Jeff Flake: “I thank my colleague from New Jersey and my colleague from Delaware for working together on this issue. I rise today…”

“I thank my colleague from New Jersey and my colleague from Delaware for working together on this issue. I rise today once again to speak in defense of Special Counsel Robert Mueller and to speak of the importance of the investigation he is leading and the attacks on our electoral system during the lead-up to the 2016 election. One wouldn't expect that such an investigation would be controversial, but somehow it warranted a tweet from the President earlier this week--one of several tweets--calling Special Counsel Mueller a ``conflicted prosecutor gone rogue'' and claiming that the ``$30 million witch hunt'' is doing nothing but ruining lives. To be clear, this is the same investigation that brought indictments for more than a dozen Russian nationalists for attempting to influence the 2016 election. Why shouldn't we be up in arms about that? Why does that warrant a tweet from the President--many tweets--trying to go after the special counsel? The findings of this investigation are too important to our national security and the well-being of our democratic institutions to be halted or watered down. Mr. Mueller must be able to preserve the work he has done by completing this very thorough investigation, and his findings must be made public. This legislation has been proposed to ensure this outcome. S.…”