'It was my baby and I was making a decision as to whether or not make it public,' Barr said of Mueller's report after he received it, adding he leaned 'as far forward as I could to make that public.'
Barr's comments came after House lawmakers Wednesday morning released Mueller’s March 27 letter asking Barr to release the report’s summaries and introductions publicly, warning "public misunderstandings" threatened to undermine confidence in the Russia probe.
Mueller wrote his March 27 letter just three days after Barr made public a four-page summary of his “principal conclusions” from Mueller’s report — and the special counsel expressed concern that Barr’s memo sowed “public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation.” poster="http://v.politico.com/images/1155968404/201904/1766/1155968404_6027985514001_6027781660001-vs.jpg?pubId=1155968404"Barr says he and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein “disagreed” with some of Mueller’s legal theories and that he believes that some of Trump’s efforts to influence the investigation “did not amount to obstruction as a matter of law.
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