Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday accused Attorney General William Barr of committing a crime by lying to Congress, blasting him in a closed-door meeting and later at a news conference.
“We saw [Barr] commit a crime when he answered your question,” Pelosi told Rep. Charlie Crist (D-Fla.) during a private caucus meeting Thursday morning, according to two sources present for the gathering.
“He lied to Congress. He lied to Congress,” Pelosi said soon after at a news conference. “And if anybody else did that, it would be considered a crime. Nobody is above the law. Not the president of the United States, and not the attorney general.”
The allegation comes as Democrats have intensified their criticisms of the attorney general over his handling of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, his refusal to testify before the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday, and the Justice Department’s unwillingness to comply with a subpoena for the full unredacted report.
Pelosi’s comments were an apparent reference to Barr’s response to Crist last month during a House Appropriations Committee hearing, when the attorney general said he was not aware of any concerns that Mueller’s investigators might have expressed about his four-page summary of Mueller’s findings.
Barr’s response appeared to contradict the revelation earlier this week that Mueller himself wrote to the attorney general, saying he was worried that Barr’s summary “threatens to undermine … public confidence” in the Russia probe. Mueller also said Barr’s memo “did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance” of the investigation.
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This is right up there with “GoFundMe is not healthcare.” Shameful, just shameful. We’ll become a nation of beggars.
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Uh huh 😒
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Who??
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Uh huh 😒🙄
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Sam Levin (@SamTLevin) Tweeted:
Ten years later, we finally see the report on the officers who detained + killed Oscar Grant. BART’s investigators concluded that one officer called him slurs, punched him and kneed him in the face unprovoked + then repeatedly lied to the authorities: https://t.co/VD6MEyMJjn https://twitter.com/SamTLevin/status/1124349653883822080?s=17
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Matt Haig (@matthaig1) Tweeted:
Never dismiss someone for being quiet. Not everyone can put themselves out on the surface. A person can sit and be still and awkward and be burning with life and love. Sometimes they are quiet BECAUSE of that intensity. Because there is a world inside them they must attend to. https://twitter.com/matthaig1/status/1072429479438548992?s=17
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Bakari Sellers (@Bakari_Sellers) Tweeted:
The POTUS just spoke to a foreign adversary who helped elect him. Republicans are cool with it. https://twitter.com/Bakari_Sellers/status/1124369060156719104?s=17
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Say it with me…
JOHN.KELLY.AIN’T.SHYT.
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Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) Tweeted:
Wow. The President of the United States just confirmed that he directly informed Vladimir Putin that he is not accepting the Mueller report’s conclusion that Russia interfered in our 2016 election in “sweeping and systematic” fashion.
That seems problematic. https://t.co/QDxJxwwNJP https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/status/1124360820190789633?s=17
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Glad to be part of the group that qualified as an asterisk for Dolt45 👏👏
Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) Tweeted:
2016 results from validated voters:
For Clinton:
Wht men: 32%
Wht women: 45%
Hisp m: 65%
Hisp w: 67%
Blk m: 81%
Blk w: 98%
For Trump, a bonafide racist:
Wht men: 62%
Wht women: 47%
Hisp m: 28%
Hisp w: 28%
Blk m: 14%
Blk w: *
Source: @pewresearch
Any question? https://t.co/BKXnsRGu7K https://twitter.com/CharlesMBlow/status/1124356570861768704?s=17
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DEADBEAT:
The Trump campaign has not paid the city of El Paso the more than $470,000 it was billed for the costs stemming from a rally there two months ago. The bill includes a $380,942 charge from the police department, ABC-7 reports. https://t.co/gCKopbDZaH— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 3, 2019
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Castro made it into the debate :)
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Erik Prince tried to train James O’Keefe’s undercover conservative operatives, but the instructor quit because the group “wasn’t capable of learning.” https://t.co/sXp5yacAOu— Will Sommer (@willsommer) 3 May 2019
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FFS, how many hours are left in this “administration?” When will it end?
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My prediction is that some of those Biden and Sanders supporters (not the die hards) will be slowly moving toward Sen Harris. I don’t expect a surge, just some movement. Right now a lot of this, what you see in the polls, is just name recognition.
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Bill Clinton is getting in on the podcast craze. Clinton, along with his daughter, Chelsea, is launching a Clinton Foundation podcast called “Why Am I Telling You This” that will feature conversations with foundation staff and special guests. (CNN)
https://s2.washingtonpost.com/13978c7/5ccc54edfe1ff62d6b395551/YXdhcmVvZjQxMUBnbWFpbC5jb20%3D/51/140/3a569220054ddfca9b49a25bb24a75b5
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I guess if I were locked in an underground silo I might take the time to listen to Bill and Chelsea. Otherwise, probably not.
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Soooooo I have been writing reviews for about ten years. My wife’s review of Alien puts everything I have ever written to shame.
“Alien is a movie where nobody listens to the smart woman, and then they all die except for the smart woman and her cat. Four stars.”
— Adam Shaftoe (@AdamShaftoe) May 1, 2019
BWA HA HA HA H AH HA HA HA HAH A
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Sen. Amy Klobuchar says she can work with Republicans, unlike, that…*cough* cough* Obama..
Podcast Speakeasy with John Harwood
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sen-amy-klobuchar/id1315147876?i=1000437051960
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Snip Amy knowws where the bodies are buried REALLY?
John Harwood: There are a few people in the race — you’re one of them — who are making the argument that they can better attract Republican votes and attract Republican cooperation on some of their priorities when they come in. When Gov. [John] Hickenlooper got in the race, he said the first day, “You know, I’m going to walk down to Mitch McConnell’s office and I’m going to sit down and talk to him and persuade him to do things that we believe in.” A lot of people watching that had the reaction of, “Are you kidding? Have you been paying attention the last 10 years? That’s ridiculous.” Why is that view wrong?
Amy Klobuchar: I do think you have to work across the aisle to get things done. But as we’ve learned over the years with how Senator McConnell runs the Senate, you have to stand your ground. You have to make clear where you are not going to budge, where you’re going to stand up for the people of this country. I would have a good understanding of that because I have worked with him and worked in the Senate for years.
John Harwood: But you really think that, where President Obama could not get Republican cooperation on almost any of the major things that he was doing, that you could?
Amy Klobuchar: I know those senators well. I’ve been in that Senate for a number of years now. When I look at the priorities I’ve laid out, including the pharmaceutical issue to bring the prices down, I know where the bodies are buried there. I know, despite the fact that you’ve got two lobbyists for every member of Congress, which senators are willing to work like Sen. Grassley on bringing down the prices of pharmaceuticals and which ones I think could be pushed to do something out of just sheer political reasons because they’re going to lose in their state if they don’t do something about it. But you need a president that’s willing to make it an issue. Or infrastructure — there’s no such thing as a Republican bridge or a Democratic bridge. There’s bridges in every state. There’s transit and roads and schools that are crumbling. I also know which senators want to work on that. And that is why in my proposal, my big infrastructure proposal, I included some bipartisan proposals. But this doesn’t mean you’re a pansy. It just means you’re a realist. That if you’re going to get things done, you’ve got to look to where you have friends, and where you have enemies, and move ahead and get it done. You have to set those priorities from day one when you get into the White House.
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Amy, do you think PBO didn’t try to work with the GOP THUGS? And i as we know President Obama did, Why do you think Repubs would reach out and touch somebodies hand, like yours, and not PBO?
JUST ASKING!
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GIRL, BYE
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Seriously, Where’s Tyren, my fellow Minnesotan? I know he’s got some smoke for Amy.
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Now all she needs to do is learn what the Democratic priorities are.
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Word of the Day : May 3, 2019
Asperity: noun uh-SPAIR-uh-tee
Definition
1 : roughness of manner or of temper : harshness of behavior or speech that expresses bitterness or anger
2 : rigor, severity
3 a : roughness of surface : unevenness
b : roughness of sound
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Tornado warning for this area. One touched down along highway 71 and moving to highway 77 to 290
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Be safe 🙏🙏
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Since Murdering Joe and Mika are trying to pump him up…..
Just so no one forgets: Halperin is accused of pressing his erect penis against multiple women, grabbing a woman’s breasts, throwing a woman against a window & when rejected, calling a woman to tell her she’d never work in media again https://t.co/u1jBKhXPJg— Jessica Valenti (@JessicaValenti) May 3, 2019
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Reuters Top News (@Reuters) Tweeted:
EXCLUSIVE: State Department allowed at least seven foreign governments to rent condominiums in New York’s Trump World Tower in 2017 without approval from Congress, a potential violation of the Constitution’s emoluments clause https://t.co/JtS24MtNk8 @JuliaHarte1 https://t.co/DN1MGmurry https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1123948899532771328?s=17
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Trust Black women (@TrustBlackwome2) Tweeted:
#FridayReminder
94% of Black women did not vote for this shitshow.
Tell it to your children! https://twitter.com/TrustBlackwome2/status/1124258574962692096?s=17
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House Of Impeachment🔥🔥 (@battletested5) Tweeted:
Yesterday we saw a black woman who is running for President have the current attorney general admit he didn’t even look at the underlying evidence in the Mueller Report and Chris Hayes thinks America needs to hear from Bernie Sanders
#Kamala2020 #inners https://twitter.com/battletested5/status/1124109867243974656?s=17
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LIES
Muthaphuckin’LIES 😠 😠
Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) Tweeted:
New @mmfa study: Major media outlets fail to debunk President Trump’s false or misleading statements in their tweets 65% of the time, amplifying his misinformation an average of 19 times per day. https://t.co/8OV2FGddbn https://twitter.com/MattGertz/status/1124279490493014016?s=17
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Nicholausa Wants Kamala for POTUS! (@acidsaltydame) Tweeted:
I love how I am seeing “if Kamala doesn’t win… she’d make a great AG.”
It’s May 2019.
Kamala has been an AG already.
We want her as POTUS https://twitter.com/acidsaltydame/status/1124083682606833665?s=17
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Uh huh
Uh huh 😒
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SHUT.THOSE.MUTHAT[HUCKAS
DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Russian Spy 🐋??🤔🤔
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RozieK (@kenner3616) Tweeted:
Favreau had a really good discussion with Belcher (former Obama pollster) about why Democrats shouldn’t expect that white working class voters in Michigan, Ohio, etc. will vote for Biden. The discussion made me think differently about the candidates. Well worth the listen. https://t.co/5uvcka0uvS https://twitter.com/kenner3616/status/1123801016447664128?s=17
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Ian Sams (@IanSams) Tweeted:
UPDATE: The @cspan video of @KamalaHarris’ full questioning of the Attorney General has now exceeded 4 MILLION views. https://t.co/WMJQmjQAum https://twitter.com/IanSams/status/1124052118632042496?s=17
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She is beautiful 😍
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Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) Tweeted:
The Sanders campaign’s immediate attacks on Biden were “driven by Sen. Sanders himself,” campaign manager Faiz Shakir tells CNN. “He said, ‘Why the heck should I wait to draw contrast between the two of us? That is what a primary is all about.'” https://t.co/dF9y2HORAB https://twitter.com/jeneps/status/1124018434843475975?s=17
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Mark Pitcavage (@egavactip) Tweeted:
“I’m the victim,” says Portland man who killed two other men who came to the defense of two black teenage girls he was harassing.
https://t.co/26c52928Ey https://twitter.com/egavactip/status/1123971457745289217?s=17
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White victim-hood has always been in fashion.
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NY AG James (@NewYorkStateAG) Tweeted:
It is unconscionable that Trump’s HHS would push through a rule that enshrines discrimination as much as the one released today would.
We won’t let this administration undermine access to care for all patients.
New York stands ready to take legal action. https://twitter.com/NewYorkStateAG/status/1124071883245281282?s=17
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Go Gayle👏👏
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Yep, King-Queen Gayle will remain to continue sitting down with black, shameful, thugs, who explode before the cameras.
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This is called vetting, Dear 😒
POLITICO (@politico) Tweeted:
Bernie Sanders had his own TV show. We found the archives
https://t.co/MxHAAaIxjT https://twitter.com/politico/status/1124244726981505026?s=17
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It’s May 3rd, and I am still wearing my WINTER coat 😠😠😠
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Tell me about it. It’s been a rainy, damp, bone-chilling Spring so far.
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I have my heater on. I can’t help it. I’m cold.
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Coming to a blog near you–3 Chics Warm up
Coming right UP!!!
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Good Morning, Everyone 😄😄😄
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TGIF Everyone!
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