies for those two months very much filled that vacuum with their in some ways spin, in some ways misleading interpretations of what m...