During an exclusive interview with CBS News, Barr was asked about Special Counsel Robert Mueller statement on Wednesday. “I personally felt he could’ve reached a decision,” Barr said.

Referring to the Justice Department policy, Barr said that “The [OLC] opinion says you cannot indict a president while he is in office…but he could’ve reached a decision whether it was criminal activity, but he had his reasons for not doing it, which he explained.”

“I am not going to argue about those reasons but when he didn’t make a decision, the Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and I felt it was necessary for us as heads of the Department to reach that decision” concluded Barr.