Whitaker: I have 'not interfered' with Mueller investigation
Update: Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker declined to answer a question about whether special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation is a "witch hunt." President Donald Trump has repeatedly called the Russia probe a "witch hunt."
Asked by Democratic Tennessee Rep. Steve Cohen on Friday if he also thought it was, Whitaker declined to answer, citing the ongoing investigation. Asked by Cohen if he would stop a "witch hunt," Whitaker said it would be "inappropriate" to answer that question.
Whitaker oversees the Mueller probe. Trump's permanent pick for attorney general, William Barr, has said he does not believe Mueller would be involved in a "witch hunt." Democrats are eager to press acting AG Whitaker during his first testimony to Congress on his interactions with Trump and his oversight of the special counsel's Russia investigation.
Previous report:
WASHINGTON — Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker said on Friday that he has "not interfered in any way" in the special counsel's Russia investigation as he faced a contentious and partisan congressional hearing in his waning days on the job.
The hearing before the House Judiciary Committee was the first, and likely only, chance for newly empowered Democrats in the majority to grill an attorney general they perceive as a Donald Trump loyalist and whose appointment they suspect was aimed at suppressing investigations of the Republican president. Republicans made clear they viewed the hearing as pointless political grandstanding especially since Whitaker may have less than a week left as the country's chief law enforcement officer.
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