唐纳德·特朗普总统告诉福克斯新闻台主持人肖恩·哈尼蒂，他已经把“一切”交给司法部长威廉·巴尔，因为他正在调查特别顾问对俄罗斯调查的起源。
“我们有一位非常受人尊敬的绅士，一位非常高素质的人，名叫威廉·巴尔。他正在做——我可以告诉你，他工作非常努力，”总统说。
特朗普周四晚上参加了汉尼蒂的节目，这是他自罗伯特·穆勒本周早些时候在国会作证以来的首次采访。穆勒在周三接连举行的听证会上回答了议员们关于他对俄罗斯选举干涉进行两年调查的问题。
民主党人希望证词能让长达400页的俄罗斯报告栩栩如生，但是穆勒的出现并没有带来任何新的信息。我以为有些特别的时刻，比如穆勒反驳特朗普直截了当地告诉立法者，调查绝不能证明他的行为是清白的。
另一方面，共和党人认为证词对民主党来说是一场彻底的“灾难”。特朗普的私人律师杰伊·塞库洛(Jay Sekulow)在推特上写道，“证词暴露了特别顾问调查中令人不安的缺陷”，众议员马克·梅多斯指责穆勒“甚至连基本问题都难以回答”
特朗普周四晚上告诉汉尼蒂，穆勒的调查“是叛国罪”。这是重罪。这是你想得出的最糟糕的定义。”
在采访中，汉尼蒂一度转向讨论备受争议的FISA逮捕令，在2016年的选举中，联邦调查局使用这些逮捕令对特朗普的外交政策顾问卡特·佩吉进行监视。逮捕令部分依赖于备受争议的斯蒂尔档案中的信息。
FISA逮捕令是对俄罗斯选举干涉调查的一部分。共和党人辩称，逮捕令授权不当，有政治动机，尽管没有太多证据支持这些说法。
汉尼蒂问特朗普为什么他决定把FISA的信息交给巴尔，而不是公开发布。
“我给了[·巴尔]全面释放，而不仅仅是全面释放。换句话说，他什么都有。特朗普说:“他需要什么，他就有什么。他补充说，他还授权巴尔就调查事宜与他想要的任何人交谈。
唐纳德·特朗普总统和司法部长威廉·巴尔(William Barr)出席了2019年5月15日在华盛顿特区举行的第38届年度国家和平官员纪念仪式，特朗普说他给了巴尔调查俄罗斯调查起源所需的一切。
穆勒调查在3月份结束后，特朗普立即呼吁“调查调查人员”
巴尔在5月份国会作证时告诉立法者，他正在“努力重建”俄罗斯调查的开端。他还证实，他的内部检查将包括“审查”斯蒂尔档案是否是克里姆林宫造谣活动的一部分。
司法部长还告诉国会，当司法部和联邦调查局在2016年总统选举前几个月发起反情报调查时，他也在调查他们是否“有任何越轨行为”。
President Donald Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity that he has given "everything" over to Attorney General William Barr as he investigates the origins of the special counsel's Russia probe.
"We have a very respected gentleman, a very high quality person named William Barr. And he is doing — I can tell you, he's working so hard," the president said.
Trump called into Hannity's show on Thursday evening for his first interview since Robert Mueller's congressional testimony earlier this week. Mueller fielded questions from lawmakers in back-to-back hearings on Wednesday about his two-year investigation into Russian election interference.
Democrats hoped the testimony would bring the 400-page Russia report to life, but Mueller's appearance did not bring any new information to light. Thought there were some standout moments, like when Mueller contradicted Trump outright, telling lawmakers the investigation in no way exonerated his behavior.
Republicans, on the other hand, deemed the testimony a complete "disaster" for the Democratic Party. Trump's personal attorney Jay Sekulow wrote on Twitter that the "testimony exposed the troubling deficiencies of the Special Counsel's investigation" and Rep. Mark Meadows accused Mueller of "struggling to answer even basic questions."
Trump told Hannity on Thursday night that the Mueller's investigation "was treason. This was high crimes. This was everything as bad a definition as you want to come up with."
At one point during the interview, Hannity turned to discussing the highly-debated FISA warrants that were used by the FBI to conduct surveillance on Trump's foreign policy adviser Carter Page during the 2016 election. The warrants in part relied on information from the controversial Steele dossier.
The FISA warrants are part of the beginning of the probe into Russian election interference. Republicans argue that the warrants were improperly authorized and politically motivated, though there is not much evidence to support those claims.
Hannity asked Trump why he decided turned over the FISA information to Barr instead of publicly releasing them.
"Rather than just doing a total release, I gave [Barr] his total release. In other words, he's got everything. Anything he needs, he's got," Trump said. He added that he's also given Barr the authorization to talk to whoever he wants in regards to the investigation.
President Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr attend the 38th Annual National Peace Officers Memorial Service on May 15, 2019, in Washington, D.C. Trump said he gave Barr everything he needed to investigate the origins of the Russia investigation.BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/GETTYIMAGES
As soon as the Mueller investigation wrapped up in March, Trump called for "investigating the investigators."
Barr told lawmakers during congressional testimony in May that he was "working to try to reconstruct" the beginning of the Russia probe. He also confirmed that his internal examination will include "reviewing" whether the Steele dossier was part of a Kremlin disinformation campaign.
The attorney general also told Congress that he was also examining whether there was "any overreach" by officials at the Justice Department and FBI when they launched the counterintelligence investigation in the months before the 2016 presidential election.
