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Rep. Adam Schiff, the California Democrat who chairs the House Intelligence Committee has called on Attorney General William Barr to resign. Schiff now believes that Barr "willingly misled the Congress" when he testified in a House Appropriations subcommittee that he didn't know why Robert Mueller's team was upset about the four-page memo that Barr sent to Congress prior to the release of the redacted report.
Now that Mueller's detailed letter to Barr—sent three days after Barr's four-page memo—is public, the world knows why Mueller and his team was frustrated by that memo. "He knew exactly what he was being asked by Congress," in that hearing Schiff said on CBS. "He knew his answer was false. So look, there's no sugar coating this—I think he should step down."
On CNN in a separate interview, Schiff said Barr's statements to Congress could be considered perjury "for an ordinary citizen." He continued, "It's worse when it comes from the attorney general of the United States because it means the public cannot have confidence in what he says. […] It means that we cannot have confidence in how he administers justice."
While he's calling for Barr's resignation, he doesn't think it will happen. "What we are seeing, I think, is that anyone that gets close to Donald Trump becomes tainted by that experience and the fundamental conundrum is: How do you ethically serve a deeply unethical president?" he told CNN. "As we are seeing with Bill Barr—and I think as we saw with Rod Rosenstein—you can't." However, he continued, "This is bigger than Bill Barr." It's about Trump.
"This is a problem now of a president who, there is a strong case to be made, has violated the law with innumerable acts of obstruction of justice, has potentially violated the law in terms of a campaign fraud scheme. We are engaged in a debate within our caucus about what's the right remedy for this."