House Judiciary Committee votes to hold Barr in contempt for obstruction
The full House will now vote on whether to punish the attorney general for blocking a legal order to hand over the full Mueller report.
By Emily Singer - May 08, 2019The full House will now vote on whether to punish the attorney general for blocking a legal order to hand over the full Mueller report.
By Emily Singer - May 08, 2019Blocking Mueller’s testimony would be Trump’s latest obstructive move.
By Emily Singer - May 07, 2019Cory Gardner defends Trump’s attempts to ignore congressional subpoenas and obstruct the House investigation into Trump’s criminal activity.
By Dan Desai Martin - May 07, 2019The White House is blocking a ‘critical witness’ from testifying to Congress in the investigation of Trump’s crimes.
By Emily Singer - May 07, 2019Mitch McConnell delivered a shameless speech in which he gave Trump and Republicans a pass on their years of conspiracy theorizing.
By Emily Singer - May 07, 2019Under oath to Congress, FBI Director Christopher Wray contradicts the wild conspiracy theories pushed by Trump’s attorney general, William Barr.
By Dan Desai Martin - May 07, 2019The group of former prosecutors said the only reason Trump hasn’t been charged is because he’s president.
By Emily Singer - May 06, 2019But Trump did have time to whine about the Mueller investigation.
By Emily Singer - May 06, 2019House Democrats have drafted a contempt of Congress resolution against Trump’s attorney general, and will hold a vote on it Wednesday.
By Emily Singer - May 06, 2019The Mueller report laid out in excruciating detail how Russia nefariously meddled in the 2016 election — but Trump still refuses to confront Putin about it.
By Emily Singer - May 03, 2019The House Judiciary chair gave Attorney General William Barr until Monday to hand over the unredacted Mueller report.
By Emily Singer - May 03, 2019White House lawyers wanted Mueller to either charge Trump with a crime or say nothing at all.
By Emily Singer - May 02, 2019House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Attorney General William Barr lied to Congress, and she called it out as a ‘crime.’
By Emily Singer - May 02, 2019In a cowardly move, Attorney General Bill Barr is now defying a request to appear before the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday.
By Emily Singer - May 01, 2019Attorney General William Barr ended his Wednesday hearing by trying to diminish special counsel Robert Mueller’s service, even calling Mueller’s work ‘snitty.’
By Emily Singer - May 01, 2019‘You lied to Congress,’ Sen. Mazie Hirono told Attorney General Wiliam Barr. ‘You knew you lied. And now, we know.’
By Emily Singer - May 01, 2019MSNBC had to interrupt the hearing with Attorney General William Barr again to tell viewers that Barr was lying.
By Emily Singer - May 01, 2019MSNBC had to fact-check Sen. Lindsey Graham during a hearing with Attorney General Bill Barr.
By Emily Singer - May 01, 2019Attorney General William Barr ignored a demand from special counsel Robert Mueller to release summaries Mueller had written without ‘delay.’
By Emily Singer - May 01, 2019Yet another member of Trump’s circle could find himself in legal trouble.
By Emily Singer - April 30, 2019If Trump weren’t a sitting president, he’d probably be indicted right now.
By Dan Desai Martin - April 26, 2019Current and former White House aides who ignore congressional subpoenas do so at their own risk.
By Emily Singer - April 26, 2019Attorney General William Barr defended Ken Starr’s investigation of Bill Clinton in a way he never did for Robert Mueller’s investigation of Trump.
By Lisa Needham - April 25, 2019Trump is desperately trying to attack the damning findings of the Mueller report, but he’s not getting any help from his former attorney general.
By Emily Singer - April 25, 2019The vice president refused to take a pledge not to use hacked information from Russian adversaries in the 2020 campaign.
By Emily Singer - April 25, 2019She has refused to face reporters for 45 days, but on Thursday held a fake briefing for Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day.
By Emily Singer - April 25, 2019The House Oversight Committee is warning Trump aides that it’s not in their best interests to ignore congressional subpoenas at Trump’s behest.
By Emily Singer - April 24, 2019Trump’s lawyer went on Fox News to suggest the Justice Department will be coming after Hillary Clinton as payback for the Mueller investigation.
By Emily Singer - April 24, 2019For all of his baseless insistence that he has been exonerated, Trump is clearly nervous that his crimes are catching up to him.
By Emily Singer - April 24, 2019Former Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen was told not to bring up Russian election hacking in front of Trump because it hurt Trump’s feelings.
By Emily Singer - April 24, 2019