Oh, these are all such fun days.

So I spent the whole day watching Attorney General William Barr give this testimony in front

of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

And when it was over, I called up Slates Senior Legal Editor, Jeremy Stahl.

What was the first clue that Attorney General Barr's testimony this week was going to be interesting?

I would say the first clue came Tuesday night when the New York Times and then the Washington

Post reported that there had been this letter.

This letter, the Attorney General got it from Robert Mueller just a few days after he wrapped

up his investigation into President Trump.

Barr, he wasn't particularly happy to get this letter.

I said, Bob, what's with the letter?

You know, want to just pick up the phone and call me if there's an issue?

The letter said that the Attorney General's statements to Congress and the public about Mueller's

report had been misleading, that they'd resulted in public confusion that, quote unquote,

undermined the special counsel's goals.

The letter is a bit snitty and I think it was probably written by one of his staff people.

The clear implication is that Robert Mueller thought that the way William Barr handled this

from the very beginning was inappropriate and could lead the public to believe that there

was political considerations that went into his ultimate conclusions.

I would say that for a circumspect legal person like Robert Mueller to put on the record

and put in a letter that he had concerns about how all of this was going is a very big and

very serious step for a person like that to take.

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