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Republican majority leader says additional scrutiny would only impede existing probes
Thomson Reuters
Posted: May 10, 2017 10:18 AM ET
Last Updated: May 10, 2017 10:18 AM ET
The U.S. Senate majority leader, Republican Mitch McConnell, does not support any additional investigation into whether Russia influenced the 2016 U.S. election, saying as he opened the Senate Wednesday that it would “impede” probes already under way.
But the chamber’s Democratic minority leader, Senator Chuck Schumer, reiterated his calls for a special counsel to look into the matter. Schumer said the need was more urgent after Republican President Donald Trump abruptly fired FBI director James Comey on Tuesday.
“‘If there is ever a time … it is right now.”
Schumer said Comey’s firing “establishes a very troubling pattern,” and any investigation needs to be “far away from the heavy hand” of Trump’s administration.
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