McConnell Blocks Senate Bill Protecting Mueller Investigation
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocked two senators from bringing up legislation to protect Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation from any efforts by the Trump administration to thwart it.
Republican Senator Jeff Flake and Democrat Chris Coons had said they would push the measure after President Donald Trump fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions and tossed out more than a century of precedent to name Sessions chief of staff Matt Whitaker as acting attorney general. Before joining Sessions’s staff, Whitaker had sharply criticized the Mueller probe and described on television how a future acting attorney general could undermine it.