The chief of the Department of Justice's antitrust division said Tuesday that political considerations do not impact the department's work, a day after President Donald Trump suggested Comcast could soon face increased scrutiny.
Democrats are promising new scrutiny of corporate America's biggest names as they expand their power on Capitol Hill.
Representative Adam Schiff, who is expected to be the incoming chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said Democrats will review if Trump was trying to punish the major firms with "instruments of state power to punish the press."
Whitaker's past defenses of President Trump and his skepticism toward the breadth of the Mueller probe, which resurfaced in the wake of his appointment Wednesday, are now spurring calls for the just-named acting head of the DOJ to recuse himself.
The report followed Trump's announcement in a tweet that Attorney General Jeff Sessions would be replaced by Whitaker, who was Sessions' chief of staff at the Justice Department.
Trump declared victory in the midterms even though Democrats won control of the House of Representatives.
Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, emerged on the national stage as the politically polarized panel grappled over its probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
President Donald Trump paused his plan to declassify and release sections of documents.
President Donald Trump declassified a trove of documents related to the early days of the FBI's Russia investigation, including a portion of a secret surveillance warrant application and former FBI Director James Comey's text messages.
Nunes, an eight-term incumbent who chairs the House Intelligence Committee, may be starting to lose some support due to distractions, including his involvement in the Trump-Russia investigation.
"Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this Rigged Witch Hunt right now," the president wrote on Twitter.
Trump escalates his attacks on the Mueller's probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 campaign.
The move signals a sharp escalation in the ongoing tensions between Trump's allies in Congress and Rosenstein, who oversees special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.
The Senate minority leader, the vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and more than a dozen members of the Senate Foreign Relations committee all called on the president to cancel the meeting.
The May meeting was the first significant discussion between a group of tech companies and intelligence officials ahead of the 2018 midterm elections.
President Donald Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, said special counsel Robert Mueller recently shared a timetable that suggested that its probe could end by Sept. 1.
"There is no doubt that Russia undertook an unprecedented effort to interfere with our 2016 elections," the committee's GOP chairman, Sen. Richard Burr, said in the statement Wednesday.
"There's no question that Russia sought to weaponize social media platforms to drive a wedge between Americans, and in an attempt to sway the 2016 election," Rep. Adam Schiff said in a statement.
Rep. Adam Schiff, (D-Calif.), talks about the upcoming probe into Facebook's data breach, the ongoing Russian investigation and privacy issues associated with social media accounts.
Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., says the Committee will now work to complete and issue the final report.
Kemp, who as secretary of State is Georgia's chief elections official, tried to enforce the state's strict rules for voter registration.
Porter, a consumer advocate lawyer and law professor, will represent California's 45th Congressional District, which has one of the highest median household income levels nationally – more than $100,000, according to data from the Census Bureau.
Sen. Orrin Hatch, who currently leads the Finance Committee, says that the Senate Finance Committee "will be in good hands with Senator Grassley at the helm."
Porter, a consumer advocate lawyer and law professor, will represent California's 45th Congressional District, which has one of the highest median household income levels nationally – more than $100,000, according to data from the Census Bureau.
The Supreme Court on Friday said it would hear a case concerning whether Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross can be questioned about his reasons for adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
"You always have to be careful answering questions for people who have bad intentions," Trump told reporters Friday. The president has often criticized the Mueller probe, calling it a "witch hunt" and a "hoax."
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