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Alan Dershowitz: House Democrats ‘looking to create something that isn’t there’ with impeachment

By Eddie Scarry

Published June 10, 2019 2:03pm ET

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Famed Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz says House Democrats at this point are gasping for air in the never-ending Russia saga.

“They’re looking to create something that isn’t there,” he told me in a brief phone interview Monday morning. “They’re trying to weaponize the criminal justice system for partisan advantage. It’s not there. There’s no obstruction of justice in the [special counsel] report.”

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