Clearly, Democrats believe their political position and interests are "more equal" than Trump's. "He'll make a decision on that", Trump said, adding that Mueller's report has come out and it is done. Pelosi agreed, but in the wake of the current tensions between Congress and the Justice Department, Nadler said his certainty that the special counsel will be permitted to appear for testimony next week has diminished. This morning the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee sent out an email with the subject line "MUELLER ALERT".
"We have a number of tools available to us to try to compel compliance but as people see the president and members of his administration continuing his effort to obstruct the investigation, to impede the fact-finding process, to prevent us from getting to the truth, the sentiment that this is unacceptable continues to grow", Cicilline said.
NADLER: Well, what they have said, they made an offer that I and the ranking minority member of the committee could go and look at a less redacted report provided that we told nobody what we saw and if we left our notes there, I couldn't tell any other member of the committee, Congress acts by committees and by majorities.
Yesterday the House Judiciary Committee voted on a "resolution recommending that the House of Representatives find William P. Barr, Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice, in contempt of Congress for refusal to comply with a subpoena duly issued by the Committee on the Judiciary".
Months later, after The New York Times reported in January 2018 on Trump's efforts to have Mueller removed, Trump reacted to the news "by directing White House officials to tell McGahn to dispute the story and create a record stating he had not been accurate in stating [to Mueller] that the President had directed McGahn to have the Special Counsel removed".
"We're talking about a cumulative effect of obstruction that the administration is engaged in, and the president declaring that he is not going to honor subpoenas from the Congress", Pelosi said. Rather, Democrats' approach to investigations and potential impeachment is going to be "very methodical", she said.
Pelosi's delicate balance between her base's impulse and the president's provocation has not moved her from her stance - a deep-rooted commitment not to split the country by jumping the gun on impeachment. "It has nothing to do with politics".
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"This is wrong", said Republican state senator Andrew Lanza. "They're denying the American people the information needed to hold them accountable and that is the constitutional crisis".
"We should be spending our time worrying about what we can do for New Yorkers", Flanagan said. "The fact is our judgment has to be on the facts of what they did in relationship to the law".
Once the full chamber votes to hold Barr and potentially McGahn in contempt, the House counsel will seek to force the citation (s) in court through civil proceedings.
"We follow the facts", she continued.
This comes as a reversal for Mr. Trump who previously said that Mueller should not testify before Congress, claiming there were "no redos for the Dems". Lawrence Tribe, a Harvard constitutional law professor, told Al Jazeera in April as the legal battle between the House and Trump began to take shape.
State Senator Brad Hoylman, a Manhattan Democrat, confirmed on Tuesday that the State Senate has enough votes to ensure passage of a bill allowing the commissioner of the New York Department of Taxation and Finance to release any state tax return requested by a leader of one of three congressional committees for any "specific and legitimate legislative goal".
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday accused President Donald Trump and his administration of "every day. advertising their obstruction of justice by ignoring subpoenas" issued by opposition Democratic lawmakers for oversight of him, the White House and government agencies.
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