Tempers flare as Republican senators seek unilateral subpoena power to probe Russia investigation.
Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein faced a grilling from Senate Republicans Wednesday over new revelations regarding the Russia probe’s origins.A bitter partisan fight in the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday forced its GOP chairman, Lindsey Graham, to delay a vote that would give him unilateral subpoena power in a GOP-led probe of the counterintelligence investigation that led to the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller.
President Donald Trump smiles as he stands alongside Senator Lindsey Graham during a Keep America Great campaign rally in North Charleston, South Carolina, Feb. 28, 2020.Graham, a top Trump ally, noted that he supported Democrats in their effort to shield Mueller from being fired and it was time they back him in return.
As the verbal sparring reached a crescendo, a clearly-exasperated Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., interrupted his colleagues, accusing all of them of showboating for the media. “I would dare say the conversation we are having today is irrelevant to what is happening on the streets of America,” Harris said. “Today we are looking at people in pain, people by the thousands of every race, age and geographic location, shouting for justice in America. Yet this committee doth protest too much, as Shakespeare might say, on an issue that is not relevant to the people and the pain that America is feeling today.
Over in the Senate Homeland Committee Thursday, Republicans voted along party lines to approve unilateral subpoena power for its chairman to dig into how law enforcement investigated the Trump presidential transition. The Graham-led Trump-Russia probe was sparked by a Department of Justice watchdog's finding of multiple problems with the way the FBI obtained secret surveillance warrants for surveillance of former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. But no Republican publicly acknowledged Thursday that the watchdog also found that the Mueller probe"was opened for an authorized investigative purpose and with sufficient factual predication.
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