Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) said that Democrats are going to use all of their options, including potentially blocking the government spending bill, to force a vote on a bill that would protect Robert Mueller.
Transcript via ABC’s This Week:
RADDATZ: You have also raised concerns about the need to pass legislation to protect the special counsel. Republicans in the senate will need support from Democrats, obviously, to pass the end of the year budget bill in a few weeks. Would you consider holding up passage of that order to also pass a bill to to protect Mueller? Are you still worried about that or have we reached a tipping point?
MURPHY: I’m still very worried about it. You know, I am certainly going to look at all of our options to try to force a vote on legislation that would protect the special counsel. I’m also worried about General Kelly leaving the White House. I imagine that he was one of the people that was attempting to convince the president not to fire Mueller, to not issue pardons as a means of trying to influence the investigation.
And so I think that with his departure, certainly the person who replaces him, are concerns that Muller may be on the chopping block are, I think, more serious and this legislation becomes more important.
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Sen. Chris Murphy says with John Kelly’s departure, he is concerned Mueller could be on “the chopping block” more seriously.
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Trump Is Getting Desperate, So Mueller Must Be Protected
With each move that Mueller makes, the net comes closer to capturing Donald Trump. The president has responded to Mueller’s moves by likely replacing his chief of staff with a political operative and nominating a critic of the Mueller investigation to the be the attorney general.
Trump isn’t preparing for a legal fight. He is putting the pieces in place to get rid of Mueller and ride out the political fallout. Sen. Murphy was correct. It is urgent that Congress act to protect Mueller, and one of the biggest things that Democrats and their Republican allies can do is to withhold their votes on the December 21 government funding bill until Mueller is protected.
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