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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: mystery-ak on June 09, 2019, 01:15:21 pm
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Devin Nunes: Andrew McCarthy invited to hearing on Mueller investigation to counter Democrats' impeachment 'show'
by Daniel Chaitin
| June 08, 2019 10:39 PM
Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., revealed Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee are bringing in former U.S. Attorney Andrew McCarthy as their witness for a hearing next week on special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.
The ranking member told Fox News on Saturday that McCarthy was invited to "hopefully have a little bit of balance" in a hearing he said was designed by Democrats to "tell us how Trump obstructed justice on a crime he didn't commit."
"The show starts this week. This is where the Democrats begin to throw fuel on their base. They have already been poisoning the American people for two and a half years. This is going to be their road to impeachment," he told host Jeanine Pirro.
McCarthy, a contributing editor at National Review, has been highly critical of Mueller, the Justice Department, and the FBI in their handling of the Trump-Russia investigation.
The hearing, announced last week by Chairman Adam Schiff, is titled, “Lessons from the Mueller Report: Counterintelligence Implications of Volume 1.â€
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At least there will be one sane witness.