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Chris Lu

Dems demand Mueller testify by May 23

"I would want to know how the 37 instances when the president claimed he could not recall," says Miller Center practitioner senior fellow Chris Lu.
Chris Lu
The Sydney Morning Herald

Democrats must act: Mueller report is a road map for impeachment

Robert Mueller's report on the investigation into the 2016 election landed on Thursday, following months of anticipation. With dozens of indictments and several plea deals already public, many of the findings, such as extensive Russian interference in the election and significant criminality within the Trump campaign team, were well known. And yet the release of the report, a hefty 448-page document riddled with redactions, marks a significant turning point in the Trump presidency, and in the nation more broadly: the moment when the Democratic House needs to get serious about impeachment.
Nicole Hemmer
CNN

Jay Rosen warns about 'authoritarian news system'

Jay Rosen discusses Trump's "hate movement" against the media and says Trump's base has been "isolated in an information system of its own," partly due to Fox News. Nicole Hemmer says Watergate probably would have had a "very different outcome" if Fox had existed back then.

Nicole Hemmer
Think Progress

The Mueller report and the impeachment paradox: Removing Trump from office may have gotten harder

Regarding both Nixon and Clinton, “there was political will to hold the president accountable for obstruction of justice,” said Ken Hughes, an expert on Watergate with the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. “In both cases, Congress rose to its responsibility for ensuring that the president is not above the law, and now there seems to be a great hesitation to do that.”
Ken Hughes
The Hill

Mueller makes clear: Congress must investigate whether Trump obstructed justice

Contrary to the summary that Attorney General William Barr gave Congress last month, the full Mueller report did not leave it up to the attorney general to decide whether President Trump obstructed justice. That question is up to Congress, just as it was when obstruction of justice formed one of the bases for impeachment proceedings against both Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton.
Ken Hughes
The Christian Science Monitor

After Mueller report, the pressure shifts to Congress

“It’s really up to Congress” – and not an independent counsel, who works for the executive branch – “to investigate the question of whether President Trump committed obstruction of justice,” says Ken Hughes, an expert on presidential abuse of power at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center in Charlottesville, Virginia, “just as it investigated whether Nixon committed it and whether Clinton committed it.”
Ken Hughes