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Democratic impeachment investigators looking at whether Trump misled Mueller | TheHill

posted onNovember 19, 2019
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Article snippet: Democrats are looking into MORE’s probe, including whether the president misled Mueller, as part of the impeachment inquiry, a House Judiciary Committee counsel told a panel of federal circuit court judges on Monday. House Democrats, who have repeatedly pushed for the urgent release of redacted grand jury materials stemming from Mueller’s probe into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, made the case for the documents’ continued relevance, even as the impeachment inquiry zeroes in on Trump’s dealings with Ukraine.  In arguments before a panel of appellate judges of the D.C. Circuit Court, House attorney MORE in particular. Manafort’s statements could shed light on whether written responses Trump provided to the special counsel were untruthful, Letter said. Trump told Mueller he didn't recall discussing WikiLeaks with MORE, who was convicted of lying to Congress last week.  But during Stone’s trial, Manafort’s deputy MORE testified that Trump and Stone had a phone conversation following WikiLeaks' publication of emails stolen from the Democratic National Committee. Afterwards, Trump told Gates that more information was coming, Gates testified. Letter on Monday doubled down on an argument House Democrats made in a September filing in D.C. District Court that redacted grand jury testimony from Manafort and Gates “have direct bearing on whether the president was untruthful” to the special counsel. The former special counsel’s 448-page report contains redacted p... Link to the full article to read more

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