{"id":403474,"date":"2019-04-21T10:08:51","date_gmt":"2019-04-21T09:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/top-democrats-call-for-mueller-to-testify-over-his-report-rt-usa-news\/"},"modified":"2019-04-21T10:08:51","modified_gmt":"2019-04-21T09:08:51","slug":"top-democrats-call-for-mueller-to-testify-over-his-report-rt-usa-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/top-democrats-call-for-mueller-to-testify-over-his-report-rt-usa-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Democrats call for Mueller to testify over his report \u2014 RT USA News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.04\/thumbnail\/5cb87682dda4c8a6438b45aa.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        Unhappy with the way the White House is rolling out the redacted version of the special counsel\u2019s report to the public, leaders of the Democratic Party want Robert Mueller to testify before Congress.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer issued their statement ahead of the planned press conference by Attorney General William Barr and the publication of the redacted report on the probe into alleged collusion between Donald Trump\u2019s presidential election campaign and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The probe, which lasted for almost two years, came to the conclusion that there was no collusion, delivering a severe blow to the \u2018Russiagate\u2019 narrative pushed by the president\u2019s opponents.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The only way to begin restoring public trust in the handling of the Special Counsel\u2019s investigation is for Special Counsel Mueller himself to provide public testimony in the House and Senate as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpeakerPelosi\/status\/1118840804519350272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 18, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">AG Barr\u2019s handling of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MuellerReport?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MuellerReport<\/a> has been regrettably partisan, including his slanted 3\/24 summary letter, irresponsible testimony before Congress, &amp; indefensible plan to spin the report in a press conference today\u2014hours before he allows the public or Congress to see it.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenSchumer\/status\/1118864348510867456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 18, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Democrats were unhappy with the summary of the report delivered by Barr at the end of March. They have also criticized the decision to roll out the 400-page report with a press conference first as an attempt to control the narrative. The Department of Justice usually holds a media conference before releasing the results of major investigations. But this time, several House Democratic committee chairs demanded that Barr cancel the <em>\u201cunnecessary and inappropriate\u201d<\/em> presser planned for 9:30am on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"read-more-big\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/456854-mueller-report-release-russiagate\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"read-more-big__container\"><br \/>\n        <span class=\"read-more-big__content\"><br \/>\n            <span class=\"read-more-big__subtitle\">Also on rt.com<\/span><br \/>\n            <span class=\"read-more-big__title\">Countdown to Mueller report release: Russiagate\u2019s end or just another conspiracy chapter?<\/span><br \/>\n        <\/span><br \/>\n            <span class=\"read-more-big__cover lazyload\" data-bgset=\"&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.04\/xxs\/5cb7aeccdda4c8f1708b45d5.JPG 280w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.04\/xs\/5cb7aeccdda4c8f1708b45d5.JPG 320w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.04\/thumbnail\/5cb7aeccdda4c8f1708b45d5.JPG 460w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.04\/m\/5cb7aeccdda4c8f1708b45d5.JPG 540w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.04\/l\/5cb7aeccdda4c8f1708b45d5.JPG 768w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.04\/article\/5cb7aeccdda4c8f1708b45d5.JPG 980w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.04\/xxl\/5cb7aeccdda4c8f1708b45d5.JPG 1240w&#10;                        \" data-sizes=\"auto\"\/><br \/>\n    <\/span><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/subscribe\/\" id=\"subscribe-focus\">Subscribe<\/a> to RT newsletter to get stories the mainstream media won\u2019t tell you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/456917-democrat-subpoena-mueller-testify\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unhappy with the way the White House is rolling out the redacted version of the special counsel\u2019s report to the public, leaders of the Democratic Party want Robert Mueller to testify before Congress. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer issued their statement ahead of the planned press conference by Attorney General [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":403475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-403474","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}