Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker isn’t being open about what actions, if any, he’s taken toward the Russia investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said Sunday.
In an interview with CNN’s “State of the Union,” the incoming head of the House Intelligence Committee said Whitaker, who has been critical of the probe in the past, is “not telegraphing what he's doing. He's not telling us or anyone, at least in Congress.
“ I don't know what steps he has taken, whether he is merely getting briefed now and deliberating on whether he will allow Mueller to subpoena [President Donald Trump] or whether he will allow Mueller to look into this issue or giving Mueller a time when he needs to wrap up his investigation,” he said.
“I'll tell you this… we're going to find out,” he vowed.
“We are going to bring Whitaker before the Congress, assuming he's still in his position at the time when Democrats take over” in January, he added. “We may bring him in whether he's in that position or not, to find out the answers to these questions.”
Schiff also criticized the president’s honesty about the slaying of Saudi critic and journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
“I think, in part, he feels that by saying that ‘we don't know’ [if the Khashoggi death was ordered by the crown prince] or that ‘the world is a dangerous place’ or ‘everybody does it,’ he thinks it makes him look strong,” he said. “It actually makes him look weak. It means our allies don't respect us, our enemies don't fear us.”
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