House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has accused Attorney General William Barr of committing a crime by lying to Congress.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi: “He lied to Congress. He lied to Congress. And if anybody else did that, it would be considered a crime. Nobody is above the law, not the president of the United States and not the attorney general. Being the attorney general does not give you a bath to go say whatever you want and it is the fact because you are the attorney general.”

Speaker Pelosi alleges Barr lied when he told Congress he did not know whether special counsel Robert Mueller supported his preliminary public description of the Mueller report. Lawmakers learned this week that Mueller had written Barr a letter saying his summary of the report “did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance” of his work. A Justice Department spokesperson said Pelosi’s comment was “reckless, irresponsible, and false.”