Heidi Przybyla: Blumenthal Working with Republicans to Protect Mueller’s Work

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PRZYBYLA: “NBC has exclusive new reporting about a movement afoot on Capitol Hill to develop a plan B to try and protect the Russia investigation. As you know, Senator Mitch McConnell has said he will not bring to the floor a vote of a separate bipartisan effort to bring to the floor a vote of a separate bipartisan effort to try and protect Mueller’s job. And so senator Blumenthal has told me that he is organizing a bipartisan effort, he’s working with Republicans, that’s notable here, to try and protect Mueller’s work. Senator McConnell and other Republicans raised objections to the initial effort saying that it was not constitutional to put any kind of shackles on the President’s ability to hire and fire personnel. Well, what this does, is totally skirts that and focuses simply on transparency in terms of the work that Mueller is doing. For instance, it allows Congress to demand that they get to see his work."