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    Republicans want to move on from Russia investigation even as they reopen probe

    by Chris Megerian and Jennifer Haberkorn, Los Angeles Times May 07, 2019 4 minutes

    WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell offered a definitive verdict Tuesday on special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's report on whether the Trump campaign conspired with Russia in 2016 - "case closed."

    "Two years of exhaustive investigation, and nothing to establish the fanciful conspiracy theory that Democratic politicians and TV talking heads had treated like a foregone conclusion," McConnell, R-Ky., said on the Senate floor.

    It was time, he said, for the country to move on.

    But Congress isn't quitting the Russia investigation. Senate Republicans are stepping up efforts to examine how the probe began, revisiting controversies that are reliable fodder

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