House Judiciary leaders meet with former acting AG Whitaker
By Karoun Demirjian Karoun Demirjian Congressional reporter focusing on national security Email Bio Follow March 13 at 6:57 PM The Democratic chairman of the House Judiciary Committee said Wednesday that former acting attorney general Matthew G. Whitaker “did not deny” that President Trump “called him to discuss the case” against his former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen, as well as decisions regarding the personnel at the federal prosecutor’s office bringing the case against Cohen.
The dispute is the latest controversy to surround Whitaker’s statements, as lawmakers argue along partisan lines about whether Whitaker misled Congress about his brief tenure as acting attorney general and his contacts with the president while overseeing special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s probe.According to Nadler, Whitaker did not refute the assertion that he was “directly involved in conversations about whether to fire one or more U.S. attorneys.
Whitaker has been a lightning rod for partisan infighting since his appointment as acting attorney general, when he took over from former attorney general Jeff Sessions shortly after the midterm elections last year. His meeting with Nadler and Collins comes slightly more than a month after he testified in public before the House Judiciary Committee, pushing back against Democrats’ concerns that he could have used his position overseeing the Mueller probe to benefit Trump’s position.
[In combative hearing, Whitaker says he did not discuss Mueller probe with Trump but dodges other inquiries]
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