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Both ABC and NBC were desperately backing calls from partisan Democrats, Monday night, to have a special prosecutor investigate the Donald Trump’s campaign for evidence of collusion with Russia. But, took a liking to call from one particular Republican. “In Washington tonight, pressure is intensifying for an independent investigation on Russia, including a call from a leading Republican,” announced anchor Lester Holt during NBC Nightly News, “There's also new resistance to those calls by the White House.”
The Republican Holt referred to (and ABC praised as well) was Representative Darrell Issa of California. “But now a prominent House Republican is calling for an independent investigation saying Attorney General Jeff sessions shouldn't be involved because of the prominent role he played in the Trump campaign,” reported ABC’s Jon Karl on World News Tonight.
But their respect for Issa’s opinion is a new phenomenon for these two liberal news outlets. In the past, they wanted nothing to with his calls for/active investigations and probes when it was Barack Obama’s administration that was under the microscope.