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"You bring them in the world unwanted, unloved, you send them to the electric chair," Rogers continued. "So, you kill them now or you kill them later."
U.S. Rep. Bradley Byrne, a Republican from Alabama who is challenging Sen. Doug Jones in 2020 for his Senate seat, tweeted:
Barr was due to face the Democratic-controlled House Judiciary Committee on Thursday, but pulled out after the two sides were unable to agree on the format for the hearing.
"It's simply part of the administration's complete stonewalling of Congress," Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler told reporters.
Justice Department spokeswoman Kerri Kupec said Nadler's proposal to have committee lawyers question Barr was "unprecedented and unnecessary," saying questions should come from lawmakers.
We have a new window on what may have gone on inside Lynch's FBI jet after it landed - the story as told by the former attorney general to lawmakers and staff of the House Judiciary Committee and the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Her account could easily be seen as self-serving, but it was given under penalty of perjury.
Lynch was questioned behind closed doors on Dec. 19, 2018 in the Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2131. The interview has remained private; no transcript of it has been released. But RealClearInvestigations has obtained a copy. In it, Lynch describes an encounter with Bill Clinton that is both perplexing and preposterous, a story that defies innocent explanation.

Pakistani Rangers (in black) and Indian Border Security Force personnel (in brown) perform during a flag lowering ceremony at the Wagah border area on March 30, 2019.
India will ask the global money laundering and terror finance watchdog to put Pakistan on a blacklist of countries that fail to meet international standards in stopping financial crime, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Thursday.
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) already has Pakistan on its "grey list" of countries with inadequate controls over curbing money laundering and terrorism financing.
But India wants Pakistan blacklisted, which would likely result in sanctions, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said last month.
"We want Pakistan downgraded on the FATF list," Jaitley told reporters, adding that the Paris-based FATF was due to meet in mid-May and India would make its request then.
Clinton made the call on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow show Wednesday night, suggesting Democratic 2020 presidential candidates should seek out the help of the "only other adversary of ours, who's anywhere near as good as the Russians" to hack Trump's tax returns.
Ignoring the outcome of the Mueller Report and doubling down on her years of unfounded accusations that Russia colluded with election rival Donald Trump, Clinton said: "Since Russia is clearly backing Republicans, why don't we ask China to back us?"
"And not only that, China, if you're listening, why don't you get Trump's tax returns?" Clinton continued, echoing comments by Trump in Florida during the 2016 campaign in which he asked if Russia might find Clinton's deleted emails, but did not outright call for her to be hacked.

This handout photo taken and released by Japan's Imperial Household Agency on May 1, 2019 shows Japan's Emperor Naruhito (L), watched by Empress Masako (C), giving a speech during a ceremony to receive the first audience after the accession to the throne at the Matsu-no-Ma state room inside the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. Japan's new Emperor Naruhito formally ascended the Chrysanthemum Throne on May 1, a day after his father abdicated from the world's oldest monarchy and ushered in a new imperial era.
The change ushered in a new "era" in Japan. The era of Naruhito's reign on the Chrysanthemum Throne, as Japan's imperial seat has been known for centuries, has been dubbed Reiwa, or "enlightened happiness."
As CBS News senior foreign correspondent Elizabeth Palmer reported on Wednesday, Naruhito is widely expected to continue the work of his father; humanizing the emperor's role, as well as pressing for modern reforms to normalize life for the royal family.
According to Reuters, Prince - the brother of billionaire Education Secretary Betsy DeVos who has over the past years since selling his mired-in-controversy Blackwater group (now Academi) revived his mercenary empire in China in the form of Frontier Services Group (FSG) - intends to "deploy a private army to help topple Venezuela's socialist president, Nicholas Maduro".
Price has reportedly sought access to Trump administration officials to whom he's attempting to pitch the whole operation, said to involve some 5,000 soldiers-for-hire to be used by opposition leader Juan Guaido, according to multiple sources who spoke to Reuters. The controversial private security CEO has sought investments from both Trump supporters and wealthy Venezuelan exiles, and reportedly held meetings over the plan as recently as mid-April.

Attorney General William Barr testifies before a Senate appropriations subcommittee
Yet, much of the anti-Trump left seemingly ignored a crucial detail of the Tuesday report from The Washington Post, which explained that during a phone conversation between the two, the attorney general actually asked the special counsel whether or not his memo was "inaccurate."
"There is now public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation," the letter read, according to the Post. "This threatens to undermine a central purpose for which the Dept. appointed the Special Counsel: to assure full public confidence in the outcome of the investigations."
"We have to stop using the criminal justice process as a political weapon," Barr said during a back-and-forth with Connecticut Democratic Sen. Dick Blumenthal.
The exchange was one of several heated moments during Barr's first hearing -- before the Senate Judiciary Committee -- since the release of the Mueller report. The testimony covered everything from Barr's decision not to pursue an obstruction case against President Trump to process delays in getting a redacted version of Mueller's report to the public to Mueller's apparent concerns about how Barr initially relayed his findings to Congress.
It is evident that former senior Obama administration officials and opponents of President Trump know that and fear it. It began last night with the 'non-story' that Special Counsel Robert Mueller prosecutors weren't happy with Barr's four page letter explaining their report on the Russia investigation.
"We did not understand exactly why the special counsel was not reaching a decision," Barr told the Senate Judiciary Committee.
"We don't conduct criminal investigations just to collect information and put it out to the public. We do so to make a decision," Barr told lawmakers. He suggested that Mueller should have come to a decision but avoided the criticism of Democrats by passing the ball to him with regard to obstruction.











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