Whitaker Returns

News  |  Mar 11, 2019

Former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, who quietly left the Justice Department altogether earlier this month, will return to Capitol Hill Wednesday to follow-up on testimony he gave before the House Judiciary Committee on February 8th. 

CNN

He is expected to speak behind closed doors with Chairman Jerry Nadler, a New York Democrat, and the committee's top Republican member, Rep. Doug Collins of Georgia, to clarify his answers from last month's testimony.

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In a letter to Whitaker last month following the day-long hearing, Nadler said that many of the answers from the then-acting head of the Justice Department were "unsatisfactory, incomplete or contradicted by other evidence."

In particular, Nadler pointed to Whitaker's responses to questions about his discussions with Trump after the President learned he had been implicated by federal prosecutors from New York as part of a hush-money scheme to silence his alleged mistresses. Nadler also said in the letter that Whitaker "suggested somewhat incredulously" that he never aired his concerns about special counsel Robert Mueller's probe when he interviewed for a White House attorney position with responsibility for dealing with that investigation, something Democrats want to press him on further.

Whitaker to return to House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday (CNN)