Comey: A ‘Reasonable Person’ Would Think That AG Barr Is ‘Running Errands’ for Trump

EXCERPT:

WALLACE: “I want to put you on the spot here to put all this together. Do you worry that the Justice Department has been compromised or corrupted at the highest level?”

COMEY: “I worry that its reputation for standing apart — Justice Department is in the executive branch, but can never be in a cultural sense, over the executive branch. I worry that has been damaged in the short run, it will recover in the long run, by this Attorney General in the way that he has channeled the president, adopted his language, and in ways that a reasonable person would think that he is running errands for the president. That may not be true, but the perception matters. Despite what your mom and dad told you growing up, when you are the Attorney general of the United States, you have to care what people think, because your institution depends on the faith and confidence of the American people, see have to constantly worry about what do folks think about what we are doing and do they trust us? The things they have done in the past months have created doubt in the mind. I’m not talking about partisans who will always have reason to yell, but ordinary people will have reason to doubt whether it is in hearing — adhering to its obligations in the system.”