Attorney General William Barr did not give the press and Democratic lawmakers what they wanted when he announced the special counsel had failed to find evidence of Trump-Russia collusion to steal the 2016 election. And so now they’re moving to discredit him.

On Wednesday, with a confusing and oddly worded response during a congressional hearing, the attorney general provided them with the opening they were looking for to further the claim that he is an unreliable narrator.