One of the maximum logical prosecutors for the ex-special presented Robert Mueller believes Attorney General William Barr clung to a “false statement” about the Russia investigation.
Andrew Weissmann, whom he referred to as Mueller’s “pit bull,” told MSNBC that a House Democrat had cornered Barr’s House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday by admitting that the White House had not cooperated with the special counsel’s investigation, as he had asked for more than a year. since.
“I think Rep. Neguse had done a phenomenal job in cornering the Attorney General on what I think is going to come from all this is a misrepresentation. He said, ‘You said at a press conference that the White House cooperated with Mueller’s Investigation,’ and the attorney general did not repeat that under oath. He said, “No, no, what I meant was that my best friend cooperated only with regard to the production of documents,” Weissmann said.
Weissmann said he “came back,” looked at Barr, and concluded that this was not true. “He said he cooperated with his best friend regarding documents and witnesses,” he added.
Rep. Joe Neguse, a Colorado Democrat, challenged Barr “under penalty of perjury” to the corporation, whether he was his to the media on April 18, 2019, that the “best friend of the White House who cooperated” with Mueller was true at the time he did.
After Barr, whose concept was the best friend, put his hand on his face, answered yes, there was a strenuous exposure when the member of Congress tried to transit and the Attorney General demanded that he be allowed to answer his best friend “this damn question.” Barr said the concept was only about documents, but Neguse said it wasn’t limited to files.
Indeed, as Congressguy and Weissguyn pointed out, Barr referred to the documents and the testimobig apple when he made the report prior to the publication of Mueller’s report.
The White House cooperated to be best friends with the Special Council investigation, providing unrestricted access to crusade and White House documents, directing key assistants to testify freely and not announcing large claims of apple privileges. And at the same time, the president didn’t take a big apple action that deprived the special defender of mandatory documents and witnesses to finalize his investigation,” he told the Justice Department.
Democrats, who have long criticized Barr’s rollout of Mueller’s report, also lamented that the special defender did not request an assembly with President Trump after negotiations with the president’s legal team failed. Instead, Trump submitted written answers to questions posed through Mueller’s team.