Mark Warner is breaking with Richard Burr's assessment on Intel Committee Russia probe

[hlthe2b]

Mark Warner is breaking with Richard Burr's assessment on the state of the Senate Intel Committee's Russia probe."I'm not going to reach any conclusion until we finish the investigation. And we still have a number of the key witnesses to come back."

Link to tweet

Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, rejected Republican Chairman Richard Burr's recent statements that the committee has not found evidence of collusion, saying the investigation is still ongoing and the committee still had to interview key witnesses.
"Respectfully, I disagree," Warner said Tuesday. "I'm not going to get into any conclusions I've reached because my basis of this has been that I'm not going to reach any conclusion until we finish the investigation. And we still have a number of the key witnesses to come back."
Warner's comments represented a rare public split for the leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee, which has been the only congressional panel that has kept its investigation into Russia's 2016 election meddling on a bipartisan track.

[manor321]

1. John Brennan said Mueller has more

John Brennan was just on MSNBC saying the committee does NOT have access to what Mueller has.

And something funny: Nicole Wallace has completely ignored Ken's dumb story, even though it is an NBC story!

[hlthe2b]

2. Yes... Wallace is a lot more savy than Dilanian. She worked in R circles, after all.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

8. see Abramson's comments on Dilanian

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211811315

[Sneederbunk]

3. Mueller will show us what the intel committees "missed."

[Perseus]

9. Maybe the intel committee didn't miss anything and Burr is just being a republican

Warner was very polite in his dismissal of Burr's comments.

When you have someone deny the same thing with so much fury like the orange buffoon has and continues to do, you know the buffoon is not only trying to convince himself and his base of no conspiracy, he is trying to make it go away, I believe he thinks that if he says it enough times that it will disappear.

Democrats need to banish the word "collusion" and start using "conspiracy" instead. I propose that DU eliminates the word "collusion" and start calling it for what it really is...also, they both mean the same, but the buffoon wants to hear collusion because in his little brain it doesn't sound so close to treason.

[SWBTATTReg]

4. So obviously Burr is jumping the gun here, coming to a conclusion prior to all of the...

testimony being heard, prior to all of the witnesses being heard, etc. In short, jumping to conclusions without all of the evidence.

[griloco]

17. I wonder if he has a mat at home....?

[donkeypoofed]

5. I'm sure.glad we have sensible Mark Warner on our side

And I am disappointed in Richard Burr. I thought of him as a little above party politics.

[sprinkleeninow]

6. Burr? Nuh-uh. eom

[True Blue American]

11. I knew Burr

Would show his true self before this was over. He tried so hard to pretend to be fair. He really wasn’t!

[SunSeeker]

15. Exactly. Another Susan Collins-type Republican wolf in sheep's clothing. nt

[Liberalhammer]

20. Yup

In the end Rethugs always goose step with the rest.

[sprinkleeninow]

23. Some o' them 'are' pretenders. Not to be trusted. eom

[spanone]

7. K&R...

The republicans on that committee found exactly what they were looking for: nothing.

Republicans completely controlled the House & Senate investigations.

[Perseus]

10. I think they found proofs, they just turned their heads the other way

It is impossible they would not find anything when so much is out in the open.

[hughee99]

12. Well, he disagreed in the sense that he thinks it is too early to tell,

Not in the sense that he’s saying they have found evidence.

[Kurt V.]

13. i not so sure warner and burr are breaking on anything here.

maybe semantics but both have said there is more to look into.

[red dog 1]

14. K&R, thanks for posting

Burr is more proof that there are no moderate Republicans in the United States Senate anymore.

[RAAD2]

16. Trump Tower Meeting And Manafort Giving Polling Data To Russians Not Collusion

There is no such thing as collusion I guess.

[red dog 1]

21. Welcome to DU!

(TRUMP): "NO COLLUSION!!, NO COLLUSION!!"

[bluestarone]

18. Is Burrs middle name

NUNES?? Sure sounds like it.

[True Blue American]

24. No, I think it is

Aaron!

[Liberalhammer]

19. Burr is a Rethug

His job from the start was/is to put a wrench in the works. Heck he is a Trump backer and thus a traitor.

[mjvpi]

22. How far are they willing to follow the money?

Money into the NRA
Money into Senator McConnell’s super pack
Money into the inauguration
Money into Trump’s DC hotel
Money from China into Trump’s Indonesian project
Money from UAE(I may have the wrong sovereign fund) to bail of Kurshner’s company
Money via Chinese pattons to Ivanca
Money from Saudi Arabia
And on and on.......

The question is going to be exactly how far into business as usual are they going to investigate. Citizens United has so blurred the line between ethical and leagal. That could easily explain the difference between Burr and Warner looking at exactly the same facts and coming to very different conclusions.

It will boil down to foreign bribes versus domestic bribes.