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FILE - In this Oct. 26, 2010 file photo, then-Connecticut Democratic Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal is interviewed in New Haven, Conn. The Republican resurgence that swept so much of the country blew with less g... FILE - In this Oct. 26, 2010 file photo, then-Connecticut Democratic Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal is interviewed in New Haven, Conn. The Republican resurgence that swept so much of the country blew with less gusto in most of the Northeast. Democrats largely held firm, particularly in New England, against the anti-incumbent, GOP tide that was so strong in places like the Rust Belt and South. Republicans did make serious gains in sprawling New York and Pennsylvania, a traditional swing state. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File) MORE LESS
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A member of Senate Judiciary Committee said Tuesday that President Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey made “need for a special prosecutor ” in the FBI’s investigation into Russia’s ties to the Trump campaign “crystal clear.

” President Trump has catastrophically compromised the FBI’s ongoing investigation of his own White House’s ties to Russia,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) said in a statement. “Not since Watergate have our legal systems been so threatened, and our faith in the independence and integrity of those systems so shaken. The only way to restore faith in a non-political, non-partisan FBI is to appoint an independent special prosecutor.”

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Tierney Sneed (@Tierney_Megan)  is a D.C.-based investigative reporter. She focuses on voting rights and previously covered health care for TPM.
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