Congressional Republicans downplayed the involvement of President Trump and Attorney General William Barr in the sentencing of Trump's longtime confidant Roger Stone, saying they see no reason for the investigations that Democrats are demanding
The mostly muted reaction from Republicans to the Justice Department's move undercutting career prosecutors' recommended sentence for Stone of up to nine years -- which prompted all four prosecutors to withdraw from the case Tuesday -- fueled concerns from the President's critics that he's been emboldened in the aftermath of impeachment.
Mitt Romney of Utah, the lone Republican to vote to convict Trump, was muted in his view about the Stone case, saying if there's"any indication" that the Justice Department is not independent of politics -- that"would obviously be a real problem." Romney said he doesn't think a Republican investigation into the matter would"change a lot.
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