Jerrold Nadler said he is prepared to begin a process that could lead to fines or imprisonment for William Barr for resisting demands for Special Counsel Robert Mueller's full report on the Russia inquiry.
US Attorney General William Barr is facing a possible contempt from congress over the Mueller report.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the top Democrat in Congress, also accused Barr of lying to Congress, and said neither the attorney general nor the Republican president are above the law.
“We will make one more good-faith attempt to negotiate and to get the access to the report that we need, and then if we don’t get that, we will proceed to hold the attorney general in contempt,” Nadler told reporters after a 15-minute committee session held in place of Barr’s appearance. Barr spent four hours before a Republican-led Senate committee on Wednesday defending his handling of Mueller’s report on Russia’s interference in the election to boost Trump’s candidacy and whether the president subsequently tried to obstruct Mueller’s probe.
Democrats are debating whether they should begin the process laid out in the Constitution for removing a president from office, which would start in the House but would require the Republican-led Senate to vote to oust Trump, an unlikely prospect.
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