Richard Blumenthal

If the courts decide they want to hold the president accountable, if they really believe the president is not above the law, they can fast track these subpoenas as well.

There is no executive privilege as to Robert Mueller, or for that matter, William Barr.

The president can be held accountable for his acceptance of payments and benefits from a foreign government and we're going to be pursuing discovery as the next step.

I voted against William Barr. I said then he was unfit to be attorney general. I believe he is unfit even more so today.

He in effect lied to the American people saying that Bob Mueller concluded there was insufficient evidence of obstruction. The fact of the matter is that Bob Mueller said nothing of the kind.

This letter is unquestionably and unprecedented stunning rebuke of the attorney general of the United States, very severely undermining, in fact devastating his credibility now in the Department of Justice, and likely tomorrow in our…

The evidence is pretty clear that there was collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians.

After all, the president himself said today that he's in favor of transparency. If he's serious about it, he'll back the bipartisan bill that I've introduced with Senator Grassley that would require it.

I can't emphasize enough how important transparency is.

Clearly, there is evidence of some cooperation there.

We should definitely focus, Anderson, on the challenges ahead to our country. Infrastructure, that is rebuilding our roads and bridges, health care, making it more widely available and reducing the costs of pharmaceutical drugs.

The public has a right to know.

As much as the President may be exalting in the lack of indictments, there are other potential facts and evidence of wrongdoing that may not be chargeable criminally.

We need to see the Mueller report, not the Barr report. The American people paid for the Mueller report, and they deserve to know all of the findings and evidence, not just Attorney General Barr's conclusions.

But my hope is that it will be expedited and that any Congressional subpoena, which there should be, if necessary, will be quickly resolved.

There is no Executive privilege to conceal evidence of criminal wrongdoing or, in general, law breaking.

And if the President is serious, and he's in favor of transparency, he ought to back my bill that I've introduced with Senator Grassley to require that the report and all the facts and findings be made public.

Far from overreaching, Anderson, Congress has an obligation to do oversight.

The public has a right to know.

The report hopefully will be long enough to contain the incriminating information that he has gathered about Donald Trump.

There is a credible case of obstruction of justice right now, a powerfully credible case against Donald Trump.

I think that the claim of the White House to review this report should not be upheld. The Department of Justice has a claim to review the report, the White House does not.

We're talking here about an effort to hide criminality, obstruct justice in the name of executive privilege.

There is no legitimate claim to executive privilege here.

Clearly, the president's intent in calling Whitaker was to influence the outcome.