Article snippet: “Yesterday, Attorney General [William] Barr transmitted to Congress his summary of the Special Counsel’s principal conclusions from his investigation into Russia’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 election. The result of that investigation is being hailed as good news for the president. It certainly is that. But really, it is good news for the country,” he said in a speech on the Senate floor. “[T]he American people hired this president to clean up the mess of the preceding eight years. That’s exactly what we’ve set about doing. And the results are clear. The nation is clearly better off than it was two years ago,” he said in a Senate floor speech. “So I sincerely hope that now, at last, our friends on the left will be able to put aside their fixation on permanently re-litigating their loss in 2016 and actually join in the productive work that the rest of us have been proudly engaged in for two years and counting,” he said. Barr announced Sunday in a letter to leaders of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees that Mueller found that there was no collusion, conspiracy, or coordination by anyone on the Trump campaign with Russia. Barr said Mueller did not take any judgment on whether the president obstructed justice and that he and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein concluded that the evidence on obstruction was not sufficient for a criminal offense. McConnell took a swipe at Democrat colleagues for “spinning intricate theories” and trying to “sell the Ameri... Link to the full article to read more