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Washington is bracing for the release of the Mueller report Thursday, with Republicans and Democrats posturing for what happens next.

Former President Barack Obama’s former White House counsel Greg Craig expects to be indicted on federal corruption charges over a scandal with Ukraine, his lawyers said Wednesday.

Barr said Tuesday he intends to release a redacted version of the Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report “within a week.”

Attorney General William Barr on Tuesday testified before the House Appropriations Committee that special counsel Robert Mueller declined an offer by the Department of Justice to review the agency’s “principal conclusions” of the Trump-Russia investigation.

Some Democrats are suggesting Barr broke the law in announcing the principal conclusions of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report last week.

Allowing the House Democrats to see what the FBI came up with — using investigative powers far more invasive and aggressive than anything Steele could muster — would, in effect, finish the work Fusion GPS started.

Papadopoulos said he believes Schiff and other Democrat lawmakers pushed a narrative of Russian collusion as part of a power grab. 

Some Democrats and mainstream media outlets appear to be embracing “collusion Truther” conspiracy theories.

The New York Times appeared to lend credence Thursday to the fervent belief among some Democrats that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report might actually contain evidence that President Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign colluded with the Russian government, printing a story about how critics were “raising questions” about Attorney General William Barr’s ability to summarize a length investigative report in four pages in just 48 hours.

House Intelligence Committee Republicans unveiled during a hearing on Thursday a letter signed by all Republicans on the committee asking Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) to step down as chairman.

Alan Dershowitz alleges in an op-ed for The Hill that Jeff Zucker, president of CNN Worldwide, banned him from further appearances on the network for defending Trump.

For two years, our constitutionally protected guardians of the truth put out a stream of misinformation, promising viewers that Robert Mueller was going to reverse the outcome of the 2016 election. 

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, told the Washington Post in an interview that he still believes President Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign colluded with the Russian government, despite Special Counsel Robert Mueller finding that there was no collusion.

Here are 14 Schiff tweets asserting evidence of collusion, or that the president’s campaign colluded with Russia.

A growing number of House Republicans are calling on Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) to step down from his post as House Intelligence Committee chairman, after the special counsel did not establish that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia.

Late-night TV hosts were left disappointed and dejected by FBI Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report clearing Donald Trump’s presidential campaign of charges of collusion with Russia during the 2016 election.

Top Justice Department officials knew for weeks that special counsel Robert Mueller would not reach a conclusion on whether President Donald Trump obstructed the Russia investigation, torpedoing accusations of a rushed decision by Attorney General William Barr regarding the matter, according to a report.

Attorney General William Barr announced Sunday that Special Counsel Robert Mueller found that President Trump’s campaign did not collude with Russia or Russian agents during the 2016 election, but some diehards are continuing to push the narrative that there was collusion.

Barr announced Sunday that the Special Counsel investigation found no evidence that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) responded to Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 race: “Great Day for President Trump.”

CBS live TV broadcast of it’s March Madness NCAA basketball championship was interrupted for millions of viewers on Sunday with a live news update that Donald Trump did not, nor did members of the Trump Campaign conspire or coordinate “with the Russian government in its election interference activities,” according to a letter Attorney General William Barr sent to Congress Sunday summarizing the findings of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report into the 2016 presidential election.

Attorney General William Barr sent Congress a letter Sunday summarizing the findings of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report into the 2016 presidential election, and found there was no collusion between President Donald Trump’s campaign and the Russian government, “despite several efforts” by Russian agents or intermediaries.

Mueller’s report has not yet been released, and perhaps not even finalized, but it is already on sale at least two major online retailers.

Tuesday on MSNBC’s “The Last Word,” former CIA Director John Brennan, who is also an MSNBC contributor, said he “wouldn’t be surprised” if more indictments were to come out of the Department of Justice probe headed up by former FBI

Former White House lawyer Ty Cobb defended Special Counsel Robert Mueller in an interview with ABC News published Tuesday morning, calling Mueller an “American hero” and saying his investigation was no “witch hunt.”

Friday on Hugh Hewitt’s nationally syndicated radio show, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) sounded off on what he perceived to be the current status of the Department of Justice special counsel probe headed up by Robert Mueller. Graham speculated that had

The Justice Department could announce the completion of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on his investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 presidential election as early as next week, CNN reported Wednesday.

John Dowd, the former lead attorney representing President Donald Trump in dealing with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into alleged collusion with Russia in the 2016 presidential campaign, blasted Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in an ABC News podcast released Tuesday for his handling of the investigation.

House Judiciary Committee Democrats and acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker faced off Friday during a contentious six-hearing hearing that focused primarily on whether he or President Trump had ever tried to interfere with the special counsel investigation.

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted on Thursday to advance to the Senate floor the nomination of William Barr for attorney general. 

Lindsey Graham, in a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray, demanded answers on the FBI’s arrest of Roger Stone last week during a pre-dawn raid on his home filmed exclusively by CNN.

Hans von Spakovsky said Robert Mueller’s decision to arrest Roger Stone in a “pre-dawn raid” was a signal of intimidation to others.

Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker said Monday that he believes the Mueller probe is “close to being completed.”

Hans von Spakovsky speculated that Robert Mueller’s denial of a BuzzFeed report was motivated by the knowledge that such leaks are crimes.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) published a statement and a series of tweets on Friday suggesting that Russian President Vladimir Putin was controlling President Donald Trump through the use of secrets about him.

CNN crime and justice producer David Shortell said Friday that the network set up a camera crew outside the home of longtime political operative Roger Stone after “noticing unusual grand jury activity” in connection to special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation the day before.