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“Democrats want to pretend that there is no border crisis, for one simple reason. Because they have caused the border crisis,” Donald Trump said. “You know why else? Honestly? Because they want votes, and they don’t want to give us a win.” Trump said that illegal immigrants and migrants crossing the border were met by lawyers who coached them to take advantage of the existing legal loopholes to get into the country. “It’s a big, fat con job, folks,” he said.

JOAN VENNOCHI If Democrats don’t give up on it, they will be aiding and abetting Trump’s reelection.  The fact that Robert Mueller was unable to rule out the possibility that the president of the United States may have criminally obstructed justice is no mere side issue, no minor footnote.

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats pressed the Justice Department Monday to provide the full report from special counsel Robert Mueller even as Republicans gleefully called for them to ‘‘move on’’ from the Russia investigation.

JOAN VENNOCHI If Democrats don’t give up on it, they will be aiding and abetting Trump’s reelection.  The fact that Robert Mueller was unable to rule out the possibility that the president of the United States may have criminally obstructed justice is no mere side issue, no minor footnote.

JOAN VENNOCHI If Democrats don’t give up on it, they will be aiding and abetting Trump’s reelection.  The fact that Robert Mueller was unable to rule out the possibility that the president of the United States may have criminally obstructed justice is no mere side issue, no minor footnote.

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Democrats pressing the Justice Department to quickly release the Mueller report may soon need to find a Plan B. The Department of Justice expects to issue a redacted version of special counsel MORE to turn over the full report. That raises a number of questions for Democrats about how hard to push for the release of the report, which Mueller submitted to Barr on Friday.

MORE said Wednesday that he wants to campaign against the Green New Deal. "I really don't want to say anything about it. I want them to keep going forward with it because I want to campaign against it," he said of the sweeping climate resolution during an interview with Fox News's Sean Hannity. The resolution, introduced last month by Rep. previously called the initiative "the most preposterous thing." "You look at this Green New Deal.

Only Rep. MORE (D-Texas) spoke in support of Tlaib's resolution.  Green first announced in February that he plans to force another House floor vote on impeachment, but hasn't yet introduced articles of impeachment or offered a timeline. He renewed that pledge again on Wednesday. "There will be another vote on impeachment in the House of Representatives. I will do it," Green said in a House floor speech following Tlaib's. Green previously forced two procedural votes on his articles of impeachment in the last session of Congress, while Republicans controlled the House.

Republican lawmakers were caught completely off guard by MORE’s renewed push to repeal and replace ObamaCare and privately complain it’s a dumb political strategy heading into the 2020 election.  Senate Finance Committee Chairman MORE (R-Iowa), whose panel has jurisdiction over health care, said he received no heads-up from Trump or the White House that the president would call Tuesday for the GOP to become “the party of health care.”  “I don’t think there was any heads-up on anything that he was going to say,” said Grassley, who added that h