Elijah Cummings: 'I am begging the American people to pay attention to what's going on'
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) said Friday he's "begging the American people to pay attention to what's going on" the day after the release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report.
“I think we are in a very difficult time in this country’s history and I’m begging the American people to pay attention to what’s going on," the chairman of the House Oversight Committee said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
Cummings is leading that panel's investigations into President Trump.
"And I often say that people are going to look back at this time 200 years from now and ask the question ‘what did you do to reverse this?’” he said.
Cummings also ripped Attorney General William Barr for saying Trump did not obstruct any investigations into Russian collusion when the Mueller report declined to take a stance regarding obstruction of justice.
“I just found that Attorney General Barr went overboard in trying to represent the president when he should have been representing the people of the United States of America,” he said.
Democrats have seized on Barr’s determination, saying he and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein mischaracterized Mueller’s report.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/439689-elijah-cummings-i-am-begging-the-american-people-to-pay-attention-to-whats