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House Democrats will convene via conference call on Monday to discuss the next steps following the public release of special counsel MORE obstructed justice. In a letter to House Democrats Thursday night, Speaker MORE (D-Calif.) told her caucus that they will talk about their strategy following the Passover and Easter holiday weekend, which will also offer lawmakers time to review the 448-page report in full. Pelosi said the conclusion offered by Attorney General MORE as FBI director and attempts to order then-White

More than 900 redactions in special counsel MORE’s knowledge of Russian-led efforts to steal and disseminate Democratic documents in the 2016 presidential campaign. They also indicate that federal investigators and prosecutors still have a way to go before closing the book on Russia’s efforts to help Trump defeat Democratic rival MORE in the last election. While Mueller has completed his investigation, he has transferred two mystery cases to other divisions of the Department of Justice and referred 14 matters o

Special counsel MORE’s report on the Russia investigation reveals the extent to which White House aides, sometimes to protect the president and sometimes themselves, ignored his directives related to the investigations spiraling around his campaign and administration. Mueller suggested that the aides’ actions, or lack thereof, may have shielded the president and themselves from obstruction charges. “The President’s efforts to influence the investigation were mostly unsuccessful, but that is largely because the persons who surrounded the president declined to carry out

The release of special counsel MORE’s report on Thursday ends a two-year investigation that has shadowed Donald Trump’s presidency but opens a new era likely to keep Mueller and his findings in the spotlight. The White House and congressional Republicans welcomed Thursday’s report as positive news for the president, while Democrats vowed to move forward with their investigations. Mueller ultimately did not establish that Trump or members of his campaign coordinated or conspired with Moscow to affect the 2016 presidential election, but he and his team declined to reach

The full report from special counsel MORE was finally published — in modestly redacted form — on Thursday. The hype was immense, but who were the winners and losers? Winners Special counsel Robert Mueller The report was the first time Mueller’s own voice was heard loud and clear, rather than being filtered by Attorney General MORE, a Trump appointee. The results were impressive. Across more than 400 pages, the seriousness and diligence of Mueller’s efforts was clearly apparent.

In an opinion-editorial for the Washington Post, Podesta wrote the Mueller report stated that the Trump campaign was aware of a WikiLeaks document dump of emails that Russian intelligence associates stole from Clinton’s campaign and the Democrat National Committee’s (DNC) servers. The longtime Clintonista wrote: “Mueller got us this far.

The 400-page report released on Thursday after a two-year investigation found neither the president nor anyone associated with his 2016 campaign colluded with the Russians, and it did not conclude that Trump had obstructed justice by interfering with the investigation. Sanders disagreed and called for a continued probe into the president. “It is clear that Donald Trump wanted nothing more than to shut down the Mueller investigation,” Sanders tweeted.

“What the Mueller report disturbingly shows, with crystal clarity, is that today there is a cancer in the presidency: President Donald J.

WASHINGTON - The Justice Department plans to release a lightly redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller’s 400-page report Thursday, offering a granular look at the ways in which President Trump was suspected of obstructing justice, people familiar with the matter said.