Congress Wants To Know Whether Matthew Whitaker Talked To The White House About The Special Counsel'
Source: BuzzFeed News
Congress Wants To Know Whether Matthew Whitaker Talked To The White House About The Special Counsel’s Response to A BuzzFeed News Report
The House Judiciary Committee chairman will ask the acting attorney general at an upcoming hearing about the report that President Trump directed his lawyer to lie to Congress.
Emma Loop
BuzzFeed News Reporter
Reporting From
Washington, DC
Posted on January 22, 2019, at 7:23 p.m. ET
The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee will ask the acting head of the Justice Department about his communications with the White House in the wake of BuzzFeed News’ report that President Trump directed his personal lawyer to lie to Congress.
Committee chairman Jerry Nadler has told acting attorney general Matthew Whitaker that he will be asked about whether he discussed the report, or the decision by the office of special counsel Robert Mueller to issue a statement disputing it, at a hearing on February 8.
“If so, with whom?” Nadler told Whitaker he plans to ask, in a letter dated Tuesday. “What was discussed?”
BuzzFeed News reported on Thursday that Donald Trump directed Michael Cohen, his longtime personal attorney, to lie to Congress about a plan to build a Trump Tower in Moscow. Cohen pleaded guilty in November to lying to the House and Senate Intelligence committees about when the planned deal ended. Mueller has previously noted that Cohen’s false claim that the project concluded in January 2016 was an attempt to “minimize links between the Moscow Project and Individual 1” — widely understood to be Trump — “in hopes of limiting the ongoing Russia investigations.”
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