Republican Congressman Calls For Special Prosecutor To Investigate Russia Scandal
Republican Congressman Darrel Issa on Friday called for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to recuse himself and for a special prosecutor to oversee the Russia investigation.
Issa, who was appearing on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, said, “You cannot have somebody, a friend of mine Jeff Sessions, who was on the campaign and who is an appointee.”
Issa continued, “You’re going to need to use the special prosecutor’s statute and office to take — not just to recuse. You can’t just give it to your deputy. That’s another political appointee.”
Issa went on to say: “There may or may not be fault but the American people who are beginning to understands that Putin murders his enemies, sometimes right in front of the Kremlin…he’s murdered people and taken down using cyber warfare in Georgia and Ukraine.
“This is a bad guy who murders people. Who runs a gas station with an economy the size of Italy but is screwing up things all over the world, that we’ve been, quote, ‘working with.’
“Now, we have to work with them. We don’t have to trust them. And we need to investigate their activities, and we need to do it because they are bad people.”
