Barr: The FBI has asked to create a group to "make sure we are fully prepared for the next elections"

Attorney General William BarrWilliam Pelham BarrBarr says that he does not think Obama's justice officials have committed treason The mission of Congress is clear after Fox's statement from Mueller Napolitano: Democrats will "probably" Assign to appear Mueller very soon MORE in an interview broadcast on Friday morning, he contacted FBI Director Christopher Wray about forming a group of officials on electoral security issues for the 2020 and beyond elections.

In an interview with "CBS This Morning", Barr said that US efforts to counter the efforts of Russia and other governments to interfere in US affairs were more and more "robust".

"Yes, we have, I think, an increasingly robust program that puts the spotlight on foreign influence in our electoral process," Barr told CBS.

"I recently spoke with the FBI director of the constitution of a high-level task force to make sure we are fully prepared for the upcoming elections," he added.

In the course of this interview, he also discussed the Democrats' concerns about his use of the word "spying" to describe the early surveillance efforts of Trump campaign members linked to the now closed investigation into the Trump campaign and to Russian electoral interference.

The Democrats have condemned Barr for using this term at a House Credits Subcommittee hearing early in the year, when he stated that he thought that "Spying" was aimed at the Trump campaign, while adding that he had not pronounced on its legality. Questions about his legality, he added in an interview broadcast on Friday, remain.

"You know, it's part of the madness of modern times that if a president uses a word, he suddenly becomes disconnected, that's a perfectly correct English word, I'll continue to use it" Barr said.

"Like many other people familiar with intelligence activities, I had a lot of questions about what was going on," he continued. "I assumed I would get answers when I entered and I did not get any answers that were, well, satisfying."

Barr ordered a team of prosecutors to review the early stages of the investigation of Russia and pledged to determine whether the actions of the FBI and the DOJ surrounding the investigation occurred. carried out in territory contrary to the ethic.

His first interview comes a few days after the special advocate Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerBiden campaign: dismissal is perhaps inevitable now Chris Christie: Mueller "contradicts" the summary of his findings by Barr The Hill & # 39; s 12:30 Report: Mueller breaks the silence, surprised by a surprise statement MORE resigned from his post at a press conference, stating that the investigation was over, while adding that he could not exonerate the president of wrongdoing.