Thread by @PaulaChertok

House Judiciary plans vote this week to subpoena #MuellerReport - The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/politics/house…

If Barr skips Apr 2 deadline, HOUSE WILL SUBPOENA #MuellerReport into Russian interference + 5 aides MCGAHN, BANNON, HICKS, PRIEBUS, DONALDSON

NADLER: Congress requires the full & complete Special Counsel report—w/o redactions—and access to the underlying evidence—without delay.

"The entire reason for appointing the special counsel was to protect the investigation from political influence. By offering us his version of events in lieu of the report, the attorney general, a recent political appointee, undermines the work and the integrity of his department

"Congress, not the attorney general, has a duty under the Constitution to determine whether wrongdoing has occurred. The special counsel declined to make a 'traditional prosecutorial judgment'…but it is not the attorney general’s job to step in and substitute his judgment"

"That responsibility falls to Congress—and specifically to the House Judiciary Committee… Our job is to hold the president accountable any time he undermines the rule of law"—Chair @RepJerryNadler nytimes.com/2019/04/01/opi…
#ReleaseTheFullMuellerReport

@RepJerryNadler "even the attorney general acknowledges the existence of evidence…We…suspect…Mueller report resembles [rept] Congress received from the Watergate grand jury…It did not recommend that the president be prosecuted…It simply stated the evidence so that Congress could do its job"

@RepJerryNadler "[W]e require the report because one day, one way or another, the country will move on from President Trump. We must make it harder for future presidents to behave this way. We need a full accounting of the president’s actions to do that work."—Nadler #ReleaseFullMuellerReport

@RepJerryNadler 🔥🎯"When the full scope of the president’s misconduct has been revealed, when his lies are debunked and his abuses have been laid bare, I believe that members of Congress on both sides of the aisle will draft legislation to curb the worst of his offenses." (They shd be criminal)

@RepJerryNadler Nadler includes only some of the known obstruction evidence: Firing FBI director, AG, moves to fire Mueller, daily raging against DOJ & investigators. There's much more. Like "adoption" cover statement for Trump Tower meeting—so profoundly disturbing, legal spox Mark Corallo quit

https://twitter.com/PaulaChertok/status/958893362177691648

@RepJerryNadler First reported in Jan 2018, Mark Corallo recently confirmed that Hope Hicks suggested destroying evidence that proved Trump crafted a false cover story that the Trump Tower meeting was "primarily about Russian adoptions"—not dirt on Hillary. So wrong, it made his "throat dry up."

@RepJerryNadler Corallo's recent interview hasn't gotten much attention, but he gave critical evidence of Trump's personal acts of obstruction covering up Russia's efforts to help him. Even Corallo says Trump's actions are impeachable. Remember, the KREMLIN conspiracy IS CRIMINAL. #MuellerReport

@RepJerryNadler Corallo said Trump intentionally crafted a false statement that the Trump Tower meeting was about "adoption." Trump CALLED him at home to PERSONALLY "lay into" him. Was Trump covering up for his campaign or for Russia? Both? Fits his long pattern of covering up Russia's attack.

@RepJerryNadler Corallo says he didn't think it was obstruction. "These people didn't even know how to obstruct" b/c they were just novices, naive, used to lying. That can't be right. Manafort—hardly a novice or naive—was the campaign chair. And, lying a lot can't be an excuse for obstruction.