Colbert cut together clips of Wednesday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing to give his own take on Attorney General's performance.
The Late Show host Stephen Colbert laid into Attorney General William Barr in his show’s opening skit on Wednesday night, cutting together Barr’s Senate Judiciary Committee testimony with some of his own questions.
Addressing the room, Colbert asks, “Has anyone in this room deceived the American people?” A clip of Barr from Wednesday’s hearing is then shown, with the attorney general standing with his hand raised. “Good to know,” Colbert replies. The attorney general—nominated by President Donald Trump in December and confirmed in February—has been accused of misrepresenting the Mueller report to protect the president. The special counsel filed his report on March 22, after which Barr released a four-page summary of what he said were the main findings. Barr eventually bowed to Democratic pressure and released a redacted copy of the full 448-page report on April 18.
“You’re supposed to be the impartial attorney general for the United States,” Colbert continued in his Wednesday evening spoof. “How much of your summary—the letter you sent to Congress—was just a partisan support for the president?”
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