We begin today’s roundup with Jamelle Bouie on Bill Barr’s performance as the president’s attorney:
Whether out of sycophantic loyalty or a deep-seated belief in executive impunity, Barr has used his position to insulate the president from legal scrutiny. He has done everything in his power to downplay the impact of the special counsel’s investigation. [...] Barr has done nothing but run interference for Trump, indifferent to his established pattern of lawbreaking and criminality.
Eugene Robinson at The Washington Post says it’s time for the American people to hear from Robert Mueller directly:
It’s Mueller time.
We need public, no-holds-barred testimony before Congress by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, and we need it now. As we saw Wednesday, trying to get the truth out of Attorney General William P. Barr is like squeezing blood from a stone.