With Barr Hearings, Democrats to Pick Up Where Mueller Left Off
- Lawmakers to explore attorney general’s spin on Russia report
- GOP to rekindle calls for a probe into ‘spying’ on Trump
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Attorney General William Barr put his spin on Robert Mueller’s Russia report in the days -- and hours -- before the public got to see it. Now, he’ll face lawmakers who will press him to reconcile his findings with the special counsel’s.
In scheduled testimony before Senate and House panels on Wednesday and Thursday, Democrats will question Barr’s credibility after he gave President Donald Trump grounds to claim “total EXONERATION” from a report that stopped short of that. Republicans will prod Barr to deliver on his pledge to look into their assertion -- and Trump’s -- that the president’s 2016 campaign was the victim of government “spying.”