Nancy Pelosi on Friday charged Attorney General William Barr with going 'rogue' and using the Justice Department to participate in the 'cover up of a cover up' for President Donald Trump.

'He's gone rogue,' the speaker said of Barr on MSNBC's 'Morning Joe.'

'I think where they're going is a cover-up of the cover-up,' she added. 'And that's really very sad for them. And to have a Justice Department go so rogue, well, they had been for a while.'

Speaker Nancy Pelosi charged Attorney General William Barr with going 'rogue'

Attorney General William Barr and his Justice Department have come under Democratic fire

Pelosi also questioned why Barr was still in charge of how the complaint was handled at the Justice Department. There have been suggestions the attorney general should recuse himself from the matter, including one from House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler.

'Since he was mentioned in all of this, it's curious that he would be making decisions about how the complaint would be handled,' she told reporters on Capitol Hill.

Barr's role in the Trump administration has come into question since a transcript of the phone call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky showed Trump repeatedly urged his Ukrainian counter part to talk to Barr and Rudy Giuliani, Trump's personal attorney, about Joe and Hunter Biden.

'I would like to have the attorney general call you or your people and I would like you to get to the bottom of it,' Trump told Zelensky about an investigation he wanted into CrowdStrike, a California-based company that was hired by the Democratic National Committee to investigate the Russian hack of their emails in the 2016 election.

Trump also wanted a probe of his allegation that Biden, when he was vice president, interfered in a Ukrainian prosecutor's investigation of a gas company that had Hunter Biden on its board. There has been no evidence to back up his allegation.

The transcript of the phone call between the two leaders - released by the White House on Wednesday - showed how Trump sought to use a government employee to aid in his probe of a political rival. Biden is the front runner for the Democratic presidential nomination.

The Justice Department said the president never asked Barr to contact the Ukraine.

Justice Department spokeswoman Kerri Kupec said Barr was first notified of Trump's conversation with the Ukrainian president when the department learned of the whistleblower complaint.

'The president has not asked the attorney general to contact Ukraine — on this or any other matter,' Kupec said in a statement Wednesday.

'The president has not spoken with the attorney general about having Ukraine investigate anything relating to former Vice President Biden or his son,' she added.

It was the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel that opted not to send the whistle-blower's complaint about the call to Congress.

Barr was not involved in that process.

Instead Justice Department lawyers investigated the charges made in the complaint about Trump and ruled the president did not violate campaign finance law when he made his request of Zelensky.

The DOJ's inspector general's office told lawmakers of the existence of the complaint but not its substance.

Democrats then publicly criticized DoJ for not forwarding the whistle-blower's report to Congress and those complaints led to media reports on the call and its contents.

The complaint was delivered to Congress Wednesday evening and ultimately made public on Thursday morning.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff has also criticized the Justice Department

A whistle-blower alleged that in a call with Zelensky in July, Trump pressured him to prosecute former Vice President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden (left) to hurt Biden's 2020 campaign. The president has dismissed the story and accusations as 'ridiculous'

'The idea that the Department of Justice would have intervened to prevent it from getting to Congress throws the leadership of the department into further ill repute,' House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said after viewing the complaint.

Democrats were already angry at Barr for declining to pursue obstruction of justice charges against Trump, citing long-standing Justice Department policy not to indict a sitting president, in the wake of special counsel Robert Mueller's report.

After Mueller's report was released, Barr and then-Deputy Attorney General Rob Rosenstein declined to pursue the obstruction charges, leading Democrats to launch their own investigation.