Nadler Rips Trump Attorney General William Bar: ‘A Biased Defender of the President’

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) repeatedly slammed Trump Attorney General William Barr as a “biased” individual whose characterization of Special Counsel Robert Mueller‘s investigation cannot be trusted.

On Sunday morning’s edition of CBS News’ Face the Nation, host Margaret Brennan asked Nadler if he expects to go to court in order to force the release of grand jury information from the Mueller probe.

“Yes, we would have to go to a court to get the release of the grand jury information, but that has happened successfully in every previous situation,” Nadler replied. “And it’s not up to the attorney general to decide with respect to that, or with respect to other material that he decides Congress can’t see.”

“It’s not up to him,” Nadler said. “Remember, he is a biased person. He is someone who is an agent of the administration, is an appointee, a political appointee of the president, whose interests he may very well be protecting here.”

“Do you reject the entire summary?” Brennan asked. “Do you believe there is possible criminal collusion?”

“Well, the attorney general said there was no obstruction of justice,” Nadler said. “He decided that. Mueller did not say that.”

“You’re dismissing what he has said,” Brennan said.

“I dismiss what he said,” Nadler said, adding “He’s a biased defender of the administration, and he’s entitled to be a defender of the administration, but he is not entitled to withhold the evidence from Congress.”

Nadler then ticked off instances of what he called “in plain sight open collusion with the Russians,” as House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff has also done.

He also went on to say that  “There could be grounds for impeachment” contained in the Mueller report and underlying info, or that “There could be grounds for other things the American people ought to know.”

“You know, you can commit shameful acts. You can commit complete betrayals of the public interest without committing impeachable acts. If you did that, the public ought to know that, too,” Nadler said.

Watch the clip above, via CBS.

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