Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH) on Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures” accused the Democrats of trying to obstruct justice by going after Attorney General William Barr and President Donald Trump after the attorney general testified last week about FBI special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.
Jordan said the Democrats are attempting to stop Barr because they are “scared” more is uncovered about the FBI’s spying on Trump’s campaign.
“First of all, [Barr] said spying did, in fact, take place,” Jordan explained. “Second, he said there is a basis for his concern that the spying wasn’t properly predicated. Third, he said there was a failure of leadership at the upper echelon of the FBI. We know that for sure. Comey, McCabe, Baker, Strzok, Page, we know there was a failure of leadership there. And then fourth, he used two terms that I have never really heard before, and my guess is most Americans haven’t. He used the term unauthorized surveillance and he used the term political surveillance.”
He added, “[T]he Democrats are scared. And, frankly, I think, when we’re talking about obstruction of justice, the real obstruction of justice is what Democrats are trying to do to the attorney general. They are trying to stop him by all these things, this contempt and not having him come testify. They are trying to stop him from getting the answers that we just talked about.”
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