Sen. Chris Coons: The Timing of the Release of Mueller Letter Is Quite Telling

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BERMAN: "Senator, did the attorney general lie to you in that answer?"
COONS: "Well, John, that’s one of the things I think we should explore today. He certainly wasn’t fully forthcoming. Because he did know that Robert Mueller had reached out to him, first in a letter, second in a phone call to convey that he was upset or disappointed that William Barr’s summary, his four-page summary to Congress was creating, as he called it, public confusion, that it didn’t fully reflect the context, substance, nature of the important work of the special counsel. So, one of the first questions I want to get to this morning, John, is whether or not it was that letter from special counsel Mueller that propelled Attorney General Barr to release much of the report and to commit to testifying in front of Congress. One of my thoughts is that the timing of the release of this letter is quite telling. It was released yesterday on the eve of Attorney General Barr’s testimony and suggests that at least some on Mueller’s team remain upset at the ways in which this four-page summary released by Attorney General Barr weeks ago was significantly misleading about the conclusions of the special counsel’s work."