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Former Trump administration attorney general Bill Barr told CBS News on Friday that the Justice Department was “closely looking” at high-ranking Trump allies and the former president himself.
CBS News correspondent Kathryn Herridge asked, “On January 6, do the new grand jury subpoenas suggest that the Justice Department is squarely focused on former President Trump?”
Barr said, “I think it’s definitely an important event. It changes my view of what’s going on. From my point of view, it seemed to me that the department really focused on the lower people. As you know, since the election, they’ve been after the people who went to the Capitol. And I didn’t think they were paying so much attention to senior management and leaving it to the congressional committee. But that suggests to me that they’re looking closely at the team at the top, including the president and the people immediately surrounding him who were involved in this. It also looks to me like they’re trying to get a decision on executive privilege.”
Herridge asked, “Did it catch your attention when a subpoena was issued for former White House counsel Pat Cipollone?”
Barr said, “Yes, that was the most important thing.”
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