Attorney General William Barr, who has come under fire from critics who say he's defending President Donald Trump, says in an interview airing Friday that at this stage of his life, such attacks don't "make any difference."
"I am at the end of my career," Barr told CBS News' Jan Crawford in an interview for "CBS This Morning." "Everyone dies and I am not, you know, I don't believe in the Homeric idea that idea that you know, immortality comes by, you know, having odes sung about you over the centuries."
He added that such attacks are coming from him serving during a "hyper-partisan period of time" and he knew it would be a matter of time before he came under attack.
"Nowadays, people don't care about the merits and the substance," said Barr. "They only care about who it helps, who benefits, whether my side benefits or the other side benefits, everything is gauged by politics."
Any attorney general during this period of time would end up losing political capital, Barr said, and he does not regret returning as attorney general for a second time, having served before under President George H.W. Bush.
"In many ways, I'd rather be back in my old life but I think that I love the Department of Justice, I love the FBI, I think it is important that we not, in this period of intense partisan feeling, destroy our institutions," he added.
Barr said he has a "good, professional working relationship" with Trump.
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