The House Judiciary Committee chair will ask the acting attorney general at an upcoming hearing about the report that President Trump directed his lawyer to lie to Congress.
The chair of the House Judiciary Committee will ask the acting head of the Justice Department about his communications with the White House in the wake of BuzzFeed News’ report that President Trump directed his personal lawyer to lie to Congress.
Committee chair Jerry Nadler has told acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker that he will be asked about whether he discussed the report, or the decision by the office of special counsel Robert Mueller to issue a statement disputing it, at a hearing on Feb. 8.
“If so, with whom?” Nadler told Whitaker he plans to ask, in a letter dated Tuesday. “What was discussed?”
View the complete January 22 article by Emma Loop on the BuzzFeed website here.