Rep. John Ratcliffe (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call via AP Images)

A leading Republican investigator put former special counsel Robert Mueller in the hot seat Wednesday for the obstruction of justice aspect of his sweeping Russia investigation.

In a fiery five-minute session, Rep. John Ratcliffe said Mueller’s repeated insistence both in his report and in public that President Trump had not been exonerated by his two-year investigation was a “violation every principle and the most sacred of traditions about prosecutors not offering extra prosecutorial analysis about potential crimes that aren’t charged.” Read Full Story

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