2020 hopefuls show their chops at Barr hearing by kadiatubman
Three Democratic presidential candidates sit on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and they took full advantage of the national spotlight to show their toughness against Attorney General William Barr in his contentious hearing Wednesday.
“In you reaching your conclusion, did you personally review all of the underlying evidence?” she asked. Barr defended taking the “characterization of the evidence as true,” saying it was “not a mysterious process.” After he received the letter, Barr testified, he had called Mueller to discuss his objections. That seemed to contradict his testimony at a hearing in early April, when he was asked by Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., if Mueller supported his conclusion on obstruction. Barr said he didn’t know.
“This is a man in the highest office in the most powerful job in our country, and he is basically — I’m trying to think how someone would react...if the president of the United States is implying, getting out there that your family members have committed a crime,” said Klobuchar. “You don’t consider that any attempt to change testimony?”
“If you don’t see that as obstruction and directing him to change testimony, do you think that would create a false record to impair the integrity of evidence?” she asked.He continued: “The government has to prove things beyond a reasonable doubt, and as the report shows, there is ample evidence on the other side of the ledger that would prevent the government from establishing that.”
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