Schumer: No new FBI director without a special counsel on Russia

[DonViejo]

Source: CNN




By Eli Watkins, CNN
Updated 12:38 PM ET, Sun May 14, 2017

Washington (CNN)Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Sunday that the Senate should refuse to confirm a new FBI director until the Department of Justice appoints a special counsel to lead a probe into allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

"I think there are a lot of Democrats who feel that way," Schumer said on CNN's "State of the Union." "We'll have to discuss it as a caucus, but I would support that move."

Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee, proposed the idea after President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey last week.

Trump has yet to name his choice to replace Comey, for which interviews have taken place this weekend, and the Justice Department thus far has declined to appoint a special prosecutor. Republicans leading Congress have also declined to compel a special prosecutor or create an independent investigative commission.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/14/politics/chuck-schumer-department-of-justice-fbi/

[dalton99a]

1. Good start.

[Honeycombe8]

2. The Democrats have no power, but they're doing what they can. nt

[Dawson Leery]

3. No debt ceiling agreement either.

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Also, no voting for Newt Gingrich's beast to be Vatican Ambassador.

[lastlib]

8. no debt ceiling, Okay.

but not approving Callista hurts our best chance to get those two basturds out of the country.

[yardwork]

4. Good. All we can do is make noise.

[underpants]

5. Hey!

[Honeycombe8]

11. LOL! nt

[bucolic_frolic]

6. The only leverage

is to push this to the max and grow public opinion for a special prosecutor

If Republicans see their numbers eroding, a few might go along just to take
this off the limelight for awhile.

[TryLogic]

7. Republican Party is obviously the anti-democracy party.

For most of us that makes them the enemy.

[DeminPennswoods]

9. Good

nt

[madokie]

10. I just want us dems to get a plan and stick with it

fuck this dilly dallying around bullshit that has bigly got us in this mess to begin with.

[Turbineguy]

12. Spicer lied about that today.

I guess it would be news if he did not lie.