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Comments. accusing barr of ignoring his responsibilities as the nation's top prosecutor. one of them was the former federal prosecutor michael j. stern, who told "newsweek" that barr's loyalty to the white house is a perversion of his job. he also told "newsweek" there is inherent conflict in barr's designated role as chief law enforcement officer of this country and his efforts to protect the man who gave him his job. it is unfortunate that bill barr never misses an opportunity to place his thumb on the scales of justice in favor of donald trump. that's not how it's supposed to be. michael j....

No one asked him to write it. and more importantly, it wasn't accurate. if he was going to come out with a summary, it should actually have been a summary. when the mueller report itself actually came out, it became clear that it wasn't a summary of the report. so much as a defense of the president. and taking small pieces of information from the mueller report and mutating them and morphing them into something that helped the president. but was not consistent with the report itself. >> but, michael, it worked because in the amount of time when none of us had access to the mueller report. and ...

>> you -- you're absolutely right about that. in fact, i think that more people understand or perceive that they understand the mueller report from barr's inaccurate summary than from the release of the report itself. >> yep. >> and the press did a great job when the report was ultimately released in going through it. line by line. and pointing out the inaccuracies of barr's summary. but it's the first thing that came out. there was enough time between the release of that report and the actual mueller report. and it sort of soaked into the american consciousness. and that's what people believe...