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Steny Hoyer: “The whip continues to ignore the fact that there were very different circumstances. There were two special prosecutors…”

On the recordOctober 18, 2019
The whip continues to ignore the fact that there were very different circumstances. There were two special prosecutors with respect to Nixon and one special prosecutor with respect to Mr. Clinton. That was a radically different position than we find ourselves in today. Mueller, by the way, was appointed by the Deputy Attorney General of the United States, a Republican appointed by the President of the United States, Mr. Trump--not our guy. He appointed him. Now, he dismisses that the special--he is not a special prosecutor, but I forget exactly what his title was. In any event, he wasn't a special prosecutor, but he did, in fact, find that there was reason to believe that there was obstruction of justice.
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Steny Hoyer
Democratic · Maryland
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Oct 18, 2019

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