insistence that it would have been wrong for him to make a determination on whether president trump committed a crime. i want to bring in our justice reporter laura jarrett and chief legal analyst job. laura, barr seemed to blame mueller for not making a decision on whether the president obstructed justice. tell our viewers what he said. >> well, wolf, once again, the attorney general essentially accusing mueller of falling down on the job, not reaching a decision on the question of obstruction of justice. listen to his curious answer to cbs earlier today. >> he could have reached a conclusion. the opinion says you cannot indict a president while he's in office, but he could have reached a decision as to whether it was criminal activity, but he had his reasons for not doing it, which he explained, and i'm not going to, you know, 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 the heads of the department to reach that decision.