The Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said that President Trump did “nothing wrong” to warrant impeachment and removal from office, pushing back at Democrats who want the House to consider proceedings.
The Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Sunday that President Trump did “nothing wrong” to warrant impeachment and removal from office, pushing back at Democrats who want the House toSen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a stalwart Trump defender, had strongly advocated for impeachment of President Clinton in 1998 in the wake of an independent counsel report. The House approved articles of impeachment but the Senate did not convict.
“I don't care what happened” between Trump and McGahn, Graham said. “Here's what I care about. Did Mueller - was Mueller allowed to do his job? And the answer is yes.”A growing chorus of congressional Democrats say Mueller’s report documents obstruction of justice by the president, even if“To me it looks like obstruction,” Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a former prosecutor and presidential hopeful who sits on the Judiciary Committee, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.
The White House offered fresh indications it might seek to block McGahn’s testimony to lawmakers. Senior counselor Kellyanne Conway, interviewed on CNN’s “State of the Union,” said “executive privilege is always an option.”to stop McGahn from speaking to Congress was undercut when the White House permitted McGahn to speak to Mueller for 30 hours under oath.
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