Trump spent Wednesday morning making sure everyone knows that he knows that Attorney General Bill Barr is not only actively interfering on Trump’s behalf in cases the Justice Department is handling, but that Bill Barr took control of the Mueller case against the Republican President.
The Mueller report revealed Lewandowski knew what he was doing was wrong regarding helping Trump obstruct justice.‬
Democrats are hoping that Mueller’s testimony on Wednesday will show us all the ways you can say there was “collusion†and there was obstruction. In reality, there was evidence to show that Donald Trump’s campaign conspired with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election. Since then, Donald Trump has done everything imaginable and beyond that…
Within the first few minutes of his opening statement, John Dean showed us he was ready and able to wipe out the Republican Kiddie Caucus.
We need to know, and the nation’s knowing depends on Congress taking the lead, not waiting for the people’s will to catch up.History shows that’s not how we realize our ideals and uphold the Constitution.
In a footnote to one section of his report about a Russian operation that trolled American internet users during the 2016 campaign, Mueller said his team was “aware of reports that other Russian entities engaged in similar active measures operations targeting the United States.”
Rachel Maddow explained that all of the many battles between Trump and Congress center around the White House fear of Robert Mueller speaking about his report.
Sarah Sanders told reporters that the House Democratic request for the full Mueller report and documents was absurd because Democrats don’t need to see the full report.
The White House on Wednesday invoked the legal principle of executive privilege to block the release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s unredacted Russia report as a U.S. House panel met to vote on holding Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress for refusing to hand over the document.
With a contempt vote looming, Attorney General William Barr made an offer to House Judiciary Democrats to provide slightly more access to the Mueller report.
House Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler has given Attorney General Barr until 9 AM Monday to turn over the full Mueller report and evidence or be held in contempt of Congress.
Attorney General William Barr will face pointed questions on Wednesday about his handling of the special counsel’s report on Russia’s role in the 2016 election when he testifies before Congress amid accusations he misrepresented the document’s findings.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller complained in a letter to Attorney General William Barr that his four-page summary of Mueller’s Russia report “did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance” of the investigation’s conclusions.
As Donald Trump continues his war with the rule of law that he used to say he believes in, there are signs that Republican support for him may be softening. Certainly, one can look at the increase in support for Trump and his Putin-first agenda and conclude the opposite. Smaller numbers with increased conformity to…
The pre-Easter weekend news dump of the Mueller report failed. We all heard AG Barr’s pre-emptive strike – a highly unusual presser where he actually trotted out the idea that being frustrated is a defense when one is suspected of conspiring with a hostile foreign power to cheat his way to victory in an election….
By Jonathan Landay and Aram Roston WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Erik Prince, founder of the now defunct Blackwater security firm and a supporter of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential run, appears to have misled the U.S. Congress on details of contact he had with a Russian banker in January 2017, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report released on…
By Sarah N. Lynch and Yasmeen Abutaleb WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Top congressional Democrats left the door open on Sunday to the impeachment of U.S. President Donald Trump, but said they would first need to complete their own investigations into whether he obstructed justice in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe. Party leaders have cautioned against…
Back in February 2017 at a Black History Month event, President Donald Trump regaled his audience with his insights about famous African Americans’ contributions throughout U.S. history. He identified Frederick Douglass as “an example of somebody’s who’s done a great job and is getting recognized more and more, I notice.†Shamefully, he hasn’t received any…
And are we foolish enough to believe Putin and the Russians care about the healthy and secure futures of American workers? Of America’s children?
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) blasted Republicans for having no independence from the president and being a Trump cult of personality.
Attorney General Barr refused to answer questions about protecting Trump and got angry when he was asked about spinning the Mueller report for the president.
On Sunday, CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin published an editorial in The New Yorker, and in it he severely rebuked Attorney General William Barr. According to Toobin, Barr is continuing to obstruct justice by helping Donald Trump conceal special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia report from Congress and from the American people. And he is doing…
“If these recent reports are accurate … then those summaries should be publicly released as soon as possible,” the chairman said.
Thanks to his Attorney General and a complicit media, last week Donald Trump thought he was winning. It appeared that he was getting away with falsely claiming he had been exonerated by Bob Mueller. Then he started seeking revenge against everyone, and vowed to investigate Democrats, the FBI and anyone else he could think of….
Yesterday may have been Trump’s worst day ever. But before things hit the fan yesterday, he had been flying high. Attorney General Barr’s bogus summary of the Mueller report created a false impression among the American electorate that the report had cleared Trump of all wrongdoing. Of course we know that is untrue, but with…
The House Judiciary Committee just completed a vote that authorized its chairman to use a subpoena to force the Justice Department to give Congress a full copy of Special Counsel Robert Mueller‘s report and all of his underlying evidence. BREAKING: The House Judiciary Committee votes to authorize a subpoena of the full Mueller report, setting up…
Morning Joe’s Joe Scarborough today said that President Donald Trump and Attorney General Bill Barr are not fooling the American people. “We know it’s all a scam, and voters know it’s all a scam,†Scarborough said. According to the popular MSNBC host, Trump and Barr probably think they’re getting away with something big by trying…
A battle is brewing between Democrats in Congress and Attorney General William Barr over access to grand jury testimony, which is some of the most sensitive evidence obtained in special counsel Robert Mueller‘s investigation. Barr said he is still reviewing Mueller‘s entire final report, although he issued a summary of the report’s final conclusions. He…
The right-wing viewers of Fox News are very unhappy with the network’s chief legal analyst, Judge Andrew Napolitano right now. And they have taken to Twitter to express their extreme displeasure with what Napolitano had to say about Bill Barr, the Mueller report, and comments made by Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA). In…
Editor’s Note: Other news sources report that Trump will be allowed to assert executive privilege but hasn’t said that he will. Executive privilege is not typical with special counsel investigations. By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General William Barr plans to issue a redacted copy of Special Counsel Robert Mueller‘s nearly 400-page…
Donald Trump is really going off the rails. His crazy antics might be funny if he weren’t the most powerful man in the world, who has the codes to America’s nuclear weapons. As head of both the U.S. military and the U.S. law enforcement agencies, Trump is in a unique position to abuse his power…
For the past five days Donald Trump has continually claimed that he has been “totally exonerated†by Attorney General Bill Barr’s summary of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report. But a new poll released Friday shows that the majority of Americans are skeptical and are not buying Trump’s claims of exoneration. The latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll…
MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace said that the Mueller report contains evidence against that anyone who reads it will view as damning.
For wacky conspiracy theories you can’t beat Fox & Friends, Donald Trump’s favorite morning television show. Earlier this year they said that lower tax refunds this year were the fault of the American taxpayers instead of the Trump administration. And today they said that Former CIA Director John Brennan was behind the Mueller investigation, and…
Here’s an interesting question: if Donald Trump and his aides in the White House are claiming total exoneration from the Mueller report, why are they refusing to release the report that supposedly exonerates them? And here’s an equally interesting answer: because the Mueller report does NOT exonerate Donald Trump, but actually contains evidence of collusion…
Donald Trump has just accomplished an extremely difficult task. Over the past few days he has made moves that have united the Democratic Party. Every single Democrat in Congress was outraged that Trump had his hand-picked attorney general write a brief summary of Bob Mueller’s 22 month investigation that allowed the president to claim “complete…
Attorney General William Barr’s summary of the special counsel report does not address key counterintelligence aspects of the investigation into Donald Trump’s ties to Russia, according to national security experts quoted by The Atlantic. Even though Barr’s summary addressed the issues of crimes and criminal indictments, it leaves open the question of alleged security and…
Former Attorney General Eric Holder exposed the holes in Trump’s fake total exoneration claim and explained why Mueller must testify before Congress.
The lawyer who wrote the special counsel rules that governed Robert Mueller’s investigation believes that Donald Trump “should not be taking a victory lap.” The lawyer, Neal Katyal, who is now an MSNBC legal analyst, expressed his opinion after reading Attorney General William Barr’s summary of the findings of Robert Mueller’s investigation. “There are any…
Donald Trump thinks that his Attorney General, William Barr, has cleared him of all charges of collusion from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. It doesn’t matter that Barr is serving as Trump’s personal lawyer instead of serving the people of the United States — Trump has claimed victory, and almost immediately started gloating. He also…
Now that the Mueller probe has ended, and Bill Barr sent his summary letter to Congress, Donald Trump and his allies believe they have a winning issue for the 2020 election. But that may not be true. As the Washington Post reported last night: “President Trump’s defiant mantra — “no collusion!â€â€“ became a rallying cry…
House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) said on Sunday that it would be “equivalent to a cover up” if the Department of Justice (DOJ) refuses to release the underlying information behind special counsel Robert Mueller’s final report. In other words, Nadler doesn’t want to see just Mueller’s report, but he also wants to see all…
Things are getting nasty in Washington, DC. After special counsel Robert Mueller gave his final report to Attorney General William Barr, members of Congress from both parties immediately entered into a war of words. The fights going on now are not legal, but political. Through the “spinning†of the facts and through a major PR…
Many Republicans, along with their supporters on Fox News, started their premature celebrations last night after Attorney General William Barr released a letter saying he had received the final report from special counsel Robert Muller. According to Slate Magazine: “Fox News spent most of Friday night taking a victory lap. “Well, happy No Collusion Day,…
Now that Bob Mueller has delivered his report to William Barr, the fight against Donald Trump and his criminal family and businesses will move to the U.S. Attorney’s office in the Southern District of New York (SDNY). Not coincidentally, the SDNY has just made a major new hire, bringing in one of the top lawyers…
Sen. Kamala Harris, as a former prosecutor, knows very well how this report could be buried and why it must not.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House Judiciary Committee has been told to expect notification by 5 p.m. EDT (2100 GMT) that U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report has been delivered to Attorney General William Barr, according to media reports. Mueller had been investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election and if the Trump campaign colluded…
Donald Trump has been attacking Bob Mueller’s special counsel investigation for nearly two years, calling it “a witch hunt†and “a hoax.† But according to the Associated Press, he may try to claim victory and upend Robert Mueller’s report no matter what it says. Mueller may issue a report any day now, and as we wait the…
Former federal prosecutor Elie Honig said on CNN this morning that the statement by Robert Mueller that he is too busy to comply with a request to unseal redacted documents has revealed something big is in the works at the special counsel’s office. Special Counsel Robert Mueller included a mysterious note in a court filing…
The signs are mounting that special counsel Robert Mueller may soon be issuing a report with the findings from his investigation which has been going on nearly two years. The past week was a very eventful one for Mueller and his team of investigators, and there were several clues that their work may soon conclude…
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a non-binding resolution on Thursday calling for Special Counsel Robert Mueller‘s upcoming report on his probe into Russia‘s role in the 2016 election to be released to Congress and the public. The 420-0 House vote, with four conservative Republican lawmakers voting “present,”…
Under guidelines set out by the Department of Justice (DOJ) special counsel Robert Mueller must submit a report on his findings of criminal conduct to Attorney General William Barr. He may or may not release the so-called “criminal report†to Congress and to the public. But former federal prosecutor Nelson Cunningham wrote for The Daily…
J.T. Smith II, executive assistant to Attorney General Elliot Richardson during the Watergate scandal, writes in this morning’s New York Times that current Attorney General William Barr must reconsider the Justice Department (DOJ) policy against indicting a sitting president. According to Smith, the current DOJ legal position was reached in 2000, but the directive against…
Over a two-thirds majority of American voters want the report of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation to be released to the public once it is completed, according to the results of a new public opinion poll released on Wednesday. The new POLITICO and Morning Consult poll found that 68 percent of Americans support the public…
In an interview with Axios, a top legal expert and former DOJ official said that it will be extremely difficult for the Justice Department (DOJ) to deny members of Congress all of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigatory files. He said that the DOJ would be required under existing legal precedents to turn over Mueller’s evidence…
Last Wednesday we reported on a CNN article which said: “Attorney General Bill Barr is preparing to announce as early as next week the completion of Robert Mueller‘s Russia investigation, with plans for Barr to submit to Congress soon after a summary of Mueller’s confidential report, according to people familiar with the plans.†Then yesterday…
Rhode Island Democratic Congressman David Cicilline told CNN’s New Day this morning that the American people deserve to see the Mueller report. And he also said that he will take any and all steps necessary to make sure that happens. He said that he will even begin impeachment proceedings in the House to assure that…
William Barr as the new Attorney General of the United States, will make the call about who gets a copy of the final report issued by special counsel Bob Mueller. But if he tries to stop Congress from using Mueller’s work for its own probes, he will have a major fight on his hands, according…
Editor’s Note: The idea of indicting a sitting president is still a matter of debate. The fate of Donald Trump — and the nation — may lie in the hands of his next attorney general, William Barr. Since Justice Department policy prohibits indictment of a sitting president on criminal charges, the only way for Trump…
