Garland defends Smith appointment: I would not make 'that basic mistake about the law'

Attorney General Merrick Garland criticized a Florida judge’s ruling that special counsel Jack Smith was unlawfully appointed during a television interview Tuesday night, marking his first public comments about the case since the ruling.

“Do I look like somebody who would make that basic mistake about the law? I don’t think so,” Garland told NBC News, citing his two decades of experience as a federal judge.