Pelosi/Schumer statement on Mueller report.

[pnwmom]

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Pelosi, Schumer Joint Statement On Special Counsel Mueller’s Report

MARCH 22, 2019

Washington, D.C. – Today, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer released the following statement regarding Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report to Attorney General William Barr.

“Now that Special Counsel Mueller has submitted his report to the Attorney General, it is imperative for Mr. Barr to make the full report public and provide its underlying documentation and findings to Congress. Attorney General Barr must not give President Trump, his lawyers or his staff any ‘sneak preview’ of Special Counsel Mueller’s findings or evidence, and the White House must not be allowed to interfere in decisions about what parts of those findings or evidence are made public.

“The Special Counsel’s investigation focused on questions that go to the integrity of our democracy itself: whether foreign powers corruptly interfered in our elections, and whether unlawful means were used to hinder that investigation. The American people have a right to the truth. The watchword is transparency.”

[still_one]

1. and what happens if he does?

[budkin]

2. He's obviously going to

And there is nothing they can or will do about it. It's the reason Barr was appointed.

[still_one]

3. It sure seems that way

[yaesu]

9. Not much

as there seems to be little control over what tRump or the republiCons do. I bet that impeachment thingy will be looking a little more worth it after the report flops.

[Bettie]

12. Nothing at all

I'd be surprised if he hasn't already sent it over, it's been at least an hour already.

[still_one]

13. same here

[LiberalFighter]

4. I'm hoping Guiliani is prosecuted and convicted of obstruction of justice.

[CentralMass]

5. We'll see how that works out for them.

[BSdetect]

6. The traitor's appointee will conform to his bidding.

[rockfordfile]

7. Yeah right. William Barr is a lowlife pos.

[UTUSN]

8. K&R

[Honeycombe8]

10. Too late. nt

[denbot]

11. To quote the late great Yogi Berra

“It ain’t over till it’s over”.

[spanone]

14. K&R...

[panfluteman]

15. SUBPOENA THE DAMN REPORT!!!

That's the only way to deal with criminals, traitors and their appointees - through direct force of the law!

[zentrum]

16. What they hell

...will they do about when, not if, Trump does this?

I have to say that neither Pelosi nor Schummer have ever struck me as being particularly media savvy---i.e knowing how to proactively seize the narrative and the headline and offensively create big media versions of our side. Pelosi may know how to do power moves in the Congressional sphere but Chuck and the rest are usually way too polite. Don't know if this will get me alerted. I don't want Trump to be just scolded. I want to make sure the American people really understand the terms of what has happened.

Maybe OAC will make the story explode if Trump suppresses this thing.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

17. Oh, come on. Pelosi has played tRump like a fiddle in the media. She's a woman with spine & resource

[zentrum]

20. Not saying she doesn't have spine.

But being Media-savvy is another thing. Dominating the story. Proactively framing the narrative so the Media is caught in your version and talking about it within your terms. So I respectfully disagree with you. We're talking apples and oranges.

I wish once in a while Pelosi would storm the House and have a sit-in over the tax bill or the previewing of the Mueller report. Or some other big issue. We never use shock tactics and yet the Repugs do it all the time. Hence we don't have Merrick Garland and they have Kavanaugh.They are relentless and we are polite. Over and over and over.

We're about to have a recession and a Dems needed to make a much bigger stink over the huge tax cut given to the rich, which has driven up our deficit. We scolded then, but were essentially passive. Yet everyone knew this recession-effect would happen.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

22. How soon people forget the Wall. It took media-savvy for her to get ObamaCare passed!

[zentrum]

28. Hope you're right about all of that

...applying this time, for this matter.

[Politicub]

25. I don't know what your media-savvy criteria is...

But I would rethink it if I were you. Pelosi uses the media as part of an overall strategy, including how she runs the House and committee assignments, among many other vectors.

Trump, on the other hand, has his own media channel, Twitter, that he uses like a feral animal. There's no strategy to Trump's outbursts. They are driven by pure ego.

That is not Pelosi's M.O. And I wouldn't want it to be.

[zentrum]

27. Okay. Hope

...you're all right and I'm wrong. Really need this Mueller report to work.

[orangecrush]

18. Translate -

"Barr must not give Trump, his lawyers or his staff any ‘sneak preview’ of Mueller’s findings or evidence, and the WH must not be allowed to interfere in decisions about what parts of those findings or evidence are made public" https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/3221


We fully expect Barr to give Trumpco a heads up.

We fully expect Trump to interfere in the release of the report.

[zentrum]

21. Yup.

[Ferrets are Cool]

19. Or what?

SHM

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

23. Kick

[DallasNE]

24. THUD

No more indictments.

Let that sink in. Don Jr. was caught lying to Congress as was Sessions. Assange and Wikileaks not indicted - or Cambridge Analytical. No indictments from either Trump Tower meeting. Nothing on the hush money except against Cohen, who must now feel like a fool. So many loose ends. It all ends in a whimper...…….

[lancelyons]

26. Are they freaking kidding. When Barr and sessions went to the White House

Are they freaking kidding. When Barr and sessions went to the White House For the ceremonial cabinet chair, they all shared the report early. Please stop being so neaive.

[madville]

29. The Administration might get a whack at it with the Executive Privilege ax

is my guess. If there isn't anything particularly damaging to Trump or his family he may just say release it all though. Redacting parts of it will of course feed speculation, theories, etc. so they will be wary of that. This far out, publicly releasing the whole thing would nip all that in the bud and Trump being Trump would just stir more stuff into the stew in short order to get it out of the news cycle.