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The Russia Investigations: The House Intel Committee Duels Over Evidence. Again

House intelligence committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif. (right), and ranking member Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., speak to the media about committee's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, at the U.S. Capitol on March 15, 2017.

Republicans on the House intelligence committee gave President Trump another clean bill of health this week.

The committee's Democrats laid out how much they say he has to fear.

In the latest document duel within the panel, ranking member Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and his members submitted a game of legal Mad Libs that left blank areas they say they were unable to fill in to solve the riddle.

Republicans, who controlled the intelligence committee's Russia investigation, did not go along with the type of investigation that would have enabled filling in those blanks, Schiff complains.

But Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller may be able to find the answers. He can work

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