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Jamie Raskin: “I think this is what you call obstruction, plain and simple.”

On the recordDecember 16, 2019
I think this is what you call obstruction, plain and simple.
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Jamie Raskin
Democratic · Maryland

Editor's note · Context

Raskin describes the President's noncompliance with document requests as obstruction.

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