special counsel robert mueller could have said whether he believes president trump committed a crime. jan crawford traveled with barr to alaska where he's listening to the unique concerns of alaska natives. >> nearly an hour and jan was able to press the attorney general on issues ranging from obstruction of the russia investigation to his review of how that investigation began back in 2016. jan crawford is with us from anchorage. jan, what did the attorney general have to say? >> reporter: right out of the box, he said he was surprised when the special counsel told him that he was not going to be making a decision on whether or not the president committed a crime of obstruction of justice. he didn't really press him on that, but then he and his lawyers at the department of justice analyzed the evidence mueller gathered and made the decision himself. he said he couldn't exonerate the president. you looked at that evidence and you did. what's the fundamental difference between your...

doing what he thinks is right. >> the second attorney general in history has served twice. i think the first one was back in 1850. >> right. >> you're an established figure in a way. you had a long career in washington. you're working for a man who is not establishment. and some of his tweets about officials and the rule of law, how do you react when you see this. are you on twitter? >> i'm not on twitter. and every once in a while a tweet is brought to my attention. but my experience with the president is we have a good professional working relationship, we talk to each other, if he has something to say to me, i figure he'll tell me directly. i don't look to tweets -- i don't look at them as directives or official communications with the department. >> when you came into this job, i mean, you had a good reputation on the right and the left. you're now someone who is accused of protecting the president and enabling the president, lying to congress. did you expect that coming in. >> in...