At least two Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee walked out of the closed-door interview with Hunterghazi special counsel David Weiss, telling Punchbowl’s Max Cohen it was stupid bullshit.
“What [Weiss] very clearly said, which was obvious in his letters, is that if he ever needed any additional authority than what he had as the US Attorney in Delaware, he was assured from the Department of Justice that he would have that authority,” said New York Congressman Dan Goldman, adding that Weiss is “being asked essentially misleading questions about the letters that he wrote and what his authority was. I think that the best case scenario is the Republicans just don’t understand how the Department of Justice works.” Very charitable of Goldman.
Pennsylvania Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon was even less nice about it, saying it was a “farce” and “an absolute waste of time, which is why I’m gonna go back and do some constituent call time.”