Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., said Sunday it’s time for Congress to “move on” from special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russia and focus instead on “the next generation as opposed to the next election.”
In an interview on NBC News’ “Meet The Press,” Kennedy chided Democrats for assuming the Mueller investigation would indict President Donald Trump.
“So the Mueller report was kind of like a hair on their biscuit,” Kennedy said of Democrats. “And now they don't know what to do so they're attacking [Attorney General William] Barr. And my feeling about it is it's time to move on.
“I understand that Washington is not the big rock candy mountain and that politics is in everybody's blood, but I think we ought to spend a little bit of our time talking about the next generation as opposed to the next election.”
According to Kennedy, the looming battle between House Democrats and the White House over the report is “dangerous to America’s institutions.”
“If they all go to court… and it becomes a zero sum game, one or two things is going to happen,” he warned. “Trump's going to win and that's going to undermine Congress' oversight ability. Or Congress is going to win, the House is going to win and now all of a sudden the new standard is that the House or the Senate can ask a president or a presidential nominee anything they want to about their personal life, whether it's relevant to being president or not…. I think that's a dangerous precedent. “
Kennedy also decried that not enough attention has been paid to the Mueller report’s about “how aggressive Russia was” in trying to interfere in America’s democracy.
“Russia is no longer the Soviet Union,” he said. “… They've got good spies. They've got nuclear weapons and they know how to — they're good at cyber terrorism. And we've got to check them and we've got to tell them we're not going to tolerate it, and if they keep doing it, we're going to further add sanctions.”
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