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Republicans have quietly and unceremoniously ended their congressional investigation of whether the FBI and Justice Department were biased in their handling of inquiries into Hillary Clinton’s emails and Donald Trump’s ties to Russia. House judiciary chairman Robert Goodlatte and oversight chairman Trey Gowdy, who are retiring next week, sent a letter rather than a full report to the Justice Department and the Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell. It wraps up an inquiry that was conducted mostly behind closed doors but also in public as Republican lawmakers often criticised interview subjects later and suggested they were conspiring against Trump. Democrats have blasted the GOP-led congressional inquiry, saying it was merely meant as a distraction from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. Its termination comes less than a week before Republicans cede the House majority to Democrats. Read more Goodlatte and Gowdy say in their letter that they reviewed thousands of documents and conducted interviews that “revealed troubling facts which exacerbated our initial questions and concerns”. They call on the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel to investigate further. Jerry Nadler, the top Democrat on the judiciary committee, and Elijah Cummings, top Democrat on the oversight panel, are expected to formally end the investigation when they take power in January. California’s Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House intelligence committee, said on Friday evening that the Republican investigation was ending “not with a bang, but with a Friday, buried-in-the-holidays whimper, and one foot out the door”. With Associated Press

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https://t.co/bYCKta2Bhs — Bobby Goodlatte (@rsg) August 13, 2018 Kellyanne Conway’s husband is a critic of Trump What happens when you combine an outspoken critic of Trump and a White House advisor? https://t.co/dTjUk7kApQ — George Conway (@gtconway3d) August 14, 2018 This is not the first time the lawyer has tweeted about the president. Rhode Island father and son compete -- against each other Need to settle a family political dispute? Registered under the same home address, David Quiroa Sr., 47, and David Quiroa Jr., 22, are running for the Rhode Island House seat. According to the Associated Press, the two tend to argue over Trump’s presidency. “It’ll be interesting, for sure,” Quiroa Jr. told The Associated Press. “What better way to argue with my father than on the political level? Even if it’s to motivate to stop him.” This will be the second time Quiroa Sr. will run for the seat after losing the primary over a decade ago. Parents fund son’s opposing candidate Earlier this year, Kevin Nicholson announced his Senate bid to run for the Republican nomination of Wisconsin -- and among his financial adversaries were none other than his parents. However, Nicholson told ABC News he was not surprised by his parent's actions.

Bobby Goodlatte took to Twitter on Sunday to promote the congressional campaign of Jennifer Lewis, a Democrat running for Congress in Virginia's 6th Congressional District. And she is running to fill the seat held by House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va. — Bobby's father. I just gave the maximum allowed donation to Jennifer Lewis, a democrat running for my father's congressional seat. You are a patriot https://t.co/3dNN3AlXCZ — Bobby Goodlatte (@rsg) August 13, 2018 He also referred to Strzok's appearance before the House Judiciary Committee last month as a "low point for Congress." The elder Goodlatte and other House Republicans have made Strzok a central target of their investigation into so-called anti-Trump bias at the Justice Department and the FBI, and their hearing — during which Bob Goodlatte threatened to hold Strzok in contempt of Congress after just one question was asked — drew criticism from House Democrats and former Justice Department officials. In the piece, Dr. David S. Glosser recounts the journey of Miller's own immigrant relatives from what is now Belarus to Pennsylvania while mounting a critique of the immigration policies championed by his nephew. Another top Trump administration official, Kellyanne Conway, has experienced her own familial political differences, albeit in a much quieter fashion. The public political differences between family members aren't solely limited to those working in the Trump administration, either. Rice-Cameron told The College Fix earlier this year that while he and his mother disagree on many issues, the two share similar views of public service. In an interview with Stanford Politics, Rice echoed her son, noting that the two share a belief in America having a strong presence internationally and a passion for civil rights.

Written by Madeleine Carlisle (@maddiecarlisle2) Today in 5 Lines Peter Strzok, the FBI agent removed from the Russia investigation over anti-Trump text messages, was fired, his lawyer said. Bobby Goodlatte, the son of House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, said he’s “embarrassed” by his father's “political grandstanding” during Strzok's hearing earlier this year. Former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman released audio of a phone conversation with President Trump after she was fired by Chief of Staff John Kelly. Trump responded on Twitter, writing that Manigault Newman was “vicious, but not smart.” After nearly two weeks of witnesses, prosecutors rested their case against Paul Manafort. During a visit to Fort Drum, Trump signed a $716 billion defense bill named after Senator John McCain, but made no mention of the senator. Today on The Atlantic Death of a Nation? David Frum writes about Dinesh D’Souza’s resurgence under President Trump and what his comeback says about the state of conservatism. Becoming the Enemy: Regardless of whether or not the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to influence the 2016 election, President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s convergence of interests may damage the United States even more in the long run, argues John Sipher. The Next Revolution: Though Democrats have bet on America’s diversifying electorate to secure their party’s future, many second generation Latinos may be more hesitant to align with white coastal liberals who have been complicit in their parent’s mistreatment. (Reihan Salam) An Expert on Violent Encounters: Graeme Wood profiles John Correia, a pastor whose self-defense YouTube videos have made him something of a celebrity in gun-rights circles.

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Peter Strzok, who played a leading role in the FBI investigations into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server and potential collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, testified publicly for the first time on Thursday before a joint hearing of the House judiciary and oversight and government reform committees. We’ll stop it.” Strzok said he regretted the text messages – which were exchanged on work phones – and acknowledged they created the perception of bias. Bob Goodlatte, the Republican chairman of the House judiciary committee threatened to hold Strzok in contempt of Congress if he did not answer the question. The exchange concluded with Strzok delivering a forceful defense of himself and the integrity of the FBI. “At every step, at every investigative decision, there were multiple layers of people above me, the assistant director, executive assistant director, deputy director and director of the FBI, and multiple layers of people below me, section chiefs, supervisors, unit chiefs, case agents and analysts, all of whom were involved in all of these decisions,” he said. “They would not tolerate any improper behavior in me any more than I would tolerate it in them. One Democrat said the Republican lawmaker “should take his medication”. When the room calmed down, Strzok replied: ”I have always told the truth.” He added that Gohmert’s question about someone he acknowledges hurting revealed “more about your character and what you stand for”. Democrats have called the hearing a “politically motivated charade” and an attempt by Republicans to undermine Mueller’s Russia investigation. The hearing comes one month after the release of a 500-page inspector general’s report, which concluded the pair’s text messages “cast a cloud” over the investigation into Clinton’s email server.