On Fox News tonight, Starr claimed that Mueller overstepped his authority by writing a report to congress rather than a report to his boss, the attorney general.
"And here is something that I thought was just beyond the pale. He turned himself and his office into a constitutional law office. He had no authority to do that. There's an office of legal counsel that's been in place for decades. They're the experts. Bob Mueller and his prosecutors are not. And yet here he gives this very authoritative sounding opinion with respect to the powers of the presidency. I think he got a lot of it wrong. I think he got a lot of his analysis wrong on obstruction of justice. But just the presentation of the facts raises the question again, was this a fair presentation and a balanced presentation of the facts? At this stage I say no."
"And here is something that I thought was just beyond the pale. He turned himself and his office into a constitutional law office. He had no authority to do that. There's an office of legal counsel that's been in place for decades. They're the experts. Bob Mueller and his prosecutors are not. And yet here he gives this very authoritative sounding opinion with respect to the powers of the presidency. I think he got a lot of it wrong. I think he got a lot of his analysis wrong on obstruction of justice. But just the presentation of the facts raises the question again, was this a fair presentation and a balanced presentation of the facts? At this stage I say no."
