Here is the complete exchange, via CSPAN, between Kamala Harris and Bill Barr — including the part where Barr couldn't say whether Trump or anyone in the White House has ever suggested that he open an investigation into anyone. It's worth a watch. pic.twitter.com/wJOdSFR7JR
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 1, 2019
Nadler stops short of calling on Barr to resign but says: “I think there are great difficulties for the attorney general at this point. Besides the fact that he clearly misled the American people, he seems to have testified non truthfully to the Senate and the House”
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) May 1, 2019
Shorter #Barr: @realDonaldTrump is the real victim here, and he was entitled to stop the investigation.
— Jeffrey Toobin (@JeffreyToobin) May 1, 2019
Shorter Klobuchar: I read the damn report and you know this is obstruction.
Shorter Barr: I know. I don't care.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) May 1, 2019
Was Barr sworn in on a redacted Bible?
— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) May 1, 2019
AG Barr is a disgrace, and his alarming efforts to suppress the Mueller report show that he's not a credible head of federal law enforcement. He should resign—and based on the actual facts in the Mueller report, Congress should begin impeachment proceedings against the President.
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) May 1, 2019
Politico, “Democrats weigh a ‘Benghazi Trump’ strategy”:
Democrats may not be able to saddle President Donald Trump with impeachment proceedings or pry documents from his administration, but they have another means of bludgeoning him: hearings, hearings and more hearings.
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