Monday, February 11, 2019

House Democrats confronted the acting attorney general on his criticism of special counsel in a contentious hearing

The acting attorney general, Matthew Whitaker, said on Friday that he has “not interfered in any way” in the special counsel’s Russia investigation as he faced a contentious congressional hearing in his waning days on the job.

The hearing before the House Judiciary Committee was the first, and likely only, chance for newly empowered Democrats in the majority to grill an attorney general they perceive as a Donald Trump loyalist, and whose appointment they suspect was aimed at suppressing investigations of the Republican president.

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from US news | The Guardian http://bit.ly/2WRIAZ9

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