Durbin jabs GOP for raising Clinton emails during Barr hearing

Published May 1, 2019 4:00pm ET



Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., on Wednesday chastised GOP members of the Senate Judiciary Committee for threatening a new probe into how law enforcement investigated Hillary Clinton’s private email server during a hearing on special counsel Robert Mueller’s report.

Durbin, a senior member on the panel, said the GOP “is going to coordinate on the ‘lock her up’ defense,” of President Trump, referring to a phrase often chanted during Trump’s 2016 campaign rallies.

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