Democratic committee chairmen shift focus to Barr as House investigations forge ahead

The key Democratic-controlled House committees investigating President Donald Trump and his administration are forging ahead with their probes into the president, his finances, and allegations of nepotism despite special counsel Robert S. Mueller’s conclusion publicized Sunday that he could not “establish” a case that that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia during the 2016 elections.

But while House Democrats continue with their investigative work, they made clear Sunday that Attorney General William Barr’s four-page summary of Mueller’s key findings does not quell their appetite for information about Mueller’s 22-month probe.

The House Judiciary Committee will call Barr to testify about what they characterized as a hasty decision not to pursue obstruction of justice charges against the president for interfering with Mueller’s work and the FBI probe that preceded it, Chairman Jerrold Nadler said Sunday.

In a joint statement, Nadler, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff and Oversight and Reform Chairman Elijah Cummings questioned Barr’s objectivity on the open legal question of whether a sitting president can commit obstruction of justice using tools under his authority as the nation’s chief executive — such as firing an FBI director whose bureau is looking into actions taken by his campaign team.

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