Thread by @KlasfeldReports

Barr keeps claiming that Mueller had been complaining about the press coverage of his memo, not the memo itself.

Tell me if you can locate the reference to the press in this direct critique of Barr's memo.

Here's Mueller letter. games-cdn.washingtonpost.com/notes/prod/def…

Klobuchar presses Barr on whether Trump tried to change Michael Cohen's testimony by accusing his family of criminality.

Barr again turns to the question of corrupt intent, which he says there was none.

Here's what Mueller said about that intent in invoking Cohen's family.

Sen. Ben Sasse asks Barr to describe Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, and Barr declines to do say *anything* in the open setting.

Sasse notes there is quite a bit about Deripaska in the public domain.

Sasse makes an important point: Today's hearing will be largely tuned out and categorized into who's pro-Trump and anti-Trump.

The important details, like Deripaska's ties to the Trump campaign, get lost in the mix.

Unsaid here: Mueller's report found that Manafort and Gates repeatedly shared internal data with Russian intelligence-tied oligarch Konstantin Kilimnik, whom Gates suspected as a "spy."

"Gates understood that the information would also be shared with Deripaska," Mueller found.

In the morning session, Barr insisted that he did not think of "spy" as a "pejorative" term.

In the afternoon session, Barr embraces Sen. Hawley's innuendo that it was inappropriate and unprecedented.

Cory Booker presses Barr on the internal polling data sharing issue and how the Trump campaign sought to benefit from Russia's election interference.

Barr disputes it, but let's be clear: Mueller's report explicitly states that the Trump campaign did seek to benefit.

This was one part of the sentence that Barr bowdlerized in his memo: "the Campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts."

The fact that the Trump campaign sought to benefit from Russia's interference could be accurately characterized as one of Mueller's top-line conclusions:

It's on Page One of the report, from the very sentence that Barr selectively quoted in his supposed non-summary.

Cruz talks about what the Mueller report allegedly found about "on the question of Russian collusion."

The Mueller report says that collusion is not a legal term, and he would not address it.

Barr makes it clear: His theory of why he found Trump did not obstruct justice has nothing to do with what Mueller found. It is a separate theory that Trump did not obstruct justice because he believed he was falsely accused and could shut it down.

That's not Volume II.

Sen. Dick Durbin turns to the topic Malaysian money laundering and the Trump inaugural.