The House Judiciary chairman said his committee would not cease its pursuit to obtain documents and testimony from dozens of government officials, the White House and business entities associated with President Donald Trump.
Even though the White House has thumbed its nose at House Democrats, refusing to comply with multiple requests for documents and testimony, a top Democrat on Thursday reiterated the House's intent to press forward with its investigations, while accusing the Trump administration of failing to “comprehend the gravity” of the information revealed in special counsel Robert Mueller’s report.
“Your failure to comprehend the gravity of the Special Counsel’s findings is astounding and dangerous,” Nadler told Cipollone in his letter. “[T]he Committee has the right—indeed the duty under the Constitution—to investigate these and other related circumstances… Both the Russian threat to our elections and the President’s threat to the rule of law continue.”
On Wednesday, Cipollone said Nadler and House Democrats wanted an “unauthorized do-over” of the Russia investigation and lacked “legislative purpose,” accusing them of having the sole intent of “harassing and seeking to embarrass political opponents” with their numerous congressional investigations. Nadler responded by threatening to use Congress’ inherent contempt power, which hasn’t been used in more than 80 years, to impose “very large” fines on individuals who are found to be in contempt. In his letter, the New York Democrat rebuked Cipollone’s assertion that Congress lacked the oversight power to demand such information from the White House.
He requested that the White House “resume negotiations to resolve this dispute, which were abruptly broken off by the Department of Justice when it rejected the committee’s most recent counter-offer." He proposed for Judiciary Committee staff and White House staff to have a meeting.
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