The US House of Representatives has found the Attorney General guilty of contempt

The Legal Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives approved the declaration on Wednesday in contempt of Attorney General William Barr, which is stepping up the unique legal battle between Democrats and President Donald Trump's government to gain access to Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller's report.

The vote in committee culminated a day of disagreements between the Democratic legislator and Mr. Trump, who for the first time invoked the principle of executive privilege to prevent lawmakers from having access to the full report of Mueller's investigation on the help of Russians to help Trump in the 2016 elections.

Commission Chairman Jerrold Nadler described the Trump Justice Department's procedures as another clear sign of the President's "absolute challenge" to constitutional law Congress to fulfill its oversight responsibilities. "We do not like it, but we have no choice.Nadler said at the end of the vote.

Justice Ministry spokeswoman Kerri Kupec, however, said it was disappointing that members of Congress "chose to get involved in a political broadcast". In his opinion, Barr made "extraordinary efforts" to inform the public and Congress about Mueller's work.

Sarah Sanders, White House press secretary, said neither the White House nor Barr would "respect President Nadler's illegitimate and reckless demands".

On Wednesday evening, the chairman of the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee asked the Justice Department to provide him with Mueller's full report, which is part of a heightened confrontation.

The Democratic representative Adam Schiff, whose commission had previously requested the documents, said that he "had no other choice" than to demand from the agency that It conforms to the demand. He warned that If the department continues to "ignore or reject our requests", the panel could adopt legal measures..

Although the White House initially hesitated to invoke the privilege of the executive, Trump told his staff and political advisers in recent weeks that they had refused to cooperate with the democrats considering that the only purpose of these is to harm him politically in view of his re-election campaign. The next legal battle could be extended until 2020 and the White House has proposed to neutralize legislative inquiries until the end of the elections.

The privilege of the executive is the power of the president not to provide information to the courts, Congress and the public to protect the confidentiality of the decision-making process of the Oval Office.

It took weeks for the President to make that decision, which will certainly deepen the White House-Congress dispute over a number of investigations. The White House has rejected all attempts to investigate Trump's activities or tax returns, as well as the West Wing security accreditation process.

They quote the eldest son of Trump

The US Senate Intelligence Committee issued a subpoena to force Donald Trump Jr., the president's eldest son, to: to testify to your contacts with the Russians, between suspicions that could have lied to the legislators on this subject, informed this Wednesday several local media.

The judicial convening, surprisingly leaving a Republican majority commission, is the first that the Congress against a son of the US president, and confirms that the legislative power keeps open its investigation into the alleged Russian interference in the elections of 2016, a month and half after Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller completed his own investigation.

The committee seeks to investigate the circumstances surrounding the meeting that Trump Jr. had with the Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, June 9, 2016 at the Trump Tower in New York, during the election campaign.

The democratic opposition believes that in his previous talks with Congress, the president's son would have lied to lawmakers about whether he had informed Trump or not that such a meeting would take place , according to the newspaper. The Washington Post.

(With information from AP and AFP)