Fox “straight news” anchor defends Trump's attorney general: “I don't think Democrats are really that angry with Bill Barr. They're angry with Robert Mueller.”

Martha MacCallum, who is moderating town halls with Democratic presidential hopefuls, downplays Mueller's letter and Barr's potential perjury

From the May 2, 2019 edition of Fox News' America's Newsroom:

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MARTHA MACCALLUM (FOX NEWS ANCHOR, THE STORY): You look at what's going on on the other side on Capitol Hill this morning and [Rep.] Nancy Pelosi [D-CA] laying into Bill Barr, saying basically that she thinks charges should be brought against Bill Barr for perjury in terms of what happened and what we watched play out yesterday.

BILL HEMMER (FOX NEWS ANCHOR, AMERICA'S NEWSROOM): We watched as she said it twice, “He lied to Congress. He lied to Congress.” That was when -- during her weekly press conference there. DOJ just came out with a statement on behalf of Bill Barr. It says, “Speaker Pelosi's base less attack on the [attorney general] is reckless, irresponsible, and false.”

MACCALLUM: So where do we go from here? I mean, it is up to the Democrats at this point whether or not they want to pursue impeachment. As [Sen.] Lindsey Graham [R-SC] said at the beginning of yesterday's proceedings, the report is done. And I couldn't help but think after reflecting on this whole experience of watching the testimony yesterday, this morning. It's almost as if --I don't think Democrats are really that angry with Bill Barr. They're angry with Robert Mueller. Robert Mueller's the person who did not deliver what they believe should have been delivered from that report. And I also think it's good to look back at Bill Barr's statement that he was surprised when Robert Mueller's folks came in and Robert Mueller and said, “We're not gonna have a finding on whether or not there was any obstruction of justice.” They were clearly taken aback by that move and wondering why after two years and hundreds of subpoenas and thousands of hours of interviews, they felt that they couldn't find on that. So I think there's an enormous amount of frustration that this process did not produce what Democrats thought it should. And now they've got to figure out what their next move is.

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MACCALLUM: Again, I think that the concern really with a lot of these folks is that they are angry, and I think Republicans know how it felt on the other side when Hillary Clinton -- they didn't get the result that they wanted with Hillary Clinton after that investigation. They are wearing that hat right now.

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