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WASHINGTON — The House Judiciary Committee authorized its chairman on Wednesday to use a subpoena to try to force the Justice Department to give Congress a full copy of the special counsel’s report and all of the underlying evidence used to reach his conclusions. The chairman, Representative Jerrold Nadler of New York, said he would not immediately issue the subpoena. “I will give him time to change his mind,” Mr. Nadler said in his opening statement. “But if we cannot reach an accommodation, then we will have no choice but to issue subpoenas for these materials.” The committee also approved subpoenas for five former White House aides who Democrats said were relevant to an investigation into possible obstruction of justice, abuse of power and corruption within the Trump administration. “And we’ll get them a subpoena.” Mr. Barr wrote in a letter to Mr. Nadler and other congressional leaders last week that he intended to give Congress a redacted version of the report by mid-April and would not share it with the White House before then. Mr. Barr said that officials from the department and the office of the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, were scrubbing the document of four categories of information: classified material, secret grand jury testimony, details pertinent to law enforcement investigations and statements “that would unduly infringe on the personal privacy and reputational interests of peripheral third parties.” That final category is so broad that House Democrats, who initially set an April 2 deadline for Mr. Barr’s delivery, have repeatedly said they will view as suspect anything short of an unredacted report and the evidence collected. During Wednesday’s hearing, Mr. Nadler argued that Republicans set the precedent for the subpoena during the last Congress, and they supported Democrats’ requests for documents and information during the investigations of Bill Clinton and Richard M. Nixon. “The department is wrong to try to withhold that information from this committee,” Mr. Nadler said. This isn’t just my opinion. Representative Doug Collins of Georgia, the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, said that though he shared Mr. Nadler’s interest in scouring Mr. Mueller’s investigation, the committee would be asking the attorney general to violate the law.

The House Judiciary Committee voted along party lines Wednesday to authorize subpoenas for Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s full report after the Justice Department missed a Democrat-imposed deadline, in a major escalation of the battle between Congress and the Trump administration over access to underlying documents and evidence from the Russia probe. The vote was 24-17, with all Democrats supporting and all Republicans opposed. The authorization of subpoenas does not mean the committee will issue them but gives Democrats on the panel the option to do so. But while Attorney General Bill Barr says his team must first redact sensitive information, Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., made clear Democrats want unfettered access to the documents. While a memo from Barr on the report said Mueller found no evidence of collusion with Russia, the AG also said the investigation did not reach a conclusion on whether President Trump obstructed justice. That job requires us to evaluate the evidence for ourselves—not the attorney general’s summary, not a substantially redacted synopsis, but the full report and the underlying evidence." "This committee is better than this. Last week, Barr announced that the Justice Department and the special counsel were “well along in the process of identifying and redacting” sensitive material in the more than 300-page report and would likely have it to Congress by mid-April, “if not sooner.” But Democrats, upon the release of Barr's summary of the Mueller report, had set a deadline of April 2 for the full report to be released to Congress and to the public. Despite the demands from House Democrats, Barr has indicated he does plan on sharing much of the report itself, noting that, with the help of the special counsel’s office, the Justice Department is reviewing material that “by law cannot be made public” -- covering “material the intelligence community identifies as potentially compromising sensitive sources and methods; material that could affect ongoing matters, including those that the Special Counsel has referred to other Department offices; and information that would unduly infringe on the personal privacy and reputational interests of peripheral third parties.” Barr added that: “Although the President would have the right to assert privilege over certain parts of the report, he has stated publicly that he intends to defer to me and, accordingly, there are no plans to submit the report to the White House for privilege review." Nadler and the Democrats said they are probing “alleged obstruction of justice, public corruption, and other abuses of power by President Trump."

Darren Samuelsohn, senior reporter at Politico, talks with Rachel Maddow about the revelation in court that the Mueller grand jury is still active, at least in the case of one company that had been resisting a Mueller subpoena and continues…

U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., was the target of "a political stunt" when he was served with a subpoena following his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Maryland, his spokeswoman said Friday. Mike Parson’s office. “After more than two weeks of evading service, Senator Josh Hawley was personally served with the subpoena at CPAC.” Gross said the subpoena was issued in early February by the Cole County Circuit Court at his request because of Hawley’s alleged mishandling of Missouri’s Sunshine Law – which deals with government transparency – while he was state attorney general, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. Gross said in a news release around that time that he had sought records of correspondence between Gov. Kelli Ford, a spokeswoman for Hawley, reacted to Gross's remarks Friday. "The reality is that Mr. The reality is that Mr. — Kelli Ford, spokeswoman for Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

House Judiciary Committee holds a hearing on "Oversight of the US Dept of Justice." Acting U.S. Attorney General Matthew Whitaker is scheduled to testify after a tense back-and-forth with Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler. Read more on this here: https://fxn.ws/2GwN0yK FOX…

GOP lawmakers reportedly want to ask former FBI Director James Comey and former Attorney General Loretta Lynch about their decision-making during the 2016 election. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as…

The federal grand jury subpoena issued last month to the state Department of Insurance demands information since January 2014 about Greg E. Lindberg; Durham-based Eli Global, which he founded; and at least seven associated companies. Republican state Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey is not the target, department spokesman Barry Smith said. Lindberg and Eli Global offered no comment, either, when requested by The Associated Press through a public relations agency taking calls for them Tuesday and Wednesday. The federal grand jury subpoena issued last month to the state Department of Insurance demands information about Lindberg; Durham-based Eli Global, which he founded; and at least seven associated companies. (Robert Brown Public Relations/Greg Lindberg via AP) (Associated Press) The state Democratic and Republican parties — which have both benefited from Lindberg’s recent political donations — also have been contacted by investigators, party officials confirmed Wednesday. Lindberg has given more than $5 million since 2016 to North Carolina candidate and party committees and independent expenditure groups, including more than $3.4 million last year, according to campaign finance reports. Dan Forest and then-Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin, a Democrat who is now chairman of the state Democratic Party. A spokesman said months ago that Lindberg wanted to support “in a nonpartisan way candidates that are in tune with the issues affecting North Carolina businesses and its citizens.” The investigation reinforces questions about what results Lindberg hopes for from his donations, said Bob Phillips, executive director of the government watchdog group Common Cause North Carolina. The state GOP “has no concerns about any donations received or made anytime recently,” Woodhouse said. Causey, who defeated Goodwin in the November 2016 election, said earlier this year that his campaign returned a $5,000 Lindberg donation last year “out of abundance of caution” because of his regulatory duties.

Jerome Corsi, a rightwing author and conspiracy theorist, has been subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury as part of Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Corsi, an associate of the longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone, was asked to appear at 9am in Washington on Friday, according to his attorney, David Gray. “We intend to cooperate fully with the special counsel’s office and we suspect that the focus of the questions will be about my client’s communications with Roger Stone,” Gray said in an email. Corsi noted to his followers three times that agents had taken Malloch’s cellphone, warning: “Ted OUT OF CONTACT”. That evening, Corsi joined an “emergency broadcast” on InfoWars, the far-right conspiracy website, to discuss Malloch’s detention. Stone has said that he, Corsi and Malloch dined together at a New York steak restaurant during 2016 but denied the meeting related to the election. Stone has made contradictory statements about being in contact with Assange during the campaign. Stone tweeted on 21 August 2016 that “it will soon [be John] Podesta's time in the barrel”. Several have testified to the grand jury, including Stone’s protege Sam Nunberg, his former social media adviser Jason Sullivan, and his housemate Kristin Davis. Randy Credico, a radio DJ and comedian previously identified by Stone as his go-between for communications with Assange, is also scheduled to testify before the grand jury on Friday, following a subpoena from Mueller’s team.

In response to a question by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh says he "can't answer" whether a sitting president must respond to a subpoena.

Anti-Trump FBI agent subpoenaed to publicly testify. Panel sounds off on 'Hannity', guest hosted by Judge Jeanine Pirro. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as political and business news.…