The move comes as the House Judiciary Committee opens contempt proceedings against Attorney General William P. Barr
By Rachael Bade and Rachael Bade Congressional reporter Email Bio Follow Matt Zapotosky Matt Zapotosky National security reporter covering the Justice Department Email Bio Follow May 7 at 11:46 PM BREAKING NEWS: The White House has asserted executive privilege over the Mueller report on Russian interference in the 2016 election, in its latest confrontation with Congress.
But Boyd said that Democrats — who made a counteroffer to the Justice Department in a last-ditch negotiation session to stave off a scheduled contempt vote for Barr Wednesday morning – “has responded to our accommodation efforts by escalating its unreasonable demands.” “[T]his kind of obstruction is dangerous,” he said. “The Department’s decision reflects President Trump’s blanket defiance of Congress’s constitutionally mandated duties.”
But Democrats say in order to do that — and determine whether they need to impeach the president — they need all of Mueller’s underlying evidence and want to hear from key witnesses who testified before Mueller.
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