Democrats tell Attorney General William Barr to resign after damning Mueller letter revealed
1 / 2FILE - In this March 24, 2019, file photo, special counsel Robert Mueller departs St. John's Episcopal Church, across from the White House in Washington. FILE - In this March 24, 2019, file photo, special counsel Robert Mueller departs St. John's Episcopal Church, across from the White House in Washington. creating public confusion about his team's work, a Justice Department official said Tuesday night.
"After the Attorney General received Special Counsel Mueller's letter, he called him to discuss it," Justice Department spokeswoman Kerri Kupec said in a statement. Though Barr's letter did say that Mueller's team had not exonerated Trump on obstruction nor concluded that he had committed a crime, it did not detail the specific evidence Mueller's team accumulated or describe Mueller's legal analysis as he examined nearly a dozen episodes of potential obstruction, including the firing of former FBI Director James Comey.
The attorney general also did not acknowledge any sort of potential disagreement with Mueller at a recent Justice Department appropriations hearing, telling a Democratic congressman,"I don't know whether Bob Mueller supported my conclusion." The appearance is Barr's first on Capitol Hill since he released a redacted version of Mueller's report on April 18 and comes amid deepening Democratic skepticism about his impartiality.
"The Attorney General has expressed some reluctance to appear before the House Judiciary Committee this Thursday," Nadler, D-N.Y., said in a statement."These reports make it that much more important for him to appear and answer our questions."
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