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Elizabeth Warren calls for Trump's impeachment following Mueller report – as it happened

Elizabeth Warren: ‘The House should initiate impeachment proceedings against the president of the United States.’
Elizabeth Warren: ‘The House should initiate impeachment proceedings against the president of the United States.’ Photograph: Richard Ellis/ZUMA Wire/REX/Shutterstock

Summary

We’re ending our live coverage for the day, thanks for following along and have a nice weekend! Here’s a summary of some key developments of the day:

  • The House judiciary committee issued a subpoena for the full Mueller report without redactions.
  • The justice department responded to the subpoena by saying it was “unnecessary” and “premature”.
  • The number of Americans who approve of Trump’s performance dropped by three percentage points to the lowest level of the year.
  • Federal authorities announced that a Florida man called three Democrats at their DC offices and left voicemail messages threatening murder.
  • Elizabeth Warren became the most senior Democrat, and the first 2020 presidential candidate, to call for the start of impeachment proceedings.
  • Julián Castro said he would support impeachment proceedings, but other 2020 candidates avoided the question or said the time was not right to impeach.
  • Mitt Romney said he was “sickened at the extent and pervasiveness of dishonesty and misdirection by individuals in the highest office of the land, including the President” in a statement responding to the Mueller report.
  • White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders continued to face criticisms for lying to the press, which she admitted to investigators in the report released this week.
  • Trump tweeted angrily throughout the day.
  • Joe Biden is expected to officially announce his run for president next week.

A Honduran trans woman who was detained in a US immigration facility for seven months despite being granted asylum has been released, journalists Nina Lakhani reports for the Guardian.

Nicole García Aguilar was granted asylum in October 2018, but instead of releasing her, Ice then transferred her to a male unit and put her in solitary confinement.

From Nina:

García, 24, fled Choluteca in southern Honduras in early 2018 after surviving a violent attack and receiving death threats which police refused to investigate.

Since a coup in Honduras in 2009, violence against the LGBT community has escalated, prompting many to leave. At least 306 LGBT people, including 97 trans people, have been killed in the past decade, and only 20% of cases have been prosecuted, according to Cattrachas, a Honduran LGBT group.

García travelled overland through Mexico before seeking asylum at a legal port of entry in Nogales, Arizona.

Read the full story here:

There were at least 37 cases in which Trump responded to Mueller’s questions about his campaign’s contacts with Russians by saying he couldn’t recall, according to this Washington Post analysis:

The “I have no recollection” non-answer is one Trump has used in other legal contexts, but is in sharp contrast to his boasts that he has “one of the great memories of all time”.

The president ultimately did not have to do an in-person interview with the special counsel and instead provided written answers.

The White House is continuing its attacks on the press following intense criticisms of spokeswoman Sarah Sanders, who admitted to lying to reporters in the special counsel report released this week.

Hogan Gidley, a White House spokesperson, sent this statement to the New York Times:

Trump is also continuing to tweet direct attacks on the New York Times and Washington Post.

More on Sanders’ comments here:

Updated

In non-Mueller news, the AP has published a report saying Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) is now restricting lawyers’ access to migrants in a key Texas detention center:

From the AP:

The legal services group RAICES goes to Karnes daily to consult with detained immigrants about their asylum cases. The group says subtle policy changes at the facility have reduced legal access for detained women seeking asylum.

Since Monday, authorities at Karnes have prevented attorneys and volunteers from meeting with many large groups of migrants at once, which prevents them from quickly consulting with more people, according to Andrea Meza, RAICES’ director of family detention services.

Karnes staff also stopped sending RAICES the names of detainees who put their names on sign-up sheets outside the visitation room, Meza said...

If the changes remain in place, fewer people will be able to consult with a lawyer before asylum interviews, Meza said, and it will be harder for the group to follow up with potential asylum seekers.

Nancy Pelosi is not shifting her position on the question of impeaching Trump:

With Elizabeth Warren calling for impeachment proceedings, here’s a quick roundup of some of the 2020 candidates’ recent remarks on the question of impeachment, via NBC News:

Pete Buttigieg, South Bend mayor, told NBC that he believes there’s “evidence that this president deserves to be impeached”, but since he is not in Congress, he would leave it to the House representatives to make that decision.

Senator Kamala Harris did not rule it out in an MSNBC interview on Thursday, saying:

I think that there is definitely a conversation to be had on that subject, but first I want to hear from Bob Mueller and really understand what exactly is the evidence that supports the summary that we have been given today.”

Beto O’Rourke has said he believes voters are more interested in policy: “I don’t know that impeachment and those proceedings in the House and potential trial in the Senate is going to answer those questions for people.”

Senator Amy Klobuchar recently said: “Our job is to be jury, so I’ve been really careful talking about if an impeachment is brought before us.”

Julian Castro said he would support impeachment proceedings:

Bernie Sanders reportedly ignored reporters’ questions about impeachment earlier.

Representative Eric Swalwell told MSNBC that impeachment is “a conversation we have to have as far as holding this president accountable”.

Justice department says subpoena of Mueller report "unnecessary"

Hello - Sam Levin here, taking over our live coverage for the rest of the day.

The justice department has responded to House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerrold Nadler’s subpoena for the full Mueller report, calling it “unnecessary” and “premature”:

After a day of golf, Trump has finally returned to Twitter to finish his thoughts - nine hours later. We know you’ve been on pins and needles so here you go.

In case you missed the beginning:

With that I leave you in the very capable hands of my colleague Sam Levin.

Elijah Cummings gives Jake Tapper a very politician-y answer to the impeachment question.

We should expect that every Democrat of any influence or statue will be forced to weigh in on the question over the next few days, if they haven’t already.

For those keeping score at home, some already on the record, in no particular order. (Those in bold are running for president):

Yes: Representative Maxine Waters, Senator Elizabeth Warren, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Representative Rashida Tlaib, Former HUD Secretary Julian Castro.

No (for now): House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, Senator Cory Booker, Senator Angus King (Independent who caucuses with Democrats)

An analysis from Politico predicts that Trump figures to rage against “scapegoats” in coming days, something we may have seen a taste of in a yet-unfished thread of angry tweets.

Close White House advisers said they expect Trump’s hottest rage in the coming days will be directed at former White House counsel Don McGahn, a source of some of the report’s most embarrassing findings about the president. Trump angrily tweeted on Thursday that the report contained “total bullshit” from people trying to make themselves look good and harm the president.”

-Politico

In his tweets, Trump also made an angry reference to the inclusion of notes taken by staffers in the Mueller report. The Politico story adds a bit of background:

In one instance cited in the redacted report, which was released Thursday, the president apparently criticized McGahn for telling Mueller’s investigators that Trump sought to have Mueller removed.

“Why do you take notes? Lawyers don’t take notes. I never had a lawyer who took notes,” Trump is quoted as saying, to which McGahn responded that a “real lawyer” does.

Trump countered that he’d had “a lot of great lawyers” like Roy Cohn, who he argued “did not take notes.”

A person close to the president said Trump was particularly annoyed by notes taken by Jeff Sessions’ then-chief of staff, Jody Hunt. Hunt captured Trump’s reaction to learning about the special counsel investigation in vivid detail.

“Oh my God,” the president told Sessions, according to Hunt’s notes. “This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I’m fucked.”

Since the report was released Thursday morning, several of Trump’s current aides have pushed back about how their comments were portrayed, appearing to engage in public damage control – even though their interviews with special investigators were under oath.

Read more at Politico.

CNN’s Manu Raju is reporting that “Democratic leaders are rejecting a proposal from the Justice Department to allow the House and Senate leaders and the heads of the House and Senate Intelligence and Judiciary Committees to read a less-redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report.”

It’s been reported that Barr planned to allow “select lawmakers” to review a less-redacted version of Mueller’s repoort in a “secure area” next week.

Elizabeth Warren: Impeach Trump

The Mueller report lays out facts showing that a hostile foreign government attacked our 2016 election to help Donald Trump and Donald Trump welcomed that help. Once elected, Donald Trump obstructed the investigation into that attack.

Mueller put the next step in the hands of Congress: “Congress has authority to prohibit a President’s corrupt use of his authority in order to protect the integrity of the administration of justice.” The correct process for exercising that authority is impeachment.

To ignore a President’s repeated efforts to obstruct an investigation into his own disloyal behavior would inflict great and lasting damage on this country, and it would suggest that both the current and future Presidents would be free to abuse their power in similar ways.

The severity of this misconduct demands that elected officials in both parties set aside political considerations and do their constitutional duty. That means the House should initiate impeachment proceedings against the President of the United States.”

-Senator and 2020 presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren.

The Trump 2020 campaign says it has raised more than $1m since the Mueller report was released, according to The Hill.

“Sorry Trump haters. The biggest waste of money witch hunt in history is finally over,” read a text sent to campaign supporters. “The attacks and lies will keep coming heading into 2020. That’s why we need to fight back bigger and stronger than ever before.”

The campaign reached the goal it set in a message to supporters Thursday afternoon.

The campaign is also running Facebook advertisements attempting to fundraise off the report, with more than 50 active since Thursday according to the Facebook ad library.

Updated

Romney on WH conduct detailed in Mueller report: sickened and appalled

Utah Senator Mitt Romney offered a scathing reaction to the Muller report, describing himself as “sickened at the extent and pervasiveness of dishonesty and misdirection by individuals in the highest office of the land, including the President.”

He continued:

Reading the report is a sobering revelation of how far we have strayed from the aspirations and principles of the founders.”

The 2012 Republican nominee for president has been among Trump’s most vociferous critics from within his own party, and by far the most prominent Republican to win an election as a Trump critic.

Updated

Trump approval hits 2019 low on heels of Mueller report

The number of Americans who approve of President Donald Trump dropped by 3 percentage points to the lowest level of the year following the release of a special counsel report detailing Russian interference in the last U.S. presidential election, according to a Reuters/Ipsos public opinion poll.

The poll, conducted Thursday afternoon to Friday morning is the first post-Mueller release of the president’s approval.

According to the poll, 37 percent of adults in the United States approved of Trump’s performance in office, down from 40 percent in a similar poll conducted on April 15 and matching the lowest level of the year. That is also down from 43 percent in a poll conducted shortly after U.S. Attorney General William Barr circulated a summary of the report in March.

Updated

Federal authorities announced that a Florida man called three Democrats at their Washington, D.C. offices April 16 and left voicemail messages threatening murder.

The lawmakers targeted included California Congressman Eric Swalwell, Detroit Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, and New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker.

“You’re gonna die. Don’t wanna do that shit, boy. You’ll be [on] your deathbed, motherfucker, along with the rest of you Democrats. So if you want death, keep that shit up, motherfucker,” the man, 49-year-old John Kless allegedly said in his message to Swalwell. He has been charged with making threatening communications.

Updated

As details emerge …

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Latest from the White House: “Today the President played golf with Rush Limbaugh and a couple friends.”

...In case you were wondering.

US President Donald Trump walks as he plays a round of golf on the Ailsa course at Trump Turnberry, the luxury golf resort of US President Donald Trump, in Turnberry, southwest of Glasgow, Scotland on July 14, 2018, during the private part of his four-day UK visit.
US President Donald Trump walks as he plays a round of golf on the Ailsa course at Trump Turnberry, the luxury golf resort of US President Donald Trump, in Turnberry, southwest of Glasgow, Scotland on July 14, 2018, during the private part of his four-day UK visit. Photograph: Andy Buchanan/AFP/Getty Images

Freshman congresswoman Ilhan Omar got lots of love on Twitter for turning Trump’s recent favorite catchphrase back on him.

Trump has been increasingly using the term “presidential harassment” (more than a dozen times since December) to describe what he feels is unfair treatment of himself and his administration.

Omar’s quip of having “lived through” harassment by rather than of the president, is a reference to Trump saying that Omar has “got a way about her that’s very, very bad for our country.”

Trump continued: “She’s been very disrespectful to this country. She’s been very disrespectful, frankly, to Israel. She is somebody that doesn’t really understand life, real life. What it’s all about,” he told a reporter.

Omar has been under fire from conservatives for remarks she made about 9/11, which were presented out of context by some GOP lawmakers and by Fox News.

Colorado Senator Michael Bennet had “completely successful” surgery to treat prostate cancer, a spokesperson said Friday.

“His doctors report the surgery was completely successful and he requires no further treatment,” the spokesperson said. “Michael and his family deeply appreciate the well wishes and support from Coloradans and others across the country.”

Bennet received the diagnosis last month, forcing him to abandon-at least temporarily- plans he had made to join the crowded Democratic presidential field.

Earlier this month, Bennet told the Colorado Independent that prior to his doctors informing him of his cancer diagnosis, he had planned to announce his candidacy for president in April and had even hired staff. At the time, he said that he intended to still run for president if he is cancer-free. It is unclear if his plans remain the same, as the field of challengers has grown even larger since that time.

Bennet is expected to return to the Senate after the current two-week congressional recess.

TV’s HBO isn’t happy about Donald Trump’s celebratory (and possibly misguided as well as misappropriated) “Game Over” Game of Thrones meme that he tweeted after the Mueller report came out.

As of Friday morning, it’s pinned to the top of his Twitter account.

The tweet shows an image of the president’s back turned to camera, amid fog, and, in Game of Thrones-style lettering, the words: “No collusion. No obstruction. For the haters and the radical left Democrats - Game Over”.

Not long afterwards, HBO put out a statement.
“Though we can understand the enthusiasm for Game of Thrones now that the final season has arrived, we still prefer our intellectual property not be used for political purposes,” an HBO spokesman said, and Variety magazine reported.

HBO, a division of AT&T’s WarnerMedia, clocked 17.4 million viewers on the premiere of Game of Thrones’ final season last Sunday. Trump has cribbed from the series before, and earned some protest from HBO.

Last November, Trump promoted his administration’s promised sanctions against Iran by tweeting “SANCTIONS ARE COMING NOVEMBER 5” in reference to the popular phrase “Winter is coming” from GoT.

The White House has yet to comment on HBO’s post-Mueller statement.

Another former federal prosecutor weighs in on CNN:

If this was any person other than the president of the United States, I can say as a former prosecutor, this would be a knock-down case for obstruction,” said CNN legal analyst Elie Honig. “I’ve charged and convicted on obstruction of justice based on a fraction of this evidence.

- Elie Honig

In an opinion column for Politico, a former federal prosecutor describes the Mueller report as “case meticulously laid out by a prosecutor who knew he was not allowed to bring it.”

The case is so detailed that it is hard to escape the conclusion that Mueller could have indicted and convicted Trump for obstruction of justice—if he were permitted to do so. And the reason he is not permitted to do so is very clear: Department of Justice policy prohibits the indictment of a sitting president.”

In the column Renato Mariotti laid out a similar argument to the one Rachel Maddow made on her MSNBC program last night.

The logic of the argument is basically as follow:

1. Mueller accepted the standing DoJ policy that indicting a sitting president would cause impermissible damage to the ability of the executive branch to conduct the nation’s business.

2. For Mueller to declare Trump committed a crime without indicting him for one, would be unfair because he would be essentially denied his constitutional right to fight that accusation in court.

3. Under those constraints Mueller was only ever free to A. conclude no crime was committed, or B. leave the question unanswered, for Congress to draw its own conclusion.

4. Since he chose B, it’s likely that Mueller concluded laws were broken, but that he was in no administrative or legal position to state so conclusively.

Republican Senator Roy Blunt says he agrees with Nancy Pelosi on the folly of impeachment. +1 for bipartisanship?

The public release of the special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Thursday finally brought into the open key findings from the two-year investigation into Russian interference in the US election. The special counsel team found no criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Moscow but disclosed damning revelations about Donald Trump’s repeated attempts to interfere with the Russia investigation and possible obstruction of justice.

But the 448-page report includes substantial redactions – on the subject of Russian hacking, nearly two-thirds of the section is blacked out. Those redactions, as well as Mueller’s decision to punt on the question of whether Trump committed a crime, raise a series of fresh questions about the conduct of Trump and his aides.

Below are just a few of them:

Earlier we told you to stay tuned for the rest of Trump’s thoughts on the “crazy” Mueller report.

Hopefully you’re still tuned, because - nothing yet. It’s been four hours.

It’s certainly possible the president was pulled away for important business, as happens to presidents sometimes. But the only thing on the president’s public schedule today is a visit to the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach.

Updated

Barr made nearly 1,000 redactions in Mueller report

How many redactions?

Attorney general William Barr’s office made nearly 1,000 redactions in the Mueller report, mostly on the basis that revealing the information would cause “harm to an ongoing matter” , according to a Reuters analysis.

Updated

Analysis: Any other president in America’s history would have had to resign or now face being ousted.

But no past president has so frequently denied reality, nor seemed so unfamiliar with the very concept of shame. Neither, perhaps, has any past president enjoyed the support of such a compliant Senate, which is Republican-held, and willing to excuse his every scandal in the service of their agenda.

The activity discovered by Mueller was not, as Trump and his allies falsely insist, standard stuff for a rough-and-tumble political campaign.

READ MORE:

Beto O’Rourke is among the ranks of 2020 hopefuls who are unenthused by the prospect of impeachment.

Tossing in a humblebrag about the number of questions he’s fielded in townhalls, O’Rourke said the Muller report has only come up two or three times out of more than 500 questions.

“I don’t know that impeachment... is going to answer those questions,” O’Rouke said. “We can solve this once and for all in November of 2020”

Updated

One of the clearest takeaways from the Mueller report was the conclusion by investigators that Russia successfully mounted a campaign to interfere with the 2016 US election.

Today Moscow is rejecting that conclusion in the strongest language.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Friday that there is “no evidence substantiated by any facts” that Russia interfered in the election, and said stressed that Moscow rejects the accusations.

Peskov pointed out that President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly denied the claims of interference “because there was none,” The AP reports.

In the upper chamber of the Russian Parliament, the chairman of the information committee, Alexei Pushkov, on Friday mocked the Mueller probe for spending millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money without ever proving there was any collusion between Trump and the Kremlin, instead charging Trump’s former campaign chief with illegal lobbying on behalf of Ukraine.

Mueller stated on the very first page of the report that the Russian government “interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion.”

Close parsing of the Mueller report continues to raise questions about Attorney General Barr’s summary of the report released last month. Barr has been accused of rendering a partisan reading of the report to protect president Trump, and contradictions like these won’t help to ease any of those critiques.

Congressman Eric Swalwell, who is running for president said on MSNBC moments ago of Barr: “He can either be the president’s lawyer or America’s lawyer. He has chosen to work for the president. I believe he should resign immediately.”

Updated

Former FBI director James Comey is in the woods being dramatic again, tweeting “So many answers”, accompanied by a picture of forest ground. It was an apparent nod to the release of the full (redacted) Mueller report.

After Attorney General William Barr released his short summary of the Mueller report in March, Comey had tweeted himself in the woods with the caption: “So many questions”.

Updated

Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker has built his candidacy on striking a positive, conciliatory tone, so it should be no surprise that he’s not interested in the impeachment conversation.

Asked by reporters Thursday night in Nevada, the New Jersey senator said flatly: “No”.

He added when pressed: “If a president violates the law... of course it should be considered, but I’m not at that point yet, and I think what we should be talking about is continuing this investigation.”

Biden to enter race officially

Former Vice President Joe Biden is expected to announce he’s running for president next week.

Former US vice president Joe Biden greets people as he prepares to leave a rally organized by UFCW Union members to support Stop and Shop employees on strike throughout the region at the Stop and Shop in Dorchester, Massachusetts, April 18, 2019.
Former US vice president Joe Biden greets people as he prepares to leave a rally organized by UFCW Union members to support Stop and Shop employees on strike throughout the region at the Stop and Shop in Dorchester, Massachusetts, April 18, 2019. Photograph: Joseph Prezioso/AFP/Getty Images

That’s according to three people with knowledge of Biden’s plans. It was first reported by the Atlantic.

Biden will enter the race as a Democratic front-runner, although the 76-year-old faces questions about his age and whether his more moderate record fits with a party that has become more liberal. He has also recently been challenged over a pattern of inappropriately touching women at public events- for which he has since apologized and vowed to modify his behavior.

The announcement is expected as early as Wednesday and would cap months of deliberation over his political future.

The people with knowledge of Biden’s plans insisted on anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

Representative Doug Collins, the ranking Republican member on the House Judiciary Committee, is calling chairman Nadler’s subpoena “wildly overbroad.”

It commands the department to provide Congress with millions of records that would be plainly against the law to share because the vast majority of these documents came as a result of nearly 2,800 subpoenas from a grand jury that is still ongoing.

Whether it’s “overbroad” is a question to be sorted out on the hill, but there’s no denying that the request is indeed broad, as Guardian reporter Jon Swaine explains:

Nadler’s sweeping request instructs Barr to hand over “all documents obtained and investigative materials created” by Mueller’s office. It sets Barr a deadline of 1 May.

This document haul, amounting to all the work created over 22 months by 19 attorneys and almost 40 other investigators, could well run to more than a million pages.

Mueller’s team interviewed about 500 people, issued more than 2,800 subpoenas and obtained hundreds more court orders for records of electronic communications.

Barr may decide to fight the request, which would mean Nadler’s committee have to go to court to request that the subpoena be enforced. It is possible that the dispute could eventually reach the US supreme court.

In a statement on Friday, Nadler said he was willing to work with the Justice Department to “reach a reasonable accommodation” but stressed he would not accept a situation that “leaves most of Congress in the dark”.

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders was on the defensive on ABC’s “Good Morning America” after beign pressed on language in the Mueller report suggesting that she made a dishonest statement to reporters about the firing of former FBI head James Comey.

In May 2017, Sanders said the White House had heard from “countless members of the FBI” who had lost faith in former FBI director James B. Comey.

According to the Mueller report, that statement was “not founded on anything.”

She said to George Stephanopoulos Friday morning:

“It was the heat of the moment, meaning that it wasn’t a scripted talking point,” Sanders said on ABC. “I’m sorry that I wasn’t a robot like the Democrat party that went out for two and a half years and stated time and time again that there was definitely Russia collusion between the president and his campaign.

Donald Trump has begun his Friday by tweeting curse words alongside his usual angry name-calling, and also by apparently attacking the act of taking notes?

Trump called the Mueller report “crazy” and “written by 18 Angry Democrat Trump Haters, which are fabricated & totally untrue,” Friday morning before suggesting to “Watch out for people that take so-called ‘notes,’ when the notes never existed until needed.”

There is no evidence that notes relied upon on for the Mueller report were generated after the fact.

He went on that “statements made in the ‘Report’ about me, some of which are total bullshit, & only given to make the other person look good (or me to look bad).”

The two-tweet thread ended in the middle of a thought with ellipses so... stay tuned?

Some of us are old enough to remember that once upon a time, Trump and his team considered the “crazy” report to be “total vindication” of the president. Actually, most of us are. It was less than a month ago.

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House issues subpoena for full Mueller report

Good Morning, It’s Mueller report hangover day. If you were worried there would be a lull in the political news cycle after the much-anticipated, redacted release from the special counsel, I have good news. There won’t.

First things first: The House Judiciary Committee has subpoenaed for the full Mueller report, following Thursday’s release by the Justice Department.

“We need the entire report, unredacted, and the underlying documents in order to make informed decisions,” chairman Jerrold Nadler said earlier Friday on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

In a statement he added:

My Committee needs and is entitled to the full version of the report and the underlying evidence consistent with past practice. The redactions appear to be significant. We have so far seen none of the actual evidence that the Special Counsel developed to make this case. Even the redacted version of the report outlines serious instances of wrongdoing by President Trump and some of his closest associates. It now falls to Congress to determine the full scope of that alleged misconduct and to decide what steps we must take going forward.”

In case you missed it: The report released yesterday described 11 instances in which Donald Trump or his campaign engaged in potential obstruction of justice and suggested Congress might prosecute these acts as crimes.

That would mean impeachment, a prospect that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has been vocally dismissive of.

She may be reconsidering though. Late Thursday she sent a letter to her colleagues and planning for a Monday conference call to discuss the Mueller report. “Congress will not be silent,” she wrote.

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