“Corey Lewandowski jumped to President Trump’s defense on Tuesday during his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, blasting ‘Trump haters’ and making it clear he will not answer questions the White House wants him to avoid,” The Hill reports.
“The committee hearing quickly descended into chaos as Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) sought to question Lewandowski… Things quickly went downhill from there as GOP members pushed for an adjournment of the panel.”
House Judiciary Chair Jerry Nadler (D-NY) seemed to waffle on whether to move full-speed ahead on impeachment, telling the New York Daily News: “If you’re going to impeach the president, you want more than Democrats and progressives to understand what you’re doing.”
He added: “You have to have enough public support so that you’re not tearing the country apart, so that you don’t have half the country saying for the next 30 years, ‘We won the election — you stole it from us.’”
“House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) said that he is going to court Friday and again next week in bids to enforce subpoenas seeking grand jury information associated with the special counsel investigation and testimony from former White House counsel Donald McGahn,” the Washington Post reports.
“Nadler said favorable court orders on those matters would ‘open the floodgates’ for enforcement of other subpoenas that he considers key to ongoing investigations of President Trump that have been stymied by White House’s refusal to cooperate.”
“House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler told Democratic leaders at a closed-door meeting this week that he could issue a subpoena to Robert Mueller within two weeks if he is unable to reach an agreement to secure the former special counsel’s public testimony,” Politico reports.
“Nadler’s comments at the Tuesday meeting were his clearest remarks to date on the possibility of compelling Mueller’s attendance at a public hearing.”
“House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler said that there ‘certainly is’ justification for launching impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump, but cautioned that the public first must agree that it’s warranted,” Politico reports.
Said Nadler: “Impeachment is a political act, and you cannot impeach a president if the American people will not support it.”
He added: “The American people right now do not support it because they do not know the story. They don’t know the facts. We have to get the facts out. We have to hold a series of hearings, we have to hold the investigations.”
“Given that Special Counsel Mueller was unable to pursue criminal charges against the President, it falls to Congress to respond to the crimes, lies and other wrongdoing of President Trump – and we will do so. No one, not even the President of the United States, is above the law.”
— House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY), in a statement.
House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (R-NY) told WNYC that he will hold televised hearings on President Trump’s alleged misconduct in office before considering impeachment.
Said Nadler: “We will have major hearings. Barr and Mueller are just the first. We will call many other people, we’ll see who they are.”
House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) said that he would give Attorney General Bill Barr “time to change his mind” about providing the full, unredacted report, but that the subpoena would be served if he does not voluntarily comply, Axios reports.
“The House Judiciary Committee plans to vote Wednesday to authorize subpoenas to obtain the full report of special counsel Robert Mueller, escalating a feud with the Justice Department over a lengthy document detailing findings about Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election,” the Washington Post reports.
“Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, on Monday announced plans for the panel’s vote, which would take place a day after a deadline the committee set for Attorney General William Barr to share the report.”
Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) told CNN that if President Trump is found to have violated campaign finance laws with hush payments to women then it “might very well be an impeachable offense.”
Said Nadler: “Well, it may be an impeachable offense if it goes to the question of the President procuring his office through corrupt means. And that could be impeachable.”
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