| No Images? Click here  Monday, March 25 NO CONSPIRACY, BUT ‘DOES NOT EXONERATE’ Special counsel Robert Mueller’s report did not find that Donald Trump’s campaign conspired with Russia to influence the 2016 presidential election, but did not exonerate the president on the question of whether he committed obstruction of justice. Attorney General William Barr told Congress in a four-page summary that the special counsel declined to “make a traditional prosecutorial judgment” as to whether the president committed obstruction of justice. Trump and his allies greeted Barr’s letter as an all-out triumph, while Democrats in Congress are intent on obtaining the full Mueller report. [HuffPost] [Tweet | Share on Facebook] HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE TO ASK BARR TO TESTIFY The House Judiciary Committee plans to call Attorney General William Barr to testify before lawmakers “in light of the very concerning discrepancies and final decision making at the Justice Department following the Special Counsel report, where Mueller did not exonerate the President,” Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) tweeted Sunday. [HuffPost] DEMOCRATS REACT TO MUELLER REPORT Democratic lawmakers resoundingly called for transparency after reading the principal conclusions from Mueller’s nearly two-year investigation. House Democrats held a conference call Saturday to discuss next moves while Congress demands access to the full report. [HuffPost] 2ND PARKLAND SHOOTING SURVIVOR DIES A second student who survived last year’s mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, has apparently died by suicide, police said. The juvenile, a current student whose name has not been released, died by an “apparent suicide” on Saturday night, days after another survivor, Sydney Aiello, took her own life. [HuffPost] FAMILY TO DONATE $11 MILLION AFTER LEARNING OF NAZI PAST One of Germany’s richest families, whose company owns a controlling interest in Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Panera Bread, Pret a Manger and other well-known businesses, plans to donate millions to charity after learning about their ancestors’ enthusiastic support of Adolf Hitler and use of forced laborers under the Nazis. [AP] DRUGGED ORANGUTAN FOUND IN SUITCASE A Russian tourist has been arrested in Indonesia after airport security discovered a drugged orangutan in his suitcase. Andrei Zhestkov, 27, told authorities that a friend had given him the 2-year-old animal as a gift. [HuffPost]  THE MUELLER REPORT SUMMARY’S UNANSWERED QS The attorney general’s four-page summary of the Mueller report leaves many major questions about the investigation’s findings. Perhaps the biggest is what evidence the special counsel found that Trump was involved in obstruction of justice. There is also significant interest in the continuous reports of meetings and communications between campaign officials and Russian officials or proxies, what happened to Jerome Corsi, what the mystery Supreme Court Case was, and whether the full report will be made public. [HuffPost]WATERGATE FIGURE SUSPECTS FOUL PLAY John Dean, former White House counsel to President Richard M. Nixon, warned that Barr may be hiding something “fairly ugly” inside Mueller’s report. Dean told CNN’s Don Lemon: “I have some suspicions that the reason he boiled this down the way he did is because it’s not very attractive … [Mueller’s] words are very different than Barr’s, I suspect.” [HuffPost]THE PROBES CONTINUE Though Mueller’s investigation is over, there are several ways inquiries into Trump, the Trump Organization and the Kremlin will continue. Campaign finance investigations, congressional investigations, investigations into Trump’s dealings with Deutsche Bank -- including his failed 2014 attempt to buy the Buffalo Bills football team -- and an investigation into Trump’s inaugural committee are still ongoing. [HuffPost]AOC: REMOVING ‘HORRIFIC’ TRUMP WON’T SOLVE DEEPER PROBLEMS Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) called Trump “horrific,” but added that he was just a symptom of “much deeper problems” facing the nation. “He can stay, he can go. He can be impeached, or voted out in 2020,” she wrote on Twitter. “But removing Trump will not remove the infrastructure of an entire party that embraced him; the dark money that funded him; the online radicalization that drummed his army; nor the racism he amplified + reanimated.” [HuffPost]POSSIBLE CALIFORNIA ARSONIST LEFT NOTE REFERENCING NZ Police are investigating a possible arson at a California mosque as a hate crime after authorities discovered a note referencing the March 15 mass shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. No injuries were reported in the 3 a.m. Sunday fire at the Islamic Center of Escondido, located roughly 30 miles north of San Diego. [HuffPost]OIL EXECS CHORTLE OVER ‘UNPRECEDENTED’ ACCESS TO TRUMP Participants at a meeting of oil industry executives and lobbyists can be heard laughing uproariously at boasts related to “unprecedented access” to key Trump administration officials in a secretly recorded tape. The recording was made as some 100 executives of the Independent Petroleum Association of America gathered at a hotel in Southern California in the summer of 2017, and has been obtained by Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting. [HuffPost]
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