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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 505 days 11 hours 38 minutes
Day 838: Privilege.
1/ The White House invoked executive privilege and ordered former counsel Donald McGahn not to comply with a congressional subpoena for documents related to Robert Mueller's investigation. In a letter to the House Judiciary Committee, White House ...
Day 837: Legitimacy.
1/ More than 370 former federal prosecutors asserted that Trump would have been charged with obstruction of justice if he was not president. Robert Mueller declined to exonerate Trump in his report, citing a Justice Department legal opinion that a...
Day 834: Sweeping and systematic.
1/ Trump discussed the "Russian Hoax" with Putin and both agreed that "there was no collusion" between Moscow and Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. Robert Mueller's report, however, detailed how the Russian government interfered in the 2016 race...
Day 833: That's a crime.
1/ Nancy Pelosi accused Attorney General William Barr of "not telling the truth to the Congress of the United States — that's a crime." At a House Appropriations Committee hearing on April 9th, Charlie Crist asked Barr if Robert Mueller's team bel...
Day 832: "Context, nature, and substance."
1/ Robert Mueller twice objected to Attorney General William Barr's four-page summary to Congress, saying the memo "did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance of this office's work and conclusions." Barr's summary claimed that the Mu...
Day 831: Meritless.
1/ The Justice Department and the House Judiciary Committee are at an impasse over Attorney General William Barr's scheduled testimony. Barr is set to testify about his handling of the conclusions reached by Robert Mueller on Wednesday before the ...
Day 830: Personal conversations.
1/ Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein resigned, effective May 11th. In his resignation letter to Trump, Rosenstein writes "I am grateful to you for the opportunity to serve; for the courtesy and humor you often display in our personal conversa...
Day 827: Defensive.
1/ Trump defended his 2017 comment that there were "very fine people on both sides" of the white supremacist protests in Charlottesville, in which an avowed neo-Nazi rammed his car into a group of protesters, killing a woman and injuring dozens of...
Day 826: Inherent contempt.
1/ The White House rejected a House Oversight Committee request for Stephen Miller to testify about his role in Trump's immigration policies, including a plan to bus migrants to "sanctuary cities." White House counsel Pat Cipollone said blocking M...
Day 825: Transparency.
1/ Trump: "We're fighting all the subpoenas" by House Democrats. "Subpoenas are ridiculous," Trump said, claiming "I have been the most transparent president and administration in the history of our country by far." House Democratic leaders have i...