Louisiana Republican Senator John Kennedy said Sunday that it’s time for Congress to “move on” from special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russia and focus instead on “the next generation as opposed to the next election.”
Speaking on NBC News’ “Meet The Press” Sunday, Kennedy chided Democrats for assuming the Mueller investigation would indict President Donald Trump.
“So the Mueller report was kind of like a hair on their biscuit,” Kennedy said of Democrats. “And now they don't know what to do so they're attacking (Attorney General William) Barr. And my feeling about it is it's time to move on.
“I understand that Washington is not the big rock candy mountain and that politics is in everybody's blood, but I think we ought to spend a little bit of our time talking about the next generation as opposed to the next election.”
Kennedy also decried that not enough attention has been paid to the Mueller report’s about “how aggressive Russia was” in trying to interfere in America’s democracy.
“Russia is no longer the Soviet Union,” he said. “They've got good spies. They've got nuclear weapons and they know how to — they're good at cyber terrorism. And we've got to check them and we've got to tell them we're not going to tolerate it, and if they keep doing it, we're going to further add sanctions.”
Sen. Kennedy also said Democrats are "acting in bad faith" in their mission to obtain President Trump's tax returns.
"When the Ways and Means chairman said he wanted Trump’s tax returns, he said, 'the reason I want his returns is because it will help me evaluate how good a job the IRS is doing in auditing. Now give me a break ... nobody believes that. He’s in total bad faith."
"The president doesn’t have to turn over his tax returns," Kennedy said. "Would I do it if I were running for president? Yeah, but there’s no law that says he has to."
"All of the sudden, the new standard is that the House or the Senate can ask a president or a presidential nominee anything they want to about their personal life whether it’s relevant to being president."
"I don’t think the House is in completely good faith," added Kennedy.