House Dems Demand Acting AG Recuse Himself from Mueller Probe

House Democrats are demanding that acting attorney general Matt Whitaker, who took over for Attorney General Jeff Sessions after President Trump requested, received, and accepted Sessions’s resignation Wednesday, recuse himself from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe.In a letter to Whitaker, Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee urged him to recuse himself based on previous criticisms he has made of the probe.“There is little doubt that President Trump&rsqu