House Committee Votes To Hold Barr in Contempt While Trump Invokes Executive Privilege

By Angela Anderson

May 8, 2019 Updated: May 9, 2019

While President Donald Trump announced an executive privilege over the full, unredacted report of special counsel Robert Mueller, the Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee voted.

Original report by Ivan Pentchoukov

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