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DPCC Co-Chair Lieu: House Democrats are Cleaning Up Corruption For The People

May 1, 2019

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Ted Lieu, Co-Chair of the House Democratic Policy and Communications Committee (DPCC), appeared on MSNBC Live with Brian Williams to discuss Attorney General Bill Barr's mischaracterization of the Mueller Report. Lieu highlighted that while the Attorney General is acting as Trump's personal lawyer, House Democrats are fulfilling their promises to clean up corruption, lower health care costs, and rebuild America's infrastructure For the People. Below are excerpts from the interview. Click here to watch the video

"Bill Barr can choose to be a lying partisan hack – it just means he needs to go work for the Trump campaign but he can't be Attorney General. That's a position that requires independence, integrity and the oath to the Constitution. He's supposed to be America's attorney, not Donald Trump's personal lawyer, and I really hope he gets that. Otherwise he should resign."

"America should be asking, ‘What is Bill Barr scared of?' Last term under Republican control of the Judiciary Committee, I was in multiple hearings, closed-door hearings, where staff counsel questioned witnesses from the Justice Department. Bill Barr has no legal defense to why he needs to be questioned only by Members of Congress. He is simply trying to delay and obstruct. He needs to come in tomorrow and answer questions and be the person that he says he wants to be, which is to be independent. We will see if he can be that."

"Not only is the mere writing of the letter by Robert Mueller extraordinary but Bill Barr's actions are even more extraordinary. Not only did he mislead the American people with a four-page summary, he gets this letter from Mueller telling him he mischaracterized the Mueller report and then he goes before Congress twice and misleads the American people again, and then he does a press conference misleading the American people. That is beyond the pale. Those actions are unacceptable and Bill Barr really should resign."