'What I just saw from the Attorney General is unacceptable. Barr must resign now,' Harris tweeted after the hearing.
Democratic senator and 2020 candidate Kamala Harris garnered praise from legal experts on Wednesday after she appeared to stump Attorney General William Barr more than once during his congressional testimony on his handling of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia report.
Harris, who previously served as the attorney general of California, grilled Barr over his decision to clear Donald Trump of obstruction of justice despite evidence of wrongdoing recorded in the special counsel’s 448-page report. Mueller investigated at least 10 incidents where the president attempted obstruction, including his multiple attempts to remove the special counsel.
“No. We accepted the statements in the report as the factual record. We did not go underneath it to see whether or not they were accurate. We accepted it as accurate,” Barr replied. He then insisted that it wasn’t unusual for an official in his position not to review underlying evidence. Jill Wine-Banks, a former Watergate prosecutor, commended Harris for provoking Barr's revelatory admission in a Twitter post during the hearing.
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