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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TuESDAY, JANuARY 15, 2019
Trump’s AG nominee asserts independence
By ERIC TUCKER and
MICHAEL BALSAMO
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Pres-
ident Donald Trump’s nom-
inee for attorney general
asserted independence from
the White House today, say-
ing he believed that Rus-
sia had tried to interfere in
the 2016 presidential elec-
tion, that the special coun-
sel investigation shadowing
Trump is not a witch hunt
and that his predecessor was
right to recuse himself from
the probe.
Those comments by Wil-
liam Barr at his Senate con-
firmation hearing point-
edly departed from Trump’s
own views and underscored
Barr’s efforts to reassure
Democrats that he will not
be a loyalist to a president
who has appeared to demand
it from law enforcement.
Some Democrats are con-
cerned about that very pos-
sibility, citing a memo Barr
wrote to the Justice Depart-
ment before his nomina-
tion in which he criticized
an aspect of special coun-
sel Robert Mueller’s Russia
investigation. Barr told sen-
ators he was merely trying
to warn Justice Department
officials against “stretching
a statute” to conclude that
the president had obstructed
justice.
Trump has repeatedly
castigated Mueller’s inves-
tigation, calling it a “witch
hunt,” and lambasted and
ultimately pushed out his
first attorney general, Jeff
Sessions, for removing him-
self from the matter because
of his work with the 2016
Trump campaign.
“I will not be bullied into
doing anything that I think is
wrong, whether it be by edi-
torial boards, Congress or the
president,” Barr told senators
on the Judiciary Committee.
He said that, at 68 years old
and partially retired, “I feel
that I’m in a position in life
where I can do the right thing
and not really care about
the consequences.”
He also disclosed hav-
Barr repeatedly praised ing discussed Mueller with
Mueller, who has been inves- Trump during a meeting in
tigating whether the Trump 2017 when Barr declined to
campaign coordinated with join his legal team. Trump
the Kremlin to sway the wanted to know what Muel-
election, and said he would ler, who worked for Barr
not undermine his work. when he led the Justice
He called him a friend of Department between 1991
and 1993, was like.
30 years and said he
“He was inter-
couldn’t imagine that
ested in that, wanted
Mueller would do
to know what I
anything that would
thought about Muel-
justify his firing.
ler’s integrity and
“I don’t believe
so forth and so on,”
Mr. Mueller would
Barr told senators. “I
be involved in a
William Barr
said Bob is a straight
witch hunt,” he said
when asked by the Republi- shooter and should be dealt
can chairman of the commit- with as such.”
tee, Sen. Lindsey Graham of
Barr also said “it is vitally
South Carolina.
important”
that
Muel-
Barr would oversee the ler be allowed to com-
final stages of the investiga- plete his investigation and
tion. He said he would con- that Congress and the pub-
sult with ethics officials on lic should learn the results.
whether he would need to He also insisted that Trump
recuse because of a critical never sought any prom-
unsolicited memo to the Jus- ises, assurances or commit-
tice Department last year, ments before selecting him
but the decision would be to be the country’s chief law
ultimately his.
enforcement officer.
“I believe it is in the best
interest of everyone — the
president, Congress, and,
most importantly, the Amer-
ican people — that this mat-
ter be resolved by allowing
the special counsel to com-
plete his work,” Barr said.
He also defended his
decision to send an unso-
licited memo to the Jus-
tice Department criticizing
Mueller’s investigation into
whether the president had
sought to obstruct justice. He
said he raised his concerns
at a lunch last year with the
deputy attorney general, Rod
Rosenstein, who appointed
Mueller and oversees his
work. Rosenstein did not
respond and was “sphinx-
like,” Barr recalled.
He said he followed up
with a memo to Rosen-
stein in June that argued that
Mueller should not be able
to interview the president
about his decision to fire
James Comey as FBI direc-
tor. He said there were other
instances in which he had
given advice to the Justice
Department, such as cau-
tioning against a prosecution
of Democratic Sen. Robert
Menendez.
Barr also sent the memo
to White House law-
yers and discussed it with
Trump’s personal attor-
neys and a lawyer who rep-
resents Trump’s son-in-law,
Jared Kushner. Copies also
were sent by Barr to White
House lawyer Emmet Flood,
Solicitor General Noel Fran-
cisco and Pat Cipollone,
who is now White House
counsel. Barr said he dis-
cussed the memo’s contents
with Trump’s attorneys, Jay
Sekulow and Jane and Mar-
tin Raskin.
At issue for Democratic
senators is whether Barr can
oversee without bias or inter-
ference the final stages of
Mueller’s probe into poten-
tial ties between Russia and
the 2016 Trump campaign,
and whether he will per-
mit the findings to be made
public.
WORLD IN BRIEF
The outreach was a shift for the
White House as the shutdown is
now in its 25th day, with no reso-
lution in sight.
Associated Press
Dems rebuff Trump
invite, thwart effort
to bypass Pelosi
WASHINGTON — The White
House ran quickly into the limits
of trying to bypass Speaker Nancy
Pelosi in shutdown negotiations
when rank-and-file House Dem-
ocrats declined an invitation to
lunch today with President Donald
Trump.
The administration is trying
to peel off Democratic support
for Trump’s demand for border
wall money and negotiate directly
with centrist lawmakers and some
newly elected freshmen, including
those in districts where Trump is
popular.
Pelosi gave her blessing for
lawmakers to accept the White
House invitation, but White House
Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said
“unfortunately” no Democrats
accepted.
Extremists attack hotel
in Nairobi; al-Shabab
claims role
NAIROBI, Kenya — Extrem-
ists launched a deadly attack on
a luxury hotel in Kenya’s capital
today, sending people fleeing in
panic as explosions and heavy gun-
fire reverberated through the com-
plex. A witness said he saw five
bodies at the hotel entrance alone.
Al-Shabab — the Soma-
lia-based Islamic extremist group
that carried out the 2013 West-
gate Mall attack in Nairobi that
left 67 people dead — claimed
responsibility.
As night fell, gunfire continued
more than two hours after the first
shots were heard at the complex,
which includes the DusitD2 hotel,
along with bars, restaurants, banks
and offices and is in a well-to-do
neighborhood with large numbers
of American, European and Indian
expatriates.
The violence appeared to fit
the pattern of attacks al-Shabab
often carries out in Somalia’s cap-
ital, with an explosion followed
by a group of gunmen storming
the place. Like the Westgate Mall
attack, this one appeared aimed at
wealthy Kenyans and foreigners
living in the country.
Iowa’s King off
House committees after
remarks about race
WASHINGTON — Veteran
Republican Rep. Steve King will
be blocked from committee assign-
ments for the next two years after
lamenting that white suprem-
acy and white nationalism have
become offensive terms.
King, in his ninth term repre-
senting Iowa, will not be given
committee assignments in the Con-
gress that began this month, House
Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy
said Monday night. King served
on the Agriculture, Small Business
and Judiciary committees in the
last Congress, and he chaired Judi-
ciary’s subcommittee on the Con-
stitution and Civil Justice.
The action by the GOP steer-
ing committee came after King
and McCarthy met to discuss the
remarks on white supremacy, the
latest in a years-long pattern of
racially insensitive remarks by
King.
One Republican did not join the
chorus of criticism. Asked about
King’s remarks Monday, Presi-
dent Donald Trump said, “I haven’t
been following it.”
Federal judge bars
citizenship question
from 2020 census
NEW YORK — A federal judge
blocked the Trump administration
today from asking about citizen-
ship status on the 2020 census, the
first major ruling in cases contend-
ing that officials ramrodded the
question through for Republican
political purposes to intentionally
undercount immigrants.
In a 277-page decision that won’t
be the final word on the issue, U.S.
District Judge Jesse Furman ruled
that while such a question would
be constitutional, Commerce Sec-
retary Wilbur Ross had added it
arbitrarily and not followed proper
administrative procedures.
Among other things, the judge
said, Ross didn’t follow a law
requiring that he give Congress
three years notice of any plan to
add a question about citizenship to
the census.
The ruling came in a case in
which a dozen states or big cit-
ies and immigrants’ rights groups
argued that the Commerce Depart-
ment, which designs the census,
had failed to properly analyze the
effect the question would have on
households where immigrants live.
The U.S. Supreme Court is also
poised to address the issue Feb. 19.
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