President Donald Trump praised Attorney General William Barr's performance during a four-hour long Senate hearing on Wednesday, saying "he did a fantastic job" and dismissing calls for his resignation as "abuse from people" that are running for president.
"He did a fantastic job today, I'm told. I got to see some of it. He did a fantastic job," the president said during an interview on Fox Business.
The attorney general during his testimony stood by his handling of special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into whether Russia colluded with Trump's campaign during the 2016 presidential election and widened to include possible obstruction of justice.
Trump defended Barr's decision, saying he believes "they want to treat him differently than they have anybody else."
"For many, many years, they've never done it this way where they're bringing in outside counsel or something, you know, you elect people they're supposed to be able to do their own talking," he said.
While he hadn't heard about the calls for Barr's resignation, Trump dismissed them as "ridiculous."
"He's an outstanding man, he's an outstanding legal mind," Trump said of Barr. "He performed incredibly well today."
Trump went on to criticize several of the candidates, including Harris, who the president said was "probably very nasty" during her questioning of Barr.