House committee chairs demand Barr cancel Mueller report press conference

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Five Democratic House committee chairs are calling on Attorney General William Barr to cancel his press conference scheduled for Thursday morning to discuss Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report, saying it will be "unnecessary and inappropriate."

In a joint statement released Wednesday night, House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), House Oversight Committee Chair Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), House Financial Services Chair Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), and House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) said the presentation, announced by Barr on Wednesday afternoon, "appears designed to shape public perceptions of the report before anyone can read it."

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.