BREAKING: President Trump asserts executive privilege on Mueller report materials as Democrats vote to hold Barr in contempt
not turning over the unredacted report and underlying materials in response to a committee subpoena.
The contempt vote and the executive privilege claim are the first moves in a process to censure the attorney general and fight for the documents in court. "Unfortunately, the Committee has responded to our accommodation efforts by escalating its unreasonable demands and scheduling a committee vote to recommend that the Attorney General be held in contempt of Congress," the Justice Department wrote in a letter to Nadler on Tuesday night.
Democrats, frustrated with Barr's handling of Mueller's report and his initial description of the special counsel's findings in the probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 election, have increasingly trained their fire on the attorney general. Negotiations between the Justice Department and Nadler's staff on Tuesday fizzled, with both sides preparing for a contentious committee meeting Wednesday morning after Democrats dismissed the Justice Department's offer to allow more staffers to view the report, without providing access to the full committee.
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